Chapter 39 Opinions on Strengthening Spring Plowing Work

(February 28, 1931) Now that spring is here, there are still very few farmers plowing the fields. This matter deserves our attention.Why do farmers seldom plow by hand? Certainly it is due to customary reasons, the plowing season has always been delayed, but apart from this reason, according to our investigation, there are (1) the lack of zoning of fields, and (2) lack of oxen , (3) Jing bandits at the junction of red and white [1] threatened bad plowing for several reasons. There is no demarcation of fields for fields, which is a big problem in the red area now.In the past, the land was owned by the Soviet, and the peasants only had the right to use it. The atmosphere was very strong, and the four or five divisions made the peasants feel that the land was not his own, and he had no right to control it, so he did not feel at ease to cultivate the land.This situation is very bad.The province [2] should issue an order to governments at all levels in all localities to record orders and announcements to urge farmers to cultivate. According to the calculation, the person who gets the land shall be in charge of the land he gets.From now on, the family's land and the family's business will be fixed, and those who live will not be compensated, and those who die will not be refunded, and they will be leased and sold at their own discretion.The crops produced in the fields belong to the peasants, except for the land tax paid to the government.Those who can’t eat can be sold freely, and the money can be used to provide pocket expenses. What can’t be used can be saved by him, or he can change the land or run a business.Those who say that the peasants' surplus money and rice will be used by the Soviets are all rumors.If the farmer's family lacks the labor force to plow the land, or has no labor force and cannot cultivate it by itself, it is allowed to rent it out.How much to rent is decided by various parties based on the principle of not losing money.There is also a red area that allows free business, and all the money earned belongs to the person.The above stipulations are the process that should be in the era of the civil rights revolution. Communism was not created in a day, and the Soviet revolution also went through many stages before reaching the current victory of socialism.This is something that I hope all comrades in charge of Soviet Egyptian mass organizations at all levels will understand.With the implementation of the above measures, reactionary factions such as the AB regiment [3] may take the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that the landlord system will be restored after the failure of communism.Comrades in charge of governments at all levels should refute it based on the significance of the civil rights revolution, explaining that only implementing the necessary policies in the era of the civil rights revolution is a good way to truly move towards communism, and it is by no means a restoration of the landlord system. Those reactionary factions say that Totally wrong.

There is a shortage of cattle. First, we should promote mutual assistance in farming. Those in neighboring villages with more cattle will help plow fields with fewer cattle.But this kind of help is not completely free. Except for those who have a lot of cattle voluntarily donating the land without renting money, they should be allowed to rent cattle. Only when the renting of cattle is officially allowed can the problem of cattle shortage be solved to a considerable extent.Second, if the whole township or district lacks too many cattle and it is almost impossible to go down to farming, the county, district and township level governments should try to make adjustments and encourage Niuduo district townships to lend or sell cattle.Here, the governments at the county and district levels should have a survey on the number of cattle in the whole county and district. Only with this survey can adjustments be made.Third, the killing of cattle is prohibited.Now while there is a shortage of cattle, there are still cattle slaughtered in various fairs, which violates the interests of the poor peasants and should be banned.Fourth, the circulation and trading of general agricultural products and industrial products in the red and white areas is completely free, and there are no special circumstances (such as rice shortages) without prohibition and price limits (not to mention price limits in the red areas).But at present, exporting cattle, because the shortage of cattle in the red area is too great, it will have a great impact, so it should be temporarily banned.

As for the border between red and white, the peasants were intimidated by the Jing bandits and did not dare to plow their fields, so many fields were abandoned. To solve this problem, the only way to solve this problem is to lead the armed forces of the workers and peasants to attack the armed forces of the landlords, so that the red areas will develop forward, and the areas that could not be cultivated in the past will be restored. Ready to farm. Please discuss and implement the above opinions and reply to us. Mao Zedong, Director of the General Political Department of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission

February 28 According to the fourth issue of the "Communication of the General Political Department" issued by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Jing bandits, referring to the Jingwei regiment, is a reactionary local armed force. [2] Shengsu, see note [5] on page 244 of this volume. [3] The AB regiment was established in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province at the end of 1926 as a Kuomintang right-wing organization for the purpose of anti-communism, and it did not exist for a long time.Beginning in May 1930, the so-called struggle to eliminate the AB regiment was carried out in the southwestern Jiangxi base area.The continuous expansion of the struggle has seriously confused the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves.