Hubei’s "Two Five Rent Reduction" During The War Against Japan

Before the Anti-Japanese War land administration work,there was basically no practice in rent reduction.During the period of the War of Resistance against Japan,the national government’s land policy did not explicitly put forward the "Two-Five Rent Reduction " requirement.However,the tragic situation of the peasants living in north-western Hubei Province prompted Hubei’s prosecutor Yan Lisan to implement the"Four-Six Rent Reduction".As a result,because of insufficient preparation,the local resistance was too great to fail.After Chen Cheng returned to the chairmanship of Hubei Province in 1940,he began to practice his consistent ideas on farmland issues.He and his team formulated more stringent rent reduction procedures and rent reduction procedures,and a more reasonable rent reduction plan.They selected and trained a batch of rent-reducing personnel,from 1941 to 1944 year by year to implement the "Two-Five Rent Reduction”and achieved certain results.However,the game between rent-reducing personnel,landowners,and farmers in Hubei’s "Two-Five Rent Reduction" is very complicated.The people who implement the rent reduction are divided into the government-purchased rent-reduction supervisors and students,and the township chiefs,the joint security directors,the chief of Bao-Jia and other rural grass-roots personnel.They all have varying degrees of perfunctory and lazy behavior in reducing rents.The industrial and commercial landlords,landless owners,landlords,and small and medium rural landowners in Hubei and Hubei provinces have different responses based on their respective positions and identities.In the rent reduction campaign,farmers in Western and Northern Hubei Provinces fail to understand the significance of rent reduction.Even if they understand the benefits of rent reduction on their own,it is not uncommon to compromise with landlords because of fear.Hubei’s "Two-Five Rent Reduction" was unanimously praised by public opinion at that time.However,whether the peasant burden in Hubei Province and Hubei Province is greatly reduced due to the reduction of rents requires a question mark.After Chen Cheng left the chairmanship of Hubei Province,Hubei’s "Two-Five Rent Reduction" ended abruptly.