1. Overthrow the power of the gentry, landlords, and bureaucrats; disarm counterrevolutionary forces; arm the peasants; and establish peasant representative assembly governments in the countryside.

2. Confiscate without compensation and immediately all property and land belonging to the gentry and landlord class, placing them under the control of the peasant representative assemblies (Soviets) for distribution to landless and small-holding peasants. 3. The real estate of ancestral halls, temples, and churches, as well as other public lands, state wastelands, or ownerless barren lands and sand flats, shall be allocated by the peasant representative assemblies (Soviets) for peasant use. 4. A portion of the state-owned land throughout the province shall be set aside for Soviet government-sponsored colonization and settlement projects, and also distributed to workers, peasants, and soldiers for economic utilization. 5. All usurious loan agreements are hereby declared null and void. 6. All land deeds and other contracts exploiting the peasantry—whether written or oral—held by the gentry’s government shall be burned. 7. All levies and taxes imposed by warlords and local authorities are abolished; the system of tax farming is terminated; the transit tax is rescinded; and a single progressive agricultural tax is established. 8. The state shall assist the agricultural economy by: (1) undertaking land improvement projects; (2) improving and expanding irrigation systems; (3) providing disaster prevention measures; (4) managing resettlement programs; (5) facilitating low-interest loans through the Agricultural Bank and credit cooperatives; and (6) (7) placing all forests and waterways under the administration of the Soviet government.

Chapter One: Confiscation and Distribution of Land Article 1. Following the uprising that overthrows the rule of the gentry and landlord class, all private and collective lands—belonging to the gentry, landlords, ancestral halls, temples, associations, and rich peasants—as well as forests, ponds, and buildings, shall be immediately confiscated and nationalized by the Soviet government, to be distributed to landless and small-holding peasants and other needy poor people.
In areas where Soviets have not yet been established, peasant associations may carry out confiscation and distribution.

Article 2. Members of the families of gentry, landlords, and reactionaries, upon review by the Soviet, who are permitted to reside in their villages and have no other means of support, may be allotted land at the discretion of the Soviet.

Article 3. Active Red Army officers, soldiers, and non-commissioned officers, as well as those engaged in revolutionary work, shall routinely receive land allocations, with the Soviet assigning personnel to assist their families in cultivating it.

Article 4. Residents of rural areas engaged in commerce, industry, or education, who are able to support themselves, shall not be allocated land.
Those whose livelihoods are insufficient may be granted land on a discretionary basis, limited to supplementing their basic needs.

Article 5. Tenant farmers and vagrants willing to receive land allocations should be provided with land.
However, vagrants receiving land must abstain from harmful habits such as opium smoking and gambling; otherwise, the Soviet may reclaim their land.

Article 6. Individuals residing outside their home villages shall not be allocated land.

Article 7. Land allocation shall be conducted at the village level.
Peasants from a given village shall pool together all the land they cultivate within their own village and neighboring villages, and distribute it collectively.
If three or four contiguous villages exist, some with abundant land and others with scarce resources, allocating land on a per-village basis would leave the less-endowed villages unable to sustain themselves and lacking alternative sources of production.
In such cases, the three or four villages may be combined into a single unit for distribution, subject to approval by the district Soviet following a request from the village Soviet.

Article 8. To meet the demands of the majority and ensure that peasants quickly obtain land, allocations should be made based on the total population of each village—men, women, old and young—on an equal per capita basis.
Allocation according to labor capacity shall not be employed.

Article 9. Urban merchants and workers shall, in principle, not be allocated land. However, unemployed workers and urban poor who request land may be granted it, to the extent feasible.

Article 10.
In order to swiftly dismantle feudal forces and curb the influence of rich peasants, land allocations shall follow the principle of taking more from the wealthy and giving more to the poor, ensuring that landlords and rich peasants do not conceal land holdings or monopolize fertile plots.
After land distribution, the Soviet shall erect wooden plaques on each parcel, indicating its yield potential and specifying the current cultivator.

Article 11.
All deeds and documents pertaining to the land of the gentry, landlords, rich peasants, and communal properties such as ancestral halls and temples must be surrendered within a specified period to the village Soviet or the village-level peasant association, where they will be publicly burned.

Article 12. Following land distribution, cultivation permits shall be issued by the county or district Soviet.

Article 13.
Any villager who dies, changes occupation, or moves away shall have the land allocated to them returned to the Soviet for reallocation.
New arrivals or newcomers shall be provided with land by the Soviet whenever possible, but only after the harvest has been completed.

Four points: During the uprising-driven land distribution, once the peasants have already sown their crops, the produce grown on any given plot shall belong to the peasant who was allocated that particular piece of land; the original cultivator shall have no right to retain it.

Five points: Kitchen gardens, river embankments, and uncultivated wastelands suitable for growing coarse grains are to be distributed.
Large-scale ponds that are impractical to divide shall be managed by the Soviet for commercial purposes or leased out at fixed rates.

Six points: Bamboo groves and mulberry plantations shall be converted into acreage based on their yields and included in the overall land distribution.
However, if these operations were originally labor-intensive enterprises with industrial-capital characteristics, they may be leased out en masse by the Soviet without being divided.

Seven points: Pine and cypress forests, among other forested areas, shall be either directly managed or leased by the Soviet government.
Nevertheless, when the villagers require timber for repairing slopes, constructing public buildings and housing, or restoring houses damaged by reactionary forces, such uses may be authorized by the district Soviet government.

Eight points: Logging in large mountainous areas shall be strictly regulated and carried out exclusively by the Soviet government.

Nine points: In order to satisfy the demands of impoverished peasants, all confiscated land should be fully distributed to them, with the Soviet making no reserves.
Under certain circumstances, however, any remaining land may be used to establish model farms or temporarily leased, while retaining a portion of the land for public purposes.

Chapter Two: Cancellation of Debts Article 101.
Debts owed by worker-peasant poor to the gentry, landlords, and rich peasants shall not be repaid under any circumstances.
All debt instruments and loan agreements must be surrendered within a prescribed period to the Soviet or the peasant association for public burning.

Article 111. The gentry, landlords, and merchants must settle all debts owed to the state or to worker-peasant poor, regardless of whether they are recent or long-standing.

Article 111. Worker-peasant poor who incurred debts prior to the uprising—whether from commercial transactions involving usury or from personal loans—shall likewise refrain from repayment.

Article 131.
Personal debts incurred by worker-peasant poor before the uprising, in principle, shall also remain unpaid.
Exceptions apply only to friendly loans extended without interest, where the borrower voluntarily agrees to repay.

Article 114. Worker-peasant poor who have pawned goods or homes to the gentry, landlords, rich peasants, or pawnbrokers shall have their collateral unconditionally returned.

Article 115. Money-lending clubs and grain-lending associations shall be completely abolished.

Article 116.
Under Soviet rule, usury is prohibited.
County Soviets shall determine appropriate interest rates based on local financial conditions, ensuring that such rates do not exceed those typically earned by capital under normal economic circumstances.

Chapter Three: Land Tax Article 117.
In order to defeat counterrevolutionary forces—for example, to expand the Red Army and the Red Guards and to supply government organs—and to enhance the welfare of the masses—for instance, by establishing schools, medical clinics, providing assistance to the disabled and elderly, and repairing roads and irrigation channels—the Soviet may levy a land tax on peasants.

Article 118.
The land tax, guided by the principle of protecting poor peasants, bridging the gap with middle peasants, and curbing the power of rich peasants, may be imposed only after the establishment of the Soviet and when the masses have already begun to benefit from concrete improvements, subject to approval by the higher-level Soviet.

Article 119.
The land tax shall be graded according to the annual grain yield per capita resulting from land allocations: no tax shall be levied on those receiving five dan or fewer of grain per capita; a one percent tax shall be imposed on those receiving six dan; a one-and-a-half percent tax on those receiving seven dan; a one-and-a-half percent tax on those receiving eight dan; a four percent tax on those receiving nine dan; a five-and-a-half percent tax on those receiving ten dan; a seven percent tax on those receiving eleven dan; and an eight percent tax on those receiving eleven-and-a-half dan.
For each additional dan of grain received, an additional one-and-a-half percent tax shall be levied.

Article 30.
Revenue and expenditures related to the land tax must be centrally coordinated by the higher-level Soviet government; lower-level governments shall have no authority to manage funds independently.
Payment standards shall be determined by the higher-level government, based on the amount of tax collected and the relative urgency of needs at each administrative level.

Article 31.
Wages for rural handicraftsmen and tenant farmers, which have previously been too low, shall be increased.
Future wage levels shall be decided by the Soviet, taking into account fluctuations in the cost of living and variations in peasant incomes.
Wage decisions made by the Soviet must be approved by the county or district Soviet. o.