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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 264: Investigation and Research

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    It is already late autumn at Cishou Pagoda in Jinshan, Zhenjiang, Dantu County. The autumn wind blows by, and yellow leaves fall from the mountains.  The exquisite and beautiful Cishou Pagoda stands on the top of the northwest mountain of Jinshan Mountain. It is 30 meters high. It fits perfectly with the entire Jinshan Mountain and Jinshan Temple, as if it has raised the mountain.

    "There are several floors with pillows and stones, and the windows on the four walls are open to face the wind. Suddenly I saw a bird flying on the ground, and I was startled in mid-air." On the Cishou Pagoda, next to the railing, a man wrapped in a yellow scarf and wearing a round  The beautiful woman in the red robe sang softly, but this poem was "Golden Mountain" written by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty.

    A rude man next to the woman grinned and said, "You are acting like an artist again."

    The woman turned around and stared at the man fiercely, and said calmly: "Don't even think about entering the house tonight!"

    The man's smile froze and he laughed quickly and said, "I'm jealous of your literary talent, Yun'er. It's so cold tonight. It would be very cold to sleep in the camp." That beautiful woman was the Queen of the West of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and that  The rough man is the Western King Xiao Yungui.

    It was so cold on the tower that Hong Yun'er couldn't help but shrink her shoulders, snorted and turned her head away from him. Xiao Yungui immediately took off his scarlet cloak and put it on her, saying: "Yun'er, don't worry.  Ah, it¡¯s getting cold, so the two of us can stay warm by sleeping together.¡±

    Hong Yun'er's pretty face was slightly red, but after putting on the cloak, her body and heart felt warm, and her heart softened again. She spat and said, "I haven't been serious all day long. I just think about that."

    Xiao Yungui said with a thief smile: "I only said sleeping together, but nothing else."

    Hong Yun'er pressed her hand on the handle of the Yuanyang knife at her waist and said angrily, "Are you itchy?"

    Xiao Yungui was shocked. The couple's martial arts skills were between their brothers. Even Xiao Yungui's physical skills were better than Hong Yun'er's. However, since the capture of Nanjing, Xiao Yungui found that his skills seemed to have gradually deteriorated.  It's Hong Yuner's skills that are getting better and better.  This little girl must have practiced martial arts frequently, and her consciousness and body have become more perfectly integrated. However, after she had too many things to do, she became a little lazy and practiced martial arts less diligently than before, so she gradually became no longer Hong Yun'er's opponent.

    The two of them fought several times behind closed doors, but Hong Yun'er always had the upper hand. Thinking of this, Xiao Yungui secretly gritted his teeth and said in his heart: "Young lady, you are arrogant just because your skills are better than mine. I will definitely  I have to practice martial arts diligently to catch up and let you know how powerful I am."

    He thought so in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "My wife is mighty, I don't dare to make mistakes."

    Hong Yun'er couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw his naive look.  Xiao Yungui also laughed dryly.  Since the two got married, their relationship has become more stable.  It is no exaggeration to describe it as glue-like paint.

    Laughed for a while.  Hong Yun'er stopped laughing and said seriously: "I don't know what's going on over there in Xiamen."

    When he got down to business, Xiao Yungui immediately became serious. He held on to the railing on the tower and said, "I believe Li Xiucheng and the others can handle this matter well, not to mention the help of the newly joined pirates? A great victory in the Ningbo naval battle.  You also know that the pirates in Zhoushan have been defeated, and the Qing navy cannot withstand our huge fleet. What are you worried about?"

    Hong Yun'er nodded and smiled: "That's right, but after rescuing the person this time, it will cost a lot of money to resettle him."

    Xiao Yungui touched his bare chin and said: "I have looked at the accounts and expenditures of the West Palace Holy Treasury in the past few months, and it is really like running water. However, after conquering Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places, from the official treasury  A total of no less than five million taels of money and food were confiscated, and a lot of money and food were also confiscated from the homes of corrupt officials and rich Manchus, which was enough to support me for a while. Before leaving Shanghai, I also robbed a batch of jewelry from Wu Sangui's treasure  Give the jade to Wang Kaiyun and ask him to hold an auction at the appropriate time. Those jewelry and jade are not gold and silver, so there is no use keeping them. It is better to auction them to foreigners or wealthy people in exchange for gold, silver, money and food."

    Hong Yun'er curled her lips and said, "Those jewels and jades are of fine workmanship and are all cultural relics."

    Xiao Yungui also curled his lips and said: "In future generations, both of us will be cultural relics, but now those jewelry and jade are dead objects. Besides, real cultural relics must have cultural heritage in them. I asked Xuanji to pick out those with some origins and keep them."  I didn¡¯t buy any precious calligraphy, painting or antiques. I also left a batch of jewelry and jades to give to the big guys in Tianjing City. From King Tian and King Dong to King Yan and Chen Chengrong, each of them had a copy. As expected,  They won¡¯t make things too difficult for us.¡±

    Hong Yun'er sighed softly and said: "We don't know if our trip back to Tianjing will go smoothly. You asked Zuo Zongtang, Wang Kaiyun, and Li Shourong to register and organize household registration, land, and business information in various places. I always feel that the administrative methods are too slow.  .¡±

    ??????The statistical methods of this era are very primitive, and there may be errors and omissions, but I must figure out how much wealth I have.  Only after we have a rough set of data can we set the right direction for our policies.  Our slogan is equalizing the land. Do you know how many farmers there are in southern Jiangsu?  Do you know how much farmland there is?  If there are many people but little land, the issue of equalizing land cannot be pursued.  What if it is replaced by a policy of rent reduction and interest rate reduction?  Do you know what the rent is in Sunan right now?  It varies from place to place. How much reduction is appropriate?  Can you figure it out clearly?  It is even more necessary to count merchants. I need to understand the current status of industry and commerce in southern Jiangsu and the development status of various industries. The most direct thing is which industries are profitable and which industries are in recession, so that we can formulate targeted policies.  I don't want to issue an order haphazardly without doing research, and I will only end up in chaos.  "

    Hong Yun'er snorted and said: "Perhaps I am too impatient. After the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Sunan Township Official Selection System" was released last month, there was great enthusiasm from all over the country. Township officials were elected by each village to control the local area.  , you also announced that southern Jiangsu will exempt money and grain taxes this year, which won the support of the poor people. And we protected the middle peasants, rich peasants and some wealthy households who supported us, allowing them to still collect land rent according to the original rent, although the common people  We still have to pay rent, but without the part of money and food handed over to the government, the burden will be lighter. But I always feel that what we do is different from the government orders in Tianjing, and we will inevitably be criticized."

    Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "Yun'er, you also know what the "Regulations on Treating the Common People" issued after the capital was established in Tianjing, and what does not require money, but the fields of the common people are all the fields of the King of Heaven, and the rice earned every year,  The whole business belongs to the Heavenly King, and every month a load of rice is given to the big mouth and half to the small mouth, as a means of maintaining health. The capital and profit of the shop's business are all the capital and profit of the Heavenly King, and the common people are not allowed to use it. After all, Tianjing has made an equalization.  In the big pot of doctrine, farmers cannot cultivate their own land to pay taxes, but they say that the fields are the land of the king of heaven; merchants cannot earn interest from their own business, but they say that the goods are the goods of the king of heaven. Everything grown in the fields must be given to the holy treasury, and merchants trade  Everything in the holy treasury is considered to be the goods of the holy treasury. Whatever you need can be collected from the holy treasury according to the system. This seemingly good distribution system cannot be implemented for a long time. Didn¡¯t the Taizu of later generations also have a big pot meal in the commune?  What is the effect? ??You must know that people are inert. Good or bad work is the same. Anyway, everything must be handed over to the public. Without any private property, production enthusiasm will be seriously frustrated. In history, the Holy Treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom later  Unable to afford such a huge population, when Shi Dakai planned Jiangxi, he changed back to the system and model of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This is how Shi Dakai prospered in governing Jiangxi. Do you think we can take this path that we know is wrong?  ?¡±

    Hong Yun'er shook her head and said: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that we can nationalize all the land first. We will protect private property. We have the same view on this."

    Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "It is easy to say that the land is nationalized. In addition to the fields of the corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry who were overthrown, the middle peasants and rich peasants also have a large amount of land in their hands. The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty all admit that they own the land.  Could it be that after our Taiping Army came, the land of these middle peasants and rich peasants was taken back? These lands were accumulated hard by generations of people, and they were not plundered by corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry.  If we have the means to do so, we should protect it. Otherwise, we will push the middle peasants, rich peasants, and some wealthy households who originally favored us to the side of the Manchus."

    Hong Yun'er also frowned and said, "Then how do you plan to solve the land issue? If this issue is not resolved, conflicts will always exist."

    Xiao Yungui said slowly: "I have several plans in mind, and these plans must be implemented at the same time to solve the problem. One is to reduce rents and interest rates, and first reduce the burden on farmers. This requires our local township official system and local team training system  After it is fully established, the government's tentacles must be completely extended to the local areas to implement it well. Don't make it the rent and interest reduction of the Republic of China, which is just thunder but no rain. The second is to develop industry and commerce, which is why I have to carry out so many big projects.  The reason for the large factories is to turn the excess population from farmers into workers, which in disguise reduces the contradiction between land and population. The third is to encourage the reclamation of wasteland. However, in the land of plenty in southern Jiangsu, the wasteland that can be developed is almost the same. In the future, we will conquer Beijing.  , after breaking out of the Pass, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties still dominate a large area of ??fertile black land outside the Pass, and a large number of people can be resettled there. The fourth is that the government redeems the land and then leases it back to the people. We can distribute it through the government paying to redeem part of the land.  Renting seeds to the common people is a much milder method than direct confiscation. The wealthy households who have obtained the money can also transform into the bourgeoisie. They will use the money to open factories and business houses, thereby prospering industry and commerce. The fifth is to  The unowned land of the corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry that we defeated will be distributed to the people. I believe that my five-pronged approach will always solve the problem. But I need to know a detailed account of Sunan, which is our Sunan governance.  How many people are there, how much arable land, how many ownerless lands, how many poor peasants, middle peasants, rich peasants, rich households, business houses, and people?No matter what the structure is, in short, it is impossible to study without investigation, and it is impossible to solve the problem.  "

    Hong Yun'er hummed and said, "Then during our trip to Tianjing, we also need to obtain the imperial edict from the King of Heaven and the King of the East for us to implement the New Deal in southern Jiangsu, so that we can legitimately do whatever we want."

    Xiao Yungui nodded and looked at the mighty Yangtze River waterway: "Yes, this is the main purpose of our return to Tianjing. Although we have not implemented the decree in Tianjing, we need to convince the big guys in Tianjing to give us privileges.  Now is not the time to fall out with Tianjing, this is not the time" (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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