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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 292: Calendar New Year¡¯s Day

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    On the fifteenth day after King Xi and his wife returned to Tianjing, Tianjing ushered in the first snow of the year.  Shicheng Jixue is one of the forty-eight scenic spots in Jinling. It originally refers to the snow scene of the ancient city wall from Qingliang Mountain to Zhenglu Pavilion. Shicheng Jixue refers to the snow scene of Qingliang Mountain.  Qingliang Mountain, known as Shitou Mountain and Shishou Mountain in ancient times, is located in the west corner of Nanjing City and is named after the Qingliang Temple built there. It was the summer palace of the emperors of the Southern Tang Dynasty.  Before the Tang Dynasty, the Yangtze River approached the southwestern foot of Qingliang Mountain. The river water rushed and slapped, forming cliffs, which became a natural barrier to prevent enemies from the north from crossing south.  Sun Quan, the emperor of Wu, built Stone City here, which has always been an important military town and is known as the "Six Dynasties Scenic Spots".  "Zhongfu Dragon Pan, Stone Tiger Crouched", this tiger squatting on the river bank refers to the Qingliang Mountain in Nanjing. It is known as the "Ox Head Smoke" in spring, "Zhongfu Qingyun" in summer, "Qixia Scenic Spot" in autumn, "Qixia Scenic Spot" in winter and so on in Nanjing.  Watch the saying "Snow in Stone City".

    The snow was not heavy. Except for the snow hanging on the eaves and treetops, there was no snow on the ground. The snowflakes melted when they hit the ground, making the bluestone pavement in Tianjing City wet. The cold wind made it even worse.  Cool.

    The main hall of the Heavenly King's Mansion, the Golden Dragon Hall, was very lively. Early this morning, all the kings, princes, ministers and officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered together to participate in the New Year's Day ceremony.  Since the celestial calendar was promulgated on New Year's Day in the first month of the second year of Renzi, this is the second time that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has held a New Year's Day worship ceremony. The last New Year's Day worship ceremony was held in Changsha, but the Western King did not participate in that expedition to the West Palace.

    On the first day of the first lunar month of the second year of Renzi, on the Wednesday of Bingshen Beginning of Spring, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom promulgated the celestial calendar.  This day corresponds to Yiwei, December 14th, the first year of Xianfeng Year in the Qing Dynasty, and Tuesday, February 3rd, 1852.  Its Beginning of Spring, stems and branches, and worship are all one day earlier.  The promulgation of the celestial calendar was another obvious sign that the Taiping Army was different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It made it clear that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's celestial calendar was the Zhengshuo, which negated the Zhengshuo of the feudal dynasty.

    The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom¡¯s celestial calendar is a four-season calendar created based on the solar terms determined by the position of the sun on the ecliptic, replacing the lunisolar calendar that China has used since ancient times.  It revolutionized the old-fashioned way of conservatism when Confucius returned.

    Regarding this calendar, Zeng Guofan in history once denounced this calendar in his essay on Cantonese: "During the summer season, the saints' instructions were stupid and crazy, but they went so far as to change the constitution, defy the heaven, and commit a heinous crime. It is the rebellion of thieves, and it is an eternal crime.  none."

    But in the eyes of Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er, this calendar is not without merit.  There are only three calendars from ancient times to the present, the solar calendar, the lunar calendar and the lunisolar calendar.  The Gregorian calendar is also the solar calendar.  Its calendar year is a tropical year, and the currently internationally accepted Gregorian calendar is a type of solar calendar, also referred to as the solar calendar; the lunar calendar is also called the lunar calendar, or the lunar calendar, and its calendar month is a synodic month.  There are 12 synodic months in a calendar year, and the big month has 30 days.  Satsuki is 29 days old.  The Islamic calendar is a type of lunar calendar; the average calendar year of the lunisolar calendar is a tropical year, and the calendar month is a synodic month. Because the 12 synodic months are too different from the tropical year, leap months are set in the lunisolar calendar. Therefore, this calendar is consistent with the moon phase, and  Consistent with the Earth's cyclical motion around the sun.

    The lunar calendar used by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties is also called the Xia calendar and the folk call it the lunar calendar.  It uses a strict synodic cycle to determine the moon, and uses the method of setting leap months to make the average length of the year similar to the tropical year. It has the properties of both lunar months and solar years, so it is essentially a luni-solar calendar.

    The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom¡¯s celestial calendar is a typical solar calendar.  The Celestial Calendar clearly stated the purpose of "taking the agricultural season as the correct time" and "convenient farming for the people", and completely abandoned the miscellaneous use of leap months in the lunar calendar.  The celestial calendar divides a year into 12 solar terms months, with the 30th and 31st alternating each year. There are 366 days in the whole year. The solar terms are placed at the beginning of the month and the middle energy is placed in the middle of the month.  Among the twenty-four solar terms, except the Beginning of Spring, Qingming, Mangzhong, Beginning of Autumn, Cold Dew, and Heavy Snow, which last for 16 days, each of the other solar terms has a length of 15 days.

    The advantage of the celestial calendar is that the length of the year is as close as possible to the length of the tropical year.  Cancel the synodic month and replace it with the solar term month.  Regardless of the new moon, leap months, or leap days, the "O" method is adopted, and every 40 years is an "O".  In the past 40 years, except for the "Office" year, the number of days and months of each month, quarter, half-year, and year has been quite neat, which is easy to remember and count.  Unlike the Lunar Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar, the number of days is inconsistent every year, every six months, every quarter, and every month.  The number of months in the "Lunar Calendar" is also inconsistent each year, and sometimes 13 months appears.  Each month of each year is consistent with the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" to the greatest extent, which is very beneficial to the guidance of agricultural production.  The arrangement of the large and small moon structures is regular.  The big month is on the 31st and the small month is on the 30th.  It is not as chaotic as the arrangement of the large and small moons in the "Lunar Calendar" and "Greek Calendar", with no regularity and no basis.  At the same time, the celestial calendar abandoned the theory of auspicious and inauspicious days in the old calendar. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's celestial calendar told the soldiers and civilians that as long as you act correctly and act at any time, you will have good luck and great prosperity.

    The Celestial Calendar is the calendar of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a calendar that is completely different from the Manchu Summer Calendar. The day of the Beginning of Spring has also become the New Year's Day of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Every New Year's Day, the Heavenly King will lead the kings and officials to worship and celebrate, which is also regarded as the Spring Festival of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

    The worship process is still long and complicated. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er are at the head of the Eastern King.Following the kings and officials, they completed the two-hour liturgy. They recited prayers of worship to God, thanksgivings to God, poems of praise to God, and the verses of King Hong Tian for a long time. Xiao Yungui felt that this was better than what later generations would hear.  Lengthy reports can also put people to sleep.

    The service was finally over, sumptuous meals were served, and the King of Heaven celebrated New Year's Day with the kings and officials.

    During the ten days after returning to Tianjing, Xiao Yungui visited the princes such as King Bei, King Yi, and King Yan. For some unknown reason, several princes and prime ministers strongly agreed with the proposal for a new deal in southern Jiangsu proposed by King Xi.  , The King of the North even supported the King of the West to sit in southern Jiangsu and coordinate the war in the southeast.  Xiao Yungui also faintly smelled a hint of conspiracy. It seemed that several princes and prime ministers did not want to be in the capital. It would be best for him to stay away from the center.

    However, this is fine. I originally thought that the new policy in southern Jiangsu would encounter many obstacles. Now it seems that the entire empire seems to support me in governing southern Jiangsu. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er both breathed a sigh of relief, and they have finally reached an agreement to return to Beijing.  First priority.

    Then came the military generals' discussion on sending troops to Huaishang. After several discussions, the kings also agreed to send troops to Huaishang. However, due to the suddenness of the battle, the East Palace, North Palace, and Wing Palace just secretly prepared their troops to cross the river.  It was not made clear to the officials.  Xiao Yungui and Ronglu seemed to have the same idea. He suggested launching the battle northward on the Spring Festival day of the Manchu lunar calendar. However, Ronglu launched the Battle of Hengyang on the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar.  Xiao Yungui, who was currently having a banquet in the Golden Dragon Palace, didn't know that the Battle of Hengyang had already begun.

    In fact, although the troops and horses in Hengyang were nominally under the West Palace, Zeng Tianyang and He Zhenchuan who stayed at that time were mostly deployed by the East Palace. Whenever there was a military force in Hengyang, it was Lai Hanying who took orders from Changsha. Xiao Yungui had basically no control over the troops there.  .

    After the military agreement on sending troops to Huaishang was passed, Xiao Yungui took the second piece of reassurance. He believed that after sending troops to Huaishang, the pressure from the Qing army faced by southern Jiangsu would be greatly reduced.  Although the Luo Outline Department of the West Palace also had the task of sending troops to Yangzhou and Suzhou, the West Palace was still acceptable.  The next step for Sunan is a long period of development, and the troops in the West Palace can be freed up for rotation and reorganization.

    As for Zhang Guoliang, He Chun and other captured generals of the Qing army, they were tortured by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tianjing. Several people whose hands were stained with the blood of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers and people were lit with sky lanterns.  As the instigator, Xiao Yungui didn't even bother to go to the execution ground to watch. In his opinion, the deaths of these people were of no importance.

    Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er actually planned to return to southern Jiangsu as soon as possible, but as New Year's Day was approaching, they stayed in Tianjing to spend New Year's Day and waited until New Year's Day before returning to southern Jiangsu.

    It was not easy to wait until the banquet was over.  The important speech delivered by the Heavenly King during the banquet was also automatically filtered out by the two of them. Leader Hong just said something to encourage the officials.  Encourage everyone to work hard to kill demons and so on.

    But after the banquet, the King of Heaven decreed the "Chinese Land Acre System".  Zhu Jiumei, the official in charge of the Tianwang Mansion, read out the contents of this system to the public: " Every army: Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two fields, Code is divided into two codes, Code is divided into two, Code is divided into two, Code is divided into two, and the code is divided into two.  One pair. That is, the commander of the division and the commander of the brigade are both photographed. Those who are in charge of their duties are in charge of their duties, and those who are not in their duties are also praised for their duties. In all matters such as life and death of an army, the military commander supervises the army carefully, and the military commander oversees the army carefully.  The general system of orders. The general system of imperial orders details the generals, guards, commanders, inspectors, and the prime minister. The prime minister reports to the military advisor. The military advisor reports to the king of heaven. The king of heaven issues an edict and the military advisor obeys it. Those who have made meritorious deeds will be rewarded by heaven and earth, and those who later follow them will be assigned to the navy.  Each family has one person as a soldier. If there is police, the leader will lead them as soldiers, killing enemies and catching thieves. If there is nothing, the leader will supervise them as farmers, plowing the fields and serving the emperor"

    Because the New Deal in southern Jiangsu was supported by the kings, Xiao Yungui didn't pay attention to the content of the "Celestial Land Acquisition System" at all. He just paid attention to Zhu Jiumei. This girl had fair skin and beautiful face.  He has beautiful dimples and is wearing the official uniform of a palm court official, which gives him a seductive feeling of uniform.

    Shi Dakai on the side was a little absent-minded. He always felt that this way of serving the world for the common good could not bring a lot of money to the Celestial Empire. The idea of ??a new deal for southern Jiangsu advocated by the King of the West was better. Thinking of this, Shi Dakai glanced at the West.  King Xi, however, saw that King Xi was "smiling" and "listening carefully" without feeling depressed at all. Shi Da happily sighed secretly that King Xi was still calm and composed.

    Historically, the "Chinese Land Acquisition System" was supposed to be promulgated at the beginning of the year. However, because of Xiao Yungui, it was the West Palace troops who occupied Nanjing instead of the Chinese brigade. The Chinese people waited until August to make Tianjing their capital.  Beijing, in the following months they first worked out the "Regulations on Common People", and then Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing felt that a law should be promulgated to determine matters in the Kingdom of Heaven, so the "Celestial Land Acquisition System" was promulgated at the beginning of spring in 1854.

    The main principle of the "Celestial Land and Acre System" is that in the Kingdom of Heaven, all are brothers and sisters, and everyone is equal.  In the distribution of land, all people in the world will farm the fields together, and there will be no unevenness everywhere, and no one will be fed and warmed.  The distribution method is based on households, regardless of gender, based on population and age.??Assignment.  The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also divided the land into nine grades according to the amount of output, and then distributed the good and bad to each household, and proposed a method of adjusting the abundance to the famine to relieve the famine.  The system of returning the proceeds to the holy treasury is still implemented.  No one in the world should be selfish, and all things should belong to the Lord. Each household should keep enough food for themselves, and the rest should go to the holy treasury.

    At the same time, the "Celestial Land Acre System" also clearly stipulates the township official system, official level system, worship system, soldier recruitment system, female official system, orphan and widow support system, etc. that have been implemented before.  It also clearly stipulates the marriage system of the Kingdom of Heaven for the first time, clearly abolishes commercial marriage, and promotes monogamy regardless of financial status. It also stipulates that the age of marriage is 16 years old, and clarifies the joint command system of marriage, and specially establishes marriage officials.  , manage marriage matters.

    Hearing this, Xiao Yungui couldn't help but look at Hong Yun'er beside him. Hong Yun'er happened to be looking at him too, with a playful smile on her lips.  The boss in Xiao Yungui's heart was not happy. He worked hard to allow men and women in the Kingdom of Heaven to remarry, but he didn't expect that Hong Yun'er would take advantage of the loophole. This little girl encouraged Hong Xiuquan to still stipulate the monogamy system. When she saw Hong Yun'er, she acted like a protest  With a smile on his face, Xiao Yungui snorted softly in his heart and said to himself: "My new policy in southern Jiangsu is not governed by this bird system. You are so proud of yourself, let's see how I deal with you tonight." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature,  The novel is better and updated faster!
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