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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 302: Equalization of Land

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    In the main hall of the West Prince's Mansion, Xiao Yungui's words were floating among the tall rooms. Everyone's heart was trembling, especially Ji Wenyuan's.  When planning to build the West Palace, a lot of money and materials were spent. At that time, Ji Wenyuan heard private discussions from his subordinates that the palace was so luxurious, but he did not know how much money was spent on it.  At that time, Ji Wenyuan scolded those people, but it didn't sound right. Later, the money was paid by King Xi himself. He didn't know where King Xi got the money from. Ji Wenyuan accidentally heard about King Xi and Wei Helin and Zhu Changlin.  He and others jointly opened a Guiyun business, maybe that's where the money came from.

    When the King of the West made up for the money, Ji Wenyuan breathed a sigh of relief. Although some kings in Tianjing also exceeded the system, the King of the West could enjoy more money and material supplies from the holy treasury, but if the customs were 10%, other  If the Hou Xiang generals also carry out large-scale construction projects like Tianjing, the holy treasury in the West Palace will not be able to support it. Fortunately, the King of the West got money to make up for it.

    But now the King of the West is talking about the princes receiving support from the holy treasury. It is obvious that there is a big loophole in the statement that the world is one family. Why should the money and goods of the people of the world be concentrated in the holy treasury, but the princes, generals and ministers of the kingdom of heaven can  Enjoy more than ten times or even a hundred times more supply than ordinary people?

    Everyone in the West Palace knew that the King of the West never took an extra tael of silver from the Holy Treasury. The King and his wife still received their share of the Holy Treasury supply as usual, while the supplies of the counselors, female officials and others in the palace were paid per head in the Holy Treasury.  Get your share of the salary.  Although the King of the West was talking about himself, Ji Wenyuan understood that the King of the West was alluding to the princes in Tianjing who were building palaces wantonly. The common people rushed to the Holy Cus in order to receive oil, salt and other items from the Holy Treasury, and those in high positions were  However, there is more than enough supply every month, not to mention the more luxurious palaces in Tianjing. Ji Wenyuan didn't know how to face this cruel reality for a while.

    Zuo Zongtang broke the silence in the hall with a clear cough: "The history of ancient times. Although it is difficult to study the history of ancient times, even if there are books written since the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, there are often clues to be found when studying the situation in ancient times. From ignorance to enlightenment  Among them, the diligent ones work more and can get more in the tribe, while the lazy ones can often only get a small share. Such a gap between the rich and the poor must gradually be completed after a number of years of degeneration.  The system of the Kingdom of Heaven in this world is restrained and restrained, and it wants to destroy everything in order to achieve a state of great justice in ancient times. In fact, it is suppressing the diligence of the diligent and promoting the laziness of the lazy. And the people's thoughts are to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.  . Acting towards profit, there is no profit without private property. Without profit, there is laziness. Private property has appeared since ancient times. It has been used for thousands of years, and there must be reasons for it. All ministers and workers, please think carefully and come back. Guru Mao drinks blood.  At that time, the tribes also acted according to the principle of giving more to the diligent, but now the common people get the same thing for the diligent and the lazy. After a year of hard work, there is no money or food left in the family. Then isn't our kingdom of heaven worse than the ancient tribes?  ?¡±

    Zuo Zongtang¡¯s words simply mean that selfless property cannot stimulate the people¡¯s enthusiasm for production. After listening to this, everyone repeatedly chewed on the saying that no profit means laziness.

    Hong Yun'er stood up quickly, walked to the steps and said in a clear voice: "What Zuo Xiang said is true, there are countless families of hundreds of people in the Kingdom of Heaven. Including everyone in the palace. Today, the marriage order has been issued in Beijing, and everyone has  You can reunite with your family or get married and start a family, so that you can reproduce and make the kingdom of heaven prosper. In ancient times, after men and women got married and started a family, private property would be generated. If a family has only four walls, what is a home? There is a house, land, and private property.  We call it home. This does not mean that the Holy Treasury system is completely undesirable, but it is not suitable for the moment. China has always been based on agriculture, and farmers need fields. In the Tang Dynasty, the land was equalized, so there were Zhenguan and Kaiyuan governance.  In the early Ming Dynasty, the powerful landlords were suppressed, so the country was rich and the people were prosperous. On the contrary, if the land was concentrated in the hands of wealthy officials and gentry, and the peasants were displaced, it would inevitably lead to a large-scale peasant uprising. By the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng, Wu Guangti, princes and generals Xiang Ningyou  In the Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang and others promoted the equalization of land between the noble and the humble. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng revolted by equalizing the land and exempting grain. All his thoughts were about equalizing the land among farmers, and had no intention of abolishing private property. Now we have  If Sufu Province wants to live in peace for the people and encourage industry and commerce, it must first allow the people to have private property. Why are the people following us to fight against the demons? Isn't it just to get one-third of an acre of land? But what is the current situation? Land  Yes, we have been allocated, but all the food grown will be paid to the Holy Treasury. What does this mean to the farmers? If we lose the support of the people in the world, our defeat will not be far away!"

    Hong Yuner is telling the truth. From the end of the Qin Dynasty to the beginning of the Xianfeng period in the Qing Dynasty, there were countless peasant uprisings, but never like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which institutionalized peasant egalitarianism and developed it to a very extreme level.  The holy treasury system and the separate camps system for men and women destroyed the concepts of private property and family. In an era like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when capitalism was about to emerge, it was backward, retrogressive and reactionary.  At this time, it simply cannot play its historical role in promoting the development of productive forces and liberating them.  Therefore, the historical Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to re-implement the old Qing regulations in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places, paying grain as usual and allowing landlords to continue to occupy land and collect rent.Xiao Yungui saw that Ji Wenyuan and others were speechless, and finally said: "From today on, the name of the Holy Treasury of the West Palace will not change, but it will no longer be a holy treasury that distributes money and food to the people, nor will it collect the people's surplus silver."  As for the holy treasury of surplus grain, the province of Sufu allows soldiers and civilians to own private property. From now on, the holy treasury will become the public treasury of the West Palace. The treasury manages the money and grain taxes from various places and is only used to support the soldiers and officials of the West Palace and for local construction! Each county  The county holy treasury also operates in the same way. The General Secretary of the Suzhou Holy Treasury supervises all localities and returns the surplus silver and food grains originally collected from the people to the people according to the policy. What has been withdrawn will be returned at a discount. If there is any overpayment, I will pay for it!"

    Every payment in the Holy Treasury of the West Palace was kept in detail. At that time, Xiao Yungui strictly ordered the Holy Treasury to record clearly every amount of money and food collected from the people, in order to return it to the people in the future. Every time a money and food was received,  Holy Cus will issue receipts to the people.  Every time the people receive money and food from the Holy Treasury, the Holy Treasury will naturally register it clearly. Therefore, Xiao Yungui ordered that the money and food collected from the people by the Holy Treasury be returned. If the people have received it, the Holy Treasury will refund it at a discount.  , Xiao Yungui paid for it himself.  However, the money and food confiscated by the Holy Treasury from bannermen, corrupt officials, and local tyrants and evil gentry who followed the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be returned.

    His Highness, all the officials stood up to accept the order, and the wise shout of the King of the West was shouted out together.  In fact, except for the old brothers in the West Palace, many officials who have recently joined the Kingdom of Heaven have been worried. People like Xu Naizhao and Huang Chunsheng all have little family property in their hometown. Xu Naizhao still has hundreds of people in his hometown in Qiantang.  He had always been worried that his land would be confiscated. Now it was better. Private property was allowed in the West Palace, which meant that his land was saved, which strengthened Xu Naizhao's determination to follow the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Zuo Zongtang then continued: "After the Holy Treasury returns the money and grain, the people's income from farming will be paid according to the fatness of the fields."

    After hearing this, Ji Wenyuan said: "Although the holy treasury system has changed, the matter of equalizing the land still needs to be done. My subordinates think that the land still needs to be divided."

    Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "That's right. Please listen to Mr. Zuo's explanation in detail."

    Zuo Zongtang spread out a long scroll and said loudly: "After measuring the fields in various places this time, there are more than 30 million acres of fields in Sufu Province. As mentioned above, it is not a real number, but more than half of the fields are still ownerless.  The land, and the land with the owner is also the old land deed issued by Qingyao, which is inconsistent with the law. The Ministry of Household Affairs specially formulated the "Sufu Province Land Equalization System" to equalize the land."

    When Xu Naizhao and other land-owning officials heard this, their expressions suddenly turned a little ugly, and they thought to themselves that they still couldn't escape.

    But after listening to Zuo Zongtang read out the "Equal Land System in Suzhou Province", everyone turned from worry to joy.

    The Equalization System of Land in Suzhou Province is something that Xiao Yungui, Hong Yun'er and Zuo Zongtang have been thinking about since they conquered Wuchang. It was not perfected until a few days ago. Although the entire equalization system has a lot of content, the core idea is  That¡¯s three.

    The first core is to divide the Borderlands.  This time the land survey in Sufu Province counted more than 30 million acres of farmland, half of which was ownerless land. These lands were originally owned by corrupt officials or local tyrants and evil gentry. After the Taiping Army came over, they almost destroyed these people.  Including their families.  Many officials and local tyrants and evil gentry were either tortured by the Taiping Army or killed by the people's rebels. The rest fled to the Manchu-controlled areas, but their fields and houses could not escape, so they became ownerless land.  This half of the nearly 15 million acres of land in the West Palace will naturally be divided up.

    And how to divide the unowned land?  There are clear provisions in the "Equal Acquisition System of Sofia Province".  First of all, these ownerless lands are nominally official fields belonging to the West Palace, which are allocated to the people for farming. The West Palace Household Department issues land deeds. The people can pass these field deeds to future generations, but if there is collusion between the common people and the Manchus,  , or the fields are sold privately, or the people violate the laws of the kingdom of heaven, etc., the West Palace can take back the fields.

    The second is the target of the land division. There are three types of people who are among the targets of this land division.  The first category is the extremely poor. To put it bluntly, they are farmers and refugees who have no way to survive. This kind of people have also been clearly investigated in various places in this census, especially in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, where more than 100,000 people have fled the war.  Displaced people are the priority targets for land distribution.

    The second category is military families and people with meritorious service. These people include the family members of more than 100,000 generals in the West Palace, as well as the families of meritorious people like Liu Lichuan and Zhou Lichun, as well as meritorious civilians who helped the Taiping Army.

    The third category is farmers who do not have enough land to support themselves and bankrupt tenants. These people also account for the majority in the census of Suffolk Province.

    Later, Zuo Zongtang clearly stated the detailed regulations for the distribution of the unclaimed land. In the West Palace, the female officials distributed the charter documents to each official. Xiao Yungui ordered on the spot that after the meeting, all regions would allocate the land.  Go to the real place.

    Xu Naizhao heardI was secretly beating my drum in my heart, thinking that the unclaimed land has been divided, and the next step is to divide the fields in the hands of rich peasants like them.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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