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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 709: Cleanse and Leave the House

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    Xiao Yungui looked at Qingfeng's indifferent back when he left, and felt a little relieved in his heart. He had always been worried about the fact that after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in history, the Republic of China treated the Manchu nobles too well. Although the Republic of China government also stopped the Manchurian aristocracy,  The nobles had money and silver, but they retained the country's land, property, and real estate that they had embezzled for generations. In the two decades after the Republic of China, these Manchu nobles sat on their hands and squandered all the wealth accumulated by their ancestors. In the end,  Still became a member of the common people.  ¨J

    In history, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu nobles lost their political power, which also caused the princes and nobles to lose a lot of opportunities to accept bribes.  In the past, when the princes were powerful, officials in the court would rush to flatter him and give away gold and silver. Now that the prince has lost his power and has become a commoner, not only does he have no one to give gifts, but he often has to bribe the new wealthy people of the Republic of China.  Silver in order to gain protection from the warlord government.  The princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty owned large amounts of land, and could collect huge rents and various agricultural and sideline products from the tenants who cultivated these lands every year. These lands were called "village land" and were seized from farmers by the Eight Banners Horse Racing Enclosure in the early Qing Dynasty.  .  After the Republic of China, the princes and nobles lost their political power. Tenants and farmers took this opportunity to refuse to pay rent and launched a struggle to resist rent and seize land. As a result, the princes and nobles lost huge amounts of land rent income.  Although Yuan Shikai issued a presidential decree to force tenant farmers to pay land rent, the majority of tenant farmers still resisted rent and occupied land. However, out of self-interest, the government of the Republic of China did not take coercive measures to force tenant farmers to pay rent. Therefore, since the princes and nobles could not receive rent money.  , the expenses in the palace were very high, so the village land had to be sold.  Most of these farms were sold to some landlords, bureaucrats and warlords at low prices.  This led to the formation of a new semi-feudal and semi-bourgeois class in the Republic of China.  The aristocratic children were very cowardly and incompetent and could not compete with the powerful new rich, so their property was lost in large quantities.  The major royal palaces in Beijing fell rapidly in just twenty or thirty years.

    Of course, Xiao Yungui could do nothing and allow these Manchu nobles to gradually lose all their property as they did in history, but doing so is obviously not in the interest of the entire country in the future. The huge amounts of property, land and real estate controlled by the Manchu nobles  If it is allowed to be annexed by new nobles as it was in history, it will only increase the country's semi-feudal and semi-bourgeois power, and will not be beneficial to the country as a whole.  It is also of no benefit to the vast number of farmers who have lost their land and cannot further alleviate domestic land conflicts.  Therefore, Xiao Yungui must take advantage of this time to redistribute land and property when the new dynasty needs to be purged.  This will guide the land policy reform in the north and ensure that the north can implement the New Deal in the same way as Jiangnan.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It is bound to weaken the power of the feudal forces in the north.  Without the opportunity to annex land, the feudal forces in the north would invest a large amount of capital into industry and commerce, which would be very beneficial to the country's industrialization process and the prosperity of the capital market.

    At the same time, the confiscation of the properties of the Manchu nobles represented the simple wishes of the anti-Qing forces and appeased the wishes of the middle and lower classes of the Taiping people. Since the Han people were already the masters of the country, the liquidation of the Manchus was necessary and necessary.  Doing so could also ease the antagonism between the Manchus and the Han in the country.  Moreover, only a few people were rich among the Manchus, and most of the Manchus were poor bannermen.  Allocating land to them can also meet the needs of the lower class Manchus, divide a group, win over a group of Manchus, gain support from the majority of poor Manchus, and help promote the republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups.

    The development of the matter was exactly as Xiao Yungui expected. Tens of thousands of Manchu nobles in Beijing were indeed very dissatisfied with the three edicts of the Western King. They refused to hand over their property. However, since they no longer had power and military protection, their property, houses and fields  It was taken back by the Taiping Army in a short period of time. The Taiping Army used its powerful military power as a guarantee and ruthlessly suppressed a large number of Manchu nobles.

    The poor Manchu banner households welcomed this edict, such as the numerous slaves in Qingfeng Mansion. They have been servants of the Qingfeng family for generations, and their families are not wealthy. After the edict,  After the order was issued, they began to receive money, real estate and fields.  Seeing that their former masters were in such a state of desolation and that the usual beatings and scoldings they used to boss them around no longer existed, these slaves felt the benefits of living freely for the first time.

    Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom struck while the iron was hot and introduced the first bill in the trilogy to abolish slavery. This bill was called the "Abolition of Manchu Clothed Slaves Act." Xiao Yungui very covertly limited the first part of the abolition of slavery to the Manchus. This is in line with  At this time, once the will of the majority of the people is tainted with the word Manchu, everyone will think that it must be overturned. The abolition of the Manchu slaves does not affect the rights of the majority of Han people to have slaves. Therefore, this  The bill was implemented very quickly.  for a lostFor the former aristocratic class that had political and military power, they were unable to fight against the emerging class forces in the country.  As a result, the Manchu slaves became free in a short period of time.

    ?Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom launched the second step, announcing that from the day of the founding ceremony and the emperor's coronation ceremony under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, human trafficking will no longer be allowed. This bill is called the "Prohibition of Human Trafficking Act."  This bill prohibits human trafficking and is preparation for the final declaration of abolition of slavery in the future. All this is for the purpose of establishing the country. This is what Lieutenant General Zhao mentioned for the first time. All citizens of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China are equal before the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven.  Preparations are being made for this epoch-making initiative.  Fairness of human rights is a necessary step to further break the shackles of feudal hierarchy. Only in this way can feudal land dependence be gradually broken, and then the emerging bourgeois force will gradually become the backbone of the country, and the country's industrial revolution can be completed.

    The success of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot be separated from the support of the middle and lower class people. The abolition of slavery is necessary, the distribution of land is necessary, and the redistribution of the entire social resources is necessary. Therefore, under the guidance of Xiao Yungui, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has begun to embark on another path.  the way.

    Of course, the birth of any capitalist class is inevitably mixed with the blood and tears of many people, and it cannot avoid the accumulation of dirty primitive capital. This time, the first people to pay blood and tears are the Manchu nobles, who made their rule fail.  And they still hold a lot of wealth in their hands?

    Everything seems to be so logical. Xiao Yungui just advanced the decline of the Manchu nobles by twenty years. During the whole spring season, it was extremely painful for the Manchu nobles in the capital. They moved out.  They have lived in the prince's mansion for a long time, carrying a small amount of personal belongings and a few taels of silver. These are all their belongings. The thirty acres of land per person is meaningless to them, because they are proud and rich and will not go there.  Farming, these fields will soon be sold by them, and the only buyer of these lands will be the Taiping Rebellion government.  The land of the Manchus was all distributed as state-owned land, and trading and redemption were strictly prohibited. Xiao Yungui increased the country's wealth to an astonishing magnitude, and his actions were accused by people who did not know why the new emperor had carried out a large amount of money.  Royal private land enclosures, but this idea gradually stopped when taxes collected from the wealth generated on these lands belonged to the state treasury.

    Those Manchu nobles who resisted and were unwilling to hand over their property were brutally suppressed by the Taiping Army. The methods and charges were very groundless. They intended to subvert the new court and restore the Manchu dynasty. This alone was enough.  On March 25th, nearly 3,000 Manchu nobles and their families were publicly sentenced. The principal criminals were then taken to the execution ground and executed, while their families were exiled to Fujian and Guangdong to build railways.  , many people died on the way to build the railway.

    Most of the Manchu nobles bowed their heads under swords and guns. They handed over their property and almost left their homes. Then gradually, their once-prominent class disappeared in the long river of history, just like the nobles in the late Qing Dynasty disappeared in history.  It's the same, but they take less time.  Sometimes, when walking in the capital, there will always be beggars begging in some small alleys. You will find that perhaps a certain prince, Baylor, Beizi and other powerful people were among them.

    There are also relatively lucky people among them, such as Qingfeng, Zaiquan, Yikuang and others. Qingfeng is now renamed Xiao Qingfeng. He was given a national surname by the King of the West and was promoted to the first-class Zhaoxin Hou.  Zaiquan changed his surname to Ai and was granted the title of third-class Marquis of Shunyi. Yikuan also changed his surname to Ai and was granted the title of Ningbo of the first class.  The three of them, just like Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi and other Ming Dynasty ministers who took refuge with the Qing Dynasty when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they became outright Manchu traitors. They relied on reporting and digging up the property of the Manchu nobles.  To become prosperous, they were able to protect their property by persecuting their compatriots, and they were able to become the example set by the new dynasty by selling out the last bit of dignity of the Manchus.

    History is fair. When you suffer from dark times, you may complain about the injustice of history, but one day, history will return to the other extreme. As the Chinese often say, thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river,  This is the fairness of history.

    Of course, there is one Manchu dignitary who is an exception. He is Prince Chun Yiyi. Since the Manchu royal family all lived in his mansion after they moved out of the Forbidden City, and the King of the West pardoned Prince Chun's sins, Prince Chun's property was preserved.  Come down.  It's just that Yiyi didn't get a title, and he didn't need a title. After the King of the West came to Beijing, he didn't express any surrender. He didn't cut off his braids and change clothes, nor did he change his surname. Then he did it without leaving home.  Coward.  Yiyi thought he could keep a low profile and maintain his dignity in this way, but it did lay the foundation for a big disaster in the future.

    The whole capital is now paying attention to the numerous Manchu nobles. They are all clapping and applauding at their miserable end, so they have no time to pay attention to that.Prince Chun, even the former Queen Mother and the young emperor were temporarily forgotten.  What then attracted people's attention was the arrival of the political center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River in the capital. In addition to the central government agencies of the entire Heavenly Kingdom, the Queen of the West, her second son, and the infant Princess of the Heavenly Kingdom also arrived.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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