"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! "Anqing News", a penny. The notice of the new government, recruitment, recruitment, scientific examination, recruitment! If you want to know the details, sell "Anqing News"! The crisp voice of the newsboy sounded in Anqing City.

The reading atmosphere in Anqing is very prosperous, so there are many shops that print books and sell books. Wei Ze made full use of this advantage and founded the first organ newspaper of the General Staff Department, "Anqing News", in the city of Anqing.

The reason why it is called an organ newspaper is that the "Anqing News" is the responsibility of the General Staff Headquarters, the highest organ of power in Anqing, and all writing, editing, and review are all under the responsibility of the General Staff Headquarters. In order to expand the influence of the troops in Anqing and Tongcheng, Wei Ze personally led the team and started this newspaper.

In the inaugural issue, Weeser personally wrote three articles.

The first article is "Taiping Xing, the Manchu Dynasty is dead!" 》

The second part is "On the Recent Completion of Grain Taxes and the Policy Content of Cracking Down on Usury"

The third is the "Announcement on Scientific Expeditions to be Conducted in the Near Future"

The newspaper is now about the size of a modern newspaper, and because there is not enough content to fill for the time being, the newspaper has only eight pages. Wei Ze first made a serialization about "Shaving Order" and "Manchu Massacre". Since it's a serial, you can write and stop. There is no pressure to urge at all.

The Manchus never engaged in propaganda against the people, and this hierarchical dynastic regime did not need to give any explanation to the people, only to squeeze the people. Weeser did the opposite, implementing a strategy of policy openness.

In cooperation with the "Anqing News", Wei Ze set up a new organization within the General Staff, the Political Department. Since the Ministry of Political Affairs will be responsible for ideological issues in the future, and it is not necessary to let others do it, Wei Ze himself took on the post of Minister of Political Affairs. And the editor-in-chief of "Anqing News", Wu Qilu, who was born in Xiucai, temporarily became the deputy minister of the political department.

In just a few days, the sales of "Anqing News" reached the level of 1,000 copies per day. Since it's an agency newspaper, I don't have to worry about running out of places. Wei Ze didn't want to count on the newspaper to make money, so he temporarily set the print run of "Anqing News" at 1,000 copies.

At this time, Weeser proposed a completely new concept in the General Staff, the budget.

"We plan to expand the force to 30,000 by August. Therefore, by August, it is crucial to be able to collect at least enough food to feed these 30,000 people. In addition to these 30,000 troops, it is also necessary to feed the craftsmen of the newly opened military factories and other non-combatants, and the minimum minimum line for paying taxes on food is set at 50,000 people for a year. ”

Wei Ze talked eloquently at the meeting, and the generals who listened to Wei Ze's speech all felt a little cloudy. The Taiping army fought all the way, and they grabbed it wherever they went. Even if he did not move the poor people, he never let go of the Manchu government and the rich households. It's a bit difficult for these brothers, who can take whatever they want, to suddenly establish a concept of a base with a plan and an expectation to build a base area.

Zhang Yingchen asked a little confused: "Prime Minister, let's just let the local government hand over the grain on time, since the working groups to the local area are almost selected, just send them out." Why do we have to make this budget first? ”

Wei Changrong likes to quarrel with Zhang Yingchen, and he smiled: "How do you know how many acres of land there are in various places, and how much grain should be paid for these acres?" ”

Zhang Yingchen was not happy, he questioned: "Let them hand over the grain, and they dare not pay?" ”

Wei Changrong said with a smile: "Ying Chen, the prime minister has already said that we used to be like homeless people, getting money and food from big families, which can be regarded as being hungry when passing by, and when we see other people's chickens, we kill the chickens and eat meat." Now we are sitting on the land, and this tax is the same as raising chickens! The chickens on our own ground don't lay eggs, so will it work if you go up and beat them with a stick? You beat the chickens to death. ”

Wei Ze smiled bitterly in his heart after hearing this, it was not easy for the Taiping Army, which was originally similar to a rogue, to establish an understanding of sitting on the ground, and he had to use the metaphor of raising chickens. This realm is too far away from serving the people.

Zhang Yingchen, a person in Yong'an City, actually didn't know much about this, and he was not very convinced by Wei Changrong's lecture. But Wei Changrong didn't wave it himself, and completely used Wei Ze's words. In addition, after listening to Wei Changrong's words, Zhang Yingchen also somewhat understood Wei Ze's tax policy, so he stopped talking.

Ruan Xihao, who was born in Wujia Town, frowned and said: "Prime Minister, if you do this, will the local rich families in Anhui continue to oppress their tenant farmers?" ”

Listening to such an insightful point of view, Wei Ze's heart was happy. Nguyen Hee Ho was born in one of the six Hakka villages that were bullied by the local Tujia Haoqiang Wu Jia Town, and it is clear that Ruan Xi Hao's ass did not sit on the side of the landlord Hao Qiang.

But Wei Ze didn't dare to fully believe this, and he asked, "What does Brother Ruan think it should be?" ”

Ruan Xihao replied: "If I say, I will collect all the land of Haoqiang and divide it equally among the people to cultivate." At that time the harvest was to the holy treasury, and if the people wanted to eat the food, they received it from the holy treasury. Isn't that better! ”

Wei Ze didn't preach any worship of God in his own army, let alone the Heavenly Dynasty's Tianmu system, but Ruan Xihao was able to come up with a system very similar to the Heavenly Dynasty's Tianmu system just from what he had heard and the Holy Treasury system that operated in Wei Ze's army, and Wei Ze suddenly understood why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to get so much support from the grassroots people when he was preaching in the early days. Under the smallholder system, there is a common understanding of the "equal distribution of land".

As an industrialized youth in New China, Wei Ze certainly supports land reform, but as a young man educated by industrialization, Wei Ze knows very well that now is not the time to engage in land reform at all. Not to mention the external environment, just the internal environment of Weize's troops, whether it is a soldier or a general, they are not aware of their own class nature.

At the beginning of each new dynasty in China, there was basically a stage of equal division of land. With the popularity of yeoman farming, China's new dynasties all had their first hundred years of prosperity. But the land will eventually be concentrated, and with the concentration of land, there will always be a great political upheaval, and those far-sighted bureaucrats and emperors will try to divide the land again when the land is concentrated. And these attempts have all failed. When efforts to divide the land again fail, the dynasty will irreversibly fall on the path to ruin. Of course, there will be some repetition, but that repetition is already a tinker-type headache healer, and the dynasty runs along this path of destruction until the day of its destruction really comes.

Of course, Wei Ze has also seen an era that really broke this cycle, and the industrialized New China broke the rural land problem. Although there are some problems, it is good that land is treated as a means of production. The landlords of the purely agrarian era have been uprooted, and there is no possibility of another restoration in sight.

So Wei Ze smiled at Ruan Xihao, even if Ruan Xihao's views still failed to jump out of the circle of the old era, Wei Ze still didn't want to directly deny Ruan Xihao's views.

He originally wanted to wait until he had fully gained a foothold in Anqing for two or three years, and then began to implement the policy of "rent reduction and interest reduction". Since there are guys like Ruan Xihao in the army, Wei Ze proposed a supporting measure related to rent reduction and interest reduction.

"We need people to join the army, and I don't want people who just want to fish in troubled waters," Weeser said. So, we might as well come up with a policy. Every village, every township, has a certain number of recruits. Anyone who has passed the guò and other medical examinations and obtained the guò can get the benefit of getting a lower interest on the borrowed money from us. It is to give preferential treatment to the families of military personnel! ”

This is a simplified version of rent and interest reduction, Wei Ze does not confiscate private land in the locality, allows landlords to lease land, but if the soldier can become a soldier, if his family is a tenant farmer, in principle, according to Wei Ze's original rent before the occupation of the local area by 2 to 5, the upper limit of land rent shall not exceed 3 into 5.

At the same time, the Anqing Taiping Army recognized the loan relationship before Wei Ze's arrival and occupation of the locality, but the interest of the family members of the soldiers should generally not exceed one and a half cents, if the debtor's interest payment has been doubled, the interest will be suspended to repay the principal, and if the interest payment has been more than twice the original amount, the principal and interest will be stopped, and the original loan relationship will be deemed to be extinguished.

At the same time, Wei Ze sent some of his policy-educated brothers to the various villages where he had taken control, and it was up to them to make sure that no landlord had passed on his taxes to the tenant farmers. The premise, of course, is that someone from these tenant farmers has joined the army and is approved by the army.

Although Wei Ze's utilitarian action was only to recruit as many good sons as possible into the army, he had taken care of his own brothers, and Ruan Xihao did not mention the deeper social revolution.

Weeser turned the discussion back to the original one, "We have to establish a budgetary system. If we want the people to be able to pay less food, then we have to take a two-pronged approach, first of all, to pay taxes after completing the grain, and no one can afford not to pay taxes without paying food. And the landlords and gentry cannot be allowed to increase the weight layer by layer. And once we make a budget, we can get to know how much tax we have to collect from the local government every year. If we have moderation, we can prohibit the group of people who are vassals of us and try not to behave indiscriminately. ”

After saying this, whether they understood it or not, all the generals pondered. Lin Asheng, Minister of Logistics, said: "Prime Minister, it is the local officials who are in charge of paying taxes, should we send someone to be an official ourselves?" ”

"Do you have any opinions?" Weeser asked. After the intensive education of the troops, there are more and more soldiers who can read and write and know basic arithmetic, and the logistics department is a department that needs mathematical knowledge very much.

Lin Asheng replied: "Prime Minister, we don't have so many people available now. ”

Wei Ze smiled: "This is no problem, I am already ready to start the scientific examination, although there will not be many of them, there will definitely be a group of people who want to come out to be officials and eat." We'll just have to take care of these people when the time comes. ”

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