In the territory of Guangfu, it is the harvest period of the second crop of rice in the three crops of rice every year, and the low rice ears and plants are swaying heavily with the wind, and the large areas of paddy fields that cannot be seen are endless; It is as if the golden sea is slight, and it is full of joy and pleasure at first sight.

As the sun unsparingly scorched and shone brightly, the scorching air was filled with the smell of earth and grain; Even the originally fierce sound of cicadas became weak as if they were taken by the heat.

Although the sun was blazing, the road between Tian Mo was still full of people, all kinds of sweaty people and livestock, as well as all kinds of vehicles full of bulging bags of grain, or high stacks of straw and grass blocks.

They are like industrious and tireless worker ants, energetically competing to and fro with all kinds of fields, and between the threshing fields of all kinds of manpower and animal power, and the roaring and waving of filtering machinery;

Then they gathered in groups in the temporary closure of the market and the supply and marketing offices at various intersections; Here they take turns lining up to go through the water-powered spring mill, after separating the bran and the first and second brown rice; Then divide the part of the transaction, stay in the village and use it according to the proportion, and carry it back to the house.

Therefore, when it is time for lunch break and eating, the crowd of people who sit on the floor and take out the tinkling of bowls and cans will be filled with the smell of oil and salt; and the discussion of mutual comparison and comparison.

Among them, what you usually see are really tightly pressed bowls of rice or steamed rice balls with pu leaf buns, and some people are stacked dough cakes and small cans of soup strips, flattened bean buns; The best accompaniment to rice is stewed large pieces of marinated fish or reddish rotten meat, and dried cured slices with soft oil;

If you only have monotonous salted vegetables and sauce, or take dried potatoes and satisfy your hunger, you will only be ridiculed for raising a stingy lazy woman at home. If you can see a piece of oily canned meat or hooves, it means that someone in the family is in the army, and it is also the focus of envy and redness in the audience.

At this time, Zhuangzi everywhere will boil a large pot and a large pot of salted tea soup, and let people drink it at will all day and night. Some large Zhuangzi with abundant products can even be extravagant enough to add blackened and bitter coarse sugar to them, which makes people drink extraordinarily refreshed and refreshing.

When the batch is finished at night, illuminated charcoal cages continue to serve extra roasted potatoes, salted beans and miso soup, and even a few sips of the Grange's own cloudy liquor for those who contribute the most.

At this time, taking advantage of the gradually cooling night, the old and weak children in the village everywhere will also join in the sequence of labor, just to grab more agricultural time before the cool rain that may come at any time.

Although this is only a small normal year on the harvest, it is even slightly lower than the average level of previous years because of the large water that has risen in the local summer. But seeing that their families kept bringing back yellowed rice grains and gray wheat noodles, the women and children who stayed behind couldn't help but smile and have a lot of longing, or they snapped their fingers and counted on one by one.

It's only been a few years. But for most people, as long as they give up their strength, they can eat half full on weekdays, and there are more days to eat during the New Year's festival and collective labor, and when they go out to work, they just wish that they would live for thousands of generations.

And beside a parked ox cart, under a large banyan tree with a canopy of shady.

"The Lord's instructions were still given, and they were to lay up grain, build cities, and slow to become kings. It's really to the point and thought-provoking. ”

"Now you can rest easy, you don't have to worry about persuasion day and night."

"It's still ashamed to say that I have speculated privately for a long time and measured my popularity; for fear of being fettered by fame and disproportionateness. But I don't want this lord to understand things better than most people, and have a bigger pattern and city government with a splendid mind. ”

"The old man is really fortunate to be able to be under the command of this lord with all the kings, and I hope to celebrate it."

"Good. Shanye, the military can do this, obviously because they have seen through the obstacles of fame, fortune and power, and can only return to the basics and have true insight. Isn't this the blessing of thousands of people and the blessing of Li Shu. ”

He was ordered to recruit and gather Tu Liao slang in Danzhou, Zhenzhou, Wan'an Prefecture and other places in Hainan, and planted kapok (island cotton), oil palm, sisal and other cash crops with some results, and was tanned and thin Nongcao director and professor Liu Xun;

Because of the supervision of summer harvest and follow-up sowing, top dressing and other matters, it looks like the blackened Guangzhou Changshi Fan Xuan, who looks like a dusty servant,

There is also a very good description of the body and qi, responsible for the training and deployment of Lingdong localities, various tunns and cities in the middle of the teacher inspector and Liusi Zanji Qiu eunuch.

The last one to speak was the mountain master of the Guangfu Buddhist Academy, who always looked sad and thin, and the old monk Yixin, who was born in the Southern Chan Ancestral Court.

These four people almost represent the core territory of the Taiping Army outside the Lingwai, among the officials and clerks of local governments at all levels, who occupy a large proportion of the Annan faction and the iconic figures of the Lingdong faction.

Of course, what is more important is that they have all received requests to go north one after another to assist in the development and governance of Lingwai; That's why there was such an impromptu meeting.

"So, the master is already determined to go north out of the mountains?"

Liu Xun asked again.

"Exactly,"

Yoshinobu looked at the head of the mouth and nose

"What should we do with these Buddhist undertakings that the master has raised in the mountains?"

Fan Sui asked in surprise.

"These are all sent by foreign things, and Dingxing makes sense; It was only at the time of his meeting that he was a little famous; Now it is also a self-contained law and profits, and it will not change because of whether the old man survives or not. ”

Yoshinobu, who was still grim-faced, sighed.

"However, the old man has a lot of understanding between the practice (theory), so he gave up his grand wish, and took the quiet Buddhism to promote the hundred zhang rules for the rest of his life. Now that he has been recruited, he is willing to practice this body everywhere in the world. ”

However, the other Qiu Eun, who was not speaking, smiled brightly. Compared with Fan Xuan, who focuses on his own field and is more solid-eyed, or Liu Xun, who is trembling and bent on please; This old monk, who is older than anyone else and has a lot of knowledge, is the one who can be the most flexible.

In the early years, he still looked like he was not coerced by force and did not cooperate, and he could only stoop to the appearance of thieves for the sake of the majority of monks; Now he has become a martyr pioneer who understands the Taiping Army's compassion and compassion for others, and does not hesitate to die.

Of course, this did not come from the White Lotus sect of the Pure Land Sect of the same sect of Buddhism, and now it is accompanied by the hidden pressure and preaching competition brought about by the advisor monk on the side.

You must know that the northern school of Zen Buddhism advocates gradual enlightenment based on the trend, while the southern school advocates epiphany of accumulation. The Pure Land Lotus Sect is even more minimalist, and once claimed that as long as the Buddha's name is recited at all times, everyone will have the opportunity to transcend the six realms and go to the Pure Land.

Nanchan originally took the lead in the establishment of Buddhist rules and regulations; However, it is obviously the simplicity and flow style of the Pure Land Lotus Sect, which is more suitable for the convenience of these Taiping soldiers who came from humble backgrounds or came from the bottom of the recklessness, and the people under their rule.

Of course, he himself may not be much better.

Qiu Eun was originally getting old, living in Annan and away from the war, and he should have no desire or desire in addition to teaching apprentices. But the coming of this Lord gave him an opportunity; An opportunity to spread the "Qiu Xue" from southern Xinjiang in later generations, and even leave a name in the historical records.

Therefore, there is no need to debunk and debunk this little thought. After all, for them, Guangfu and even the entire Liangling, no matter how good they are, are just a corner of the world. Only by continuing to follow that person is the core of stirring up the times.

- I'm the dividing line -

After receiving the statistics of the late summer harvest from Guangfu and using the siding signal, Zhou Huaian sighed heavily. At least there is no need to worry about the crisis of inventory emptying caused by a flood in the Pearl River basin or the flooding of the Hunan River basin.

The grain balance of the thirteen prefectures in Lingdong after being put into storage is 160,000 quintals, plus the transportation figures of the eight prefectures in Lingxi, Annan and other places; Because of the continuous expeditions and the subsequent pacification, maintenance and military management of the localities, in the Taiping Army's sacred treasury system, the amount of grain reserves that had been hovering in a state of deficit finally returned to above the danger line.

In this way, it will not be necessary to levy additional surplus grain from the cantonment and the common accumulation in the collective farms; After all, things like credibility and word-of-mouth that are popular with the people are consumed quickly, but it is not so simple to recover.

There is no need to continue to transfer those material reserves that are used to adjust the market and prepare for emergencies, as well as for large-scale projects; As well as those projects that have been delayed and suspended projects, they can also be quickly resumed.

As of the beginning of August, the revenue of the Taiping Sacred Treasury also reached 6.09 million yuan, the largest part of which still came from direct or indirect participation in maritime trade, as well as additional taxes on commercial taxes, ship taxes, and other special products obtained in the port markets controlled by various places.

As for the names of Ding tax (rural) and household tax (town), it can be said that they have been reduced to a proportion and degree that is slightly better than nothing; It is still preserved only to reflect the control and daily presence of the regime.

In contrast, the trading volume of Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Chaozhou, Leizhou and other port markets has continued to grow in recent years; However, the earnings of the two major sectors of the market and the business sector have declined; Of course, this was mainly due to the fact that the Taiping army's trading fleet gradually intervened and deepened into various fields.

On the other hand, it is the reason why the existing trade volume and market size of the shipping route, as well as the corresponding production capacity, have stabilized into a trickle of bulk exchanges, and it is necessary to continue to open up more emerging markets and trade space overseas.

In fact, despite the nominal income of the Taiping Army, the financial accounts of the Taiping Army have been in a state of small to small deficits; Because as long as the income and income are accumulated to a certain extent, they will immediately be invested in the to-do items and projects with preset orders and schedules.

Of course, this is suspected of wasting money on the people in a certain sense, but it is a method or measure to quickly bring about the upper limit of the economic scale and market potential in a short period of time. Only by frequently circulating goods and wealth can more derivative value be created in the process of transforming into other things.

Xunzi's attitude towards national taxation and use is very clear in the "Royal Chapter".

The monarch who reigns the world enriches the people, the monarch who dominates the princes enriches the warriors, the barely existing state enriches the doctors, and the sovereign who dies only enriches his chests and fills his storehouses.

Their chests are full, their warehouses are full, and the common people are poor, which is called overflowing from above and leaking from below. Such a country cannot be defended internally and cannot be fought externally, so its downfall and demise can be waited for immediately.

Therefore, those in power plunder the wealth of the people to perish, and the enemy gets these goods and becomes rich and powerful. Plundering the people's wealth is really the road to invite invaders, fatten the enemy, destroy the country, and endanger oneself, so a wise monarch does not take this road.

Under the traditional feudal agricultural system, most of the smallholders who were self-sufficient did not spend money; If a large number of people in a country do not spend money at all, it means that most of the people in the country are outside the imperial court system, which is responsible for issuing money.

That means a huge lack of resource utilization and mobilization capacity, as well as a fragile tolerance for unexpected risks such as natural and man-made disasters. The collapse of any dynastic period begins with the accumulation of these factors to the beginning of quantitative and qualitative changes.

Today's late Tang Dynasty is the best example. There are constant disasters in the world and fierce social contradictions, but there is no corresponding channel for the circulation of resources and complementarity, as well as the top-down adjustment ability of the regime;

Therefore, the peasant rebel army can always get enough home and homeopathy in the battle, and then learn lessons and supplement in defeat, and continue to grow bigger like a snowball, and one after another makes the court with strong soldiers and fierce generals inexhaustible.

Having said that,

Nowadays, the registered population of the places outside the Lingdong has reached more than 970,000 who pay taxes and serve directly to the Taiping military regime, mainly concentrated in the eastern and northern parts of the Lingnan, and one-third of them are distributed in the tunzhuangs in various places; This is also the base of the young and strong population that can be mobilized and mobilized at any time.

About half of them are high-quality soldiers with collective education and primary military training, but they will only be fully mobilized at the cost of a halt in production in the event of a major crisis or sustained heavy losses.

The rest of the population is mostly scattered in hundreds of towns and towns; As long as a certain amount of resources and the cost of the reduction and lack of social functions are revealed, most of them can also be mobilized, and they can take on the short- and medium-term collective labor and local garrison replenishment.

As for the low-level population scattered in the vast remote villages and mountains outside the ranks, the Taiping army did not need to count on them as a source of troops for a while, as long as it ensured that under indirect control and limited influence, they could pay taxes and provide labor on time through the checkpoints set up at the key Chonghe intersections.

Then, after reaching most of the seven states under the actual control of Hunan, the number shrank to about 410,000; In the five prefectures of Jiangxi and the three prefectures of Jiangdong, which are prone to war, there are about 290,000 heads in total;

However, the number in Jingnan is slightly more, and in Jingzhou alone, there are 170,000 registered tax payers; Although on the books, there are 22 prefectures and millions of households in Lingnei alone, which is already the foundation of a large country with five generations of separation.

But in any case, relying on the current output and division of labor in these places, it is already very difficult to maintain the garrisons of nearly five armies on the three routes in the Lingnai and the resources they need.

Now it has carried several big burdens including Xiangzhou, Suizhou, Yingzhou, and Fuzhou in the east of the mountain road. Therefore, for a long time in the future, it will be necessary to continue to transfuse and replenish blood outside the mountains, so as to promote various measures such as stabilizing order, resuming production, and organizing households and people.

Until the day when you regain feedback from these places. Therefore, he still had to save money and continue to be careful to maintain his military and land revenues and expenditures and financial balance.

For example, after the local armed forces that were mobilized in the turmoil were reorganized, eliminated, and reduced, some of them were selected to supplement the main force order, some of them were organized into production garrisons or garrison troops, and some of them were repatriated to their original places for compensation.

However, continuing to keep a low profile and bury one's head in the development of production does not mean that those subordinates and the majority of followers cannot be expected and expected; So Zhou Huai'an quickly summoned the generals in Xiangzhou City and announced a decision.

(End of chapter)