However, according to Feng Yunshan's "Shengguo Tianmu System", all the fields under his rule will be given to the peasants, of course, it will be supported by the vast number of landless and landless peasants, but at the same time, this will inevitably touch the strong hatred of the big landlords and gentry!

At that time, Li Zicheng's slogan was to distribute the landlords' land to the poor, and the landlords' armed forces united to kill them, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, the slogan in the early days was also to equalize the land, and the Hunan army, the Huai army and other local regiments were trained, but it was the local landlords and gentry who donated money and grain to support them to deal with the Taiping army, with the purpose of eliminating the people who wanted to rob them of their land. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For this reason, Feng Yunshan instructed the garrisons stationed in various places to pay close attention to them, and directly attack the gentry in the evil township first, and find other excuses to cut them off.

In addition, Feng Yunshan asked the captive troops stationed in various places to temporarily participate in local governance, and organized a large number of poor peasants to hold grievance meetings to crusade against the bully landlords. On the other hand, a group of good landlords were propagandized to take the initiative to hand over a large amount of land under their own names, and the Holy Kingdom gave appropriate subsidies for silver taels according to the amount of land handed over.

In addition, Feng Yunshan persuaded Li Wenmao, who was idle in the opposition, to go out of the mountain and appointed him as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the palace. Feng Yunshan told Li Wenmao the stories he knew about bullying landlords such as "The White-Haired Girl" and "The Chicken Crows in the Middle of the Night". He asked him to organize the original Cantonese opera troupe and adapt these stories into Cantonese opera.

As a result, Li Wenmao was very interested in this story, and immediately organized people to make up plays, but because everyone hated Huang Shiren and Zhou Papi such villain landlord roles, no one was willing to perform.

As long as the land in the hands of the landlords everywhere is snatched up, the people can be organized to carry out a comprehensive land reform, and the grain tax will be collected next year. The effect of the land reform in Yongzhou Prefecture for half a year has come out, and the people in several counties of Yongzhou Prefecture have paid a total of 1.04 million stone rice taxes, which is not counting all of Yongzhou Prefecture. Thinking about it, Feng Yunshan's heart was hot.

The peasants of this era, as long as they are willing to give them land, even if they use half of the harvest as a grain tax, they are still grateful to you. For this reason, Feng Yunshan did not hesitate to offend all the landlords and forcibly promoted all the land reform policies.

Moreover, in addition to the grain tax, the people under the rule also have various taxes such as commercial tax, forced labor, and mining tax, but at present, the grain tax is still the mainstay.

Feng Yunshan followed the tax and fiscal policy of later generations, collected all taxes at the level of the central palace, and then allocated financial money and grain to the governments in a unified manner.

In this way, in addition to paying the due taxes, each level of administrative unit will also receive a refund of the allocation from the higher level at the end of each year.

For example, if a county has 100,000 stone of surplus rice this year, in addition to the grain tax paid to the royal government, the county will allocate 60,000 stone to 10 townships and towns according to the actual situation, and each township will receive 6,000 stone of rice. Then, according to the actual situation, the township allocated 4,000 stone of the 6,000 stone of rice to the following 10 villages, and each village received about 400 stone of rice.

By analogy, Feng Yunshan's design is that no matter how much, some of it will always be returned to the people at the end of the year, so that the people will have a sense of belonging to the village, town, and county, which is a bit similar to the share dividends of later generations. In this way, the people will truly support the village system.

But at present, the village system is in place, but there are not so many people to fill these extra positions. The people who act as these people only need to be literate and count, and now, Feng Yunshan is in short supply of such talents.

Even if a group of officials from the original county government were used, it was not enough, not to mention, Feng Yunshan categorically did not dare to use all the officials of the county government, and the methods of corruption and demand by these people were the most ferocious.

The only way is to hold an imperial examination right away and select talents through the opening of the department.

Feng Yunshan knew that even Yang Xiuqing conducted a imperial examination in Wuchang and selected hundreds of people, which shows that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also lacked a large number of talents. I have a fixed territory of Liangguang on my side, and everything is waiting for someone to manage it, and there is a shortage of officials.

However, at the moment, there is a shortage of people in the hands to the point that there is no department to carry out the imperial examination! As a last resort, Feng Yunshan couldn't count on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Medical Education, which were still under construction, so he personally served as the chief examiner and let Xu Xiangguang serve as the deputy chief examiner.

Xu Xiangguang has recently been in charge of the government affairs in Guangzhou, as well as the logistics supply of tens of thousands of captive troops, and more than 100,000 rebels to be dismantled need to eat and drink every day, and they are very busy.

But, who called him the person with the highest education in the entire holy country, he was also a jinshi, even Zuo Zongtang was just a person, although Feng Yunshan was also a college student in his previous life, but in this dynasty, he was a little talent, therefore, Xu Xiangguang, who was familiar with the process and specific details, was arrested by Feng Yunshan and was specifically responsible for the organization of this imperial examination!

Due to his eagerness, Feng Yunshan prepared for this imperial examination, not the same as the Manchu Qing government, which opened the examination at one level, but directly took the unified examination twice. The first exam is a simple proficiency test, and there is no ranking, as long as you pass the test, you can become an official in each township and county.

A second selection examination will be held from among the candidates who have passed the test for the first time, and the positions will be arranged according to the ranking of the results.

This imperial examination was carried out in a hurry, but fortunately, Xu Xiangguang had experience and was born in a big family in Guangzhou. After receiving the order of the Holy King, he immediately asked people to print thousands of imperial examination notices, and organized thousands of people, in groups of two or three, holding gongs, to ring the gongs outside the major villages to inform the reminders, and in the official pavilions, village entrances, ancestral halls, and places where many people gathered, posted notices, and asked all scholars to go to the Guangzhou Fucheng School Palace for the imperial examination.

After three or four days of propaganda, the propaganda team members dispatched by Xu Xiangguang have reached as far as Huizhou Mansion and Zhaoqing Prefecture. All around the Guangzhou Mansion knew that the Holy King was going to open a branch to take scholars in Guangzhou, and in the city of Guangzhou, Li Wenmao even organized a group of servants to publicize the news that the Holy King was going to open a branch and take a scholar in the streets and alleys of the city.

.........

A large pond is sparkling, two rows of ancient banyan trees have long whiskers, and a towering ancestral hall stands majestically in the center. Outside the ancestral hall, under the big banyan tree, sit a few village women who are sewing clothes, busy with their work while leisurely basking in the winter sun.

"Knock knock!" A few gongs sounded the tranquility of winter.

The village women who stopped what they were doing heard a conversation between two people with accents in Guangzhou: "Brother, this is the Songtang Village in Xiqiao, Nanhai, that the big brother who passed by just now?" Out of the small village of a jinshi and two lifters? ”

"yes, this should be it. Let's go to the ancestral hall and put up a notice for the opening of the department, and then shout around the village. ”

"Well, this is a village of Jinshi and Juren, and there are many scholars, so we can do a good job of publicizing and publicizing it. Maybe, in a few days, someone will be on the list, and they will thank us brothers, right? ”

The village women raised their heads vigilantly and stared at the two, and the two hurriedly explained, and the village women learned that it was the official sent by the holy king in the city, who came to urge people to participate in the imperial examination held by the holy king.

That's a great thing!

"Master Messenger, you have come to our Songtang Village! Our Songtang Village is Nanhai County, no, no, the whole Guangzhou Prefecture is a very famous Wenqu Village. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been several large and small Jinshi Juren masters. A village woman said proudly.

"Then this sister-in-law, can you tell us that there are still scholars in Songtang Village now, can you help call them, or inform them that the Guangfu School Palace in the city will open a department and let them all participate!"

"Cheng, I'll call you now."

……

Ou Ge is nearly forty years old, since the age of 16 after the examination Xiucai, six times in a row in the township test but all failed, he just fell off the list last year, helpless, ready to study for another two years, the next year if the exam is still unsuccessful, then abandon this mind, looking for an errand.

I was about to review "Spring and Autumn" again, when there was a knock on the wooden door, but it was my cousin who had just become a child last year:

"Uncle Ge Ying, I heard my mother say that two messengers came to the entrance of the village to inform the holy queen of the city about the opening of the imperial examination the day after tomorrow, and I want to invite you to go together."

Holy King? Open the imperial examination? Is it the leader of the rebel army who is going to open the imperial examination?

"Zhan Sen, you go, Uncle Wei doesn't want to participate in the imperial examination of the traitor!" Ou replied.

"Uncle Ying, you are pedantic! I saw the text released by the Holy King, the writing is brilliant, and the truth is to the bone, so the Manchu Tartars can't participate in the imperial examination! This is a new imperial examination for our Han people in the past 200 years, and as a scholar of the Han family, I want to participate! A handsome young man said loudly, and then persuaded: "What's more, Uncle Ge Ying, I heard that this time the Holy King opened the department, and there will be thousands of scholars, this is a great opportunity to win the list!" Why don't we go together? ”

"This ......" Ou Yuying couldn't help but be moved, taking thousands of people, this ratio, according to his results of ranking about 400 last year, will definitely be on the list, and at that time, he will be able to become a master and step into the official career.

"In that case, let's go with us!"

……

Similar scenes are playing out in villages around the city. (To be continued.) )