Chapter Eighty-Six: Dealing with the Old Bureaucracy

After the suppression and crackdown campaign with a small area and great intensity, the Han Heavenly Kingdom began the land reform again, collecting all the land of the suppressed guys and distributing it to the landless and landless people in the vicinity, and at the same time, taking advantage of the surging mass movement, began to expropriate the land of all the big landlords, leaving enough average land according to the population of the big landlord's family, and the rest were all expropriated as state-owned assets.

Of course, this state-owned asset is also temporary, but only nominal, and if you want the peasants to support you, you have to give you benefits, and after it is declared a state-owned asset, it will be distributed as evenly as possible so that the peasants can enjoy ownership and management rights. These practices are easy decisions made by Luo Yang, and they don't require much high IQ.

"The ownership of the peasants' land will remain unchanged for more than 50 years."

"Whoever dares to destroy and rob the peasants' land is an enemy of the Han Heavenly Kingdom!"

"The state shall compensate all patriotic landlords whose land has been expropriated, but it shall be repaid in 50 years, and the price of the land shall be calculated at the present price, and the landlord shall be given a percentage of the interest rate, taking into account the change in prices."

"The state issues bonds, or other forms, to increase revenues and guarantee them with the creditworthiness of the state."

Luo Yang himself did not spend much effort on this matter, mainly formulating basic rules, and then dispatching and appointing local officials to supervise and preside over various places, and set up grassroots organizations in each village to be responsible.

In order to eliminate possible malpractices, he ordered that the Heavenly Regime would send personnel to conduct random inspections every year, and that anyone who commits favoritism or malpractice in the process will be sentenced to capital punishment and will never be forgiven.

Luoyang also set up an agrarian reform arbitration committee to strengthen its institutions, develop personnel, and encourage all people who have experienced injustice to petition and complain. Implement a combination of bottom-up supervision and top-down mediation.

Luo Yang himself is a farmer, and he has deep feelings about many things that happen in the modern countryside.

Agrarian reform is a slow process, the mobilization of the masses, the inspiration of the landlords, the promotion of things, the guarantee of the army, and the coordination of officials.

However, the land reform was another extremely successful and large-scale undertaking, and at the beginning of the promulgation of this decree, it immediately won the high praise of the people near Chengdu, but seeing the enthusiasm of the people, they rushed to tell each other, not only the peasants were happy, but also the landlords were quite happy, and if the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came to carry it out, it was said that they would take away a penny for nothing and not compensate you.

Luo Yang sent his intelligence department to various places anytime and anywhere to understand the situation and solve problems, and quickly won the support of the vast majority of the people in his area, even those squires who lost their land and property, and they did not resist too much.

At the same time, Luo Yang also dispatched intelligence agencies and reconnaissance agencies, supplemented by a large number of locals, to investigate a major matter, the corruption of former Qing officials.

The corruption of officials in any dynasty, society, and officials is a big problem, especially the justice of justice, which has opened up Chengdu, has released the vast majority of prisoners, and called on the people to come forward to expose the illegal acts of previous officials.

After occupying the city, the Han Heavenly Kingdom troops strictly blocked and inspected pedestrians, temporarily blocking internal and external contacts, and blocking most of the former Qing officials and officials in the city.

A large number of troops were dispatched to cooperate with the local people in the neighborhood to carry out searches and inventories, and the same thing was carried out in the surrounding counties and towns occupied. The people were also mobilized to monitor the former Qing officials who were currently living in seclusion in the village granges.

The main task of this period was to liquidate the decadent and reactionary bureaucratic clique of the previous dynasty!

This purge was necessary because the intelligence investigation revealed that these officials, some of whom were hiding at home, some of them were lurking, fanning the flames everywhere, using the remaining power in their hands to fight against the Han Heavenly Kingdom, driven by instinctive interests, and the hatred of lost status and honor made the vast majority of them stand on the opposite side of the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom.

Although some cases were cracked and some of the enemies of the assassination group were arrested and executed, there was still a certain amount of turmoil in the social security problems near Chengdu City, and Luo Yang suspected that it was mainly these remnants of the former Qing Dynasty who were making trouble, and after the intelligence was confirmed, emergency measures were taken.

All the former Qing officials were investigated, shuanggui was realized, and the official information of the former Qing Dynasty in the vicinity of Chengdu, Sichuan Province was cleaned up, and the people were mobilized to synthesize, summarize, and investigate all the things that oppressed the people and created unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Almost all officials have been found to have a large number of problems, some are corrupt, some are bending the law for personal gain, some are mutilating human lives, and many more are corrupt and collecting taxes without authorization.

Luo Yang has taken different measures against the problems of these officials, and those who engage in favoritism and irregularities will be punished according to the severity of the circumstances, and those who have lives will be immediately announced, arrested and brought to justice, and they have been widely publicized, and those who are corrupt will be ordered to pay compensation according to the amount.

In order to make it easier to grasp in the movement, Luo Yang formulated a ratio, one percent of the officials were arrested and sentenced to prison sentences, one-twentieth of the officials were executed by public trial, and the rest were used as the scope of compensation, that is, the compensation, and according to their reputation and performance among the people, a rather disparity standard was formulated for differentiation.

In order to achieve the goal of equal emphasis on suppression and fighting, Luo Yang announced that thirty percent of the former Qing officials, those with minor corruption, could join the Han Heavenly Kingdom regime and hold administrative positions to serve the new regime after paying a symbolic indemnity. In addition, after paying a considerable amount of compensation and fines, 20 percent of the officials also participated in the building of political power in various localities as temporary personnel, but these officials with a relatively large degree of corruption have no real power and are retained as observers.

Therefore, the former Qing officials who were invited to join the regime must not refuse to cooperate under any pretext, otherwise they will be arrested and executed by the enemy.

In the case of executed officials, the responsibility of their families is clearly distinguished, and unless there is a serious evil, they are generally not prosecuted, but the property is often confiscated, and the most basic means of subsistence of the family members are retained, and the rest is unified by the organs of the new regime.

The Great Han Heavenly Kingdom inherited many of the propaganda policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and implemented them in practice or adapted, such as declaring that women are heavenly and must not be entangled in the future, declaring that women should be respected and protected, and that men and women are equal, for example, declaring that all wealthy officials can only keep one wife and one concubine at most.