"His Royal Highness the King of the East, our kingdom of heaven is gone......"

Guide Mansion, the great tomorrow was inside, and I heard a man howling and crying. Zhu Jishi sat on the throne, squinting at Yang Xiuqing, who was sitting on an embroidered pier next to him, who was the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Heavenly Father, the Lord God, the True God, the True Holy Will, the Holy Spirit of God's Wind and Thunder Persuasion, the Holy Master, the Zuofu Zhengjun Division, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Dingtian Dynasty, and the current advisor minister of the Ming Dynasty, Guiyi County Gong.

The one who knelt on the ground and wept bitterly was the gambling king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, uh, it was Huang Wenjin, the king of blocking. He took 4 Tuntian troops to fight with Ren Yijiang's Sixth Army in Gaoqiangzhai for more than a week, and was stunned to repel dozens of attacks by the Sixth Army. Now this "His Royal Highness the Gambling King" is crying bitterly with a dejected face, and he can't stop meeting on the ground. Hong Xuanjiao stood behind Zhu Jishi, Luo Zenan, Yuan Jiasan, Luo Xuan, and Miao Peilin and Zeng Guofan, who had just arrived from Jinan, sat on the chairs on both sides, and accompanied Emperor Zhu to meet the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - the Yellow Gambling King is just one of the many generals to see today.

It was easy to wait for the Yellow Gambling King to finish crying, and Zhu Jishi said slowly: "Huang Wenjin, since you have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, I will make you Shunyibo, give you thousands of acres of land, give a Tianfu mansion, and give 10,000 yuan of silver." ”

"Thank you, Lord Long." Huang Wenjin sighed, the kingdom of heaven is over, it is not bad to get an earl, think about the poor days in Guangxi that day, you should be content. So he thanked him and was about to retire. Unexpectedly, Zhu Jishi's questioning was not over.

"Give Huang Qing a seat. I have something to ask. I heard Yang Qing say that all the affairs of the Tuntian Eighth Army around Shuntianfu (referring to Beijing) are you handling specifically? ”

In the past few days, he sent his secretaries to visit Huang Wenjin's camp and came to the conclusion that the reason why Huang was able to fight to the death for seven or eight days was because the Huang generals were all assigned to land, and they were controlled and managed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in a militarized way, so it could be said that they were one with the Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, Zhu Jishi's interest in "Tianchao Tianmu System" has been suspended. This approach doesn't seem to be without merit, does it?

"It's the minister who is doing it." Huang Wenjin replied truthfully.

Zhu Jishi nodded, looked at Yang Xiuqing next to him and said with a smile: "Yang Qing, you came up with this "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System"? ”

"It's not the power of the minister alone, but the minister, Mr. Hong, and Feng Yunshan worked out together, but unfortunately it is not accepted by the world." Yang Xiuqing said with emotion. He didn't say the second half of the sentence: "If the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" can be completed, today will be Zhu Jishi's king."

"How did you come up with such a system?" Zhu Jishi asked with some curiosity, "If in order to win the hearts of the poor, it is enough to divide the land, why bother to govern the civil affairs with the law of the army?" ”

Yang Xiuqing looked at Zhu Jishi and sneered: "It's just to divide the land." In a few years, the poor will be poor, and the rich will be rich. Everything is the same, so it's better not to divide it. ”

How could this be? Zhu Jishi really didn't know about farming, he had never been a farmer, nor had he been a landlord, of course he didn't know about Lu Dao, he only knew that a certain party in later generations used two fields to disturb the world, and made two heroes who had not been seen for five hundred years. It seems that if this land is divided, the world will be fine.

He looked at Luo Zenan, and Luo Dajun stroked his beard and shook his head, "The peasants in the countryside are indeed difficult...... Therefore, there is a saying that the land belongs to the rich, the rich get rich, and the poor benefit the poor. The reason for the poverty of the people is the concentration of land and the high interest of rent. For example, in the land of southern Jiangsu, in the early Qing Dynasty, the rent of one acre, the good field is one stone, two or three buckets, and the middle field is eight or nine buckets. And now, the rent of the two houses of Susong is less than one stone, and the heavier one has one stone and five buckets, among which Wujiang is the most prominent. Some people wrote poems and said: Urging rent is anxious for stone trenchers, pouring bottles and baskets to hide He, sitting on the farmer's empty kettle, and looking at your stacked warehouses. The reason for this drastic change in the world is probably this. However, the equal division of land, as Gui Yigong said, is indeed of no great use, and within three or five years, most of this land will have to fall into the hands of a few rich households. ”

Luo Zenan paused for a moment, and sighed again: "The emperor is a rich Westerner, and he doesn't know the hardships of the small people and the hardships of farming. Seven or eight out of ten years of floods and droughts, and only one-twelfth of tenths of the year of good weather, how can small farmers and small households resist? Moreover, the small farmer's home has a lot of pomp and circumstance, and weddings and funerals cost a lot. There are three diseases and nine disasters, and the last resort can only mortgage the land and usurious loans in order to see the present, and how can it be redeemed afterwards? ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, the natural disasters in the future are easy to say, but getting seriously ill and marrying a wife is a big thing that makes people deplete their savings.

Yang Xiuqing interjected again: "In the final analysis, it is not floods and droughts and weddings and funerals...... The corruption of the officials of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, the collusion of the officials and gentry, and the oppression of the small people are one of them, and the large gentry and gentry, relying on their strength, pay the grain in short, and their shortfall will be compensated for by the good small households in the countryside, and it is a plan to make up for the shortcomings; The more farmers multiply, and the land does not increase is the second, Luo Junshi said that the land rent has been rising since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the reason is that there are too many people, the land is insufficient, even if the land rent is high, they are not afraid of not being able to rent it. There are two of them, with the families of small farmers and small households, how can they get food and clothing, and how can they not become tenants with no land? ”

It turned out that there were too many people and too little land. Zhu Jishi said in his heart that China was also plagued by the problem of too much population in later generations, but in later generations, international trade was developed, and agricultural technology was very advanced, and the problem of eating could be solved by exporting industrial products, importing agricultural products, and using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and improved varieties to increase crop yields.

However, at present, it is simply fanciful to rely on galleon trade to buy and sell grain between continents, and China's exports are unlikely to be too many, so this is not the era of free trade......

"Does Yang Qing want to use the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" to solve the corruption of officials and the surplus of people?" Zhu Jishi thought about it and asked.

Yang Xiuqing smiled and said, "Let's ease it up...... If you have a field, you can take advantage of the land. Regulating the abundance with the sacred treasury can save the people from the suffering of water and cold. Leaving enough food rations and surpluses to the public can make the grain distribution even. The rule of law by the military and the people is for the integration of farming and warfare, so as to compete for the world with His Majesty. It's a pity ......"

Yang Xiuqing shook his head and didn't continue. Because the result of the implementation of the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" is obvious, although the ideal is good, the reality is even more cruel.

"Do you have any experience?" Zhu Jishi said again. He looked at Yang Xiuqing and Huang Wenjin.

"There are some experiences," Yang Xiuqing said, "Everyone has selfishness, and everything wants to ...... This "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" is destroyed on a private word! ”

Huang Wenjin said: "The minister thinks that the "Heavenly Dynasty Farmland System" can only be implemented on the ownerless land, and it is necessary to relocate the landless poor from all over the country and break up the mixed group. ”

If there is a landlord in the land, the landlord is the first major opponent of the "Heavenly Dynasty Farmland System"! Wanting to distribute the landlords' land would inevitably lead to the regime losing the support of the landlord class. At this time, almost all of the scholars who could act as officials and the gentry who actually controlled the countryside came from the landlord class.

Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime, which implemented the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", on the one hand, had to wage an endless struggle against the gentry and landlords, and on the other hand, it did not have enough cadres to govern the localities and replace the gentry class. As a result, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom nominally occupied a large part of the territory, there were very few places where it could actually rule effectively.

The only place where the "Celestial Dynasty Tianmu System" succeeded was in Gyeonggi, because most of the land there belonged to the Banner and the Manchu Emperor, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied it, it was borderless. Naturally, there was no problem in distributing it to anyone, and the poor people who were relocated to the vicinity of Gyeonggi by Yang Xiuqing were all victims of the Yellow Flood District, and their clan system had long been completely annihilated by the flood and the chaotic migration. Without the clan tie, all the victims were individuals or families, and it was impossible for them to oppose the state apparatus of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but they could only be resettled, and they could easily be integrated into the new semi-military system. (To be continued......)