Xiao Yungui looked at the indifferent back of Qingfeng when he left, and felt a little happy in his heart, he has been haunted by the history After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China treated the Manchurian nobles too generously, although the government of the Republic of China also stopped the Manchurian nobles' rice and silver, but the national land, property, and real estate that they had embezzled for generations were retained, and in the twenty years after the Republic of China, these Manchu nobles sat on the empty side, squandered the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, and finally became a member of the commoners.

Historically, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchurian aristocracy lost their political power, and the princes and nobles also lost a lot of opportunities to accept bribes. In the past, when there was power, hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China vied with each other to greet and give gold and silver treasures, but now the prince has lost his power and has become a commoner, not only no one comes to give gifts, but often has to pay bribes and silver to the nouveau riche of the Republic of China in order to obtain the protection of the warlord government. The princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty owned a large amount of land, and could collect huge rents and various agricultural and sideline products from the tenants who cultivated the land every year, and these lands were called "Zhuang Land", which was seized from the peasants by the Eight Banners in the early Qing Dynasty. After the Republic of China, the princes and nobles lost their political power, and the vast number of tenants and peasants took advantage of this opportunity to refuse to pay rent, and launched a struggle against rent and land grabbing, as a result, the princes and nobles lost a huge amount of land rent income. Although Yuan Shikai issued a presidential decree to force the tenant farmers to pay the rent of the grain, the majority of the tenants still resisted the rent and occupied the land, and the government of the Republic of China did not take compulsory measures to force the tenants to pay the rent out of selfish interests, so since the princes and nobles could not collect the rent and silver, and the expenses in the palace were very large, they had to sell the land. Most of these estates were sold at low prices to some landlords, bureaucrats and warlords. It achieved the formation of a new semi-feudal and semi-bourgeois system in the Republic of China. The children of the nobility were too cowardly and incompetent to compete with the powerful nouveau riche, so they lost a lot of their property. The major royal palaces in Beijing quickly fell into decline in just twenty or thirty years.

Of course, Xiao Yungui can also do nothing, and let these Manchurian nobles gradually lose their property as they did in history, but this is obviously not in the interests of the whole country in the future, and if the huge amount of property, land and real estate in the hands of the Manchurian nobles are allowed to be annexed by the new nobles as in history, it will only increase the power of the country's semi-feudal and semi-bourgeoisie, and will not benefit the country as a whole. It will also be of no benefit to the vast number of peasants who have lost their land, and will not be able to further alleviate the land contradictions in the country. Therefore, Xiao Yungui had to take advantage of the need for a purge at the beginning of the new dynasty at this time to redistribute land and property. In this way, it will be possible to guide the reform of land policy in the north and ensure that the north can implement the new policy in the same way as in the south of the Yangtze River.

The money and real estate in the hands of the Manchurian nobles were also returned, and Xiao Yungui valued more the large amount of land in their hands, and once these lands could be nationalized, they would be distributed to the northern Manchu and Han people for cultivation. It was bound to weaken the power of the feudal forces in the north. Without the opportunity of land annexation, the feudal forces in the north will invest a large amount of capital in industry and commerce, which is very beneficial to the country's industrialization process and the prosperity of the capital market.

At the same time, the confiscation of the property of the Manchurian aristocracy represented the simple desire of the anti-Qing forces and appeased the aspirations of the middle and lower classes of the people in the Taiping Heavenly Empire. Doing so would also ease the antagonism between the Manchus and the Han in China. Moreover, only a few people are rich and noble among the Manchus, and most of the Manchus are still poor bannermen. Giving them land can also meet the needs of the lower Manchu people, divide a group, win over a group of Manchu people, and get the support of the vast number of poor Manchu people, which is conducive to the promotion of the republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups.

The development of things was as Xiao Yungui expected, tens of thousands of Manchurian nobles in Beijing were indeed very dissatisfied with the three edicts of the King of the West, they refused to hand over their property, but because there was no power and military security, their property, real estate and land were taken back by the Taiping army in a very short period of time, and the Taiping army ruthlessly suppressed a large number of Manchu nobles with strong military power as a guarantee.

And those poor Manchurian banner households welcomed this edict, such as the large number of slaves in Qingfeng Mansion, they have been the coated servants of the Qingfeng family for generations, and the family is not wealthy, after the edict was issued, they began to distribute money, real estate and land. After seeing the former masters and masters down, and the beating and scolding of them on weekdays no longer existed, these clothed minions felt the benefits of being comfortable for the first time.

Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom struck while the iron was hot, and launched the first bill of the abolition trilogy, this bill is called the "Abolition of the Manchurian Clothed Slaves Act", Xiao Yungui very covertly first limited the first part of the abolition of slavery to the Manchurians, which is in line with the wishes of the majority of the people, at this time, once it is stained with the word Manchurian, everyone will think that it must be overthrown, and the abolition of the Manchurian clothed slaves did not touch the rights and interests of the majority of Han people to own slaves, so this bill was implemented very quickly. For a former aristocratic class that had lost its political and military power, they were powerless to resist the power of the country's emerging class. As a result, the Manchurian clothed minions gained freedom in a very short time.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom then launched a second part, announcing that under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no more human trafficking would be allowed from the day of the founding ceremony and the emperor's enthronement ceremony, which was called the "Prohibition of Human Trafficking Act". This law banned the human trafficking in preparation for the eventual proclamation of the abolition of slavery in the future, and this qiē was the first time that the edict of the Emperor of China mentioned that all citizens of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China were equal before the laws of heaven, and this epoch-making initiative was prepared. The fairness of human rights is a necessary step to further break the feudal hierarchical shackles, only in this way can the feudal land dependency relationship be gradually broken, and then the emerging bourgeois forces will gradually become the backbone of the country, and the country's industrial revolution can be completed.

The success of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was inseparable from the support of the middle and lower classes, the abolition of slavery was a must, the distribution of land was a must, and the redistribution of the resources of the whole society was a must, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already embarked on another path under the guidance of Xiao Yungui.

Of course, the birth of any capitalist class is still inevitably mixed with the blood and tears of many people, and it is also impossible to avoid the dirty primitive accumulation of capital, and this time the first to pay the blood and tears are the Manchurian aristocracy, who let their rule fail and they still have a lot of wealth in their hands?

A qiē seems to be so logical, Xiao Yungui just advanced the decline of the Manchurian nobles by twenty years, the whole spring season, for the Manchu nobles in the capital is extremely tormented, they moved out of the long-term residence of the princes, with a small amount of belongings and a few taels of silver, these are all their property, each thirty acres of land is meaningless to them, because they are arrogant and expensive will not cultivate at all, soon these fields will be sold by them, And it will only be the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government that will buy these lands. Xiao Yungui increased the wealth of the state to an astonishing order of magnitude, and his actions were accused by unknown people of the new emperor of carrying out a large number of royal private land enclosures, but later the taxes collected from the wealth generated on these lands went to the state treasury, and this statement gradually stopped.

And those Manchu nobles who resisted and were unwilling to hand over their property were brutally suppressed by the Taiping army, and the means and charges were also very unfounded, and they intended to subvert the new court and restore the Manchu dynasty, and this alone was enough. On 25 March, nearly 3,000 Manchu dignitaries and their families were publicly sentenced, and then the main culprits were taken to the execution ground to be executed, while their families were exiled to Fujian and Guangdong to build railways, and many died on the way to build them.

Most of the Manchu nobles bowed their heads under the sword and gun, they surrendered their property, almost left their homes, and then gradually their once prominent class disappeared into the long river of history, just as the nobles disappeared in the late Qing Dynasty, but they took a shorter time. Sometimes, when strolling in the capital, there will always be some beggars begging in some small alleys, and you will find that maybe a certain prince, Baylor or Beizi and other powerful people were among them.

And among them, there are also more fortunate people, such as Qingfeng, Zaiquan, Yixuan and others, Qingfeng is now renamed Xiao Qingfeng, and was given the surname of the country by the King of the West, and at the same time was promoted to the first-class Zhaoxin Marquis. Zaiquan changed his surname to Ai and was named the Marquis of Shunyi of the third class, and Yixuan also changed his surname to Ai, which was a first-class return to Ningbo. The three of them became out-and-out Manchu traitors, just like Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi and other Ming Dynasty ministers who took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and they became outright Manchu traitors, they made their fortunes by reporting and digging up the property of the Manchu nobles, they relied on persecuting their compatriots to protect their family property, and they became an example set by the new dynasty by selling the last bit of dignity of the Manchu Dynasty.

History is fair, when you suffer from the dark period, you may complain about the injustice of history, but one day, history will return to the other extreme, as the people of the same country often say, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, this is also the fairness of history.

Of course, there is another exception to the Manchu noble, he is Prince Alcohol Yiyi, because the Manchu royal family moved out of the Forbidden City and all lived in his mansion, and at the same time the King of the West pardoned Prince Alcohol's sins, so Prince Alcohol's property was retained. It's just that Yiyi didn't get the knighthood, and he didn't need to be knighted, after the king of the West entered Beijing, he didn't express any submission, he didn't cut his braids and change clothes, and he didn't change his surname, and then he did this without leaving home and shrunk his head turtle. Yiyi thought that he could keep a low profile and maintain his dignity, but it did lay a hidden danger for a big disaster in the future.

The entire capital is now paying attention to the large number of Manchurian nobles, who are all clapping their hands and watching their miserable end, so they don't have time to pay attention to the prince of alcohol, and even the empress dowager and the little emperor of the previous dynasty are temporarily forgotten. Then what attracted the attention of the people was that the center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangnan arrived in the capital, accompanied by the central government agencies of the entire Heavenly Kingdom, as well as the West Wang Niang and the second son, as well as the little princess of the Heavenly Kingdom who was still in infancy. (To be continued......)