To Xu Naizhao's surprise, the second core content of the "Sufu Provincial Land and Mu Equalization System" is to continue to recognize the previously owned land, but the premise is to reduce rent and interest. Zuo Zongtang reported a series of acres of land, and in addition to the terra nullius, half of the land in Sufu Province was in the hands of some wealthy merchants, wealthy households, rich peasants, and middle peasants. Even small rich peasants and middle peasants with 100 acres of land at home account for tens of thousands of households.

The West Temple recognized that these people could continue to occupy these lands, and the representatives of these people were Xu Naizhao and Huang Chunsheng, who were unified by the West Temple's household department to calculate and measure the land, and then recovered the old land deeds of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the household department unified and reissued the land deeds of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The premise of issuing land deeds is to reduce rents and interest rates to reduce the burden on farmers.

The general principle of rent reduction in the West Hall is the same as that of the historical Republic of China, no matter what land is leased or any form of lease is reduced by two and a half percent according to the rent before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in the border areas with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and near the line of enemy occupation, the rent can be reduced by less than two and a half, only two percent, one percent five or one percent. Rent arrears for many years should be waived to protect tenants' tenure.

The West Temple requires the landlords and wealthy households to reduce the interest, and for the loan relationship established before the Manchu Dynasty, the interest calculation standard is one and a half cents, such as the interest payment is more than double the original one, and the principal and interest are stopped for more than two times.

In line with the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction, Zuo Zongtang also read out the detailed charter "Sufu Provincial Regulations on Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction", which clearly stated that the results of rent and interest reduction are linked to the performance of local officials, and that each locality must send a work team to supervise the implementation of the rent and interest reduction policy in the homes of the basic soldiers, and that every 100 households must have a work team to go to the countryside, and the rural household registration units at the division commander level must have a township office to deal with the affairs of rent reduction and interest reduction. The township corps in various localities cooperate with the work team on their errands, but if there are rich households and rich peasants who do not cooperate with the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction, the township work teams can report to the household department after verification. confiscate the fields of the rich man and rich peasant.

Among the population counted in Sufu Province this time, nearly 4 million people belong to tenant farmers, and these tenant farmers do not have their own land, but live on the land of rich and rich peasants, and most of their hard-earned income is provided to the landlords, which is the most unfair. As far as the area around Suzhou is concerned, the highest amount of land rent paid by the peasants is 70 percent of the harvest, and about 60 percent of the land rent in other places goes to the landlords. After the landlord received this grain. Nearly 30 percent of it was used for grain, and the rest was used by the landlords themselves. The landlord not only collects the rent grain, but when the tenant farmer cannot afford to pay the rent, the landlord will not be too persecutive, and they will generally ask the tenant farmer to write an IOU. Then, with high interest, the tenant farmers were once again exploited. Many tenant farmers pawn their pawns for high interest on rent. There are not a few people who sell their sons and daughters.

Rent and interest reductions are policies formulated in response to this situation. This policy was relatively moderate, and although it did not completely change the relationship between the landlords and the exploitation of the tenant peasants, it was able to reduce the burden on the tenant peasants, and the majority of the rich and rich peasants were able to accept it. People like Huang Chunsheng, when he led people to revolt, he himself reduced the rent of tenant farmers, but the government oppressed him. It was only in a fit of anger that he revolted. Rent and interest reduction is a gentle means to alleviate land contradictions to the greatest extent under the premise of recognizing that private property is protected by the Taiping army, and at this stage, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established, and Xiao Yungui felt that only by adopting this strategy could he unite all the Liliang who could be united against the Manchu Qing to the greatest extent. If a more stringent land reform policy is implemented. That would push a lot of people to the Manchu side.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of rent and interest reductions, it is necessary to have strong government means to implement them, and the township official system and the township soldier system can cooperate with each other to complete this policy. Historically, both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have reduced rents and interest rates, but the rent and interest reductions in the Kuomintang have never been effective, and the reason for this is that there are problems in implementation, and it is difficult for the officials in the Kuomintang to send working groups to the countryside as they did in the Communist Union, and the Kuomintang is basically blank in the control of the countryside, or is it like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, where the local gentry and clans control the countryside. Therefore, Xiao Yungui believed that as long as the local officials, township officials, and township soldiers supervised and cooperated with each other, and the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Officials, the Intelligence Department of Qianjiang, and Tong Qiangsheng and Bai Zetang supervised together, he was still confident that he would be able to complete the implementation of this policy by relying on his strong military and political strength.

As long as the rent and interest reduction can be achieved, the life of the tenant farmers will be better little by little, and Xiao Yungui has another policy that will force the landlords to treat the tenant farmers better.

The third core of the "Sufu Province Average System of Land per Mu" is about land sales and expropriation. The terra nullius in Sufu Province were nominally official land, and although they were distributed to the common people, the equalization system clearly stipulated that land was not allowed to be bought and sold, and could only be passed on to children. Although Xiao Yungui and others all understand that it is impossible to ban land sales, at present, the West Hall must prohibit the sale and purchase of official land. Xiao Yungui does not want to see some lazy people, after the distribution of land, immediately sell the land, and the landlords, rich businessmen's desire to buy the land is endless, so it is inevitable that in just a few years after the division of land, the land will be concentrated in the hands of a small number of landlords and wealthy businessmen, and it is strictly forbidden to buy and sell the official land in Sufu Province, and after the land is divided, once it is found that the divided land has not been cultivated within three months, the household department will immediately take back the field.

And can the land in the hands of yeoman farmers, landlords, and rich peasants be bought and sold? The equalization system stipulates that it can be bought and sold, but it must pay a high land transaction tax, and after paying the land transaction tax, the Taiping government will protect the rights and interests of both parties and recognize the change of ownership of the land, otherwise it can be confiscated as terra nullius.

At first, many people didn't understand, but Zuo Zongtang's explanation is that the core of the land equalization system is to balance all the income attached to the field to the greatest extent, and after collecting the land transaction tax to the holy treasury, the sacred treasury can use the money for local construction, which is equivalent to benefiting the poor people, and it is equivalent to transferring the money of rich households and wealthy businessmen to the people in disguise.

Then there is land expropriation, which stipulates that if there is a need from the government and the army, the government can buy the land in the hands of rich merchants and wealthy households by redeeming the land, so as to meet the needs of the state, the local government and the army, and the land purchased is purchased at the current price. Xiao Yungui's expropriation and redemption policy left a looper, and in the future, all kinds of factories and railways, whether military or civilian, can acquire land once they need land. At the same time, even if the land needs to be divided in the future, the government can also buy the land by purchasing the land.

Many people can't understand this article, like Ji Wenyuan and others said, since it is needed by the government and the army, it can be levied free of charge, why do you have to pay for it? They still think about the old saying, the shore of the land is not the king's land.

Xiao Yungui smiled faintly and said aloud to the hundred officials: "Since Sufu Province allows private property, and our heavenly soldiers and our government also collect taxes from the people, we have the obligation to protect private property, how can we abolish private property for public purposes?" Xiao Yungui walked down the steps, came to the hundred officials, and said slowly: "We smashed the Manchu government, and now we want to be the master of the house, naturally we also want to set up our own government, is this government the same as the Manchu government?" Naturally it is different, first of all, our government must abide by the rules set by itself, so that the people can be required to abide by this rule. New! What is the New Deal? It's about making rules! Today's average system is the field rules of Sufu Province! We'll have a lot of rules in the future. If there are no rules, you can't make a circle, and governing the military and people of a province is simply to establish rules with the people, and then everyone will abide by the rules together! The government of our heavenly kingdom is by no means the same as the government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because we will not do the things of two official words, and we must take the lead in abiding by the rules we have set ourselves! Since we allow private property, we can't use the government to oppress the people, whether they are poor or rich, they are now the subjects of our heavenly kingdom! ”

All the officials were awe-inspiring, Zuo Zongtang nodded and said loudly: "What the King of the West said is very true, the integration of the government and the people is the way to long-term peace and stability. ”

Xu Naizhao also nodded secretly, and then thought of one more thing, if the land deeds of the official fields and Mintian in the entire Sufu Province were replaced by the Heavenly Household Department, it would mean that many people were tied to the chariot of the Heavenly Kingdom, because the Qing court would not recognize the land deeds issued by the puppet dynasty no matter what. And those people who have been allocated land will follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with all their hearts, and those township officials and village soldiers will become supporters of the Heavenly Kingdom. As soon as the per acre system came out, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's control over Sufu Province became more stringent, and what was even more rare was that the Taiping Army was doing so in Sufu Province, which meant that many people who were riding on the wall and watching had hope, the Taiping Army was not the legendary demon who destroyed family property, they still protected private property. This method is definitely an upright conspiracy, a conspiracy that makes people know that it is a pit, but they have to jump down.

Xidian's soft land policy gave the landlords hope, not the previous despair, the middle class has always been wavering, and the Taiping Army's policy could not be said to win all of them, but at least won the majority. An official eunuch like Xu Naizhao is also a very good example, as long as you really help the Taiping Army fight the demons, the Taiping Army will not embarrass you.

Xu Naizhao breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the new dynasty and new atmosphere are really coming, and the generosity of the king of the west also makes him admire it very much, at least admitting that the Tian Qi before the Manchu Qing Dynasty is an obvious example.

This is followed by the promulgation of various other new policies and decrees, such as the Sufu Provincial General Taxation Rules, the Sufu Provincial Heavenly Criminal System, the Sufu Provincial Imperial Examination Rules, the Sufu Provincial Industrial and Commercial Regulations, the Sufu Provincial Military Statutes, the Sufu Provincial Agriculture, Forestry and Tea Silk Regulations, the Sufu Provincial Charter, the Sufu Provincial Regulations on Saving the Weak and the Weak, the Sufu Provincial New School Statutes, the Sufu Provincial Salt and Iron Liquor Industry Statutes, the Sufu Provincial Doctrine Rules, and so on, all of which are good policies for benefiting the people and the country. But the introduction of so many policies at once made hundreds of officials feel overwhelmed. Because it is only the new policy of Sufu Province, every legal system and constitution is crowned with the word Sufu Province.

But Xiao Yungui knows that everything is changing, and the legal systems and regulations that he discussed with Hong Yun'er, Zuo Zongtang and others still need to be tested in reality and constantly supplemented and improved. Therefore, Xiao Yungui ordered that after the hundred officials had lunch, they would each go back to discuss these legal systems and regulations, and continue to discuss them the day after tomorrow. (To be continued......)