Chapter 302 Uniform system of fields and acres
On the main hall of the West Palace, Xiao Yungui's words floated among the high buildings, everyone's hearts were full of joy, and Ji Wenyuan was even more shocked. When preparing to build the West Palace, a lot of money and materials were spent, and at that time, Ji Wenyuan heard his subordinates privately discuss that this palace was built so luxuriously, but I don't know how much money it cost to spend the Holy Treasury. At that time, Ji Wenyuan scolded those people, but it didn't sound like a taste, and then the money was made by the king of the west himself, and he didn't know where the king got the silver from, Ji Wenyuan happened to hear that the king of the west and Wei Helin, Zhu Changlin and others partnered to start a business in Guiyun, maybe the money came from there.
When the king of the west made up the money, Ji Wenyuan breathed a sigh of relief, although there are also kings in Tianjing, the king of the west can enjoy more money and material supply from the holy treasury, but if the atmosphere is successful, the other princes and generals will also do it according to the kind of construction in Tianjing, and the holy treasury of the west hall will not be able to support it, but fortunately, the king of the west himself got silver to make up for it.
But now that the king of the west is talking about the princes supporting the holy treasury, it is obvious that there is a big loophole in the statement that there is one family in the world, why should the money and goods of the people in the world be concentrated in the holy treasury, but the princes and generals of the heavenly kingdom can enjoy more than ten times or even a hundred times more supplies than ordinary people?
The whole of the West Palace knew that the King of the West had never taken an extra tael of silver from the Holy Treasury, and the King of the West and his wife still received their own supply of the Holy Treasury, and the supply of the royal guards, female officials and others was the one who received their own share of the money in the Holy Treasury according to the head. Although the king of the west was talking about himself, Ji Wenyuan understood that the king of the west was alluding to the princes who were building palaces in Tianjing, and the common people were running around in the holy treasury in order to receive oil, salt and other things from the holy treasury, while the high-ranking ones had more than enough supplies every month, not to mention the palaces in Tianjing that were more luxurious than the other, and Ji Wenyuan didn't know how to face this cruel reality for a while.
Zuo Zongtang broke the silence in the hall with a cough: "The history of antiquity." Although it is difficult to examine the ignorance, even the books since the Zhou and Qin dynasties, the situation of antiquity can often be found. From ignorance to enlightenment, the industrious will work more and get more among the tribes, while the lazy will often get only a small share, so that the gap between the rich and the poor will be gradually completed after a number of years of degeneration. The system of the kingdom of heaven in this world. Sick of its restraint and bondage, wanting to destroy everything, in order to seek the realm of the great public in ancient times, is actually suppressing the diligence of the diligent and promoting the laziness of the lazy. And the thinking of the people is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Pursue profit, and no selfish property is profitable. If there is no profit, it is lazy. Private property since antiquity. As for thousands of years, there must be a last resort. You ministers can think about it carefully, when the ancient Ru Mao drank blood, the tribe also acted according to the diligent people's share, but now the common people have the same things as the diligent and the lazy, and there is no silver surplus at home after a hard year. Isn't our heavenly kingdom inferior to the ancient tribes? ”
The meaning of Zuo Zongtang's words is very simple, that is, without selfish property, it cannot stimulate the enthusiasm of the people for production, and everyone is repeatedly chewing on the phrase "no profit is lazy" after listening to it.
Hong Yun'er got up, walked to the front of the stairs and said clearly: "What Zuo Xiang said is good, there are hundreds of people in the kingdom of heaven. including all of you in the temple. Today, a marriage decree has been promulgated in Beijing, so that everyone can reunite with their families or marry and start a family, so that they can reproduce and prosper the kingdom of heaven. In ancient times, after men and women married and started a family, private property would be generated. There is a house, a land, and private property, and this is called a home. The system of the Sacred Treasury is not utterly undesirable, but it is not suitable for the time being. Our China has always been agriculture-oriented, farmers need fields, the Tang Dynasty is a field, so there is Zhenguan, Kaiyuan rule; At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the powerful landlords were suppressed, so the country was rich and the people were prosperous. On the other hand, if the land is concentrated in the hands of the rich gentry and the peasants are displaced, it will inevitably lead to a large-scale peasant uprising. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng, Wu Guangti, the princes and princes of Xiangning had a kind of Hu, and in the Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang and others raised the nobles and lowly, and the land was equal, and Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty rebelled with the free grain of the field. All of his thoughts and thoughts are the thoughts of the peasants to equalize the land, but there is no idea of banning private property. Nowadays, if we want to live in peace and encourage industry and commerce in Sufu Province, we must first allow the people to have private property. Why did the people follow us to fight the demons? Isn't it just to be able to get a share of one acre and three points of land? But what's going on right now? The land has been allocated, and the grain that can be grown has to be paid to the holy treasury, what is the significance of this to the peasants? If we lose the support of the people of the world, the day of defeat will not be far away! ”
Hong Yun'er is telling the truth, from the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty to the beginning of the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, there have been many peasant uprisings, but there has never been such an institutionalization of peasant egalitarianism as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so that it has developed to a very extreme level. The system of the sacred treasury and the separate camp system for men and women undermined the notion of private property and the home, and it was backward, regressive and reactionary in the Manchu era, when capitalism was about to emerge. At this time, it simply cannot play the historical role of promoting the development of the productive forces and emancipating the productive forces. Therefore, the historical Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to re-implement the old practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places, paying grain as usual, and allowing landlords to continue to occupy land and collect land rent.
Xiao Yungui saw that Ji Wenyuan and the others were silent, and Zuihou said with a final word: "From today on, the name of the Holy Treasury Division of the West Temple will not change, but it is no longer a holy treasury for distributing money and grain to the people, nor is it a holy treasury for collecting the people's surplus silver and grain, Sufu Province allows the military and civilian people to own private property, and the sacred treasury will become the public treasury of the West Temple in the future, and the treasury will manage the money and grain taxes in various places, and it will only be used to support the military officers and local construction of the West Temple!" The county treasury is also operated in this way, and the Suzhou Sacred Treasury supervises all places, and returns the surplus silver and grain to the people according to the original policy, and the discount that has been withdrawn will be returned, and if there is an overspending, the king will be on the mat! ”
At that time, Xiao Yungui strictly ordered the Holy Treasury to record every sum of money and grain collected from the people, just for the purpose of returning it to the people in the future, and every time he received a sum of money and grain, the Holy Treasury would issue a receipt to the people. And every time the people receive money and grain in the holy treasury, the holy treasury will naturally register it clearly, so Xiao Yungui ordered the holy treasury to return the money and grain collected from the people, if the people have received it, the holy treasury will be refunded after discounting, and if it has been overspent, Xiao Yungui will take the money to make up for it himself. However, the money and grain confiscated by the bannermen, corrupt officials, and local tyrants and gentry who followed the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not returned.
His Royal Highness, all the hundred officials stood up together to receive the order, and the wise shouts of the King of the West shouted out together. In fact, in addition to the old brothers of the West Temple, many officials who have recently joined the Kingdom of Heaven have been worried, just like Xu Naizhao and Huang Chunsheng, they all have thin property in their hometowns, like Xu Naizhao still has hundreds of acres of fertile land in his hometown in Qiantang, he has always been worried that his land will be confiscated, and now it is okay, the West Temple allows private property, which means that his land and property are preserved, which strengthens Xu Naizhao's determination to follow the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then Zuo Zongtang continued: "After the holy treasury returns the money and grain, the people's cultivation income is paid according to the fertility of the fields. ”
After hearing this, Ji Wenyuan said: "Although the holy treasury system has changed, the affairs of Juntian still have to be done, and the subordinates think that the land still needs to be divided. ”
Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "Yes, you listen to Zuo Xiang in detail." ”
Zuo Zongtang spread out a long scroll and said loudly: "After measuring the fields in various places this time, there are more than 30 million acres of land in Sufu Province, which is not a real number, but more than half of the fields are still ownerless, and the land held by the owner is also the old land deed issued by the Qing Demon, which is inconsistent with the law. The household department specially formulated the "Sufu Province Field Mu Average System" to equalize the land and divide the land. ”
When Xu Naizhao and other officials with fields heard this, their faces were a little difficult to look at, and they secretly thought, they still can't hide.
But after listening to Zuo Zongtang's recitation of the "Sufu Province Field Mu Equalization System", everyone turned from worry to joy.
"Sufu Province Uniform System of Fields and Mu" is something that Xiao Yungui, Hong Yuner and Zuo Zongtang have been pondering since they laid Wuchang, and it was not until a few days ago that it tended to be perfected.
The first core is the partition of the Borderlands. More than 30 million acres of land were measured in Sufu Province this time, half of which was terra nullius, which were originally owned by corrupt officials or local tyrants and gentry, and after the Taiping army came over, they almost destroyed these people, including their families. Many officials and local tyrants and gentry were either punished by the Taiping army, or killed by the people's rebels, and the rest fled to the Manchu-controlled areas, but their farmlands could not escape, and they all became borderless. This half of the nearly fifteen million acres of land in the West Hall will naturally be divided.
And how is the Borderlands divided? There are clear provisions in the "Sufu Province Farmland and Mu Average System". First of all, these borderless lands nominally belong to the official land of the West Temple, which is distributed to the people for cultivation, and the West Temple Household Department issues a land deed, which can be passed on to future generations, but if the people collude with the Manchu Dynasty, or sell the land privately, or the people violate the laws of the kingdom of heaven, etc., the West Temple can take back the land.
The second is the object of land division, and there are three types of people who are within the object of this land division. The first category is the extremely poor, to put it bluntly, that is, peasants and displaced people who have no way to live, and this kind of people have also been investigated clearly in various places in this census, especially in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places more than 100,000 people who have been displaced because of the war, and these people are the priority objects of land allocation.
The second category is military dependents and meritorious people, including the relatives and families of more than 100,000 generals in the West Palace, as well as the families of meritorious people like Liu Lichuan and Zhou Lichun, as well as the meritorious people who helped the Taiping Army.
The third group is farmers whose families do not have enough land to support themselves and bankrupt tenants, who also make up the majority of the census in Suphuc province.
Then Zuo Zongtang clearly indicated the detailed statute of the division of the borderless land, and the western hall was praised and the female official distributed the charter documents to every official, and Xiao Yungui ordered on the spot that after the end of the conference, all localities should implement the division of the land.
Xu Naizhao secretly beat a drum in his heart when he heard this, the borderless land is divided, and the next step is to divide the land in the hands of these rich rich peasants. (To be continued......)