Dantu County Zhenjiang Jinshan Cishou Pagoda, at this time is already late autumn, the autumn wind blows, the yellow leaves in the mountains fall. The exquisite and beautiful Cishou Pagoda stands on the top of the northwest mountain of Jinshan, 30 meters high, and the whole Jinshan and Jinshan Temple are just right, as if the mountain is raised.

"Several layers of stone pillows, four walls and windows open to face the wind, suddenly see birds flying flat on the ground, and start to be shocked in mid-air." On the Cishou Pagoda, next to the railing, a beautiful woman with a yellow scarf on her head and a red robe with a round neck chanted softly, but this poem was "Golden Mountain" made by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty.

A rude man beside the woman grinned, "You're playing a literary role again." ”

The woman turned around and stared at the man viciously, and said lightly, "Don't think about entering the house tonight!" ”

The man's smile froze, and he hurriedly said, "I'm jealous of your literary talent, Yun'er, it's so cold tonight, it's very cold to sleep in the camp." "That beautiful woman is the Queen of the West of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the rough man is Xiao Yungui, the King of the West.

It was cold on the tower, Hong Yun'er couldn't help but shrink her shoulders, snorted and turned her head to ignore him, Xiao Yungui immediately took off his scarlet cloak and put it on her, and said: "Yun'er, don't mind, it's cold, it's warm for the two of them to sleep together." ”

Hong Yun'er's pretty face was slightly red, but after the cloak was put on, her body and heart were warm, her heart softened again, and she snorted: "I haven't been serious all day, I think about it." ”

Xiao Yungui smiled and said, "I only said that we slept together, but I didn't say anything else." ”

Hong Yun'er pressed the handle of the mandarin duck knife on her waist and said angrily: "You have itchy skin, right?" ”

Xiao Yungui was taken aback, the couple themselves are in martial arts, and even Xiao Yungui's body is more powerful than Hong Yun'er, but since the capture of Nanjing, Xiao Yungui found that his skills seem to have gradually degenerated, but Hong Yun'er's skills are getting better and better. This little girl must have practiced martial arts often, and her consciousness and body have been integrated more perfectly, and after she has a lot of things, she is a little lazy, and she is not as diligent in practicing martial arts as before, so she is gradually not Hong Yun'er's opponent.

The two fought a few times behind closed doors, but Hong Yun'er had the upper hand, thinking of this, Xiao Yungui secretly gritted his teeth, and said secretly in his stomach: "Little Niangpi, you can be a blessing if you are better than me." I must practice martial arts diligently to catch up and let you know how good I am. ”

He thought so in his heart, but he smiled and said: "My wife is mighty, and the little one doesn't dare to make a mistake." ”

Hong Yun'er looked at his naïve appearance, and couldn't help laughing. Xiao Yungui also laughed dryly. Since the two have been husband and wife, their relationship has become more stable. It's not an exaggeration to describe it as glue-like.

Laughed for a while. Hong Yun'er stopped laughing and said, "I don't know what's going on in Xiamen." ”

As soon as he got down to business, Xiao Yungui immediately became serious, he leaned on the railing on the tower and said, "I believe that Li Xiucheng and they can do this thing, not to mention the help of the new pirates?" You also know the great victory in the Battle of Ningbo, the pirates in Zhoushan were all defeated, and the Qing army and sailors could not resist our huge fleet. What else are you worried about? ”

Hong Yun'er nodded and smiled: "Yes, but after rescuing people back this time, it will cost a lot of money to settle them." ”

Xiao Yungui touched his smooth chin and said, "I have looked at the accounts and expenditures of the West Temple Holy Treasury in the past few months, and it is really like a flowing spending. However, in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places, a total of no less than 5 million taels of money and grain were confiscated from the official treasury, and a lot of money and grain were also copied from the homes of corrupt officials and rich people, which was enough to support for a while. Before leaving Shanghai, I also handed over a batch of jewels and jade from Wu Sangui's treasure to Wang Minyun, and asked him to hold an auction at the appropriate time. ”

Hong Yun'er pouted and said, "Those jewels and jade are finely made, and they are all cultural relics." ”

Xiao Yungui also pouted and said: "In the later generations, we are both cultural relics, but now those jewels and jade are dead things, and the real cultural relics must have cultural heritage in them, and I have let Xuanji pick out some of the origins and keep them, and I haven't bought any precious calligraphy, painting and antiques." I also left a batch of jewels and jade to give to those bigwigs in Tianjing City, from Tianwang and Dongwang to Yan Wang and Chen Chengying, they each have a copy, and I don't think they will be too difficult for us. ”

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said: "We don't know if it will go smoothly when we return to Tianjing, you let Zuo Zongtang, Wang Minyun, and Li Shourong register and sort out the household registration, land, and business information in various places, I always feel that the governance method is too slow." ”

Xiao Yungui shook his head and said: "We occupy southern Jiangsu, if we want to govern more haode, we must naturally make statistics on the population, land, the number of merchants under our jurisdiction, etc., although the statistical methods of this era are very primitive, and there may be errors and omissions, but I must find out how much money I have." Once we have a rough picture, we can go in the right direction for our governance. Our slogan is Juntian, do you know how many farmers there are in southern Jiangsu? Do you know how much arable land there is? If there are many people and there is little land, the principle of equal land cannot be carried out. What if it is replaced by a rent and interest reduction policy? Do you know what the current rental interest in southern Jiangsu is? It's different from place to place, right, so how much is the right amount to subtract? Can you figure it out? I need to understand the current situation of industry and commerce in southern Jiangsu, the development of all walks of life, the most direct is what industry makes money, what industry is sluggish, so that we can formulate targeted policies. I don't want to make random orders without doing research, and then I'm just going to mess with myself. ”

Hong Yun'er sighed and said: "Maybe I'm too anxious, after the release of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Southern Jiangsu Township Officials Selection System" last month, the enthusiasm of all localities is very high, and the townships and villages elect their own township officials to control the localities, and you announced that southern Jiangsu has exempted money and grain taxes this year, which has been supported by the poor people. And we have protected the middle peasants, the rich peasants, and some of the rich households who supported us, so that they still collect the land rent according to the original rent, although the people still have to pay rent, but without the part of the money and grain handed over to the government, the burden will be lighter. But I always feel that what we do is different from the decree on the Tianjing side, and it is inevitable that we will be criticized. ”

Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "Yun'er, the "Regulations on Treating the People" issued after the Dingdu Tianjing, you also know what Dongdong is, and what you don't need money, but the people's fields are all the fields of the Heavenly King, and the rice grains obtained every year will be collected by the Heavenly King, and a large mouth of rice will be given to you every month, and the small mouth will be halved as a health fund." The principal and interest of the shop are all the principal and interest of the king, and the people are not allowed to use it. In the end, Tianjing has engaged in an egalitarian big pot of rice, and farmers cannot cultivate their own land to pay for endowments, but they are all the fields of the kings; Merchants can't get interest from themselves, but say that the goods are the goods of the king. Everything that is planted in the field must be handed over to the Holy Treasury, and the things traded by the merchants are counted as the goods of the Holy Treasury, and whatever you need can be received in the Holy Treasury according to the system, but this seemingly very good distribution system cannot be implemented for a long time. Didn't Taizu also engage in commune big pot rice in later generations? The result? You must know that people are inert, good and bad, anyway, everything has to be handed over to the public, without any private property, the enthusiasm for production will be seriously frustrated. Later in history, the holy treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not support such a huge population, and when Shi Dakai passed through Jiangxi, he changed back to the system and model of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty, which led to the prosperity of Shi Dakai's governance of Jiangxi. Do you think we can follow this path that we know is wrong? ”

Hong Yun'er shook her head and said: "I don't mean that, I mean that we can first nationalize all the land, and we will protect private property, we have the same opinion." ”

Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "It is easy to nationalize the land, in addition to the fields of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who have been defeated, local tyrants and inferior gentry, those middle peasants and rich peasants also have a large amount of land in their hands, and the Manchus have recognized their possession of the land, is it possible that after our Taiping Army came, the land of these middle peasants and rich peasants was recovered?" These lands have been accumulated by generations of hard work, and they are not obtained by the forcible means of corrupt officials, local tyrants and shoddy gentry, so we should protect them. Otherwise, the middle peasants, rich peasants, and some rich households who were originally inclined to us will be pushed to the Manchu side. ”

Hong Yun'er also frowned and said, "Then how do you plan to solve the land problem?" If this problem is not solved well, contradictions will always exist. ”

Xiao Yungui said slowly: "I have several plans in mind, and these plans must be implemented at the same time to solve the problem. The first is to reduce rents and interest rates, and first reduce the peasants' burdens; this requires that after the system of local township officials and the system of local regimental training has been fully established, the tentacles of the government can be thoroughly extended to the localities in order to be implemented well. The second is to develop industry and commerce, which is also the reason why I want to engage in so many big projects and big factories, so that the surplus population can change from peasants to workers, and reduce the contradiction between land and population in disguise. The third is to encourage the reclamation of wasteland, but the land of fish and rice in southern Jiangsu, the wasteland that can be opened is almost the same, in the future we will lay down Beijing, out of the pass, outside the Manchu Qing Dynasty still dominates a large area of fertile black soil, there can also be a lot of people. Fourth, the government buys land and leases it back to the people, we can buy a part of the land through the government's money to distribute it to the people for rent, this means is much milder than direct confiscation, and the rich people who get the money can also transform more into the bourgeoisie, and they will use the money to set up factories and businesses, so as to prosper industry and commerce. The fifth is to distribute to the people the ownerless land of corrupt officials and local tyrants and inferior gentry who have been defeated by us. I believe that my five-pronged approach will solve the problem. But I need to know a detailed account of southern Jiangsu, that is, how many people we have, how much arable land, how many terra land, how many poor peasants, middle peasants, rich peasants, rich households, and businesses there are, and what is the population structure. ”

Hong Yun'er hummed and said: "Then our trip to Tianjing will also have to obtain the consent of the King of Heaven and the King of the East to implement the edict of the new policy in southern Jiangsu, so that we can justifiably let go of our hands and feet." ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and looked at the mighty Yangtze River waterway: "Yes, the main purpose of our return to Tianjing is this, although we have not implemented the decree on Tianjing's side, but we need to persuade those bigwigs in Tianjing to give us privileges, now is not the time to turn against Tianjing, it's not the time......" (To be continued......)