Chapter 435 King Hong Tian: What? Luo Yaoguo can’t even pray for rain? (Please order, please vote)
"His Royal Highness Nanwang, look at this sunny day, you are determined to go against us. If the rain doesn't come again, the autumn grain will really be "annihilated". How can we march to Guangdong after autumn? The Hongmen brothers in Guangdong are like chicken blood, howling and mobilizing. If we lose the chain and can't send troops in time, how can they withstand the foreign gun team of Fatty Ye? "
As soon as Nan Wang Feng Yunshan stepped out of Tianfu and Tianxiongtang, he was grabbed by Nantian Hou Luo Gangyang. This Luo Gangyang had been very prosperous in Nanyang before. He was also the boss of Hongmen and Jia Guangyang. The boss of the Hakka people in Yingzhou, a clan member of the Lanfang Luo family and the fourth identity of the consul of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led a group of Hakka boys from Jiaying state to Borneo, and forcibly promoted Luo Zhonghua of the Lanfang Luo family to the throne. He also traveled east and west, which led to a large group of Chinese companies in Borneo, all gathered under the banner of the Taiping Rebellion, and beat the colonial army of the Dutch East India Company to nowhere.
After doing these beautiful things, his work in Nanyang was finally completed. At the last founding meeting, Feng Yunshan quickly "gathered" him back and became the commander-in-chief of the rear army. The former enemy commander of the army, this is a key role who has to charge into the battle and control the overall situation, which is equivalent to the "Dinghai Shenzhen" on the battlefield.
According to the plan, in the next Guangdong battle, the former enemy commander-in-chief is Yi Wang Shi Dakai, who is a well-known figure, and the former enemy deputy commander-in-chief is this Luo Guangda. When the two of them team up, they should be an invincible combination, but don't let it go. This has been compounded by the continuous drought.
Besides, Feng Yunshan has marched into Guangdong in the past two years. Although he has not won directly, he has not been idle. He has secretly contacted a group of Hongmen bosses in Guangdong and is waiting for a "turtle in the jar" to capture the entire Guangdong Province. Take it.
But the Hongmen were doing things like that, and the gongs and drums were being played, and there were only a few raindrops falling on the ground, and the wind was leaking everywhere. It is estimated that the news has spread all over the streets and alleys of Guangzhou, and the Hongmen brothers in Guangdong will soon rise up.
Ye Mingchen, that bitch officer, must be sharpening his sword and waiting for a killing spree. In the Guangdong battle, the arrow is already on the string and has to be fired. If it is delayed for a moment, there will be trouble.
But at this juncture, Huguang, the granary of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was suffering from a severe drought for three consecutive months, as if it had been cast a "drought curse" by Heavenly Father and Brother. Feng Yunshan felt anxious as he saw that this year's autumn grain would be ruined. It's like watching the rice in the pot almost cook, but the fire goes out.
It has only been more than two years since Feng Yunshan took root in southern Hunan. Counting this year, there are only three autumn harvest seasons. The year before last, he was busy fighting, and the autumn grain harvest was pitiful. Last year, he was lucky and caught up with the good year. How much can he save in a good year? Wealth? It is far from enough to support 100,000 troops and 100,000 civilians to march to Guangdong. I thought that this year would be another good year...even if it is a normal year, who would have expected that Hunan will be dry after autumn. It's like a sponge that has been drained of water.
If it doesn't rain, we won't be able to say how much grain will be harvested this winter. I'm afraid we will have to open warehouses to release grain for relief. What's going to happen?
Feng Yunshan raised his neck and looked at the sky eagerly, muttering in his heart: Is it because I support the King of Heaven wholeheartedly all day long, which makes Brother Tian angry and refuses to let me rain? Alas, I begged and begged, but the sky was completely cloudless, not even a single cloud. No reward.
Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan sighed heavily and muttered: "It seems that I have to ask the Holy Angel to be accommodating and sprinkle some sweet rain on Huguang!"
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In Tianjing City, the original Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang has now become the first palace of the Heavenly King after Hong Xiuquan entered Tianjing. Now it has been transformed into a magnificent office, and has become the seat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Prime Minister's Yamen and the Military Advisor Conference.
The birth of the Taiping Prime Minister's Office was the "crystallization" of a series of political, military, and economic reforms in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the National People's Congress was successfully convened.
In the past, the official system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was as chaotic as a pot of porridge. There were a lot of prime ministers in the center, and there were a lot of ministers in the palace, but there were only a few who could really do anything. Moreover, those "big cakes" painted by Hong Xiuquan in his early days said that these official positions were hereditary. If we don’t change it, we will end up in a mess in the future?
As a result, Luo Yaoguo took advantage of the "divine spear" in his hand and was full of authority to push the National People's Congress to pass a series of reform resolutions. One blockbuster bill after another, such as the "official system and title reform bill" and "the national class bill" The Organization Act of the Prime Minister's Yamen and Ministries", "The Organization Act of Government Offices at All Levels of Provinces, Prefectures, Counties, Towns and Villages directly under the Central Government", etc.
According to the "Official System and Titles Reform Act", all the previously messy hereditary official positions have been transformed and upgraded into corresponding titles. The general formula is that the prime minister is granted the title of marquis, minister, inspector is granted the title of earl, the commander is granted the title of general, and the bodyguard is granted the title of viscount, chief commander, and supervisor of the army. The military commander is granted the title of baron, and below the military commander, the first, second, third, and fourth ranks of the country are awarded according to the size of the official position. Above the marquis, there are also dukes, kings, and the dukes are temporarily vacant, which is the "golden step" for the people below to merit promotion. ”, Wang Jue is even more of a “rare thing”, and one must have earth-shattering feats to catch it.
In addition, when conferring titles and conferring national status, the Heavenly Kingdom Center in charge of Luo Yaoguo was particularly generous. He gave out silver, sent houses in Tianjing and Shanghai, and made everyone happy. With this method of winning people's hearts, he It's been practiced.
At the same time, Luo Yaoguo also invented the "nine grades and eighteen ranks" official system, specifically to appoint officials, promote and pay salaries to brothers in the Kingdom of Heaven. To put it bluntly, it is a system of assigning grades and paying salaries to officials. Luo Yaoguo also gave it He was given a name, "rank officer".
The names of rank officials are divided into civil and military ranks. Military rank officers are generally called "a certain general", "a certain captain", "a certain school captain", and "a certain sergeant", while civil rank officials are called "a certain bachelor", "a certain doctor", "a certain man", etc. of.
Of course, these officials are not hereditary like the previous official functions. Correspondingly, there is also a system of official positions, which is a system of specific tasks and management.
Luo Yaoguo's current rank is a first-grade military commander, his title is King of Wu, his official position is Prime Minister, and he presides over the military advisor meeting.
In addition, he also has two "non-staff positions", one is a "conference position" and the other is a "teaching position". These two positions are not within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom bureaucracy and title system, but they are very important. His "conference position" is made by worshiping God He is the chief lecturer of Datong Hui who came from the restructured Datong Hui. His "teaching position" is the president of Tianjing University, which is under preparation. He is a very busy man.
But this busy man encountered a problem that he should solve but couldn't solve at the meeting of the Prime Minister's Yamen today - praying for rain!
Yes, I just "called" the higher authorities and asked Heavenly Father and Brother to send some heavy rains to Hubei and Hunan to completely alleviate the drought there.
This is really embarrassing for Luo Yaoguo. How could he have the ability? Moreover, the severe drought in Huguang this year is doomed! Next year the Yellow River will collapse, and the year after that it will be the turn of Jiangnan to suffer from drought! There will be many places to go. The team was about to cause a disaster, and between 1877 and 1878, there was another famine, which caused more than 10 million people to starve to death and more than 20 million people to flee!
Of course, the absence of "strange famines" does not mean that people do not starve to death. Hundreds of thousands of people starve to death and freeze to death every year. For China in the second half of the 19th century, this was the norm. If there were not so many hungry and cold people People, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not be in its current situation!
So for China today, there is no such thing as a good year. There are only "small famines", "medium famines", "big famines" and "odd famines"! In short, every year is a famine year and there is hunger every year. Many people died.
What's even worse is that while starving so many people to death, they also drown countless babies.
The most fundamental reason for this hellish scene is not that God does not provide food, but the clichéd contradiction between man and land. Now there is no industry, no fertilizer, no pesticide, no improved seeds, and when there is a drought, there is not even a water pump! This Such productivity requires more than one billion acres of land to feed more than 400 million people, which is not enough in total.
Therefore, if there is no surplus food left in a good year, many people will starve to death in ordinary years. Of course, in famine years, people will starve to death all over the land.
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Although "division of land" has been implemented on the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the bottom farmers have some land. However, this is a distribution under the situation of serious shortage of total land. No matter how divided it is, it will not change the dilemma of insufficient land. .And more equitable distribution will lead to an increase in the total number, that is, the number of newborns. In good years, it may be enough to eat, but in bad years, not enough is still not enough!
What Luo Yaoguo is facing is two major famines in three years, one is the Huguang drought this year, and the other is the Jiangnan drought the year after.
Because of these two severe droughts, millions, maybe more, people will starve to death!
Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo, the angel holding the "divine spear", could only sigh. He studied history in "heaven", and rain fell under the management of meteorology. His major was wrong!
This Prime Minister cannot do it!
Golden Dragon City, Sun Palace, Notre Dame Church.
A voice that sounded a little crazy suddenly laughed wildly: "Hahahaha, he can't ask for rain? His majestic holy angel can use the Heavenly Mirror to contact Heavenly Father, but Brother Tian's Luo Yaoguo can't even ask for rain? Haha, He still dares to say that he is not a fallen angel? Come on, show me the Prime Minister's Office!"
Chapter completed!