Let us turn our attention to Tianjing City. Two major events are happening in Tianjing City at this time.
The first thing was that Hong Xiuquan issued the "Chinese Land Acquisition System".
After establishing their capital in Tianjing, the Taiping Army found that they could no longer use the old methods. Before, the Taiping Army had been fighting on the move, equivalent to rogue bandits, but now they have greater ambitions because they want to establish a political power.
The failure of Yangzhou also made some sober-minded generals in the Taiping Army see the flaws of their original system.
To put it bluntly, the original system was based on the practices of rogue bandits, where property was confiscated and men's and women's libraries were separated.
These practices can quickly improve one's strength, but they are unpopular and cannot be sustained for a long time. It is a bit like fishing in the lake and killing the chicken to obtain the eggs.
This time, under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Army issued the "Chinese Land Acquisition System."
main content:
(1) Declare that all land and wealth belong to the emperor. Determine the principle: "Everyone in the world will cultivate the fields together, and everyone in the world will cultivate the fields together, have food to eat together, clothing to wear together, and money to work together." Provisions
"Every field is divided into nine grades", "Every field is divided into nine grades", "Every field is divided according to the population, regardless of whether men and women are divided into half equal parts".
(2) Define the administrative system below the county level, establish township officials at all levels, and stipulate the recommendations, promotions, demotions, rewards and punishments for township officials. Every resident with 25 households is called "two", and a "two sima" is set up to manage production, distribution, and education.
Religious, judicial and local armed forces.
(3) It stipulates the method of paying surplus grain and surplus money to the "Treasury". After each household's agricultural and sideline business harvests, after deducting the rations, the rest will be paid to the "Treasury" and distributed according to the system.
(4) Abolish feudal merchant marriage and stipulate that "all marriages in the world regardless of wealth".
When this document was delivered to Dong Shuheng by the Intelligence Department, Dong Shuheng was shocked into a cold sweat.
This system does seem scary. If the Taiping Army really succeeded, Dong Shuheng would have to consider whether to join the Taiping Army altogether.
This is more radical and idealistic than Dong Shuheng's idea of recruiting 100 million militiamen.
However, Dong Shuheng knew that this system was only Hong Xiuquan's ideal. Now that this system has been promulgated, it means that Hong Xiuquan is already living in his own world.
Just like many online novelists in later generations...
This system cannot be implemented at all. As Ma Sheng said, the economic base determines the superstructure.
Hong Xiuquan's actions would, on the one hand, arouse even more violent resistance from the landlords. Dong Shuheng himself had to cover up or use clever names to copy a landlord, and he did not dare to confiscate it directly.
On the other hand, this will seriously weaken the people's enthusiasm for growing grain. Everyone will eat from the big pot, and people will only be lazy together instead of diligent. Huai Haijun's farm also has an assessment system. Dong Shuheng established it from the beginning
Institutional measures have been taken to prevent farm workers from being passive and sabotaging their work.
Dongwangfu.
With a "pop" sound, Yang Xiuqing dropped a copy of the "imperial edict" in his hand on the desk.
"This is simply chaos. Does he want everyone in Tianjing City to starve to death?" Yang Xiuqing yelled at the staff around him.
"Brother, why are you so angry?" Yang Ximei happened to come in at this time and saw that Yang Xiuqing was angry, so she asked.
Today she was wearing a Taiping Army women's gown and military uniform, with a belt around her waist and a pistol stuck in the belt. She looked heroic.
"Have you read "Chinese Land Acre System"?"
Yang Ximei shook her head and picked up the imperial edict on the table and read it.
"Brother, do you think this system is bad? Isn't it that our Taiping Army is trying to eliminate demons so that the people can live a good life? Now that everyone has been allocated land, they can all live a good life." Yang Ximei said puzzledly.
asked.
"Hey... are you as knowledgeable as those stupid people? Think about it, all the excess output goes to the holy treasury, then who will farm the land well, as long as it meets their own food needs, who will take care of the holy treasury?
Is it enough? If there is no food to eat, what will happen to so many people in the capital today? Will the landowners obediently hand over their land?"
"Brother, won't the people understand the painstaking efforts of the Kingdom of Heaven?"
"Silly girl, you can't underestimate the people, but you can't think too highly of them either."
"Hey... forget it, Ji Hua, please send a letter to King Yi and ask King Yi to persuade the King of Heaven. I can't say it anymore." Yang Xiuqing said to Zhang Jihua, the staff beside him.
"Ximei, please contact Huaihai Company to see if we can increase our quota for purchasing grain. Everyone may go hungry again in the future!"
"Well, yes, brother, I will try my best, but Huaihai Company has very strict control over food. Their own food demand is also very large."
"Well, I understand, Ji Hua, you ask the troops in Anhui and Jiangxi to collect more grain locally and send it back to the grain depot of the East Prince's Mansion."
"Brother, isn't this bad?" Yang Ximei asked. He didn't quite agree with his brother's actions.
"I am also prepared for any trouble. There are tens of thousands of people in our East Prince's Mansion. Don't they want to eat?"
"Okay, my sister will go with my brother for the imperial examination tomorrow."
This was the first time that the Taiping Army held the imperial examination. However, too few scholars participated, especially since this time it was stipulated that both men and women could participate, and some serious scholars boycotted and refused to participate.
In the end, in order to increase the number of students, the lower-level officials of the Taiping Army even used threats to force some scholars to take the exam.
Our Second Young Master Huang passed five levels and killed six generals under such circumstances, all the way to the palace examination. With his knowledge, our Second Young Master Huang could have passed the exam to become a scholar.
However, the quality of the people who took the reference this time was really not very good, and those who were forced would naturally not answer the questions well.
Moreover, our Second Young Master Huang was captured into the Taiping Army before and received a heavenly education for a long time.
At that time, he decided to join the Taiping Army in order to retaliate against Dong Shuheng, so he studied seriously and knew the teachings of the God-worshipping Church by heart.
When answering the question this time, he integrated his teachings into his policy and discussion. He also praised Hong Xiuquan. The examiner was a Hong Xiuquan, so he naturally gave him high marks.
Above the main hall of the Tianjing Imperial Palace, Hong Xiuquan sat high in the main hall. He personally presided over the palace examination today.
Today, Hong Xiuquan felt very happy. A candidate who failed many times has now become a test taker. Do you think this feeling can be bad? The reincarnation of fate is so wonderful.
The candidates taking the palace examination all came to the main hall and took their seats one by one, and then the examiner handed out the papers for the palace examination.
Take the exam on the spot and correct the paper on the spot.
After judging, two papers were more outstanding.
One is from Huang Hao, which quotes many teachings of the God-worshiping religion and praises the Heavenly King. The Heavenly King will definitely be very happy when he sees this paper. There are really not many scholars who are willing to study the teachings nowadays.
There is also a paper that makes the examiner feel ashamed after reading it. After all, there are no great writers in the Kingdom of Heaven. The only scholars are the scholars. And this article is written in a delicate style, citing classics, clear organization, and unique analysis.
The examiner couldn't decide who was the top scholar, so he asked the Heavenly King for instructions. Of course, the Heavenly King liked Huang Hao's article. In his words, he "got my true biography."
However, Yang Xiuqing liked another exam paper, and he was a really talented person.
Neither of the examiners wanted to offend, so they opened the papers to see the names and recruited two people.
Everyone had a look of astonishment. One of these two people was a young Confucian scholar, and the other was a young woman dressed as a Taiping soldier. Since both men and women in the Taiping army were dressed similarly, there were many candidates in the hall just now, and everyone in the examination room was confused.
I haven't paid much attention to this woman yet.
"Student Huang Hao pays homage to His Majesty the King of Heaven!"
"Nvying Fu Shanxiang sees the King of Heaven live long live, the King of the East a thousand lives, the King of the North a thousand lives!"
When the two of them were summoned by the kings, they both kowtowed and paid homage.
"Haha... Your Majesty, I think since this Master Fu is a woman, it would be better to choose a male number one scholar and a female number one scholar." Dongwang Yang Xiuqing said with a smile, looking straight at Fu Shanxiang.
Underneath the scarf was a delicate face, with light eyebrows, beautiful almond eyes, a straight bridge of nose, and thick and sexy lips. The most important thing was the ladylike temperament shown in her every move.
This made Yang Xiuqing, who was born with mud legs, feel slightly inferior.
"Okay, dear ladies, please get up. Today, both men and women are number one, which is a good sign. Let's go! Let's go to today's deer singing banquet." Hong Xiuquan also said happily.
Huang Hao was extremely happy. He didn't expect that he could become the top pick after joining the Taiping Army.
He was one step closer to his goal, and he was determined to work hard to become an official in the Taiping Army and become a bigger official.
Fu Shanxiang's thoughts were much simpler. She just wanted to do more things for the Taiping Army.
She was born in a scholarly family in Jiangning. She loved reading very much when she was very young, and she showed very special talents. Because her family had this condition, she also strongly supported Fu Shanxiang's study. However, when she was 8 years old,
Both of his parents passed away and his family fell into decline, so Fu Shanxiang lost the environment for studying.
This is not the worst thing. When Fu Shanxiang was 13 years old, because the baby girl her father had set for her was now of marriageable age, her brother married Fu Shanxiang to that family. Fu Shanxiang's husband was a young man 6
A 20-year-old child, what was even more unfortunate was that the child also passed away 5 years later.
Fu Shanxiang had just become a widow at the age of 18, but her mother-in-law hated her very much because she thought she had killed her son and found someone to sell Fu Shanxiang. Fu Shanxiang finally couldn't bear it and took advantage of the chaos to escape from her husband's house.
A legendary life.
After Fu Shanxiang ran away from her husband's family as a girl, she was actually helpless in her future life. But by chance, Fu Shanxiang happened to meet the Taiping Army, so Fu Shanxiang, who had no talent, chose to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became a Taiping Army girl.
Although the life of a member of the camp is still very poor, at least he has a place to live.
In this Heavenly Kingdom imperial examination, Fu Shanxiang’s female battalion leader knew that she could read and write, so he recommended her to take part. Unexpectedly, she won the first prize.
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The deer-minging banquet in the Heavenly King's Palace was very lively. Hong Xiuquan, who had failed many times in the imperial examination, attached great importance to the imperial examination. The usual government affairs could be shared among the kings, but he participated in every aspect of the imperial examination by himself.
At the Luming Banquet, Hong Xiuquan appointed an official on the spot, while Huang Hao was left in the Tianwang Palace to serve as an imperial scholar. He was about to appoint Fu Shanxiang an official, but was interrupted by Yang Xiuqing.
"Hey, Brother Tianwang, you can't take away the two champions. This female champion should stay in my Dongwang Mansion. My sister-in-law is also out to do things now, so I can ask this Fu champion to help my sister-in-law."
"I believe you, Yang Xiuqing, you are accompanying your sister, and you are even snatching women from me." Hong Xiuquan complained in his heart. He looked at Huang Hao beside him. In comparison, he still wanted Fu Shanxiang more. But he was so quick to talk just now.
Huang Hao has been accepted.
If I regretted it now, wouldn't it be a good time to tell everyone that I was greedy for Fu Shanxiang's beauty?