"Xianting, Xuanchu, and Xianxiu, what do you think of this book "Celestial Land Acquisition System"?"
Upstairs in Wanjuan in Anbu Garden, Wu Sangui's old eyes seemed to be closed, and he was leaning on a soft couch, holding a book "Celestial Land Acquisition System" in his hand and turning the pages gently.
Wu Sangui has carefully read the "Celestial Land Acquisition System"!
There was silence in the room. Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, and Guo Zhuangtu were sitting separately, each holding a copy of "Celestial Land Acquisition System". They must have read it carefully, so they all frowned and seemed to be thinking hard. After a long while, it was Fang Guangchen who broke the silence: "Your Majesty, this "Celestial Land Acquisition System" is actually an improved version of the equal land system and the military system implemented in the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties."
He is right. Although this book "The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom" borrows its name from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the content in it is not Taiping Heavenly Kingdom style - the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "land system" is too idealistic and has developed egalitarianism to the extreme. Virtually negating private ownership. There is a certain rationality in the late Qing Dynasty when the contradiction between man and land was extremely prominent, but it was still too difficult to implement, and it was not really implemented in the end.
Today's China has just experienced the great chaos in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, with serious population losses, and the contradiction between man and land has also been greatly alleviated. Although farmers' desire to own large amounts of land still exists, this desire is not just to have enough to eat, but to make a fortune and leave a large fortune to future generations.
Therefore, the system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not suitable for today. On the contrary, the land equalization system and the government army system of the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties are more suitable for today's situation.
Liu Xuanchu continued: "According to the "Celestial Land Acquisition System", the land in the world will be divided into two categories: 'oral land' and 'honored land'. Oral land is land granted by oral command, and land granted is land granted based on merit. And land is granted The farmland is divided into two types: "ripened land" and "uncultivated land". Among them, matured land is not exempt from tax, while wasteland can be exempted from tax for five to ten years. Regardless of oral land and land dedicated, it is not allowed to be bought and sold, but it can be inherited by future generations, unless the land owner There are no descendants. However, if you inherit more than a certain amount of land, you must undertake military service! It seems that the main purpose of formulating this 'land system' is to encourage fighting!"
Guo Zhuangtu added: "The "Chinese Land Acquisition System" also stipulates the implementation of a 'land restriction system'. This stipulates that the upper limit of land holdings per capita cannot exceed 500 acres. If it exceeds, the state will have to buy it back. This can prevent Land will be over-concentrated in the future.
In addition, this "Celestial Land Acquisition System" also stipulates the three iron laws of 'equal taxation', 'equal service' and 'payment to avoid service'. It seems to have learned from the pre-Ming Dynasty. Due to the concentration of land, unfair taxation and unfair military service. disadvantages caused by fairness. "
A cold light suddenly flashed in Wu Sangui's eyes, sweeping over the three counselors present: "Can we implement this "Celestial Land Acquisition System"? If we implement it, will it inspire the soldiers to fight?"
"Yes, but the effect may not be great," Liu Xuanchu frowned and said thoughtfully, "because the land in our hands is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is not very valuable, and most of our soldiers and generals have also been educated. Tian. But."
"But what?" Wu Sangui asked after seeing Fang Guangchen hesitate.
Liu Xuanchu said: "But if we can attack Shaanxi and Gansu in one go, which has a relatively large population, but poor land and strong folk customs, then we can use the rich Sichuan land to encourage young people from Shaanxi and Gansu to fight as soldiers. If we can have 100,000 With two hundred thousand warriors from Shaanxi and Gansu, isn’t the whole world at your fingertips?”
In fact, the current population of Shaanxi and Gansu is not large, and the contradiction between man and land is not very prominent. However, because the land quality in Shaanxi and Gansu is too poor and the carrying capacity of the land is relatively weak, the strong men in Shaanxi and Gansu have a stronger desire for land. In addition, the Shaanxi-Gansu region was an important military town in the Ming Dynasty, with Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan and other important towns. The people have a strong military tradition. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, there have been many soldiers. Under the current Wu Sangui, there are also many There are few soldiers and generals from Shaanxi and Gansu.
If Wu Sangui could conquer Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu in one go, and then use the vast and sparsely populated Sichuan land to grant the soldiers of Gansu and Shaanxi to the soldiers and generals of Gansu and Shaanxi, allowing them to fight for the land, then the Qing Dynasty would be in danger!
Even the strong men from Gansu and Shaanxi who were mobilized by the land of Sichuan did not have much fighting power. As long as there were 200,000, 200,000 plus 100,000 would be 300,000! Even if you fight for heads, you can wipe out the Qing Dynasty!
"Xuanchu, do you mean that after we raise our troops, we have to go all out to fight north?" Wu Sangui frowned, seeming a little worried.
"Your Majesty, if we want to formulate a strategy around this "Celestial Land Acquisition System", we must go north!" Liu Xuanchu said, "Sichuan, the land of abundance, has thousands of miles of fertile fields. However, it has suffered from repeated wars since the late Ming Dynasty, and the population has been reduced to less than a tenth. It is desolate. A piece of land can be used to confer farmland. There have been many strong men in Shaanxi and Gansu since ancient times. The Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties all started in Shaanxi, and they all used the method of conferring land. If we do not go north, but go east to Huguang, this book " The "Chinese Land Acquisition System" is not that useful. After all, every generation in Huguang has many fields, and most of them are fertile paddy fields. If all the fields there were equalized, everyone would live and work in peace and contentment. Who would be willing to help the prince conquer the world? Besides, , the Huguang gentry is very powerful, and this "Chinese Land Acquisition System" is not good for them!"
Wu Sangui's brows furrowed even more tightly, "In other words, if I want to use the powerful medicine of the "Celestial Land Acquisition System", I have to go north to Gansu and Shaanxi?"
"Exactly!" Liu Xuanchu nodded, "We have now trained thousands of Langzhen cavalry, and are no longer afraid of the Eight Banners cavalry. Moreover, you also have a foundation in Sichuan, so you can go north!"
Wu Sangui frowned, "Although the Langzhen cavalry is powerful in stabbing people, the Eight Banners soldiers should not be underestimated. And the Guanzhong Plain is where the Eight Banners cavalry comes into play!"
Hearing what Wu Sangui said, Liu Xuanchu knew that the prince's "coward" had relapsed, and he must be thinking about marching into Huguang with water networks all over the place, so as to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the Eight Banners cavalry.
But the problem is that Wu Sangui's army is not a southern army that is good at fighting in the water town Zeguo. Wu Jiajun has Guan Ning's old background and is a member of the "Chuang Xianyu Party" from Shaanxi and Gansu. Basically no one can play with the navy. The Eight Banners cavalry in the Huguang water town couldn't do anything, and Wu Sangui's army couldn't do it either. What would happen if they got stuck in the water network and couldn't move?
When Liu Xuanchu was thinking about how to help Wu Sangui treat his "coward", Wu Yingqi's loud voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Father, something big happened to father, the Tatar court is going to attack us soon! "
Before he finished speaking, the door of Wanjuanlou study room was pushed open, and then Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui were seen walking in one after another. Wu Guogui, among them, was holding a stack of folders in his hand. He walked up to Wu Sangui and held up his hands. Hand it over: "Father, this is a copy of the Mingfa Edict sent by someone from Zheng Junmen in Sichuan."
"Is the edict issued clearly?" Wu Sangui looked at the copy in Wu Guogui's hand, "So many? What did they all say?"
Wu Guogui said: "I just talked about three things. One is the five-town farming camp. The imperial court will set up four farming camps in Jingzhou, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guilin, and they will be led by Eza, Shi Huashan, Sun Sike, Leerjin, and Wang Fuchen. The other five men served as the President's Minister of Military Affairs, and each led the 10,000 Eighth Banner or Green Camp New Army to the south to garrison the land.
The second is the replacement of the two vassals. First, Wang Fuchen escorted the prince of Pingnan, Shang Zhixin, to go south to Guangzhou to replace Shang Kexi and preside over the Ping vassal administration. Then Prince An Yue Le led a new army of eight banners in the town to escort my eldest brother to Yunnan to assist you, my father! "
Wu Yingqi said excitedly: "Father, it seems that the imperial court is going to divide its troops into five groups to attack us this time! Come up with an idea, who should we attack first and who should we attack last?"
"Your Majesty," Liu Xuanchu said with a smile, "it seems that this Kangxi still doesn't know how to fight! Not to mention that the troops are divided into five groups, and they are so far apart, how can we form a joint force? We can defeat them individually!"
Wu Sangui asked: "Do you know which road Yue Le took to the south?"
"I don't know yet," Wu Guogui said, "but it shouldn't be possible to come up from Guangxi."
Wu Yingqi said: "Father, we don't care where he comes from, we just hit him in one direction!"
Wu Sangui glanced at Wu Yingqi: "You don't care about eldest brother anymore?"
Wu Yingqi quickly shut up and said nothing - now people in Yunnan are already talking about him, calling him "Wu Shimin".
Wu Guogui said: "Father, we have more soldiers and less food, so our front cannot last long. Once a war breaks out, we must advance quickly and expand our territory. My son suggested that we divide our troops into two groups and attack Sichuan and Huguang at the same time!"
"Where is the best place to put the main attack?" Wu Sangui asked.
Wu Guogui said: "Where Yue Le is, that's where the main attack will be!"
Wu Sangui nodded his head and seemed to have made a lot of determination: "Okay! Let's do it! Yue Le is the only remaining Manchu general." He clenched his fists again, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as I can defeat him, I will do it in the future." There’s nothing to be afraid of!”
Wu Sangui was determined to overcome his late-stage cowardice, and when he was preparing for a battle with Yue Le, the last veteran of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Guan Dynasty, he gradually designed him to be like this, a loyal minister who wanted to support his troops and respect himself. The culprit Wang Zhongxiao, together with Zhou Chang, Wang Shiyuan, and Wang Zhongyi, are looking for "witnesses" in this area of eastern Zhejiang!
However, the "witness" he is looking for is not the witness who helped him frame the traitor, but the "witness" from the "Witness Academy"!
The so-called "Witness Academy" is not a school that specializes in training witnesses, but it means "certifying human nature." The founder of this academy was Liu Zongzhou, a great Confucian in the late Ming Dynasty. Zongzhou's school was based on the principle of being cautious and independent. It specialized in studying how to be a moral gentleman. He also believed that human nature is inherently good and is born with the virtues of benevolence, justice, etiquette, and wisdom. Confucian scholars only need to clearly understand human nature and maintain it at all times. , that is, with careful and independent effort, you can become a sage.
After much research by Liu Zongzhou and a group of other Confucian scholars from eastern Zhejiang, this set of knowledge of "attaining human nature" was finally proven to be wrong, because there are people in the world who are "inherently good by nature" and people who are not human! When one's nature is good and one encounters a bad behavior, then no one will do it!
Therefore, Mr. Liu Zongzhou of Jishan, who pursued the knowledge of Shendu all his life, could only prove his morality by going on a hunger strike and dying for his country, but at the same time he also proved the truth that one cannot become a good person by relying on Shendu.
After Liu Zongzhou's death, the Witness Academy he founded was temporarily suspended. It was not until two or three years ago that it was revived by Huang Zongxi, another great scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
The main location of the reopened Witness Academy was no longer Shaoxing Prefecture, but moved to Ningbo Prefecture next door. Its main activity location was in a villa owned by Wanjia, a large landowner in Ningbo, so it was called Yongshang Witness Academy.
Wang Zhongxiao's main purpose of leaving Suzhou and wandering to Ningbo this time in the name of hunting down Oboi and the members of the Tiandihui was to find the Yongshang Witness Academy and invite a group of Confucian scholars from there to open a reform school in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong.
According to Wang Zhongxiao's plan, the revolution of the Tiandihui cannot only divide the fields at the bottom, but also has to target the middle and upper classes with true principles and new knowledge. It also needs to cultivate military and technical backbones. Moreover, even if land equalization is implemented, it is necessary to win the support of some Confucian scholar-officials as much as possible - after all, the equalization of land is not a complete equalization, but a system that uses land distribution as a means of military mobilization.
If Confucian scholar-bureaucrats want to occupy more land, then go join the army and fight to earn military merit!
The Guangdong Reform School was a tool used to win over some Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.
So at this moment, the Yongshang Witness Academy in Wan's Manor outside Yin County, Ningbo, welcomed a group of "good people" carrying swords, muskets, "The World is Public" and "The Land System of the Celestial Empire".
Huang Zongxi, who is already old and quite thin, wearing a gray cloth robe and a gray hood on his head, originally did not want to come forward to receive these uninvited guests, but when he saw "The World is Public" and "The Tianchao Land System" "The full text of "Ming Yi Waiting for Interviews", I immediately knew that something bad was going on - someone was using the "Records of Visits to Ming Yi" that he wrote and passed on to future generations to cause trouble!
Huang Zongxi was a thinker, but he was not a revolutionary. He just thought about it, reflected on it, and then quietly wrote a few counter-books to bequeathed to future generations of "Mingjuns". He did not intend to use this "Records of Visits to Mingyi" to fight with the great people. Qing Dynasty Confrontation.
Unexpectedly, someone took half of his "Mingyi Waiting for Interviews" and changed the name to "The World is Gong Lun" to cause trouble. What's worse, these people did not copy the entire book. , but copied half of it, changed the "field system" in it to "harada", and then wrote the "Celestial Land Acquisition System" based on "harada"!
After these two rewrites, the rebellious spirit in "Ming Yi Waiting for Interviews" has been strengthened to the maximum, and it has become a rebel program!
This world is going to be in chaos!
Ming Dynasty might be coming back!
Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi's face became uncertain for a while - he was afraid!
It's not that he is afraid of chaos in the world, but that he was blocked in his academy by several Qing officials holding counter-proposals related to him. Is he going to "become a saint"?
"Mr. Lizhou!" When Huang Zongxi was scared, Wang Zhongxiao had already spoken in an easy-going manner, "These two anti-books have been widely circulated in Jiangsu recently. I wonder if you, sir, have seen them here in Zhejiang?"
"No, no." Huang Zongxi quickly shook his head, "To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such an article."
Well, this is not "Mingyi Waiting for Visits", but "Tianxia Weigong Lun" and "Celestial Land Acquisition System", which are different!
"Oh, how's the writing?" Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Mr. Lizhou, I don't know much about reading. I can't quite understand the words 'harajun' and 'harachen' in the front, but I think 'harada' at the end Yes, "Celestial Land Acquisition System" is also very good, and the song "Song of Datong" is also good! What do you think, old man? Now the emperor will ask me, how should I answer?"
What? Aren't you here to arrest me? Huang Zongxi felt relieved for a while, but he didn't dare to relax completely. "Wang Weiwei, why did you come all the way to Ningbo to ask these questions?"
"No," Wang Zhongxiao said, "The younger generation came to the Witness Academy to find some gentlemen who are proficient in Confucianism for my father to set up a reform academy in Guangdong. My father admired Mr. Jishan's knowledge of witnessing human nature very much. My father also felt that his own human nature was also important. He is inherently good, so he wants to learn how to be a witness!”
What? Is the human nature of King Fuchen of Lu Bu essentially good? This is impossible! Huang Zongxi thought to himself: It seems that my teacher's knowledge is still lacking. It is true that human nature is good, but not everyone has human nature! How can a person without humanity be inherently good?
Huang Zongxi, who had made some progress in his knowledge, asked: "Wang Weiwei, is the word 'Weixin' in Weixin Academy you mentioned taken from the Huayan Sutra's 'If people want to understand all the Buddhas in the three worlds, they should observe the nature of the Dharma Realm. , Everything is created by the mind’?”
"It's not idealistic," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Can I borrow some pen and ink?"
Huang Zongxi turned around and said to a fat man in his thirties with a Chinese character face and a big forehead: "Ji Ye, bring pen, ink and paper to Guard Wang."
"is teacher."
The fat man quickly brought Wang Zhongxiao a piece of rice paper and a brush dipped in ink. Wang Zhongxiao picked up the brush and wrote the words "Reformation Academy", "Reformation Society" and "Reformation Reform" on the paper. Line characters.
Seeing the word Wang Zhongxiao, the fat man showed a surprised expression - Wang Fuchen's son seemed to have some knowledge.
"Reformation Society?" Huang Zongxi looked at the paper handed over by the student and asked curiously, "What kind of knowledge does this society engage in?"
"People who engage in New Confucianism!" Wang Zhongxiao said, "My father often discusses Confucianism with Prince Jingnan, Prince Pingnan, and Dingnan Gege. They all think that Mr. Jishan's knowledge is very brilliant, and they also feel that their own Therefore, I wanted to establish a reform society in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian and open some reform academies. On the one hand, I would teach Mr. Jishan's witness skills; on the other hand, I would hire some Shaoxing masters to teach the science of punishment, money, grain, writing, water conservancy, and construction.
In the future, the talents educated by the Reform Academy will not only have a benevolent heart for the world and the people, but also have the ability to govern the world and benefit the people. This way, they will be no better than those who only know how to read the Four Books and the Five Classics and take the exam. After passing the exam, they will be useless except for greed for money. Are you a strong scholar? "
(End of chapter)
