Chapter 307 The New Deal
The conscript system in the "Sufu Provincial Military Preparation Charter" is the township military system. Each twenty-five households have a population of only two Sima units. Each two Sima must have five township soldiers, serving for three years, and is governed by the Suzhou Ministry of War Township and local township military departments. In addition to local militia armed forces, the township military departments are also reserves in the West Hall. Part of their food, salary and equipment are allocated by the General Saint Deposit, and part of their food, salary and treatment are provided by the local government. The township military soldiers do not have the generous food, salary and benefits of professional soldiers. Each township military soldier has only a small monthly allowance, but the government can get the preferential policy of reducing and exempting part of the taxes. Therefore, the people are still willing to send their children and nephews to be village soldiers, and even some places are unable to squeeze into the township military department.
In this way, Sufu Province will maintain a professional standing army of 150,000 and nearly 500,000 reserve troops. There is no way to maintain such a huge force, because it is still fighting, and the West Palace will have to send troops to fight the Qing army from three sides after the beginning of spring. In addition to the Su-zhong battle that is still underway, the General Staff of the West Palace is already preparing for the battle plan for Fujian and Jiangxi. Without strong military strength as a guarantee, it will be difficult for the West Palace to complete the three-sided attack.
In the "Sufu Provincial Military Preparation Charter", the same official positions as the Ministry of Personnel, and the official ranks are separated, which distinguishes the military positions and ranks in the West Hall Army. From the two Simas to the military commander as military positions, from the military supervisor to the prime minister as military ranks. For example, Chen Yu became the military commander of the left army in Huzhou, and his duties were held together, leading more than 10,000 troops. The separation of military positions and ranks has caused some unreasonable phenomena in the West Hall Army to disappear. For example, if there are military commanders in the first army and there are military supervisors and other official positions, it will cause a situation where there are more officials and few soldiers. After the military positions and ranks are separated, redundant officials will be eliminated in disguise.
Xiao Yungui originally wanted to introduce the military rank system of later generals, school and lieutenants, but he talked to Zuo Zongtang and others. Zuo Zongtang said that the military ranks were always higher than those of the school, and this was changed. The military was full of small schools, which may be difficult to accept.
Only then did Xiao Yungui realize that compared with political reforms, the reform of the army is even more difficult. The reason is very simple. Whether it is the tactics, organizational systems, or even the use of weapons, they are valuable experiences obtained after long-term blood and fire training of the army. The conservative ideas in the army are even more difficult to change, because the mature organization and tactics of an army have been tested by war, and they are all experiences obtained by paying one by one. It is very difficult for you to reform the army. Xiao Yungui is now beginning to understand why the British side resisted changing the round warhead to a conical warhead. Because the round warhead was formed by the British army at a great actual combat cost, the military would not easily agree to the change.
Therefore, Xiao Yungui did not bother with the small matter of military rank. He had to focus more on other aspects of the military reform of the Taiping Army in the West Palace.
The "Sufu Provincial Agricultural, Forestry and Tea Silk Charter" is the charter on agriculture in Sufu Province issued by the Ministry of Revenue Agriculture Department. The charter clearly plans the proportion of grain-producing areas and tea, raw silk and other economic crops in Sufu Province. In addition to ensuring the needs of military and civilians in a province, the grain production in Sufu Province must also be supplied with part of Tianjin. Therefore, uncontrollable cultivation of tea, raw silk and other economic crops among the people cannot be allowed to be cultivated by the people. Most of the land must still be retained as grain production land. At the same time, the charter also clearly states the price of purchasing surplus grain for farmers. This price is basically the same as the current price.
Fu is also an initiative to protect grain-producing farmers. In history, low grain has hurt farmers. In addition to paying grain taxes, farmers have left enough food for their own food. The surplus grain is mostly exchanged for silver to purchase other daily necessities. Therefore, the Xidian takes the minimum grain guarantee for the government as the bottom line to protect the interests of grain-producing farmers. In addition, this charter has plans and reward policies for fisheries, forestry, animal husbandry and other side businesses in Sufu Province. In short, this charter is a charter that encourages the people to resume production as soon as possible and protect the interests of farmers.
The "Sofu Provincial Law of Saving the Trouble and Helping the Weak" is a social welfare law. Previously, the Taiping Army had a Children's Hall, the Elderly and the Weak Department and other departments were specifically responsible for raising orphans and the elderly, weak and sick in society, and other helpless people. This charter only sorts out the previous affairs as a detailed law, and the principle is probably the same. Orphans, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled are responsible for raising people, and the local governments are responsible for raising them. At the same time, the local governments organize these people to do things within their ability to repay the society. The Taiping Army had already had good experience. Orphans can learn culture and join the army training when they were sixteen years old. The good qualifications have the opportunity to study abroad. In short, even if these orphans sell themselves to the West Palace for a long time, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people do some work in managing the city's cleaning and hygiene, and do some urban management work. In short, each of them does their best, and the West Palace will not raise people who are lazy.
The "Siufu Province New School Charter" is a provision for education. All localities should gradually carry out popularization of primary education. The annual funding of local education in each county is also clearly stipulated that it should account for about 5 to 10% of the local expenditure budget. At the same time, it is planned to build a new batch of new middle schools in the capitals of each county. In addition to learning Chinese traditional culture, these schools also have to open Western disciplines. In addition, Li Shanlan was presided over in Shanghai to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Shanghai Dabai Science Hall of the Sufu Province. This school was presided over by Li Shanlan and hired scientists from both Chinese and foreign countries to join. At first, it was a place where Li Shanlan and others engaged in academic research, becoming the predecessor of the first modern university in China.
Speaking of Western learning, although Xu Naizhao and others did not object to it, Xiao Yungui could see that they were still reserved in their hearts. Behind them were the traditional Chinese Confucianism. There have always been many scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I believe that after the opening of the new school in the West Palace, there will still be many people in Sufu Province oppose it. However, the pressure on the conservative forces faced by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom should not be too great. After all, they are "rebels". They do not have to adhere to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, nor do they pay attention to the old Confucianism of the Qing Dynasty. In addition, during the war, many conservative and reactionary literati were either suppressed with the Qing army or avoided the territory of the Qing army in other provinces. The conservative forces were not too strong. This is the benefit of the rebels, and everything can be smashed and started over.
However, Hong Yuner also proposed that we should not underestimate the energy of the conservative forces among the people. Under her advocacy, the Imperial Office began to compile several books, intending to publish them widely to face the audio and video. One was the "Xinhua Dictionary", which was to eliminate the influence of the "Kangxi Dictionary" among the people. The second was the "New Confucian Collection" compiled by Zuo Zongtang and others, which was to promote the restoration of the old views of Confucianism before the Qing Dynasty, reform the old customs of the eight-part Confucian essays of Confucianism today, and disclose the true face of the Qing Dynasty's suppression of the development of Confucianism. There is also the book "Ship Learning Style and Use" compiled by Hong Yuner. In which Hong Yuner steals Zhang Zhidong's words, it proposes that the Kingdom of Heaven should treat Western learning with the attitude of middle school as the body and Western learning as the body. After these books were published, the Propaganda Department under the jurisdiction of Wang Libin also began to publish the first newspaper of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to cooperate with the propaganda of the West Palace.
Although there were books and newspapers as publicity, after the new school was launched, it still encountered many obstacles. It was something Hong Yuner and Xiao Yungui thought it was reasonable and unexpected. However, after all, the West Palace still took this step of running new education, and this step was also necessary, because transforming a country requires education first.
The "Sufu Province Salt and Iron Wine Industry Charter" re-stated some special industries controlled by the Qing Dynasty in the past. Salt and iron have always been industries controlled by the Qing Dynasty, especially the salt industry has become an important symbol of collusion between officials and businessmen to exploit the people. Wine and tobacco were strictly prohibited before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Xiuquan and others believed that wine was made of grain. If too much wine was made, it means that there was less food. If there was less food, it would make the people hungry. Wine was not a good thing. If you drank too much, it would corrupt people's hearts. Therefore, alcohol was banned and tobacco was almost banned.
But in Xiao Yungui's view, these things are actually commodities, and they are commodities that people need to appear. Sufu Province encourages industry and commerce, so naturally they cannot cut off the way for the people who make a living. Therefore, the West Palace issued this charter, re-stated the methods to manage the miscellaneous industries such as salt, iron, wine, tobacco, sugar, etc. in Sufu Province. In principle, the West Palace still encourages private tea, salt, sugar, tobacco, alcohol, etc., while minerals are mined and operated in the form of joint venture between officials and the people. The biggest change is the salt industry. The West Palace abolished the old system of the Qing Dynasty, implemented the new billing and salt law, and abolished the induction of nests. Whether officials, gentry, merchants and people can carry it after paying taxes, and in Sufu Province, they can be sold at will. This further breaks the monopoly of salt merchants and the salt arsenal over the salt industry. Once there are more salt goods, the salt price will naturally drop, and the people can afford salt.
The "Sofu Province Doctrine Rules" is a Taiping Christian text compiled by Hong Yuner. It borrows the doctrine of worshiping God and the original doctrine of Christianity, and at the same time incorporates some habits of Chinese Confucianism. It eliminates some superstitious and ignorant things about worshiping God, and eliminates some dogmas that Christianity does not allow worship of ancestors. This Taiping Christianity is more inclusive. At the same time, it stipulates some principles for building churches in various places, and at the same time clarifies some regulations for worship, and also clarifies the registration system for people's religious beliefs. At first glance, it is promoting Taiping Christianity, but in fact it sets some obstacles to the doctrine in the form of decrees, which is to weaken the impact of worshiping God on the West Temple.
The new policy was finally concluded, and it took more than half a month. Among them, all the laws were added or revised, and the most revised were the criminal system, but they were finally decided after collective discussion. On the day the dragon raised its head on the second day of the old calendar, the Xiwangfu Palace in Suzhou issued more than ten laws, more than twenty regulations, and more than thirty rules in one breath, and re-formulated policies for the military, civilians, peasants, industries, commerce and pepsi in Sufu Province.
Then Xiao Yungui announced that the new policy of Suzhou Province began. Officials at all levels and localities should be implemented according to the new policy, and the Supervision Department and other departments began to supervise the implementation of the new policy. Considering that everyone was feeling the way, Xiao Yungui allowed officials at all levels and localities to report directly to the Western Prince of Suzhou once they found any inappropriate points in the new policy regulations. At the same time, various ministries and localities also began to introduce new government budget systems, and in accordance with the requirements of the investment in the new policy, they began to formulate the first three-year plan for Suzhou Province.
Since then, the West Palace began reform and reform, known in history as the "Su Fu New Policy", which laid a solid foundation for the Taiping Army in the West Palace to take charge of national affairs and also laid the foundation for the prosperity and strength of southern Jiangsu and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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