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Chapter 709: Going out of the House

Xiao Yungui looked at Qingfeng's deserted back and felt a hint of relief in his heart. He had always been worried that after the demise of the Qing Dynasty in history, the Republic of China treated the Manchu nobles too generously. Although the Republic of China government also stopped the Manchu nobles' wealth and silver, the country's land, property, and real estate they embezzled for generations were preserved. In the twenty years after the Republic of China, these Manchu nobles lived in vain, squandered all the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, and finally became members of the common people. ↗

In history, the Manchu nobles lost their political power after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, which also caused the princes and nobles to lose a large number of opportunities to accept bribes. In the past, when there was power and power, hundreds of officials in the court fought to flatter and give gold, silver and treasures. Now the princes have lost their power and become civilians. Not only does no one come to give gifts, they often have to bribe the upstarts of the Republic of China in order to get shelter from the warlord government. The princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty all owned a large amount of land, and they could collect huge land rent and various agricultural and sideline products from the tenants who cultivated these land every year. These lands were called "curricular land", and were seized by the eight banners in the early Qing Dynasty. After the Republic of China, the princes and nobles lost their power, and the majority of tenants and farmers took this opportunity to refuse to pay the rent.

The struggle to resist rent and land grab resulted in the loss of huge land rent income. Although Yuan Shikai issued a presidential order, forcing tenants to pay the land rent for the farm grain, the majority of tenants still resisted the rent and occupied land. The government of the Republic of China did not use coercive measures to force the tenants to pay the rent for their own interests. Therefore, since the princes and nobles could not receive the rent and the expenses in the palace were very large, they had to sell the land. Most of these lands were sold to some landlords, bureaucrats and warlords at low prices, which led to the formation of the new semi-feudal and semi-bourgeois class in the Republic of China. The children of the nobles were very cowardly and incompetent, and could not compete with the powerful and powerful upstarts, so their property was lost in large quantities. The major royal palaces in Beijing were quickly defeated in just 20 or 30 years.

Of course, Xiao Yungui can do nothing and allow these Manchu nobles to gradually lose all their property as in history, but doing so obviously does not meet the interests of the entire country in the future. If the huge property, land and real estate controlled by the Manchu nobles are allowed to be annexed by new nobles in history, it will only increase the strength of the country's semi-feudal and semi-bourgeois power, and will not benefit the country as a whole. It will not benefit the vast majority of farmers who have lost their land and cannot further alleviate the land conflicts in the country. Therefore, Xiao Yungui must take advantage of the time when the new dynasty was first established to redistribute land and property. This will guide the reform of land policies in the north and ensure that the north can also implement the new policies in accordance with the Jiangnan in the future.

The money and real estate in the hands of Manchu nobles were fine. Xiao Yungui valued more the large amount of land they held. Once these lands could be reclaimed, they would be distributed to the northern Manchu and Han people to cultivate. The power of the northern feudal forces would inevitably weaken. Without the opportunity for land annexation, the northern feudal forces would invest a large amount of capital into industry and commerce, which would be very beneficial to the national industrialization process and the prosperity of the capital market.

At the same time, the confiscation of the property of Manchu nobles represented the simple wish of the anti-Qing forces and appeased the wishes of the middle and lower classes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Since the Han people have become masters of the country, the liquidation of the Manchus is necessary and necessary. Doing so can ease the opposition between Manchus and Han people in China. Moreover, only a few people are rich among Manchus, and most of the Manchus are still poor Banners. Dividing land can also meet the needs of the lower classes of Manchus, divide a group, win over a group of Manchus, and get the support of the vast majority of poor Manchus, which will help promote the republic of the five tribes.

The development of the matter was indeed as Xiao Yungui expected. Tens of thousands of Manchu nobles in Beijing were indeed very dissatisfied with the Western King's three decrees. They refused to hand over their property, but because they no longer had power and military guarantees, their property, real estate and land were taken back by the Taiping Army in a very short time. The Taiping Army mercilessly suppressed a large number of Manchu nobles with strong military strength as a guarantee.

The poor Manchu Banners welcomed this decree, such as the numerous slaves in Qingfeng Mansion. They were the Baoyi slaves of the Qingfeng family for generations, and their families were not wealthy. After the decree was issued, they began to distribute money, real estate and land. Seeing that the former masters and men were in a down-and-out and the beatings and scoldings they used to be domineering to them no longer existed, these Baoyi slaves felt the benefits of being free for the first time.

Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom struck while the iron was hot and launched the first bill of the abolition trilogy. This bill was called the "Abolition of Manchu-Coated Slaves Act". Xiao Yungui concealed the first part of the abolition to Manchu, which was in line with the will of the general public. At this time, once the word "Manchu-Coated Slaves" was involved, everyone would think that it must be overthrown. The abolition of Manchu-Coated Slaves did not touch the rights and interests of Han people to have slaves, so this bill was implemented very quickly. For a former aristocratic class who had lost political and military power, they were unable to resist the emerging powers of the country. Therefore, Manchu-Coated Slaves gained freedom in a very short period of time.

Next, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom launched the second part, announcing that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not allow population trading from the day the founding and the emperor's throne ceremony was held. This bill called the "Population and Sales Act". This bill banned population trading and was preparing for the final launch of the abolition declaration in the future. All this was mentioned by Lieutenant General of the State. All citizens of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China were equal in front of the laws of the Heavenly Kingdom. This epoch-making innovation was prepared. The fairness of human rights is a necessary step to further break the feudal hierarchy. Only in this way can the feudal land dependence relationship be gradually broken, and then the emerging bourgeois forces gradually become the backbone of the country and complete the national industrial revolution.

The success of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is inseparable from the support of the middle and lower classes of people. Abolition of slavery is necessary, land distribution is necessary, and the redistribution of the entire social resources is necessary. Therefore, under the guidance of Xiao Yungui, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has begun to embark on another path.

Of course, the birth of any capital class is still inevitably mixed with the blood and tears of many people, nor is it avoiding the dirty accumulation of primitive capital. The people who gave the blood and tears this time were the Manchu nobles. Who made their rule fail and they still held a lot of wealth?

Everything seemed so natural. Xiao Yungui just advanced the decline of the Manchu nobles by twenty years. In the whole spring season, it was extremely painful for the Manchu nobles in the capital. They moved out of the royal residences that they had lived in for a long time, carrying a small amount of personal belongings and a few taels of silver. These were all their property. Each person's thirty acres of land was meaningless to them, because they were arrogant and expensive and would not farm at all. Soon

These fields will be sold by them, and the only one who purchased these lands would be the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government. The land of Manchus was distributed in the situation of state-owned land, and buying, selling and redemption were strictly prohibited. Xiao Yungui increased the country's wealth to an astonishing order of magnitude, and his actions were accused by unknown people of the world of the world of the new emperor of a large number of royal private land enclosure operations. However, later the taxes collected from the wealth generated on these lands belonged to the national treasury, and this statement gradually stopped.

Those Manchu nobles who resisted and refused to hand over their property were brutally suppressed by the Taiping Army, and their methods and crimes were very false. They intended to subvert the new court to restore the Manchu dynasty, and this was enough. On March 25, nearly 3,000 Manchu nobles and their families were publicly sentenced, and the main culprit was taken to the execution ground for firing, and their families were exiled to Fujian and Guangdong to build railways. Many people died on the way to build railways.

Most Manchu nobles bowed their heads under swords and guns. They handed over their property and almost left their homes in vain. Then, gradually, their once prominent class disappeared into the long river of history, just like the nobles who disappeared in the late Qing Dynasty in history, but they took a shorter time. Sometimes, when walking around the capital, there were always some beggars begging in some alleys. You will find that perhaps a certain prince, Beile, or Beizi were among them.

Among them are also lucky people, such as Qingfeng, Zaiquan, Yili and others. Qingfeng is now renamed Xiao Qingfeng, and was given the surname of the king of the West, and was promoted to the first-class Zhaoxin Marquis. Zaiquan changed his surname to Ai and was named the third-class Shunyi Marquis. Yili also changed his surname to Ai, and was the first-class Return to Ningbo. The three of them became completely traitors, just like Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi and other traitors of the Ming Dynasty when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and they became completely traitors. They relied on reporting and excavating the property of the Manchu people's powerful people to make a fortune. They relied on persecuting their compatriots to protect their wealth, and they relied on selling the last little dignity of the Qing Dynasty to become an example set by the new dynasty.

History is fair. When you suffer from dark periods, you may complain about the injustice of history, but one day, history will return to another extreme. As the Chinese people often say, thirty years from Hedong to Hexi, this is the fairness of history.

Of course, there is another Manchu nobleman who is the exception. He is Prince Chun Yifan. Since the Qing royal family moved out of the Forbidden City and all lived in his mansion, the King of the West pardoned Prince Chun's sins, Prince Chun's property was preserved. However, Yifan did not receive the title, and he did not need to be titled. After the King of the West entered the capital, he did not express any submission, nor did he change his clothes, nor did he change his surname, and then he did not leave the house to do a turtle with his head. Yifan thought that this would be able to be low-key and maintain his decent, but it did lay hidden dangers for a disaster in the future.

The whole capital is now paying attention to the numerous Manchus and nobles, all applauding and watching their miserable endings, so they didn't have time to pay attention to Prince Chun, and even the empress dowager and the young emperor of the previous dynasty were temporarily forgotten. Then what attracted the attention of the people was the central government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangnan. In addition to the central government agencies of the entire Heavenly Kingdom, there were also the Xiwangniang and the second prince, and the young princess of the Heavenly Kingdom who were still in their infancy. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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