Within the territory of Guangfu, it is the harvesting period of the second crop of mid-season rice of the three-season rice every year. The low rice ears and plants are heavy in the wind, and there are large tracts of paddy fields in the end; it is just like golden. The sea is like a slight ripple, and it is full of joy and invigoration at first glance.
As the sun spared no effort to expose and shine, the scorching air was omnipresent with a mixture of soil and grain; even the original fierce cicada sound became weakened by the heat.
In spite of the scorching sun, there is still a stream of people and livestock on the road between fields and moss, as well as large bags full of bulging grains, or piles of high straw. Various vehicles of bales and straws.
They are like hardworking but not tired worker ants, eagerly racing to and from various fields, and between the threshing of various human and animal power and the roaring and whistling of filtering machinery;
Then they gathered in groups in the temporary customs and supply and marketing offices at various intersections; here they lined up in turns to pass through the water-powered spring mill, and then separated the bran, the first and the second brown rice; and then the transactions were divided according to the proportions. The public, reserved and self-use parts were carried back home separately.
Therefore, whenever it is time for lunch and eating, the people who sit on the floor and take out the bowls and jars clanging will be filled with the rich flavor of the oil and salt of the meal; and there will be a lot of discussions about mutual comparison and comparison.
Among them, what we usually see are really compacted and tightly piled bowls of cooked rice or steamed rice dumplings wrapped in leaves, and some people are stacks of noodles, small cans of soup strips, and squashed bean buns; The best accompaniment is the stewed large pieces of marinated fish or the reddish glutinous meat, soft and oily dried wax chips;
If you only have monotonous salted vegetables and miso, or take dried potatoes to satisfy your hunger, you will only be laughed at for raising a stingy lazy woman at home. If you can see oily canned meat or hoofs, it means that someone in the family is in the army, and it is also the focus of envy and jealousy at the scene.
At this time, Zhuangzi everywhere will cook a cauldron, a cauldron with salted tea soup, and let anyone drink it at will all day long. Some large Chuangzi with ample products can even be extravagant enough to add charred and bitter brown sugar in it, which makes people drink extraordinarily refreshing and refreshing.
When the batch is working at night, the illuminated charcoal cage will be lit, and additional roasted potatoes, salt-boiled beans and miso soup will be provided, and there are even a few mouthfuls of turbid wine brewed by the farm to give those who contribute the most. people.
At this time, taking advantage of the gradual cooling of the night, the old and weak children everywhere in the village will also join the work sequence, just to grab more farming time before the cool rain that may come at any time.
Although this is only a small harvest year, and even due to the partial summer rushes and floods, the level is slightly lower than the average level of previous years; but seeing that I continue to bring back yellowed rice and gray wheat noodles, The women and children who stayed behind still couldn't help but give birth to many longings with a smile, or eagerly breaking their fingers to plan and hope one by one.
Although only a few years have passed. But for most people, this kind of food can be half full on weekdays as long as they lay down their strength. There are more days of eating during the festivals, collective labor, and out-of-town work. They just can’t wait for generations to come. It's better to live on.
And beside a parked ox cart, under a big banyan tree covered in shade.
"The Lord's instruction is still given, and it turns out to be to accumulate food, build a high city, and slowly claim the king... It is really brief and thought-provoking."
"Now you can feel at ease and worry-free, and you don't have to toss around and persuade you day and night..."
"It's ashamed to say it, I'm in vain to speculate privately for a long time and often measure the popularity; I am afraid that I will be restrained and confused by the name. But I don't want this lord to be more understandable than most people, with a splendid mind and a bigger picture. And the city..."
"The old man is really fortunate to have the same effect as the masters and subordinates to this lord, I hope it will be celebrated..."
"Goodness. Goodness. The military can think about it. Obviously, they have seen through the confusion of fame, wealth and power. They can only be judged by returning to the basics and insights. Isn't this the blessing of thousands of people, Li Shu's blessing..."
They were instructed to recruit and accumulate the Tu people’s slang in Danzhou, Zhenzhou, and Wan’an, Hainan, and plant kapok (sea-island cotton), oil palm, sisal and other cash crops, and the tanned and thin farmers Cao Director and Professor Liu Xun;
Because he was urging the summer harvest and subsequent planting, topdressing and other matters, Guangzhou Chang Shi Fanchuo, who seemed to be blushing and black in the dust, appeared.
There is also a good description of living body and vitality, responsible for training and deployment of Lingdong, the inspector of teachers in various villages and cities, and staying in Sizanji Qiu Huan.
The last one to speak was the mountain lord of the Cantonese Buddhist College, who always seemed to be frowning and getting thinner, and the old monk Yixin who was born in the ancestral court of Nanchan.
These four people almost represent the iconic figures of the Annan faction and the Lingdong faction in the core site of the Taiping Army outside the Lingwai, and among the officials and clerks of the local government at all levels.
Of course, the more important thing is that they all received requests to go northward to assist in opening up and managing the ridge outside; therefore, they had such a temporary meeting.
"That said, the master is already determined to go out of Lingbei..."
Liu Xun asked again.
"exactly,"
Yixin's nose and nose
"Then how to deal with these Buddhism undertakings that the master raised in Lingnei..."
Fan Chuo asked in surprise.
"These are all sent by foreign objects, and Dingxing has its own reason; Lao Na only gets a little vain name only when he meets. Now it is a self-contained rule and benefits from following the rules, and will not change because of the existence of Lao Na... "
Yixin, who was still frowning, sighed.
"On the contrary, Lao Na has a lot of insights during the practice (theory), so he gave up his aspiration and promoted the style of a quiet Buddhist school for the rest of his life. Now that he has been recruited, he is willing to practice it everywhere in the world. ."
However, Qiu Huan, who did not speak, smiled. Compared to Fan Chuo, who was more solid-minded and focused on his own field, or Liu Xun who was trembling and eager to please; this old monk who was older than anyone and had a lot of knowledge was the most flexible one.
In the early years, it was still a non-armed coercion and uncooperative appearance, for the sake of the vast number of monks who could only succumb to thief; now it has become a pioneer who knows the Taiping Army's compassion and compassion, and does not hesitate to promote the Dharma and die.
Of course, this has not come from the same Buddhism Pure Land Sect Bailian Sect, and it is now accompanied by the hidden pressure and preaching competition brought by the consultant Seng Xu.
We must know that the northern school of Zen advocates gradual enlightenment, while the southern school advocates the epiphany of accumulation. The Pure Land Lotus Sect is even more simple and simple. It once claimed that as long as the Buddha's name is recited at all times, everyone has the opportunity to transcend the Six Paths and rebirth in the Pure Land.
Nanchan originally took the lead in the establishment of Buddhism rules; but it is obviously the pure land lotus sect's simple and stream style, which is more suitable for these lowly origins or from the bottom of the grassland, and the sustenance and convenience of ruling the people.
Of course, he himself may not be any better.
Originally Qiu Huan was getting older, living in Annan and staying away from war. He had no desires and desires outside of his teaching. But the arrival of this lord gave him an opportunity; an opportunity to pass on his "Yiu Xue" from southern Xinjiang to later generations, and even to keep his name in the Records of the History, in this age when the system of rituals corrupted Confucianism.
Therefore, there is no need to break and debunk this little thought. After all, for them, Guangfu and even the entire Liangling Mountains, no matter how good they were, they couldn't be a corner of the world. Only being able to continue to follow that person is the core that can stir the situation of the times.
—I am the dividing line —
Zhou Huaian sighed heavily after receiving the late summer harvest statistics sent by the siding signal from the Cantonese government. At least there is no need to worry about the inventory emptying crisis caused by a flood of the Pearl River Basin or the flooding of the Xiangshui Basin.
After the storage of the 13 Lingdong prefectures, the grain balance of 160,000 quintals, plus the transportation figures of the eight prefectures of Lingxi, Annan and other places; because of the continuous expeditions and the peace, maintenance and military management of the subsequent places, the sacred library of the Taiping Army In the system, the amount of grain reserves that have been hovering in deficit has finally returned to above the dangerous line.
In this case, there is no need to levy additional surplus grain from the hukou of those farms, and the public accumulation in collective farms; after all, things like popular credibility and word-of-mouth are consumed quickly, but they are not recovered so much. It's simple.
There is no need to continue to allocate the material reserves used to adjust the market, emergency preparedness, and preliminary preparations for large-scale projects; and the project progress and suspended projects that have been delayed can also be quickly restored.
As of the beginning of August, the fiscal revenue in the Taiping Shengku also reached 6.09 million yuan/pass. The largest piece of it is still derived from direct or indirect participation in maritime trade, as well as from the ports and cities controlled by various places. The commercial tax, ship tax and other special product surcharges.
As for the names such as Ding Tax (Country) and Household Tax (Urban), it can be said that they have been compressed to a ratio and extent slightly better than nothing; they are still retained, just to reflect the control of the regime and the sense of daily existence. .
In contrast, the transaction volume of Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Chaozhou, Leizhou and other ports and cities has continued to increase in recent years; however, the income of the two major departments of Shibo and Shangzhi has declined; of course, this is mainly because The Taiping Army’s trading fleet gradually intervened and deepened into various fields.
On the other hand, it is the existing airway trade volume and market scale, as well as the corresponding production capacity scale, which have stabilized and turned into a long-flowing large-scale transaction, and the reason why we need to continue to open up more emerging markets and trade space overseas.
In fact, although there are many items of income, the Taiping Army’s financial accounts have always been in a state of deficit to a small amount; because as long as the income and inputs accumulate to a certain extent, they will immediately be invested in the to-do items of the preset order and schedule. And in the project.
This is certainly a suspicion of laboring the people and hurting the wealth in a certain sense, but it is a way or measure to quickly generate the upper limit of economic scale and market potential in a short period of time. Only when properties and wealth flow frequently can they create more derivative value in the process of transforming them into other things.
Xunzi's attitude towards national taxation and utilization is very clear in "The Rule of the Kings".
The ruler who ruled the world enriches the people, the ruler who dominates the princes enriches the soldiers, the country that is barely able to exist enriches the doctors, and the monarch who subjugated only enriched his own boxes and filled his own warehouses.
My own boxes are full, the warehouse is full, and the people are poor. This is called overflowing from the top and leaking from the bottom. Such a country cannot be defended internally, and cannot be conquered externally, so its downfall and demise can be waited for immediately.
Therefore, those in power searched for the people's property and destroyed it, and the enemy got the property and became prosperous and strong. Searching for people's wealth is actually a way to incur invaders, fatten up the enemy, destroy one's country, and endanger oneself, so a wise monarch will not take this path.
Under the traditional feudal agricultural system, most self-sufficient smallholders do not spend money; if a large number of people in a country do not spend money at all, it means that most people in this country are outside the imperial system that is responsible for issuing currency.
That means the lack of huge resource utilization and mobilization capabilities, as well as the vulnerability of the corresponding natural and man-made disasters and other accidental risk tolerance. The collapse of any dynasty at the end of the dynasty begins with the constant superimposition of these factors until the quantity becomes a qualitative change.
Today's Tang Dynasty is the best example. Disasters in the world are constant and social conflicts are fierce, but there is no channel for complementary circulation of resources and the top-down adjustment ability of the government;
Therefore, the peasant uprising army can always get enough home ground and take advantage of the situation in the transition, and then learn lessons and supplements in failure, and continue to grow like a snowball, and one after another makes the imperial court with powerful soldiers inexhaustible.
anyway,
Nowadays, the registered population who directly pay taxes and serve in the Taiping Army’s regime in the area outside the ridge has reached more than 970,000, mainly concentrated in Lingdong and northwestern Lingdong, of which one-third are distributed in various places. Among the villages; this is also the base of the young and strong population that can be mobilized and mobilized at any time.
About half of them are high-quality troops with collective education and elementary military training, but they will be fully mobilized at the cost of production halts only when they encounter major crises or sustained serious losses.
The rest of the population is mostly distributed in hundreds of cities and towns and several times the size of this town; as long as a certain amount of resources and social functions are reduced or missing, most of them can also be mobilized. And undertake collective labor in the short and medium term and supplement the local defense forces.
As for some of the lower-level populations scattered in the vast remote rural areas and mountains, the Taiping Army will not count on them as a source of troops for a while, as long as they can be established in key points and areas under indirect control and limited influence. The checkpoint at the intersection should pay taxes and provide labor services on time.
After arriving at most of the seven prefectures actually controlled in Hunan, this number has shrunk to about 410,000; and in the five states of Jiangxi and three states of Jiangdong where wars are frequent, it is about 290,000 in total. Head
However, there are slightly more figures in Jingnan. In Jingzhou alone, there are 170,000 registered taxation young people; although from the book, there are 22 states in Lingnei, with millions of registered households. , Already has the foundation of a five-generation separatist power.
But in any case, relying on the current output and division of labor in these places, it is already very difficult to maintain the garrisons of nearly five military orders in the Lingnei Three Routes and the resources they need.
Now they are carrying a few large burdens, including Xiangzhou, Suizhou, Yingzhou, and Fuzhou, which are the host of the mountain road. Therefore, for a long time in the future, continuous blood transfusion and supplementation from Lingwai will be needed to advance various measures such as stabilizing order, restoring production, and reorganizing households.
Until the day when they regained feedback from these places. Therefore, he has to continue to be frugal and carefully maintain his military and military revenue and expenditure and financial balance.
For example, the local armed forces that were launched during the turmoil will be reorganized, downsized and reduced, some will be selected to supplement the main force, some will be organized into production garrisons or garrisons, and some will be sent back to the original place with compensation.
However, if you continue to act low-key and immerse yourself in the development of production, it does not mean that you can't give those subordinates and followers some expectations and expectations; therefore, Zhou Huaian quickly summoned the generals in Xiangzhou City and announced a decision. (End of this chapter)