"The surname Hong is a bastard! It's a bastard! It's a stupid pig......"

In Tai'an City, in the Chinese army garrison of Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, King Yang Dong was angry with a certain bastard surnamed Hong, and he has been scolding angrily since noon. Yang Xiucong had already sent most of the East Hall bureaucrats away, leaving only his guards to serve on the left and right.

"It wasn't enough to seal eight kings last time, but now that he has sealed ten again, and there is another one called begging for kings, he can't think of a more serious king's name? Feng Yunshan doesn't care about ......"

Yang Xiuqing slapped a rosewood desk vigorously and jumped to scold.

"Mess around...... are all in chaos, except for the king is Na Wang Niang, nothing is done, a small Tongguan has not been beaten down for several months...... He thinks about making trouble for me all day long, and the affairs of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be ruined in his hands. ”

He shook his head and picked up a letter sent by Feng Yunshan, the words on the letter he didn't recognize, but the officials of the East Hall had already read it to him. It turned out that Feng Yunshan also complained in the letter that Hong Xiuquan only knew women, ignored the government and politics, and also favored the Hong family brothers, and indiscriminately sealed the kings, and also built a lot of construction in Luoyang City, built and expanded the Tianwang Mansion, and insisted on the separation of men and women into camps without wavering, which made everyone complain, and the soldiers could not raise their spirits when they fought in front.

"How's it going? Zhu Ming has already won a complete victory in the Northeast, and the Kingdom of Heaven is about to suffer from the enemy on his back, but he is still blindly messing around, is he really going to send the Foundation of Heaven to Nanjing to be a prince of peace? ”

I don't know when Lu Dao began, Jingshi and Zhili were spreading the news that Hong Xiuquan was ready to surrender to Zhu Jishi and go to Nanjing to enjoy Qingfu. There are also rumors. Zhu Jishi has already built a large mansion covering thousands of acres for Hong Xiuquan in Nanjing. There are also thousands of black beauties from Japan, the West, Tianzhu and any continent in it. Just waiting for Hong Xiuquan to enjoy it!

Thinking about Hong Xiuquan's performance of plunging into the fat powder pile since he took Yong'an Prefecture, Yang Xiuqing is a little convinced of the authenticity of this rumor.

In addition, during this period of time, the market of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is really not very optimistic. Although Yang Xiuqing personally supervised the attack, the Taiping army's offensive in Shandong progressed slowly, and the two cities of Jinan and Qufu were still not captured, only Zeng Guofan, who was entrenched in Mount Tai, lost the battle again and fled into Jinan City to join Lin Zexu. And Li Xiucheng's battle in Shanxi was not very smooth. Xu Jishe, the governor of Shanxi who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, defended Taiyuan, and Li Xiucheng was under the fortified city and was difficult to overcome for a long time. Moreover, the powerful and powerful in Shanxi have formed militia groups to practice bravery, divide the localities, and resist the occupation of the Taiping army, and the entire Shanxi Pingding War was fought extremely hard.

However, what bothered Yang Xiuqing the most was not these, but that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was facing another food crisis. Last year, it was only by importing 7 million stone rice grains from Zhu Ming that he was able to overcome the grain shortage, and he originally thought that after the implementation of the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", Jingshi and the surrounding areas would definitely be able to obtain a large amount of wheat. However, the number of wheat sown in the tuntian fields around Jingshi was less than expected, and although the peasants who had been allocated land supported the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in their hearts, their enthusiasm for farming was obviously not high. When leaving the Old Summer Palace and going on the expedition. Yang Xiuqing saw a large amount of land abandoned on the road! After sending someone to investigate, Yang Xiuqing found out. It turned out that the officials of the various armies and divisions were not very interested in agricultural affairs, and did not go all out to supervise agricultural production, and the peasants who were allocated land did not have any enthusiasm for farming -- because according to the provisions of the "Heavenly Dynasty System of Fields and Mu", the principle of "everyone in the world is not selfish, and the goods belong to the Lord" are implemented in the distribution of products, and the distribution plan of keeping enough rations for each household and the rest going to the holy treasury is concretely implemented!

In other words, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom practiced a "surplus grain collection system". The same method, which has historically appeared only in the military GCISM of the Bolsheviks during the civil war in Soviet Russia, has of course led to a significant contraction of Russian agricultural production while strongly supporting the Red Army and the revolutionary war. Now that Yang Xiuqing is trying the same system around Beijing, what good results can he expect? The Chinese peasants are simple, but they are not fools, and since they have to pay the public for everything they get other than the rations, why don't they save some effort?

In the Zhili and Lubei regions, where the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" had not yet been implemented, the agricultural production situation was quite good, but the political foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was extremely weak. In most areas, it only controlled the county towns and large towns, but was unable to push the influence of the regime into the countryside. Although the Taiping army had eliminated most of the landlord forces who resisted from the fortress and completely suppressed the gentry class in Zhili and northern Lubei, it left most of the countryside in a state of anarchy. The orders issued by the county officials appointed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only circled around the county seat, and could not go to the countryside at all.

The reason is also very simple, China has always been governed by the imperial court and scholars, and the officials sent by the imperial court only go to the county seat, and the following towns and villages rely on the gentry to govern themselves, and the taxes and apportionments of the imperial court also rely on the gentry to collect. However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to defeat and eliminate the Confucian scholars from the roots, and the gentry who ruled the countryside were the first targets to be eliminated, and even if they were not eliminated, it was impossible to use them to administer the localities. As for learning from Zhu Ming, it is not realistic to go to the countryside with the government. Because without the support of Confucian scholars, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had no way to establish a huge bureaucratic team to manage the local area - there were not many middle and high-level literate people in the Taiping Army, and if Zhili and Lubei used 20,000 or 30,000 illiterate old peasants to manage the grassroots, I really don't know how to convey the decree of the Taiping Army? Do you want to learn from the Mongols to make up government decrees and sing them? Can northerners understand this song sung in Guangxi Hakka?

Thus, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom destroyed the scholar class that had ruled China for 2,000 years, it is said that it eliminated the biggest cause of China's progress at the root. However, there was no way to establish a way to govern the place on behalf of the scholars, and there seemed to be no better way to collect autumn grain than to send troops to the countryside to grab grain.

Thinking of this lot of troublesome things, Yang Xiuqing's mood was a little irritable, and his temper became worse and worse, and he often scolded his subordinates because of his childhood, and today he even scolded Hong Xiuquan.

"His Royal Highness the East King and His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King have come from Beijing."

As soon as Yang Xiuqing's anger went down, a female official from the East Hall came to report.

"Fuqing, are you here from Beijing like this?" Seeing Yang Fuqing in the dust, Yang Xiuqing was a little strange. His national emperor can be ordered to stay in Beijing, how heavy the responsibility can be imagined, why did he come to Tai'an in person now?

"His Royal Highness the King of the East," Yang Fuqing gave Yang Xiuqing a big gift first, "The Manchu Qing Dynasty has destroyed the country!" ”

"Destroyed the country?" Yang Xiuqing was stunned, "So fast?" Is the message reliable? ”

"It was brought by the son of the Daoguang Demon Head, Xianjun Wang Yixi......," Yang Fuqing told Yang Xiuqing all the news that he had wholesaled from Yixu, and then muttered: "His Royal Highness the King of the East, our war with the Ming Dynasty is about to begin, right?" ”

"It's about to begin!" Yang Xiuqing took a deep breath, was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Did Yi Su explain his intention?" ”

Yang Fuqing said: "Yixu claimed to want to welcome back Daoguang, let Daoguang lead the Manchus to continue to compete with Zhu Ming for Manchuria, and promised to give Shanxi and Guanzhong to us." Dongwang, you see ......"

"Whimsical!" Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly, "Emperor Daoguang has already decreed that the lands of Shandong and Henan will be ceded to us, and now you still want to fight for one city and one place?" ”

Yang Fuqing was stunned, and it was right to think about it, Shanxi is the territory of Qi Liaozao and Xu Jishe, and Guanzhong is in the hands of Prince Hui and Monk Greenqin, how could they listen to a Xianjun Wang Yixu?

Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly again: "Zhu Jishi can accept the surrender of the Qing Demon Tiande Emperor, can't our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom accept the surrender of the Qing Demon Daoguang Emperor?" ”

"Dongwang ......" Yang Fuqing was stunned and stunned.

Yang Xiuqing said coldly: "There are still many inferior gentry here in the Central Plains who are stupid and loyal to the demons, and they are still talking about the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, if Emperor Daoguang surrenders to our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, see what else they have to say!" Fuqing, you go back and tell Daoguang and Yisu that if you want to go to the army of Seng Lingqin and Mianyu, you must first surrender to my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and I can crown Daoguang as a submissive king, let Yixu be the son, and then seal Gansu to their father and son! (To be continued......)