"Dear Karl: I have finished my investigation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and returned to Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming Empire. In Luoyang, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I met all the big names in Luoyang City, including the Heavenly Emperor Hong Xiuquan, probably because Jason commissioned me to compile several books on Western military and politics, which had great influence in China, and these leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were extremely friendly to me......

I first conducted an expedition inside and outside Luoyang City, which was the core area of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and one of the best governed areas. Outside the city, the "Heavenly Dynasty Farmland System" was 100 percent implemented, land was redistributed according to egalitarian principles, and all peasant households were incorporated into the quasi-military organizations of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, where production, training, and religious activities were carried out under the command of Taiping officials...... It seems like it's pretty much the same as what we're after, but everything is bad, really bad. The heavenly officials without knowledge have spoiled everything, their bureaucracy is too large, the bureaucracy is too big, and the life of the senior officials is too luxurious. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself, so to speak, was the greatest and most cruel or stupid exploiter. In particular, the princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lived in a more luxurious and vulgar way than any other monarch I know of in the Daoist realm, and their possessiveness and servitude for women were even a little perverted......

In addition, the enthusiasm of farmers to farm is not high. Because although they were allocated land, they did not have the right to distribute the products, and all the income except for the basic rations went to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was obviously a very bad way of distribution. In Luoyang, the peasants were deprived of almost everything they produce. In the midst of severe famine.

And around Beijing, ruled by Yang Xiuqing, another 'king' of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Farmers can keep enough food rations. Therefore, the peasants there supported the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But they also did not have much motivation to farm, and a third of the allocated land was abandoned, and it seems that the tragedy of Owen's farm has been repeated in China. It seems that the consciousness of the peasants has not yet reached the point where socialism can be practiced as we think it is. I think socialism must be built on a sufficiently adequate material and spiritual foundation. It is extremely unscientific to forcibly advance it if there is no foundation, it is not materialism, but idealism, and it is utopian.

So I proposed a compromise to Jason, the emperor of the Ming Empire, - a compromise between socialism and capitalism. For China today, this plan is very progressive.

As for the possibility of a republic in China...... I think this is much less likely than a republic in England or Prussia. In the Ming Empire, no one objected to Jason becoming the emperor, everyone thought that it was good to have an emperor, and they didn't dare to imagine what would happen without an emperor, and no one thought about this problem. Therefore, the monarchy is suitable for China under the current circumstances, and I am afraid that in the next 100 years, I will not see the possibility of China becoming a republic. And I don't think that China's progress depends on whether it implements a republican system, it depends on whether China can develop its productive forces to the point where socialism can be achieved in the future. Judging from China's current national conditions, only the implementation of the imperial system can achieve this goal in the foreseeable future.

Let's talk about the 'compromise' I proposed to Emperor Jason. I call it the 'Collectivized Farm Programme', according to this programme. Jason will build up countless self-financing projects in the empty areas of Northeast China, Northwest China, North China, and Borneo. A collective farm in which all members work together, share profits, share risks, participate in management, and have educational and social functions. I believe that with profit-sharing and risk-sharing, and with enough land and state support, most of these farms will survive. Perhaps from these collective farms, the Ming Empire has embarked on the road of socialism with Ming characteristics, a socialist road with an emperor, how about calling dynastic socialism? Am I imaginative?

Of course, I do not believe that the dynasty founded by Emperor Jason will be immortalized and that the monarchy will eventually decline. But until the monarchy is an obstacle to China's socio-economic development, the dynasty will certainly survive.

The letter has been written long enough. Say hello to you and your wife, Jenny, and Jenny, she is so lovely.

By the way, I think you can work as a European correspondent and a contributing writer for several Chinese newspapers, which can bring you some stable and decent income.

Above your faithful friend Friedrich. Engels. ”

When Endashen half-jokingly put forward the concept of "dynastic socialism" in his letter to Ma Dashen. Zhu Jishi was about to meet a special guest, he straightened the dragon robe on his body and stood up, and looked at the imperial concubine Maria, whose abdomen was already bulging. Clementina asked in a low voice, "Wilford. Has Woodruff arrived? ”

Maria smiled: "I have arrived, I arrived at Yingtianfu yesterday morning, and Mrs. Duran arranged for him to stay in the Far Eastern Hotel, and he came by carriage this morning." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, took Maria's arm and walked outside together: "Let's go, go and meet this apostle gentleman...... I think later you could introduce him to a couple of very important people who, if he can convince them to convert to Mormonism, will gain hundreds of thousands of followers. ”

"Is there such an important person? Jason, you don't want to convert, do you? Maria looked at Zhu Jishi with a smile.

Zhu Jishi smiled, shook his head and said: "My dear, I am the emperor, my religious belief is a national matter, I can't just convert to a foreign religion, as the emperor of China, my religious belief can only be Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism at the same time...... This is a political necessity! ”

This religious policy was established by Zhu Yuanzhang after the founding of the People's Republic of China, with Confucianism as the main religion and the three religions used simultaneously. Now, of course, Zhu Jishi will not ask for trouble on this issue, and he really needs to use these three sects now.

Maria didn't intend to really convince Zhu Jishi to convert to Mormonism, but smiled and continued to ask, "Is it convenient to reveal who those big names are?" ”

"Of course, I was going to tell you." Zhu Jishi said with a smile, "Those people are Yang Xiuqing, Yang Yiqing, Huang Wenjin and Wang Haiyang. ”

"The great man of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" Maria frowned, "Your Majesty, do you want to send all the converts of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to America?" ”

Zhu Jishi sighed: "These people are all unstable factors, especially the hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers and their families, if they stay in the country, they must be vigilant against rebellion day and night, it is better to go out from afar." I don't expect them all to go to the Americas, and it's good to be able to go half of them. I guess Woodruff should be able to accept them, right? ”

"Yes, of course." Maria smiled and said, "Now the Mormon Church in Utah has the final say, President Brigham Young is the head of the Utah Territory, and I am the richest believer and the most generous patron of the Mormon Church......

"Well, can you sponsor a trip to the Americas for 100,000 people?" Zhu Jishi looked at Maria with a smile, "This will take about 5 years to complete, it is 20,000 immigrants every year, and 800,000 silver dollars for travel expenses is enough." ”

Maria chuckled: "4 million yuan is an astronomical amount, but it's ...... For the sake of the stability of our empire, I am still willing to give generously. Well, I think I could work with the Mormon Church to set up an American Development Corporation to do this human trafficking. ”

As the two of them spoke, they had already opened to a reception room, and the female officer guarding the door respectfully opened the door, and as soon as she walked in, she saw the spacious and luxurious reception room, which was empty and only two people were seated. One of them was Mrs. Duran, Zhu Jishi's mistress, who was no longer the head of the palace and did not live in the Forbidden City, but in the Far Eastern Plaza Hotel in Yingtian City, where she was now the owner of the hotel chain. The other person was a tall foreigner in a suit with a pen head, with a brown beard, and when he saw Zhu Jishi walking in, he quickly got up and bowed, and introduced himself: "You are Your Majesty of China, I am Wilford, an apostle of the Mormon Church. Woodruff. (To be continued......)