The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 411 He is indeed the imperialist devil sent by Ji Du! (Please subscribe and vote)

The Great Hall of the People on Capitol Hill is a palace with a double-eaved hip roof. It is the same shape as the three main halls in the Forbidden City in Beijing and Hong Xiuquan's Temple of the Sun. But it is not very impressive. Compared with the four main halls, it is simple and plain. The roof is not as tall as the other houses, and the tiles are not golden. In the end, it is just a big house with a double-eaved hip roof. Fortunately, there are many doors and windows on all sides, so the lighting is not bad. If there are more kerosene lamps inside, it will be bright.

The person in charge of the National Assembly Hall is Huang Shicheng, who was a student of Luo Yaoguo. He is the old man Huang who decisively drew a line with Huang Shijie, who split the Huangetang in Lingling. He is now the Huang Master of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! A third-class citizen, he was appointed as the general manager of the National Assembly Hall. According to Luo Yaoguo's instructions, Huang made the hall look like a later conference hall. Facing north and south, there was a high rostrum, with a long table on the stage, and behind the table were eleven chairs, one large and ten small.

In the middle was a golden throne with carved flowers and dragons, which belonged to Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The throne stood alone in the middle of the long table, and on either side, more than three feet away, were the chairs of Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui, which were ordinary armchairs that could not be more ordinary.

Yang Xiuqing is on the left, Xiao Chaogui is on the right. On Yang Xiuqing's left are Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, Hong Rengan, and Hu Yihuang. On Xiao Chaogui's right are Luo Yaoguo, Shi Dakai, Hong Xuanjiao, and Qin Rigang. All the eleven top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are here today!
Below the podium where the eleven bigwigs sat, there were twenty rows of long tables, and behind each row of long tables sat thirty national representatives. Including the eleven on the podium, there were a total of six hundred and eleven national representatives in the hall, each reading a copy of "Zi Zheng Xin Pian"!

Although both of them have written "Zi Zheng Xin Pian", Hong Rengan's "Zi Zheng Xin Pian" and Luo Yaoguo's "Zi Zheng Xin Pian" are incomparable. It's not that Hong Rengan's level is not good, but Luo Yaoguo has seen the answer! And not just one version, but he knows the answers to the four versions of industrialization in China, Japan, and North Korea. Of course, he also knows what are the advantages of industrialization in East Asian countries? Where are the difficulties? Where is the shortcut?

The common national conditions of these East Asian countries in the mid-19th century were large populations, limited land, food insufficiency, and brain-dead people in power. The problems were basically the same, but the degree of severity varied.

To summarize the solutions of these three countries and four versions, generally speaking, they all involve reforming the land system first, releasing agricultural productivity, obtaining start-up capital from agriculture, and then moving towards industrialization.

However, there are two ways to change the land system. One is to divide the land, and the other is to deprive the feudal lords of their control over the land. The effect of these two methods is actually the same, that is, to explode a wave of gold coins, but the targets are different. The former explodes the gold coins of the gentry and landlords, and the latter takes action against the feudal lords.

However, there are not many feudal lords in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so they can only extract gold coins from the gentry lords.

There are two ways to explode the gold coins of the gentry and landlords. One is to explode them hard! Concentrate the wealth of the gentry and landlords as much as possible and invest it in industrialization construction.

The other is milder. A little bit! They also left some start-up capital for the landlords and gentry to start their own businesses in the city.

However, starting a business is risky. How can it be safer to just lie down and collect rent or lend money at high interest rates to the tenants you own? If you take a little capital and go to a big city to struggle, the result is likely to be a lifetime of hard work with nothing.

Of course, there will be some people who will eventually stand out from the great waves in the primary stage of capitalism and transform from gentry and landlords into big capitalists!

To take this "gentle" route, there are two prerequisites. First, the landlords and gentry must have more gold coins in their hands. They cannot afford to lose all of them in a small explosion. Second, there must be some industries for them to tinker with. These industries can be existing advantageous industries, or they can be the soup given up by "Dad".

To take the route of "massively exploding gold coins", there is also a prerequisite, that is, there must be channels to obtain a large amount of industrial equipment and technology, and quickly turn the heavily exploding gold coins into industry, mainly heavy industrial production capacity.

For the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at this time, the landlords and gentry still had enough gold coins in their hands - after all, China's modern history had only just begun a dozen years, not many unequal treaties had been signed, ceding territory and paying indemnities had only happened once, and the price of silver in the international market had not collapsed.

According to the current international silver price, the silver reserves owned by the whole of China are estimated to be worth 1 billion pounds, which is almost ten times the annual fiscal revenue of the United Kingdom! The United Kingdom is now the empire on top of the mountain, and the sun never sets. It is very rich.

The Qing Dynasty's silver deposits were about ten times the annual fiscal revenue of the United Kingdom, and there were still a lot of "gold coins", which was incomparable to a hundred years later. If they were all burst, there would be no place to spend them - Weng Tonghe's generation was still in elementary school, and there was no talent to develop heavy industry now! At the same time, China still has three major export-oriented industries, silk, tea, and porcelain, which can be tossed around. The premise of this industrial upgrading is to have industries! Only with industries can we upgrade. If the industries are knocked down and we can't even survive, how can we upgrade?

Today, Chinese silk is still the most popular in the world. Although tea is beginning to be challenged by Indian tea, it is still decades away from decline! Porcelain still occupies the Southeast Asian market, which is still pretty good.

And these three industries are not heavy industries that require concentrated efforts to accomplish major tasks, but typical light industries. To develop light industries, you have to rely on "rolling"!
So what should the country do in this process? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also exploded a lot of gold coins. How should this money be spent? Luo Yaoguo's "Zi Zheng Xin Pian" also wrote very clearly!
There are three main focus areas.

First, gradually establish a unified and efficient "United States"! The current Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has not only failed to unify the world, but there are even several separatist forces within it. Let alone unification, at least the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must gradually achieve military and political unification.

The military and political unification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not be achieved in one step, so Luo Yaoguo proposed his own solution in "A New Treatise on Aids to Administration".

First of all, two "Zhili Provinces" of Jiangnan and Jiangxi and two Zhili Prefectures of Changsha and Yuezhou were established.

In other words, Luo Yaoguo wanted to carry forward his style and merge the six prefectures in Jiangnan, Yuanzhou Prefecture, and Changsha Prefecture under his control with Zhenjiang, Jiangning (Jiangnan region), southern Anhui, Jiangxi, and Yuezhou Prefecture in Hunan, which were controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom central government, to form the "Zhili District" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Secondly, Luo Yaoguo's upper army, the Yulin Army controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's central government, as well as the right army of the Northern King Wei Changhui and the left army of the Wing King Shi Dakai were reorganized into four new armies: Upper, Left, Right and Yu.

The third is to establish three garrison provinces, namely Jiangbei, Hubei, and Hunan (excluding Changsha and Yuezhou), which will be ruled by Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and Feng Yunshan respectively.

Fourth, three royal legions were established: the center, front, and rear, led by the East King, West King, and South King respectively.

Fifth, the central finance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom subsidized the three royal palaces of East, West, and South with 1 million yuan of silver every year! Moreover, all the taxes of the provinces guarded by the three kings of East, West, and South were at their own disposal and did not have to be paid to the national treasury.

The second focus is to gradually establish a national education system, strive to popularize four-year compulsory primary education in Zhili Province first, and set up a series of middle schools, vocational schools and universities.

The third focus is on using military force internally and externally!

That's right. While waging a civil war to fight the Qing demons, they were also waging wars of external expansion. They were following Britain and France in attacking Russia, they were going south to swallow up China's traditional vassal states, and they were also keeping a close eye on the changing situation in Japan, being ready to send troops to intervene at any time. What a war of aggression!
Hong Xiuquan on the rostrum read the "New Treatise on Aids to Government" carefully. Wow, his face instantly turned as blue as an eggplant hit by frost. In his heart, he had already cursed Luo Yaoguo and his good brother in heaven. His anger almost overturned the roof: "Luo Yaoguo, you are really something! You are definitely the devil's lackey of Ji Du. This is not about military and political unification. It is obvious that you want to use the territory, the money and the military power to bribe Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan and others, coax them out of Tianjing City, and then seize my power openly! Your wishful thinking is so successful.

After you seize my power, you still want to engage in war. You fight against the Qing demons here, and provoke Russia there. You don't even spare the South Seas and the East Seas. Look at yourself. Do you think you are the same as that prophet surnamed Mu, who can beat the two empires at the same time? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself! No, I am the son of God, I can't swallow this breath, I must rebel against you! "

(End of this chapter)