Chapter 601 Moore's Investigation Report on Rural Issues in Shandong

At the fifth hour of the 9th month of the seventh year of the Tianli year, the Confucius Forest Hall in Qufu was illuminated by two rows of white lanterns. Ma Baocai, the favorite student of Luo Yaoguo and the president of the Shandong Provincial Farmers Association, sat upright behind a table of Huanghuali, with his eyes swept across more than a hundred strong men on both sides. These people were the presidents of the farmers' associations in various counties (sanzhous) in Shandong Province. All of them were Ma Baocai promoted one by one from the construction site of the Yellow River River River in more than a year.

In order to break through Shandong's "feudal fortress", Luo Yaoguo, Zuo Zongtang, Ma Baocai and others took a lot of effort.

Shandong Province is definitely a particularly stubborn and difficult feudal fortress among the provinces ruled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is even more difficult to build than Hunan, the old nest of the Hunan Army. Hunan is not only the old nest of the Hunan Army, but also an important source of the Taiping Army. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of strong men were sent to the Taiping Army and the Qing Yao, and then Wen Run went out a lot. After several rounds of population export, the conflicts between people and land in Hunan Province eased slightly, and there were also places to go for the thorns that could be tossed in the local area.

Shandong has not only a large population, but it has not exported much in the past two years, with only one or two million less in the Yellow River Flood, and the rest of the place is still the same. In addition, Shandong is still the most vigorous place in the development of famous religions. Confucius Shenggong is from Shandong! Moreover, Zeng Guofan was also a member of Shandong, so a large number of famous religions have been developed. In the era when the Taiping Army came in, Shandong's famous religions had established provinces and governments.

The five-level system of counties, towns (towns) is managed and followed by one layer, and the organization is already quite strict.

Moreover, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom just came in, the Yellow River was still flooding everywhere!

If the Yellow River is not subdued, no one can live.

And governing the Yellow River.:::::. is an opportunity for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to establish a farmer association system in Shandong.

So Luo Yaoguo sent his favorite disciple to Shandong, and first became the general manager of the river channel. He had to fix the Yellow River channel from Shandong to the sea.

Ma Baocai was not vague. After taking office, he recruited hundreds of thousands of people from various counties in Shandong. After working hard for two years, he finally controlled the Yellow River.

During these two years, he also built a group of farmers' associations in 96 counties in Basan Prefecture, Shandong Province, hundreds of thousands of river management were recruited from more than 100 prefectures and counties in Shandong Province. After two years of investigation and selection,

Of course, the farmers' association cadres selected for the training are quite effective.

In addition, in order to ensure that these peasant association cadres could really suppress the situation, Ma Baocai also selected the ten directions of the river management people to participate in military training, and finally eliminated some, and the remaining ones formed 80,000 Shandong militias.

With more than 100 farmer associations, thousands of troops and 80,000 militiamen, the distribution of land and land in Shandong has finally come to an end and can start.

However, Ma Baocai is no longer as rough as when he was doing a big career with Luo Yaoguo. He also knows that the policy of not giving a "way" is not a good policy, and he also knows that to divide and win over the enemy, he needs to raise a few vases.

Make a few typical examples, make friends more and enemies less.

"Vice President Kong," said Ma Baocai's eyes to a middle-aged man with gray hair and a bun on his head, "Are you a native of Qufu, a descendant of Confucius, or the third master of Yansheng Gong's Mansion...\n. Tell me, how do you divide the fields in Qufu?"

Vice President Kong is named Kong Fanxu. He is the third brother of Kong Fanhao, the Yansheng Gong who ran to Xi'an, and the sacrificial sect of the famous scholar of Chongzhou Prefecture, Shandong. Because he was particularly afraid of death, the Taiping Army offered a surrender and worshiped God as soon as he arrived!

However, Luo Yaoguo felt that it would be better for him to continue to respect Confucius and unite the enemy of the united front one by one, but he could not become his own person!

So he always respected Confucius during the day and worshiped God at night.

When Ma Bao was about to build Shandong Junyou, he was called to be the vice president of the Provincial Farmers' Association. He was "leader" to divide the land and land together. Can the work of dividing land and land still be messed up?

"Of course it's equally divided!" Kong Fanxu was wearing a patched deep clothes and looked like a hard and simple version of Confucius. He waved his arm and said, "All land must be divided equally and all debts must be abolished..... We must give our fellow villagers in Shandong a full meal!"

Ma Baocai nodded in agreement: "Vice President Kong, I'm afraid that the famous local gentry in Shandong Province will resist the division of land!"

Kong Fanxu said firmly: "Whoever resists will not be worthy of respecting Confucius, and whoever is not a believer in the famous religion...\n.\n.

The land division of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is actually a well-field system! The land merger system means dividing the land into nine parts, one public and eight people.::::. Now the agricultural tax and various miscellaneous taxes in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are almost eight people. This is the well-field system!”

"What about the debts?" Ma Baocai asked again.

"It must be abolished!" Kong Fanxu said firmly, "Where should anyone who reads the books of sages be released? Whoever wants to oppose the Confucius Sutra will be in vain."

Ma Baocai nodded and said, "I killed too many people in Hunan, and was criticized by the teacher. I told me to win people with virtue...\n.\n:.\n. So when I divided the land with virtue, I was ready to win people with virtue."

Kong Fanxu said: "My dear sir."

Ma Bao waved his hand: "It's my teacher, King Wu Rende!" His tone suddenly became heavy, "But if someone toasts and doesn't eat the punishment, I still know how to kill people!" He suddenly glanced at Kong Fanxu, "Mr. Kong San, Shandong famous scholars should write a "Please divide the land and land" and hand it over!"

"Okay, please go and do it right now!"

In the cellar of the library in the western courtyard of the Kong Mansion, twenty boxes of revolver pistols were glowing blue under the oil lamp.

"Supervisor Di has given an order to Jin Daji in the Yimeng Mountains that his five thousand elite soldiers will be able to reach Sishui in five days." "The Hunan Army General Li Xuyi was dressed as a coolie and sat cross-legged on the edge of a box of revolver guns with open lids.

The "Wang Dajiu" he mentioned was Wang Xin, the general of the Hunan Army. This proud disciple of Luo Zenan was appointed by Zeng Guofan as the famous scholar Shandong Dafang Zhitou Jiujiu Jiujiu Jiujiu before he fled to the west of Canqing. However, he could not take office in Yanzhou Prefecture City, so he could only hide in the mountains and deal with the Taiping Army. Because Shandong did not divide the land and land,

The power of the land gentry and landlords is still there. The farmers' association and the Datong association are unable to control the grassroots, so Wang Xin can still form a team in the mountains to fight against the Taiping Army.

The Taiping Army suppressed him several times, but it did not work.

However, with the end of the Yellow River governance project, the distribution of land and land in Shandong is about to begin, and Wang Xin’s doomsday is not far away, so now we are ready to try our best!

Kong Fanxun, the second master of Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu, scraped a rotary gun with his jade ring: "When will the soldiers lead the eastward battle? The 5,000 people who rely on Wang Dasheng's wine alone are probably...::::

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This second master of the Confucius Mansion is different from his younger brother Kong Fanxu. As the famous scholar of the famous scholar in Shandong Province, he is a loyal disciple of the famous scholar. He has been "obsessing the peace in the open and secretly loyal to the Qing Dynasty" in the past two years.

"Wang Pushan has only 5,000 people, but how many people can the gentry in Shandong Province pull out?" Li Xuyi looked at the second master of the Kong family, "The Empress Dowager has issued an order to make Wang Pushan the general of Shandong. ::::. The soldiers of Shandong Province all obeyed his dispatch! Kong Dajiu's position as the governor of Shandong is still empty, so this is what I left for you!"

Kong Fanxun suddenly cut off his jade ring: "Three days later, the Farmers Association will divide thousands of acres of land in Yaocun Town. I arranged for fifty dead soldiers to pretend to be tenants and cause trouble, leading all the long-haired soldiers in the city...::.:" He dipped in cold tea and outlined the appearance of Qufu City on the sandalwood table. "My people raised their troops in the city at the same time, and opened the city gate..."

On the official road in Yaocun Town, northwest of Qufu, Wei Changhui and Zuo Zongtang's guards stopped after a suona sound and stopped beside a dilapidated temple outside the town.

Moore lifted the curtain and saw the man curled up under the dry willow, his braided with straw ropes, his ribs were vaguely visible through his torn jacket, and there was nothing in the pottery bowl at his feet. Judging from this, it was a few days since he could live.

"The starving beggar bows can be seen everywhere in Shandong...::.:" Friedrich's pen was on his notebook, and his eyes were attracted by the scene under the wall in the distance.

Three men in patched silk shirts squatted under the wall not far away to drink porridge, one by one, they looked at their dresses.

It is not like a tenant, but it is also thin and has a good face, which is much worse than the workers of Kaiping Mining Bureau.

Bai Siwen looked in the direction of Friedrich's finger: "These are small and medium-sized landlords, are they? These days.::

The landlord's family has no surplus food either!"

"The landlord is poor?" Moore asked with interest, "Svenson, then you...

Bai Siwen gave him a blank look: "Can I be the same as them?" He lowered his voice and said in English, "I am a nobleman.........the nobles with pensions and Zhuangzi! Their landlords have twenty or thirty acres of land, and they are not even considered rich peasants in Europe! They just can't starve to death." He pointed to one of the landlords who looked particularly thin, "That person is probably a big smoker, hehe.:::.The family will turn into clouds and fog sooner or later!"

"Is there no smoking ban in Shandong?" Friedrich asked.

Bai Siwen sneered: "Where can it be forbidden? Shandong has no land and land, so the farmer association will not be very powerful, and it will not be able to control so much...\n. Otherwise, it would not be hungry and hatched everywhere!"

Moore nodded: "So, the farmer association's land division is still progressing."

"Progress?" Bai Siwen smiled coldly, "The effect is limited... There is only a little land in Shandong, and no matter how much it is divided, it is not enough! The only advantage of dividing land is to concentrate all the mobs between the countryside into the hands of the farmers' association, so that the farmers' association can suppress the situation." He pointed to the three landlords again, "You see, what is the difference between them and the Japanese warriors?"

"They...:...no sword!" Moore said.

Friedrich wrote in his notebook: "The biggest difference between Chinese landlords and Japanese samurai is that they do not have the force to suppress the peasants... They are landlords sitting at the crater and will inevitably be destroyed!"
Chapter completed!