"Brother San, since you have already started drafting the 'Imperial Land Tax System', you should hurriedly set up the Bay God Society again. Otherwise, even if your 'Imperial Land Tax System' is drafted perfectly, without a large number of Bay God Society members carrying out its implementation under your command, it will just be a worthless piece of paper."
After knowing that Feng Yunshan has already started drafting the 'Imperial Land Tax System', Luo Yao Guo immediately began to follow his train of thought and deceive him. Today, he would say anything to get the establishment of the organization decided!
"Can't we promote the 'Imperial Land Tax System' by relying on the system of the Taiping Army?" Feng Yunshan's thought turned a bit slowly, and he said to Luo Yao Guo, "My idea is to manage all the people in the world according to the military system of the Taiping Army. Every twenty-five households form a unit, with one national treasury and one church, and one person serving as a commandant. The twenty-five households elect this commandant. Under the rule of each pair of commandants, there is integration of military and civil affairs, fighting while farming."
"No," Luo Yao Guo firmly stated, "The current system of the Taiping Army is only a temporary solution before reaching the Little Paradise. Once there is enough land to settle down, there should still be a household, private property, fixed salary and allowances. It's not that people in the world can't do this; even celestial beings can't do it!"
Feng Yunshan seemed somewhat disbelieving.
"Exactly! It can't be done!" Luo Yao Guo said very confidently, "And the Heavenly Father doesn't need to possess everything either... Brothers Er and San proposed the idea of everything belonging to the Supreme Lord without realizing that there are so many things in heaven that even the celestial beings are not enough to consume them. When consumption is low and production is high, it is called overproduction!"
"If everything belongs to the Heavenly Father, how can the Heavenly Father consume it? How big would the Heavenly Father's palace have to be to store all the excess things in heaven? And what use would the Heavenly Father have for those excess things?"
"So there is no such thing as everything belonging to the Heavenly Father in heaven, and the Heavenly Father does not care about how much surplus production there is in heaven. That is a matter for the producers to consider themselves, and if they lose money because they can't sell their products, the Heavenly Father will not care!"
"Ah..."
Feng Yunshan had been deceived by Luo Yao Guo to some extent, and he really couldn't imagine what a scene of too much production would look like. Couldn't the rice and flour in heaven be so abundant that people can't finish it all, and even if they eat half of it and throw away the other half? Couldn't the silk fabrics in heaven be so abundant that people can't wear them all, and even if they change their clothes every day for a month, there wouldn't be any repeats?
Luo Yao Guo saw that Feng Yunshan was almost convinced, and he quickly added: "Brother San, think about it. How can a system of everything belonging to the Supreme Lord be implemented on the heaven where it fails? The heaven has overproduction, but the world is short of production, with not enough rice to eat, not enough clothes to wear, and so on. If everyone does not store any private property and everything belongs to the Supreme Lord, what do you want Brother Er to do for this shortage?"
"This..." Feng Yunshan furrowed his brows, "The idea of everything belonging to the Supreme Lord and everyone not storing private property is actually for the equal distribution of the world's resources, so that everyone can have enough to eat and stay warm. If we don't do it this way, then with the world's insufficient and uneven production of goods, the poor will inevitably be subjected to extreme hunger and cold even under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
Luo Yao Guo nodded and said, "As it is now, the world's production is insufficient for the world's people to have enough to eat and stay warm! If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implements the rule of everything belonging to the Supreme Lord, the people will still be subject to hunger and cold!"
And even if all the world's things are divided among the people, it would still be insufficient. What can the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom obtain from its people? If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not take a single thing from its people, how can its sacred troops and warriors be maintained?
If the expenses of the Heavenly Kingdom are all taken from the people, then what remains will be even less to distribute. If everyone follows the rule that everything belongs to the Supreme Lord and does not store private property, then the people's shortages would become our shortages. What should we do then?
It's better to distribute the land and then charge a tax similar to that of fighting demons and spirits. In this way, we give the poor people land without burdening them with high taxes. Whether they are hungry or not depends on whether Heaven provides for them and whether they work hard... That's none of our business!
"We have always had great favors towards them, and they will definitely support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to protect the land we have given them!"
It sounds like a good point!
Feng Yunshan seems to have seen the true principles of heaven today, nodding continuously with his beard in hand!
Luo Yao Guo saw that Feng Yunshan's thinking seemed to have turned around, so he continued to coax: "Brother San, we can also gather large amounts of excess wealth from the wealthy landlords by striking them and distributing land to the people to serve as military expenses."
We won't keep this excess wealth to ourselves; we can split the accounts with the people... We don't take a single cent of the people's property. We'll split the excess wealth from the landlords in a 70-30 ratio, taking 70% for ourselves and giving 30% to the people, which should be enough for them.
When the people receive the land from the wealthy landlords and the wealth from them, they will likely have blood on their hands... How can they not support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?
"And there are also many failed scholars who have no spare money at home and have failed to pass the exams repeatedly, such as..."
"Ahem! Ahem!" Feng Yunshan quickly coughed twice.
"This scholar who has no spare money and has failed to pass the exams repeatedly is actually Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan, and Hong Rengan. They are all very talented, but they haven't even passed the scholar examination!"
The examinations of the Qing Dynasty...... are indeed too dark!
Luo Yao Guo paused and then smiled, "Brother San, among these people, some will deeply hate the Qing Dynasty due to repeated failures in the examinations, and they will also detest the wealthy scholars who ride on their necks!"
They will definitely cheer and applaud when they see us distribute the land and excess wealth of the wealthy landlords. Some of them will even want to join our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to fight against the Qing Dynasty. We can absorb them into the Bay God Society and use them as pens for our Heavenly Kingdom!"
Moreover, there are many heroes in the folk who take it upon themselves to expel the Tartars and restore China, such as Su Sanlang, Luo Dagang, and Wu Rushao... They are all such heroes! If they see that our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sincerely opposes the Qing Dynasty and rebels for the people, they will compete to join us. We can also recruit them into the Bay God Society and use them as our Heavenly Kingdom's sharp swords!
And the sharp swords and pens in the Bay God Society are also the swords and pens of Brother San!"
"Is......mine?" Feng Yunshan was startled, and then suddenly had a sense of enlightenment.
"That's right!" Luo Yao Guo nodded heavily, observing Feng Yunshan's expression, he then made his intentions clear, "Brother San, Brothers Si, your brother-in-law, Brother Wu, Brother Wu and Brother Qi are all from Guangxi. They joined with their clans and local factions. But you, Brother San, are from Guangdong. You came to Guangxi alone without any clans or local factions to rely on. The only way to gather supporters for our Heavenly King and the Second Son of the Holy is by absorbing followers into the Bay God Society to balance Brothers Si and your brother-in-law!"
"Good!" Feng Yunshan slapped his thigh, "Brother Ba, you're indeed sent by the Heavenly Father and Brother Heaven to help me and our King! Let's work on this Bay God Society together. I'll be the director-general, and Brother Ba will be the deputy..."
Feng Yunshan probably wanted Luo Yao Guo to be the Deputy Director-General of the Bay God Society, but Luo Yao Guo didn't want to take on such a grand title and quickly interjected, "Brother San, I'll just be the Chief Lecturer!"
"Chief Lecturer?" Feng Yunshan asked, "What will you lecture about?"
Luo Yao Guo said, "Of course, I will talk about the sights and doctrines of heaven, the 'Heavenly Kingdom Land System' established by Brother San, and what our Bay God Society will do? And also the various systems of the Bay God Society."
My younger brother can start a lecturer class first, to teach out ten or more senior lecturers for Brother San, and then they can go on to teach even more lecturers, assistant lecturers, or speakers... In the future, they can all become the core backbone of the Bay God Society!"
Feng Yunshan naturally understood that Luo Yao Guo wanted to build up his own team by becoming the Chief Lecturer of the Bay God Society and training senior lecturers, lecturers, assistant lecturers, and speakers. However, since he and Hong Xiuquan were going to push Luo Yao Guo as the true angel to balance Yang Xiuqing as the false God, they had to let Luo Yao Guo develop first!
Moreover, Luo Yao Guo had just arrived and didn't know anyone. How could he build up his own team without Feng Yunshan sending people for him?
Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "All these are no problem! In the future, the Bay God Society will be decided by you and me as brothers. But Brother Ba, for the grand events of the Bay God Society, we still need to consult with the Heavenly King, the Eastern King, and the Western King. The Heavenly King will be easy to deal with, but the Eastern King and the Western King... "
Luo Yao Guo said with confidence, "Brother San, for the Eastern King, I will go there personally tomorrow to persuade him. I am sure he will agree! As for the Western King, if the Eastern King agrees, I believe the Western King will not oppose it either."
