The Sacred Treasury system was a system in which the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom abolished private property. The treasury system in the Tianchao Tianmu system was introduced to the articles in accordance with this one effective regulation. The Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System says: The whole world is the Heavenly Father, the Lord, the Emperor, and God, and everyone in the world is not selfish, and everything belongs to the Lord, then the Lord has something to use, and everyone in the world is even and even, and everyone is full and warm.
Therefore, the treasury is also called the Holy Treasury. "Sheng" is the honorific title of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom religion to God, and the Holy Treasury is God's warehouse, that is, it means that the people have a common meaning.
The Holy Treasury system was introduced from the time of the uprising. When the Jintian Rebellion, the revolutionary masses sold the land and houses for cash, and paid everything to the Holy Treasury, and all the food and clothing were paid by the Holy Treasury, all of which were equally paid. As a result of this system, the number of people has increased. The Sacred Treasury system played a major role in calling on the masses.
To strictly implement the sacred treasury system, first of all, it is forbidden to store private wealth, and everyone must hand over the money and wealth to the holy treasury, and then the holy treasury must have materials to provide for the livelihood of all the personnel. Therefore, in the Dingying Regulations, ten must be wrapped, and the fourth is that gold and silver ornaments must not be hidden. The History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Volume 23, if there is a hidden treasure that is not handed over to the Holy Treasury, it will be severely punished. During the uprising, the Heavenly King sent sixteen brothers of the Church of God to do propaganda work in the Heaven and Earth Society Party that had requested to join. When they returned, the Heaven and Earth Society members sent them huge sums of money as a reward. Fifteen of the sixteen people strictly abided by the rules of the meeting, and each of them handed over all the gifts to the Holy Treasury, and one of them hid the gifts privately and did not report them. The king beheaded this man and educated the masses.
In the autumn of the first year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, after the restoration of Yong'an Prefecture in Guangxi, the Heavenly King issued another edict reiterating the order not to hide treasures privately: The Heavenly King decreed that all armies and battalions of soldiers and generals should be public and private, and that they should always have a grass against the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother and The Heavenly Brother. From now on, he ordered all the soldiers and generals to kill all demons to take the city, and the gold treasures and silk treasures they obtained, not to hide them privately, and to return them to the Heavenly Pilgrimage Treasury, and the rebels discussed their sins. Thanks.
On the tenth day of the first month of August in the second year of the second year of the second year of the second year, when in Changsha, the decree was also stipulated that those who secretly hid the golden treasure should be beheaded, and the Heavenly King decreed that the generals of the Tong army and the generals should not hide the gold treasure privately from now on, and return it to the Heavenly Pilgrimage Treasury, and if they hid the private belt again, once they were discovered, they would be beheaded and displayed to the public. Thanks.
This system was first implemented in the military, and after the establishment of the capital Tianjing, it was then implemented in Tianjing, so the edicts promulgated in the past were established as laws, and in the laws of the Heavenly Dynasty, there were regulations that whoever secretly hid gold and silver would become a demon and would not be left behind. To become a demon is to be a counter-revolution, which shows the seriousness of this regulation. Whoever conceals more than five or two pieces of silver and does not hand it over to the Holy Treasury shall be punished according to the law.
Regarding this system, in the winter of the third year of the year, the Englishman Maddus interviewed a man who had been a soldier in the Taiping Army, and he recorded: Regarding the non-payment of salaries to the whole army, I ask the soldiers whether they have their own private property.
Answer: Nothing at all, and if it is found that someone has hidden more than five yuan, it is a crime that he did not return to the public with this money and flogged him. All property must be handed over to the public treasury as soon as it is obtained, and anyone who hides and does not report it is suspected of betrayal?
So, there must be a lot of property in the public treasury?
Ah, very rich, no amount of silver, reserved for the great cause.
He also asked: If everyone is not allowed to have private wealth, what if they want to buy something good to eat?
He said: That is not necessary, and the commander of each pawn buys all the needs. When placed on the table, everyone shared it equally, and even the most senior officer's plate was no different from that of the most humble petty soldier.
The strict implementation of the Holy Treasury system has resulted in the elimination of corruption and some illegal acts in war, and has created conditions for clean politics and strict military discipline. The political clarity and seriousness of military discipline at the height of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were related to the strict implementation of the Sacred Treasury system.
Later, the Sacred Treasury system was gradually destroyed. In the later period, it has been seen that all the materials that have seized the enemy are only grain, rice, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and other food returned to the public, while the silver money and clothes are collected separately. This breaks the Sacred Treasury system, which was previously strictly enforced in the military.