"Equalizing the fields and exempting them from endowment" was a slogan put forward during the great peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also a political program of Li Zicheng, the "king of chuang" and "king". This policy greatly satisfies the peasants' desire for land, and is also the fundamental reason for the rapid development and growth of the rebel army in the early days of the people. However, after Li Zicheng invaded the city of Beijing and forced the Chongzhen Emperor to die, he began to plunder wealth and covet pleasure, but he did not know how to unite the officials and nobles and stabilize the world, and finally Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the pass and defeated Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.
The "Tianchao Tianmu System" was the revolutionary program put forward by Hong Xiuquan during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. It mainly includes that the land belongs to the people, and the distribution of land according to the number of people in the family is divided. This program embodied the peasants' strong desire for the land, was greatly supported by the people, and greatly promoted the development of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. The reason why the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Movement failed was that after the capital was set in Tianjing, the leaders gradually separated from the masses, arrogant and lavish, vying for power and profit, and infighting, so that the combat effectiveness of the rebel army dropped sharply, and it was finally suppressed by Zeng Guofan's Xiang army.
"The tiller has his land" was the land system implemented by our Party during the Liberation War. It fundamentally destroyed the feudal land system, solved the land problem that the broad masses of peasants were most concerned about, and conformed to the will of the people, thus hastening the collapse of the Kuomintang regime. Mao Zedong once pointed out: "If we can solve the land question universally and thoroughly, we will have obtained the most basic conditions for the victory over all enemies." ”
Satisfying the peasants' land demands is an important lever for mobilizing the broad masses of peasants to participate in the revolutionary war. During the Battle of Huaihai, millions of migrant workers supported the front. Chen Yi said: "The victory in the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the masses of the people with a cart. ”
The "land reform" also broke the will of a large number of national troops and promoted the integration of the national army. Many of the soldiers on the front line of the Nationalist army received letters from relatives saying that their families had divided up their fields and that they should hurry home to work and stop fighting for the Nationalists. When the soldiers of the Nationalist Army learned that their family had divided the land, they were as happy as if they had won the lottery, where did they still have the heart to sell their lives to the Nationalist Army? A large number of nationalist generals abandoned the dark and joined the ranks of the People's Liberation Army.
It is precisely because the "land reform" has satisfied the fundamental demands of the broad masses of peasants that we have been able to mobilize and rely on the masses, and finally win the victory in the war of liberation!