After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital Tianjing, it promulgated the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", which was the basic program for the existence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The document "The Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" reflects the demands of the struggle of the vast number of oppressed and exploited peasant masses in the feudal era. The document stipulates that all land property should not be privately owned, and under this principle, the private land of the landlord class should of course be confiscated and distributed to the peasants for farming.
The document stipulates: "The world is in the field, and the people under the world are cultivating together", and all land is divided into nine grades according to good or bad and yield, and is evenly distributed according to the size of the population and the strength of labor. Women can also be given the same land as men.
The "Tianchao Tianmu System" also stipulates that each family grows mulberry weaving cloth, raises chickens and pigs, and sets up carpenters and stonemasons every twenty-five to engage in sideline and handicraft production. All the harvests of each year, except for their own use, go to the state treasury and are not allowed to be privately owned by individuals. Marriages and funerals are paid for by the state treasury, and the old and young and the helpless are raised by the state, and the rich and the desolate help each other to build a paradise on earth where "there is land and farming, food and food, clothing and clothing, money and messengers, everywhere uneven, no one is not full and warm."
The "Tianchao Tianmu System" also stipulates the social organization of the unity of soldiers and the people and the system of guarding the local townships, and its content is: With the family as the basic organizational cell, every twenty-five families as a unit, one or two Sima and two Sima and one sima commander, five sima commanders with one brigade commander, five brigade commanders with one division commander, five division commanders with one army commander, a total of thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty-six in the first army, and each family produces one person as a pawn every year, killing the enemy in wartime, and serving as a farmer in peacetime. Military commanders are called township officials below, and military commanders and above are set up as supervisors and general systems, and are called land guards.
According to this organizational system, every twenty-five of them became an independent political and economic grass-roots unit under the control of the two Simas. The power of the two Simas was extensive, from organizing production to consumption by the population, as well as military, civil affairs, finance, justice, education, etiquette, and religion.
Among them, it is particularly stipulated that those who work farmers will be rewarded, and those who are lazy farmers will be punished to reward good production and stabilize social order. Although the power of the two Simas is very extensive, it stipulates that there is a strict system of promotion and demotion of the guarantee, so as to prevent the saboteurs from using power and committing evil. Good officials can be promoted at any time, and bad officials can also be removed in time.
These are the programs stipulated by the founders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System". This programme has revolutionary significance in thoroughly opposing the feudal system, and it inspires the broad masses of peasants to rise up in struggle. Many peasants did not pay rent or underpaid the rent to the landlords, which to a certain extent dealt a blow to the feudal forces and enabled the peasants to receive some benefits to varying degrees.
However, the attempt of the Tianchao Tianmu System to abolish private property and abolish the circulation of commodities was an unrealistic fantasy at that time when the productive forces were still very backward and there was no proletariat to lead, and it did not conform to the requirements of the historical development of the time, and therefore it did not work. The method of dividing land equally as stipulated in the "Tianchao Tianmu System" was not implemented at that time.
