Ep. 281 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 2)
The China History Podcast
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The New Typing Land Law
The new typing land law called for land to be divided up amongst all typing faithful and their families. The people were expected to engage in farming, keep what they could consume and hand over all surplus to public granaries. Life became very regimented, and everyone belonged to a unit that was led by a sergeant who not only adjudicated in the case of any squabbles or agreements,. They led church services each sunday, enforced typing doctrine and discipline and maintained files on everyone in their group. Recruitment was a job that had no end. Those who joined up went through a rigid endoctrination programme though haka chinese had served as the earliest corps full now their movement
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