在太平天国革命时期,中国广大农民的衣食问题,是一个十分严重的社会问题。在封建社会里,土地是农民群众赖以生存的最基本的生产资料。在鸦片战争前后,占全国人口绝大多数的农民,不占有或只占有少量的土地,而只占人口少数的官僚、地主豪绅却占有全国百分之四十至八十的土地。他们利用所占有的土地,残酷地压榨农 During the Taiping Revolution, the issue of food and clothing for the vast majority of peasants in China was a very serious social problem. In feudal society, land was the most basic means of production for the peasant masses to survive. Before and after the Opium War, peasants who accounted for the overwhelming majority of the country’s population did not occupy or occupy only a small amount of land. Instead, they constituted only a small number of bureaucrats. Landlord tyrants and gentry took up 40% to 80% of the country’s land. They use the land they occupy, cruel pressing of agriculture