Su Yonglin calculated in detail the grain demand of a family of five for a whole year and the normal grain output of 10 mu and 20 mu of land, and he was very confused at the conclusion.
In ordinary years, there are more than ten acres of land and five farmers produce enough food, and there is still a lot of surplus for farmers to eat and reproduce.
But why did he often see farmers go bankrupt, become landless refugees and finally starve to death when he traveled all over the southeast coastal areas in ordinary years?
Is it because they are not hardworking enough, or is it because God doesn’t have the honor to let the crops fail?
Neither
Su Yonglin also described in detail that he witnessed a tax collection process in a small town in a county.
He recorded clearly the process of the petty officials arbitrarily raising the tax amount and the peasants begging but being beaten, and also noted that this was the third time besides the normal tax.
In addition to the normal taxation of the imperial court, these officials will also make excuses for various reasons to increase their faction and constantly draw blood from farmers to fill their deep caves of desire.
This is not too fierce for farmers.
So Su Yonglin got a guess.
It’s not that farmers are not hardworking enough or that God doesn’t honor them that they don’t have enough food to eat.
They normally produce enough food to keep them full and warm. It is because of the intervention of external forces that farmers are robbed of most of the food they produce, which leads to their starvation and starvation.
He called this process exploitation.
Zhao Xirui continued to look back. From Su Yonglin’s nine-year-old account, he saw his twelve-year-old account. Looking at Su Yonglin’s record, he was shocked by more than 30 cases of forced taxation by the government.
Most of them are caused by man-made disasters, some magical practices of local officials or corrupt practices, which lead to the loss of the treasury, and for fear of being pursued face to face, they add taxes to farmers under various pretexts to make up for the financial losses
By this time, Su Yonglin’s thought has further evolved from deep sympathy and deep resistance to lead these farmers to eat their stomachs through armed struggle.
He has a political framework, and farmers can’t eat their stomachs no matter how hard they farm the land, because this system won’t let them eat their stomachs.
Unless there is an adventure to become a landlord or a scholar at home to achieve a social class jump, it is impossible to turn over and be the master.
But whether it’s becoming a landlord or having a scholar at home is a small probability event, and the social promotion channel is narrow.
It is impossible for most farmers to get rid of the state of exploitation legally through these two ways, and they can die in the process of exploitation day after day.
The chief culprit of farmers’ hunger is not laziness, not natural disasters, but man-made disasters.
It was the reactionary political group headed by Zhao Guanjia in Lin ‘an that established the Song State, which led to the double exploitation and crackdown by the government and the landlord on the peasants’ starvation and freezing to death.
They regard farmers as cattle and horses and not as people.
If farmers want to turn over, if they want to eat enough, they must overthrow this extremely reactionary government and build a new country that is their own masters and their own decisions.
There will be no cruel exploitation in this country, and there will be no cruel bureaucrats, landlords and farmers. Through labor, they can eat their stomachs and get rich and live a better life.
In short, we are going to rebel.
It’s not just a general rebellion, not only to settle accounts with Zhao butler, but also to settle accounts with all the people who exploit us and others
Finally, we will build a country where there will be no cruel exploitation and unreasonable taxes, and no one will starve to death. We will build a vast building that will protect thousands of people from the cold weather.
Seeing this, Zhao Xirui was surprised to say nothing. She stayed in Su Yonglin’s room and didn’t even eat dinner that day. She kept reading Su Yonglin’s manuscript until late at night.
Then the next day is the same, the third day is the same, and the fourth day is the same. After eating for several days, you need a personal maid to ask before you eat.
She read Su Yonglin’s manuscript three times, from beginning to end, and felt that her world outlook based on knowledge was crumbling. She felt that she was in a very strange state.
She has read Confucian classics under the guidance of Zhao Liang and taught herself. She agrees with the wisdom and morality of the saints in the classics and recognizes the truth of the world. This is all here.
If we want to build a society according to these principles, then this society must be as beautiful as her big miss career.
But this is not the case. Su Yonglin said that what he saw from those books was benevolence and morality, but the word "cannibalism" was naked. This society is cannibalizing people.
They do talk about benevolence and morality, but they talk about benevolence and morality with everyone who studies with them.
The broad masses of peasants, who seem to be nothing but individuals, deserve to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality.
They are just a group of talking production tools, that’s all. If they don’t eat, they can’t produce. They don’t want to leave them even a bite to eat.
While talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, heaven and earth are in harmony, but at the same time turning a blind eye to the people’s freezing and starving. Is this the benevolence, righteousness and morality of Confucian bachelors?
Aren’t farmers people?
Who is qualified to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality if they don’t treat the disadvantaged farmers as human beings?
That’s hypocrisy
Su Yonglin had already decided to leave the Southern Song Dynasty and rebel in the state of Jin after presenting this viewpoint in his 16-year-old manuscript, and he also presented his own contradictory view.
Principal contradiction, secondary contradiction, national contradiction and class contradiction
The Southern Song Dynasty seems to be weak, but the government, landlords and powerful people are closely linked and closely related to each other, and the peasants are suppressed too hard. It is difficult for the nascent uprising forces to find a life in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, the main contradiction cannot be found, and there is no opportunity for development and growth.
However, the Jin state is different, and there are other contradictions to be caught. Jurchen and other ethnic contradictions can make a big fuss about it. It is easier and easier to rebel in the Jin state than to rebel in the Southern Song Dynasty.
So Su Yonglin trained himself to start his own team, educated them to read and eat, taught them what they saw and thought, and tried to make them all like-minded people.
Then go north together.
What happened next was clear to Zhao Xirui. Su Yonglin gradually developed and became the actual master of the Guangfu Army relying on the forces of Zhao Shan.
Furthermore, he led the Guangfu Army to defeat the 8 Jin Army, destroyed the 8 Jin Guo and created such a great cause that even the little maid around Zhao Xirui said that Su Yonglin was afraid that she would soon become the emperor and then made Zhao Xirui the queen.
Zhao Xirui was still a little foggy at that time. I thought it was all too dreamy. I couldn’t believe it
But isn’t Su Yonglin’s manuscript even more unbelievable than being an emperor and being a queen himself?
Chapter 534 I’m not alone
Su Yonglin didn’t rebel because he was bullied by the Jin people. He rebelled because he was a farmer.
The purpose of his rebellion was not to destroy the state of Jin, but to settle accounts with others and create a new era.
Contrary to all saints, a new era of rebellion like conan the destroyer
After reading Su Yonglin’s manuscript, Zhao Xirui waited for Su Yonglin’s call with great anxiety and only a little curiosity.
While waiting, she looked at Su Yonglin’s manuscript over and over again, looking at those truths that were compared with the real stories and read by her sages. She felt that these truths were very boring.
Su Yonglin, on the other hand, has made progress step by step according to his plan
So she finally arrived in Zhongdu and met Su Yonglin, who had been missing for a long time, and she couldn’t help but take out his manuscript and ask him all the sources.
Su Yonglin looked at Zhao Xirui and rubbed his temple with a puzzled and uneasy expression.
"By the way, I was in a hurry to put these in the box and send them back to Linyi together. It was really my negligence that I didn’t want you to see the results. Now you have seen them."
"I shouldn’t see it? Is this something I shouldn’t know? You promised me you wouldn’t hide anything from me. "
Cherish Zhao Rui intensely staring at Su Yonglin.
"I have nothing to hide."
Su Yonglin shook his head. "I’m in a situation where things may happen. I didn’t hide anything from you during the war, did I?"
"That’s true, but what about this?"
Zhao Xirui shook Su Yonglin’s hand. "You never told me that you were going to do such a dangerous thing. You never told me that you wanted to fight against heaven and man."
"Heaven and man?"