Qiming 1158

Chapter 186 My everything is in it
Xin Qiji felt that the answers he got in the guidance department were not perfect.

It was a formed and systematic thought that could guide the next action, but it could not relieve his doubts.

He desperately wanted to know where the source of this thought came from and why it was born.

Seeing the confusion of Xin Qiji's thoughts, Su Yonglin sorted out the materials that he first used to teach his family and the workers in the workshop, and handed it over to Xin Qiji.

"Look at these, just like you, I also grew up reading sage classics, but now I have to take a completely different path. These are the roots of my change of mind. I hope you can find a solution after reading it. The answer to your confusion."

Xin Qiji looked at the thick stack of paper, reached out to take it, and nodded.

"I'll read them all."

"Well, my everything is in it."

Su Yonglin patted Xin Qiji's shoulder.

Xin Qiji nodded, returned to his residence, spread out the thick stack of papers, and began to read carefully one by one.

He was quickly surprised to find that this was not a long story, but some Su Yonglin's personal experience.

He recorded the places, people, and events he had seen since he was a child, similar to a state of the art address, and this thick stack of paper was almost all of these contents.

Xin Qiji was a little puzzled at first, what does this have to do with how his incompatible thoughts came into being?

But after patiently looking at a piece of paper, Xin Qiji suddenly understood.

This is Su Yonglin's mental journey along the way, almost like an autobiography he wrote for himself. It was written by others and himself.

What is the purpose of his role change from a well-to-do young master from a well-off official family to a rebellious rebel, and what kind of thought change he has tried, all the reasons are here.

The first piece of paper looks quite old. It records that Su Yonglin went south with his father to sell smuggled salt when he was nine years old, and met many people who couldn't eat in Songyang County.

At that time, Su Yonglin took pity on them and wanted to give them all the money he had to feed them, but his father stopped him.

His father said to him, you can save them for a while and give them a full meal or two, but then what?

Can you keep them fed for the rest of their lives?
You may be able to manage this group of people, but there are thousands of people who cannot afford to eat. Although we make a lot of money from smuggling salt, we cannot afford to support thousands of people.

Therefore, his father asked him to put away his good heart and only give favor to those who can be used, and don't care too much about those who cannot be used, because they will die sooner or later.

You should devote your limited resources to the most useful people, let the people who are most useful to you survive, collect their loyalty, and gain their effectiveness. This is the most meaningful thing.

Don't pay attention to those mud legs that are useless at first sight.

Su Yonglin was very dissatisfied with his father's opinion, which he thought was problematic.

They are all human, why should they be treated differently?

And he cares more about why these people can't eat than the question of who should be saved.

After thinking of the key to this question, he asked his father like this.

His father was stunned for a moment, and it was only after a long time that he said that it was due to natural and man-made disasters, but man-made disasters were obviously the most important.

Landlords and officials joined hands to take advantage of natural disasters and used various means to steal peasants' land, causing landed peasants to lose their land, become displaced, and eventually become refugees.

Landlords and officials are getting richer and richer, while landless peasants are getting more and more miserable. It's good to find jobs in the city, but those who can't find them will end up like this in the end.

Su Yonglin asked again why those people plundered the peasants' land?
Why?
The father replied that because those people are powerful and greedy, although they already have a lot, they are eager to get more, and their desires are overwhelming. Even if all the land in the world is occupied by them, they will not be satisfied.

Su Yonglin asked again if there is no one to control them and allow them to act indiscriminately?

My father said that there were people in all dynasties and dynasties, but we did not have it in the Song Dynasty.

In the end, he made a conclusion that the reason why people who can't eat can't eat is that natural disasters only account for a part, and not the most important ones, but man-made disasters are the most important ones.

Therefore, in order to allow people who cannot eat to eat, the most important thing is to solve the problem of man-made disasters, and not let those powerful and powerful people plunder the land unscrupulously.

At the same time, Su Yonglin thought that the previous dynasties had policies to suppress land annexation and protect farmers, but since the Song Dynasty, there has been no similar policy. What is the reason?

He was confused and wanted to find out.

This piece of paper is written here.

After reading it, Xin Qiji was surprised.

I feel that Su Yonglin began to think about this issue when he was only nine years old, and he thought of the problem of man-made disasters as the main and natural disasters supplemented by natural disasters, and also thought about land mergers.

So smart.

When he was nine years old, he was still studying Confucian classics under the guidance of his grandfather.

Xin Qiji became very interested in Su Yonglin's thought process, so he began to look down.

Looking down, you can see Su Yonglin's experience of going out with his father or grandfather in the past. Most of them are blood and tears of the people. Just from the description of the text, you can feel the tragic and unparalleled oncoming, as well as the growing anger in his heart.

However, this anger did not affect his thinking, and he still maintained his normal thinking.

Through constant self-exploration, he finally discovered that there was a deep-seated reason for the suppression policy of the Song Dynasty not to carry out land mergers.

In the past dynasties and dynasties, the essence of suppressing land mergers was the demand for homesteaders’ hukou by tax laws and military conscription. Taxes and soldiers all came from the huge homesteaders’ hukou units, and they needed to control land mergers to ensure tax revenue and the amount of soldiers.

However, this situation has been completely changed with the development of productivity, population increase and social unrest since the mid-Tang Dynasty.

The collapse of the land-equalization system and the fubing system and the emergence of the two tax laws gave the beginning of the Song Dynasty's unrestrained land annexation.

By the Song Dynasty, collecting taxes and recruiting soldiers, the two necessary acts of maintaining power, no longer required the government to maintain a large and stable class of farmers.

Taxes are no longer subject to Tian Dingnan as the levy unit, but the main tax collection standard is acreage and assets. No matter who owns the land, as long as the land is still within the Song Dynasty, the tax can be levied.

The conscription system was changed from the conscription system to the conscription system. It does not need to rely on the household registration of self-cultivation farmers to recruit soldiers, but pays for the recruitment from the society.

The rulers of the early Song Dynasty also eliminated the hidden danger that the local tyrants could not be too big at the institutional level, so that the landlords and tyrants were no longer gravediggers of a family of dynasties, at least not on the surface.

A considerable part of the population who lost land due to land mergers was absorbed into the industrial and commercial population due to the development of urban industry and commerce and the development of maritime trade, forming a citizen class.

They earn income by working and selling their labor and intelligence, not by cultivating fields. They have no means of production and are proletarians. Their life and death are not directly related to the land, but to the country's economic environment.

Since the Song Dynasty, the curfew was lifted and the boundaries of the market were broken, allowing the commodity economy to prosper and develop greatly, absorbing a large number of landless people.

Uncertainty about population mobility and property has produced dramatic changes for the first time in history.

The times have changed.

The prosperous economy has indeed eased social contradictions at a considerable level, so that although there were many peasant uprisings in the Song generation, they could never become bigger and could not threaten the regime of the Zhao-Song imperial family.

Of course, this is only a relief, not a substantial relief, but this is not enough to cause Song's demise.

The invasion of the Jurchen led to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was more of an accidental event, not the result of land annexation.

But even if there is no Jurchen invasion, the Zhao Song Dynasty should eventually collapse in the more distant future due to intensifying social contradictions.

But how long this collapse was, no one knows.

It could be 300 years, or it could be 400 years, it could even be 500 years.

As long as industry and commerce continue to develop, cities are prosperous enough, science and technology continue to advance, and the burghers continue to grow, the Song Empire will not even collapse because of land annexation, but because of other economic factors.

Or it will not collapse, but rely on some other means to usher in a new Song Empire, undergo internal changes, and gain a longer life.

But in this process, the people who suffered and lost their lives will also become the sacrificial objects of this unprecedented social process.

Their suffering, their tragedies, their cries, will not be remembered by anyone and will not be passed on to future generations.

The Zhao Song regime will never do anything to improve their lives, because the quality of their lives will not affect the strength of the Zhao Song regime's rule.

At least not until social conflicts are fully aroused.

How cruel is this?
So far, Xin Qiji has read almost a quarter of Su Yonglin's manuscript, and until here, according to the date of records, this is the conclusion Su Yonglin reached when he was 16 years old.

Xin Qiji was completely shocked.

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PS: I feel that it is better for Japan to exist in the Two-dimensional world, which is more beneficial to mankind.

(End of this chapter)