Qiming 1158

Chapter 187 Xin Qiji Begins to Awaken

Xin Qiji has never thought so deeply about social issues.

Although he followed his grandfather to investigate the local folk customs of the Jin State, the terrain and folk customs of Yanyun, he believed that he knew enough about the society, and relying on this knowledge, he was enough to help the Southern Dynasty launch the Northern Expedition, destroy the Jin State, and restore the Central Plains.

His task is complete.

Since then, the world will be peaceful, people will live a happy life under the rule of the official family of the Song Dynasty, and all human tragedies will never happen again.

He thought so.

But after reading Su Yonglin's manuscript, he suddenly realized that he had never studied the fundamental problems of this society in depth, and he did not understand many problems at all.

All he sees is the appearance, and the superficial reasons for the appearance. If it goes deeper, he doesn't know.

What regime, what policies, what conscription and taxation systems, what social changes, etc., he did not understand.

And Su Yonglin's manuscript exposed the deep-seated causes of the social phenomenon of starvation, at least in the southern Song Dynasty.

In Xin Qiji's view, with the passage of time, as Su Yonglin grew older, his understanding of the Zhao Song regime became more and more profound.

So he knew where the crux of land annexation and starvation lay, so he started to come up with his own solution.

From his 16-year-old manuscript, Xin Qiji saw that Su Yonglin was constantly trying to propose his own plan, and constantly perfecting this plan.

He did not completely deny everything about the Song Dynasty.

On the contrary, he believed that the rulers of the Song Dynasty provided the latecomers with a path completely different from the previous ones, that is, a path that did not take land as the only lifeline of the dynasty.

This road is very interesting and different from the previous dynasties.

For the sake of conscription and taxation, successive dynasties have to suppress land annexation, fight against land annexation, try their best to delay the speed of land annexation, prolong the life of the dynasty, and try to obtain everything from the land.

Only the Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation, and there were no major problems in taxation and conscription. The dynasty was maintained until the invasion of foreign enemies without encountering internal turmoil enough to bring about subversion.

Some of the systems and ideas of the Song Dynasty were even very avant-garde and advanced. In Su Yonglin's view, they could even create a brand new future.

But the road to this future is blocked by the stupid retro rigid ruling thinking and land contradictions of its ruling class.

The Song Dynasty did enjoy the dividends brought by the new road, but it also suffered from land conflicts in the old era because half of its body remained in the old era.

While it wants to embrace the new era, it is constrained by the shackles left by the old era, and it has never been able to make a choice.

Su Yonglin even thought that if there were no enemies and given enough time, there was a slight chance that the Song Dynasty might be able to solve this problem slowly and truly embark on a new path.

But there is no time.

The alien enemies in the north are using the ruling wisdom and technological wisdom of the Han people to become stronger, they are not shackled by the stupid retro rigid ruling thinking, they will only become stronger in pursuit of wealth and luxury life.

They will use all this to build themselves into extremely terrifying war machines, destroying the world.

They don't need to build, they just need to plunder, and constant plundering is enough.

And if the Central Plains Empire does not retake the sixteen states of Yanyun, rebuild the Great Wall defense line and vigorously develop the cavalry, there will even be a crisis of national extinction in the future.

Su Yonglin believes that a huge terrifying threat is gradually taking shape on the northern grasslands, and its threat is far greater than that of the Liao Kingdom in the past and the Jin Kingdom now.

The Han people have no time.

You must immediately lift your shackles and develop with all your strength!
Kingdom of Jin, Kingdom of Song, Kingdom of Xia, Kingdom of Dali...

Etc., etc., are all obstacles ahead of this goal. All of them must be removed to complete the unification of China, and then develop with all-out efforts, race against time to enhance the national strength, and eliminate the huge threat on the northern grasslands first.

And to do all this, the path of internal reform will not work.

The idiots within them will do their best to bring the reformers to the same level, become stupid, and then use their rich experience of stupidity to defeat the reformers.

God will not give reformers more time and opportunity.

God will not favor reformers!
Reform will not work!

In the end, he believes that if we want to change all this, we cannot solve it from within the system. If we want to succeed, we must take the most difficult road, that is, to make changes from the bottom.

To change the world!
To revolution!
Su Yonglin pointed out that his revolution is not the so-called revolution of [Tang Wu Revolution], not to change the destiny, but to change the world and change the world.

Because of this, it is impossible to ask for help from the vested interests, because they will never support a revolution at the level of changing the world.

They just want to maintain their existing interests and pursue more interests, and Su Yonglin's revolution is to be completely liquidated, so their interests will be violated.

Therefore, taking the imperial examinations to become an official and launching reforms would not work, so I just gave up.

If the path of the upper class cannot be reached, they can only take the lower class route and start making changes from the general public at the bottom of the society.

They are numerous and possess enormous power, but as individuals, they are extremely weak.

They must be concentrated and their numerical superiority can be used to fight against the superior.

However, their individuals have obvious shortcomings such as short-sightedness, cowardice, ignorance, etc. It is extremely difficult to awaken, and even unable to awaken themselves. If you want to organize them and lead them to break through the shackles, you must transform them, let them learn, and help them , lead them.

So it is necessary to lead them to study together, to make them realize that they should not be a horse, but to live as a person, stimulate them with new ideas, and make them truly awaken.

After awakening, use them as their support and confidence, organize them, and attack upwards with great impact, breaking through this rotten shackles!

In this way, a new life can be ushered in.

In order to achieve this goal, a complete set of guiding ideology and routes are needed, which can touch their core pursuit, conform to their interests, and represent their interests.

Then there is a need for specific methods and processes, as well as speculation and research on people's hearts.

Su Yonglin decided to start changing the core members of the Sujia Private Salt Group, the group closest to him.

Because Su Yonglin's strength is weak alone, he needs helpers, and he needs many, many helpers to awaken them, become the seeds of fire, spread them out, and make a prairie fire with a single spark.

If even these people can't be changed, how can we change more people and further change the world?

Start now and change the world!

This part of the manuscript ends here.

Up to here is almost one-third of Su Yonglin's manuscripts, recording the period when Su Yonglin's thoughts matured and he decided to put it into action between the ages of 16 and 17.

Xin Qiji was completely attracted by Su Yonglin's manuscript.

The astonishing in-depth research and magical vision of the future answered some of his inner doubts.

In particular, Su Yonglin's view of the huge threat on the northern grasslands coincides with Xin Qiji himself.

When he first went to Yanyun to investigate the situation, Xin Qiji learned about the northern frontier of the Jin Empire, and learned that the Mongolian troops on the grasslands were very strong and brave in combat.

Some people even used the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty to describe the Mongolian knights on the grassland, which made Xin Qiji very alert.

But Xin Qiji didn't know how Su Yonglin, who lived far away in the Southern Song Dynasty, understood Jin Guo's deep worries about the Mengwu tribe.

This made another part of his doubts more urgently needed to be answered.

He desperately wanted to know the answer.

He wants to know the whole past and future of Shengjie Army, and he can see the mysteries of the world from this manuscript.

He felt that Su Yonglin's way of thinking was different from ordinary people, and it was a very strange perspective. Looking at things from this perspective, he could often see a lot of things that others couldn't see or imagine.

This is very important.

At this moment, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith were no longer so important in his heart. What he desperately wanted to know was what the world was all about.

How can we have such a thinking, and find the essence of the problem, so as to solve the problem.

Xin Qiji began the process of awakening.

He began to read Su Yonglin's manuscripts voraciously, even to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.

He even read Su Yonglin's manuscript during the rest periods of training the soldiers of the Red Axe Battalion.

Intoxicated.

The more I read, the more I can feel that I have a better understanding of the nature of the whole society.

Xin Qiji even felt that his point of view had changed inadvertently.

While he was studying, Su Yonglin was constantly preparing for the army to go north, and for the possible strong attack of the Jin army.

(End of this chapter)