Qiming 1158

Chapter 535 What Su Yonglin Sees

In fact, Zhao Xirui didn't plan to read it at first, but she glanced at the piece of paper that happened to be Su Yonglin's nine-year-old experience. Out of curiosity about her husband's childhood life, Zhao Xirui decided to continue reading.

But she didn't expect that this was not the boring diary Su Yonglin kept when he was a child, but the beginning of subverting the old world.

In the first part, Su Yonglin described his good life in childhood and his once vulgar ideals, which made Zhao Xirui find it very interesting, and felt that her husband was once a laity.

But in the middle part, Su Yonglin changed the subject and began to describe the divided world that he saw in his eyes.

On one side are the prosperous and happy lives of bureaucrats and landlord families, and on the other side are the miserable people at the bottom who froze and starved to death in the wind and snow.

Su Yonglin was shocked and confused by the two completely different living conditions belonging to the guanlai landlords and the peasants, so he raised a question in the manuscript.

Why do farmers starve to death when there are no free fields in the world?
Su Yonglin calculated in detail the food needs of a family of five for a whole year, as well as the normal grain output of ten mu or twenty mu of land. The conclusion he came to was very confusing.

In normal years, the food produced by five farmers with more than ten mu of farmland is obviously enough to eat, and there is even a lot of surplus, enough for farmers to eat and reproduce.

But why did he travel all over the southeast coastal areas in ordinary years, but repeatedly saw farmers go bankrupt and become landless refugees, and finally starved to death?

Is it because they are not industrious enough, or is it that God does not honor the face and makes the grain harvest fail?

neither.

Su Yonglin also described in detail a process he witnessed when a county official went to the countryside to collect taxes.

He clearly recorded the process of the small officials wantonly raising the tax amount and the peasants who begged but were severely beaten, and also pointed out that this was the third increase in addition to the normal tax.

In addition to the normal taxation of the imperial court, these officials will also use various reasons to create extra sects, and constantly draw blood from the peasants to fill the deep hole of their desires.

For farmers, this is too ferocious.

From this, Su Yonglin came to a conjecture.

It's not that farmers are not hardworking enough or that God doesn't honor them so they don't have enough food to eat.

The food they normally produce is enough to keep them full and clothed, but because of the intervention of external forces, the farmers were robbed of most of the food they produced, which resulted in them being hungry or even starved to death.

He called this process exploitation.

Zhao Xirui continued to look back, seeing Su Yonglin's 12-year-old account from his nine-year-old account, and seeing more than 30 cases of forced taxation by the government recorded by Su Yonglin, he was shocked.

Most of them are due to man-made disasters. Because of some magical operations of local officials or corrupt behaviors, the government treasury has been depleted, and because they are worried about being investigated by the above, they have created a scheme to increase taxes on farmers to fill the financial deficit.

At this time, Su Yonglin's thinking has obviously gone a step further, evolving from deep sympathy and deep helplessness to leading these farmers to eat their stomachs through armed struggle.

He argues that within the existing political framework, no matter how hard farmers work their land, it is impossible for them to be full because the system will not allow them to be full.

Unless there is a fortuitous encounter, you become a landlord, or a scholar is born in the family, thereby realizing the leap of social class, otherwise it will never be possible to turn around and call the shots.

But whether it is to become a landlord or have a scholar at home, this is a small probability event, and the social upward channel is narrow.

It is impossible for the vast majority of farmers to legally get rid of the state of exploitation through these two methods, and they can only die in the process of being exploited day after day.

Therefore, the main culprit for the peasants to be hungry is not laziness, not natural disasters, but man-made disasters.

The Song State, established by the reactionary political group headed by the Zhao Guan family in Lin'an, caused the peasants under its rule to not have enough to eat, lose their land under the double exploitation and attack of the government and the landlords, and then became refugees, and then starved to death and froze to death. .

They treat farmers as cattle and horses, not people.

If the peasants want to stand up and eat their food, they must overthrow this extremely reactionary regime and establish a new country where they are the masters of their own affairs.

There will be no brutal exploitation in this country, no brutal bureaucrats and landlords, farmers can eat their stomachs through labor, and they can further make their fortunes and live a better life.

In short, we're going to rebel.

It's not an ordinary rebellion, not only to settle accounts with Zhao Guan's family, but also to settle accounts with all the high-ranking people who exploited us.

In the end, a country will be established where there will be no cruel exploitation, unreasonable taxes, and no one will starve to death. Thousands of mansions will be built, and the world will be happy.

Seeing this, Zhao Xirui was speechless in surprise. She stayed in Su Yonglin's study and didn't even eat dinner that day. She kept looking at Su Yonglin's manuscript until late at night.

Then the second day was the same, the third day was the same, and the fourth day was the same. After several days of eating, it was necessary to have a personal servant to ask questions before eating.

She read all of Su Yonglin's manuscripts three times, from beginning to end three times, and felt that the worldview she had built on books and knowledge in the past was crumbling, and she felt that she was in a very strange state.

She has read the Confucian classics under the guidance of Zhao Zuoliang, and has also taught herself by herself. She is very identified with the wisdom and morality of the sages in the classics, and believes that the truth of the world is basically here.

As long as a society is constructed according to these principles, then this society must be beautiful, as beautiful as her eldest miss life.

But this is not the case. Su Yonglin said that what he read in those books was benevolence, righteousness and morality, but when he read it, it was the naked word [cannibalism]. This society is eating people.

They do teach benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they only teach benevolence, righteousness and morality to fellow scholars.

In their eyes, the vast peasants are not even individuals, so how can they be worthy of talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality?
They are just a bunch of talking production tools, that's all, if they don't eat, they can't produce, and they don't even plan to leave them even a bite to eat.

While talking eloquently about benevolence, righteousness, morality and the harmony of the world, but at the same time turning a blind eye to the death of the people, is this the benevolence, righteousness and morality of Confucian scholars?
Are farmers not human beings?
If you don't treat the peasants who are vulnerable groups as human beings, what qualifications are there to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality?
That is hypocrisy.

After Su Yonglin put forward this point of view in his 16-year-old manuscript, he had already decided to leave the Southern Song Dynasty and rebel in the Kingdom of Jin. He also put forward his own contradictory view.

The main contradiction, the secondary contradiction, the national contradiction, and the class contradiction.

The Southern Song Dynasty seemed to be weak, but the government and the landlords were closely linked and cooperated closely with each other, suppressing the peasants too hard. , there is no opportunity for development and growth.

Unlike the Jin Kingdom, there are other conflicts that can be caught. The ethnic conflicts between the Jurchens and other ethnic groups can make a big fuss and buy time for the development and growth of the rebel army. Therefore, the rebellion in the Jin Kingdom is easier and easier than the rebellion in the Southern Song Dynasty.

So Su Yonglin trained his starting team, educated them, made them read and read, taught them what they saw and thought, and tried to make them all like-minded people.

Then, go north together.

Zhao Xirui knew what happened next. Su Yonglin gradually developed and grew by relying on Zhao Kaishan's local power, and finally reached the top and became the actual master of the Restoration Army.

And he further led the Guangfu Army to defeat the Jin Army, destroyed the Jin Kingdom, and achieved such a great cause that even the little servants beside Zhao Xirui said that Su Yonglin was afraid that Su Yonglin was about to become emperor, and then made Zhao Xirui the queen.

At that time, Zhao Xirui was still a little cloudy, and she felt that all this was too dreamy, and she couldn't believe it.

But compared to Su Yonglin being the emperor and being the queen himself, isn't the content of his manuscript even more unbelievable?
(End of this chapter)