Qiming 1158

Chapter 540 Restoration Army, hateful!

Because of the previous defeat of the Henan Corps at Tongguan, Su Yonglin paid close attention to army training again.

After the army reorganization and deployment tasks are completed, the military tasks and training tasks of each corps are carried out simultaneously, and the ideological education tasks are also synchronized, and various training tasks are launched one after another.

Although he was still very busy, Su Yonglin insisted on inspecting the army once every three days, and from time to time he would conduct surprise inspections on the army's training, rewarding good performances and reporting them to the whole army for praise, and badly performing punishments and reporting them to criticise them.

After a series of measures were put into effect, the organization, combat effectiveness and will to fight of the Restoration Army recovered at an extremely fast speed.

The initial chaos basically disappeared, and the corps and armies entered a state of orderly order.

Su Yonglin was very satisfied with all this.

After the completion of the defense mission, the Liberation Army regime with Central Capital as its political core also initially gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains, and the daily governance work was steadily advanced.

While a large number of Yanyun Han, non-Han old bureaucrats and Central Plains scholar-officials were appointed to local positions and general affairs bureau positions, Su Yonglin did not slow down the speed of the new rural construction.

At this stage, in addition to the construction of new countryside, Su Yonglin also began to build a large-scale township-level peasant association.

In the previous stage of the construction of the village and peasant associations, quite a number of excellent instructors stood out and showed their good working ability.

To keep them in the village-level peasant associations is a waste of administrative resources.

Moreover, the headquarters of the Restoration Army cannot directly connect with the village peasant associations, and the establishment of township-level peasant associations is already something that must be accelerated.

Therefore, Su Yonglin personally organized relevant meetings, personally checked the candidates, promoted the excellent instructors to the director of the township-level peasant association, added a higher-level organization of the village peasant association, divided a county into several townships, and each took on the agricultural production tasks of the villages in the township.

As for the former instructors who held official positions such as county magistrates in the county-level government, they were basically all members of the Renaissance.

After the Haizhou pilot project achieved certain success, Su Yonglin personally selected [-] excellent instructors, who were incorporated into the Renaissance Society and served as magistrates of [-] counties as Fuxing members.

These [-] counties basically belong to the [-] counties that were destroyed by the military chaos in the war.

The original social relations were broken, the original county gentry were killed by the rebel army, and the land was abandoned, most of which were in Shandong and Hebei, and a few in Yanyun and Liaodong.

After the war, Su Yonglin did some statistics, and then tried his best to resettle some of the landless floating population he had in his possession in this part of the county.

After piecing things together, he actually put together [-] counties that were completely controlled by the peasant associations, and selected outstanding Fuxing members to try to serve as county magistrates.

After Fuxing members serve as county magistrates, they can coordinate the township and village-level peasant associations in the county, and can firmly control all the production population and production materials in the county.

They can be transformed into the foundation and strength of the revival society, and the strength of the revival society can be enhanced in one go.

This is the result of Su Yonglin's transformation of all the bases built during the two-year war.

These counties are called [Fuxing Counties] in the internal documents of the Revival Association, and everything in them is controlled by the Revival members, and has nothing to do with the old bureaucrats and the old gentry.

This is regarded by Su Yonglin as an important revolutionary achievement and a spark that ignites hope for the future. All future policy experiments can at least be implemented in these Fuxing counties.

In addition to Fuxing County, more counties are still in a situation where new forces and old forces coexist. There are both new villages under the control of peasant associations and old farms under the control of landlords. Both sides coexist. State of the river.

As time goes by, Su Yonglin will find ways to increase the number of Fuxing County and increase his control over the population and means of production.

When the economic power increases, the new regime will no longer be easily manipulated by the landlords and gentry. At that time, there will be no obstacle to the final settlement.

With such a longing, Su Yonglin devoted all his energy to his official duties, trying his best to lay a solid foundation for the new Liberation Army regime.

At the same time, after a long period of negotiation, the Southern Song Dynasty paid 1000 million catties of rice and 100 taels of silver for the Northern Song clan and their descendants with more than 10 people in exchange for these people returning to the Southern Song Dynasty and returning to the Great Song Dynasty. In the arms.

Speaking of this matter, the main person in charge, Tang Situi, was so angry that his teeth itch.

The Restoration Army first released the wind of returning the clan to the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty even established the crown prince for this purpose. As a result, when the handover came, when Tang Situi, the prime minister, was excited to pick up the person, Zhao Zuoliang suddenly asked. People can, but they have to pay.

Tang Situi was stunned on the spot, not knowing what to say.

But Zhao Zuoliang's reason is very good.

We worked hard to capture the Central Capital, destroy the Jin Kingdom, and rescue the clans that you couldn't save. There is no credit or hard work, plus their travel expenses, meals, and resettlement expenses along the way. Can you give me some money? Is it too much?
Indeed, that's not too much, and asking for money couldn't be more reasonable.

But the problem is that I didn't say it earlier, so that the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty thought that this was a free benefit. Who would have thought that it was actually going to be paid!

But now I can't think of it or not, the words have been said, and the wind has been released. The entire Lin'an City knows that the descendants of the royal family who were lost to the enemy back then are coming back.
It is a huge blow to the reputation of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to let people know that they thought that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty cared more about money than his family.

Tang Situi had no choice but to endure his anger and negotiate with Zhao Zuoliang.

Zhao Zuoliang opened his mouth wide and asked for 100 million silver. Tang Situi was so frightened that he immediately countered the price.

The two sides agreed that the Southern Song Dynasty would pay 100 million catties of rice and 10 taels of silver as "hard work" in exchange for the more than 1000 clans and their descendants.

After the agreement was reached, of course everyone was happy, but at the banquet afterwards, Tang Situi's expression was not very good all the time.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, you are really skilled. The 100 million catties of rice and 10 taels of silver are really not small sums."

Tang Situi toasted Zhao Zuoliang.

Hearing this, Zhao Zuoliang laughed and said, "The children of the imperial clan are all nobles, so can their identities be measured in silver? This is just the hard work of our army!"

Tang Si Tui was choked and speechless.

Indeed, this money is only the "hard work" of the Restoration Army, not the expenses of the children of the clan.

Although it was said that they were indeed given to Jinren at a discount back then, but now, can they still discuss their value in an open and honest way?

And they are really of little value. If the news spread too fast and the public response was too great, Tang Situi felt that the emperor would not necessarily want them back.

The fact is also true, Zhao Gou is not happy in his heart to use this fee to exchange for those useless clan children.

The Tian family was already emotionally indifferent, and Zhao Ji was a particularly fertile master. He had 38 sons and 42 daughters, and with one addition, they could almost form a company.

If these people were comrades-in-arms, they could still have a friendship, but they were still half-brothers and sisters. Some brothers and sisters had never met Zhao Gou from life to death.
And after they come back, they always have to settle down and raise them up. This is another expense, which will add to the financial difficulties that are not very well-off.

Thinking of the tens of thousands of clans in the Great Song Dynasty, the cost of raising them every month was actually higher than the cost of raising officials, forcing Wang Anshi's reform to solve the problem of the clan's financial ruin.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, some financial officials made remarks in private, saying that even if the Jin people made all kinds of mistakes, it was the only benefit to solve the problem of the children of the clan eating rice.

It can be seen that the officials engaged in finance definitely do not welcome these people to return to the Southern Song Dynasty.

So after Tang Si retreated, what he saw was Zhao Gou's gloomy face.

"Recovery Army, hateful!"

Zhao Gou slapped the armrest and said with anger on his face, "I'm afraid that they have already saved the heart to ask for money and food, but they just kept it hidden, and when I was completely unprepared, they suddenly attacked, forcing me to wait. Retire! Hateful! Hateful!"

It seemed that Zhao Gou was very angry.

(End of this chapter)