Qiming 1158

Chapter 636
It is not surprising that the revival will go into a positive cycle.

According to Su Yonglin's understanding, the current political situation of the Ming Empire is not nervous for the Renaissance Society.

150 The two Fuxing counties can openly and legitimately propagate the new ideas of the Fuxing Association and organize farmers to engage in new production movements.

The Fuxing Association can do this in the new countryside, and the rest of the rural institutions scattered in the counties that are not part of Fuxing County can actually do the same.

When Su Yonglin divided the administrative regions of the country, he had tried his best to try his best.

He continued to divide the areas where there were many second-level peasant associations in villages and villages together to form a complete Fuxing County, in order to increase the population and land that the Fuxing Association could directly control, and compete with traditional gentry for land and population.

However, some villages are relatively remote and irregularly distributed, and Su Yonglin has no way to forcibly change the administrative divisions.

150 and two Fuxing counties have become his current basic board, and this is currently three-quarters of all the cards in the Fuxing Club.

The villages scattered outside also occupy a quarter of the volume, which is still very important and cannot be ignored.

Speaking of which, since Su Yonglin founded the General Affairs Bureau to dedicate the Central Plains, the power line between the Renaissance Society and the old bureaucrats and the old gentry has not been so clear.

Fuxing County is of course clear, but in addition to Fuxing County, there are some new rural areas and township peasant associations that are not in Fuxing County.

The new villages and peasant associations that existed in the administrative areas where the old gentry and bureaucrats served as administrative officials were a rather special kind of existence.

In the early days, these villages closely related to Su Yonglin were regarded as the source of rebellion, and were feared and guarded by these officials and local gentry, for fear that these rebel mobs would vent their anger at them.

After Su Yonglin's power expanded, these people were also included in the Restoration Army regime, and became allies in a sense with the power of the Renaissance Society, so there would be no hostility towards these places, but vigilance and fear still existed.

They also heard a little about what happened in these villages. They also knew the news that the Jurchen landlords or the Han landlords who were in power had been brutally tried and executed because of their resistance to the Restoration Army.

It was only later that Su Yonglin learned that in the eyes of these local officials, these new villages and rural peasant associations were actually tied to the Liberation Army at that time and the Ming Army today.

Because the First Restoration Army under Su Yonglin's command originated in the countryside, and Su Yonglin's soldiers were all peasant soldiers, so local officials all knew that Su Yonglin distributed the fields to the golden people and gave them fields to the families of these peasant soldiers.

They also know that quite a few of these farmers are so-called [military family members], who have certain preferential treatment in terms of taxation and many other policies, and have a deep relationship with the military.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the army was extremely strong, and local officials did not dare to intervene in matters related to the army, let alone trouble with the military's family, so they unconsciously ignored them.

Therefore, apart from the new villages and peasant associations in Fuxing County, the new villages and peasant associations within these traditional spheres of influence are actually under a delicate state of autonomy, which is different from the farms under the control of traditional gentry. Actually almost.

Except for paying taxes to the county on time, at the rest of the time these places are accepting orders from the center of the Renaissance Society, not listening to the county government.

The county government does not know that these villages are actually controlled by the Fuxing Association. They only consider them to be one after another autonomous organizations similar to the landowners controlling the land, and they will not ask themselves to send people to these places to harass the villagers. They usually don’t exist. , just send someone to get the money when the money is collected.

They won't pay any less tax anyway.

This, on the contrary, reduces the administrative burden and administrative risk of the county government.

In the traditional administrative field, the government's management of urban residents is relatively meticulous, and most of them are directly managed.

Take the Song Dynasty as an example. The urbanization rate in the Song Dynasty was actually very high, about 20.00%, and the number of urban residents was so large that household registration and special taxes were set up separately.

In Kaifeng City in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to directly manage and levy taxes on these urban residents, the Song people even created a tax model such as [Bridgehead Tax], which can be described as refined management.

However, leaving the political center, leaving the city, and going to the vast countryside, the government's control over the countryside is relatively rough.

Because the finances are really tight, it is necessary to arrange more official posts to penetrate the official power into the countryside. This is another huge expenditure for the maintenance of officials, and the court is unwilling to bear this expense.

So just go to the county so far.

Except for some county officials who are more conscientious and professional, most of the county officials and the people under their jurisdiction are only particularly close in terms of taxation. At other times, the people really don't want to see people from the government come to them.

Generally speaking, the land and tenants controlled by large, medium and small landlords are naturally managed by them, and then send people to connect with the large, medium and small landlords, indirectly manage the land and population through them, and collect taxes through them.

Naturally, the amount of this part of the tax may be less certain.

Moreover, in the face of such large, medium and small landlords who have certain influence, the government will be relatively polite because of the possibility of certain interests.

The agricultural areas without a certain scale of landowners belong to the self-cultivation areas. In these areas, the county government directly sends people to the countryside to collect taxes. The method is relatively crude, and the number of tax collections is not easy to say. If there is any problem with local finance, the first unlucky Also them.

So don't think that it is a good thing for the government to manage by itself.

Some squires may also know that they can't kill the hens that lay eggs, and they know that they can sprinkle rice to appease the cooing hens after taking the eggs, so as to maintain a sustainable state of depletion and fishing. Don't care about that at all.

In order to complete the above tasks, it is not uncommon to collect taxes again and again. By the way, you can also make a fortune when you do things for the above, so killing chickens and getting eggs is simply a joy for them.

They don't care about sustainability.

It needs to be clear that although the imperial power does not go to the countryside, the ruling power of the imperial county government is definitely not weak, and it is definitely not a rubber stamp on the locality.

A county magistrate seems to have a low status, a low rank, and no power in his hands, and is easily bullied by the local gentry, but this is not the case. In fact, the county magistrate who broke his family is real.

Su Yonglin had seen this kind of thing a lot in the Southern Song Dynasty. He had seen with his own eyes how some rude and strong magistrates who ruled the area managed the area.

It is said that the imperial power does not go to the countryside, but in fact it just means that the court is unwilling to formally set up the positions of officials and officials to pay them money, and wants to save the cost of maintaining officials, but as one of the few real [official officials] in a county. ], the power of the magistrate is not much at all.

They have power, a name, and most of them are willing to do things for him. They can easily gather [-] or [-] thugs to go to the countryside to fight against the taxation of the people to suppress and impose taxation. The method is quite harsh.

Even Su Yonglin heard that some county magistrates can use thousands of people to do things for him, and there is nothing in the entire county that he cannot do.

Some landlords who are not long-sighted think that they are very powerful in the local area, and dare to provoke the magistrate's tiger whiskers. As a result, the magistrate is forced to levy taxes many times. The tossed home was destroyed.

Once the magistrate gets angry, as long as you are not a figure in the system, the family will be destroyed in the blink of an eye. In a county, except for some forces behind some people, no one can really compete with the authority of the magistrate.

Sitting in the county office, they represent the imperial power of the empire, and they can decide the life and death of a person or a family by making a sound.

But this also comes with certain risks.

These county magistrates usually play their prestige, but if they lose their "degree", they will really make people anxious. They rebel every minute and go to the county government. Often the first unlucky person is the county magistrate.

Therefore, the county magistrate who broke the family is not completely risk-free.

Now these peasant associations will manage the farmers themselves, be responsible for production, and provide tax revenue to the county government on their own initiative. Although the county government has a feeling of being in power, but no matter what, this is not a bad thing.

Therefore, in their eyes, these "autonomous villages" that have existed in the county area for a long time are an existence that cannot be provoked.

These peasant associations that existed during the war and during the founding of the People's Republic of China were directly related to Su Yonglin and the Ming army, and they were publicly and directly attributed to Su Yonglin. They were regarded by local officials as the bane of the emperor and the army, and they did not dare to touch them.

But this does not mean that these peasant associations can continue to expand into the fields of the government and traditional gentry.

(End of this chapter)