Qiming 1158

Chapter 637 The Landlord's House Has No Food Surplus
Su Yonglin asked the Renaissance Society to continue to expand, and the form of organizational expansion started from the bottom.

During the war, this method was mainly aimed at the Jurchen landlords and other ethnic groups who opposed the Restoration Army.

But now that the country has been established and order is slowly being restored, isn't it a bit out of time to use such means to seize the land, manpower and material resources under the control of traditional officials and gentry?

That would greatly affect the stability and unity of the Ming Empire, undermine the political stability of the Ming Empire, and arouse the attention and worry of a large number of officials, and the Renaissance Society is obviously not ready to take over the national power, nor the national administration. ability.

Forcibly pushing forward land reforms will trigger civil strife in the Empire of Invention, putting the newly stabilized situation in the Central Plains at risk.

However, the inability to continue to promote land reform and maintain the revolutionary nature of the Restoration Society is also a great blow to the Restoration Society.

The negative impact of Su Yonglin's action policy to quickly overthrow the Jin Kingdom and quickly establish the Ming Empire finally manifested at this very moment.

At the central meeting, some of the more radical revival members asked the top executives of the revival society on this issue and asked if they had considered this issue.

On the one hand, there is the revolutionary needs of the Renaissance, and on the other hand, the stability of the national political situation, which is more important and how to arrange it?
To be honest, at this moment, Su Yonglin is a little bit complaining about the policy he made first.

In order to quickly overthrow the Jin Kingdom and seize the window period in which the Jin Kingdom can be overthrown, he tolerated too much, and the Renaissance Society did not have enough time to develop.

After all, he did not expect that the rotten Jin Empire regime would not be able to hold on for even four years.

The Ming Empire was established, and his personal authority close to that of a god was established, but the power of the Fuxing Association was still weak, the number of Fuxing members was still rare, and the continued implementation of land reform in the Central Plains and Yanyun areas was curbed.

If he could prolong the action time, if the Jin Empire hadn't been abolished so quickly, if he could have developed members on a large scale during the Southern Song Dynasty...

There are too many if Su Yonglin can regret and imagine.

But the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't bear to regret it.

Imagination is always beautiful, and reality is always cruel. Everything now is the best solution that Su Yonglin has obtained after overcoming all difficulties. There is no better solution than this.

At least, he has the supreme power and can use this supreme power to do something.

"I know that some of you are dissatisfied and feel that our movement is limited because we accommodate too many noises, but I also hope that you will know that it has been our constant struggle to get to this point. The best possible outcome."

Su Yonglin stood up and made his own speech at the Central Conference.

"Our business is the first time that China has pioneered the world, and it is also an unprecedented new experiment. No one has provided us with a reference. We can only go step by step to find the optimal solution that we can do.

Temporary obstacles are inevitable. In order to establish the Ming Kingdom, we must endure such things, but this does not mean that we will stop advancing because of this. If we stop advancing because of such reasons, the establishment of the Revival Society will be meaningless. . "

Su Yonglin expressed his attitude, and proposed to help the Fuxing Association to further expand its power in some seemingly lawful ways.

"Except for the Guanzhong area and Liaodong area, which can be expanded by our usual methods, other vast areas have returned to normal order, and continuing to use the original means to do things will cause unnecessary consequences, so I think that my power as the emperor will be The point of our break."

Su Yonglin's statement aroused everyone's discussion.

Tian Guizi asked Su Yonglin, "Chairman, what do you mean?"

"They made me the emperor just because they wanted me to protect their interests, but the emperor is not their puppet, and as an emperor, my power is unlimited, as long as I use legitimate excuses to implement some laws, we will There is an opportunity to break the game.”

Su Yonglin sneered and said, "For example, I can formulate and promulgate a law that the amount of grain that the land owner can extract from the grain harvested by the tenants who rent the land shall not exceed [-]% of the total grain harvested by the tenants."

Everyone listened, you look at me, I look at you, all stunned.

Su Yonglin's desire to implement this policy was not a temporary initiative, nor did he act without any preparation.

Earlier, before he went north to rebel, he dispatched Su Yin to Shandong and Hebei to investigate local folk customs.

At that time, in addition to some military intelligence about the Jin Army, Su Yonglin also got a lot of knowledge about Su Yin himself, which allowed Su Yonglin to have a deep understanding of some local folk customs.

For example, in some places in western Shandong at that time, Su Yin saw the incidents that the tenants collectively protested to the landlord because the tenant rent was too high. There was a lot of trouble, and even bloody clashes occurred, triggering the government to intervene.

At first, he didn't know how high the tenant rent was, but only after inquiring did he find out that it was actually seven or three points.

Seven landlords and three tenants.

It is said that the flood in some parts of the Yellow River flooded some parts of Henan, causing local refugees to flee to Shandong to seek food.

When there are too many people, there will be demands for work and food. The government ignores this and tends to watch them fend for themselves. The refugees cannot get help from the government and dare not rebel, so they can only find a way out.

As a result, there is a situation where the supply of labor exceeds the demand in Shandong.

There are fewer landlords who need tenants, and more tenants who need land.

So the original [-]-[-] agreement was broken.

Because of the massive increase in the labor force, the shrewd landowners smelled the opportunity, and immediately demanded to increase their share of the rent, from five to five to four or six, to thirty seven, and even to those who had lost their conscience. The landlord demanded [-] percent.

In order to obtain land, cultivate and eat, the refugees also began to involute and involute, and in the end, they completely lost their bargaining power, and their rights and interests were suppressed to the extreme.

In the end, the tenants who insisted on renting were driven out by the landlords and replaced by refugees who had accepted the unfair treatment.

Some of the refugees signed a tenant agreement with a very low distribution ratio, and since then they have become the serfs of the landlords.

Although this solves the problem of eating for a while and allows them to survive temporarily, it will be detrimental to the tenants in the long run.

Soon these new tenants found that they could not support such a high commission, and they worked hard every day to end up with only a meager ration. They could not even eat enough to feed their families. , very miserable.

Under such circumstances, if Tiangong is not beautiful, he will really starve to death on a large scale.

So there was a protest.

The landlords shouted in their mouths [Hundreds and thousands of people are waiting for me when I open my eyes] [How many mouthfuls can I get] [There is no food left in the landlord's house], while hiding at home and feasting, The fat head and big ears are ruddy, and the little wife has married one room after another.

In comparison, the scrawny and vegetable farmers are really miserable.

This phenomenon attracted Su Yin, Su Yin did some in-depth investigations, recorded the tenancy situation in many places in Shandong, and told it as less important information. Su Yonglin.

So Su Yonglin knew very well how these landlords exploited the tenants and exploited them without leaving a trace of flesh.

"In a good year, land rent is often more reasonable. No one escapes, no one starves to death, and the landlord will not deliberately increase the rent to make things difficult for the tenants. The tenants can also eat a little more food, but once there is a famine, the situation will not change. the same.

Once there is a famine in some places, the price of food will inevitably rise. The landowners who are closer to the land will start to hoard and make a fortune, and they will need more food. Exploit more food on hand.

The worse situation is that once a refugee flees to a certain place, some unconscionable landlords will threaten their tenants. If they are unwilling to raise their rent, they will take back their land and sublease their land to those who have fled. Refugees coming.

Those refugees are starving with green eyes, who cares if there are so many?Having land to farm and a bowl of rice to eat is more important than anything else, so they don't care about the rent and so on, so the tenants with high rents drove out the tenants with low rents.

In a word that everyone can understand, this situation is similar to how bad money drives out good money. Because the land is in the hands of the landlord, the tenants are absolutely disadvantaged and basically have no bargaining power. Conscience, and conscience landlords, it is too few.

So far, tenant rents in some places are getting higher and higher, the living environment of tenants is getting worse and worse, the possibility of getting enough food is getting lower and lower, and the speed of land acquisition is getting faster and faster, and the contradiction between landlords and tenants has also become. getting sharper. "

Su Yonglin sighed and said, "At this moment, we will promulgate such a law to break this infinite downward negative cycle, which will surely cause a nationwide shock."

(End of this chapter)