Qiming 1158

Chapter 8 Reality is often more Versailles than Versailles

The Jin State's policy of enclosing land was the main reason for the conflict between the Jurchens and the Han Chinese in the Central Plains.

The original intention of this policy is of course to stabilize the rule and move the Jurchen south to the Central Plains.

The official document that Su Yin spy heard said the emperor sent people to various places to seize the former official land and idle pasture land, and granted the Jurchen to the south to farm and let them settle down.

In this way, the Jurchen gradually gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains and increased the stability of the Jin Kingdom's rule.

The official government said this on the surface, but in fact, from what Su Yin heard, the local officials in Jin Guo did not do this.

Jin destroys Song too suddenly, and has no plan to rule Han, so it is necessary to establish two grandson regimes of pseudo-Chu and pseudo-Qi for transition.

In order to avoid further resistance from the Han people, they restrained their plundering behavior after the establishment of the Puppet Qi, and did not further plunder the Han people in the Central Plains.

As a result, when Jinting abolished the direct rule of the Puppet Qi in the Central Plains and immigrated to the Jurchen household registration in large numbers, he found that the Han people had re-occupied a large amount of land to resume production.

For the sake of social stability, Jinting believed that the Han people were also citizens, and they were not allowed to loot, so they could only open up wasteland.

But how hard is it to open up wasteland?
Leveling the land, draining water, digging ditches, building canals, and raising the land took several years to turn a wasteland into a fertile field for survival. The Jurchen residents used to live a life of fishing and hunting, and their agricultural skills were not high. They were suddenly ordered to move south. How could they cope? Such a life?
During the period of Jin Taizong and Jin Xizong, the number of Jurchen hukou relocated to the south was limited.

Regardless of what Wanyanliang did in the central government, he asked Jurchen to relocate to Shandong, and he even had to raise his own travel expenses and arrive within a time limit, otherwise he would be punished.

As a result, the Jurchens who moved south to Shandong even became poor in large numbers, without food and clothing, which made the Jurchens' resentment towards Ginting very intense.

And it is naturally impossible for Jinting to let the Jurchen really die from poverty and illness, and it is impossible to open up wasteland.
They can only [buy] the land that the Han people have cultivated and rent it to the Jurchen hukou, so that they can farm and live on it.

This so-called "purchase" is of course a compulsory purchase.

The documents Su Yin brought back described what he saw——

The officials brought soldiers to the door, drew knives to the necks of the farmers, stared at them and asked them to sign the transaction contract, selling the land to the government at a relatively low price.

The peasants cried and signed the deal, then packed up and got out, and the government leased the land to the Jurchens.

In this way, the Jurchen got the land and was finally satisfied.

The Han Chinese who lost their land were either homeless, or they could only sell themselves to the original land to become tenant farmers and cultivate the land for the Jurchens.

And not only ordinary peasants, but even big landlords will be treated like this and lose a lot of land and property.

This situation appeared in Hebei and Shandong after the first year of Jin Guozhenglong, which made the social contradictions in Shandong more acute than ever.

The original intention of the land-exclusion policy was to stabilize the rule, but this implementation did not necessarily stabilize the rule.

The Jurchen hukou just seized some land and supervised some Han households. It soon became a landlord, not only did not play a positive role, but also lost its original agility, becoming content with the status quo, and rapidly corrupting.

Such a negative situation had already appeared in the period of Jin Xizong, and it was further intensified in the period of Wanyanliang.

The large number of Jurchen households moved southward at a high speed, resulting in the local government being too late to cover the land. Some Jurchen became landlords and became rich, while some Jurchen could not line up and could only continue to be poor. They were full of resentment against Ginting and were very upset.

This situation caused not only the Han peasants and landlords to be dissatisfied with the Jinting, but even some Jurchen civilians were dissatisfied with the imperial court.

So Su Yonglin came to a conclusion.

The rough immigration and land inclusion policies of the rulers of the Jin Dynasty made Hebei and Shandong regions add some ethnic conflicts on the basis of the already acute class conflicts in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In some areas, ethnic contradictions even temporarily cover up class contradictions and become the main contradiction.

This brought more negative effects to Jin Guo, and did not strengthen Jin Guo's control over the grassroots.

From this, he further realized that the current Jin Kingdom has not established a firm foothold and established a stable rule in the Central Plains at all, and the people of the Central Plains did not belong to the Jin Kingdom.

Su Yonglin was very curious about this, so he compared the Jin Kingdom and the Manchu regime, and found that the reason why the Jin Kingdom failed to gain a firm footing was because the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed too quickly.

Before the Manchus entered the customs, they fought with the Ming government for many years. Through years of wars, they captured a large number of Han people, occupied a large amount of land, and constantly optimized the limitations of their fishing and hunting tribes. In the Huangtaiji era, the historical process of transitioning from a slave tribe to a feudal regime was basically completed.

When the Manchus entered the customs and defeated Shun and Ming, it was actually a showdown between the feudal regimes, not the victory of barbarism over civilization.

But Jin destroying Song is really savage victory over civilization.

They wiped out the Liao Kingdom in ten years, and the Northern Song Dynasty in just two years after the destruction of Liao. In another three years, Zhao Gou, who was defeated, became a vassal, and never dared to look northward.

The Northern Song Dynasty was defeated too quickly.

It felt as if the Jinren didn't pay attention, and collapsed with a snap, not to mention that the Songren didn't expect it, the Jinren was probably stunned.

When Wanyan's adrenaline was on the way, they chased all the way, searched the mountains and seized the sea to catch Zhao Gou, and when they calmed down, they looked back - FUCK!Play so big?

The whole process from the establishment of the state to destroy the Liao Dynasty to the Song Dynasty took more than ten years, which was not enough for them to complete the transition from the slave regime to the feudal regime. They did not have the psychological and practical preparation to destroy the Song Dynasty and occupy the Central Plains.

Therefore, Jin Ting once made a fuss about returning the land south of the Yellow River to Song Ting, which shows the chaos in the political situation of Jin State at that time.

In the Wanyanliang period, through bloody political purges and the move of the capital to Yanjing, Jin Guo was able to complete the centralization of power and start feudalization.

Wanyanliang is very talented and ambitious. He has received a very complete Chinese education. He wants to be the monarch of the entire Greater China.

But it has been less than ten years since Wanyanliang ascended the throne.

The process of feudalization has begun and accelerated, but it is far from complete.

The current Jin Kingdom is not a feudal empire at all, it is still in a state of half slave and half feudal.

They have not established effective grassroots rule at all, and cannot effectively and rationally utilize the huge war potential of the Central Plains. They have only initially established a mechanism for taxation and conscription, and everything else follows the old system.

Perhaps in their understanding, to rule is to forcibly expropriate land and issue strong men to serve as soldiers.

They are usually quiet and do not disturb the people very much, but a policy is issued, and you may go bankrupt.

In this regard, the rulers of the Jin Kingdom were quite handy, and their operations were as fierce as tigers, and they successfully aroused ethnic conflicts into the main contradictions in some areas of the Jin Kingdom, such as Hebei and Shandong.

And not only the Han people, but also the Khitan people as a time bomb. If they play a situation in Shandong, once the main force of the Jin country goes south to quell the rebellion, Su Yonglin doesn't believe that the Khitan people will not do anything.

Based on various information and some of his own knowledge, Su Yonglin judged that the rebellion in the Jin Kingdom before Wanyanyong had a higher chance of success than that in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Yong is to the Jin Kingdom, and Huang Taiji plus Yongzheng is to the Manchu Dynasty.

He inherited Wanyanliang's unfinished business, and by sacrificing Wanyanliang, he completed the feudalization of the Jin Kingdom.

Therefore, it is not a whimsical thing to seize the window period when Wanyan Liang wanted to die and Wanyan Yong has not yet ascended the throne, to defeat the Jin Kingdom and retake the Central Plains in one fell swoop.

To defeat the Jin Kingdom at this time, what is needed is to defeat its main military force.

Simply as long as it defeats its main military force, its rule in the Central Plains will collapse, and there is no need to care about any other factors.

"To sum up, the Jin Kingdom at this time is unpopular. As long as the main army is defeated, the Jin Kingdom will surely perish! The Jin Kingdom is also unable to counterattack at all. Once its internal contradictions lose the pressure of the army, they will completely explode and blow them up. smash!"

Su Yonglin punched the table in front of him, his dull voice shook, and the hearts of everyone listening to the class also jumped violently.

It sounds a bit arrogant, even a bit funny.

Putting it in other places, it is easy for Su Yonglin to feel that he is the head of state at the end of the road, pinning his hopes on Steiner's counterattack, which does not exist, and feeling that as long as Steiner launches a counterattack, everything will be fine.

But that's exactly what happened.

As long as the Jin Army is defeated, the Jin Kingdom's rule in the Central Plains will be like a castle built of sand. With a slight push, it will collapse with a bang, leaving only the ground full of scum and jokes.

It sounds a bit Versailles, but reality is often more Versailles than Versailles.

There is only what you can't imagine, and there is nothing that reality can't do.

Such political lessons were often held during the years when Su Yonglin was in charge of the private salt group.

Through many speeches and the dissemination of political thoughts, Su Yonglin gradually built a common political ideal for his starting team.

Defeat the golden man and retake the Central Plains, a shame!
Then build an ideal country.

No one will die because they can't afford salt.

No one will take risks because they can't afford salt collars anymore.

All those who have been oppressed and exploited just like us will never take the same path of licking blood and dying as we did!

So, follow me north.

Let us work together to achieve this ideal, this goal!
Expel the golden thieves and restore the Central Plains!

When we realize this ideal, we can turn around and let the tens of millions of people in the Southern Song Dynasty who are struggling to survive just like us be redeemed!
Su Yonglin said so.

(End of this chapter)