Qiming 1158

Chapter 82 Su Yonglin's Construction Action
After Su Yonglin finished speaking, the people attending the meeting looked at each other.

But no, I have never seen a high-class person work in person.

The first-class people are all rich in silk and satin, and they all know how to eat but don’t know where the food comes from. They can lead an extremely superior life by stretching their hands and mouths. ?
And those peasant households who live relatively well-off and can have enough to eat, even if they hire some peasants to help with the work, many of them still work in the fields, facing the loess and turning their backs to the sky, without sweating less.

"Those who also need to work in the fields themselves are not high-class people. Those who can support themselves and their whole family without needing to work in the fields, and who also use their power to bully men and women, are the high-class people. It's something we need to eradicate."

Su Yonglin set a clear standard for Shengjiejun's work for the next period of time.

And there are some things that Su Yonglin thinks should be said, but at this stage he still has no choice to say it.

Being poor is not something to brag about.

It is not that whoever is poor is honored.

Of course, it is a glorious thing to overthrow the oppression and turn over to be the master, and it is also glorious to get rich through labor.

What he wants to do is to overturn the upper class, so that everyone can have a full stomach and live a relatively prosperous life, instead of making everyone poor together and taking poverty as the right path in the world.

Then go the wrong way.

What the Shengjie Army wants to overthrow is the upper class, not the innocuous and industrious people who got rich.

Su Yonglin thought about these words for a while and didn't say anything.

It is indeed inconvenient to carry out too in-depth actions at the moment. It is enough to connect the farmers and the Shengjie Army through the peasants.

The work of the peasant association was explained, and everyone set a work standard.

Then Su Yonglin met with all the commissioners stationed in the new countryside, and talked with them about their work experience and ideas for a period of time.

Basically, it was similar to what Su Yonglin had expected. The biggest problem was not that the farmers did not cooperate. The farmers were very cooperative, but the education level was too low, and many things could not be done.

Getting them literate and literate is really a priority.

"Only by reading can we understand the truth. In the past, in order to fool us, the superior people prevented us from literacy and understanding, so literacy and understanding is the first step in resisting the superior. This step must be done well, not to mention becoming a scholar, at least , can't be blind."

The new villages under Su Yonglin's governance are all tied to the Shengjie Army. They are a brand new system in the three states controlled by Su Yonglin, which exists in parallel with the original system.

So in fact, local officials can't control them.

Although now after Zhao Kaishan's appointment, Su Yonglin has become the general manager of the three states and has the administrative jurisdiction over the three states, but he does not intend to hand over the new countryside to the government.

The very simple reason is that none of the officials in the Restoration Army-controlled area are those who can agree with him.

Therefore, he wanted to make the Shengjie Army directly bind with the new countryside, and establish a dual administrative system of [Shengjie Army-Rural] parallel to the official administrative system.

The new countryside is responsible for production and autonomy, providing troops for the Shengjie Army, and becoming the logistics base of the Shengjie Army, which provides sufficient shelter and preferential policies for the new countryside.

At the same time, all taxes in the new countryside are also directly handed over to the logistics department of Shengjie Army, which is managed by the logistics department and applied to all aspects.

So Su Yonglin instructed Lin Jingchun to let these commissioners establish contact with Lin Jingchun, the head of the logistics department.

When they report to work, they report directly to Su Yonglin, and when they need financial and material support, they apply directly to Lin Jingchun.

Lin Jingchun nodded his understanding.

Then there's the military issue.

This is the focus of the current work.

In addition to expanding the army to increase the number of people, Su Yonglin also instructed Su Haisheng and the other three to use the occupied county to collect craftsmen and other technicians to build a unified arsenal.

Do not engage in small workshop-style decentralized production, but build a relatively larger and more centralized factory, bringing all technical personnel together to serve the military industry, producing spears, long knives, heavy axes, crossbows, arrows and armor.

To fight, not only need people, but also need a steady stream of professional equipment.

Therefore, Su Yonglin has been planning to build an arsenal. After he took control of Tai'an Prefecture, he decided to set up an arsenal here. Now that it has a preliminary scale, trial production has begun.

The arsenal was built in the northeast of Laiwu County not far from the barracks, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the surrounding scenery is pleasant.

It is very convenient to get materials from the mountains and get water on the spot, which can save some labor costs, and there are iron mining areas not far away.

There is also a mine in the iron ore area.

The government of the Jin Kingdom used to mine and smelt iron here. When Su Yonglin marched, he took the mining area and collected a whole set of equipment.

There used to be more than 100 gold soldiers stationed in this mining area, supervising more than 1000 miners. The miners lived a very hard life, with almost no security guarantees, and casualties were commonplace.

After Su Yonglin took over this mining area, he announced that the miners who were equivalent to slaves were reorganized into normal households and returned to their normal status.

Because they are basically bachelors, they are full of hatred for Jin people, and they are excellent soldiers, so Su Yonglin mobilized them to join the army.

After some mobilization and preaching, most of the miners chose to join the Shengjie Army, and there were about 800 people who joined.

The remaining 200 people did not want to join the army for various reasons, so Su Yonglin asked them who had mastered mining technology to continue their original work.

After Su Yonglin renovated the mining area, he recruited miners in the form of recruitment. He stipulated that the work in the mining area was long-term work, and he was given a good salary, and the daily working hours were also limited.

Compared horizontally, the treatment is quite good, comparable to the days of public servants.

After the propaganda of the peasant association, many families found that it was a good job to subsidize their families, so the mining area recruited many strong laborers from the families to participate in the mining work.

Not only that, Su Yonglin also announced that he is willing to recruit women to do some work in the mining area, such as logistical work such as laundry and cooking, and also pay a certain amount of wages.

After the news spread, many women in the surrounding villages were eager to try it.

After controlling more areas, Su Yonglin paid more attention to liberating women's productivity, and tried every means to get more rural women out of their homes to participate in social work, so that their productivity could also be used.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the ruling ideology of the Song court became increasingly rigid, and the oppression of women became more and more severe. Foot binding became a fashion for Han women from the late Northern Song Dynasty.

At that time, rulers and scholar-bureaucrats admired footbinding, which first spread from the upper classes.

The Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty were the development period. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the concept of not being ashamed of foot binding began to appear. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of foot binding reached its peak.

It should be said that foot binding in the late Northern Song Dynasty was a popular fashion that only the upper classes were qualified to carry out, rather than a social rule, which was far from being prevalent in the whole society.

Su Yonglin lived in the Southern Song Dynasty for 20 years and traveled half of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he has never seen a woman with bound feet in the countryside.

As for the officials and noble women living in the high-profile families in the city, his status is not high enough, and he can't see it, maybe his feet are bound, or he may not.

Anyway, when Su Dingguang was still alive, there were no women with bound feet in his family.

Su Yonglin also had malicious guesses, feeling that the popularity of this custom in the upper class of the Northern Song Dynasty should be inseparable from the art-loving Emperor Huizong.

However, it is still invisible to the public.

The majority of folk women have not yet been poisoned by foot binding, so at this moment they are mobilized to work outside their homes, at least there is no physical obstacle.

As for the ideological obstacles, Su Yonglin himself felt that it was not that serious.

(End of this chapter)