Qiming 1158

Chapter 895 Disastrous consequences
The report obtained by Su Yonglin described the work style of some political cadres who were assigned to the grass-roots rural areas to serve as peasant association instructors and some township peasant association presidents.

The report said that because the revival organization showed strong organizational and action power at the grass-roots level, and the Ming government had a very high government reputation, farmers had great confidence in the instructors sent by the revival society and the villagers appointed by the higher-level organization department of the revival society. President of the peasant association.

This situation has greatly promoted the relationship between farmers and peasant associations, and it has also enabled the peasant associations to organize farmers to do major events to the greatest extent possible.

However, with the passage of time, in some places at the grassroots level, village peasant association instructors and township peasant association presidents acted arbitrarily and decided all village and township affairs with one word.

According to the visit and investigation of the Ministry of Supervision, the establishment of many village peasant associations is mainly due to the political cadres of the Fuxing Association. In the process, they have established their absolute credibility and authority over the peasants, and can even bypass the peasant associations. rural affairs to make decisions.

However, the local peasant association elected by the peasants and the peasant association formed by the villagers were empty shelves and became an executive body after the instructors made decisions, with no other powers.

Because of the lack of knowledge, for a long time, the establishment of the peasant association and the production of the peasant association were all undertaken by the instructor, which required the concentration of power and a high degree of right to speak.

In the beginning, it was true that the pros outweighed the cons.

Because only the instructor has the ability to set up the peasant association and organize everyone to complete the work of land distribution, registration and production restoration, others cannot.

Therefore, at this stage, the establishment of large and small peasant associations was completed, the Ming regime was able to highly integrate the grassroots forces, and accomplished many things that were inconceivable in the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, with the vigorous promotion of literacy education in the past few years, the farmers have gradually broken away from ignorance, acquired a certain amount of knowledge, and acquired a certain ability to think. However, the instructors in the village seem to have not completed their own transformation from the status of big parents.

He was here to assist in his work, not the emperor in this village, nor to come here to point fingers at everyone.

However, this is the actual situation. The instructors, because of their great contributions in establishing peasant associations, allocating land, restoring production and guiding literacy, made the villagers, including the chairman of the peasant association, habitually obey his instructions unconditionally.

Su Yonglin's original design of the peasant association system stipulated that the leadership of the peasant association should be elected by all farmers, and that decision-making in rural affairs requires the vote of the entire peasant association, which has hardly been implemented.

Of course, at the very beginning, this system really did not have the conditions for it to operate. It was already the limit for everyone to rely on inertia to recommend a person from the peasant household who everyone could convince to become the president of the peasant association.

But that is changing as more farmers become literate over time.

Some instructors and peasant association presidents clashed with peasants because of their overly aggressive attitude, blind obedience to higher-level orders, and lack of consideration for the actual situation of peasants.

For example, Su Yonglin’s financial situation has been greatly improved due to the victory of many wars, so he has set a large-scale infrastructure policy, requiring all localities to review the situation, formulate engineering plans according to actual needs, and strive to build enough infrastructure in a relatively short period of time to fight natural disasters .

As a result, when this order reached the locality, it became a matter of working hard at all costs. We must complete the water conservancy projects and roads before the natural disaster. This is His Majesty's call!
As a result, the decree was passed down layer by layer, and the requirements were more urgent than the next layer. At the township and village levels, the township peasant association began to ask the village-level peasant association to build roads and water conservancy projects within a time limit.

The decree was issued very quickly and the money was in place very simply, and then the village was asked to mobilize labor to build water conservancy and roads. They felt that this was beneficial to them, and they must be very happy.

But in fact, when the decree was delivered, it was still during the busy agricultural season. The peasants were still busy cultivating their own land and doing some household work. They had no time, and the construction period could not keep up, so that they could not extract enough labor to work.

Some people have a good sense of consciousness, and they use labor to help build water conservancy projects and roads. As a result, their farm work cannot keep up with the progress, and the summer and autumn crops are not well maintained.

And some people cheat and play tricks, and they don't let the main labor force to help build good roads for water conservancy projects. They are mainly busy with their own farm work, which is well done and the harvest is good.

As a result, the peasants in the village also had conflicts, felt it was unfair, and the village and peasant associations could not coordinate well, so they all went on strike and quit, arguing that their land should be taken care of first.

In this case, the reasonable method should be for the village and peasant association to seek and negotiate with the higher-level departments to try to adjust the time and reduce the burden on the peasants.

Or if you have enough labor force, you can negotiate with the farmers and organize some of the labor force to collectively cultivate everyone's land to ensure that everyone's agricultural harvest will not be delayed.

However, at the actual implementation level, such situations rarely occur. Instead, some instructors and presidents of rural peasant associations have forced their subordinates to complete their goals regardless of actual needs in order to win credit and please their superiors.

In order to please their superiors and show their achievements and abilities, these village instructors and township peasant association presidents disregarded the actual situation of the peasants and forced them to work, so that the peasants were very dissatisfied.

In some places, village instructors forced peasants to work. The peasants couldn't bear it anymore, so they supported the president of the peasant association to drive out the peasant association instructor.

Or some instructors who don't want to see farmers suffer and lead farmers to go to the village peasant association to petition cause conflicts between the village peasant association and the village peasant association.

The two sides have made troubles in the county many times. The officials in the county are also the first and the two big ones. They don’t know whether to consider the public sentiment or the instructions of the superiors. .

This kind of thing was relatively rare at first, and did not attract the attention of the higher-level Renaissance Society branch. Later, with the advancement of the Yellow River Project, these problems abruptly intensified.

Finally, with the issue of anti-corruption in Shandong, this type of issue has also been noticed by the Ministry of Supervision.

Kong Maojie noticed this situation through reports from some state and county revival branches, and then sent people to visit and investigate the relevant areas. After several months of on-the-spot investigation, he wrote this report with the gathered materials and submitted it to Su Yonglin.

The materials detailed some local chaos after Su Yonglin issued the decree on the big infrastructure plan.

After Su Yonglin read it, he fell into deep thought.

Because of the fragmentation and fragility of the small-scale peasant economy, its model is difficult to withstand large-scale natural disasters, and water conservancy projects in local areas cannot hedge against huge natural disasters.

In the event of a large-scale natural disaster, the small-scale peasant economy will be filled with sorrow and starvation.

In China, a land where large-scale natural disasters and abnormal climates occur every five years, there is huge uncertainty in the small-scale peasant economy.

In this case, the use of collective agriculture to hedge the risks brought by natural disasters will be an effective method to effectively ensure the personal safety of farmers and the safety of food production, and can also concentrate on building necessary water conservancy projects to deal with disasters.

Therefore, Su Yonglin has been working hard to promote the establishment of peasant associations, and has also promoted the formulation of laws on collective agricultural economy at the central level.

He plans to promulgate the Collective Agriculture Law in the future, formalizing the emergency product of the peasant association in the form of legal provisions, and promoting the collectivization of agriculture across the country.

However, before this, if the common situation of this kind of one-sentence cannot be solved, and the operation mode of the grass-roots peasant associations cannot be improved, it will inevitably affect the construction of the collective agricultural economy in the future.

From this, Su Yonglin thought of a key question.

What he is focusing on is the change of the millennium and the great revolution. Without the workers as the vanguard, his organization can only be the vanguard, leading the scattered farmers to gather as a whole and move forward into the future.

In this process, if his vanguard cannot continue to advance resolutely, maintain firm belief, and fail to guide the right direction, the consequences will be disastrous for the Ming Kingdom.

It is good luck to step back to feudal reincarnation.

Compared with many later countries, Su Yonglin faced a more severe situation, because the number of farmers was more, the level of technology was lower, and the literacy rate was lower. To complete a complete change, the requirements for the vanguard were too great.

When an army fights, the vanguard must be the most elite, not only to open the way, but also to defeat the opposing vanguard, which can boost the morale of one's own side. If the vanguard is defeated, the army will also cast a heavy psychological shadow.

Seriously, Su Yonglin couldn't bear the consequences of the vanguard's loss of direction.

In order to ensure that the vanguard does not lose its direction, system construction and theoretical construction are of course very complicated. Among the vast ocean of institutional construction and theoretical construction principles, there are two basic principles such as Dinghai Shenzhen, which must not be violated or abandoned.

One is democratic centralism.

The second is to rely closely on the people.

These two basic principles, Su Yonglin, are written in the constitution of the Renaissance Association, and every Renaissance member should know it.

But when it comes to the execution level, Su Yonglin is also lagging behind.

So most people probably don't know why.

They know what simple election means. As for elections that require technical skills and rules, they may not be so clear about how to run them.

Likewise, it also takes time for them to implement these two principles and Su Yonglin's patience.

This is something that cannot be solved in a short period of time, but it is still his problem, so in the central meeting of the revival meeting held later, Su Yonglin conducted a self-examination and made a report to the participating members.

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