Qiming 1158

Chapter 9 Can You Manage Their Feast?
In the beginning, not many people were willing to feel like Su Yonglin that they should fight for more people to be less miserable.

They just think it's fine as long as they don't starve themselves.

It's a good day now.

There is food, drink, wages and vacations, what else is there to fight for?
But Su Yonglin was not discouraged.

For several years, he listed the tragic stories of ordinary people that he learned when he was selling illicit salt.

"Before Nandu, although the landlord killed a tenant, the crime was reduced first, but they still had to be distributed to neighboring states. When Zhao Guan's family crossed to the south, in the first year of Shaoxing, he announced that the landlord killed a tenant to reduce the crime, and only needed to be distributed. In this state, there are too many things that can be manipulated, so since Shaoxing, tenants have not been able to save their own lives.”

"In Chuzhou, I saw two tenants hang the landlord from a tree and beat them to death. I asked the reason and learned that it was too tired to farm every day, so I slept secretly in the field. They were found and killed."

"In Songyang, I saw an old beggar begging with a broken leg. I gave him some money and asked him why he was begging in his old age. What about his family? He said that he was originally a tenant, farming for the landlord's family, and his daughter was born. Yes, I took a concubine to the master's family, I thought I would have a good life.

As a result, within a few days, he saw a corpse being sent out. He followed up to take a look. It was his own daughter, who was all wounded. He didn't know what he had suffered. Zhuangzi could only beg and want to report to the officials, but the officials ignored him at all. "

"When I was selling salt in Taizhou, I saw with my own eyes some poor people urinated on a rock because they couldn't afford salt. I asked them why they did it, and they said it was the way the old man taught them. When the urine dries up, salt appears on the rocks, and they take it back and eat it."

"The year before last in the heavy snow, I was talking to people in Shouning. Outside the county town, I saw some people carrying the bodies of some ragged people. I asked them who these people were, and they said they were all the landless people outside the city. Farmers have nowhere to live, they sleep outside in winter and freeze overnight."

"You all came from hardships. If it wasn't for natural and man-made disasters that destroyed the land, why would you come to my house to do this kind of stupid thing, and why would you be unwilling to continue cultivating the land?"

It’s okay not to say these tragic things. Once they are said, how can they not make people feel desolate?

Empathy is easily developed by people who share a tragic experience.

So with a little guidance from Su Yonglin, he was able to let these hard-working people tell their past. It was blood and tears that he didn't know, but it sounded extremely familiar.

Yes, because the suffering of the world is almost always surprisingly consistent.

Su Yonglin has been selling smuggled salt with his family or by himself for so many years. He has traveled to dozens of prefectures in the southeast of the Southern Song Dynasty, and has seen countless tragedies in which his wife, son, family and family were destroyed under the brutal rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

He was very sad at first, trying to help them with his own money so that they could have a full meal.

But his cheap dad Su Shengren stopped him.

"Of course it's good that you have compassion in your heart, but if you can manage their full meal, can you still manage their entire life?"

This sentence made Su Yonglin stunned.

To be honest, when he was just "born" in the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Yonglin lived a prosperous life, with fine clothes and jade food, and his life was quite comfortable.

Although he was very unhappy with the Southern Song Dynasty and Zhao Gou, he was not at the point where he must rebel.

But he also thought that Zhao Gou was also a big boss, and when he abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong, he would probably be able to calm down.

Anyway, my life is so good, the food in the Song Dynasty is still very good, and the days are comfortable. When Zhao Gou is boiled to death, that uncomfortable feeling will probably be gone.

And this kind of thought disappeared after he went out with his father Su Shengren to sell private salt to the world when he was nine years old.

After he went out, what he saw was astonishing poverty and suffering.

To be a peasant in Fusong, in addition to paying the land tax, there is also the [subsidy], that is, the toll to transport the tax to the place where it is paid.

This tax item is very maneuverable. There are no rigid regulations. Officials can operate at will. If they are short of money, they will increase the money randomly. Usually it is [the official receives the rent for one year old, and the person loses twice as much]. Officials at all levels Layer peeling, all count on the farmer.

Even if the peasants have paid the full tax, the official said with a red mouth and white teeth, saying that your payment is unqualified, and you have to grit your teeth and continue to pay.

If you want to pay less, yes, there is a private business that specializes in helping farmers and the government deal with the government. Of course, the agency fee is not cheap, and the price is two or three thousand dollars at a time.

Even more frightening is the five-class household system.

The pie painting is good. The more property you have, the more tax you will pay, but when you operate it, you will become a trickster of the government. If you say you are a rich family, you are a rich family. You only have a few acres of thin fields at home. Thousands of mu, but poor households.

Su Yonglin finally understood that the so-called prosperity of the Song Dynasty was made by the blood and tears of the peasants.

In such a small area, the productivity is the same, but it can create the impression of wealth, not double brutal exploitation, what is it?
Then it was Su Shengren's words that woke up Su Yonglin.

Can I take care of them for a full meal, and can I take care of them for a lifetime?
Even if I can manage their food for the rest of their lives, can I manage the food for all the refugees?

Can smuggling salt feed so many people?
Su Yonglin looked at the homeless people in front of him who were so hungry that they were skinny.

He was sure, probably not.

So what can be done to keep them all fed?

At that time, Su Yonglin, who was nine years old, cast his eyes in the direction of Lin'an.

He thought of those high-class people who were drunk and dreaming by the West Lake.

Overturning you, burying you, and making you doomed forever should be enough, right?

So now, Su Yonglin has aroused everyone's emotions with full of emotions, easy-to-understand vernacular and rich body language.

He infected everyone with his strong emotional appeal, and the atmosphere of the entire team gradually changed.

After they hugged and cried, they began to look out gradually, recalling their past, and seeing the miserable farmers who are still living in their past.

They have a simple feeling of wanting to reach out and give them a hand.

But what to do to reach out and give them a hand?

Su Yonglin has a solution.

He told them what to do, and he kept preaching the truth that Jin Guo was bound to lose and they were bound to win—after defeating Jin Guo, we would have the capital and confidence to pull them.

So after 27 years in Shaoxing, the Su Group has basically unified its thinking and goals.

No one thought it was a strange thing to go north to the Jin Kingdom to rebel.

And when they had this goal, things like making and selling illicit salt suddenly became very hot.

Yes, it is the kind that is very passionate and enthusiastic, and there is no feeling of committing a crime or licking blood at the knife's edge.

Because they all know that they sell illicit salt in order to raise military funds for the rebellion in the north, in order to achieve their goals and realize their ideals.

For this achievable goal, they now have to work hard to sell smuggled salt and earn more money, and then hand it over to Su Yonglin for unified arrangement.

The more they earn now, the greater the chance of success in the future, and the faster everyone can achieve their dreams.

So the members of the entire gang worked hard like chicken blood. The salt workers worked hard to make them, and the members in charge of sales ran back and forth with boats all day long, and bravely marched towards this goal.

Feeling the enthusiasm of the members, Su Yonglin was very happy.

He will still hold regular study classes, continue lecturing in the study classes, and publicize the specific progress of the major event of the rebellion in the north, so that they know what they have done and where the rebellion has gone.

For example, how much military spending, how much grain, how much swords, armor, bows and other weapons, etc., these things will be told to everyone one by one.

Su Yonglin made them truly see that their team is making great strides towards their ideals, so the whole team has a great momentum to rush upwards.

Rebellion is a technical task. To successfully rebel, you need a basic set of rebellion—reliable manpower and relatively sufficient funds.

The Su family's private salt sales group provided him with this basic plan, the people's hearts were united, and the funds were relatively abundant. This condition was initially met.

Next is the rebel base.

Rebellion is based on the base area, and Su Yonglin is rebelling in a different place. From the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin Kingdom, the base area is even more important.

He is not familiar with the place, and without the help of local people, it is difficult to rebel in the Jin Kingdom.

So he dispatched Su Yin to take the intelligence team north, on the one hand to spy on the strength of the Jin Kingdom regime, and on the other hand to find a suitable place to be a rebel base.

Looking around, he found that the Shandong area was more suitable as his rebel base.

And he was lucky.

When Su Yin was ordered to spy on intelligence, he met Zhao Kaishan, a local tyrant in Yizhou, by coincidence.

(End of this chapter)