Since Su Dingguang began to train Su Yonglin as the third generation head of the Su family, he began to personally teach more than a dozen of his close associates to read and read.
Teach them step by step how to write and compose, teach them the ability to express themselves and make sentences, and teach them historical knowledge, telling them about the past and present of this country.
Su Yong, Su Haisheng, and Su Changsheng, a group of more than ten people, were the earliest close confidants around Su Yonglin. They were also the first to be literate, and could even be said to be the first to open their eyes to the world.
Su Yonglin released their mental shackles.
It's just that some people open their eyes in a relatively normal direction, reading some professional books and generating their own thoughts, while some people develop in strange places, such as Zhao Feiyan's Biography...
This was something Su Yonglin didn't expect.
Su Dingguang and cheap dad Su Shengren both asked Su Yonglin why he did this, but Su Yonglin just vaguely excused it.
If you are illiterate, how can you become your own team?
If you are illiterate, you cannot understand the world correctly.
Only by knowing the words and gaining culture can we understand the world, develop self-awareness, and further reach unknown peaks. Moreover, this is also a step to win people's hearts.
At that time, Su Yonglin began to think about how he would act in the future.
He realized that in order to take action, he must have a reliable starting team and a basic base.
He had no intention of becoming an official in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he had no interest in the group of patriotic poets and poets who were the main war faction. Besides, even if he wanted to, what talents could he recruit as a private salt merchant?
We can only cultivate it ourselves, starting from the people at the bottom, and give up taking the high-end and upper-class route.
Teaching them to read and write is the first step.
Using the existing educational resources and practical opportunities of the Su family, a private salt dealer group, to enable them to master military, intelligence and economic capabilities is the second step.
Because private salt dealer gangs often need to fight to resolve conflicts in market distribution, they rarely sit down and talk, and they mainly use force to resolve them.
It can be said that private salt dealers were the most martial-minded group of people in the Southern Song Dynasty - although they mostly fought in groups, they also had combat experience.
In the long-term battle for the market, Su Yonglin cultivated his first batch of military, intelligence and economic talents through the Su family, a private salt dealer group.
In the military aspect, Su Yong, Su Haisheng, Su Jue and others are the main ones.
In terms of intelligence, Su Yin, Su Changsheng and others are the main ones.
On the economic side, there are a group of old people who are engaged in finance in the group. There are many of them, and not all of them are from their own surnames. Many of them have been working for the Su family since the Su Dingguang period.
After Su Dingguang's death, Su Yonglin took charge of the entire private salt dealer group.
After purging the traitors seduced by Sun Yuanqi, he expanded the scope of his core team and included all those who were loyal to Su Dingguang and Su Shengren into his core team, established a new ruling group, and then began to use education to win people's hearts.
He asked the first group of cronies he taught to go with him to teach these "newcomers".
Teach them how to read and write, organize amateur literacy classes, reward those who are more literate, and punish those who are less literate, etc.
This group of educated people numbered 317, and they all soon became literate.
In addition to the core team of 317 people in the entire Su's Private Salt Group, there are more than 700 salt-making workers and their families in the salt-making factories, as well as two to three thousand peripheral part-time workers responsible for front-line smuggling of salt. member.
The peripheral part-time members are civilians scattered around the country and do not accept the direct influence of Su Yonglin.
In addition to the core team, Su Yonglin can influence more than 700 salt-making workers and their families.
Su Yonglin also regarded them as his important starting force. After Su Dingguang's death, Su Yonglin changed the original hard-earned model in the salt factory and carried out labor reforms.
He works at a fixed time every day, is given a lunch break, and is given three meals a day. He also increases his salary and benefits during holidays. He often goes to the island to personally distribute benefits, enjoys himself with the people, and shows his benevolence.
Not only that, Su Yonglin also imitated the government and gave workers one day off every ten days.
They are even allowed to take turns leaving the island to go shopping in Dinghai County for recreation - of course, they must be accompanied by core team members.
When more people became literate, Su Yonglin also opened literacy classes in the factory. He used an hour after lunch every day to teach workers, their families, and children how to read, and even acted as a teacher to teach them how to read.
It doesn't matter if the workers don't understand the reasons, just publish the regulations on rewards and punishments.
Those who can read more will be rewarded, and those who can read less will be punished. The rewards are very generous, including money, holidays, meat, eggs, fruits and other benefits.
Punishments are also very depressing. They usually mean reduced holidays, overtime work, etc.
So the workers rushed to learn to read and did not fall behind at all.
There are also some workers who write words on paper and stick it in front of their workbench. They learn the words while making salt, and they also ask their children and wives to learn the words together. They work very hard.
After two years of hard work and a lot of money spent on paper, the literacy campaign was successfully completed within the core team and salt production factory of the Sujia Private Salt Group. There were more than a thousand people in the world who could read and write.
After reading, it’s time to give lectures.
Su Yonglin worked as a teacher, bringing factory workers and core team members together, and mainly told them about the period of history at the turn of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.
He focused on the humiliation of the two emperors of Huiqin and their wives, which subtly inspired their contempt and hatred for Zhao Gou.
Then, starting from their humble and miserable origins, he took them to recall their humble and miserable past, when they had not enough food to eat and no salt, and they were exhausted and top-heavy from hunger.
Including the core team, there are also workers who follow the Su family to sell smuggled salt. Every one of them has a poor background.
It's just that the jobs they do now are different. Some are licking blood from a knife, and some are just making salt. But they come from similar backgrounds, and they were all forced to join the Su's Private Salt Group in order to survive.
So these things are particularly effective.
Su Yonglin starts from here, describing their misery, and then jumps to the Su family's help to them - taking them on this dangerous road, where they can have enough food, money and live a good life, so that they can appreciate their kindness. .
He also led them to focus on learning the Southern Song Dynasty government's regulations on dealing with private salt dealers, letting them know that they had no way out, and they would die if they were not careful, creating a sense of crisis for them.
Knowing the kindness and having a sense of crisis, it is easier to see the problem from the same perspective as Su Yonglin.
At this time, Su Yonglin made another speech.
It mainly tells the story of how he had to endure the oppression of the Southern Song Dynasty government in order to keep everyone alive, and how he humblely knelt down and licked under Sun Yuanqi's power in order to survive, which aroused everyone's empathy.
This is the first time for many people to know that the seemingly glamorous Su Yonglin actually wants to do such a thing.
He also had to kneel down in front of the officials to beg for mercy, send gifts and beg to get a little help from them.
Su Yonglin narrated his own sufferings and the time when he gave up his dignity in an exaggerated and vivid way, which made some soft-hearted people shed tears.
Of course, he himself would not be stingy about shedding precious manly tears.
He beat his chest and burst into tears.
"I know at first many of you thought I was doing this to make money, but if I was doing it to make money, why should I teach you how to read and write? The reason is simple. We are all the same. We are all ordinary people. I Not nobler than you.
You see that I am glamorous, you see that I am well-dressed and well-fed, and you think that my life is very comfortable, but in front of those officials, I... I am just a dog crawling on my knees! do you know? I am the dog! Sometimes I am worse than a dog!
When my grandfather was still alive, I used to be a son of an official, and I was once very privileged. But after my grandfather passed away, I almost lost everything. Holding back my tears, I knelt down in front of that thief Sun Yuanqi and begged for his charity, and only then did I save my ancestral property.
So I know your suffering, I know your pain, I give you wages, give you holidays, and give you all kinds of delicious food, because I understand you, I hope you are like me, even if life is hard, at least you can still It's something to be happy about, isn't it? "
Su Yonglin successfully united the hearts of the core team and salt workers through many speeches.
He successfully created a great image of someone who was willing to sacrifice his dignity for the sake of his ancestors and the poor people like them - of course, it was almost the same in reality, but his goal was more ambitious.
In doing so, he successfully narrowed the distance between them, made the core team and salt workers loyal to him and served him, and completed the "centralization" of power within the private salt group.
But Su Yonglin never wanted a One Piece team.
He doesn't intend to continue selling illegal salt forever. What he needs is a rebel team, a rebel team that is willing to follow him and turn the whole world upside down.
The first thing a rebel team needs is a clear goal.
He didn't hide it, he just brought it up.
He wanted to break away from the Southern Song Dynasty and go north to rebel against the Jin Kingdom. His ultimate goal was to expel the Jin people and regain the Central Plains, gain strength, and then turn around and save the poor people in the Southern Song Dynasty who couldn't afford salt.
At first, many people thought there was something wrong with Su Yonglin.
Smuggling salt and rebellion are not contradictory.
There were many rebellions among private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were also many who blatantly stood up for themselves and opposed the government. Every year, we heard news of rebellions, including Su Yonglin.
But you sold illicit salt in the Southern Song Dynasty, went to the Jin Kingdom to rebel, and then switched back to the Southern Song Dynasty. What kind of path is this?
And why must we rebel?
Can't we just sell private salt and eat it ourselves?
Isn’t life pretty good now?
You have food, drink, clothing, money, and vacations. Why rebel when you have such good days?
What do others have to do with us?
Their unique short-sightedness and the idea of being content with a small amount of money is clearly visible. This cannot be solved by literacy and requires further education.
So Su Yonglin started his third step - political education.
