The Jin Kingdom's policy of enclosing land was the main cause of the conflict between the Jurchens and the Han people in the Central Plains.
The original intention of this policy was of course to stabilize the rule and move the Jurchens south to the Central Plains.
The official document that Su Yin heard from the detective said that the emperor sent people to various places to seize the invaded official land and idle pasture land, and granted the Jurchen men who moved south to farm in Anmou Kehu, so that they could settle down.
In this way, the Jurchens gradually gained a foothold in the Central Plains and increased the stability of the Jin Kingdom's rule.
This is what the official document said on the surface, but in fact, judging from the information Su Yin heard, the local government of Jin Kingdom did not do this.
The Jin Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty too suddenly, and it had no plan to rule the Han Dynasty, so it set up the two grandson regimes of the Puppet Chu and Puppet Qi to make the transition.
In order to avoid further resistance by the Han people, they restrained their looting behavior after the establishment of the Puppet Qi Dynasty and did not further plunder the Han people in the Central Plains.
As a result, when the Jin Dynasty abolished the direct rule of the Puppet Qi in the Central Plains and immigrated a large number of Jurchens, they found that the Han people had reoccupied a large amount of land to resume production, and the Jurchens who had moved there lacked the means of production and had no land to cultivate.
For the sake of social stability, Jin Ting believed that the Han people were also his subjects and did not allow them to rob, so he could only open up wasteland.
But how difficult is it to open up wasteland?
It takes several years to level the land, drain the water, dig ditches and build canals, and cultivate the land. It takes several years to turn a piece of wasteland into good farmland that can be used for survival. The Jurchen residents originally lived a life of fishing and hunting, and their agricultural skills were not high. They were suddenly ordered to move south. How could they cope with this? Such a life?
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty and Emperor Xizong of the Jin Dynasty, the number of Jurchen household registrations that migrated south was limited, so this problem was not yet prominent. However, during the reign of Wan Yanliang, the situation suddenly intensified.
Regardless of what Wan Yanliang was doing at the central level, he asked the Jurchens to move to Shandong. He even had to raise their own travel expenses and arrive within a time limit, otherwise they would be punished.
As a result, a large number of Jurchens who moved south to Shandong became poor and lacked food and clothing, which made the Jurchens resentful of Jin Ting.
Naturally, it was impossible for Jin Ting to let the Jurchens really die of poverty and illness, and land reclamation could not be accomplished, and the emperor's land reclamation policy had to be implemented. What should he do?
They can only [purchase] the land that has been cultivated by the Han people and rent it to Jurchen households, so that they can cultivate it and live on it.
This so-called [purchase] is of course a forced purchase.
The information Su Yin brought back described what he saw——
Officials led soldiers to the door, put a knife on the farmers' necks, stared at them and asked them to sign the transaction contract, and sold the land to the government at a very low price.
The farmers cried and signed the transaction contract, then packed up and left. The government then leased the land to the Jurchens.
In this way, the Jurchens got the land and were finally satisfied.
The Han people who lost their land either wandered or sold themselves to their original land and became tenant farmers to cultivate the land for the Jurchens.
And not just ordinary farmers, but also big landowners will be treated like this and lose a lot of land and property.
This situation appeared in large numbers in Hebei and Shandong after the first year of Zhenglong in the Jin Dynasty, making social conflicts in Shandong become unprecedentedly acute.
The original intention of the territorial expansion policy was to stabilize the rule, but when implemented in this way, it did not necessarily stabilize the rule.
The Jurchen household registration only occupied some land, supervised some Han households, and soon transformed into landlords themselves. Not only did it not play much positive role, it also lost its original toughness, became content with the status quo, and quickly became corrupt.
Such a negative situation had already appeared during the Jin Xizong period and was further intensified during the Wan Yanliang period.
The rapid and large-scale migration of Jurchen registered residence to the south left local officials with no time to acquire land. Some Jurchens became landlords and became wealthy, while some Jurchens were unable to get in line and could only remain poor. They were full of resentment towards Jin Ting and were very unhappy.
This situation caused not only Han farmers and landowners to be dissatisfied with the Jin court, but also some Jurchen civilians were dissatisfied with the imperial court.
So Su Yonglin came to a conclusion.
The rough immigration and territorial expansion policies of the Jin rulers added some ethnic conflicts to the already sharp class conflicts in Hebei and Shandong during the Northern Song Dynasty.
In some areas, ethnic conflicts even temporarily overshadowed class conflicts and became the main contradiction.
This brought more negative impacts to the Jin State and did not strengthen the Jin State's control over the grassroots.
From this, he further realized that the current Jin Kingdom had not established a firm foothold in the Central Plains and established a stable rule, and the people of the Central Plains had not surrendered to the Jin Kingdom.
Su Yonglin was very curious about this, so he compared the Jin Kingdom with the Manchu Qing regime and found that the reason why the Jin Kingdom did not gain a firm foothold was because the Northern Song Dynasty was defeated too quickly.
Before the Manchus entered the customs, they fought bloody battles with the Ming government for many years. After years of fighting, 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. During the Huang Taiji era, the historical process of transforming from a slave tribe to a feudal regime was basically completed.
The Manchu Qing entered the Pass and defeated the Shun and Ming Dynasties. This was actually a duel between feudal regimes, rather than a barbaric victory over civilization.
But when the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, barbarism truly defeated civilization.
It took them ten years to wipe out the Liao Kingdom. They wiped out the Northern Song Dynasty in just two years after the destruction of the Liao Dynasty. In another three years, they defeated Zhao Gou and declared himself a vassal, and never dared to visit the north again.
The Northern Song Dynasty was defeated too quickly.
It felt as if Jin Ren was not paying attention, and it suddenly collapsed. Not to mention that Song Ren himself didn't expect it, Jin Ren was probably also confused.
When Wanyan and his team were high on adrenaline, they chased him all the way, searching the mountains and seas to catch Zhao Gou. When they calmed down, they looked back - holy shit! Playing so big?
The whole process from the founding of the Jin Kingdom to the destruction of the Liao Dynasty to the destruction of the Song Dynasty only took more than ten years, which was not enough for them to complete the transformation from a slave regime to a feudal regime. They had no psychological and practical preparations 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 that the political situation of the Jin Dynasty was chaotic at that time.
During the Wanyan Liang period, through the bloody political purges and the move of the capital to Yanjing, the Jin Kingdom finally completed the centralization of power and began feudalization.
Wan Yanliang was very talented and ambitious. He received a very complete Chinese education. He wanted to be the monarch of the entire Greater China.
But it has been less than ten years since Wan Yanliang ascended the throne.
The process of feudalization had begun and accelerated, but it was far from complete.
The current Jin Kingdom is not a feudal empire at all, it is still in a semi-slave and semi-feudal state.
They have not established effective grassroots governance at all, and cannot effectively and rationally utilize the huge war potential in the Central Plains region. They have only initially established a mechanism for taxation and conscription, and everything else continues to use the old system.
Perhaps in their understanding, rule means forcibly expropriating land and issuing strong men as soldiers.
They usually keep quiet and don't bother the people much, but if a policy is issued, it may make you bankrupt.
In this regard, the rulers of the Jin Kingdom were very handy. They operated as fiercely as a tiger and successfully stimulated ethnic conflicts into the main contradictions in some areas of the Jin Kingdom such as Hebei and Shandong.
And it's not just the Han people, the Jin Kingdom also has the Khitan time bomb. If they create a situation in Shandong, once the main force of the Jin Kingdom goes south to suppress the rebellion, Su Yonglin does not believe that the Khitan people will not make some trouble.
Based on various information and some of his own knowledge, Su Yonglin judged that the Jin Kingdom's rebellion before Wanyanyong had a higher chance of success than the rebellion in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Wanyan and Yong were to the Jin Kingdom what Huang Taiji and Yongzheng were to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
He inherited Wanyan Liang's unfinished business and completed the feudalization of the Jin Kingdom by sacrificing Wanyan Liang.
Therefore, as long as we seize the window period when Wan Yanliang is willing to commit suicide and Wan Yan Yong has not ascended the throne, it is not a fantastic thing to defeat the Jin Kingdom and regain 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.
As long as its main military force is defeated, its rule in the Central Plains will fall apart, without worrying about any other human factors.
"To sum up, the Jin State at this time is unpopular. As long as the main army is defeated, the Jin State will inevitably fall! The Jin State is also unable to counterattack. Once its internal contradictions lose the suppression of the army, it will completely explode and blow them up. of smashing!”
Su Yonglin punched the table in front of him, his dull voice shook, and the hearts of everyone listening in the audience also jumped violently.
This sounds a little arrogant, even a little funny.
Putting it in other places, it would be easy for Su Yonglin to feel like a head of state at the end of his rope, pinning his hopes on Steiner's counterattack that does not exist at all, thinking that as long as Steiner launches a counterattack, everything will be fine.
But this is indeed the case.
As long as the Jin army is defeated, the rule of the Jin Kingdom in the Central Plains will be like a castle made of sand. With a slight push, it will collapse, leaving only dregs on the ground and nothing but jokes.
It sounds a bit Versailles, but the reality is often more Versailles than Versailles.
Only what you can’t imagine is impossible in reality.
Such political lessons often occurred during the years when Su Yonglin was in charge of the private salt group.
Through many speeches and the dissemination of political ideas, Su Yonglin gradually built a common political ideal for his starting team.
Defeat the Jin people, recapture the Central Plains, and avenge the previous humiliation!
Then build an ideal country.
No one will ever lose their family or die because they can’t afford salt.
No one will take risks again because they can't afford salt.
All the people who have been oppressed and exploited like us will never again take the same road of licking their own blood and fleeing to the end of the world like us!
So, follow me north.
Let us realize this ideal and this goal together!
Drive out the golden thieves and restore the Central Plains!
When we realize this ideal, we can turn around and bring salvation to the tens of millions of people in the Southern Song Dynasty who are struggling on the edge of survival like us!
Su Yonglin said.
