At the beginning, not many people were willing to share Su Yonglin's feeling that they should fight so that more people could be less miserable.
It's just normal for them to think that as long as they don't starve, they'll be fine.
Life is pretty good now.
You have food, drink, wages, and holidays. What else is there to strive for?
But Su Yonglin was not discouraged.
For several years, he listed the tragic stories of ordinary people he learned while selling illegal salt.
"Before the southward crossing, the landlord who killed the tenants had a reduced crime of one level, but still had to be sent to a neighboring state. When Zhao Guan's family crossed south, in the first year of Shaoxing, he announced that the landlord who killed the tenants had a reduced crime of one level, and only had to be sent to the neighboring state. In Honshu, there are too many things that can be done here, so since Shaoxing, tenant farmers have been unable to save their own lives."
"I saw two tenants being hung from a tree and beaten to death by the landlord in Chuzhou. I asked why and found out that they were too tired from farming every day, so I secretly took a nap in the fields. If he was discovered, he would be beaten to death."
"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 old age. Where was his family? He said that he was originally a tenant and farmed the land for the landlord's family. His daughter gave birth to him. Yes, I took a concubine into my master's family, and I thought I would live a good life.
As a result, a few days later, he saw a corpse being taken out. He followed it and saw that it was his daughter. Her body was covered with injuries and she didn’t know what she had suffered. He went to seek justice, had her legs broken and was driven out. Zhuangzi could only beg and wanted 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 peed on a stone because they couldn't afford salt. I asked them why they did this. They said it was a method taught to them by the old man. Wait until the sun sets. When the urine evaporates, salt will appear on the stones, and they will take the salt back and eat it."
"It snowed heavily the year before last, and 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 landless people outside the city. Farmers don’t have anywhere to live, so they sleep outside in the middle of winter and freeze overnight.”
"You all came from a miserable background. If the land had not been destroyed by natural disasters or man-made disasters, why would you have come to my house to do such stupid things? How could you not want to continue cultivating the land?"
It's okay if we don't say these miserable things. Once we say them, how can we not make people feel miserable?
People who share a common tragic experience can easily empathize.
So with a little guidance from Su Yonglin, he was able to get these poor people to tell their pasts. It was stained with blood and tears that he didn't know about, but it sounded extremely familiar.
Yes, because the suffering in the world is generally surprisingly consistent.
Su Yonglin followed his family or went out to sell smuggled salt for many years. He traveled to dozens of states in the southeast of the Southern Song Dynasty and saw countless tragedies in which families were separated and families were destroyed under the brutal rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.
He was very sad at first and tried to use his own money to help them so that they could have a full meal.
But his cheap dad Su Shengren stopped him.
"Of course it's good for you to be compassionate, but if you can keep them fed for one day, how can you keep them fed for the rest of their lives?"
This sentence made Su Yonglin stunned.
To be honest, when Su Yonglin was just "born" in the Southern Song Dynasty, Su Yonglin lived a good life, with good clothes and good food, and his life was quite comfortable.
Although he was very unhappy with the Southern Song Dynasty and Zhao Gou, he was not ready to rebel. He just felt that he was unlucky and had a "Yang Wei" official on his head.
But he also thought that Zhao Gou was already a grown man, 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 very good, and my life is comfortable. After Zhao Gou is exhausted, the unhappy feeling will probably disappear.
Such thoughts disappeared after he started selling smuggled salt with his father Su Shengren when he was nine years old.
After he went out, what he saw was shocking poverty and suffering.
To be a farmer in the Fu Song Dynasty, in addition to paying land taxes, you also have to pay "branch transfer", which is the toll of transporting taxes to the place of payment.
This tax item is very operable and there are no hard and fast rules. Officials can operate it at will. When they are short of money, they will increase the money randomly. Usually it is [officials receive one year's rent, and people lose twice the tax]. Officials at all levels All the deprivation will be borne by the farmers.
Even if the farmers have paid enough taxes, the officials will tell you that what you paid is not up to standard, so you have to grit your teeth and continue to pay.
If you want to pay less, you can. There is a private business that helps farmers deal with the government. Of course, the agency fee is not cheap. It costs two to three thousand yuan at a time.
Even more terrifying is the five-class household system.
The picture of the pie is good. The more property you have, the more taxes you pay. But in practice, it becomes a trick of the government to deceive people. If you are said to be a rich household, you are a rich household. Even if your family only has a few acres of thin farmland, you are also a rich household, and the landlord over there has good farmland. A thousand acres, but a poor household.
Su Yonglin finally understood that the so-called prosperity of the two Song Dynasties was irrigated by the blood and tears of many farmers.
In such a small area, the productivity is just that, but it can produce the impression of wealth. What is it but more brutal exploitation?
Then it was Su Shengren's words that woke up Su Yonglin.
Can I keep them fed for one meal, and can I keep them fed for a lifetime?
Even if I can take care of their lifelong feeding, can I still take care of the lifelong feeding of all the refugees?
Can selling smuggled salt feed so many people?
Su Yonglin looked at the refugees in front of him who were so hungry that they were skin and bones and had no human shape.
He was sure that it probably couldn't be done.
So what should we do to keep them all fed?
At that time, Su Yonglin, who had the body of a nine-year-old, cast his eyes in the direction of Lin'an.
He thought of those noble people who were drunk and dreaming by the West Lake.
It should be enough to overthrow you, bury you, and make you irrecoverable, right?
So now, Su Yonglin has aroused everyone's emotions with his full 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 hugging each other and crying, they gradually began to look outside, recalling their past and seeing the miserable farmers who were still living in their past.
They had the simple emotion of wanting to reach out and give them a hand.
But what can you do to reach out and give them a hand?
Su Yonglin has a way.
He told them what to do, and kept preaching that the Jin Kingdom must be defeated and they would definitely win - if we defeat the Jin Kingdom, we will have the capital and confidence to help them.
So after 27 years in Shaoxing, the Su Group basically unified its thoughts and goals.
No one thinks it is strange to go north to the Jin Kingdom to rebel.
And when they had this goal, making and selling private salt suddenly became very passionate.
Yes, it's very passionate and uplifting. It doesn't feel like committing a crime or licking blood at the edge of a knife.
Because they all know that they sell private salt in order to raise military expenses for going north to rebel, to achieve their goals and realize their ideals.
In order to achieve this achievable goal, they now have to work hard to sell smuggled salt and earn more money, and then hand it all 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 realize their ideals.
So all the members of the gang worked as hard as chicken blood, the salt workers worked hard to make it, and the members in charge of sales ran back and forth on boats all day long, bravely moving towards this goal.
Su Yonglin was very happy to feel the enthusiasm of the members.
He would still hold study classes regularly, continue to give lectures in the study classes, and make the specific progress of the northward rebellion known to the public, letting them know what he had done and where he had gone on the road to rebellion.
For example, how much military expenses have been saved, how much food and fodder have been saved, how many swords, armors, crossbows and other ordnance have been saved, etc. These things will be told to everyone one by one.
Su Yonglin allowed them to see that their team was making great strides towards their ideals, so the whole team was very motivated to move forward.
Rebellion is a technical job. If you want to successfully rebel, you need a basic base of rebellion-reliable manpower and relatively sufficient funds.
The Su family's private salt sales group provided him with this basic base. People were united and funds were relatively abundant. This condition was initially met.
Next is the rebel base.
Rebellion requires a base area, and Su Yonglin rebelled in a different place. He came from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin Kingdom to rebel, so the base area is even more important.
He was unfamiliar with the place and without the help of local people, it would be difficult for him to rebel in the Kingdom of Jin.
Therefore, he sent Su Yin to take the intelligence team north, on the one hand to spy on the strength of the Jin regime, and on the other hand to find a suitable place to be a base for the rebellion.
After searching around, he found that Shandong was a more suitable base for his rebellion.
And he had good luck, too.
When Su Yin was ordered to spy on intelligence, he met Yizhou local tycoon Zhao Kaishan by coincidence.
