Zhao Kaishan is a big landowner in Yizhou. He has a strong tradition and is very powerful in the local area.
He was supposed to be an accomplice of the feudal rulers, but he bumped into the Jin Kingdom, which had not yet been promoted to a feudal regime. His policies harmed his core interests, and he was extremely dissatisfied.
In the past few years, Zhao Kaishan had a lot of land invaded by the Jurchens who moved south. He protested many times, but to no avail. The land should still be occupied.
Unable to bear it, Zhao Kaishan decided to resist at all costs, expel the Jin people, and regain what belonged to him.
When Su Yin returned from completing his mission, he passed through Yizhou and happened to meet two men with sly eyebrows on a country path, discussing how to report Zhao Kaishan's preparations for an uprising to the government.
One of the tasks Su Yonglin gave Su Yin was to find strong men who wanted to rebel against the Jin Dynasty. Su Yin made a prompt decision and led his men to capture the two men and give them to Zhao Kaishan.
Zhao Kaishan was shocked, executed the two traitors, and expressed his gratitude to Su Yin.
Su Yin informed Zhao Kaishan of his mission and Su Yonglin's hopes. Zhao Kaishan was deeply surprised, but was willing to have further contact with Su Yonglin.
After Su Yin returned, he told Su Yonglin about the incident.
Su Yonglin was overjoyed when he learned about it and immediately sent Su Yin back with some gold and silver secrets to meet Zhao Kaishan and tell him about his identity and experiences as a private salt dealer, as well as his inner ambitions.
Although Zhao Kaishan felt that Su Yonglin was a strange person in his heart, he was already on the verge of making a move. Su Yonglin had someone with money, which was the important help he urgently needed.
The two hit it off immediately and decided to join forces to rebel.
A year ago, Su Yonglin and Zhao Kaishan met on the sea by boat, and they hit it off like old friends. They then made a blood alliance and became brothers. They agreed on a date when both of them would invest all their property in this uprising and fight to the death with the Jin people.
The agreed time for the uprising was now very close. The last thing Su Yonglin wanted to do in the Southern Song Dynasty was to kill Sun Yuanqi. Now this matter has been completed.
Before going to Lin'an to kill Sun Yuanqi, he asked Su Yin to contact Zhao Kaishan and inform Zhao Kaishan that they planned to land at the old place in Juzhou, and asked him to arrange for reliable people to meet them so that they could transfer all the supplies to a safe place.
A large amount of money, grain, and military equipment were all accumulated by the Su family during their years as private salt traders.
The rebel army has just started an uprising, and their equipment will definitely not be very good. They need to capture cities and territories and seize equipment from the Jin people to gradually become stronger, but they cannot be unprepared.
It is obviously not good to start an uprising by cutting bamboo into bamboo spears like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did.
Su Yonglin devoted all the Su family's family resources to this uprising.
Once all preparations for departure are completed, all the belongings and people of the Su family will go north by boat, meet up with Zhao Kaishan and others, and then launch a massive uprising.
The Su family has abundant material and financial resources, but in terms of manpower, it mainly depends on Zhao Kaishan and others.
This time Su Yonglin goes north, there will still be some people taken away, but not many.
In addition to the core team of 317 people, the Su's Private Salt Group also has more than 700 salt-making workers and their families in the salt-making factory, as well as two to three thousand peripheral part-time members responsible for front-line illicit salt sales.
The core team is basically an elite group of thugs, with military-style management in itself. They are the main basis for the Su family to gain a foothold in the private salt sales field, receiving wages and benefits.
They are all Su Yonglin's most direct confidants. Su Yonglin can name each of them and they will definitely be taken away.
The workers in the salt-making factory were all secretly recruited by the Su family from refugees from all over the country - mainly because of frequent peasant uprisings, the refugees could not be eradicated, so the Su family recruited these refugees to work in the salt-making factory.
They have no household registration and are purely illegal. The government cannot check them even if they want to.
Su Yonglin was kind to them. They were loyal to the Su family and were educated. They were the fire in Su Yonglin's heart, so there was no problem in taking them away.
In addition, the other two to three thousand part-time members have no relevant benefits and are temporary workers. They are paid for each vote they work.
They are scattered around the country with their families. They are the downlines of the Su family's smuggling of salt, and some are even the downlines of the downlines.
They did not participate in the core operation. They just waited for the salt to be produced and boarded the ship to get the salt, then transported it to various places for sale, and finally took the profits back and shared them with the Su family. Other things had little to do with them.
Although due to the dangers of smuggling salt, they are very reliable and will not reveal the traces of the core members of the Su family, but it is still unrealistic to expect them to go north to rebel.
Even if he had money to support these people, Su Yonglin did not have the energy to teach political classes to these people.
The people Su Yonglin can really help are the core team and salt factory workers who have accepted his influence and have broken free of their mental shackles.
They will be the sparks before the conflagration takes shape.
They are indeed not a qualified army, but to this day, the Jurchen elite soldiers who were brave and good at fighting in the past are dying. They are old and old, officials are officials, and local landlords are local landlords. They are no longer as sharp as they used to be.
The new generation of Jin army was no longer able to effectively suppress the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of combat effectiveness.
Not to mention the Han-dominated signing army, even the Jurchen soldiers themselves were pretty bad. This can be confirmed by the military intelligence that Su Yin spied on.
In the 26th year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, the first year of Jin Zhenglong, which was the year before last, Su Yin spied on a military exercise of Jin soldiers while operating in Shandong.
At that time, the local general of Jin summoned the local Meng'an Mukehu strong men for military exercises to see how much fighting power they still had, but the result was a mess.
Seventy-eight out of ten Jurchen men who were called upon could not draw a stiff bow, more than half of them would stagger and fall off their horses, and even wielding swords and guns was a show-off.
Some people were so weak that they couldn't wield heavy weapons at all. Their formations were in a mess, and their steps were not unified. They were crowded in front and bumped into each other. It was a complete mess. They did not have the bravery of their fathers or ancestors.
The speed of this corruption is really impressive.
To be precise, it was not even as good as the Song Army back then.
After all, the Song army led by Zhao Kuangyin was completely destroyed only after the peace treaty was signed with the Liao Kingdom, and it persisted for forty or fifty years.
The Jin Army is not doing well, but it has declined into this state after more than 20 years.
Su Yonglin came to an accurate conclusion.
Except for the border troops set up by the Jin Empire in the northern and northwest border areas to defend against the grassland cavalry and the Xixia army, there were basically no elites who could cause huge damage to the rebels.
The corruption of the Jin Army is certainly good news for Su Yonglin, but there is better news.
After the Shaoxing peace talks between the Song and Jin Dynasties, the two sides did not fight for nearly twenty years. During this period, there was no elite army to prepare for war on the border between the Song and Jin Dynasties. The Southern Song Dynasty did not use its main force to defend against the Jin people, and neither did the Jin Dynasty.
During this period, at least on the surface, the Jin Kingdom's main energy was still dealing with the Mongol tribe and Tatar people in the north.
From the time when Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty Wanyan Wu was begging for money, the Mongols on the northern grasslands were a border trouble for the Jin Kingdom.
During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Jin Dynasty, a group of powerful Jin generals who defeated the Song army took turns to attack the grassland nomads. They could not be pacified in successive campaigns. Wanyan Zongbi, who was known as Jin Wushu by the Song people, led an army of 80,000 to the north and failed to gain any advantage. .
Now, just like the real Central Plains dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin is also facing the threat of the northern grasslands, and is suffering from headaches and irritability.
Their situation is definitely not good, and they are not as invincible as some people in the Southern Song Dynasty thought.
The Mongolian tribes were foreign troubles that they had not been able to solve. The war between the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols was not beautiful at all, and it was not as fierce as when they destroyed the Song Dynasty.
In Su Yonglin's view, the Kingdom of Jin was an empty shell that was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Class contradictions and national contradictions were intertwined, and sparks of rebellion could be ignited anywhere.
The Southern Song Dynasty was far more difficult to deal with than the Jin Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Jin had a powerful army, but as long as its army was defeated, it would be doomed.
The Southern Song Dynasty's army does not look powerful, but it is also quite resilient. More importantly, it only defeats the army that defeated it. There is still a long way to go before it is truly finished.
First attack the weak ones, then attack the difficult ones, and gradually develop from weak to strong.
Su Yonglin's grand strategy has never changed.
On March 11, the 28th year of Shaoxing, Su Yonglin gave an order, and the ships gathered on Sujia Island in the northeast of Dinghai County began to carry a large amount of money, food, and military equipment to Shandong.
The rebellion has begun.
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