The landlords and gentry, who were the main executors of the spiritual shackles and physical control imposed by the Song government on the peasants in the past, have been physically eliminated by the Jin people in the villages.
After replacing them, the Jin people have not yet evolved into educated landowners and gentry who can exercise mental control over peasants in addition to using force to intimidate them.
They have no culture, no ability to use culture for spiritual governance, and have not become an untouchable existence in the hearts of farmers.
They failed to establish true rule.
The peasants controlled by the Jin people were only afraid, but not numb. They did not feel from the bottom of their hearts that the scholars were sacred, noble and inviolable like the peasants in the Song Dynasty.
They were ruled by barbarians, ferocious and tyrannical barbarians. They were fearful, angry, and motivated to overthrow them and regain their freedom.
Therefore, compared with the peasants who are actually serfs and controlled by the traditional landlords and gentry, the spiritual shackles of these peasants have long been destroyed by the Jin people.
The clan consciousness prevalent in the villages of the Southern Song Dynasty, the power of clans and clans that even the court could not interfere with at will, and the three cardinal principles and five permanent principles that bound people's hearts no longer existed here.
In other words, these serf villages controlled by the Jinren Village were like the "fish that slipped through the net" of quality education during the Song Dynasty.
The peasants, who were firmly suppressed by the rulers of the Song Dynasty with the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules, had a certain sense of spiritual freedom here.
It's ironic to say the least.
Culture is not used to civilize, but is used to blind and weaken the people, creating a set of rules that often constrains people's hearts.
The oppression of the imperial court and the oppression of the landlords and gentry formed a double oppression and a double blockade, which made the imperial court in the Song Dynasty particularly powerful in internal governance, making the peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty even more difficult.
In the Kingdom of Jin, in the villages controlled by the Jin people, there was only one level of oppression, which was Jin Ting's military oppression.
They haven't learned the trick of mental oppression yet.
This can be regarded as a good thing that the Jin people did unintentionally, which saves Su Yonglin the need to fall out with the landlords and gentry now.
Not only do you not need to fall out, but you can also become friends temporarily.
In fact, Su Yonglin chose the Kingdom of Jin to start the game because of this consideration.
He once considered launching an uprising in the Southern Song Dynasty, directly overthrowing Zhao Gou, reorganizing the country, launching the Northern Expedition, and following Zhu Yuanzhang's path.
Then he collected information everywhere, conducted research, and judged the feasibility of this policy.
Then he was quickly shocked by the powerful internal suppression pressure of the Southern Song Dynasty.
He found that whenever peasant uprisings occurred within the Southern Song Dynasty, the most excited people were not the Southern Song government, but the landlords and gentry who were the actual controllers of grassroots power.
Whenever a peasant uprising occurs, the uprising team will first be constantly attacked by the armed forces of the landlords and gentry.
Then came the deterrence of the imperial army.
Compared with the peasant uprisings that were recorded in the archives and required the dispatch of the imperial army, more peasant uprisings were disintegrated by the landlords and gentry before they could gain momentum in the early stages.
Landowners and gentry would often use their former suzerain relationship to win over and divide the peasant uprising teams, promising leaders large profits, financial temptations, beauty temptations, and so on.
Many peasant uprising teams were disintegrated internally.
A famous and powerful local family can control a lot of land, farmers and even shops, but in these areas, the government cannot interfere.
The big family has its own set of rules and regulations, and the court cannot interfere, and the Zhao Guan family has no way to speak.
This power is private and patriarchal power. The large family relies on this power to oppress the tribesmen, farmers and other industrial populations, forming a de facto private kingdom.
Things like beating boards, burying people alive, soaking pig cages, etc., all belong to the patriarchal power of the clan. The family patriarch holds it in his hands to control the people he can control.
Of course, these people would not be of any help to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, this was not all bad for the Southern Song Dynasty court.
Although the imperial court has its difficulties in speaking out, administrative costs have also been greatly reduced in this way.
Therefore, the Zhao Guan family shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats on the surface, but in fact they shared the world with the family patriarchs who controlled the private rights of the patriarchal clan.
To rebel and launch a peasant uprising, the first people to face must be these family patriarchs. They are the first enemies of the rebels.
At this stage, the Zhao Guan family can hide behind, enjoy the wealth and support of the people, and sit back and watch the success or failure.
Unless the scale of the uprising is too large and the leaders are very courageous and cannot be extinguished, the court will invest regular troops and join forces with the landlords to exterminate the uprising.
Under this structure, although the Zhao officials of the Southern Song Dynasty had to face a series of problems such as land annexation, reduced tax collection, and shrinking power, the internal governance pressure they faced was also greatly reduced.
Sometimes it is not the government that puts down peasant uprisings, but the patriarchs, and no official action is needed.
This is the most difficult part of rebellion.
During the Southern Song Dynasty uprising, they not only had to deal with the superior Lin'an court, but also faced countless local private kingdoms. They were cunning, treacherous, and ruthless, and they would do whatever it took to protect their private kingdoms.
There are also superior cultural attributes that make the illiterate mud-legged people naturally worship and fear them, and feel that they are untouchable and cannot be offended...
As Confucianism has developed to this point, it has become more and more like Confucianism.
It is easy to break the physical shackles, but it is difficult to break the mental shackles.
On the contrary, before the Jin Kingdom completed its feudalization, the longer the areas that were ruled by it and serfed for a longer time, the less spiritual shackles they had, and the easier it was for the serfs to be saved spiritually. It's not that difficult to start.
What's more important is that the interests of the local landowners and gentry will not be touched for the time being, giving Su Yonglin time to develop, and he can even disguise himself and join forces with the landowners and gentry to fight against gold.
The blame falls on the golden man, but Su Yonglin accepts the benefits with a smile. Good things like this are hard to find in ancient and modern times!
By the time the face is broken, it should already be the time to see the truth.
At that time, with the dagger in hand, life or death may not depend on the landlords and gentry.
The landowners and gentry in the Southern Song Dynasty who were as handsome as Pan and as calm as Dong Zhuo would never leave this period of development to Su Yonglin.
Once this form of uprising was launched in the Southern Song Dynasty, it would be suppressed by the surrounding landlords and gentry.
From this point of view, the uprising in the Southern Song Dynasty was the beginning of hell.
The Jin uprising before Wan Yanyong had a difficult start at best, but depending on the situation, it could even be a normal start.
Of course, Su Yonglin must seize such a good opportunity that was almost given to him by the Kingdom of Jin.
But every time he thought that Wan Yanliang only controlled a quarter of the land and farmers with Meng'an Mou Kehu, he felt very unhappy.
Why not have more control?
Why can't more landlords and gentry be killed?
Are your knives not fast enough?
Wan Yanliang was still not strong enough and did not force the local officials more brutally. As a result, the local officials still did not strike hard enough and fast enough.
waste! It's all rubbish!
Su Yonglin secretly cursed.
