When building a farmers' association, the first problem we face is that farmers are basically illiterate.
Of course, when it comes to mathematics, most farmers only have the most basic ability to count using their fingers as an aid, and are completely illiterate.
If you can find three or five people in a village who know a few Chinese characters and can perform the most basic addition and subtraction calculations, you are considered lucky.
The manpower under Su Yonglin who can read and count is also precious. They are all in short supply and cannot be invested in the countryside in large quantities in the short term.
Therefore, special things should be done, and the forty-one Su family veterans can only be allowed to take on more responsibilities and play a guest role as the Liver Emperor.
The peasant association must have an organization, have power, be able to manage things, and be able to convince the public. It can take over the orders of Su Yonglin's victory over the Czech army headquarters and organize the villagers to do things. There are about a hundred households in the village, and the peasant association has nothing to do with what it says. No way.
So after careful consideration, Su Yonglin decided on the operating regulations of the farmers' association.
He stipulated what the peasant association should do and what powers it had.
In order for the peasant associations to keep their word, administrative power, judicial power and the power of armed control must be given to the peasant associations.
In this place where areas controlled by landlords and gentry are everywhere, if the new countryside is to survive, the peasant association must have power, leadership, and the courage to fight.
When Su Yonglin lived in the Southern Song Dynasty, the government structure of the Southern Song Dynasty generally came to the county. However, county officials were still the power holders and still had absolute authority over everyone in the county. They were by no means weak.
Of course, they discussed things politely with families like big landowners and squires, saying hello to me, hello to everyone.
However, Su Yonglin also noticed that the county government still kept its word and had coercive power against weak people like homesteaders and low-class quasi-gentry like rich farmers and small landowners who could not influence county government.
From time to time, small and medium-sized county officials and even some armed personnel go to the countryside in groups to extort money from ordinary farmers, rich farmers, and small landowner families. This is equivalent to collecting protection fees and making extra money, which will not be counted in normal taxes at all.
Of course, you don’t have to give it.
But if you don’t give it, just wait to wear small shoes.
In this three-thirds of an acre of land, strong dragons cannot overwhelm local snakes. The Zhao Guan family is not as good as these bullies. No matter how hard you work and how good you are at accumulating wealth, you will become a fat sheep in the eyes of these bullies at any time and use all kinds of weird tricks. Reasons to kill you anytime, anywhere.
Unless you meet by chance, or become a scholar and gain fame, you will never get ahead. You will be blackmailed until death, and your bones will be broken and your marrow will be sucked out, doing all you can to do evil.
As a businessman, Su Yonglin would have been a piece of meat in the mouth of the local government of Dinghai County if he had not been protected by Sun Yuanqi. Everyone would not be able to keep their money bags or piggy banks.
But here, ordinary farmers in rural areas, as front-line producers, have no voice and no political rights.
Not to mention political rights, even the most basic personal rights of a person are not protected. The county government can extort, extort, and even physically annihilate at will, and the farmers are unable to resist.
Therefore, Su Yonglin felt that he must give administrative power to the farmers' association, both now and in the future.
The farmers' association must ensure that it does not lose its voice under the county-level government, that it can speak out, that it has its own powers and that it can use them.
In this way, we will not be bullied and blackmailed by the county official group. The county government must discuss everything with the farmers' association and cannot impose arbitrary orders to harm the interests of farmers.
In order to protect such administrative power, the farmers' association must also have certain judicial power.
Judicial power can ensure that the peasant associations have control over the countryside. During wartime, conspirators who undermine the peasant associations can be tried at any time to prevent them from engaging in subversive plots in the local area.
In order to ensure the execution of administrative power and judicial power, armed power is the cornerstone.
The peasant self-defense forces must be established and given a certain degree of training and arming so that the peasant associations have the ability to attack conspirators and resist lawless magistrates.
In the serf village area controlled by the Jin people, with these three powers, the structure of the peasant association is basically complete and ready for operation.
In other areas still controlled by the landlords and gentry, the peasant associations still have to do one more thing - to overthrow the private patriarchal power of the landlords and gentry.
This was common in some areas of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, but did not exist in the forty-one villages ruled by Su Yonglin.
Therefore, in addition to burning, killing, and looting the people, the Jin people did not do any good deeds at all.
At least it reduced the cost of Su Yonglin's rebellion.
After realizing this, Su Yonglin was very happy, and the farmers' association could also be very happy.
After the peasant association has mastered administrative, judicial and armed power, it becomes the real grassroots political organization.
They can count the household registration and acres of land in the entire village, manage and resolve the villagers' daily disputes, punish crimes, protect the interests of farmers, and operate to provide Su Yonglin with money, food, and reserve soldiers.
Of course, this is easier said than done.
Su Yonglin gave power to the Farmers' Association, but the Farmers' Association did not have so many qualified farmers who could become cadres of the Farmers' Association to exercise these powers.
If the organizational relationships are very complicated, and only the forty-one special commissioners sent by Su Yonglin who serve as vice presidents and instructors of the Farmers' Self-Defense Force can shoulder their responsibilities and become the actual power holders in the countryside, then the farmers' association will basically be an empty frame.
This was not in line with Su Yonglin's thoughts.
He doesn't want the people he sends to become the actual people in power. This is not good.
So Su Yonglin decided to make a temporary simplification.
After thinking about it, he decided to separate the judicial power and follow the example of Liu Bang and establish three chapters of the law - murderers must pay with their lives, those who injure others should be punished, and those who steal should be punished.
The judicial power of areas controlled by peasant associations is simplified to these three points.
These three points are simple and intuitive, covering most types of civil judicial cases, and even an illiterate person can implement them.
In this way, other people in the farmers' association can be responsible for at least one judicial authority and maintaining daily public order, without overburdening the special commissioners sent by Su Yonglin.
In addition, the president of the farmers' association and the captain of the farmers' self-defense force should also be appointed by people from the village.
As for who will be appointed, Su Yonglin will sign an order for the time being. When the situation stabilizes, the villagers will make a public recommendation and then be appointed by Su Yonglin.
The special commissioner, as a representative of the Shengjie Army, plays a minimum role of restriction and supervision, so as to prevent the president of the farmers' association and the captain of the Self-Defense Forces from being unable to recognize the reality and bully others.
In turn, the president of the farmers' association and the captain of the Self-Defense Forces can also act as a constraint on the special commissioner, preventing the special commissioner from becoming the emperor of the village despite Su Yonglin's halo.
In this way, the temporary "Farmers' Association Regulations" were born. As for the subsequent changes and addition of new content, that would be a matter later.
Right now, we need to urgently set up the farmers' association organization and put it into operation first.
After Su Yonglin convened a group of subordinates for a discussion, he decided to distribute this regulation to his 41 villages, and asked the special commissioners to go to the villages as quickly as possible to complete this organizational structure.
Select the more popular farmers in the village, those who are older, brave or intelligent, and let them join the farmers' association to work.
Then, while doing business, the special commissioners would set up literacy classes and arithmetic classes to carry out basic literacy activities.
When the literacy campaign reaches a certain scale, general education and historical education can be started, and political education can be further carried out.
It’s time to study and understand the truth. Su Yonglin believes that such efforts will not let him down.
After these farmers underwent this change, they could no longer endure such cruel oppression and exploitation.
They see the light.
In this era, the only person who can bring them light is Su Yonglin and his army.
In this way, it is equivalent to tightly integrating these forty-one villages with the Shengjie Army. Their destiny is connected and can no longer be separated. They will all be the most loyal supporters of the Shengjie Army.
If we want to forcefully change this situation, we can only refer to the approach of the general manager of Kaishen Logistics - the stone must be overdone, and the person must change.
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