After Su Yonglin finished speaking, the people attending the meeting looked at each other in shock.
But no, I have never seen a superior person working in person.
The upper-class people are all pampered and pampered by silk, silk, fish and meat. They only know how to eat but don't know where the food comes from. They can live an extremely privileged life by stretching out their hands and moving their mouths. How can they go to work in the fields wearing coarse linen clothes? ?
As for those farmers who live relatively affluent lives and have enough to eat, even if they hire some farmers to help with the work, many of them still work in the fields, with their faces facing the loess and their backs turned to the sky, and they are sweating profusely.
"Those who also need to work in the fields are not superior people. Those who can be pampered and support themselves and their whole family without having to work in the fields, and those who use their power to bully men and dominate women, are the superior people. That is the only class. This is what we need to eradicate."
Su Yonglin set a relatively clear standard for Shengjiejun's work in the next period of time.
There were also some things that Su Yonglin thought he should talk about, but he still didn't choose to say them at this stage.
Being poor is not something to boast about.
It is not that whoever is poor is glorious.
It is certainly a glorious thing to overthrow oppression and stand up for oneself, and it is also very glorious to become rich through hard work.
What he wants to do is to overthrow the superior people so that everyone can have a full belly and live a relatively wealthy life, instead of making everyone poor together and making poverty the right way in the world.
That's the wrong way to go.
What the Shengjie Army wants to overthrow are the superior people, not the innocent people who worked hard to get rich.
Su Yonglin thought about these words and didn't say them for the time being.
It is indeed not convenient to carry out too in-depth actions at the moment. It is enough to connect the farmers with the Victory Army through the peasant association.
The issues related to the work of the farmers' association were explained, and everyone set a working standard.
Then Su Yonglin met with all the special commissioners stationed in the new rural areas and talked with them about their work experiences and ideas over the past period of time.
Basically, it was similar to what Su Yonglin expected. The biggest problem was not that the farmers were uncooperative. The farmers were very cooperative. It was just that their cultural level was too low and many things could not be done.
Making them literate and literate is really a top priority.
"Only by reading can we understand the truth. In the past, the superior people wanted to fool us and did not allow us to read and understand the truth. Therefore, literacy and understanding the truth is the first step to resist the superior people. This step must be done well. Not to mention becoming a scholar, at least , can’t be blind.”
The new rural areas under Su Yonglin's governance are all bound to the Shengjie Army. They are a brand-new system in the three states controlled by Su Yonglin, existing in parallel with the original system.
So in fact local officials have no control over them.
Although Su Yonglin has now been appointed by Zhao Kaishan as the general manager of the three states and has administrative jurisdiction over the three states, he does not intend to hand over the new rural area to the government.
For a very simple reason, none of the officials in the areas controlled by the Liberation Army are of the same mind as him.
Therefore, he wanted to bind Shengjie Army directly to the new rural areas and establish a dual administrative system [Shengjie Army-Rural Areas] that was parallel to the government administrative system.
The new rural areas are responsible for production and self-government, provide soldiers for the Shengjie Army, and become the logistics base of the Shengjie Army. The Shengjie Army provides sufficient shelter and preferential policies for the new rural areas.
At the same time, all taxes in the new rural areas are also directly handed over to the Shengjie Army Logistics Department, which is managed by the Logistics Department and applied in all aspects.
So Su Yonglin asked Lin Jingchun to establish contact between these special correspondents and Lin Jingchun, the head of the logistics department.
When they report on their work, they report directly to Su Yonglin, and when they need financial and material support, they apply directly to Lin Jingchun. Lin Jingchun needs to handle special matters and try his best to satisfy them.
Lin Jingchun nodded to express his understanding.
Next comes the military issue.
This is the focus of current work.
In addition to expanding the army to increase the number of people, Su Yonglin also specifically ordered Su Haisheng and three others to use the occupied county to collect craftsmen and other technical personnel to establish a unified arsenal.
Rather than engage in small workshop-style decentralized production, we must establish a relatively larger and more centralized factory, bringing all technical personnel together to serve the military industry, producing spears, long knives, heavy axes, crossbows, arrows and armor.
To fight a war, we not only need people, but also a steady stream of professional equipment.
So Su Yonglin has been planning to build an arsenal. After taking control of Tai'an Prefecture, he decided to set up an arsenal here. Now it has a preliminary scale and has started trial production.
The arsenal was established in the northeastern part of Laiwu County, not far from the military camp. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has pleasant scenery.
It is very convenient to go into the mountains to collect materials and water locally, which can save some labor costs, and there is an iron ore area not far away.
A mine was also set up in the iron ore area.
The Jin Kingdom government once mined and smelted iron here. When Su Yonglin marched in, he took over this mining area and incorporated a complete set of equipment.
There were originally more than a hundred gold soldiers stationed in this mining area, supervising more than a thousand miners. The miners lived a very hard life with almost no safety guarantees. Deaths and injuries were commonplace.
After Su Yonglin took over the mining area, he announced that the miners, who were equivalent to slaves, would be transformed into normal households and restored to their normal status.
Because they are basically single men, full of hatred for the Jin people, and are excellent soldiers, Su Yonglin mobilized them to join the army.
After some mobilization and propaganda, most of the miners chose to join the Shengjie Army, and about 800 people joined.
The remaining two hundred people did not want to join the army for various reasons, so Su Yonglin asked them who had mastered mining technology to continue their original work.
After Su Yonglin renovated the mining area, he recruited miners through recruitment. He stipulated that the work in the mining area was long-term work, gave him a good salary, limited daily working hours, provided food, and gave him public holidays.
In horizontal comparison, the treatment is quite good, comparable to the life of a public servant.
After the farmers' association's propaganda, many families found out that this was a good job to subsidize their families, so the mining area recruited many strong laborers from families to participate in mining work.
Not only that, Su Yonglin also announced that he was willing to recruit women to do some work in the mining area, such as laundry and cooking, and would also be paid a certain amount of wages.
After the news spread, many women in the surrounding villages were eager to try it.
After controlling more areas, Su Yonglin paid more attention to liberating women's productivity and tried every means to get more rural women to go out of the house and participate in social work, so that their productivity could be used.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the ruling ideology of the Song Dynasty became increasingly rigid and the oppression of women became more severe. Foot binding became a fashion among Han women from the late Northern Song Dynasty.
At that time, rulers and scholar-bureaucrats expressed admiration for foot-binding, which spread from the upper class to the upper class.
The Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty were periods of development. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the concept of being ashamed of not binding feet began to appear. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of foot binding reached its peak.
It should be said that foot binding in the late Northern Song Dynasty was a popular trend that only the upper class was qualified to practice, rather than a social rule. It was far from popular in the whole society.
Su Yonglin lived in the Southern Song Dynasty for twenty years and traveled through half of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he never saw a woman with bound feet in the countryside.
As for the officials and aristocratic women who live in the city's wealthy families, his status is not high enough and he cannot be seen. They may have their feet bound, or they may not.
Anyway, when Su Dingguang was still alive, there was no woman with bound feet in his family.
Su Yonglin once made a malicious guess, feeling that the popularity of this custom in the upper class of the Northern Song Dynasty was inseparable from the art-loving Emperor Huizong.
However, the public cannot yet see it.
The vast majority of folk women have not yet been tortured by foot binding, so at this moment there is no physical obstacle to mobilizing them to work outside the home.
As for the ideological obstacles, Su Yonglin himself felt that they were not that serious.
