Xin Qiji had never thought about social issues so deeply.
Although he followed his grandfather to conduct an in-depth investigation of the local folk customs of the Jin Kingdom, as well as the topography and folk customs of Yanyun, he believed that he knew enough about society, and relied on this understanding to help the Southern Dynasties launch the Northern Expedition, annihilate the Jin Kingdom, and restore the Central Plains.
His mission was accomplished.
The world will be peaceful from now on, people will live a happy life under the rule of the Song Dynasty officials, and all human tragedies will never happen again.
He thinks so.
But after reading Su Yonglin's manuscript, he suddenly realized that he had never conducted an in-depth study of the fundamental issues of this society, and he did not understand many issues at all.
What he sees is only the appearance and the superficial reasons for the appearance. He doesn't know what goes deeper.
He didn't understand what political power, what policies, what conscription and tax systems, what social changes, etc.
Su Yonglin's manuscript revealed the underlying reasons for the social phenomenon of starvation, at least in the southern Song Dynasty.
In Xin Qiji's view, with the passage of time and as Su Yonglin grew older, his understanding of the Zhao and Song regime became more and more profound, and he thoroughly understood this regime, leaving nothing behind.
So he knew the crux of the problem of land annexation and starvation, so he began to propose his own solution.
From the manuscript he wrote when he was sixteen, Xin Qiji saw that Su Yonglin was constantly trying to come up with his own plan and constantly improving this plan.
He did not completely deny everything about the Song Dynasty.
On the contrary, he believed that the rulers of the Song Dynasty provided the successors with a path that was completely different from that of the previous dynasties, that is, a path that did not regard land as the only lifeblood of the dynasty.
This path is very interesting and different from previous dynasties.
In order to recruit troops and collect taxes, all dynasties have to suppress land annexation, fight against land annexation, try their best to slow down the speed of land annexation, prolong the life of the dynasty, and try to get everything from the land.
Only the Song Dynasty did not inhibit land annexation, and there were no major problems with taxation and conscription. The dynasty lasted until the invasion of foreign enemies without encountering internal turmoil that could bring about subversion.
Some of the systems and ideas of the Song Dynasty were even very avant-garde and advanced. In Su Yonglin's view, they could even create a new future.
But the road to this future is hampered by its ruling class's stupid retro-rigid thinking and agrarian conflicts.
The Song Dynasty did enjoy the dividends brought by the new road, but it also suffered from the land conflicts of the old era because half of its body stayed in the old era.
While it wants to embrace the new era, it is constrained by the shackles left by the old era. It has never been able to make a choice, and has chosen to drag everything on until the sea is gone.
Su Yonglin even thought that if there were no enemies and given enough time, there was a slight possibility that the Song Dynasty might be able to slowly solve this problem and truly embark on a new path.
But there was no time.
The foreign enemies in the north are taking advantage of the Han people's wisdom in governance and technology to become stronger. They are not shackles of stupid retro rigid thinking of governance. They will only become stronger in pursuit of wealth and luxurious life.
They will use all this to build themselves into an extremely terrifying war machine that will destroy the world and destroy the earth.
They don't need to build much, they just need to plunder, and constant plunder is enough.
If the Central Plains Empire does not recapture the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, rebuild the Great Wall defense line and vigorously develop cavalry before then, there will even be a crisis of national subjugation and annihilation in the future.
Su Yonglin believes that a huge and terrifying threat is gradually taking shape on the northern grasslands, and its threat is far greater than that of the Liao Kingdom in the past and the Jin Kingdom now.
The Han people have no time.
We must immediately lift our shackles and develop with all our strength!
The Kingdom of Jin, the Kingdom of Song, the Kingdom of Xia, the Kingdom of Dali...
Etc., etc., are all obstacles that stand in front of this goal. All of them must be removed to complete the unification of China, and then develop with all their strength, race against time to enhance national power, and be the first to eliminate the huge threat on the northern grasslands.
And if we want to do all this, taking the road of internal improvement will not work.
The idiots within them will try their best to bring the reformers to the same level, become stupid, and then use their rich experience of stupidity to defeat the reformers.
God will not give reformers more time and opportunities.
God will not favor reformers!
Reform will not work!
In the end, he believed that if we want to change all this, we cannot solve it from within the system. If we want to succeed, we must take the most difficult path, that is, make changes from the bottom.
Change the world!
Want revolution!
Su Yonglin pointed out that his revolution is not the so-called revolution of the "Tangwu Revolution", it is not about changing destiny, but about changing the world and changing the world.
Because of this, it is impossible to seek help from vested interests, because they will never support a revolution that changes the world.
They just want to maintain their existing interests and pursue more interests, and Su Yonglin's revolution must be completely liquidated, so it will definitely offend their interests.
Therefore, taking the imperial examination to become an official and launching reforms was not feasible, so we simply gave up.
If the path of the upper class is blocked, they can only take the path of the lower class and start making changes from the ordinary people at the bottom of society.
They are numerous and possess extremely huge power, but as individuals, they are extremely weak.
They must be gathered together and use their numerical superiority to fight against the superiors.
However, their individuals have obvious shortcomings such as short-sightedness, cowardice, ignorance, etc., and it is extremely difficult to awaken, or even unable to awaken themselves. If we want to organize them and lead them to break through their shackles, we must transform them, let them learn, and help them. , lead them.
Therefore, we need to lead them to learn together, prompt them to realize that they should not live as cows and horses, but as human beings, stimulate them with brand-new ideas, and make them truly awaken.
After awakening, use them as support and confidence to organize them and attack upward with great impact to break through this decadent shackles!
Only in this way can we usher in new life.
In order to achieve this goal, a complete set of guiding ideas and routes are needed, which can touch their core pursuits, conform to their interests, and represent their interests.
Then we need specific methods and processes, and we need to figure out and study people's hearts.
Su Yonglin decided to first start to change the core members of the Sujia Private Salt Group, the group of people closest to him.
Because Su Yonglin's power alone is weak, he needs helpers, many, many helpers, so that they can awaken, become the kindling, spread out, and use a single spark to start a prairie fire.
If you can't change even this group of people, how can you change more people and further change the world?
Start now and change the world!
This concludes this part of the manuscript.
This is almost one-third of Su Yonglin's entire manuscript. It records the period when Su Yonglin matured his thoughts and decided to take action between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
Xin Qiji had been completely attracted by Su Yonglin's manuscript.
The astonishing in-depth research and magical vision of the future answered some of his inner doubts.
In particular, Su Yonglin's views on the huge threats on the northern grasslands coincided with Xin Qiji's own.
When he went to Yanyun to investigate the situation, Xin Qiji learned about the Jin Empire's northern frontier troubles and learned that the Mongolian tribes on the grasslands were very powerful and brave in battle. The Jin Kingdom failed to win several expeditions and could not subdue them, and he was deeply worried.
Some local people even used the Huns of the Han Dynasty to describe the Mongol knights on the grassland, which made Xin Qiji very alert.
But Xin Qiji didn't know how Su Yonglin, who lived in the Southern Song Dynasty, learned about the Jin Kingdom's deep concerns about the Mengwu tribe.
This made another part of his doubts more urgent to be answered.
He desperately wanted to know the answer.
He wanted to know the entire past and future of Shengjie Army, and glean the secrets of the world from this manuscript.
He felt that Su Yonglin's way of thinking was different from ordinary people. It was a very unique perspective. When looking at problems from this perspective, one could often see many things that others could not see or even think of.
This is very important.
At this moment, benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust are no longer that important in his heart. What he urgently wants to know is what this world is.
How can we have this kind of thinking, find the essence of the problem, and solve the problem.
Xin Qiji began the process of awakening.
He began to read Su Yonglin's manuscripts eagerly, even to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.
Even during breaks when training the soldiers of the Red Ax Battalion, he would read Su Yonglin's manuscript non-stop. He would not let go of the manuscript while eating, and he would read while squatting in the toilet.
Intoxicated.
The more I read, the more I feel I understand the nature of society as a whole.
Xin Qiji even felt that his perspective on the problem had changed inadvertently.
While he was studying, Su Yonglin was constantly preparing for the army to move north and preparing for a possible powerful attack by the Jin Army.
