Because of the previous defeat of the Henan Corps in Tongguan, Su Yonglin once again paid close attention to army training.
After the army reorganization and defense tasks were completed, the military tasks and training tasks of each corps were carried out simultaneously, the ideological education tasks also kept pace, and various training tasks were launched one after another.
Although he is still very busy, Su Yonglin insists on inspecting the army once every three days, and from time to time he will conduct surprise inspections on the army's training. He will give rewards for good work and report praise to the entire army, and punishments for poor performance will be reported to the entire army for criticism.
After a series of measures were implemented, the organization, combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Liberation Army recovered at an extremely fast speed.
The initial chaos has basically disappeared, and all corps and armies have entered a state of orderly order. Military regulations and disciplinary provisions once again dominate the military camps of the Liberation Army.
Su Yonglin was very satisfied with all this.
After the defense mission was completed, the Liberation Army regime with Zhongdu as its political core also initially gained a foothold in the Central Plains, and daily governance work steadily advanced.
While appointing a large number of Yanyun Han people, non-Han old bureaucrats and Central Plains scholar-bureaucrats to local positions and positions in the General Affairs Bureau, Su Yonglin did not slow down the speed of new rural construction.
At this stage, in addition to the construction of new rural areas, Su Yonglin also began to build township-level farmers' associations on a large scale.
In the previous stage of the construction of village farmers' associations, a considerable number of excellent instructors stood out and showed their good work ability.
Keeping them in the village-level peasant associations is a waste of administrative resources.
Moreover, the headquarters of the Liberation Army cannot directly connect with village peasant associations, and the establishment of township-level peasant association organizations must be accelerated.
So Su Yonglin personally organized relevant meetings, personally checked the candidates, promoted outstanding instructors to directors of township-level farmers' associations, added a higher-level organization of village farmers' associations, and divided a county into several townships, each of which was responsible for the agricultural production tasks of the villages in the township.
As for the former instructors who hold official official positions such as county magistrates within the county-level government, they are basically Fuxing members.
After the Haizhou pilot project achieved certain success, Su Yonglin personally selected 70 outstanding instructors, who were incorporated into the Fuxing Association organization and served as magistrates of 70 counties as Fuxing members.
These seventy counties basically belong to the seventy-seven or eighty-eight counties that were destroyed by the rebellion during the war.
The original social relations were broken, the original landowners and gentry in the county were killed by the rebels, and the land was abandoned. Most of it was in Shandong and Hebei, but also a small part in Yanyun and Liaodong.
After the war, Su Yonglin made some statistics, and then tried his best to resettle some of the landless migrants he had in this part of the county.
After patching things together, he actually managed to cobble together a total of seventy counties that were completely controlled by peasant associations, and selected outstanding Fuxing members to serve as county magistrates on trial.
After Fuxing members serve as county magistrates and coordinate the township and village-level farmers' associations in the county, they will be able to firmly control the county's entire productive population and means of production.
They can be transformed into the basic base and strength of the revival meeting, and strengthen the strength of the revival meeting in one fell swoop.
This is the result of Su Yonglin transforming all the bases established in more than two years of war in one go.
These counties are called "Fuxing Counties" in the internal documents of the Renaissance Association. Everything in them is controlled by the Renaissance members and has nothing to do with the old bureaucrats and gentry.
This is regarded by Su Yonglin as an important revolutionary achievement and a spark that ignites hope for the future. All future policy experiments can at least be implemented in these rejuvenating counties.
In addition to Fuxing County, more counties are still in a situation where new forces and old forces coexist. There are new villages under the control of peasant associations and old farms under the control of powerful landlords. Both sides coexist. The state of the river.
As time goes by, Su Yonglin will find ways to increase the number of Fuxing counties and increase his control over the population and means of production.
When the economic power increases, the new political power will no longer be easily manipulated by the landlords and gentry. At that time, there will be no obstacles to the final liquidation.
With such a longing, Su Yonglin devoted all his energy to official duties and tried his best to lay a solid foundation for the new Liberation Army regime.
At the same time, after long negotiations, the Southern Song Dynasty paid one million catties of rice and one hundred thousand taels of silver for the Northern Song Dynasty clan, which numbered more than a thousand people, and their descendants, in exchange for these people returning to the Southern Song Dynasty and returning to the country. In Song's arms.
Speaking of this matter, the main person in charge, Tang Situi, was so angry that his teeth itched.
The Liberation Army first let the wind out of the clan's return to the Southern Song Dynasty, and asked the Southern Song Dynasty to set up a crown prince for this purpose. However, when the handover came, when Tang Situi, as the prime minister, rushed to pick him up, Zhao Zuoliang suddenly made a request. People can, but they have to pay.
Tang Situi was stunned on the spot, not knowing what to say.
But Zhao Zuoliang's reasons are very good.
We worked hard to capture Zhongdu, destroy the Kingdom of Jin, and save these clans that you couldn't save. No credit but hard work, plus their travel expenses, food expenses, and resettlement expenses along the way. Can we give you some money? Is it too much?
Indeed, this is not excessive, and it is perfectly reasonable to ask for money.
But the problem is that it was not mentioned earlier, which made the emperors and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty think that this was a free benefit. Who would have thought that it actually had to be paid for!
But now it’s no longer possible to think about it. The words have been spoken and the wind has been released. The entire Lin’an City knows that the descendants of the royal family who fell into the enemy’s hands are coming back. At this time, they suddenly can’t talk about coming back. Isn’t that a joke?
It was a huge blow to the reputation of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to let people know that they thought the Emperor of the Song Dynasty cared more about money than his family.
Tang Si had no choice but to hold back his anger and negotiate with Zhao Zuoliang.
Zhao Zuoliang opened his mouth and asked for one million silver. Tang Sihui was so frightened that he immediately counter-offered. The two sides went back and forth, argued hard, and bargained hard. After several rounds of back and forth, they reached a consensus.
The two sides agreed that the Southern Song Dynasty would pay a "hard fee" of one million catties of rice and one hundred thousand taels of silver in exchange for these more than a thousand clan members and their descendants.
After reaching an agreement, of course everyone was happy, but at the banquet afterwards, Tang Situi's expression was not very good.
"Your Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, is really very skillful. These one million catties of rice and one hundred thousand taels of silver are really not small sums."
Tang Sihui toasted to Zhao Zuoliang.
Hearing this, Zhao Zuoliang burst into laughter and said: "The clan members are all nobles of the Tianhuang family. Can their status be measured in money? This is just the hard work of our army!"
Tang Situi was suddenly choked and speechless.
Indeed, this money is only the "hard work fee" of the Liberation Army, not the expenses of the clan members.
Although they were indeed discounted and given to the Jinren as compensation, can their value still be openly discussed now?
And they were really of little value. If the news hadn't spread too quickly and the public response had been too great, Tang Sidei felt that the emperor might not even want them back.
This is also true. Zhao Gou was unhappy in his heart by using this fee to exchange for those useless clan children.
The Tian family was originally indifferent to emotions, and Zhao Ji was a particularly fertile master. He had thirty-eight sons and forty-two daughters, which together could almost form a company.
If these people were comrades-in-arms, they would still have a comradeship, but they were still half-brothers and sisters. Zhao Gou had probably never seen some of the brothers and sisters from birth to death, so what kind of kinship could they talk about?
Moreover, after they come back, they have to settle down and support themselves, which is another expense, adding insult to injury to their already weak finances.
Thinking back to the time when the Song Dynasty had thousands of clans, the monthly cost of raising them was actually higher than the cost of raising officials. An important part of Wang Anshi's reform was forced to solve the financial problem of the clan.
Therefore, after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, some financial officials made private remarks, saying that even if the Jin people made all kinds of mistakes, the only good thing was that they solved the problem of free rice for the clan children.
It can be seen that financial officials definitely did not welcome these people to return to the Southern Song Dynasty.
So after Tang Si went back, what he saw was Zhao Gou's gloomy face.
"The Liberation Army is hateful!"
Zhao Gou slapped the armrest and said angrily: "I'm afraid they have already planned to ask for money and food, but they just kept it secret and waited for us to suddenly attack when we were completely unprepared, leaving us with no way out." Retreatable! Hateful! Hateful!”
It seemed that Zhao Gou was very angry.
