Su Yonglin requested that the Renaissance organization continue to expand, and the form of organizational expansion was to start from the bottom.
During the war, this method was mainly used for the Jurchen landowners and other ethnic groups who opposed the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army dealt with them with fairness and justice.
But now that the country has been established and order is slowly being restored, wouldn't it be a bit inappropriate to use such means to seize land, manpower and material resources under the control of the traditional government and gentry at this time?
That would greatly affect the stability and unity of the Ming Empire, undermine the political stability of the Ming Empire, and arouse the attention and worry of a large number of officials. The Fuxinghui was obviously not ready to take over the national power, nor was it ready to take over the national administration. ability.
Forcibly advancing land reform will trigger civil strife in the Ming Empire and put the newly stabilized Central Plains situation in crisis.
However, the inability to continue to promote land reform and maintain the revolutionary nature of the Renaissance was also a huge blow to the Renaissance.
The negative impact of Su Yonglin's course of action to quickly overthrow the Jin Kingdom and quickly establish the Ming Empire was finally reflected at this moment.
At the central meeting, some more radical members of the Renaissance asked the senior members of the Central Committee of the Renaissance about this issue and asked them whether they had considered this issue.
On the one hand, there is the revolutionary demand of the Renaissance, and on the other hand, the stability of the country's political situation. Which one is more important, and how to arrange it?
To be honest, at this moment, Su Yonglin was a little bit complaining about the policy he had set in the first place.
In order to quickly overthrow the Jin Kingdom and seize the window period in which he could overthrow the Jin Kingdom, he tolerated too much and gave the Renaissance not enough time to develop.
After all, he did not expect that the decadent Jin Empire regime would not be able to last even four years.
The Ming Empire was established, and his personal almost divine authority was established. However, the power of the Renaissance was still weak, the number of revival members was still sparse, and the continued promotion of land reform in the Central Plains and Yanyun areas was curbed.
If he could extend his action time, if the Jin Empire was not destroyed so quickly, if he could develop members on a large scale during the Southern Song Dynasty...
There are too many what-ifs for Su Yonglin to regret and imagine.
But the fact was right in front of him, and there was no room for him to regret it.
Imagination is always beautiful, reality is always cruel. Everything now is the optimal solution obtained by Su Yonglin after overcoming all difficulties. There is no better solution than this.
At least, he has the supreme power and can use this supreme power to do something.
"I know that some of you are dissatisfied and feel that our actions are limited because we accommodate too much noise, but I also hope you know that getting to where we are today is the result of our persistent struggle. The best possible outcome.”
Su Yonglin stood up and made his own speech at the central meeting.
"Our business is the first of its kind in China, and it is also a brand-new experiment that has never been done before. No one provides us with a reference, so we can only go forward step by step to find the best solution we can achieve.
Temporary obstacles are inevitable. In order to establish the Ming Dynasty, we must endure such things, but this does not mean that we will stop moving forward because of this. If we stop moving forward for such reasons, the establishment of the Renaissance will be meaningless. . "
Su Yonglin expressed his attitude and proposed to use some seemingly legal methods to help the Renaissance Association further expand its power.
"Except for the Guanzhong area and Liaodong area that can be expanded using our usual methods, other vast areas have restored normal order. Continuing to use the original methods will cause unnecessary consequences, so I think that my power as the emperor will be The key to our defeat.”
Su Yonglin's statement aroused discussion among everyone.
Tian Guizi asked Su Yonglin: "Chairman, what do you mean?"
"They made me the emperor just because they wanted me to protect their interests, but the emperor is not their puppet, and as the emperor, my power is unlimited. As long as I use legitimate excuses to implement some laws, we There is an opportunity to break the situation.”
Su Yonglin sneered: "For example, I can formulate and promulgate a law that states that the landowner's grain harvest from the tenants who rent the land must not exceed 40% of the total grain harvested by the tenants."
After everyone heard this, they looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all stunned.
Su Yonglin's desire to implement this policy was not a sudden move, nor did he act without any preparation.
Earlier, before he went north to rebel, he sent Su Yin to Shandong, Hebei and other places to investigate the local folk customs.
At that time, in addition to some military intelligence about the Jin Army, Su Yonglin also got a lot of information from Su Yin himself, which gave Su Yonglin an in-depth understanding of some local folk customs.
For example, in some places in eastern Shandong at that time, Su Yin saw incidents where tenants collectively protested against the landlords because the rent was too high. The troubles were so loud that there were even bloody conflicts, triggering the intervention of the government.
At first, he didn't know how high the rent was, but after asking about it, he found out that it was actually 73%.
Seven landlords and three tenants.
It is said that there was a flood in some parts of the Yellow River at that time, which flooded some places in Henan, causing local refugees to flee to Shandong for food.
When there are more people, there is a need for work and food. The government ignores this and looks at them to fend for themselves. The refugees cannot get help from the government and do not dare to rebel, so they can only find their own way out.
As a result, labor supply exceeded demand in Shandong.
There were few landowners who needed tenants, but many tenants who needed land.
So the original 50/50 agreement was broken.
Because of the massive increase in the labor force, shrewd landlords sensed opportunities and immediately demanded to increase their share of the share, raising the rent from five to five to forty-six, some to thirty-seven, and even some who were unscrupulous. The landowner asked for a 28% share.
In order to obtain land to cultivate and earn a living, the refugees began to engage in constant infighting. When they became involved, they completely lost their bargaining rights and their rights and interests were suppressed to the extreme.
In the end, those tenants who insisted on renting were driven out by the landlords and replaced by refugees who accepted unfair treatment.
Some of the refugees were signed into tenant agreements with extremely low distribution ratios and became serfs of the landlords. The landlords made a lot of money and drank their blood.
Although this can solve the problem of food for a while and allow them to survive temporarily, it will be very detrimental to the tenants in the long run.
Soon these new tenants found that they could not support such a high commission, and they worked so hard every day that they only received meager rations. It was even difficult to feed their families, and some even starved to death without receiving relief. , very miserable.
Under such circumstances, if God doesn't do his best, people will really starve to death on a large scale.
Protests arose.
The landlords shouted in their mouths [When I open my eyes, hundreds and thousands of people are waiting for me to serve] [How many mouthfuls will fall into my mouth] [The landlord's family has no food left], while hiding in their homes and feasting, He has a fat head, big ears and a rosy complexion, and his little wife has married one house after another.
In comparison, the skinny farmers with no food are really miserable.
This phenomenon attracted Su Yin. Su Yin did some in-depth investigations and recorded the tenancy situation in many places in Shandong. Things like 46 points, 37 points, 28 points, etc. were reported as less important information. Su Yonglin.
Therefore, Su Yonglin knew very well how these landlords exploited the tenants, exploiting them until there was not even a trace of flesh and blood left.
"In good years, land rents are often more reasonable. Few people flee and few starve to death. Landlords will not deliberately raise rents to make things difficult for tenants. Tenants can also eat a few more mouthfuls of food. But once there is a famine somewhere, the situation will not be the same. Same.
Once there is a famine in some places, food prices will inevitably rise. Landowners who are nearby will smell business opportunities and start hoarding to make a fortune. They will need more food, which will raise the rent of tenants and increase the income from tenants. Exploit more food on your hands.
What's worse is that once refugees flee to a certain place, some unscrupulous landlords will threaten their tenants. If they are unwilling to raise the tenant rent, they will take back their land and sublease their land to those who have fled. refugees coming.
The hungry eyes of those refugees were green, so why did they care that there were so many? Having land to cultivate and a bowl of food to eat were more important than anything else, so they didn't care about rent. So the tenants with high rents drove away the tenants with low rents.
To put it in a sentence that everyone can understand, this situation is similar to bad money driving out good money. Because the land is in the hands of the landlord, the tenants are absolutely weak and have basically no bargaining power. Whether they have enough to eat or not depends entirely on the landlord. Conscience, and there are too few conscientious landowners.
At this point, tenant rents in some places are getting higher and higher, the living environment of tenants is getting worse and worse, the possibility of having enough to eat is getting lower and lower, and the speed of land annexation is getting faster and faster, and the contradiction between landlords and tenants has also become Increasingly sharp. "
Su Yonglin sighed and said, "At this moment, we will enact such a law to break this infinite downward negative cycle, which will definitely cause a nationwide shock."
