The local Renaissance Association branch contacted the local township farmers' association and village farmers' association in accordance with the headquarters' requirements.
The peasant associations of each village organized villagers' self-defense forces of varying numbers, led by the presidents of each township's peasant association, and following the unified dispatch of the director of the Fuxing Association branch to go to the farm occupied by the group of landlords and gentry.
Regarding this sudden action, some people did not respond in time and had no choice but to kill them, but some people were not willing to die.
Seeing that there was no possibility of reconciliation, they broke the bank, bought people's hearts with money, and asked the servants who looked after the home to protect them from the siege and fled south.
According to the accounts of those who were later arrested, they felt that there was no way to survive in the Ming Dynasty. The emperor wanted them to die, but they did not want to die, so they had no choice but to run to the Southern Song Dynasty. Moreover, they heard that the policies of the Southern Song Dynasty were relatively tolerant at the local level, so they might be able to survive.
So I packed up my belongings and took my family with me to prepare to go to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Su Yonglin was angry and funny about this matter.
Flee south?
Can the Southern Song Dynasty protect them?
If they really fled south, according to the Zhao Guan family's behavior, the Southern Song Dynasty would take the initiative to send them back without Su Yonglin's intervention.
Oh, Zhao Gou is not the emperor now, he is the Supreme Emperor, but... he still has some influence, right?
Su Yonglin did not think that Zhao Kan would go against him because of a group of fleeing landlords and gentry, and would even hesitate to start a war.
Of course, their escape to the south was not fast enough, but the Fuxing Association moved faster. Soon, the armed villagers' self-defense force launched an action and started a confrontation with the team of servants who were guarding the home.
It has to be said that although these villagers' self-defense forces have relatively crude weapons and equipment, they are all trained under the supervision of regular officers. Every village with a villagers' self-defense force will receive military training from professional officers on a regular basis.
Even if you are not that elite, you have learned the art of battle formations and know how to coordinate attacks. It is not that difficult to fight against those gangster guards who mainly rely on their personal bravery and the reputation of their masters to bully men and women. things.
And there are really many villagers’ self-defense forces.
It feels like there are obviously no Ming troops stationed here, but as long as the local Renaissance organization gives an order, countless "Ming troops" suddenly appear here, carrying weapons and forming a powerful "army".
The guards who protected the family wanted to break out of the siege, but they were defeated in the blink of an eye and were soon submerged in the vast ocean of the People's War.
The landowners and gentry who failed to resist were either killed or captured, their homes were ransacked, they were tied up and paraded, and the whole village was called on to watch.
The revival members took out all the land deeds and tenants' deeds of sale that they had found from their homes, read them one by one, and then burned them.
"These land deeds, as well as the tenant contracts between you and these landlords, have all been invalidated! From today on, you are no longer their tenants, you don't have to rely on others, and you don't have to look at their faces to live your life!
They can no longer let you starve and freeze with just a word, they can no longer increase your rent at will, and they can no longer give you 60-40, 70-30, or even 80-20! You only need to pay a very small agricultural tax to the Ming Dynasty, and then everything will be yours! "
"The house is yours! The land is yours! The cattle are yours! The donkeys and mules are yours! The farm tools used for farming are also yours! They are all yours!"
"They belong to you! The Ming Emperor wants to return these things to you now!"
"These bastards bully men and women and do all kinds of evil. They trample you like cattle and horses. Today, we are here to vent your anger and let them receive the punishment they deserve!"
The revival members and the peasant self-defense forces organized by the peasant association tied up these formerly aloof landlords and gentry like trapped piglets, and some even hung them up. They took off their upper body clothes, smeared them with soil, and then whipped them with whips. .
While beating, they were made to scream in agony, so that their prestige and face were disgraced, and the inviolable image they had created in daily life was completely destroyed in the hearts of the tenant farmers.
Once the inviolable image collapses, fear will disappear. Without the suppression of fear, the anger in the heart will naturally explode.
The tenants roared angrily. Looking at the old man being beaten, their eyes sparkled with brilliance that they had never seen before. They shouted and shouted. They had never been as happy and excited as they were today since they were born. Pass.
After being beaten for a while, the first step of the parade was over.
The second step of the plan begins.
Complain.
The revival members stood on the high platform and pulled up the tenant farmer who was shouting the loudest and most excitedly, and asked him to tell everyone about his cruel past of oppression.
The tenant farmers held the hands of the revival members as if they were reborn parents. With tears in their eyes and runny noses, they told about their miserable past, how they became tenant farmers and how they bullied them into not having enough food and clothing. It's not warm, how do you usually work like a cow or a horse for them, and so on.
When talking about the sad place, they burst into tears and knelt on the stage and cried and howled. People on the stage and off the stage could easily empathize and cried together. When they cried, the revival members would point the finger at being hanged. of old men.
"It's them! It's their existence that makes you suffer so much! Unless they are completely eliminated, this suffering will never end, from generation to generation, until we have no descendants!
They will never show any mercy! Absolutely not! So what do we do to live a good life? What can I do to stop suffering? There is only one answer, kill these bastards who eat our flesh and drink our blood! ! "
The Renaissance members on the stage took the lead in shouting slogans, and the farmers in the Peasants' Self-Defense Force also shouted slogans. Finally, the tenant farmers in the audience were also inspired and chanted slogans together.
The complaining stage is over.
Then comes the final stage, beheading.
The gossips in the old men's homes, the normally pampered old men and their wives were all brought out and knelt in a row. The peasants from the Self-Defense Forces holding swords stood behind them and sent them away with full of anger and deep hatred. Entering the reincarnation that cannot be reincarnated.
After the landlords were eliminated, the Renaissance forces fully entered the farm, organized the farmers to establish their own farmers' association, and elected the most respected person as the president. The Renaissance members served as instructors, measured the land in the village, and redistributed it.
The power of the landlords and gentry in the four counties was wiped out, and the criminal wealthy businessmen were arrested and destroyed. All power in the four counties was controlled by the county governments and peasant associations under the control of the Renaissance Society.
The whole process only took two or three days, and the power of the four counties had been updated and iterated.
Su Yonglin expressed his approval and satisfaction with the Renaissance Association's increasingly proficient methods of seizing power.
However, to seize is to seize, and after seizing, there is still construction. If there is no good construction, it is impossible to have a stable political power, and sooner or later it will be overthrown.
During this process, Su Yonglin personally went to a village to instruct the village instructors on what to do and how to establish a mature and functioning farmers' association.
And the conditions are slightly better now than in the past.
In the past, a village peasant association could only have one instructor at most. This instructor had to be responsible for many things, including writing reports and acting as an accountant. Many things needed to be done personally, so that some instructors were exhausted from traveling back and forth between two villages.
But things are different now. Now the Fuxing Association can draw on more manpower. A farmers' association can be assigned two or three Fuxing members with considerable cultural and mathematical foundations to help the farmers' association handle a series of complicated affairs at the beginning.
Later, they will also take on important tasks such as dissemination of farming technology, literacy, and organizing farmers to carry out activities.
After Su Yonglin conducted an on-site inspection, he was quite satisfied with the grassroots work of the Renaissance Association. As long as there was no corruption problem, his setup would bring extremely powerful grassroots mobilization capabilities to the entire Ming Dynasty.
This mobilization ability allowed him to realize the major project of repairing the Yellow River, and also allowed him to promote the historical process of destroying the Song Dynasty in the future.
After inspecting the villages where farmers' associations had just been established, Su Yonglin also went to inspect more mature farms that had already been established to inspect the operation of local farmers' associations and the production and living conditions of farmers.
