One farm after another was destroyed, and one landlord after another was destroyed.
Some of them were killed, some were captured, and then they launched traditional revival performances to destroy the spiritual shackles that bound the peasants.
After the farmers complete their awakening, what awaits them is imprisonment, or being sent to remote areas represented by Jishi Prefecture to build military towns to contribute to the future conquests of the Ming army.
And their land will be nationalized and distributed to farmers for farming, so that farmers can have their own land.
Farmers can settle down once they have land, and after the peasant class, which makes up the vast majority of the population, settles down, social order will also stabilize.
Although the small-scale peasant economy has its backwardness and vulnerability, its rapid and stable nature is also one of the few advantages.
Most people in this era don't have many ideas. As long as they can have a full stomach, other things are not important.
What needs to be made clear is that after the destruction and chaos of the Jin Empire, the current economic model of the Ming Empire is still based on the small-scale peasant economy, and the commodity economy is not the mainstream. The few years of construction initiated by Su Yonglin cannot change the fundamentals of the Ming Empire's economy. nature.
Therefore, the Ming Empire was still a clearly agricultural country. The main source of productivity was agriculture, and the main source of tax revenue was agriculture. Commerce was in the ascendant, and industry was not yet visible.
It is not yet possible for the Ming Empire to transcend the limitations of the times. This road is very long and long.
But it is precisely because of this, precisely because the family has a weak foundation and does not have many pots and pans, that the Ming Empire can withstand Su Yonglin's tossing and his big moves.
Even if he replaces the officials in the cities and eliminates the landlords in the countryside, as long as there is a mouth of food to eat, the rest will not cause any turmoil, and no one will have any thoughts of turmoil.
By the time the news reaches the ears of thoughtful people, it will be over long ago.
This is probably the so-called duality of the times. Few people can read or understand the world. Everyone’s vision is on the surrounding one-third of an acre. The so-called life is to work from sunrise to sunset. This is inherited from the long ancient times. lifestyle.
They naturally long for a stable life, and refuse and are afraid of change. When they take decisive action, they will only long for everything to end quickly and not affect their stable life.
That's it...
Sometimes, Su Yonglin would also think about it this way.
But at this moment, he didn't have much time to think. He was seizing the time to do a very important thing.
Select officials.
The positions left by the old bureaucrats purged by the Great Purge need to be filled.
Some positions can be filled by the original deputy positions and administrative work can be taken up directly, but some cannot and need to be selected from scratch. Su Yonglin needs to personally participate in the selection to appoint some important officials.
For example, for the positions in the Shangshu Province, such as the positions in major departments, after Kong Zheng and others were dealt with, someone still had to do the work. The officials who had not been purged within each department did not even bother to panic, and immediately put in heavy work. At work.
Not to mention other things, the Yellow River will continue to be built, and many things will continue to pour into the central court in Zhongdu, requiring coordination among various departments.
People from all over the country are building roads, cities, training troops, building weapons, and even some matters related to technological development. Not to mention the ministers, the emperor Su Yonglin is also running around and is directly responsible for certain things. , to maintain the normal operation of the court.
Then find time to do personnel work, personally participate in personnel meetings, interview young people from political and legal schools, select qualified and reliable candidates, quickly fill vacant positions, and reduce the burden on other officials.
Su Yonglin was very busy during this period, as if he had become an old scalper, working hard with his head down, for fear that his own mistakes would damage the country's political situation at its most vulnerable moment and affect the overall situation.
Therefore, he did not dare to slack off at all.
As he worked diligently, more and more officials from Fuxing members skipped the imperial examination and were directly and openly assigned to important official positions in the vacant positions by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
They gradually took over various vacant positions in important court departments such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, etc., occupied all these positions, and successfully completed the basic control of these powers.
As time went by, by early July of the third year of Hongwu, the Fuxing members under the leadership of Su Yonglin had basically controlled the entire central court.
The remaining officials who originally belonged to the Shandong Clan, Yanyun Clan, and Foreign Clan were either eliminated or pushed to the margins, reduced to mere errands, and no longer had the energy to influence the political situation.
Not only at the central level, but also at the local level, Yanyun, Liaodong, Hebei, Shandong and other places also lost a large number of old bureaucrats due to this purge. The power of the old bureaucrats in these areas was brutally purged.
Henan Province has been hit long ago, and Su Yonglin will attack Hedong Province, Datong Province and Guanzhong Province next.
The vacant positions were filled by revival members one after another, taking over the positions held by the old bureaucrats and taking full power.
But things are not that simple.
The personnel trained by the Renaissance Association’s own system are not enough to fill such a large vacancy. It is normal for one person to do the work of two or even three people.
But this cannot be maintained for a long time, and the cultivation of talents takes time. Under such circumstances, Su Yonglin targeted the army that was deeply influenced by him.
He planned to select a group of soldiers with high consciousness and sufficient education from within the army to become local grassroots officials, and to fill the vacancies in the local Renaissance branch.
The Ming Army was originally the first group to be influenced by Su Yonglin and the first group to receive literacy education. It can be regarded as one of the groups with the highest cultural level within the Ming Empire and one of the groups with the highest ideological consciousness.
A large number of officials in the Ming Empire who were middle- and high-level revival members were from the military and had fought bloody battles with Su Yonglin earlier.
Although the soldiers in the army have no administrative experience, the grassroots positions of village peasant association instructors and Fuxing Association branches do not require much administrative experience, but are good places to accumulate experience.
So it’s still very suitable for them to do.
They are diligent, obey orders, have strong execution ability, and have absolute faith to do things. If these grassroots positions are not allowed to do it for them, who else can be allowed to do it?
This matter involves all aspects, and the Privy Council, which is in charge of military logistics and daily life, is not suitable to participate.
So Su Yonglin bypassed the Privy Council and directly issued orders to the major corps through the Ministry of Military Affairs under the framework of the Fuxing Meeting, and asked Xin Qiji, deputy director of the Ministry of Military Affairs, to preside over the selection of suitable candidates from the groups of soldiers with higher educational levels in the major corps to transfer careers from the army and go to the army. place.
Xin Qiji agreed very much with this decision. He knew that the cultural level of many soldiers in the Ming army was very high, especially in the ideological field.
So Xin Qiji took on the important task, selected suitable candidates from the Yanyun Corps, and plunged into the work.
The first half of the third year of Hongwu was spent like this. In this short six months, too many things happened both inside and outside the Ming Empire.
In addition to the follow-up affairs of repairing the Yellow River and the Northern Expedition to the Grassland, three major events, including the campaign against Xixia, the anti-corruption campaign in the Yellow River, and the Great Purge, took place in succession. There has been no calm for half a year, and it has been in motion. It can be called a major movement.
But with the great movement in the past six months, the Ming Empire shed its burdens and truly began to make great strides forward. Most of the scum lying on the body sucking blood were wiped out.
It is only a matter of time before they are all wiped out.
Su Yonglin will stand on their corpses to light up the light of humanity in the Ming Dynasty and lead the Ming Dynasty into a new era.
So at this moment, the Ming Empire entered a period of rapid repair and reconstruction.
During such a special period of time, the Southern Song Dynasty was not completely ignorant of what was happening within the Ming Dynasty.
