The report Su Yonglin received described the style problems of some political cadres assigned to serve as instructors of farmers' associations in grassroots villages and some presidents of rural farmers' associations.
The report said that because the Renaissance organization showed strong organizational and action capabilities at the grassroots level, and the Ming government's government had a high credibility, farmers had great trust in the instructors sent by the Renaissance Society and the township officials appointed by the higher-level organization department of the Renaissance Society. President of the Farmers Association.
This situation has greatly promoted the relationship between farmers and farmers' associations, and also enabled farmers' associations to organize farmers to do major things to the greatest extent.
However, as time goes by, situations have emerged at the grassroots level in some places where village peasant association instructors and township peasant association presidents act arbitrarily and decide all village and township affairs with just one word.
According to visits and investigations by the Ministry of Supervision, the establishment of many village peasant associations is mainly due to the work of the political workers of the Renaissance Association. In the process, they have established their absolute credibility and authority over the farmers, and can even bypass the peasant associations. Making decisions on rural affairs.
However, the president of the local farmers' association and the farmers' association composed of villagers, who were later elected by the farmers, were empty-framed and became the executive agency after the instructors made decisions, without other powers.
Because of their lack of knowledge, for a long time, the establishment and production of farmers' associations were solely undertaken by instructors, which required concentration of power and a high degree of voice.
In the beginning, this did more good than harm.
Because only the instructor has the ability to set up the farmers' association and organize everyone to complete the work of land distribution, registration and production restoration, others cannot.
Therefore, at this stage, large and small peasant associations were established, and the Ming regime was able to highly integrate grassroots forces and accomplish many things that were simply unthinkable in the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, with the vigorous promotion of literacy education in the past few years, farmers have gradually escaped ignorance, acquired certain knowledge, and developed certain thinking abilities. However, the instructors in the village seem to have not completed their own transformation from being parents.
He is here to assist in the work, not the emperor of this village, and he is not here to boss everyone around.
However, this is the actual situation. Because of the instructors' great contribution in establishing the farmers' association, allocating land, restoring production and guiding literacy, the villagers, including the president of the farmers' association, are accustomed to obey his instructions unconditionally.
Su Yonglin's initial design of the farmers' association system stipulated that the leadership of the farmers' association should be elected by all farmers and that decisions on rural affairs require a vote by the entire farmers' association, which were almost never implemented.
Of course, there were indeed no conditions for this system to work in the beginning. It was already the limit for everyone to rely on inertia to nominate someone among the farmers who everyone could admire as the president of the farmers' association.
But as time goes by and more farmers become literate, this situation is changing.
Some instructors and farmers' association presidents have conflicts with farmers because of their overly strong attitude and blind compliance with superiors' instructions without consideration for the actual situation of farmers.
For example, Su Yonglin's financial situation was greatly improved due to his victory in many wars, so he formulated a large-scale infrastructure policy, requiring all localities to assess the situation, formulate project plans based on actual needs, and strive to build sufficient infrastructure in a short period of time to combat natural disasters. .
As a result, when this order was spread to the local area, it became a call to work hard at all costs. We must complete water conservancy projects and roads before natural disasters arrive. This is His Majesty's call!
As a result, the government orders were passed down one level at a time, and the requirements at each level became more urgent. At the township and village levels, the township farmers' associations began to require the village-level farmers' associations to build roads and water conservancy projects within a time limit.
The government order was issued quickly and the funds were received very simply. Then the village was asked to use labor force to build water conservancy and roads. They felt that this was something that was beneficial to them, and they must be very happy.
But in fact, the government order was delivered during the busy farming period. Farmers were still busy cultivating their own land and doing some household chores. They had no time and could not keep up with the construction schedule, so they could not spare enough labor force to do the work.
Some people had a good idea and contributed labor force to help build water conservancy projects and roads. As a result, their farm work could not keep up with the progress, and the summer and autumn crops were not maintained well.
However, some people are cheating and do not let their main labor force help build water conservancy projects and roads. They are mainly busy with their own farm work. Their own farm work is done well and the harvest is good.
As a result, the farmers in the village also had conflicts. They felt that it was unfair and the village farmers' association could not coordinate well, so they went on strike one after another, clamoring to take care of their own land first.
In this case, the reasonable approach should be for the village farmers' association to strive and negotiate with the higher-level departments to adjust the time and reduce the burden on farmers.
Or if you have enough labor force, you can negotiate with the farmers and organize part of the labor force to collectively cultivate our land to ensure that everyone's agricultural harvest will not be delayed, while the other part of the labor force will go to build projects to meet the needs of superiors, both ways.
However, at the actual implementation level, such situations rarely occur. Instead, some instructors and rural farmers' association presidents force subordinates to complete goals in order to gain credit and please their superiors, regardless of actual needs.
In order to please their superiors and demonstrate their achievements and abilities, these village instructors and township farmers' association presidents forced farmers to work regardless of their actual conditions, which made the farmers very dissatisfied.
Even in some places, village instructors forced farmers to work. The farmers couldn't bear it, so they supported the president of the farmers' association and drove away the instructors.
Or some instructors who don't want to see farmers suffering lead farmers to petition the township farmers' association, causing conflicts between the village farmers' association and the township farmers' association.
The two sides had many quarrels in the county. The officials in the county were divided on this kind of thing. They didn't know whether to consider the public sentiment or the instructions from superiors. It was difficult to make decisions for a while. They could only continue to react upwards and lacked the ability to adapt. .
Such incidents were relatively rare at first and did not attract the attention of the higher-level Renaissance branch. Later, as the Yellow River Project progressed, these problems suddenly intensified.
Finally, with the anti-corruption issue in Shandong, this type of problem has also been noticed by the Ministry of Supervision.
Kong Maojie noticed this situation through reports from the Renaissance Association branches in some prefectures and counties, and then sent people to visit and investigate the relevant areas. After several months of fieldwork, he wrote this report using the collected materials and submitted it to Su Yonglin.
The materials listed in detail some of the chaos in the local area after Su Yonglin issued the decree on the large-scale infrastructure construction plan.
After reading it, Su Yonglin fell into deep thinking.
Because of the decentralized and fragile nature of the small-scale peasant economy, its model cannot withstand large-scale natural disasters, and water conservancy projects in local areas cannot hedge against huge natural disasters.
Once a large-scale natural disaster occurs, people under the small-scale peasant economy will be devastated and starved to death.
In China, a land where large-scale natural disasters and climatic abnormalities occur about every five years, the small-scale farmer economy faces huge uncertainties.
In this case, using collective agriculture to hedge risks caused by natural disasters will be an effective way to effectively ensure the personal safety of farmers and the safety of food production, and can also focus on building necessary water conservancy projects to respond to disasters.
Therefore, Su Yonglin has been working hard to promote the establishment of farmers' associations, and has also promoted the formulation of laws on collective agricultural economy at the central level.
He planned to introduce a collective agricultural law in the future, formalize the emergency product of farmers' associations in the form of legal provisions, and promote agricultural collectivization nationwide.
However, before that, if this common situation of monotonous opinions cannot be solved and the operation mode of grassroots farmers' association organizations cannot be improved, it will inevitably affect the subsequent construction of the collective agricultural economy.
From this, Su Yonglin thought of a key question.
What he focuses on is the millennium change and the great revolution. Without workers as the vanguard, his organization can only be the vanguard, leading the scattered farmers to gather as a whole and move forward into the future.
In this process, if his vanguard cannot continue to move forward resolutely, maintain firm belief, and guide the right direction, the consequences will be disastrous for the Ming Dynasty.
Even taking a big step back to the feudal reincarnation is considered good luck.
Compared with many other countries later, Su Yonglin faced a more severe situation, because the number of farmers was larger, the level of science and technology was lower, and the literacy rate was also lower. To complete radical changes, the requirements for the vanguard were too great.
When an army fights, the vanguard must be the most elite. It must not only open the way, but also defeat the opponent's vanguard. This can boost the morale of one's own side. If the vanguard is defeated, the army will also have a heavy psychological shadow.
To be honest, Su Yonglin couldn't afford the consequences of the vanguard losing its direction.
To ensure that the vanguard does not lose its direction, system construction and theoretical construction are of course very complicated. Among the numerous principles of system construction and theoretical construction, there are two basic principles that can never be violated or abandoned.
One is democratic centralism.
Second, we must rely closely on the people.
These two basic principles Su Yonglin are written in the regulations of the Renaissance Association, and every Renaissance member should know it.
But when it comes to execution, Su Yonglin is still lagging behind.
So most people may know it but don't know why.
They know what simple election means. As for elections that require technical support and rules, they may not know how to run them.
Similarly, it will also take time for them to implement these two principles and Su Yonglin's patience.
This was something that could not be solved in a short time, but it was still his problem, so at the subsequent central meeting of the Renaissance, Su Yonglin conducted a self-examination and made a report to the participating members.
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