The development and expansion of the landlord class and the establishment and maturity of the imperial examination system are all symbols of the peak of Confucian political power.
If we want to take the place of confrontation, we need the Fuxing Association to become a mature, highly organized academic and political group with definite political goals and guiding ideology.
Only by crushing Confucian groups academically and politically, and making the revival society have an organizational revival society far superior to Confucianism, can it completely replace Confucian groups, and its ideas can replace the rigid dogma of Confucianism and become new.
Su Yong-lin is ready to say that the Renaissance Association will be built into an academic and political group, and through academic commitment and political organization, it will become an ideological and political group that can compete with the increasingly rigid Confucian groups.
In order to achieve this goal, Su Yonglin will take some time to write every day, sum up what he knows and sees, and the revival will inject soul.
This stall Zhao Xirui came from Shandong.
Since Yan Hongliang invaded the south, Su Yonglin released Zhao Xirui from the rear and never let her fight with her. Su Yonglin himself did not have the confidence to win the war.
Later, he won, but the front line was in an emergency, and he didn’t dare to take Zhao Xirui to Zhongdu. It was not until June that Su Yonglin sent someone to Linyi, South Shandong Province to take Zhao Xirui to Zhongdu.
Zhao Xirui came to Zhongdu and had a showdown with Su Yonglin that night.
It turned out that Zhao Xirui was not idle when she was arranged by Su Yonglin.
At the beginning, when the war was unstable, Su Yonglin prayed every day, praying to the Buddha with trepidation, almost asking for everything she could, and finally winning, she was not so worried, except for her daily correspondence with Su Yonglin.
In her spare time, Zhao Xirui reads some miscellaneous books and makes some needlework to pass the time.
She is quite happy about it, because she used to live the same way. She likes this kind of quiet reading as a female red day, which makes her feel at peace.
One day in April, Su Yonglin wrote to Zhao Xirui asking her to help sort out the many treasures she had brought from her hometown, so Zhao Xirui began to help Su Yonglin sort them out.
When sorting Su Yonglin, Zhao Xirui accidentally found Su Yonglin’s manuscript packed and sent back to the rear before the war.
I didn’t intend to look at it, but out of curiosity, Zhao Xirui picked up a piece of paper and glanced at it.
She didn’t stop after one look.
Chapter 533 Su Yonglin’s eyes can see
At first, Zhao Xirui didn’t intend to look at it, but she glanced at the paper and saw that Su Yonglin was nine years old. Out of curiosity about her husband’s childhood, Zhao Xirui decided to continue looking.
But she didn’t expect that this was not the beginning of Su Yonglin’s diary as a child, but the beginning of subverting the old world.
At the beginning, Su Yonglin described her affluent childhood life and once vulgar ideals, which made Zhao Xirui feel very interesting and felt that her husband was once a layman.
But in the middle part of Su Yonglin’s conversation, he began to describe the divided world he saw in his eyes.
On the one hand, bureaucrats and landlords live a happy life, on the other hand, the people at the bottom are frozen and starved in the snow.
Su Yonglin was very shocked and confused by the two completely different living conditions of the landlords and peasants, so there was a problem in his manuscript.
Why do farmers who are idle in the four seas starve to death?
Su Yonglin calculated in detail the grain demand of a family of five for a whole year and the normal grain output of 10 mu and 20 mu of land, and he was very confused at the conclusion.
In ordinary years, there are more than ten acres of land and five farmers produce enough food, and there is still a lot of surplus for farmers to eat and reproduce.
But why did he often see farmers go bankrupt, become landless refugees and finally starve to death when he traveled all over the southeast coastal areas in ordinary years?
Is it because they are not hardworking enough, or is it because God doesn’t have the honor to let the crops fail?
Neither
Su Yonglin also described in detail that he witnessed a tax collection process in a small town in a county.
He recorded clearly the process of the petty officials arbitrarily raising the tax amount and the peasants begging but being beaten, and also noted that this was the third time besides the normal tax.
In addition to the normal taxation of the imperial court, these officials will also make excuses for various reasons to increase their faction and constantly draw blood from farmers to fill their deep caves of desire.
This is not too fierce for farmers.
So Su Yonglin got a guess.
It’s not that farmers are not hardworking enough or that God doesn’t honor them that they don’t have enough food to eat.
They normally produce enough food to keep them full and warm. It is because of the intervention of external forces that farmers are robbed of most of the food they produce, which leads to their starvation and starvation.
He called this process exploitation.
Zhao Xirui continued to look back. From Su Yonglin’s nine-year-old account, he saw his twelve-year-old account. Looking at Su Yonglin’s record, he was shocked by more than 30 cases of forced taxation by the government.
Most of them are caused by man-made disasters, some magical practices of local officials or corrupt practices, which lead to the loss of the treasury, and for fear of being pursued face to face, they add taxes to farmers under various pretexts to make up for the financial losses
By this time, Su Yonglin’s thought has further evolved from deep sympathy and deep resistance to lead these farmers to eat their stomachs through armed struggle.
He has a political framework, and farmers can’t eat their stomachs no matter how hard they farm the land, because this system won’t let them eat their stomachs.
Unless there is an adventure to become a landlord or a scholar at home to achieve a social class jump, it is impossible to turn over and be the master.
But whether it’s becoming a landlord or having a scholar at home is a small probability event, and the social promotion channel is narrow.