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Five hundred and forty-five lighthouses of civilization in the region

In October of the 30th year of Shaoxing, the Restoration Army regime had organized people under the jurisdiction of Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hedong and Yanyun to complete the autumn harvest task and began to count the grain harvests in various places.

The tax departments and personnel of the Food and Pay Department under the General Affairs Bureau also began tax tasks and reserve tasks, and at the same time judged where the food gap was large and it was good for counterpart support.

At the same time, restorative construction tasks in various places are also gradually underway.

During this period, Su Yonglin had begun to play the role of the Revival Society.

For prefectures and counties where old bureaucrats are in charge of officials, he ordered them to implement administrative orders through the General Affairs Bureau through the General Affairs Bureau's channels.

This is a simple administrative order, which is controlled by the entire bureaucratic organization and implemented to supervise.

For [Fuxing County], which is completely controlled by the Fuxing members, he ordered Fuxing County to take the role of Fuxing County through the Fuxing Association, and made Fuxing County take the lead and accelerated construction. At the same time, he asked the Fuxing Association organization to supervise it.

Because some problems will inevitably arise in the process of performing government affairs, Su Yonglin uses the General Affairs Bureau to supervise general prefectures and counties.

In dealing with the issue of Fuxing County, Su Yonglin asked the Fuxing Associations of each county to assume part of the responsibilities.

After the war, Su Yonglin invested a lot of energy and funds to build the Revival Association, and set up a county-level branch in every Fuxing County, and each county-level branch would arrange a secretary.

Su Yonglin clearly stipulated that the branch secretary has the power to supervise the officials of local government organizations and has the mission of supervising every move in their administrative process.

Once a local official who is a member of the Revival member has malfeasance, he or she can directly intervene and correct it and deal with it within the Revival Association.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the local administrative chief has a certain power of action and not completely become a subordinate of the local clerk, the administrative chief officer who is a member of the Revival Association can serve as the deputy secretary of the Revival Association branch and have the right to defend the clerk's actions.

Su Yonglin wanted to conduct political experiments in Fuxing County, realize his political ideas in Fuxing County, and accumulate experience for the comprehensive promotion of this political model in the future.

Su Yonglin did not want the government to become the only power institution, so he wanted to set up another agency that did not belong to the government as a check and balance party, and only had the power to supervise the government, so as to enhance administrative efficiency and the integrity of officials.

At the same time, in order to avoid excessive intervention of the Revival Association branch and affect local administration and endanger people's livelihood, he also gave the administrative chief authority relevant power, so that the secretary of the Revival Association must be targeted and cannot exercise supervision power at will.

This is a restriction on both sides.

This is an experiment, a very meaningful experiment. In Su Yonglin's view, such an experiment will be very meaningful to future countries no matter where it will go.

Moreover, the existence of Fuxing County allowed Su Yonglin to train instructors and enlightened masses on a large scale in Fuxing County. Once the time comes, the old bureaucrats and gentry can see what the people's war is.

However, this idea is too early to be considered. Su Yonglin has controlled most of the Jin Dynasty's hometown and controlled 552 counties, but Fuxing County has only seventy, almost one-seventh of the entire occupied area.

All the remaining areas now have to use the former Jin Dynasty bureaucrats and Central Plains gentry to serve as facades.

This kind of dynasty change of the city wall to change the king's flag made Su Yonglin very unhappy, but he also knew that it was not easy for his current strength to control seventy counties.

After signing a peace agreement with the Southern Song Dynasty, the threat from the Southern Song Dynasty has dropped directly to zero, and time has completely belonged to Su Yonglin.

So in the days to come, he can increase the number of Fuxing County and the actual control area in various ways, and gradually expand the power of the Fuxing Society.

During this period, Su Yonglin was needed to launch a political struggle as an emperor, so that the three major political forces in the currently occupied area could reach a dog-biting state, making them unable to free up their hands to deal with the weak Revival Society.

For the areas controlled by the Revival Society, Su Yonglin established a series of policies such as literacy, education, and ideological propaganda. Through the Revival Society, different education funds are provided to these and other regions, in order to cultivate more reliable political workers.

At the moment when time has been obtained, this action seems to be at ease for Su Yonglin.

In the administrative field, Su Yonglin opened two lines between the General Affairs Bureau and the Revival Association. In the military field, Su Yonglin also fully played the role of the General Affairs Bureau and the Revival Association.

Even a traditional emperor would have a military aristocratic group as his backing when he founded the country, based on this, establish a national regime, and reach a balance with the civilian government to build a model of dynasty operation.

With this as a reason, Su Yonglin could of course cut off any possibility of reaching out to the army.

All the people in charge of military affairs in the General Affairs Bureau were the former members of the Staff Office in the army, and all of them were members of the Revival Society. Su Yonglin would not relax at all in the military.

Previously, because the army expanded too quickly, the main force of 100,000 elites soared to 500,000. Too many people of varying quality were involved in the army, which directly led to the failure of the offensive and defensive battle in Tongguan.

Su Yonglin then set off a craze for the army, and used various means to control the total number of troops to a scale of 400,000.

One hundred thousand officers and soldiers were sorted out, either went home to farm, or scattered into the villages in Yanyun, or transferred to the auxiliary soldiers.

The military reorganization was completed in more than four months from June to October, and the reorganization of the Five Major Corps and a Hu Ben Army was completed. The next step was of course to resolute cultural and political education and military training.

In this regard, Su Yonglin brought out all the old foundations. Through the complaints and public trial meetings, the new soldiers were surrendered, and the new soldiers quickly integrated into the group, through ideological and cultural education, they agreed with the concept of the Restoration Army, and then through military training, they mastered military skills.

For an army that can eat three meals a day, under such training, a major change can take place in half a year, a transformation can be achieved in one year, and a iron army that can never be defeated and cannot be defeated in three years.

Su Yonglin was quite experienced in the infantry, and in terms of cavalry, because he took over the [group herders] set up by the Jin Dynasty on the grassland north of Yanshan Mountain, Su Yonglin not only obtained a lot of war horses, but also obtained Khitan herders who were good at raising horses.

In this field, the ethnic policy of the Restoration Army was involved.

Because Su Yonglin focuses on the policy of great ethnic alliance, except for the Jurchens, everyone is a friend, so he incorporates all ethnic groups such as the Khitans, Xi people, and Bohai people into the rule.

And this brings about a new problem.

The Han people in Yanyun area are considered mainstream, and the Han people are definitely not mainstream, while the Khitans and Xi people are the mainstream.

However, at present, one thing is very beneficial to Su Yonglin.

Han culture occupies an absolute dominant position in the entire East Asia region and can be regarded as a beacon of civilization in the region.

Interracial groups and regimes may not have any good feelings for the Han regime, but they are full of good feelings for the Han culture.

Not to mention other ethnic groups, just the Khitans and Xi people, the elite groups among them are proud to master the Han culture. There are definitely many people who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and there are definitely many people who live a Han-style life.

Su Yonglin had no intention of helping the Khitans and Xi people carry forward their national culture, and of course he would not deliberately restrict or suppress their national culture.

He will only give full play to the advantages of Han culture in various fields such as politics, economy and military, so that Han culture becomes the absolute mainstream, and let them take the initiative to move closer to Han culture.

In this regard, I really have to thank the Tang Empire that carried forward Han culture.

Although they gave away a lot of things, cultivated powerful external enemies, and used the Jiedu system to destroy the political situation, they also used Han culture to deeply influence the surrounding ethnic groups.

So when the Han people rose up again and were about to dominate East Asia, the elites of all ethnic groups around them had long been deeply influenced by Han culture.

Even if they establish a country and become the ruling class, they will unconsciously trust Han culture, adopt Han culture, admire Han culture, and open the imperial examinations, embark on the road of sinicization.

This is true for the Liao Kingdom and so is the Jin Kingdom.

This created a good opportunity for Su Yonglin to solve ethnic issues.
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