8 Reality is more often Versailles than Versailles
The Jin Dynasty's policy of enhancing the land was the main reason for the conflict between the Jurchens and the Han people in the Central Plains.
The original intention of this policy was of course to stabilize the rule and migrate the Jurchens south to the Central Plains.
The official document Su Yin heard said that the emperor sent people to various places to detain the original invading official land and the idle pasture land, and granted it to the Jurchen Meng'an Moukehu, who moved south, to farm, so that they could settle down.
In this way, the Jurchens gradually gained a foothold in the Central Plains and increased the stability of the Jin Dynasty's rule.
This is what the official civilized government said on the surface, but in fact, judging from the news Su Yin found out, the local governments of the Jin Dynasty did not do this.
The Jin Dynasty destroyed Song Tai suddenly and had no plan to rule the Han area, so it was necessary to establish a two-son regime in the pseudo-Chu and Qi to make a transition.
In order to avoid further resistance from the Han people, they restrained their looting after the establishment of the pseudo-Qi Dynasty and did not further plunder the Han people in the Central Plains.
As a result, when the Jinting abolished the pseudo-Qi ruled the Central Plains directly and immigrated to the Jurchen household registration, it was found that the Han people had reoccupied a large amount of land to resume production. The Jurchens who moved there lacked means of production and had no land to cultivate.
In order to ensure social stability, Jin Ting believed that the Han people were also people and did not allow them to rob, so he had to go to open up land.
But how difficult is it to open up?
Leveling the land, draining water, digging ditches and building canals, and raising land, it took several years to turn a piece of wasteland into a fertile land that can be used for survival. The Jurchen residents originally lived a life of fishing and hunting, but their agricultural technology was not high, and they were suddenly ordered to move south. How could they cope with such a life?
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Jin, the number of Jurchen household registrations moved south was limited, and this problem was not prominent. During the reign of Wanyan Liang, this situation suddenly intensified.
What Wanyan Liang did in the central government for the time being, and when he fell to the grassroots level, he asked the Jurchens to move to Shandong, and even raised their own travel expenses and arrived within a time limit, otherwise he would be punished.
So the Jurchens who moved south to Shandong even became poor people with no food and clothing, which made the Jurchens resentful towards Jin Ting very severely.
It is naturally impossible for Jin Ting to let the Jurchens die in poverty and illness. They cannot be opened up the land and the emperor's policy of raising land must be implemented. What should I do?
Only [purchase] can the land that the Han people have reclaimed is rented to the Jurchen household registration, and let them farm and live in this way.
This so-called [purchase] is of course a forced purchase.
The information brought back by Su Yin described what he saw—
The officials led troops to the door, drew their swords and put them on the neck of the farmers, stared at them and asked them to sign the transaction contract, and sold the land to the government at a very low price.
The farmer cried and signed the transaction contract, then packed and left the house. The government re-owned and rented the land to the Jurchens.
In this way, the Jurchens got the land and were finally satisfied.
The Han people who lost their land either wandered or could only sell themselves to their original land to become tenant farmers and cultivate land for the Jurchens.
Moreover, not only ordinary farmers, but also big landlords will be treated like this and lose a lot of land and property.
This situation occurred in Hebei and Shandong after the first year of Zhenglong in the Jin Dynasty, making social contradictions in Shandong unprecedentedly sharp.
The original intention of the policy of Kuodi is to stabilize the rule, but if implemented in this way, it may not necessarily stabilize the rule.
The Jurchen household registration only seized some land and supervised some Han people's households. It quickly became a landlord. Not only did it not play much positive role, it also lost its original toughness, became content with the status quo, and quickly became corrupt.
Such negative situations had already occurred during the Jinxizong period and further intensified by the Wanyanliang period.
The large number of Jurchen household registrations moved southwards, resulting in the lack of time for local governments to cover land. Some Jurchens became landlords and began to be rich. Some Jurchens could not queue up and could only continue to be poor. They were full of resentment towards Jinting and were very unhappy.
This situation caused not only the Han peasants and landlords to be dissatisfied with the Jin Ting, but also some Jurchen civilians to be dissatisfied with the imperial court.
So Su Yonglin came to the conclusion.
The rough immigration and policy of the rulers of the Jin Dynasty made Hebei and Shandong add some ethnic conflicts based on the already sharp class contradictions in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In some areas, ethnic conflicts have even temporarily covered up class conflicts and have risen to the main contradiction.
This brought more negative impacts to the Jin Kingdom and did not strengthen the Jin Kingdom's control over the grassroots.
From this, he further realized that the Jin Kingdom had not yet established a firm foothold in the Central Plains and established a solid rule, and the people in the Central Plains did not submit to the Jin Kingdom.
Su Yonglin was very curious about this, so he compared the Jin Kingdom with the Qing Dynasty and found that the reason why the Jin Kingdom did not gain a foothold was because the Northern Song Dynasty was defeated too quickly.
Before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, he fought with the Ming government for many years. Through years of war, he captured a large number of Han people and occupied a large amount of land, and continuously optimized the limitations of his own fishing and hunting tribes. During the Huangtaiji era, the historical process of the transformation from a slave tribe to a feudal regime was basically completed.
The Qing Dynasty entered the pass and defeated Shun and Ming dynasties, which was actually a showdown between feudal regimes, rather than a barbaric victory over civilization.
But Jin destroyed Song really defeated civilization by savagely.
They used ten years to destroy the Liao Kingdom, and only two years after the Liao Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. After three years, Zhao Gou was defeated and he did not dare to look north.
The Northern Song Dynasty was defeated too quickly.
It felt like I was just taking advantage of the Jin people's attention and collapsed in a flash. Not to mention that the Song people themselves did not expect, the Jin people were probably confused.
When Wanyan and others were on the adrenaline, they chased them all the way, searched the mountains and checked the sea to capture Zhao Gou, and waited to calm down and looked back - Damn! Playing so big?
The entire process of the Jin Dynasty from the establishment of the country and the destruction of Liao and then to the destruction of Song was only more than ten years, which was not enough for them to complete the transformation from slave regimes to feudal regimes. They did not have the psychological and practical preparations to destroy Song and occupy the Central Plains.
Therefore, the Jin Ting once made a fuss about returning the land south of the Yellow River in the Song Ting, which shows the chaos in the political situation of the Jin Kingdom at that time.
During the Wanyan Liang period, through bloody political purges and the move to Yanjing, the Jin Kingdom had seriously completed centralization and began feudalization.
Wanyan Liang was very talented and ambitious. He received a very complete Chinese education and wanted to be the monarch of the entire Greater China.
But it has been less than ten years since Wanyan Liang ascended the throne.
The feudalization process has begun and accelerated, but it has not yet been completed.
The Jin Kingdom is not a feudal empire at all, and is still in a semi-slave and semi-feudal state.
They did not establish a practical and effective grassroots rule at all, and could not use the huge war potential in the Central Plains efficiently and reasonably. They only initially established a mechanism for taxation and conscription, and everything else was followed by the old system.
Perhaps in their understanding, rule is to forcibly expropriate land and issue strong men to serve in the army.
They usually remain silent and do not disturb the people much, but a policy is issued, which may cause you to lose everything.
The Jin rulers were very skilled in this regard, and they were as fierce as tigers to successfully inspire ethnic conflicts into the main contradictions in some areas such as Hebei and Shandong.
And it is not only the Han people, but also the time bomb of the Khitans in the Jin Kingdom. If they fight out in Shandong, once the main force of the Jin Kingdom goes south to suppress the rebellion, Su Yonglin will not believe that the Khitans will not make any trouble.
Based on various information and some of his own cognition, Su Yonglin judged that the chance of success of the Jin Dynasty's rebellion and trouble before Wanyan Yong was at least greater than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Wanyan Yong's to the Jin Dynasty is equivalent to Huang Taiji and Yongzheng's to the Qing Dynasty.
He inherited Wanyan Liang's unfinished career and completed the feudalization of the Jin Dynasty by offering sacrifices to Wanyan Liang.
Therefore, it is not a fantasy to seize the window period when Wanyan Liang was willing to die while Wanyan Yong had not ascended the throne and defeat the Jin Kingdom and regain the Central Plains in one fell swoop.
To defeat the Jin Kingdom at this time, what is needed is to defeat its main military force.
Just as long as it defeats its main military force, its rule in the Central Plains will collapse without any other factors.
"To sum up, the Jin Kingdom was unpopular at this time. As long as the main army was defeated, the Jin Kingdom would inevitably be destroyed! The Jin Kingdom was also unable to counterattack. Once the internal contradictions lost the suppression of the army, they would completely explode and smash them into pieces!"
Su Yonglin punched the table in front of him, and the dull sound shook, and the hearts of every person who was listening to the class in the audience jumped violently.
This sounds a bit arrogant and even a bit funny.
Putting it elsewhere, it is easy for Su Yonglin to feel like a desperate head of state, pinning his hopes on the counterattack of Steiner, which does not exist at all. He feels that as long as Steiner launches a counterattack, everything will be fine.
But that's true.
As long as the Jin army was defeated, the Jin Dynasty's rule in the Central Plains would be like a castle made of sand. With a light push, it would collapse, leaving only the ground full of slags, leaving only jokes.
It sounds a bit Versailles, but reality is often more Versailles than Versailles.
There is only what you can't imagine, nothing that reality cannot do.
Such political classes were often found during the years when Su Yonglin was in charge of private salt groups.
Through many speeches and the dissemination of political thoughts, Su Yonglin gradually built a common political ideal for his starting team.
Defeat the Jin people, take back the Central Plains, and avenge the previous shame!
Then build an ideal country.
No one will die because they can't afford to eat salt.
No one will take risks because they can't afford to eat salt.
All those who are as oppressed and exploited as we do will never go on the same path as us!
So, follow me north.
Let us achieve this ideal and this goal together!
Expel the Jin thieves and restore the Central Plains!
When we realize this ideal, we can turn around and save tens of millions of people on the Southern Song Dynasty who are struggling on the brink of survival like us!
Chapter completed!