It’s a formed adult thought that can guide the next action, but it can’t solve his doubts.
He is eager to know what the root of this thought comes from and what will be born.
Seeing Xin Qiji’s confusion, Su Yonglin sorted out the materials he first gave to his family and the workers in the workshop and gave them to Xin Qiji.
Look at these. Like you, I grew up reading sage classics, but now I have to take a completely different road. These are the reasons why I changed my mind. I hope you can find an answer to your confusion after reading them.
Xin Qiji looked at the thick stack of paper and stretched out his hand and nodded his head.
"I will finish reading it."
"Well, I won everything."
Su Yonglin patted Xin Qiji on the shoulder.
Xin Qiji nodded and went back to his residence to spread out this thick stack of papers and began to read them carefully one by one.
He was soon surprised to find that this was not a long speech, but some personal experiences of Su Yonglin.
He walked himself from small to large and read the records of places, people and events, which is similar to the state of the union address. This thick pile of paper is almost all of these.
Xin Qiji was a little puzzled at first. What did this have to do with how his alien thoughts came into being?
But after reading a piece of paper, Xin Qiji suddenly turned white.
This is Su Yonglin’s mental journey along the way, which is close to his own writing, whether it is others or himself.
What is the reason why he changed his role from a wealthy official gentleman to a rebellious rebel? How did he try his best to change his mind is all here.
The first piece of paper looks quite dated. When Su Yonglin was nine years old, he followed his father to sell salt in Songyang County and met many people who couldn’t eat.
At that time, Su Yonglin pitied them and wanted to give them all his money to feed them, but his father stopped him.
His father told him that you could save them for a while and let them have a full meal or two, but what happened afterwards?
Can you feed their whole generation?
You may be able to manage this group of people, but there are tens of millions of people who can’t eat. Although we earn a lot of money, we can’t afford to support tens of millions of people.
Therefore, his father told him to put away his kindness and do favors to the Pharisees, but not too much to the Pharisees, because they will die sooner or later.
We should invest our limited resources in the best people, let the best people live for ourselves, collect their loyalty and gain their effectiveness. This is the most meaningful thing.
For those who have no mud legs at first glance, don’t make unnecessary notes.
Su Yonglin is very dissatisfied with his father’s view. He thinks this view is problematic.
They’re all people. Why should we treat them differently?
Besides, he is more concerned about who should be saved. Why can’t these people eat?
After thinking of this question key, he asked his father like this
His father was stunned for a long time before saying that it was caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters, but man-made disasters were obviously the most important.
Landlords and officials joined hands to seize farmers’ land by various means through natural disasters and opportunities, so that farmers with land lost their land, became homeless and finally became refugees.
Landlords and officials are getting richer and richer, while farmers are getting more and more miserable. Fortunately, they can’t find a job in the city, and this is the end.
Su Yonglin asked those people what they wanted to plunder farmers’ land.
With what?
Father replied that because those people are powerful and more greedy, although they already have a lot, they are eager to get more, and they will not be satisfied even if all the land is occupied by them.
Su yonglin asked again, isn’t there anyone to control them and let them do whatever they want?
Father said that there were people in the past dynasties, but we didn’t in DaSong.
At last, he made a summary, recognizing that the natural disasters caused by people who don’t eat rice account for part of it, but not the most important man-made disasters.
The most important thing for people who can’t eat is to solve the problem of man-made disasters, and those who are powerful can’t plunder the land without fear.
At the same time, Su Yonglin thought that all previous dynasties had policies to restrain land annexation and protect farmers, but there was no similar policy in Song Dynasty. What is the reason?
He felt confused and wanted to find the answer.
This piece of paper is written here.
Xin Qiji was surprised after reading it.
I think Su Yonglin began to think about this problem when he was only nine years old, and he thought about the main problem of man-made disasters and the auxiliary problem of natural disasters, and he also thought about land merger.
Too smart.
When he was nine years old, he was instructed by his grandfather to study Confucian classics hard.
Xin Qiji became very interested in Su Yonglin’s ideological course, so he began to look at it.
If you look at it, you can see that Su Yonglin has followed his father or grandfather to go out all the time, and most of them are stained with blood and tears. Just from the description, you can feel that the face is miserable and his heart is getting more and more angry.
However, this anger did not affect his thinking, and he still maintained his normal thinking.
He constantly explored himself and finally found that there were deep-seated reasons why the Song Dynasty did not carry out the policy of restraining land merger.
In the past dynasties, the essence of restraining land annexation was the demand of tax law and conscription for farmers. Both taxes and soldiers came from huge farmers’ units, and they needed to control land annexation to ensure tax revenue and the number of soldiers.
However, this situation changed completely with the development of productive forces and the increase of population in the middle Tang Dynasty.
The collapse of the land equalization system and the government military system led to the emergence of the two tax laws, and the Song Dynasty did not curb land merger, which opened the way.
In the Song Dynasty, collecting taxes and recruiting soldiers, the two necessary tasks of maintaining politics, were no longer needed by the government to maintain a large and stable yeoman class.
Taxes are no longer levied by Tian Dingnan, but the main tax collection standards for fields and assets, no matter who owns the land and wants it back to the Song Dynasty, taxes can be levied.
The conscription system has changed from the military service system to the recruitment system, and it does not need to rely on the farmer’s mouth to recruit, but to pay for it for the society.