On October 27, more than a month had passed since the Renjiao uprising, and the Renjiao army was still fighting, not attacking, but acting as a defender, fighting the Sui army that had come to quell the Renjiao uprising on the orders of Yang Guang.

The front is still fighting, and in Ruyin County, except for some people who must stay behind, the high-level people and religion leaders have been called to a meeting, not only to sum up the uprising of more than a month, but also to solve the various problems that have arisen after the occupation of the four counties.

After summing up the experience and gains and losses in the process of the uprising, the content of the meeting immediately turned to the management of the four counties, and the problems related to the landlords and gentry and religion were naturally raised!

Su Qiyan said: "To solve the problem of the landlords and gentry, we must first understand what the landlords and gentry are, find out what characteristics they have, and then decide what method to use to deal with them. ”

"Before the meeting, we sent someone to do a survey. Judging from the results obtained by the common people, the landlords and gentry are both good and bad, and they cannot all be slapped to death. And from the results of the feedback from the landlords and gentry we visited, we know that the landlords and gentry are actually very nervous in the face of us, and they don't know what we will do with them. ”

"The landlord gentry were not a small group, but there were many of them, and we had to deal with them with caution and care. The eyes of the whole world are looking at us, just waiting for us to make a mistake, and the whole body will be affected, if it is not handled well, the consequences will be very great. ”

Su Qi's words made everyone nod, and also dispelled the idea of violence in some people's hearts.

Su Qi said again: "The family gate valve must be the landlord gentry, but most of the landlord gentry are not the family gate valve. There are similarities and differences between the two, and they should not be mixed! The family gate valve is a form in which the landlord gentry has developed to a high level under certain historical conditions, but most of the landlord gentry have not developed this step. ”

"At this time, although the power of the family gate valve has begun to weaken, but 'a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff', the power of the family door valve is still strong, and in general, this is still an era of the family door valve. In this environment, the ordinary landlords and gentry were better off than the common people, and it was actually difficult for them to get ahead. ”

The rise of the family gate valve originated in the Han Dynasty, and then has been active in the political, economic, and cultural fields of China for hundreds of years, occupying a large number of resources, almost completely blocking the promotion route of the lower class people, and creating the door valve politics.

The so-called "no cold family in the upper grade, no scholar in the lower grade", is from this!

This situation will not really change until the imperial examination system is actually implemented, and the rise of the Han landlords will gradually sweep the family gate valve into the dust of history.

At this time, the high-ranking family gate lords looked down on the Han landlords, and the Han landlords often needed to be attached to the family gate valves if they wanted to get ahead.

In one sentence, it can be summed up as: the family gate valve is the aristocracy, and the Han landlords are a group of turtles, and the monopoly of the family gate valve in politics, economy and culture has seriously hindered the rise of the Han landlords.

Su Qi analyzed these for a while, and then said: "From this point of view, the family gate valve is the common enemy of us and the ordinary landlords and gentry, we have a common goal, and there is a certain basis for cooperation between the people and the landlords and gentry. ”

Moreover, the landlords and gentry are not only in the four counties of Zhongli, Runan, Yiyang, and Huainan, but also in other counties, and they are quite a few in number, and their strength cannot be underestimated. I think that ordinary landlords and gentry are objects that can be fought for cooperation. But ......"

Su Qi's words changed again, "The landlords and gentry often like to annex and occupy a large amount of land, which is difficult for us to tolerate!" ”

"But it is not advisable to confiscate all the land of the landlords and gentry by violence at once. As I said, if there are too many landlords and gentry in the world, and directly confiscating their land indiscriminately, it will provoke the resistance of the entire landlord class and push them to the enemy, which will make it more difficult for us to calm the world out of thin air. We must make a good example in dealing with the landlords and gentry of the four counties and let them know our attitude. ”

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the situation of land annexation was not as serious as in the last years of other dynasties, and the main reason for the fall of the Sui was not here.

The total population of the Sui Dynasty was so large, natural disasters continued, the world was in chaos, large areas of land had become terra nullius, and there were still large areas that could be developed (Jiangnan region), and now there was really no need to carry out large-scale land reform to push the landlords and gentry to the opposite side.

However, what is the urine nature of the landlord class, Su Qi knows very well, it is necessary to restrict the landlords and gentry, curb land annexation, and it is best to find a way to get the land in the hands of the landlords and gentry and collect it from the people.

Su Qi also said: "We can temporarily allow the landlords and gentry to have some land in their hands, but we must not tolerate them occupying a large amount of land, and even want to continue to annex them. In my opinion, the policy towards the landlords and gentry of the four counties should be 'cooperate with them, and limit them'. ”

"I'm done!"

After Su Qi finished speaking, other people spoke, all of whom fully affirmed Su Qi's viewpoint, that the landlords and gentry were the objects that could be cooperated by the people and the people, and they were also the objects that must be guarded against and restricted.

Under the eight-character policy, discussions began on specific methods for dealing with the landlords and gentry.

First of all, the cooperation with the landlords and gentry is to let the landlords and gentry receive education from others, so that they can see the way up and have the possibility to display their ambitions, unlike the family gatekeeper, who blocks the way to progress, so that they can hardly see any hope.

The vast majority of people are alive and are self-motivated, and the people's education gives them a way to go up, and there will definitely be small and medium-sized landlords who support the people's education!

Then there were the restrictions, abolishing the original privileges of the landlords and gentry, and under the rules of the people's religion, they were all equal to the common people, and using various methods to confiscate the land and minerals in their hands to prevent them from becoming bigger, and different arrangements were also made for different landlords and gentry.

For example, for the notorious and convicted landlords and gentry, the people's church will find the victims to hold a public trial meeting and confiscate their land, while ordinary landlords can buy their land by means of redemption and other means, and they can also use policies to force the landlords to hand over their land, such as limiting the number of tenants and restricting their clansmen's schooling and employment, and slowly cut the meat with soft knives.

The two-pronged policy has both advantages and disadvantages for the landlords and gentry, Su Qi is not afraid that they will not agree, and the landlords and gentry are not monolithic.

After discussing the question of the landlords and gentry, the next step was the question of religion!

This issue is equally important, the landlords and gentry represent many people, and religion is also very involved, and it is not advisable to simply think of solving the problem by violent means.