warring states careerist

Chapter 11
People who can't bear hardships but have dreams in their hearts are not ambitious but dreamers.

Before dinner, Shi's neck had already been exposed to the sun, and it was hot and painful.

He yelled a few times in his heart, but he didn't open his mouth.

He stretched out his hand and gently touched his neck, as if the skin had been cut open with a knife and then torn off in its entirety. Touching it with his hands was like brushing it with a brush after being skinned.

Only he and Wei were left in the field, and the reed flower went back when the shadow of the west mountain fell on the ground.

I specially prepared a rabbit leg that was pickled to death but was reluctant to eat.Even in the state of Song, rabbits don't always bump into stakes by themselves, and this rabbit is very rare.

Simple corn rice, pickled leeks, boiled bean leaves.

A small fire was lit in the courtyard to drive away the mosquitoes.

The reeds are as busy as the group of wild bees that make their home under the leaves outside the mulberry tree, flying continuously, with cheerful and hasty footsteps, stepping out of the rhythm of wild bees flying.

There was no wine in the house, so I boiled the physalis and purple mulberries together, used a small piece of cloth to filter out the dregs inside, and filled the clay pots on the guests' seats.

When the shadow of Xishan was cast on the edge of the field, she worried that she would not have enough time to prepare dinner by herself.

But now, when the last ripples in the mulberry water in the earthenware pot were calm, she stood in front of the door and looked at the path again, feeling that the sun was setting down the mountain much slower today than usual.

The girl's longing did not make Shi Shi change his pace. After He Wei decided to go home, he deliberately chose a longer road.

Along the way, I greeted the people who sat around and chatted with me a few days ago, or bowed my head to pick a few simple herbs I knew.

A group of naughty children accidentally fell to the ground, and the stone cut their arms, so they picked some wild chrysanthemums that have anesthetic and hemostatic effects, let the child chew them up and apply them on the wound.

The wild chrysanthemum contains anesthetic alkaloids. After chewing on the wound for a while, the boy's tongue was no longer his own. The saliva accompanied by green juice flowed down the corners of his mouth, which caused bursts of jokes from the children next to him.

I took the opportunity to tell these children a fabricated story about Shen Nong tasting grass and discovering this herbal medicine. There was no storyteller at this time. Such a simple story made these children feel very novel.

Shi chatted with the children a few more words, feeling very pitiful in his heart.

The life of many children is very bitter.

Life is not easy, and sometimes women have to work in the fields.

Or to prepare firewood, or cook for the husband and children working in the fields, or sew clothes for the son who went to war, and seldom have time to take care of the children.

Some children are four or five years old and still can't speak very much, and they can't walk around.It's not that they are stupid because they are common people, but because the family is too busy and mothers can't watch their children, so they have to prepare some fine sand to dry and spread it on the ground.

Place the little ones on the fine, harmless sand.Eat, drink, and scatter all on the sand, just like cat litter, poop or pee on it, poke the sand away and put new ones on it, so that you can save time to do other things.

In this way, if children lie on the sand until they are three or four years old, if they can talk and run, then it is really a ghost.Under closed conditions, children from mute families cannot speak, not necessarily because they cannot speak physically.
After all, looking after children is not easy and requires a lot of time.

Fortunately, it is normal for these children playing around Shi Shi.

The parents of these children certainly did not know each other, and what they saw and heard was just what they saw with the common people in the same village during the process of joining the army.Song State has been a country that can only be beaten and cannot fight back these years, and it is even less seen in this world.

The child stared with black eyes, and after listening to Shi's short story, the address changed from a stranger to "Shi's elder brother", begging Shi to tell them a few more stories.

Those farmers who were preparing to go home by the field also rarely heard a story, but they were adults after all, and although they wanted to hear it in their hearts, they were always embarrassed to think that it was time for people to go back to eat.

Shi is so happy. The story after the Warring States period cannot be told, but there are many stories that can be fabricated in the Spring and Autumn and Xia Dynasty. At this time, there is no history of biography. It is interesting to tell any story in the style of biography. Sleeping is much better, and you can also take the opportunity to get closer to these people.

The most important thing is that this is the first step in curve preaching, first attracting people.

Listening to those children's entreaties, Shi smiled and said: "That's it, after dark, you come to Wei's house. I will tell you stories in the yard, you just come and listen. If you still have time to work during the day, You can come and listen."

After speaking, he asked Wei again, "Is this going to be troublesome?"

Wei Hanhan smiled and said with a grin: "They are all neighbors, one fights behind a chariot, and one farms in a hilly field. How can there be any trouble? Actually, I would also like to listen to these things you have to say, it's really nice. "

Shi laughed, snapped his fingers and said, "That's it. Tonight, I'll tell you a story about Wu Zixu from Chu. The dead king of Chu pulled out his corpse..."

I don't know whether it is true or not, but in the era when the patriarchal system is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, this story is of great significance.

Moreover, Wu Zixu's stories can also be used as long stories such as storytelling, such as Miss Qianjin, grave digging and whipping corpses, white heads overnight, Qixing Longyuan and other anecdotes that are fabricated or attached, enough to bring together dozens of families when they have nothing to do. Listen to a story together.

As long as we get together and listen a lot, what to say in the future is another matter.But when you come up and tell these ordinary people things like "universal love" and "non-aggression", they won't attract people.Moreover, it is obvious that these things are for the scholar-officials and the king, and the Mohists still pin their hopes on the king due to limitations.

When it came to the whipping of the corpse, everyone took a deep breath, and immediately felt that the story was really interesting, and thought that there was nothing to do at night, so they just came to listen to it.

Everyone knew that Shi had saved Wei and Lu Hua's father before, so it was reasonable to invite them to dinner.They all wanted to let Shi go to eat first, so that he could listen to the story early.

Shi was not in a hurry. Although he was hungry, he still chatted with these people casually, asking around for some things that he needed to know.

At the very least, he needs to know the current land system, and needs to know whether the grassroots managers he may face are village self-government or those low-level taxi aristocrats.

This is unclear, and it is easy to be expelled, beaten, or even killed.

Based on his historical knowledge, there is still a lack of first-hand information and the organizational form of grassroots village communities.

If you want to take root here and do something, you have to know these things.

At the beginning of Zhou Tianzi's enfeoffment, Jing Tian was in an ideal state.[-] mu is a well, and [-] mu is public land during the period, which is the means of production used to exploit the labor rent of the serfs in the well.

At this time, planting needs fallow, and the [-] mu of land can only support three households, with four wells as one town and four towns as one mound.

The village commune composed of 36 families is a hill, and the 36 families have to raise three cows and one horse. These three cows are used to pull carts and carry luggage for battle.

The four hills form a dian, and each hill has a horse, and the four hills happen to have four horses and one chariot.

In addition to the low-level nobles of the hills, a sima chariot, three armored soldiers driving a chariot, [-] to [-] disciples, and four to eight ox carts can be produced under the limit of one village. In this column, the army of the emperor of Zhou did not use ox carts but rough horses, and the ox carts of the hills had to be supplemented by war horses paid by the princes to ensure the emperor's military advantage over his relatives.

The soldiers at the beginning of the founding of the country must be low-level hereditary nobles. Once they go to war, they must be able to drive, shoot arrows, and charge with spears.

The chariot is not something that just anyone can play. It is impossible for the thumb archery method to ensure accurate shooting on a bumpy chariot without ten or eight years of hard training.

Therefore, nobles at the level of corporal and above are all hereditary according to the patriarchal system, or at least half-time.

Nobles above the rank of corporal do not need to farm, and specialize in martial arts, swordsmanship, driving, archery, etc., and rely on family slaves in the fief and those farmers in the village to plant.

The former commoners, like the village serfs under the Russian serf system, could be transferred to other nobles together with the land, and many bronze cultural relics inscriptions and historical books also confirm this point.Those who can be transferred and are not slaves are basically serfs who are semi-freely subordinate to the land.

According to the Confucian conception of a scholar, the ability to fight in a car and govern the people in the field is obviously required by the low-level nobles who have the right to govern according to feudal law—under the feudal fief system, it is the political officials who have the right to govern, not the affairs officials. , so light farming and a hundred labors can also be understood.Feudal government officials don't need to know how to farm land, how to dig rivers, or how to make weapons, and just leave it to their subordinates to do it.

There are subordinates at all levels.

The so-called son of heaven has his princes, princes have their ministers, ministers have their concubines, and scholars have their friends.Friends at this time are not friends of equals, but those who assist scholars under the patriarchal system, which can be called friends of scholars.

Therefore, the master called Yan Yuan, Zigong, Zizhang, and Zilu friends. This is not a subordinate relationship, but it is by no means equal friends, but a kind of non-blood relationship and close assistant relationship under the patriarchal system.

But no matter how close you are to the patriarchal law and etiquette, you can't mess it up: the master is a scholar, so he can only have friends, even if he is a great commander, these people are only his friends who assist him, not his subordinates.

If he has been in the position of Lu Guo Da Si Kou until his death, then he will be counted as a doctor after death, but he will not have the power to support scholars that a doctor can only have during his lifetime, and disciples at the first level of scholars can only be friends and not subordinates.He can cultivate scholars, but he cannot raise scholars.

In theory, this is a perfect enfeoffment plan, ranging from high-ranking five nobles to low-level warriors, and the emperor of Zhou had a lot of land back then, and he had a righteous name, many warriors under his command, and tribute horses from the princes.It can completely suppress the princes from all walks of life——When Zhou and Zheng fought each other, if Zheng Guo hadn’t used tactics to shamelessly, Zhou Tianzi’s soldiers and elite warriors could beat Zheng Guo’s chariot soldiers and warriors to shit. The era when there was no need for tactics is over...

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marquis Lu was only [-] times, that is, [-] fiefs of lower-level chariot soldiers and warriors at the Dianbao level.Excluding half of the chariots, there are only about [-] chariots, and the number of low-level nobles who can be hereditary in the Lu Kingdom should also be maintained at this number.

Qi State's real hereditary low-level nobles should be four-sevenths of Lu State's, because Qi State was founded as a country of [-] times, and Qi State's surname is Jiang, not Ji, so foreign surnames must be guarded against.

In the early days, the monarch could basically control the situation in his country, but now the situation is very different.

Taking Qi State as an example, after Guan Zhong's reform, Qi State was divided into 21 townships.

According to a vulgar and simple understanding, these townships can be regarded as the baronies that sent troops and the cities that sent money. There are 21 so-called townships of industry and commerce and towns of scholars.

The city does not send troops, but provides supplies and ordnance, and relies on commerce to guarantee the expenditure of sending troops.

The baron led troops, and each township could send 2000 men, 1000 four-horse chariots, [-] chariots, [-] ox carts, plus more than [-] conscripts.

There are 21 baronies and cities across the country, Duke Huan of Qi holds 11 yuan in his hand, all six cities plus five baronies.The Guo and Gao families sent by Emperor Zhou to monitor can nominally lead five baronies each.When the troops were dispatched, it happened to be the three armies of the left, center and right.

3 people, thousands of cars.Guan Zhong ordered a company of 200 people, a brigade of 2000 people, and an army of 1 people. After the reform, the entire Qi State can recruit 150 companies and at least [-] nobles with corporals.

No matter how the nobles below jumped, the five baronies and six cities in Duke Huan's hands were absolute advantages, and he could completely control the situation.

In the era when chariot warfare was still the mainstream, this system must be maintained, otherwise it would be impossible to fight without chariots.

Shi just couldn't figure it out, with the expansion of the scale of the war, how did these driving and archery taxis keep half-time production?

Bows and arrows are not crossbows and muskets. Randomly arrested individuals are conscripted to shoot arrows on chariots, unless Duke Huan of Qi is really a rookie as his name suggests.

Did the serfs in Qiudian Village only pay labor rent to the monarch and the largest feudal monarch to fulfill their feudal obligations?Or does it also need to cultivate the public land of the four-horse nobles in the hills, and also fulfill feudal obligations to the lower nobles?
Or are these low-level nobles like the Ba Yala and Baijia soldiers under the slavery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty?Have their own small piece of land, cultivated by family slaves or serfs, and as their wartime apprentices, they only need to fulfill feudal obligations and labor rent to the monarch, but have no feudal obligations to the directly governed low-level nobles in wartime?
This is very important.

Very important.

It would be much simpler if only the feudal obligations were fulfilled to the monarch and the feudal monarch, the village community was self-governing, and the low-level nobles had their own small fiefdoms and family slaves.

No matter what is preached or changed, it is very difficult for someone to directly govern, without harming the interests of low-level nobles.

If it is the latter, those lower-level nobles are both military officials and civil officials, and these farmers must give unpaid labor to the lower-level nobles, then this is very troublesome.

The things I am going to do will probably cause dissatisfaction among the low-ranking nobles. The so-called not afraid of the county magistrate is only afraid of the current management.

It is said that at this time, the ceremony is broken and the music is broken. What he urgently needs to know is the extent of the collapse, so that he can choose the most suitable method to start.

(End of this chapter)