warring states careerist

Chapter 142 The Hundred Vehicles
The old man had no objection to his son's participation in the Mohist Volunteer Teacher in Peixian County.

He originally needed to serve in the military, but he fled to Niasang because of the military tax, millet tax, and hemp tax.

As long as you leave the city and leave the aristocratic manor fief, many blank areas are left unattended.

Just like the old woman whose family was eaten by tigers that Confucius saw when he passed Mount Tai, she was a typical escaped serf.

Just fleeing away from the city, you need to face problems such as lack of salt, wild animals, disease, famine and so on.

Fortunately, tyranny is fiercer than tigers, so these people would rather endure all this than return to their original homes to cultivate and grant fields.

According to the words that are suitable for jokes among the Mohists, who are those nobles who practice tyranny?Obviously the pioneers of the Tangwu revolution who are professional, they can't be tyrannical, how can anyone be willing to change?
After Mo Zhe came to Niasang, he first used salt to attract these fugitive hermits, and the incidents of sunflower golden black and witch Zhu's property were fined and confiscated in one fell swoop to gain enough trust.

Subsequent small things such as planting winter wheat, composting manure, borrowing oxen to plow horses, improving farm tools, and building mills completely convinced these fugitive hermits.

The agreement between Mo Zhe and Song Company City is a fixed tax, and there is no need to collect taxes from these fugitive hermits for the time being.

These fugitives are all fierce people, so Niesang and Peize, where the largest number of fugitives have become, have basically become the main force of the Mohist volunteers.

Soldiers are more expensive than elites, and the Mohists themselves have a powerful military force of 400 people who can gather to defend the city at any time. They have not yet collected taxes in Pei County, and raising a full-time army of 300 people is the limit.

Those with insufficient labor force at home, those who participated semi-voluntarily after making a clear statement, and those who are not tall enough...Under various conditions, the requirement of 300 people in the two townships of Jisang and Peize has already exceeded the demand.

After screening, there were 300 people left, and the old man's son was among them.

Now that he has made it clear what it is for, the old man obviously hopes that the policy of Pei County can continue, so he supports his son to join the volunteer teacher in Pei County.

Some things do not need to be properly publicized. Everyone has bright eyes and will not turn a blind eye. Those original policies have fallen behind, and the new policies are even more fascinating under the impetus of improved seeds and technological progress.

Volunteers are full-time soldiers, and they still have some money from the Mohists every month.

The quantity is not much, and people outside of Pei County will not recognize these cloths with numbers written on them, but in Pei County, you can buy many weird things, the most important thing is that you can repay the cattle loan and buy new seeds.

This matter belongs to the general will, so the military tax of these 300 people is the first tax collected by the Mohists in Peixian County for the control of the Mohism.

If one person joins the volunteer division, those who work with the village community will be exempted from one-fifth of the volunteer teacher's tax. At the same time, the team members of the village community will also need to help harvest or plant when they need manpower.

Calculated on average, there are not many volunteer teachers in each stall, especially after changing from one season to two seasons.

Shi and the old man talked about volunteer teachers, and gradually changed the topic from volunteer teachers to volunteer teachers, and then from volunteer teachers to this year's harvest.

As soon as he mentioned this, the old man's eyes lit up immediately, and he said repeatedly: "The weather is good this year, it must be a good harvest. If it is like this every year, I will really live in a paradise. I went to the village today, didn't I already see a A house with windows covered with grass and silk? It’s still expensive now, and you have to pay for the cattle, but it’ll be fine in a few years... I’m still thinking about making my own windows bigger and brighter..."

The old man was describing the beautiful life he imagined, so he poured cold water on it and said, "You can't just count on the weather to be smooth. What if there is a drought? The Mohist said that there is a will to follow in everything, and some things that have not been found are not non-existent." .”

"I hope that there will be people who can understand ghosts and gods, so that they can pray for good weather and good years every year."

"But since our book secretary has been in charge of verifying the truth of Wu Zhu's ability to communicate with spirits... so many people who claimed to be able to understand ghosts and gods all disappeared at once. Three months ago, someone from Peiguo Township sent one with hope. Before I personally verified it, the one who claimed to be able to understand ghosts and gods knelt down and begged for mercy, saying that he was a fake...Then you said that you agreed to pay the money at the beginning, is this going to be given or not?"

The old man also laughed, Mo Zhe never said that there are no ghosts and gods, but now in the entire Pei County, there is not even a person who can understand ghosts and gods. After a long time, everyone believed Mo Zhe's words.

Hearing what Shi said, the old man couldn't help but think of the severe drought a few years ago, and said worriedly: "According to you, shouldn't we just wait for someone who can communicate with ghosts and gods to appear?"

Shi shook his head and said: "At that time, the Chao family also thought that as long as they could communicate with ghosts and gods to prevent the rain from appearing on the heads of the clansmen, it would be fine. But after searching for a long time, they couldn't find it, so they had to build houses with the method of the will of heaven."

"Da Yu also hoped to communicate with ghosts and gods so that the rivers would no longer flood. But that didn't work, so we had to dredge the mountains and rivers to control the floods."

"It's the same for us now, we can't just wait, we have to do it ourselves."

"Sishui flows all year round and the land in Peize is moist. As long as a ditch can be dug, the land in the three townships along the way can be irrigated. This is the method used by Dayu back then."

The old man nodded repeatedly. The comparison of the four land sales in Peiguo Township last time has already spread throughout Pei County.

Everyone in the Xiangting village community knows one thing. If you want a good harvest, the three things of water, fertilizer and seeds must be resolved.

The sun hangs in the sky, and no one can solve the problem of spring, summer, autumn and winter with the will of heaven, but it seems that I heard that the Mohists already know why there are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

They all thought that now that they knew it, it would not be far from a solution...

At least that's how they imagined it.

When Jianshi talked about digging the canal, the old man said: "It can be done. As long as you Mohists make up their minds, everyone will do it after harvesting beans and planting winter wheat. Even an old man like me can't understand the truth." If you know it, those people can know it too."

Shi laughed and said: "This is something that benefits everyone. We Mohists are just about to do it. This year we have harvested the autumn grain, and we will really start to do this. As long as we can cultivate it, we will really have no worries about floods and droughts. Drought, it will not be like the severe drought a few years ago, with no harvest. As long as there is strength, there will be water."

"Crops need water, not rain. Rain is water, rivers are water, and water in canals is also water. The so-called does not necessarily require the wind and rain of ghosts and gods, but also requires your own hands."

The old man said repeatedly: "Yes, we all know this. It's just that the weather has been good this year, so everyone doesn't think about it. If you don't talk about it, few people think about it. But if you want to talk about doing things together, then there is no problem."

"The iron utensils you often talk about are often talked about by people in the village. We went to the mill together that day and talked about it. They only said that if you really want to make iron utensils, even if the whole village does not grow summer grain You have to come out in a hurry. I heard from you that it is a good thing, and I have seen a few pieces you bought from Handi, which are indeed better than the current farm tools... but the price is expensive. "

Shi said: "If Mohists want to get it, it won't be so expensive."

The old man now firmly believes in Mo Zhe's words. After listening to what Shi said, he suddenly said: "That's great. As long as it can be made, the people in the village can really give up food for half a year, and they have to work together to help make it up." .”

Seeing that the time was ripe, he said, "It doesn't take many people to do this. Besides, it can't be done without planting summer grain. The giant thought of a way and asked me to tell the people in the villages. Let me tell you first, and you listen." If you can hear it, I will announce it at the Xiangting when I go back."

When the old man heard this, he put down the bowl and chopsticks, and listened to Shi's talk very solemnly.

The speech is relatively simple, and it is easy for the elderly to understand.

The matter of iron smelting will be solved by inkmen and craftsmen.

But digging underground mines requires people from each village.

According to one person from each team, each person will serve three months of hard labor, and will not perform hard labor when harvesting in summer and planting in autumn, and will be rotated in March.

Mining there every day, Mo Zhe will also give money.

And all those who work in labor and mining have the right to buy ironware first, and Mo Zhe promises not to sell ironware to other places before satisfying these people.

At the same time, even those who participated in the mining can receive the ironware from the Mozhe in the form of installment payment, and then repay it later.

As for things like building smelting furnaces and making molds, they are all skilled jobs, and it is impossible to recruit them by means of labor.

It can only rely on the handicraftsmen inside the Mohists and the people inside the Craftsman Association to cultivate a new iron smelting industry.

Cast iron and annealed cast iron can be completely produced at this time.

With cast iron, the productivity level of Pei County can be quickly improved, and some undeveloped land can quickly become large tracts of fertile land. This is a revolutionary agricultural change, and it is also a sharp blade that disintegrates the well-field system.

A large number of ironware can monopolize the market, and go north and south along Surabaya, entering the prosperous Central Plains, in exchange for a steady stream of funds for Mohists.

This kind of thing, without the heart of righteousness and the purpose of benefiting the world, is the set of labor obligations that Spain engages in mining in South America, which requires violent support and endless uprisings and escapes.

But in Pei County at this time, it can be said to be effective and have few side effects.

At this time, the large mining businessmen are all under the share contract system. The so-called "he must be a wealthy businessman" does not mean that a wealthy businessman has no funds, and there is no way to get a large number of fugitives and slaves.This is something Mohists cannot learn.

Shi also made it clear that if this method is possible, the iron smelting workshop should be built first, and then the water conservancy work should be done.

He explained it with a fable about chopping firewood. The old man understood it and was excited. He felt that there was nothing wrong with it. The three sons are all eligible for this labor.

They have already seen the ironware that the Mozhe bought from Handi at a high price, and they have really seen the efficiency of this tool. As long as the Mozhe can solve the problem of expensive prices, it is of course a good thing.

Since Shi said that he could solve the problem of high prices, the old man believed it [-]% of the time, and thought that he could buy and borrow first, so he couldn't think of anything wrong.

In the final analysis, it was not the Mohists or the big cake that Shi had painted for them, but the political reputation of the Mohists in Pei County.

If the princes and nobles say these things, even if they are hype, they will not believe it, they will only be full of suspicion.

Instead of a Mohist who has been doing justice here for more than a year, has changed many things here, and has brought skills here that really benefit everyone, they will not have any doubts at all.

It is nothing more than some details that need to be resolved, such as how much money to pay each month, what to do when you die, these needs to be summarized after the publicity, and after going back, you will discuss carefully, bargain with the public, and finally determine the exact details-this There is no need for him to do anything. Mo Zhe is best at formulating various detailed rules, whether it is defending the city or working in the military industry.

Gathering people with profit can last long, and the Mohists are very clear about this.

Anyway, Mohist is also the only "academic" organization that clearly pointed out at this time: IOUs should be written for the materials collected during the defense of the city, and compensation at the original price after the defense of the city.

"The people donated corn, cloth, money, cattle and horses, and livestock products, all of which were sent to Ping Jia and written to the master."

From 2000 onwards in later generations, most of the armies that can abide by this rule are invincible.

Since he can even think of such things as compensation at the original price, Mo Zhe will not let the villagers suffer too much when it comes to bargaining.

The old man was full of interest, and was about to talk about how many lands he would open after he got the iron, when two swordsmen guarding Shi outside the door walked in, and whispered in Shi's ear: "Secretary, there is a group of Chu People's carriages passed by, and it seems that they came to look for us."

Startled for a moment, he wondered, "Chu people?"

The swordsman nodded to show that he did not admit his mistake, Shi Shi signaled the swordsman to go out first, harassed the old man's family, took out the money and quietly put it aside, and only said that he went out to see what was going on.

　For compensation at the original price, see "Miscellaneous Shou", the original text: The people donated corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and livestock products, all of which were purchased by Ping Jia and written to the master.Let people have their own strengths, and the affairs of the world should be taken care of; if they divide their duties, the affairs of the world will be obtained; After 2000, only an army can really do it: like the 2000th of its eight points of attention, fair buying and selling; borrowing things must be returned; damaged things must be compensated.Well, regarding the issue of the world's affairs, what Mozi said can be summed up in one sentence: Turn work into the first need of self-realization, and the world will be prepared.The realm is too high, the high ones floated to the sky [-] years ago...

　　
　
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