warring states careerist

Chapter 17
The fish was cut open, the scales were scraped off, the viscera was removed, and it fell into the boiling pottery vat of the village commune.

The clear water escapes from the bottom of the well, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth with one shovel, and cooking fish with nine shovels.

Throwing hot and clean stones into a clay pot that is difficult to heat, stimulates the umami taste of fish and makes a thick white soup.

The last handful of coriander and broken garlic leaves from the fork that does not affect the fruiting give this simple pot of fish soup a taste of the future and hope.

All kinds of sunflowers, leeks, and pickled gourds are placed in front of everyone in the village, and the corn, rice, and millet porridge brought by each family are mixed together.

The most delicious soup means the most unpalatable fish, but even if it is unpalatable, everyone in the village is still reluctant to give up the tasteless fish, full of satisfaction.

In addition to satisfaction, there are also infinite expectations and hopes for the future.

A paradise that can attract everyone is always filled with milk and honey, so it is doomed that it cannot be built on earth.

To attract the lowest level of heaven, you don't need to get something for nothing, you just need to get something for your work, and sometimes it's just a matter of hiding in the peach garden.So this is destined not to attract nobles.

After listening to Shi's talk about the fifth paradise, the farmers in these villages finally understood that all things are relative, changeable, and in motion.

When you are hungry, the Promised Land is a mouthful of rice; when you are thirsty, the Promised Land is a well; when you are tired, the Promised Land is a house of straw...

So they understood why there is Jiuzhong Paradise.

When Ru Mao drank blood, slash-and-burn cultivation was a paradise; I don't know, how to say whatever suits me.

The paradise at that time is not the paradise at this time, and the paradise at this time will not be the paradise at that time.

For them, the Ninefold Paradise is too far away to even imagine.

So they knew what the fifth paradise looked like, and it sounded so good, so worth doing for it.

In the umami of fish soup, such a picture emerges in people's minds.

From Sushen in the extreme north to Baiyue in the barren land; from the coast of the East China Sea in Penglai to Kunlun, where Emperor Mu once traveled by car, all Xia are unified and there is no competition.

In order to do its best for the land, as long as the land is reclaimed, it belongs to each family. The first five years are tax-free, and after five years, one of fifteen is taken.

This tax is not for unjust struggle for hegemony, but for building embankments, resisting the plundering Rongdi, and also for supporting officials.

At that time, the officials selected their sages, so that the nobles would not remain noble, and the lowly ones would not remain humble, and the virtuous and the virtuous were selected.

Mohists absorb the essence of vegetation and condense it into a kind of silk, which can be written on. It is as cheap as hemp and as light as a cicada's wing. Therefore, everyone can read and read, understand the will of heaven, and choose the most virtuous and most able to understand the will of heaven. Officials.

At that time, every family had an ox, and behind the ox was a plowshare made by the Mohist with the will of heaven, which could cultivate dozens of mu of land a day.

As long as you have the strength, you can reclaim those uninhabited wastelands. After five years, the officials selected will measure these lands and issue a contract as thin as a cicada's wing from the essence of vegetation to determine their ownership.

The officials at that time were well versed in calculations, and they could accurately calculate the number of acres even for round land with many corners, which was not bad at all.

At that time, a crop called ghost cloth would be planted in the field. When the fire was flowing in July, white flowers bloomed like snow.

These white flowers can be woven into cloth, and without soaking and peeling, the most industrious woman can spin the yarn of a new dress in a few days.

That kind of cloth is as white as snow, although it is not as good as silk, but the output is so high that a commoner's family can have two clothes a year.

There will be three new types of grain in the field at that time.

One is as big as a child's arm, and the grains are densely arranged on it. It is crystal clear like jade, like the cleanest teeth of a concubine from a noble family, and it is lovely.

This new valley can be planted on the barren hills, and now the unused land is also useful.This new grain can rub two small liters of grains in one rub.

The other two grow underground, each the size of a woman's foot.The taste is like the Zhe juice brought from Chu State that the princes and nobles eat, and it is sticky like boiled millet.

Moreover, the yield per mu of these new valleys is higher, so high that if people plant a hundred mu, not only will the whole family have enough to eat, but they can also raise some chickens, pigs, dogs and pigs, either for money or for themselves.

At that time, every family could eat a chicken or a few catties of sheep every year during the winter solstice.

In addition to these three new grains, there are many other vegetables that grow in the land from Sushen to Baiyue, from Donghai to Kunlun.

There is a kind of dish, the color is like fire, it tastes like the tip of the tongue is burned by the fire, and you will be sweating after eating a meal in winter.

There is a kind of vegetable that looks like ghost fingers, crisp and sweet like honey, and the color is like meat. If there is a spring frost in a famine year, if you plant three acres, the whole family will not be hungry.

At that time, every family would have three or five pieces of farm tools made of evil gold.It is much cheaper than gold and copper, but it is better to use than gold and copper.

The people of the Mohists would set up workshops to smelt evil gold, and the evil gold was taken from the ground, which was inexhaustible and could produce thousands of pieces every day.

At that time, there will be a kind of bow that the most stupid people can learn in three months, so those enemies who are greedy for wealth will find it difficult to support them.

At that time, there will be a kind of stone sintered with clay, used to build houses, no longer afraid of silverfish and ants.The windows will be pasted with that kind of thin silk made of grass and trees, which is not afraid of wind and rain.

At that time, ditches would be dug to fetch water during droughts and discharge floods during floods.There are also several canals built, where fish from the East China Sea, vinegar from Luoyang, zhe from Chu, and wheat from Song, meet each other.Kyushu is in a radius, and each takes care of it.When Youzhou is desolate, grain from Qingzhou is transported across the sea; when Jingzhou is desolate, rice from Bashu is transported down the river...

At that time, according to what Mr. Mo Di said, a sage will be chosen as the son of heaven.This sage is a person who knows all the will of heaven. If he doesn't have it, he will make the king and his ministers make a covenant.Take the covenant as the son of heaven, under the covenant there are officials, under the covenant everyone is equal, even if you are a prince, you can't go against the covenant.

Anyone who breaks the contract will be punished by everyone.Injustice, everyone hates it.Punish no way, uphold the will of heaven, reach the paradise, and everyone follow it, then the paradise can be built in Kyushu.

Such a simple description does not have the illusion of nothing to gain, it is just the appearance of a so-called "prosperous" feudal dynasty.

But even so, it was enough to make the people in these villages mesmerized, and even felt a little out of reach.

As for the paradise in the next level that they occasionally heard about, they didn't think about it at all, it was too far away.

Because how could a woman spin ten spindles at a time?How could there be a black stone instead of firewood?How could there be a colorless and transparent thing like water installed on the window to keep out the wind and rain?

Besides, the fifth paradise is enough, and those who are left are left to the children and grandchildren. I just want to see the so-called fifth paradise in this life. How can I dare to expect extravagantly?

The people in the village couldn't figure out what kind of valley could be as thick as a child's arm?What kind of dish can be as crunchy and sweet as honey and as lustrous as meat?What kind of method can make the evil gold not easy to break and cheap?What kind of plowshare can be pulled by an ox?

But man always has the right to fantasies, even the humblest man should have it.

While fantasizing, they don't know that some of the grains and vegetables in these fantasies will soon appear before their eyes.

At that time, the theory of the Paradise is no longer a fantasy, but a possibility—since the three grains of vegetables and grains are real, the rest must also be real, and it is also calculated by the heavenly ghost who knows the will of heaven paradise.

And the reeds and reeds who had seen the corn and carrots finally realized that what they were going to do was far more ambitious than they thought, and they had some understanding of what Mo Zhe was doing.They won't talk because they know the harvest is coming.

The terrible thing about prophecy is that it is half true and half false.When half-truths appear, no one can guarantee that the rest is not true. If it is not, it is just not done.

At this time, no one can make such a prediction, except Shi.

And when a part of this prophecy is realized, the rest of the prophecy will become the direction for everyone to work hard for.

Half true, who can guarantee half false?

When corn, sweet potatoes, carrots, cotton, and other things that can only be found in the paradise fantasy really appear in front of you, who dares to say that cattle farming, cheap iron, paper, and exams are not practical?

If there is a prophecy, and part of it is fulfilled, then one can hold the right to interpret Tianzhi.

At that time, no matter who made it, they can use this prophecy to say that it is the will of heaven.

Shameless, but effective.

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Shi in front of the pottery vat in the village commune smiled and looked at these farmers who were intoxicated by it. He knew in his heart that when the corn was harvested, even if he had completed the first step, it would be the most difficult step.

The imaginative laughter of these farmers seemed so cheap to him.

In his previous life, he came from a low family background, but even so, he didn't like the fifth paradise he described. No matter how good the feudal dynasty was, it couldn't match everything that an ordinary person had in his previous life.

But to these farmers, it's like a fly seeing the carrion, jumping in and never wanting to come out.

He has studied for so many years in the previous life, and the most useful thing he has learned is to grasp and resolve contradictions.

The contradictions in the world today are obvious, and there are nothing more than three kinds.

In a world of great strife, feudal lords quarrel, so heavy taxes and heavy taxes will be exterminated. Great unification may not be light on corvee, but it will certainly not be light on corvée without great unification. This is a necessary but not sufficient condition, but it is necessary condition.

The aristocrats enfeoffed and feuded the serfs, thus restricting the productivity of labor.Free farmers with definite property rights can reclaim more land when there are fewer people and more land.

Tools were outdated, iron was not annealed, and productivity levels were insufficient.The contradiction at this time is not the problem of inequality, but the problem of scarcity. The vast land is everywhere, and the population of Kyushu is less than 500 million. Within 200 years, there will be no danger of suffering from inequality due to less land and more people.

These three are complementary to each other, and whoever can solve these three contradictions can rule the world.Whoever can discover these three contradictions will become the most powerful of all schools of thought.

But the seemingly simplest second contradiction has stumped countless people.People like Wu Qi were shot to death, people like Shang Yang were ripped apart by chariots, countless battles between nobles and kings, countless internal power disputes, many of them were just for this.

Wei Guo only solved a small part of the second point, and he could become the most powerful country in the early Warring States period.Even if the state of Chu had the good conditions of Wuyang's defeat and the great reduction of the power of the nobles and a talent like Wu Qi, it would still end without a problem.

It's not a dynasty fan, nor is it a certain state control.

In his opinion, it doesn't matter where he goes in the future, whether it is Qin or Chu, as long as Zhuxia is enough.

But no matter where you go, make sure there are enough people available.

Even if it is a reform, he must ensure that after getting rid of the old aristocrats, there will be enough people who believe in the will of the Promised Land and learn to read, arithmetic, farming and river repair techniques to replace those old aristocrats; there must also be enough people who trust him and believe in the Promised Land The yeoman, come to withstand the wave after wave of nobles' counterattack.

He didn't want to be like Shang Jun being torn apart by a car or Wu Qi being shot to death, so he had no choice but to kill him mercilessly when he had a chance.

After the killing is over, let the emerging landlord class and industrial and commercial class make up for it.Practice has proved that you can govern the country without reading "Zhou Li", and you can't perish if you don't eat knives, forks and spoons like Zhou Li nobles, but chopsticks.

This is the trend of the times, and even making good use of paper and printing technology can ensure that he will not be able to get out of such things as the Han and Jin clans.

This kind of deformed thing can appear only because of the limitation of information communication technology. They are the priest class who mastered the right to interpret the Bible in the Middle Ages. Paper and printing will blow them to pieces.

It was Cai Lun and woodblock printing who destroyed the powerful.

The master doesn't want to be a saint, but he can't stand the posterity forcing him to be a saint.When Zhong Ni was in the Spring and Autumn Period, because of the inevitable mistakes in copying the bamboo slips, he accidentally copied the name of Zhongsun Heji as Zhongsun Ji, but since later generations regard him as the leader and saint, of course the saint cannot make mistakes, even if he shits, he will do it himself. There is a deep meaning, so I interpret the scriptures with righteousness, thinking that it was deliberately copied by Confucius, in order to ridicule those whose names have double characters, and the vigorous Confucian Leng was changed to Confucianism.

Wang Mang, the great successor of Confucianism, practitioner, restorer, and true idealist of Confucianism, once the power was in hand, he completely restored the restoration, and even forbade the Han people to use two-character names. There is no one in the world who abides by the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period more than him people.This is the most pious believer, but in the end he got into trouble, and became synonymous with treachery, what an injustice.

Of course, Mohism is subject to limitations, and there are many dross things, and some things are even very bad, especially in the matter of ghosts.

But the advantage of the Mohists is that it is easy to change something.

For example, Zi Mozi said: "I have the will of heaven, just as the wheelman has the rules, and the craftsman has the rules. The wheel and the carpenter hold the rules and the rules, so as to save the members of the world, saying: 'The middle one is also, If you don’t hit it, it’s not.’”.

Tianzhi is a kind of rule.It's like the person who makes the wheel sees whether it is round or not. It's useless to talk about it. Take out a compass and a ruler to measure it.

What exactly is the Will of Heaven is unclear, but it can easily be changed to the constitution, science, logical historical view, or even the theory of productive forces.

Anyway, there is another sentence "common agreement between the monarch and the minister".If no sage can be found, then take the agreed constitution as a sage, establish him as the son of heaven, and establish him as the emperor of Xu.

What is in line with science, promotes the development of productive forces, promotes the growth of the total national wealth, promotes the increase of national strength, and conforms to the contractual process, it is the will of heaven.The so-called middle is right, and those who are not right are not.

This stuff is not moral, it's easy to measure.

It's easy to change this thing, and there are hundreds of idealists in the Mohist school who can die without hesitation, so it's the easiest thing to do.

In Shi's opinion, if he wants to change the Mohist Scriptures in the future, this will must be made clear.

Tianzhi is not technology, but science.

There is a big difference between the two.

Science is a way of explaining the world, which advances technology as well as explains it.

The technology needs to be explained, otherwise there will be the logic that pangolins can be used as medicinal materials to pass milk because pangolins like to drill holes, but it seems correct according to the method of explaining the world contained in it...

Everyone will interpret the world according to the way they believe. Is it because pangolins contain certain substances in their bodies so they can pass breasts; or because pangolins like to drill holes so they can pass breasts...

This is one of the reasons why a hundred schools of thought contend, and it is also doomed that no matter who gains power, a hundred schools of thought will kill the rest of the schools of thought.

The world can only have one interpretation.When the rationalists gained power, they did not hesitate to kill the superstitious ones, and vice versa.

The legalists can change the world, but they cannot explain the world, and they have not given a future that the bottom can imagine. The wisest legalists know that they cannot follow the law, and they have to formulate different policies according to changes in the situation, but they can only rely on the king and wait until the great unification is completed. It is difficult to change when it is necessary to change.

This is their big problem, and this is also one of the reasons why it is not suitable to go to Xihe to seek refuge with Wu Qi, Li Kui, and Uncle Gong, but to find a way to infiltrate the Mohist school.

This is the only school that talks about logic, and the only school that has its own armed forces and is not completely dependent on the monarch.

As for the intoxicated villagers in front of them, they don't need to know so much for the time being.

What I hope is just waiting for them, waiting for these people who are denounced by the nobles as villains, rascals, leaders of Guizhou, or foolish people to see the corn and sweet potatoes that appear in the prophecy. When he is threatened by others, when he When there is a chance that the reform is blocked and the nobles retaliate, these people can stand up and have the courage to protect their hopes and illusions, and that is enough.

Those who fight for their hopes are the hardest to stop.

At this time, the people who drink fish soup are only twenty or thirty households, five or sixty people.

But he believed that after Mozi came back, the seeds of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots began to spread along with the legend of Jiuchong Paradise; when the annealed ironware circulated in Taoyi, the number would become two thousand or twenty thousand. even more.

(End of this chapter)