warring states careerist

Chapter 259
While the funeral was still going on, the young attendant that Gongsun Ze wanted to fight Shiga was brought in front of Shishi, dressed in sackcloth.

Shi looked at this young man, or he was qualified to be called a young man's eldest child.

I have to admit that Gongsun Ze, who has been educated as a warrior since he was a child, has a good eye for picking people. This kid is a good young man who can draw a bow and shoot arrows.

The two have met each other very early. If you add the six fingers standing behind Shi Shi's back, it can be said that the three of them have met each other a long time ago.

In just a few years, the six-finger archery has not made much progress. I am afraid it has already been surpassed by this young man. The three-finger archery method used at the beginning was easy to learn. In the era when the thumb archery was the mainstream, it will be overtaken after a while. .

Before Gongsun Ze died, he asked Shi to find a Confucian scholar to teach the child, so as to complete the bet for the next ten years, and by the way, it was extended for three years because of the mourning.

Of course, this also meant that before Gongsun Ze died, he admitted that the child was his disciple, not just an attendant, otherwise there would be no need for such a long mourning.

Before Shi Shi could speak, Liuzhi behind him was still an older child after all, so he said, "You have to stay in mourning for so long, and you can only drink gruel, aren't you hungry? Could it be that you have fulfilled your etiquette only when you are hungry?"

The attendant said with a stern face: "From the time I could only eat coarse corn and sunflower, I could eat meat later. This is bestowed by a gentleman. If he is happy, I should do it."

After finishing speaking, he hesitated again, glanced at Shi, and said after a long time: "The gentleman asked you to find a wife for me, and continue to teach the art of archery. Ten years later, after the competition, what am I going to do?"

"At that time, I was still a commoner, without the status of a scholar. How can I continue to eat meat if I have nothing but archery skills?"

The attendant was not ashamed, and said again after a long while: "A gentleman asked me to keep the etiquette, so he can die for the king. But I am not a soldier of the king. If I want to die ten years later, who should I die for?"

This simple question made Liu Zhi, who was standing behind Shi, scratch his head, and suddenly felt that it was a very happy thing to know why he could die.

Liu Zhi thought, I can die for the benefit of the world.Shi said, if death does not spin its heels, I will not spin it.

Look at the attendant who competed with him at the beginning. He wanted to say something, but he said first: "How can you be sure about the current situation? After you are in mourning, go to Pei County first, and go there to find Me, I will arrange for you to learn characters first. Then I will fulfill Gongsun Ze’s last wish, maybe then you will know why you can die.”

The attendant bowed three times to Shi, took out a piece of silk from his arms, and said, "This is what the gentleman gave me before. When he decided to go to the city, he knew that he would die, even if he didn't die in the chaos." In the middle of the battle, I will kill myself or go to the executioner of your Mo family to ask for death, so as to maintain Song Gong's order."

"The gentleman said, please keep it on your behalf. If one day, the rules of the Mohist family become the rules of the world, please sacrifice this piece of silk to his tomb to let him know that he died well."

Shi stretched out his hand to take it, and the attendant left first after thanking him.

Liuzhi asked softly: "Shi, do you really want to compare archery with him in the future? I followed Gongzao to learn swordsmanship. He said that you need to be dedicated in doing things. Don't spend any more energy learning archery until you have learned swordsmanship well. Then I will If I lose, I'm afraid that my Mo family's reputation will be ruined."

Shaking his head, he said with a smile: "You won't lose. In archery competitions, I didn't say that I must use a bow. At that time, Gongsun Ze said that I can use anything. Don't worry about this, just learn what you want to learn well. Just do it."

"Furthermore, the reputation of my Mo family does not depend on this. In terms of archery, the giant can't compare with Zhong Ni. By the way, you follow the public to build and learn swords, so don't miss those words."

Liuzhi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I have learned a lot. I can write a lot."

After finishing speaking, he crouched on the ground and began to write a few familiar characters with the bronze sword he got in Pei County.

Shixin said, now I can be considered a literate person: to be a literate person, you don't have to learn it, you can also teach it.

Cangjie was illiterate before the rest of the people could.

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Many people in the Mo family can write, and they can write exactly the kind of characters they are familiar with. Many people in Peixian County can also write that kind of characters.

The common people were originally illiterate, and the humble characters that were suitable for the place were not originally characters, but when more people knew it, they became characters.

Characters are very important. This is the basis for Tianxia to be one and Tianxia to be synonymous, so the people of Shangqiu have to learn this kind of characters.

While they were busy electing the representatives of each company, they also selected some young people to follow the Mohists to Shangqiu to learn characters, nine numbers, fields, etc. according to the Mohist propaganda. The planting of these people needed the help of other people.

The company is a relatively large organization in Shangqiu City. According to Guan Zhong's practice, there are four miles in a company, ten tracks in one mile, and five houses in one track.

Since Shangqiu wants to establish a volunteer division, this company is not only a basic administrative unit, but also a basic military unit.

What the Advisory Council can do is to discuss the laws and regulations, and after discussing the laws and regulations, it is not something that the existing officials like Nongzheng can do.

New planting techniques, new acre system, new taxation system, all these require corresponding cultural knowledge to complete.

Therefore, after clarifying the truth, each company must select a trustworthy, smart young man to follow the Mo family to Peiyi to study for a period of time.

The Mo family is rich now, and they can provide food and clothing for off-the-job learning, but their land still needs the help of other families to plant it.

The Mohists promised to dispatch manpower to help the people of Shangqiu open wells, connect rice fields, and divide land after formulating laws and a new field mu system.

A whole set of things requires a lot of energy, and the lack of manpower of the Mohist school has become a serious problem that restricts the development of the Mohist school.

It's just that people are not crops, they can be harvested once a year.

If you want to learn basic characters, nine numbers, etc., it will take three to five years at least.

A few years later, when these people from each company return, they will become grass-roots company commanders and lieutenants.

In addition to these young people, the Propaganda Department also hoped that one child from each village would follow the Mohist family to Pei County to learn characters. After returning, they would teach the rest of the children to learn characters, and then each family would jointly provide this person's board and lodging.

At this time, it is a luxury to be able to learn characters. It is difficult to have the opportunity to learn characters if you are not a scholar.

However, the original various bird scripts are extremely complicated and troublesome to learn, resulting in very few people who can read.

The Mo family now has iron smelting technology in their hands, and the funds can be said to be endless. It is not a problem to provide board and lodging for hundreds of children. This is a major event to monopolize knowledge in the future, and everyone in the Mo family attaches great importance to it.

The people of Shangqiu also attached great importance to it, saying that they all knew that if such a good thing could happen to their own children, it would be a piece of cake from the sky.

As for being too far away from home and not being able to see each other for several years, it is not so hypocritical for ordinary people whose children die young and whose families eat sunflowers and corn every day.

For a while, for the sake of fairness, they could only choose the method of drawing lots. After all, even if there are too many children of the Mo family who can afford to support them, there are not so many teachers to teach them.

In order to improve the status of women, this time the lottery does not distinguish between boys and girls.

The people in the fifty households within one mile, all qualified children are gathered, and they draw lots by themselves, and those who are drawn can follow to learn.

For a while, in addition to discussing the first meeting of the People's Council of the Advisory Council, the selection of children to study in Peiyi became the top priority in Shangqiu.

Naturally, the people don't care about Duke Song's condolences for the dead, and it has nothing to do with them anyway.

In the streets and alleys, the people are either discussing the upcoming changes, or discussing whose children have won the quota to go to Pei County.

Everyone in the lottery family was overjoyed, and those who were not drawn could only curse a few times: These children who were drawn came back to teach characters, but when they came back, it might have been five or six years, and it was impossible to teach them again. At this time, there are no older companions, which means that the children of those families may not have the opportunity to learn words.

The list has been set, and there is no previous anxiety among the neighbors.

Just like the story Zifan told the king of the Communist Party of Chu back then: Hundreds of people would chase a rabbit running on the street, but when the rabbit belonged to one person, the rest would not chase it.

Drawing lots is not the best choice, but it is a choice that everyone can accept. The person in charge of this matter has no time to investigate which child is smarter in Shangqiu.

The neighbors who have regained their peaceful relationship began to discuss all kinds of things after the meeting of the Advisory Council.

"I heard that after the meeting of the Advisory Council has set the law, we will go outside to cut wood, prepare to make ink carts, and go to Pei County to transport grain."

"Yes, I met Shi yesterday, that's what he said. In addition to transporting food, some people have to be dispatched to level the road. He said that this is for us, not for gentlemen, nobles and princes. It makes sense what."

"At that time, those children who are selected will be sent to Pei County on an ink cart. I heard that's how it is."

A group of people discussed and imagined a scene.

On the yellow road, thousands of people pushed the ink carts, and some children, both male and female, sat on them.People carried simple dry food and went to Pei County to transport food. When they came back, the places where children were sitting were replaced by big bamboo baskets full of seeds of hope...

It's a beautiful scene because it's full of hope, not the despair of fleeing famine.It is suitable for everyone in the Mohist school, and it has also been imagined that the ink cart will never become a standard tool for the people to flee famine.

While the people were discussing their hopes, the nobles and Duke Song were full of uneasiness and fear about this unprecedented event.

(End of this chapter)