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Chapter 344 Tian Yuan Forced and Cornered ([-])
After arguing for a while, Lu Hua prepared the meal, and said casually: "Eat first, and talk while eating."

Grandson Gao and the others were also hungry, so they cleaned up the wooden table with Shi.

The unfinished game of Go placed on the top is already inextricably fought with black and white near Tianyuan, but there is no obstruction at the corners, which is just right for moving around.

Put the game of Go aside, eight or nine people in the room sat on the table together, without mentioning some etiquette at this time, women can also eat at the same table, if the nobles see it, they will exclaim that the etiquette will collapse , but the people in the house have long been accustomed to it.

One is that within the Mohist family, everyone is equal, and they will not discriminate against women when defending the city. Instead, they believe that women can "carry earth and build trees."

The second is that because of the cotton cloth, the commodity economy around Pei County is somewhat abnormally prosperous. When they can support themselves without the land, combined with the equality concept of the Mohists and the legacy of the status of women in the clan era, the status of women in Pei County is generally low. Said slightly higher than elsewhere.

Moreover, because a large number of women need to bear a series of "Mohist financial expenses" such as medical skills and children's education, the establishment of this model has also led to changes in many customs in Peidi in the past ten years.

The meal was not special, but compared to what most people ate at this time, it was already rich, and it was incomparable with the nobles.

Each person has a bowl of batter, corn and rice, and a jar with vegetable oil, chopped pickled Chinese toon leaves, and poultry eggs.

Each person also cut "white noodle rolls" about two centimeters thick to eat as a dish.

The outside is a layer of white noodles, and the inside is chopped extremely salty salted fish and scallion oil. In fact, it is a flower roll with many dishes, but because the salted fish is too salty, it can only be eaten as a side dish instead of a staple food.

Gao grandson looked at it and said with a smile: "This salted fish roll was originally eaten when the wheat was harvested. I remember that when the first water canal was dug in Pei County, people's voices for this thing were very popular. Now I can eat it as usual."

It is a very simple sentence, but it really expresses the changes in Pei County in recent years.

During the wheat harvest season, it is hot and sweats a lot, so I need to add salt.

At that time, wheat flour was still a rare commodity, and vegetable oil paired with stinky salted fish and wheat flour was a feast.

This strange way of eating has been formed since the digging of canals, but it is surprisingly popular among the people, and it has become a local custom over time.

This habit is still preserved when the wheat is harvested, but it can be eaten at ordinary times.

Although in Shi's opinion, this is not really delicious, but if farmers outside Pei County can eat this food, it will be like when the head of the family sacrifices wine and food in winter.

As for Chinese toon, it is a special product of this area. To the south is Pengcheng. It is said that Peng Zu was born under a toon tree, and the toon tree has a long life, so there are many toon trees here.

Toon sprouts are salted and can be eaten on weekdays, and this pickled vegetable has the same advantage: no maggots.

The rest of the pickles often produce maggots even if salt is added, including the sauce. Maybe there are special "scholars" who are responsible for not producing maggots for the food eaten by the princes of the emperor, but most of the practical ones will produce maggots, and the maggots are removed and continued to eat.

Therefore, this simple meal is considered a delicious meal compared to the vast majority of people in the world at this time.Seventy people can eat meat, even if it is a dream of a world of benevolence and righteousness, the standard of living under low productivity is unimaginable.

There are quite a few low-ranking nobles in the Mo family, such as Gao Sunzi, who is an orthodox noble.It is also like this that the most numerous people in the "self-suffering to the extreme" faction are those who can live the life of a low-ranking aristocrat by taking a step back.

Shi took the chopsticks, ordered the can of toon sprouts and egg froth, and said leisurely: "I have heard people say that in ancient times, there were big toon people who used eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. This is also a great year. Bacteria don't know the dark days, and crickets don't know the spring and autumn, so is the young year. That's why the young year is not as good as the big year. If you look at it, you won't care about the spring and autumn."

Grandson Gao was very knowledgeable. Although Zhuang Zhou was not born at this time, Shi's words still won his appreciation, and he also understood Shi's implication, and said with a smile: "You and I are both cockroaches. What about spring and autumn?"

Shi Ye laughed and said, "Although you and I are cricket crickets, the meaning of the Mohist school is endless. You are the [-]-year-old tree. Some things depend on the long-term."

"Looking at it from the point of view of Linlin and spirits, in the long run, aren't these things good for the world?"

Grandson Gao knew what Shi wanted to say, but he couldn't refute this question.

This thing is indeed beneficial, and it is suitable to say that if Qilin is made well, it can be transparent and light-transmitting, replacing the grass that closes the windows, so that people all over the world can live in a bright house that is not cold in winter and can see through sunlight.

In the long run, it will definitely be beneficial.

Shi said again: "Furthermore, if we don't make these things, don't we spread them all over the world, and the princes and nobles don't plunder the farmers in the fiefs? These things are originally beneficial to the world, like swords, saints It was made by the god of ghosts to fight tigers and leopards and stabilize the world. Some people use it to kill people, but they say that the crime of killing people should be blamed on the saints and craftsmen who made the swords. Is this correct?"

Grandson Gao looked at Shi, and said solemnly: "But you have to know that you made these things to please the princes and nobles, and let them exchange copper grain, money, gold and jade. It's like when you are making swords, I just want this sword to kill people, so this is different from what you said!"

The tone of the two people became more and more intense. Seeing that the incident of the liquor workshop was going to happen again, the people next to them wanted to persuade them, but they didn't know what to say.

Shi Ye solemnly said: "I didn't make these things to let princes and nobles exploit the land, but to benefit the world!"

"Zi Mozi said that Mozi must respect three models in order to practice righteousness."

"If the world is poor, it should be done by the rich; if the people are few, it should be done by the many; if there are many and chaotic, it should be done by order!"

"I have not violated these three forms, and all of this is for the sake of the world's wealth, people, and politics! I am in line with the meaning of the three forms of Mohism!"

"What's wrong is the current system in the world. Farmers are imprisoned on the land, and they are not allowed to leave or leave. To solve this problem, it is not enough to let the nobles wear straw sandals and short brown! You are treating the symptoms, not the root cause! "

Grandson Gao also said sharply: "You are right, I have never objected. However, these things do make Pei County rich and the peasants in the fiefdoms of the rest of the world suffer! I am not against reforming the system of the world, but I hope that the Mohists will In the process, we must also have all the people in the world in mind!"

"It is as clean as water, without mud."

Shi Shi retorted: "Zi Mozi said that pros and cons need power. If you can get big benefits and take small benefits, it is harm! I am doing it for the world's big benefits, and you are doing it for the world's small benefits. It is reasonable to reason with princes and nobles. If it doesn't make sense, you have to fight!"

"To fight, you need money, you need food, you need copper and iron."

"If we win the battle, we will be able to solve the silverfish of the princes and nobles from the root! Only then will we be able to benefit the world."

"Jiatun is also here today. Ask him, how much food does it take to exchange for the copper of a cannon? Can Peixian rely on agricultural land to support the current volunteers? If not, what's the point? Will it benefit the world in the future?"

The few people present were either Shi's direct descendants or Gao Sunzi's faction. Some things can be said clearly, and there is no need for any cover-up.

The contradiction between the two is not only about luxury goods, but also a series of economic policies in the future.

Gao Sunzi's school is not the most extreme.

Derived from the most extreme school of Mohism, there is also a school that has seriously transcended the times and hopes that "the sages and the people will grow and eat together, and rule with food", and "the price is not equal to the market". Measuring the value of each commodity is equivalent to the price, and the pricing must not be violated, so that everyone's labor can be exchanged for the same labor product, there is exchange, and there is no capital appreciation, so the world is ruled.

Although the elaboration is not clear, its class instinct still gives such an illusion, and it has become more and more perfect with the emergence of some theories of Mohism.

Shi Jiatun was the first to follow Shi to get in touch with some economic things, and he was also in charge of the financial expenditure of the Mohist family. Therefore, he hoped that Shi Jiatun could use very realistic things to slightly crush Gao Sunzi's overly idealistic ideas.

Shi Jiatun had long hoped that the two of them would stop arguing, and when he saw the appropriate question, he hurriedly replied: "Let's count it as a [-]-jin bronze cannon. I don't mention the craftsman, but only the copper used."

"Six hundred catties of copper can be melted into thirty thousand small coins. Calculated based on the grain prices of Yue, Qi, and the Three Jin Dynasties, thirty yuan is one stone of corn. The corn equivalent of this cannon is one thousand stones..."

"The annual salary of a Yin in the county of Chu is no more than ten thousand stones. The annual salary alone is not counted as a land seal, and a Yin in the county of Chu is only worth ten guns a year."

"Before Pei County was reformed, there was no composting of new grains produced by ox farming and iron tools. A family of nine, excluding their own food, in a good year, deducted taxes and taxes, and the income would be only two stones."

"This cannon, if counted in the past, would be equivalent to a year's surplus food for 5000 households with a family of nine. Only when the surplus food of nearly [-] people is collected can it be worth a cannon!"

What Shi Jiatun said was naturally before a series of agricultural reforms, when labor productivity and yield per mu were extremely low.

For a county magistrate like Duke Luyang, his Lutian may have only three to five thousand households in name, and the rest belong to the land under his rule. As for the privately acquired and collected land, of course there are more.

Such a number is shocking, and it is also an intuitive manifestation of the underdevelopment of agriculture in the world.

Grandson Gao was silent. He also knew that many things were expensive, but he didn't intuitively understand that they could be so expensive.

But he asked again: "Nowadays, land farming has changed, and a thousand shi of corn is still easy, right?"

The stones at this time are small stones made in the Zhou Dynasty, equivalent to about [-] catties of corn, and a thousand stones of corn are only [-] catties.

In the past, this was indeed a huge amount of wealth, but in today's Pei County, it is really nothing.Thirty thousand catties of corn or wheat, not to mention five hundred households, I am afraid that the farmers of one hundred households are enough to take out without moving their muscles and bones, which is equivalent to nine mouthfuls, which is only thirty catties per person.

With the current two-season method of planting, supplemented by foods such as potatoes and sweet potatoes as supplementary food, [-] catties of food are only the entire output of a hundred-mu field, and Gao Sunzi seems to be cheap.

Shi Jiatun heard the words, and said: "I said before that a farmer produces [-] catties of grain a year and [-] catties of grain, that's not twice the difference."

"People have to eat [-] catties. Originally, only [-] catties were left to be exchanged or taxed. Now that [-] catties are produced, there are actually [-] catties left. The amount that can be exchanged is five times."

"It's actually more than that. With melons and vegetables and other new species, you can exchange more."

"But... the price of grain in Yue and Qi is not the price of grain in Pei County. These grains cannot be directly exchanged for copper!"

"Moreover, the local copper is basically obtained by us..."

(End of this chapter)