warring states careerist

Chapter 354

After leaving Mozi, Shi rode a horse casually in the market in Pei County, and people greeted him from time to time.

Song Yi, which was withered ten years ago, has already changed its appearance.There has never been a war, the transformation of iron ox farming, the development of industry and commerce, Taoyi, the economic center not far from the north...all of these have made Pei County an important city connecting the upstream and downstream of Surabaya.

A city is different from an original city.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the city was more like a castle, used to protect the people in the city and exercise control over the outside of the city.Relying on the exploitation of agricultural products outside the city to support the noble class in the city.

The city has a complete market, providing a place for commodity exchange.

On the banks of the Sishui River, wooden boats coming down from the upper reaches are docked by the river, and the pier is full of people.

Cotton, grain, and salt transported from upstream are exchanged for ironware, primitive porcelain, cotton cloth, or other handicrafts here, bringing huge wealth through repeated transshipments.

After a ship docked, a group of people, dressed in tatters, were resting on the shore.

He rode over there on horseback, reckoning that these people were the people who had "changed their careers" and transported them from the upper reaches of the city or from the small nobles after they were expelled by the "Human Traffickers of the Mohist School".

Sure enough, these people all spoke with a Song accent, but it was somewhat different from Pei County's accent which was a fusion of dialects from various countries.

The escorts are not necessarily Mohists, but may also be some merchants or minor nobles.

If it wasn't for the Mohist to pick it up, the merchant would get forty Mohist tokens for every person transported here, and they could buy any strange things that appeared in Pei County, and they could make a fortune by transporting them back.

The people in this boat were not sent by merchants, but escorted by the Mohists. The Mohist who led them greeted He Shi and said hello.

Shi jumped off the horse, and the following guards tied the horse to the horse tethering stone next to it, and several Lifu who were carrying bales of cotton walked around the horse.

Shi walked up to the dozens of people and asked, "Where are you from?"

The dozens of people saw that he was wearing a short brown suit, with leather boots on their feet, and a sword hanging from their waist. They knew that he must be a figure among the Mohists, and they all said: "From Fang and Lai."

Fangyu is not far from Pei County, at the confluence of Heshui and Sishui. At this time, the Yellow River has not taken the Huai River into the sea, and there is fertile soil.

Shi squatted beside everyone who was resting, chatting casually: "There is no land at home?"

Because Fang Yu was too close to Peixian County, the impact of the change was even greater.The Song Kingdom is currently in chaos. The big nobles are clinging to their power and controlling the peasants. Some small nobles and the private class have begun to change their identities.

Originally, the Consulting Yuan in Shangqiu could only control the vicinity of Shangqiu, but the royal family gradually used the common people to oppose their political opponents. The reform has created a strange and contradictory situation in Pei County.

On the one hand, the interests of the various great nobles remain unchanged, and they still choose to choose the ruling method of the old era.On the other hand, reforms to privately own land and abolish minefields in places such as Shangqiu, Taoyi, and Pei County are underway.

With the increase in population, the original land allocation system can no longer meet the needs of the population.

This kind of change is not led by the Mohists, and it is inevitable that there will be no situation of equalization of land and land. Instead, each household will carry out changes one by one after bearing military taxes and taxes based on their own share of land.

However, some small nobles took the opportunity to seize or change the title to obtain part of the original public land. This kind of seizure had little impact on the farmers who were based on the land distribution system.

The allotment of land is generally [-] mu. In the past, it was necessary to replace the fields, and the primitive labor methods can also guarantee that they will not die of starvation.

However, as ironware began to be popularized in the Song Dynasty on a large scale in the form of "purchase in installments", these farmers under the allotment system gained real benefits, and [-] mu of land was designated as private land. A relatively wealthy class of yeoman farmers.

Overall, they are the mainstream of the world.

And the people who are really affected by this kind of change are mainly those people who don't have enough land and need to rent other people's private land.These people are the poorest, only slightly stronger than the slaves, but they are not the mainstream of the world, and their number is not enough to support all the political demands of the Mohists.

The development of the handicraft industry in Pei County requires a large number of people who changed jobs.Agricultural technology and the limited reforms of the Song Dynasty created a group of self-cultivating farmers, but also created more "assistant farming" and unemployed people who could not even "assistant farming".

The Mohists scattered all over the Song Dynasty used various methods to gather such people to Pei County.

After Shi asked a question, these people answered one after another, and most of them were similar to what Shi thought.

Some people said: "Everyone says that Pei County is good. If you work here for a few years, you can earn a lot of money. The Mo family also organized joint farming. In the future, if you have money to buy iron cattle and horses, you can have your own land."

This is the standard mentality of expelled farmers, Shi smiled and said: "It's good to think so. Don't lose hope in everything. Do a good job in Peixian County. If you earn enough money after working for a few years, you can share it with the co-cultivation cooperative. In the future You will have your own private land."

A person next to him asked: "I heard that it takes six years?"

Shi laughed and said, "Six years is more? How can I eat here, so that the bones of relatives will not be abandoned in the wilderness."

"That's true."

A few people muttered, and then they talked about Pei County's policy to reassure these people.

If it's cheating, it doesn't count.

The people who come here either enter the developing workshops, or enter the mining and smelting plants, and select strong ones to join volunteers. If the handicraft workshops cannot accommodate them, they can also organize reclamation.

From the perspective of capital appreciation, as long as the value created by the six years of labor can exceed the value of the six years of food and drink used to transport them here, it is considered profitable.

It's just that the Mohists are organized, have ideals, and have beliefs, so they won't be able to do that kind of unlimited oppression.

Furthermore, the Mohist school can do this, and there will be learning from other places. The Mohist family must rely on Peixian's higher living conditions and sounding bright future to attract people to flee here.

Not only such job changers, the Mohist family condoned those semi-serfs on Lutian to escape. As long as they escape here, it has nothing to do with the past... Some nobles come here to surpass others, because there are a few Mohists who have done some things. "Excessive" incited more than [-] households to flee together.

However, the Mohists themselves wanted to intensify the contradictions within the Song Dynasty, and their own strength was strong. After the battle between Niu Lanyi and Tengcheng, these important nobles did not dare to say anything. system".

Under this situation, a series of strange situations appeared in Pei County.

The amount of land farmers have basically reached the limit of personal cultivation, with an average of 120 acres of arable land per household, which has led to a very good life for farmers.

For the time being, there has been no case of self-cultivated farmers going bankrupt and becoming handicrafts in Peixian County. Many farmers have completed the installment purchase of iron cattle in advance, and they have more surplus grain in their hands.

The fact that Pei County sucked blood from all around to support the local area also ensured that the Mohists did not need to squeeze the local farmers as hard as possible, but used the Song State as an extensive dumping market.

This formed a strange situation in Pei County.

The handicraft industry is in urgent need of development, the surplus of folk food is increasing, and the accumulation of wealth is sufficient as capital, but there is an extreme shortage of folk handicraft labor.

The handicraft industry in Pei County is basically concentrated under the control of the Mohists, because only the Mohists can get enough people.The loss outweighs the benefit of hiring workers in the folk handicraft industry.The local people all have land, and if they give less, no one will do it, and if they give too much, it is completely unprofitable.

The fugitives from other places were controlled as soon as they came, and were divided up by various Mohist workshops, or they controlled and organized a joint farming society.

The development of the commodity handicraft industry certainly requires a market, but it also requires a large amount of free labor.With an average of 120 mu of land per household, and an average of three households with one cow and horse, this kind of free labor is really a rare commodity, and we can only rely on constantly taking in, luring or attracting escapees from other places.

Without bankrupt farmers, there would be no large-scale free labor force, and the Mohists’ base in Pei County was handicraftsmen and small farmers, and it was impossible to implement a policy of bankrupt farmers, so they could only entrust free labor outside Pei County.

As a result, a strange workshop model also appeared in Peixian County. For example, the "iron pot" workshop just established this year adopted the form of private equity raising and three-year dividends.Because the Mohists control the "labor force", capital cannot increase in value without this thing.

Or some village communes that used to work collectively on public land were organized into a new type of village commune, and some village commune workshops were set up in addition to farming, which was strongly supported by the Mohists.For example, brick making, paper fishing, oil extraction, etc. in spare time rely on the labor force of the village commune.

At the same time, the workshops of the Mohists are not entirely military production. For example, rare items such as iron pots have promoted currency exchanges, expanded the scale of commodities such as paper, bricks and stones, and oil on the market, and quietly sold the farmers' surplus food in exchange for money. Primary handicrafts are recycled into warehouses.

After the agricultural revolution, farmers in Pei County had more food surplus per capita, more commodities, and their purchasing power increased several times. This is why many businessmen who came to Pei County said with emotion, "Pei is a place where the city is popular and there are no less than [-] households in a giant city." .

Under the premise of maintaining a certain technological advantage, it is equivalent to a county's handicraft industry facing the almost unlimited Kyushu Huaxia market, and there is no situation where a product cannot be sold for the time being.

With the progress of the surrounding agricultural transformation, the super-profitable grain exchanged for handicraft products can support more handicraft classes who have been tricked or fled here.

As for the places other than Pei County, it is not a suitable place to consider for the time being.Because Peixian County is a big pie that gathers all the good things in the "Heavenly Land", those dark sides are revealed elsewhere, but it sets off the "good governance" of Peixian County.

How did the good governance of Pei, Peng, Liu, and Teng come about?

It is a huge self-cultivator supported by iron ox farming reform and emerging crops, as the cornerstone of political stability, and the main soldiers to rely on.

It is the huge "government-run" handicraft industry and mining industry with nearly 2 people as the economic pillar, using the advantages of leading technology to suck the blood of Kyushu.

There is a huge ruling group that is disciplined, educated, and organized with the heart of never turning back to benefit the world.

As well as simple banknotes and cloth coins to complete the currency replacement, relying on public stock raising to create a regime-binding model of many handicraft workshops.

This is a gluttonous monster.It is Mohist's business to benefit the world, and this monster wants to transform the world in its own way in order to obtain more benefits.

This glutton is very interesting. If he wants to eat more, he must transform the world in his own way to eat more.The changes and progress of the world are just for the benefit of others.

(End of this chapter)