warring states careerist

Chapter 358

Not long after that little drunkenness, representatives from all over the country who returned to participate in this Mohism fraternity meeting basically gathered, and the fraternity meeting was held in September as scheduled.

There are a total of [-] people who participated in the Brotherhood, and there are people from all over the country.

The meeting in the first three days was considered semi-public, basically, each radical or person in charge reported the development situation, and gave a general announcement of the current Mohist family background.

After the battle of Shangqiu, the Mohist School began a large-scale expansion. Up to now, counting the alternate Mohists, there are a total of more than [-] people on the list.

It's not much, but in this era, it is already considered an extremely terrifying force.

Now the Mohists control Peixian County and Pengcheng, infiltrate some villages near Liuyi, and help Teng to restore the country. It has developed extremely violently and extremely influential in the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, Niu Lan in Luyang was controlling the power there in the name of helping Duke Luyang rule the city.

In Wancheng, Nanyang, the first iron smelting workshop in Chu State has also been built, and some agricultural implements and ironware have begun to be produced.

In Yanchi in Badi, Qisui and others also controlled a part of it there, and had a lot of contact with the Mohists in Chudi.

In the land of Wuyue, some of the nobles of Wu Kingdom also had frequent contact with the Mohists there.

The real essence of Mohism now is Pei County, which has expanded to Huling and penetrated most of Liuyi.

There are more than [-] households of local self-cultivating farmers in Peixian County. This is the statistics after the grassroots villages are completely controlled, and a large part of Huling and Liuyi are close to Peixian County, and after fleeing here from various places Arrange for farming.

In addition to registered self-cultivating farmers, there were more than [-] people including "official" handicraftsmen, mining and metallurgy workers affiliated to Mohist workshops, village teachers who received Mohist salaries, and full-time soldiers who were not required to be recruited.

The villages in Liuyi have basically completed the organization, and the population that can basically be controlled is more than 60 villages, nearly [-] households.

The number of people in Pengcheng is similar to that in Pei County, but the number of handicraft workers and non-owner farmers is much smaller.

After the restoration of the Teng Kingdom, population statistics compilation and naturalization are being carried out, and there are about [-] households.For the nobles, the population of a city is the number of people in the city, but for the Mohists who can penetrate to the grassroots, it is all statistics.

At this time, a city with more than [-] households is considered a big city, and the one that can be counted as a big city today is the newly built Peiguo, which is the gathering place of the Mohist handicraft industry.

There are two iron smelting furnaces in Peixian County, each of which can produce four thousand catties of iron per day, which is two tons, which is not much.

One in Pengcheng.

The supporting wrought iron mixing furnace, annealing furnace, casting mold, foundry, agricultural tools, military industry, pot and other workshops are basically concentrated in Peiguo.

There are also a series of workshops such as primitive porcelain, paper making, and wine making.

These workshops relied on handicrafts to support the Mohist's increasingly large expenses, and saved enough food, allowing the Mohist to support a group of "public servants" that was much higher than the proportion of the times.

Pei County has been in a state of "high accumulation" in the past few years. In the early days, the Mohists used the method of buying iron oxen and horses separately, so that most of the surplus grain in the hands of farmers entered the Mohist warehouses.

In addition to organizing the people to build water conservancy projects and dig ditches, there are 80 mu of land in Pei County that can be irrigated by ditches.

The planting methods of potatoes and corn in spring and autumn, and wheat and soybeans in winter and summer also keep the farmland output in Pei County at a world-leading level.

The land that cannot be irrigated has an average yield of 120 jin of wheat per mu per season.

Some that can be irrigated have an average yield of 180 jin of wheat per mu per season.

And the newly reclaimed land, the farmer's own compost land, etc., can reach a yield of 250 catties per mu, which is a terrifying amount for the times.

As for those sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, etc. that replace part of the staple food, the yield is higher, but most of them are used to make wine.

Last year alone, Pei County’s annual agricultural taxation reached 300 million shi of the weekly pebbles. However, this is the weekly pebbles. On average, the average burden of each household in the county is only [-] shi, which is equivalent to The head of each agricultural population is about one hundred catties.

If it is elsewhere, it must be tyranny.

The later generation Meng Changjun worked hard to lend usury, [-] households in Xueyi, earning [-] interest per year... exchanged for grain, it is only a pitiful [-] shi, and with his own income from Lutian fiefdom, he supported [-] diners.

In Qi, Chu and other places, the price of a stone of corn is basically [-] qian, which is equivalent to one qian for a catty of corn. commodity exchange.

Bone tools, stone tools, copper and other tools, under the planting technique of sowing seeds all over the sky, even if converted into a large mu of Mohist weights and measures, the yield per mu is only a few tens of catties. After deducting the food for oneself, there is very little left.

But in Peixian County, with the support of 120 mu of land per household, iron ox farming and water conservancy, as well as improved seeds and ridge crop rotation, taking the classic rotation of winter wheat and summer soybean as an example, if the year is good, a household can earn [-] catties of wheat , [-] catties of soybeans.

The forty pebbles paid by each household is about [-] catties, which is about [-] tax dollars. In Peixian County, it is indeed good governance rather than tyrannical governance.

However, in other countries, it is really a miracle that this county can receive so much grain and put it into storage without large-scale fleeing.

Even so, these agricultural incomes are still only small compared to the profit income of the Mohist workshops.

Ironware, spirits, primitive porcelain, etc. are strictly prohibited from being privately owned, and the grain exchanged along the river around the Song Dynasty every year is far higher than the agricultural tax of Pei County.

This caused a very strange situation in Peidi's prices.

If households earn [-] jin of grain and put it elsewhere, they are also rich households with annual income of [-] yuan, but in Peixian... most people have never seen copper coins at all, let alone rich households.

The agricultural revolution is the basis of the handicraft revolution. The agricultural revolution in Peixian County has been completed. Excluding the excess profits of ironware, it will gradually reach an exchange ratio of the average amount of labor.

However, the copper mines in Chuyue and other places have not reached the average agricultural production of Pei County, and the nominal amount of copper that can be exchanged for food in Pei County every year is extremely terrible... The agricultural tax in Pei County is calculated according to the price ratio of copper grain in Chu State. It is exchanged for 200 million coppers. With the gradual transformation of Chu's agriculture, this exchange rate will gradually decrease. However, Pei County can still exchange a huge amount of copper every year by using value-added handicrafts such as ironware, spirits, and primitive porcelain.

After the grain output in Pei County increased, the animal husbandry and breeding industries also gradually developed.On the one hand, it can provide more cattle and horses, and on the other hand, cattle, horses and pig manure can also fertilize the fields and increase food production.

Most of the farmers in Pei County did not enjoy much of the high accumulation, excess profit monopoly of ironware and installment purchase of cattle and horses implemented by the Mohists in Pei County.

Farmers' lives are naturally better than before, but compared to those "thousands of money a year" families outside, they are far behind.

Fortunately, if you are full, you can eat several meals of meat every year, and you have vegetable oil to supplement fat, etc., there is no problem.

However, the treasury of the Mohist family and the treasury of the government of Pei County, the amount of money and food piled up is astonishing.

This is a very delicate point in time.

It has been six or seven years since the Shangqiu coup began large-scale reforms in Pei County.

The ironware with excess profits and the cattle and horses brought in from the north are handed over to the farmers under the policy of installment redemption. By this year, most farmers are about to completely repay these agricultural necessities that need to be bought in installments.

In other words, all the dividends of the agricultural reform in [-] were basically concentrated in the hands of the Mohists, and not much remained in the hands of the farmers.A strong material foundation is the basis for many Mohists to dare to fight against the Yue State with the power of only two counties this time.

On the other hand, a large number of farmers are about to usher in their good days: the things purchased by installments belong to themselves, and after the annual tax of [-] yuan is paid, the surplus grain increases greatly, and more handicraft products are needed to enrich these purchasing power. The population and land under control are still too small, so the war against Vietnam is imminent.

In addition, this is the time when people's hearts are at their peak. All the results of the reform are in sight, and the early accumulation period has passed. At this time, we can fully mobilize and people are excited.

Coupled with the most important external environment, the war between Jin and Chu is imminent, and the timing of Qi's domestic strife is about to end, once the Mohist family is missed, it will be difficult to have such a good opportunity again.

These things can be directly used as practical reasons for argument.

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After the semi-public synonymous meeting ended a few days ago, all participants had a closed-door discussion, as they had done many years ago, this time full of debate in mid-September.

Well-prepared Shih received more than half of the support. More than 80 of the [-] people supported Shih's idea and opposed all efforts to promote the elimination of troops in the Central Plains. Instead, they temporarily put their minds on the corners outside the Central Plains.

In fact, the criticism of Wei Yue's ideas lasted only three days.

Three days later, it was more suitable to oppose the radical idea of ​​"solving the problem of Vietnam in World War I, once the victory is won, the county will be established".

The Mohists have generally begun to distrust the princes and nobles, and some are too optimistic about the strength of the Mohism, so they insist on muffled development, and don't make such a big move before there are enough Mohists, otherwise they will not be able to govern at all.

He also cited the example of Pengcheng, Peixian County, saying that the timing is not right now. If Yuedi is captured at this time, the princes will panic, and there are really not so many Mohists to govern and enrich.

In the end, Shi's opinion still prevailed, and a consensus was reached for the time being.

That is to say, taking this battle as an opportunity, a "non-aggressive alliance" was formed in the Sishui River Basin, dominated by the Mohists, and composed of seven small countries: Teng, Zong, Ni, Xue, Fei, Tan, and Pi.

The Mohists dominated the Zhuang and Tanfu states, dominated the politics of the other small states, completely pushed the Yue state out of the Sishui River basin, and formed an alliance with the princes of the small states in Pengcheng to form a covenant organization that was only for self-protection in name.In fact, under the existing rules, the Mohist's strength is maximized.

To achieve this plan, Peixian, Pengcheng, Tengguo, etc. controlled by the Mohist must prepare for a year-long long-term battle.

The ongoing water conservancy project was stopped, and the entire control area was fully transferred to wartime preparations.

All the volunteers who returned home after serving for three years, all returned to the team to reorganize a field force of about 5000 people, and a certain number of farmers accompanying the army for logistics.

This field force requires 3000 people from Pei County, 8000 from Pengcheng, 500 from Teng, 2000 from the half of Liuyi controlled by the Mohist family, and 500 from the Mohist troops.

The Xuanyi Department is going to mobilize in an all-round way. The slogan is: "Defend the existing paradise, the more warlike ones in exchange for the First World War dare not covet it, the princes of Surabaya will form an alliance if they do not attack and prevent war."

(End of this chapter)