warring states careerist

Chapter 359

Shiwei is in September, and the sequence belongs to Sanqiu.

In a village community in Peize Township, King Shuqing threw a bundle of reeds by the pond.

Shuqingwang is a personal name, but this name is a bit too domineering, and no one outside Pei County dares to call it that.

This is not the original name of King Shuqing, but in the battle of Shangqiu, the spearman of the volunteer from Peixian County was the first to bring the spear within three feet of the king of Chu. He took such a name.

Taking the idea that the common people belittle princes and princes, borrowing the difference between the culture of Chu and the Central Plains, the domineering side of the word "light king" is leaked.

Although many Mohists who came from aristocratic backgrounds knew that the king of Chu State was not the king title of the Son of Heaven, but a divine title worshiped by Chu State, which did not agree with the king of China.

But since the state of Chu has "observed China's politics", the differences in these titles will inevitably be misunderstood by most people.

After all, the surname of his name is not Shu, but Shuqing.

After the Battle of Shangqiu, in the eyes of the people in the world, the name of King Chu being captured was the work of Gong Zaoye. After all, he was considered a "scholar", so it would sound nicer to say it.Before Cao Mo robbed the alliance of Qi Huan, he was still a scholar, and the people of Chu couldn't accept the idea that the common people hijacked the King of Chu in Shangqiu.

But in Pei County, many people know that it was King Shuqing who first extended the tip of the spear within three feet of King Chu.

Not long after the Battle of Shangqiu, King Shuqing had an admirer and married a wife, but he was still in the righteous division at first.

Shi had been to his house a long time ago, and the family had a lot of labor. Because of his intelligence, King Shuqing's younger brother was the first to enter Peiguo's township school, and he has been studying with Shi since then.

After the younger brother heard that his elder brother had taken the name of a Shuqing King, he decided on his own initiative and changed his extremely ugly name to Shuqinghou.

Later, the number of righteous divisions expanded, and King Shuqing served as Sima Chief for three years. He became a candidate for Mohism in office. He retired from the army and returned to his hometown the year before last.

One family is pressing hard and wants him to come back.

Second, at that time, the grassroots of Pei County also needed a large number of Mohists to fill.

He didn't want to come back at first, but he came forward and had a talk with him. He only said that the war was for the sake of not fighting in the future, and the village community also needed Mohist to fill in, so he might as well go back.

Zi Mozi said: Let people have their own strengths, and the affairs of the world are in charge; if they divide their duties, the affairs of the world will be obtained; if everyone likes them, the affairs of the world will be prepared; the strengths and weaknesses are numerous, and the affairs of the world will be completed.

There is no such thing as high or low in the matter of benefiting the world, only the division of labor is different.Let people have their own strengths, and everyone likes them, so those who do these things are considered to be beneficial to the world.

King Shuqing thought for a while and thought it was reasonable, so he received a sum of retirement money, returned to the village, was selected as the representative of the village, and was appointed as the representative of the Mo family in the village.

His family had a lot of labor, and his father was a courageous man who fled in the early years. After the Mo family came, life had hope and luck was good. In just four years, he paid back the different payments for ironware, cattle and horses.

After King Shuqing came back, he organized the people in the village by virtue of the skills he had learned in the Yishi night school. With his own connections, he invited two craftsmen who were the first to make paper to set up a paper-making workshop in the village.

Usually, each family grows crops, and when the farming is slack, they work in the paper-making workshop of the village commune in exchange for money.

Although this papermaking workshop is simple, it cannot be supported by a family of two.Relying on his name and prestige, King Shuqing persuaded more than a hundred households in the village to buy shares and opened this papermaking workshop.

In just two years, the Mohist School released restrictions on papermaking. Mohist government-run workshops only produced some paper for money, and the remaining paper was allowed to be privately owned, and the village community was encouraged to operate cooperatively, and more support was given.

The main reason is that the paper industry can't make any huge profits. The Mohists themselves don't want it anymore, and they are really short of paper, so they spread it out.

The papermaking workshop in Shuqingwang Village is mainly supported by two people who originally worked in the Mohist workshop, and the rest of the people are mostly labor. When the Mohism was supporting it, it was clear that the two craftsmen in the papermaking workshop There must be a share.

Nowadays, many village communities have their own industries. The handicraft industry is very profitable, but the land is reluctant to throw away the official business, so this method is adopted.

There are those who extract oil, those who make paper, those who play flowers, and those who make woodware. Most of them are supported by the first batch of local Mohists who returned to the village and learned from volunteer teachers.

It is now September, and I just went to the township office to pay the tax and grain of the village commune for this year. Each family has prepared horse grass for winter, and the remaining straws are soaked in the original hemp soaking pool. After soaking, they will be smashed next year. Pulp to scoop paper.

After the popularization of cotton in Pei County, few people planted hemp anymore, and the ponds used to soak hemp were just used to soak paper materials.

What King Shuqing was doing at this time was throwing materials into it, and the people behind were pushing a few ink carts filled with lime, listening to the instructions of a craftsman next to him, preparing to add to it.

The person pushing the cart muttered as if chatting in usual way: "The price of lime has risen again, those villages have made a lot of money in recent years."

Another person said: "That's okay. The Mo family has already fixed our paper for next year, and the money has been discussed. After all, there is something to make."

King Shuqing said with a smile: "That has to be done well. Last year, some village communes did not do well, and they didn't meet the standards at all. They didn't accept them, and they were laughed at at the township office. I don't want us to be so shameless." .”

He is now in his late thirties, and he is in his prime. He is wearing the old military uniform of a volunteer soldier, and his lower body is a pair of indigo trousers, tied around his waist with a cotton belt.

When I go out occasionally, I will wear the three brass medals on my chest, which often attracts the attention of many people when I walk.

Everything is fine in the family. The family has opened 120 mu of land in the past few years, and my younger brother is one of the few children who follow Shi to study.

The sisters were all married, and all the ironware, cattle and horses in the family were redeemed and returned to me. Last year, after returning to me, the horse gave birth to a foal. If it was born a year earlier, it would be returned to the Mo family. of.

The wife gave birth to twins last year, and now she has four children, so she is not worried.If you are smarter, you can go to school like your younger brother, join the army if you are not smart, or separate your family when you grow up, and the Mohists who are separated will also organize farming societies to reclaim wasteland, and there will be no less and less land.

Pei County does not collect poll tax, but only collects according to the number of acres of land. The more children there are, the more labor force the family will have, and they can also organize farming. The more children the better.

Although everyone in Peixian County knew that the Mo family spoke in a friendly manner, it would be a serious crime if they concealed the number of acres of land and were found out.

During the two years when King Shuqing returned home, his life was very good. Whenever his father drank some wine and chattered, he would always talk about the days when he fled to Peize before the Mozhe came, and he would also sigh that it is really true now. In good times, as long as you are willing to do it, you can always live well.

He is usually busy at home. In autumn, he organizes the residents of the village community to pay taxes and food in the village. Every two months, he goes to the township office to learn the morals of the Mohist school with the rest of the Mohists in the village. The days are very pleasant.

Sometimes I miss the most glorious moment in my life... the moment when I was only three feet away from the King of Chu who I thought was far away.

But most of the time, what I think about is how to live a good life, live a better life, and live up to the oath of "benefiting the world" when I joined the Mohism.

When he came back, Shi, on behalf of the Propaganda Department, talked a lot to the first group of returnees: There are many ways to benefit the world, and going back is an act of benefiting the world. If you do it well, you will benefit from each other, and that will be regarded as benefiting the world.

A few days ago, volunteers went out to help Teng Guo restore the country, which was considered a big event. He organized a group of farmers from the village community to accompany the army, and followed them out for a walk. Seeing that volunteers can now break through the capital of a country without dying, he couldn't help feeling excited.

Originally thought it would take a long time to fight, who would have thought that all the peasants would be sent back before the wheat harvest, without delaying the farmland.

This year is a good year, most of the villages are newly reclaimed land, and the irrigation canals in Peize Township pass through the villages. Autumn is another bumper harvest year. Every family is full of corn and soybeans, and the cattle and horses in the family also eat corn. I can have some bean cakes.

The orders for the papermaking workshops in the village are also set early. When the materials are ready, as long as there are no problems, they can make a fortune. Each family can share some money according to the work. He is thinking about letting the big guys pool the money. Take a moment and invest in the newly opened iron pot workshop.

He has already thought about it, his four children, three boys and one girl, if they are all talented in school, it would be great, if not, one must go to Peiguo to learn blacksmithing after they grow up, and learn a skill, so that they will not be hungry in this life up.

Like the vast majority of young people in Peixian County, they are full of hope and gratitude for life. Most of the time, they are no different from others when they have faded away from the identity of the ink man.

But in the end, it's different.

Not long after King Shuqing and the people around him put the paper materials into the soaking pool, they heard a brass bell ringing in the distance, and the people by the pool stopped their work one after another, covering the awning with their hands and watching. the road in the distance.

On the road, a man in a blue uniform was riding a horse, waving a brass bell in his hand, and was running towards the village.

King Shuqing thumped in his heart, and said, "Something went wrong!"

He didn't know what it was, but he knew what ringing the copper bell meant. Either he was being attacked, or there was an urgent matter that required the various villages to send representatives to Peiguo to discuss the "public will."

This year's help to restore the country of Teng was only voted on by representatives at the township level, and there was no consensus at the village level.

Now that the copper bell rang, King Shuqing knew that something must have happened.

Leaving aside the work in hand, he hurried back to the village with a few people. The rider was drinking water by the big house of the village... The Mo family ordered that they should not drink raw water as much as possible, but drink boiled water instead. Therefore, there will always be some cold boiled water in the big clay pot in the big house of the village.

Shu Qing Wang also recognized the man riding the horse to pass the order. He had dealt with him when he was in the army, so he hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

The rider took out two pieces of paper from his pocket, handed them over and said, "Five days later, representatives of the Mohists from all townships will go to Peiguo to communicate something. Seven days later, representatives of the people from all villages will also gather in Peiguo to discuss general will."

One is communication, the other is negotiation, each has its own measure.

"The matter of the Yue Kingdom... If everyone agrees, there may be a big battle."

The rider didn't say much, drank some water, got on his horse and said, "I have to go to the next village, King Qing, you should also get ready, before it's too late."

King Shuqing nodded and said, "Don't worry, it won't be too late."

He walked up to the rider, put his hand on the rider's knee, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean when you say you want to fight a big battle?"

The rider straightened his belt and said, "The Mohists decided to propose that all volunteers who left their hometowns return to Jian, just to discuss this matter. If it succeeds, then they will prepare for a decisive battle with the King of Yue. If they fail, they will have to withdraw from Tengdi... ..."

King Shuqing scolded: "How can it be impossible? The Yue country is a warlike country, and we can't always guard against them? If I say it should have been fought long ago, who wouldn't want to live a good life like this? But these princes and nobles I don’t want us to do it. The king of Chu has been captured by us, so you are afraid of the king of Yue?”

The rider smiled and said, "There are only two brigades that belong to our Mohist family. The rest are volunteer teachers from the people of Pei County. We always ask for everyone's opinions and clarify this matter. You will know exactly what is going on when you go there. ,I go first."

After finishing speaking, he put his legs between the horse's belly and rushed out. King Shuqing stood on the spot, subconsciously touched the calluses left by the battle in the palm of his hand, and said in his heart: "Let's fight, sooner or later, how can there be such a thing in this world?" What kind of king is not warlike and takes advantage of the people? If you don’t beat him, he will beat you and let you follow his rules. The rules of the Mo family are different from the rules of the kings of the world!”

(End of this chapter)