warring states careerist

Chapter 363
King Shuqing saw that Shi and Gongzaoye looked at each other, and then said, "That's a good question. I also want to talk about it. Everything needs to be learned."

"After the soldiers are replenished next month, you, the most connected representatives, will be busier than the soldiers. In addition to training, you have to study every five days."

"How to be a Mohist representative of a company? What does a Mohist representative do? How to judge whether this matter is beneficial to the world? You have to learn all these."

"Don't be afraid, it's not something you're born with."

King Shuqing finally felt relieved when he heard that he had to study once every five days.

Xin said that as long as someone teaches, then he can always learn well, this is what he must do as a Mohist.

Afterwards, Shihe Gongzaoye and the others talked about other things, and at night everyone dispersed.

Before leaving, King Shuqing came to Shi's side and asked, "Shi, how is my brother?"

It can be seen that Shi remembers him, and naturally he also remembers his younger brother. King Shuqing heard Shi and said: "You said Qinghou? Very good, you have studied very well, and you have been studying very well in the past few years. You don't have to worry about it." , he works very hard."

"But your family is okay? A few years ago, when the canal was being repaired, right? I have been to your house, and your father is in good health?"

It was a conversation of life, Shu Qingwang felt relieved for a while, nodded and said: "It's okay."

Shi said again: "In the past few years, you have brought the village commune to fish for paper, and you have done a good job. However, your village commune has taken away more than 60 people at once, and many things have to be arranged. You have mentioned the tax cuts well, It can’t be said that our Mo family feels that you owe something because we have done something, after all, it is for the benefit of the people.”

"How is the arrangement at home?"

When asked about the family affairs, King Shuqing became more relaxed, as if he was chatting about family affairs on weekdays, he said: "I will let the family plant less crops next year, dig the river and flood part of it, and then release the water to reclaim it after returning. Cotton and so on will not be cultivated next year." planted."

"However, the village commune organized to plant some cotton. First, it was to pay the cotton tax in kind. Second, the rest of the village commune worked together to finish the picking. You can also pick paper and so on. Finish."

The two chatted a little more, talked about some things about the village community, and then asked some thoughts about the people in the village community, and it was getting late, so they separated.

Shi told King Shuqing that next ten days will be the last holiday, you can go home and have a look, and you have to deal with some things in the village next year, and organize the people who need to serve in the village and send them to Peiguo.

He also said that he had to go to other brigades, and tomorrow the people in the brigade would hold a meeting, mainly to get acquainted with each other.

Back at the camp, King Shuqing and the company commander of the company also got to know each other well.

This company commander is also the same as before, without a surname. When he was born, his family gave him a name called "Yutu", which means tiger in Chu dialect.

The dialects between Song and Chu are very different, but the grammar is roughly the same, and the current dialect of Peidi is also mixed with a lot of Chu dialects. Yu Tu came to Peixian after the Battle of Niulanyi, and it has been more than two years now , There is no problem for two people to communicate.

At this time Yu Tu was just an alternate Mohist, and hadn't officially joined yet. Shu Qinghou heard it and knew that this person came to Pei County alone.

Both parents in the family are dead, and I owe Lu Yang a sum of money before I came here, and I can't even pay the interest.This amount of money is actually not much, it is nothing more than the interest of three or four stones of grain every year.

In the eyes of the people of Peiyi at this time, it is only the output of one mu of land, but in Niulan, it is a nightmare that weighs on their heads, and I am afraid that they will not be able to make it in this life.

Because of the Battle of Niu Lanyi, the Mohist pleaded for the people, and forced Lu Yanggong to forgive his debts. After coming to Pei County, he has been working as a musketeer in the army.

He used that kind of clumsy hand cannon in Niulan, used a sixteen-pound heavy musket in Peixian County, and made great achievements in Tengdi with his outstanding performance.

In the previous Battle of Fujichi, Yu Tu followed Meng Sheng's brigade to intercept the Yue people. At that time, he was the gunman in the front row. Afterwards, he captured several Yue people in the chaotic battle of abandoning his guns, so this time let him do it. The company commander of this company.

After getting acquainted, King Shuqing asked: "What's your plan? I heard that you guys from Niulan will provide cattle, horses and iron tools to cultivate in Peize after you leave in the future?"

Yu Tu grinned and said, "I'm alone, but I don't plan to farm. I thought about it, and I will continue to do it in the army. As a company commander, my annual expenses are enough to support my family."

King Shuqing half-jokingly said: "Don't want women anymore? If you don't have women, you won't have children. You will become a ghost in the future, but no one will feed you."

The Mohists hold festivals for burials and expenses, but they do not oppose the existence of ghosts. Although they are getting weaker and weaker, they do not enforce materialism for the time being. This is the habit of the world at this time.

Yu Tu chuckled and said, "I thought about it, find a woman who works in Peiguo. There are more and more women in textile workshops, banknotes, teachers, and doctors. I don't want to farm anymore."

King Shuqing nodded, thinking that this is really good.Many women in Peiguo are working. Some women workers in cotton cloth workshops can support themselves and even have spare money, not to mention those who are teachers and doctors.

There are also female Mohists within the Mohist school. Although the number is small, it is enough to shock the jaws of the rest of the world.

Like teachers and doctors, doing a good job may not necessarily be worse than farming, and there are many things in cities that are not available in villages.

For example, King Shuqing is very envious that people in the city can see "acting" every once in a while. It is not a dance like the dance of mulberry forest, but a drama with a storyline.

Most of the dramas simply promote Mohist morality and benefit the world, but compared to nothing, they are still fascinating.

Furthermore, King Shuqing also knows that being in the army is actually a "profession" that can settle down.

He and Yu Tu are now obliged.

He came here to serve because of the "public will" of the people of Peixian County, which passed the "special call" decree.

Yu Tu belonged to the military obligation in Niulan back then, which has not yet expired.

After the expiration, if Yu Tu continues to be the company commander and starts a team in the army, besides two sets of military uniforms every year, he can also receive a salary of 180 yuan from the Mo family every month.Any soldier who has overdue service will be paid an extra [-] yuan every year.

No grain and rice will be distributed, because based on the current situation, the grain price of [-] cents a stone of wheat and the grain harvested every year in Peixian County make the grain price extremely stable.

Nine small stone wheat can be exchanged every month, which is about two hundred and forty fifty catties, which is enough to feed the family.

The development of the handicraft industry of the Mohists in Pei County started from scratch, so it started from the most basic daily necessities such as ironware, textiles, and porcelain. These are daily consumer goods, not those that the village community cannot afford temporarily. Advanced industrial products.

As a result, a large amount of grain is continuously sold for money every year, and then the money flows into the handicraft workshops of the Mohists.

King Shuqing understands that, just like his own family, there is more grain produced, and he had to repay the loan for cattle, horses and iron equipment before, but now the expenses are gradually increasing.

Sometimes the family has a sip of wine, sometimes they buy a porcelain pot, and now it is said that they will sell iron pots, all of which are saved to buy.

These things have to be bought in exchange for money, and the concentration of these grains in the cities ensures the stability of prices.

King Shuqing chatted with Yu Tu for a while, and then they talked about their future life, and the two of them calculated it.

Assuming that Yu Tu continues to be the company commander, after three years of overdue service, he can pay [-] yuan a year to have his own residence in the city.

I spend my daily food and necessities in the army, so I don’t spend a lot of money. I pay a certain amount of “Funds for Volunteer Teachers and Seniors” every month, and after the age of 50, I can still receive a small amount of money to support myself every month. money.

If you have children, you have to pay a part of the "education fee" every year. This is mandatory by the "public will". All families with children must pay, and children must study in schools for the most basic three years.

Those who don’t go will not only be fined, but those who can’t know [-] characters after three years will also be fined. After three years, the best students will be selected to enter a better school.

In fact, most of those who teach children now are young people who have studied for three to five years, and most of them are women.

But after studying for three to five years, being able to teach is better than not learning anything.

Since we talk about children, we must first have a woman as a wife.

Yu Tu wanted to find someone to work in the city, to work in the workshop of the Mohist school without paying taxes, and to do private handicrafts had to pay some commercial taxes but not much. The Mohist school has always supported the handicraft industry.

If you are disabled, you will receive subsidies, and if you die in battle, you will receive pensions. After a little calculation, you can indeed live similarly or even better than in the village.

When it comes to a better life in the future, the relationship between the two has become much closer.

A few days later, King Shuqing returned to the village community, arranged some things for the village community, and brought back the young people in the village who needed to serve in the village to Peiyi, and then began to get busy.

The personnel in the brigade have been replenished. There are 150 people in his company, only a dozen of them have touched muskets, and there are more than 40 new recruits who have not served in the army.

Before the musket was issued, he went to participate in the study first. As a result, what he learned in the first lesson was that he, the company representative, wanted to chat more with the soldiers. King Shuqing couldn't help but think of the chat with Yu Tu, and said in his heart that it was indeed true. That's it.

After returning to the camp, the drill began. There were special Mohists in the company to help with the training. At the beginning, there were some things like queues and military orders.

In mid-October, the muskets were finally released, and a company of 150 people sent out [-] muskets.

Now there is a serious shortage of ordnance, and the workshop is busy with all its strength. It will not be able to equip all the muskets until at least March next year.

The company also distributed a pile of bamboo for training temporarily, relying on these forty muskets also requires everyone to learn how to use them.

It is said that this is the case, and I am afraid that it will still not be completed by April next year.For example, the brigades in Liuyi and Tengguo did not have musketeers at all, but the entire brigade was full of spearmen.

The first and second brigades still used the heavy muskets, and there were only seven brigades with four company musketeers in each brigade, and the rest were either downsizing musketeers, or they were all spearmen.

King Shuqing took a newly issued musket, weighed it, and found that it was indeed much lighter than the previous big musket, but the length was still the same, and the structure was basically the same. It was still hooked by a copper snake.

On the back of the gun barrel, like the rest of the Mohist workshop, there is a line of small characters engraved.

"Cao Suijian of the Ministry of Ordnance, made by Jiang Zi", and a line of date is engraved on the back.

King Shuqing knew that Cao Sui and Zi were both personal names. Of course he didn't know who they were, but he knew that if there were some serious problems with the musket, these two people would be responsible.

Yu Tu didn't read the writing on the musket. After getting the new musket, he immediately went to the camp to reload it a few times, and he seemed quite satisfied.

King Shuqing thought to himself, I heard that the fight will start in July next year at most, and in less than ten months, it is necessary to train a hundred and fifty people in a company to shoot, and I don't know if it can be completed.

I don't know how to do it now, but I have to hurry up and practice more, and I won't be ridiculed that he can't even use a musket as a representative...

(End of this chapter)