warring states careerist

Chapter 452 Aspiration
After thinking about it for a while, I heard the grumble from the vegetable buyer, saying that it is hard to find hired workers. Although vegetables and vegetables are enough for food, some oil needs to be put in, so I need to buy some oil.He also said that when there was no iron pot back then, it was just like that. The emperor still ate pickled leek flowers, but now the hired workers don't like it.

Wu Qi nodded secretly, thinking that the vegetables are connected with vegetable oil, and since the iron pot was produced, the Mo family sold the iron pot, which also allowed many people to grow vegetables for a living, and also enabled some to start oil workshops to get rich.

Those who could only do farming can now choose to grow vegetables and work in oil mills. There is still so much land, but more people can survive.

Hearing the man still muttering there, Wu Qi approached with a smile and said, "Didn't the Mohists say love? The hired people give good food to the hired workers, not because they love the hired workers, but because they want the hired workers to do more for their own sake. Conversely, hired workers work hard not to love their masters, but to get money. There is nothing wrong with that. If your master can’t benefit, then naturally you don’t need to treat your hired workers like this, right?”

When the man heard this, he smiled and said: "That's the truth, but the Mohist also said that the price is raised on the spot and the money is paid back on the spot. After all, they want to make people pay less and work more. Hiring labor is like charging more money." , less work, this is the spear and the shield."

"I heard someone lecture a few days ago, and that's what I said. Don't say it, think about it, it's really the same thing."

Wu Qi then asked, "What is your master's occupation?"

The man said: "To manage the land, this is the season for picking cotton. If it rains, you will lose it. It is the time to employ people."

"However, oil, water, and vegetables are usually needed. Those who work with others have nothing but strength. But in recent years, food, drink, clothing, and use are even better than when they were farming... It really doesn't make sense .”

Wu Qi laughed and said: "Everyone seeks profit. I heard that it doesn't matter if it rains to pick cotton. When employing people, it is natural to treat those servants well. But on weekdays...they seek profit, and they have nothing but strength. I'm afraid It doesn't have to be like this?"

Speaking of this, the man let out a hey and said: "That's not the case. These servants have already said that the food here is not good, so they went to Sishang to suffer for a few years. There can be organized farming, Or work in a workshop, it was harder in the past few years, if you don’t give food, you can get better food and pay more money, and the family goes to Sishang, who will cultivate the owner’s land? No one will cultivate it, so how can you make a profit?”

"The head of the family has long sighed that this place is too close to Sishang, which is good or bad. The good thing is that everyone here knows about the good things of the Mo family, and planting can be profitable."

"The bad thing is that hired workers are getting more expensive, and the Mo family recruits people there. If they can't get enough hired workers to stay, the hired workers will leave."

"These truths are preached by the Mohists in the marketplace all day long, and everyone knows them."

Wu started to smile, and said in his heart: "Although the Mohists said they didn't control Taoqiu explicitly, they actually still managed Taoqiu. Those ordinary people also benefited from the Mohism. This is the reason they have always preached. I'm afraid that the income of these hired workers will decrease day by day...they have no land, but only their strength, when the time comes, they will give them some food, and they will work, and if they don't work, they will die..."

Thinking of this, I thought about how the Mohists behaved, and I really couldn't learn it.In this way, the people at the bottom have more hearts for the Mohists, knowing in their hearts that their lives will be easier if they don't fail.If there is no Mo family in Sishang, their life will be hard.

But the Mohism does not hinder the profit of the merchants and the management of the landowners. Compared with the nobles of Shiqing, these merchants and landowners would rather support the Mohism, at least they will not be extremely opposed.

In this way, how many people in Taoqiu are at odds with the Mohists?
Taoqiu is like this, and Song Dynasty is close to Sishang for thousands of miles, so what does it look like?
The prosperity of the Song Kingdom can be seen from Tao Qiu. Wu Qi thought to himself, if he ruled the Song Dynasty himself, would he be able to do this?
After thinking about it carefully, he finally shook his head, knowing that if he ruled the Song Dynasty himself, it would be impossible for the Song Dynasty to be so prosperous and the people would be enlightened.

If you govern Qin by yourself, I am afraid that it is impossible to do so. If the Mo family governs Qin, what will happen?Will Qin Rusi come on?Or will he also choose the method of Sheng Chuo and others?
If the Mohists ruled the world, they could make the world as prosperous as Sishang and the people were well-off. If he joined the Qin government and thought he couldn't do it, then what did he do all this for?Isn't it against the will of heaven?Move against the prosperity of the world?

Thinking of the "necessity" mentioned by the Mohists, what is the point of everything I have done in pursuit of fame?In the end, it turned out to be harming the people of the world and hindering the wealth of the world?

Wu Qi believes that if the world wants to be stable, it must rely on wars, and if the world is finally settled in one, there will be no military disasters.

The former Mohists stopped unjust wars and helped defend the city more.

However, the current Mohists talk less about injustice and more about punishing injustice, and they have righteous divisions and armaments. I think they have the same idea.

That being the case, what is the purpose of what I did?
After the world is stable?Even if the world is fixed as one, and I am the face of the world, not the face of a country and a place, if I can't make the world rich like the Mohists, how will future generations evaluate everything I have done in this world?

From the fact that vegetable farmers can sell vegetables for a living, to the handling of conflicts between those hired workers and their owners, these are all very small things.

But Wu Qizhi was in the prime minister, and the thinking caused by these trivial things was, if he was the prime minister, what kind of methods would he use?
Will you allow those fields to be concentrated in the hands of people?Can I ensure that those fields are concentrated in the hands of manpower, and can the hired workers survive without suffering?Can I make these people feel grateful for me without resentment?
If you can't do it, how can you be considered unparalleled in the world?Everything I want to do, in the end, under the "necessity", will eventually become what the Mohists call "harming the world".

All of this is because he has been influenced by many moral propaganda of the Mohists in these years, and he has inevitably recognized the concept of "summation of wealth", and recognized that doing things can only be done well by following the origin of heaven, so he had this kind of thinking .

A few insignificant things, in his opinion, are actually difficult problems that he cannot solve.

He has been seeking fame and fame all his life, when he was left out in Wei State and invited by Qin people to join Qin, after seeing Tao Qiu's wealth, he finally began to think about the meaning of his pursuit of fame and fame.

He used to think that he had talent and could display it enough to shock the world. He only wanted a place where he could display his talent, because he firmly believed that he could do a lot.

At least, it can be achieved that "command the three armies, make the soldiers happy to die, and the enemy country dare not seek; govern the officials, be close to the people, and strengthen the treasury..."

He feels that if he doesn't do it, others can't do it, so everything he does is meaningful.

He likes the feeling of being in charge of a country to reform and seek prosperity and strength. However, in Taoqiu, he feels that everything he does is meaningless.

Traveling when he was young, killing those who mocked him, in order to ensure that Shangqing's mother was seriously ill and would not go back, all in order to display his ambition.

Or maybe, it is a kind of mentality against the rules of the world: why those nobles who are Shiqing are born as Shiqing, and they can gain power after the crown ceremony, and they have no skills.

It is impossible to command the three armies, make the soldiers happy to die, the enemy country dare not seek, it is impossible to govern hundreds of officials, be close to all people, and strengthen the treasury, but it can be called a minister just because of blood.

This kind of disobedience brought about that kind of ambition, the kind of ambition that can stabilize the world after being used, but this kind of ambition...becomes a bit ridiculous in the face of the changes brought about by the Mohist school.

Wu Qi thought to himself, he also felt that the world was unfair and shouldn't be like this, but everything he did before was to make himself a Shangqing, to resist these injustices within the existing rules of the world.

However, what the Mohists want to do is to push the world down and reshape the world.There are many talented people in the Mohist family, they are not of high background, but they do not recognize the system of this world, but they do not recognize their own identities, and their talents cannot be used... They feel that the rules of this world are wrong, why should I be here? After this rule, do it to the extreme?How good would it be to overthrow and reshape the world directly?
In terms of governing, I can't understand the will of heaven, so I can't make the world rich, and I certainly won't make the world like Sishang.

In terms of ambition, I just recognize the rules of the world and make myself look down on Shiqing under this unfair rule, but Mo Zhe wants to overthrow all this. This is the comparison between Yinghuo and Yuehua.

Then everything I have done and will do, only one "fame" is left?What is this fame?Is it the thrill of ruling the world?Is it the joy that shakes the world?
I am not loyal, not loyal to Wei, not loyal to Lu, not loyal to Wei, and not necessarily loyal to Qin. These princes of the country are just places for me to display my ambitions.

I don't know why I should be loyal, I have talent, if I don't say anything, I don't say the same thing, I turn around and leave, why should I be loyal to Luhou and Weihou?

I am a Weiren, but according to the Mohists, I am also a member of the world.

I am a Weiren, but what does Weiguo have to do with me?Weiguo belongs to Marquis Wei and Shiqing, it is not my Weiguo, and I have no fief in Weiguo, so I don't have to be loyal.

I became famous in Lu Wei, but do they love me?It's just to use me, and I'm just to display my ambition, but my ambition is so small and ridiculous compared to what the Mohists are doing now, is it necessary to uphold this ambition?Using each other, why bother to talk about love and loyalty?

If you talk about loyalty to the emperor, I have a salary in Wei, but according to the Mohists, the monarch did nothing, and the salary is all from the labor of farmers, businessmen, and I naturally don’t need to be loyal to the monarch.

All the rewards I get are distributed to the soldiers; I live in the military camp all year round and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers; I seek power only so that I can display my talents; ...

Everything is for the sake of ambition.

Twenty years ago, I could convince myself that my ambition was so lofty.

But now, what is left of his ambition?Insignificant like dust, ridiculous like a young child, even he can't even think clearly about his own ambitions, what is the purpose of what he does?
For wealth?Since I was young, my family has a lot of money, and the rewards I got when I became famous and guarded Xihe were all given to the soldiers. I didn't do it for riches and honor.

For womanizing?Yes or no.

Then my pursuit of power is only for the power itself, or for the sake of being powerful so that I can display my ambitions.

Wu Qi thought of the conversation he had with Sheng Chuo many years ago, and what he said that time was like what the Mohists said: Let people get their own strengths, and the world should take care of them; Prepare.

The power I am pursuing is nothing more than eating and drinking enough, and I regard those ruling the army as a kind of work for those who love sculpture, hunting, and music, which is no different.

I "like the government and the army", so I pursue power, because without power, I am not qualified to do what I like.

But if you like something, there is always a judgment on whether it is good or bad.

If you like sculpture, you must make it lifelike; if you like music, you must linger around the beam for three days;

I like being in power, but what I can do, the Mohists can do too.What the Mohists can do, they themselves cannot.

What's the point of expanding this ambition?People in the world ask me, can I make the world rich and the people rule?Before the Mo family managed Sishang, I would look down on Shiqing, saying that if I were in power, you would be inferior to me, and there is no peer in the world.But now, with a comparison, people in the world will ask me, can I make the world richer than the Mohist regime?Is it more governing than the Mohist ruling people?
Wu Qi raised his head and looked at the sky, feeling a little lost in his heart.

What should I do to go to Qin this time, so as to live up to the word "ambition"?In the land of the Central Plains, his ambitions are already a bit bleak. What should he do after he goes to Qin to live up to his ambitions?
(End of this chapter)