warring states careerist

Chapter 455
Smiling but not answering, he asked instead: "You came back from the Far West, and what you saw and heard along the way, do you think that if you do trade, you may benefit?"

Suo Lucan nodded hurriedly when he heard the words, and said: "There is no firewood for a hundred miles, and no millet for a thousand miles. But pearls, jade, silk, etc., are a hundred times more profitable. If you trade westward, you can really succeed. If you think about it, the king of Qin will be rich."

"From the land of Qin to the west, past Yiqu Yuezhi, there are some small states and countries. There are more than ten thousand people, living together in the city, without fear of yellow sand outside, producing melons and fruits, and planting wheat. Pass here and go on. To the west, about two thousand miles away, there is a great country called Persia, rich in gold and silver, as rich as the princes of the Middle Earth, and good at chariot warfare. The silk I brought there was sold at a high price. Even if the business is dangerous, the profits are enough to make People are not afraid of life and death."

Suo Lucan knew that many of the goods he carried were suitable for the master's preparations during his last trip.There are profits from selling and exchanging along the way, and there are also many seeds brought back by Solu Ginseng according to the crops described in the "Shan Hai Jing".

He is not surprised, anyway, it is appropriate to say that he has two masters who have traveled, so it is reasonable to be able to prepare goods in advance that can be sold and exchanged for a large profit.

As for the matter of "helping Qin", Suo Lucan knew the rich trade profits along the way, thought about it again, and said, "In my opinion, it's very good."

"Silk, dyes, glass, etc. are not produced in Qin. If they want to transship, they still have to buy from the Central Plains. If they want to buy, many more people can work for a living, and the goods will be more abundant."

"Going up the He River, the economic water reaches the Dahe River, and then turns to the Wei River, which is enough to transport these goods. The people of Qin have the advantage of the terrain, and they can benefit from it. The Central Plains has the advantage of production, and they can also benefit from it."

"Qin's revolution is warlike. If we get Nanzheng, which is separated by Praise Valley, the Qin people will know whether to take it or not, and they will also weigh whether to attack Nanzheng. If it is beneficial to go west, the Central Plains will be able to reduce many wars. In the future, the spread of writing will also benefit. The world is settled as one."

After Suo Lucan finished his opinion, everyone laughed and said, "We also mean the same thing. So there are some things that require you to work harder and try to sort them out as soon as possible."

So Lucan naturally readily agreed and knew that this matter was important.

Glancing at Shi again, he finally said: "Shi, this time I traveled west to the extreme west, and I also saw a country whose beauty is no less than that of the Middle Earth. It is also a time when a hundred schools of thought are contending, the more I know , the more doubts in my heart, I have some ideas, and I am going to discuss them with you."

Solucan just briefly talked about what he had seen and heard in the west, but he knew that the West is now in full bloom, and Greek culture is at its peak. Here we start to look for the source, the so-called "reform of the ancient system".

The importance of this exchange is self-evident, especially because Suo Lucan is not an official but a member of the Mohist academic group, so what he sees and hears is naturally different from the perspective of the official's visit.

Shi Que said: "This matter is not urgent, I just want to discuss it with you. It's just that the business is busy now, you have to prepare for the westward trip, and the Chengjun teaching matter..."

"Next month, there will be a thousand miles of Sishang to collect justice and become a law. It is the promulgation of laws and laws that are common in Sishang. You just happen to attend and learn more about the current situation in Sishang."

"Let's talk about it after these things are done."

Suo Lucan nodded, looking forward to it.

When I left ten years ago, the Mohist school had just won the victory of Lishui. Although it has been ten years since the reformation, the organization and education of the people also took ten years. Method, promulgate and discuss formal decrees in a way that conforms to Mohist morality.

After asking a few more questions, Suo Lucan knew that this time gathering the people to discuss the decree was the most important event in Sishang, and as for Qin's personnel affairs and Zhao's local affairs, they were nothing more than minor disturbances.

This time, we will formulate the Constitution, discuss and discuss a series of issues such as the Land Law, the Marriage Law, the Tax Law, the Inheritance Law, and the Employment Law.

It needs to gather representatives of public opinion in the Sishang area to complete it together in order to have the legitimacy in line with Mohist morality.

Law is the ruling tool of the ruling class, just like the secret laws of the nobility and the decrees of various countries, but the ruling class has changed, and the formulation of the entire law must be incompatible with the mainstream laws of the world at this time.

But Sishang has a foundation of more than ten years and sufficient economic background. The release of this law is like a fetus in the womb of an October pregnant woman. Ten years is October pregnancy, and now it is just ripe.

Suo Lushen keenly discovered the timing of the Mohist method, which is worth pondering.

In the northern part of the Central Plains, the Three Jins will be in chaos, and the people of Qin will turn to the Mohists. It has to be said that this is a moment worth pondering.However, what happened to the Qin people was an unexpected icing on the cake, and what happened to the Zhao people, I am afraid that the Mo family had already planned it, otherwise they would not have sent someone like Hu Feizi to Handan.

He was just guessing about these things, and didn't ask too many questions.Shi also told him that he had prepared some books for him, and told him to take the time to read them. They were all about the Mo family's affairs in Sishang in the past few years, as well as some academic discussions.

In the next few days, several horses rushed to Taoqiu to invite those Qin people into Pengcheng for business talks.

At the same time, it is almost the day when representatives of public opinion from all over the country have harvested the autumn wheat and are ready to go to Pengcheng.

These representatives of public opinion are not aristocrats. Twenty years ago, they might have been common people, fugitive slaves.Now they still don't have the title of nobility, and they haven't been awarded ten thousand mu of land for hereditary replacement because of some past meritorious deeds. What they have is the trust of everyone.

Some representatives of public opinion even have to harvest wheat in person.

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On the banks of the Sishui River, once near Peize, now in the countryside of Peize.

It's the time of harvest.

On the way, Wu Qi, who was going to Pengcheng, pointed to something in the spring wheat field in the distance, and asked in amazement: "What is that?"

The Qin people around him are all year-round guards in other places. Although they are well-informed, they don't recognize them.

The thing ran about in the wheat field, drawn by three horses.

There are three horses in front, and the thing behind is like a carriage, but smaller than the carriage.On the left side of the "cart", there is a pile of wood, just like a woman's spinning wheel, with some wooden strips sticking out wide, constantly rotating as the horse advances.

There are about six or seven wooden strips on the left side of the carriage, each of which is about half a foot long.

Every time it turns, the horizontal wooden strips will overwhelm the mature, golden wheat, and then the iron knife below will cut the overwhelmed wheat to the ground with the rotation of the wheel.

A middle-aged man was sitting on the carriage of that strange machine, constantly swinging the whip. The horse suffered from the pain and moved forward, and the wheat fell flat on the ground.

A few people followed behind, gathered up the wheat that had fallen on the ground, selected a sheaf of wheat ears and tied up a large sheaf of wheat.

The flat, once muddy land has no stones, and the horse-drawn wheat harvester cuts down the wheat at three or four times the speed of a human.

Wu Qi guarded Xihe for many years, and some plains of Xihe also introduced columbine chariots that had been popular in Sishang.He has seen many agricultural implements before, but he has never seen such a strange implement.

Originally, wheat was a cheap food, and it was generally used as military food.Later, with the emergence of water mills, Xihe and other places also began to plant winter wheat on a large scale.

The most worrying thing about planting wheat is harvesting it.

Originally, there were no columbine carts, so the speed of planting wheat was about the same as that of harvesting wheat.In spring, there is only so much time for planting wheat, which is almost equal to the time for harvesting wheat. Therefore, as much wheat can be planted, as much wheat can be harvested.

However, with the appearance of columbine carts, the speed of wheat planting has increased. One person, one horse, and one cart can plant fifteen acres of wheat a day. Two acres.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed due to the appearance of iron tools, but the speed of wheat harvesting also restricts the number of plantings.

Wu Qi couldn't help but be amazed that this strange machine in front of him could harvest wheat three or four times as much as a human.

Asked the people around him, but no one recognized it, Wu Qi thought to himself, maybe this is another new tool made by the Mo family like the columbine cart.

Although Mo Di passed away now, besides those who stayed in Chu State, most of the disciples of Gongshu Ban went to Sishang because of the old relationship between Mo Di and Gongshu Ban.Mo Di originally had some disciples of wooden wares, and Sishang iron wares have been used for nearly 20 years, and all kinds of tools have been forged and forged, so there are endless new equipment here.

Since Wu Qi knew that Qinchuan was suitable for growing wheat, he became curious when he saw this tool, so he asked someone to stop, got out of the car and walked to the place where the wheat was cut.

After approaching, I saw a middle-aged man about 40 years old driving a horse in a carriage and carriage.Behind them are several women and two teenage children who are responsible for gathering the ears of wheat.

Looking carefully, it turns out that there is not only such a strange carriage in this wheat field, there are as many as three.

In addition to these carriage equipment, there are some people who are bending over and using sickles to cut the wheat. They are obviously fighting for time with the sky. The wheat may suddenly mature within a dozen days, and if it is not harvested as soon as possible, once it rains, it will happen. Buds, ears falling, so these people are fighting against the sky.

As he got closer, he heard one of the two teenagers tying wheat behind Namara's machine complaining.

These two boys, both in their teens, look almost identical, so they must be twins.

One obediently bowed his head to the sheaf of wheat, while the other got up from time to time and sighed, "Mom, the wheat is making me itchy. Let's drink some water and rest after we're done."

A woman who was tying wheat in front turned around and cursed: "It's really getting lazy. When I was young, I didn't have a sickle for harvesting wheat. I relied on picking ears. I don't know how much more tiring than this! Several horse-drawn harvesters newly bought by the village this year Mai Ji, just bend over and tie up, are you still tired? You children, you are really not as good as the next generation, you should really be thrown to the time when the Mo family never came to us 20 years ago, and let you live for a few days..."

The young man had a playful smile on his face, waving a bundle of ears of wheat in his hand, and said, "Isn't the Mohist's research on the will of heaven just to make people suffer less? When I was eating, I told you to put less oil in your cooking." Well, you just talk about how it was 20 years ago, how it was 20 years ago... Oh, if you want to go back to 20 years ago, it's easy. Look at the wheat harvesting, you pluck the ears of wheat and eat with your hands Don’t use iron pots instead of clay pots, the mill at the entrance of the village uses water power, you can push it by hand, and the big paper pot in the village workshop can cut firewood instead of burning coal..."

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy did not have any malicious intentions, which caused the people who tied the wheat beside him to laugh. After all, the woman still felt sorry for her child, and laughed and scolded: "Then you and your brother go under the tree first, and take the salt water. Get the land for everyone, you can do it, right? You are so lazy, how did I give birth to such a thing as you!"

(End of this chapter)