warring states careerist

Chapter 456 Abundance
As if he had been pardoned, the young man greeted his fellow brothers and said, "Let's go, get water from the tree. Hey, the bamboo cage I put down by the river in the morning, let's go and see if there are many fish. To cut the wheat today, In the evening, let our mother fry fish for everyone..."

A somewhat dull and honest elder brother said: "Go ahead, this is harvesting wheat for our family, I will not be lazy and make people laugh."

The happy boy didn't blush, and snorted: "I'm not lazy, I just don't want to do these farming tasks. Besides, I've already been admitted to the Xiliu Military Academy, and I won't rely on it for a living in the future."

Speaking of this, the mother who was busy in front turned around and scolded: "It's even more tiring in the military academy. Didn't your brother say he was tired all the time? Do you think it's brisk? You're so lazy, it's a trivial matter to go there and get beaten. You can't stand it." If you keep asking people to drive them back, you will lose them to death!"

The young man laughed and said: "I can bear that kind of suffering. I am most annoyed by the days when I can see the end of the year at a glance. Planting in spring and harvesting in autumn are so boring."

"The world is so big. I have been studying for so many years. If I don't go out and have a look, it will be boring. The eldest brother is in Gaoliu now, and the eldest sister is also in the north. They don't necessarily work hard on the farm. I heard that, In order not to come back to harvest the wheat, my sister hid with my uncle for a long time..."

While talking, I saw my mother bowed her head and grabbed a piece of dirt and wanted to throw him. She turned around and ran, and said to her brother beside her: "We should change our names, I should be called Shu Qinyi, and you should be called Shu Guixiang. .”

After speaking, he ran away with the mouse in his arms. Naturally, the mother's soil would not fall on the head, but it fell on the heels from a distance, splashing a lot of dust, which caused everyone to laugh.

Wu Qi, who was watching from the side, was a little surprised. The common people had no surnames, but these two children had surnames and names.

He also knew that Xiliu was the name of Yue people's sailors. There were no sailors in the Three Jin Dynasties, and the strongest navy in the world belonged to Chu and Yue.

Originally, the people of Yue were unparalleled in water warfare, but later, Gongshuban made hooks and big ships, fought for hegemony on the Huaihe River and Yangtze River, and the people of Yue were defeated, and Chu's boat master became the best in the world.

Now the Mo family actually has a navy?

Wu Qi signaled the people around him not to follow, and walked under the tree by himself. The young man who should be called Shu Guixiang was not alarmed by Wu Qi who was wearing a sword. He just looked sideways and went to pick up the water jar.

Wu Qi walked over and said with a smile, "Young man, beg for some water."

The young man didn't recognize his birth, he took a jug and handed it over, and asked, "You're not from here, where did you come from?"

Wu Qi took the jug, thinking that this place is already Sishang, and he is only a young man, so he said without any vigilance: "Weidi Xihe."

The young man scratched his head, and said with an ouch: "I know Xihe. There is a man named Wu Qi who reformed in Xihe. The masters have said it."

Wu Qi was stunned, and then he understood that this was already Peiyi, a place where the Mohist family had been operating for 20 years, most of the children here had to go to school, and the Mohisth never fooled the people about the world situation, they talked a lot.

It's just that I didn't expect to hear my name here, so I asked with a smile: "Whose name have you heard before?"

The young man said: "There are many. There are many stories in our textbooks. It is said that Wu Qi kept his promise, and he said that Wu Qi was in Xihe. He invited a person to eat, and then he agreed to wait for the guests to come to eat. But the next day, the guest hurriedly forgot. Wu Qi went to send someone to invite him, but he really didn't eat all the time."

"This is to say that one must be honest, and one must do what he says. He also said that Wu Qi attacked the small pavilion of the Qin people. In order to convince people, he set up a chariot shaft and said that he would be rewarded if he could carry it to the north gate. People laughed. In the end, one person carried him away, and he was immediately rewarded. It is said that one must be honest in doing things, so that people can be convinced."

After the young man finished speaking, he smiled again: "We have many stories about Wei Guo in our textbooks. Wei Guo also has a man named Ximen Bao, Zhidou Hebo, we have also learned this."

After Wu Qi heard this, he thought to himself about the Ximen Leopard incident. It really did happen, but the Mo family used similar methods to punish the prostitutes and priests in Peixian County, but poisoning seems to be worse than drowning, so they didn't talk to these children. they said.

However, the two things of keeping promises and attacking pavilions... Wu Qi thought to himself, why the hell didn't I know that I had done these two things?

He was slandering in his heart, but he was also happy. Unexpectedly, the Mo family would make up their own stories to make a name for themselves.Furthermore, the young man on Sishang actually knows the story of Wei, and knows the names of Wu Qi and Ximen Leopard. This method of educating the people to change customs is indeed incomparable.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing and asked: "Then you said Wu Qi Liyuan, how can you write the word Yuan for this pole?"

The young man pursed his lips and said: "The shaft of the pole is one of the five hundred characters that we must know after enlightenment. If you don't know it, you can't do it. Of course I will. I also know that the Yellow Emperor is from the Xuanyuan family. That's because the Yellow Emperor made a chariot. Great achievement, later because of having a chariot, he defeated Emperor Yan with a chariot. Because of the chariot, it was called Xuanyuan."

Wu Qixin said, I'm afraid this story was also made up by the Mohists, but I've never heard of it.But after thinking about it carefully, it actually made some sense, he couldn't help but nodded, took a sip of water, but didn't think the water was salty, so he almost spit it out.He also thought of borrowing water from others to drink, spitting out rudeness, so he swallowed it ninja, wondering: "The water on Sishang is salty?"

The young man shook his head and said, "That's not true. It's salt added to the boiled water. The master said that there are many small bugs in the raw water that are invisible to the naked eye. Although he can't see it, it is taught that way by the above, so it should be right. These little bugs make people sick, so they have to be boiled. Cutting wheat sweats, and the sweat smells salty, so eat some salt, or you will be prone to heat stroke.”

"The village community receives some salt specially used for boiling water every year. It is free and everyone drinks it."

Wu Qi let out a groan, and after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense to eat salt when sweat smelled salty.I also want to hear that the Mohist family is in Qi, and the more they are drying salt, the price of salt is getting lower and lower, and there is water transportation here, so it is not difficult for the village community to distribute some salt.

From this trivial matter, it can be seen that the Mohist government really puts the interests of the people first, otherwise why bother?
I'm afraid that with the shackles of the Mo family, many things have to be done.If you don't do it, it will not conform to the meaning of Mohism. Mohism's theory is spread all over the world and everyone can read it. If you don't do it, you will be criticized.

Wu Qi wasn't thirsty at all, but just wanted to find a reason to inquire about Sishang's situation, so he put down the water jug ​​and thanked him, pointing to the harvesting equipment in the distance and asked: "What is that? It's also distributed? "

The young man said: "That is called a horse-drawn wheat harvester. It was made by the disciples of Zimozi and the disciples of Gongshuban. But it was not distributed, but bought by the village community."

Wu Qiqiu nodded, and asked, "I think that harvesting wheat is several times more expensive than others. How much does it cost to buy such a thing?"

The child said in a very ordinary and commonplace tone: "I heard from my father that one needs [-] catties of wheat, right?"

Hearing this number, Wu Qi turned pale in shock. What he saw just now had at least three sets.

This is not counting the nearly nine horses pulled by the three sets, it is just a machine, and it costs [-] catties of wheat, which is equivalent to a small stone, which is a few thousand stones!
But this child has no experience at all, so he just said it as an ordinary thing, as if he was used to such a number.

This [-] catties of wheat, how could this village community easily produce it?This is still after paying taxes, such an astonishing amount, which is about the annual income of those nobles who owned tens of thousands of acres of land in the past.

Seeing Wu Qi's surprise, the young man said, "Actually, there are not many. There are three machines, and there are 140 households in the village. The winter wheat also weighs one hundred and eighty catties. Besides, everyone in the village community bought it collectively, and the income from the paper-making workshop is nothing."

"It's a new purchase this year, so it's applicable. If it's useful, I'll buy more next year. My father said that there are still a lot of land in the river valley, and it can be harvested with columbine car plant and this thing, and it can be busy, and it can be opened more." There is a lot of land. Second, even if we don’t open up land, papermaking workshops are booming now and there is a shortage of people. With this thing, you can save a lot of effort. The price of wheat has been fair in recent years, and there are just a lot of varieties.”

"Furthermore, we harvested winter wheat and just planted potatoes. My father said that the village commune wanted to set up a wine-making workshop and hired people. Now the wine is selling well, and potatoes are cheap, and it's not lucky. It's better to make wine. .”

Wu Qi was even more curious about how rich this village, which had recently entered the Mohist jurisdiction, was. Hearing this, it seemed that the village could buy more of the [-] catties of equipment?
He was even more amazed. It sounded like this village was like a nobleman's manor confiscating the fields. How could the village work together to buy and sell equipment?Those workshops are also jointly operated by the village community?

But this...isn't this a Fengtian manor without nobles?

He thought again, this child has a first and last name, so could it be that this village community belongs to some high-ranking figures of the Mohist family?If not, a village is so rich, and the food harvested by one person is six or seven times or even more than Xihe's annual labor, which is a bit too scary.

Wu Qi was well aware of the role of these technological innovations as early as the appearance of ironware, just as he said when he strongly suggested that Wei Hou send fine workers into Peiyi: the increase in the yield per mu and the increase in everyone's surplus food can support more people. Many full-time military soldiers.

If the Mo family's villages in Sishang are like this, then I'm afraid that the chaos in the world will really be settled in this black mass.

Thinking of this, Wu Qi asked with a last bit of anticipation: "I just heard that you have a name and surname. Your father is a disciple of Mo Di? Or... a nobleman?"

The young man scratched his head and said, "Aristocrat? My family has been going up for several generations, and it has nothing to do with nobles. My father took the lead in approaching the King of Chu in Shangqiu, and everyone named him King Shuqing. Later, he was arrested in Lushui. King Yi of Yue, noble... Hey, there are too many nobles arrested. My dad said that in Lushui, after the Yue people were besieged, we bombarded the army formation of the Yue Junzi Army. We bombarded the nobles who knelt down and begged for mercy There are also..."

Wu Qi was shocked. He knew the name of King Shuqing. Although he was a commoner, he was able to capture two kings in a row. He was a warrior like Bi Wan who died in the army. Who would have thought that he would be farming here?
Thinking again, it is said that the Mohists value the virtuous, so don't they use such warriors?Don't give high-ranking officials generous salaries, so as to win the hearts of scholars all over the world?Is this man not resentful?

(End of this chapter)