warring states careerist

Chapter 490 Quiet Change

When the "virtuous" people who are true, false, ambitious, or love the world finally start to display their ambitions.

Kui was squatting beside a stone in front of her door, holding a pottery bowl in her hand, squatting on the ground and eating.

Next to him were a few people who had served in the Volunteer Division together, including the partner who had fought with him in the barracks and caused him to be confined and pick shit.

These people all hold a pottery bowl in their hands, and their postures are similar.

The thumb and index finger of the left hand hook the ceramic bowl, and the index finger is stuck under the thick bowl of the ceramic bowl, so that the reheated soup in it will not burn the fingers.

The remaining three fingers of the left hand holding the bowl hold a stack of steamed buns, and in the middle of the steamed buns are placed a few peppers that have been fried in suet.

Wotou is made of sweet potato noodles or cornmeal. It is very rough, but it can be full.Served with peppers or pickled sunflowers that can make people's mouths burn, from time to time, snorting a mouthful of boiled carrots and mustard greens in the bowl, it feels like a big index finger.

This is a eating habit that emerged after carrots, sweet potatoes, and corn were introduced to Fei Country. Originally, the people around the Central Plains either ate like aristocrats kneeling and sitting on a desk, or squatted on the ground holding bowls.Even though wooden utensils such as tables and stools began to appear and circulated among the lower classes and were resisted by the nobles; chopsticks and other utensils commonly used by sluts began to circulate, few families in Fei Kingdom still had wooden tables.

The land reform in Sishang not only made farmers' lives better, but also allowed farmers to have enough additional commodities for exchange, which promoted the development of a series of handicrafts... If the carpenters who made tables and stools in Peiyi, Pengcheng, Sishang Fei Guo must starve to death on the streets.

Since carrots and corn were introduced to Feiguo, the way of eating led by the Mohists has gradually become the mainstream of the poor: Boiled carrots or sweet potato segments in a bowl, cornmeal cornbread buckle together in the left hand, nobles The chopsticks used to eat vegetables are held in the right hand and there is no need to hold anything. As much as you eat, put a few cornbreads in the left hand, hold the chopsticks in the right hand, take one from the left hand, stuff it into your mouth, and then pour a mouthful of hot soup Swallow rough food.

Very full.Although eating too much carrots is a bit heartburning, if the fertilizer is properly fertilized, a few acres of land in the family can guarantee that the family will not starve to death, and the rest will have to pay taxes and the family's young and strong laborers will go to labor to perform feudal obligations. It can keep the family from running out of food.

Under the change, the wind is surging, and it is not only those sages who are discussing the system of the world, but also these common people who hold cornbreads and gnaw carrots.

Talking loudly does not mean shouting loudly, but in places where people gather, talking loudly is probably a misinterpreted concept.

Aoi struggled to swallow a mouthful of carrots that no dog in the noble family would eat, waved her free right hand, tapped the air with her chopsticks and shouted: "You are wrong. Let me tell you, nobles and princes just can't be trusted. Don't trust nobles If you come to pay homage, you can agree with the words of Young Master Luan, and even if they come, can it be that we don’t care about the suffering of the farmers in the fief?"

"If you want me to say, you should quickly organize the people serving in the volunteer army, organize the army, and call for reform. The doctors above the fiefs are definitely not willing to let the people in their fiefs flee or leave the fief, then we should call..."

Obviously these people are discussing the issues that the "sages" have been arguing for the past few days, how to treat those nobles, and whether those reformed systems are only implemented in the capital.

Aoi was about to talk about the principles she had learned in the volunteer teacher, when she heard a woman shouting and cursing behind her, without turning her head, Aoi's wife held the child in one hand and pointed at him and yelled at him. look.

"You're really eating ghostly sweet potatoes and wanting to eat like a bell! People in the world are doing your shit? You just take care of yourself and don't starve your family to death!"

"Reform and change! Talk about change all day long, talk about justice all day long, talk about benefiting the world all day long... profit comes and goes, and even salt is not sold! It used to be expensive, but at least you can buy it, now? Change Come and go, it's not as good as before!"

Just now, Kui, who was talking about raising the banner of righteousness to force the nobles to agree to the law, and who is far away from Feiguo, suddenly froze, and muttered: "The Mo family said that the salt will be delivered soon, and they The grocery store will sell salt soon, and in order to prevent people from stockpiling, the purchase will be limited according to the number of households..."

"Don't be afraid of lack of salt... The Mo family has big salt fields in both Qi and Yue. How could there be a shortage of salt..."

The woman sternly said: "I don't know where Qi State and Yue State are, but I know that there will be no more salt, and tomorrow's vegetable soup will be seasoned with sweat beads! Didn't you choose sages? Don't these sages represent the interests of the people?" ?”

Aoi lowered her head and said, "Well... I chose..."

The woman scolded: "Then do these sages know now that what they need to do is to sell salt in the market and exchange some money for the linen and cotton threads I spin?"

"These sages have food and drink, and their families are rich, but they can argue about the meaning of the law and why the king exists. What are you talking about?"

"Are you a sage? How can you be a sage? If you really want to benefit the world, you can become a Mohist. Do you think people want you?"

"It's not a Mohist, nor a sage... what do people outside the capital have to do with you?"

"When you riot with guns and spears and force the king, what are those people outside the capital doing? They want to seek profit, so they do it themselves. If they don't do it themselves, why do you hate the nobles for those people? ? They have assembled private soldiers outside, I am afraid that the 20-year redemption of the private land promised by the son will be taken back!"

Kui, who was still talking about it just now, suddenly got tired, and mumbled: "This makes sense..."

The woman shouted and cursed: "I don't know why, I just want to know when we can buy salt and when this land will really be distributed to us!"

Aoi was about to explain the principle of mutual assistance and teamwork for profit, the woman hummed twice and went back to the yard.

Everyone beside them laughed, but Aoi's face was not inconsolable, they were all neighbors and partners, and everyone knew their own backgrounds. Obviously, this was not the first time such a thing happened, so there was no need to explain anything.

As soon as the woman entered, Kui immediately said to everyone: "You can't listen to women's words. Don't say anything that is beneficial to the world, just say that if the nobles call back one day, drive away the son, and drive away Sage, the old system has been restored... We are all going to be punished, maybe even killed."

The people he said were those who had served with him in the volunteer army, and those who were the most noisy during the previous riots and the first group of people who took up arms and assembled into formations.

Under life and death, this choice is simple and does not require too much thinking.

Someone said: "Yes. This kind of thing, either you die, or I die. Didn't the Mohists say that change and revolution are all things that some people use weapons to make others obey their will? Just say This law, if you don’t repair the palace wall before, it’s a crime, but who said it’s reasonable? But it’s unreasonable, it’s also the law... If you don’t listen, you will be punished..."

"If the nobles are restored, I think we all have to die. It's like the corpses of those nobles hanging on the Yi River when we served in the army that year..."

The sages recommended by these few people were not the first choice.

They had the experience of serving in volunteer divisions, and they almost immediately thought of selecting the prominent figures of the Mo family in Feiguo, such as Xu Ruo.

In fact, they were not very familiar with Xu Ruo, but Xu Ruo was a Mohist, and having such an identity was enough for these people to trust him.

It's just that Xu Ruo said that the Mohists would not accept this election for the time being because of the lack of information and the fact that the Mohist organization has not yet decided whether to let them become officials.

So they elected Wei Rang, at least on weekdays, Wei Rang often came forward to help the people in the capital, although there were not many, but at least he had some virtuous names.

After a few more conversations, someone came: "But your woman is right. I'm afraid these sages don't know what should be done and what should not be done now. The salt, grain Price, cloth price, etc., they think it is a trivial matter; but what is the law, what is the king, what is the benefit, what is the way and the law is naturally the big thing. This is not right."

Kui echoed, "Yes... When we were serving in Yishui, we saw the changes of the Mohists in Zong. That's how we know what is standard and what is basic."

Speaking of this, he stopped talking, but gulped down the rest of the meal, clapped his hands and put the bowls and chopsticks at the door, and asked the oldest child in the family to take it in, and then got up.

The partner asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Go to the sages we have elected and talk about these things."

The rest of the people nodded and said: "It should be like this, after all, it was elected by us."

This is actually an unprecedented thing, but in the eyes of these people, it is normal and should be so.

Judging from the old rules, Kui went to the ruler to talk about something. He wasn't even a scholar, he was just a common farmer, and he just wanted to go to the ruler to put forward his ideas... This is already shocking.

What's even more frightening is that those who have served in these volunteer divisions, who have gone through organizations such as soldiers' committees, and collective decisions on the right to use vegetables and other seemingly boring trivial matters, take such things for granted.

When the appalling things are taken for granted, the world is in chaos.

This is the most terrifying place for nobles, so terrible that the influence of hundreds of years of old rules has been slowly eradicated.Perhaps in some places, some people's bodies are still kneeling, but the self in their hearts has already stood up.

"There is no distinction between old and young, high or low, all are ministers of heaven, and everyone is equal"

After such a rebellious principle, why should equal people have respect and fear?
Kui's thoughts were simple: Wei Rang, a sage, was elected by himself, so I can talk to him if I have any ideas.When I was in the Volunteer Army, the members of the Soldiers Committee were all responsible for the soldiers, the same reason.Aristocrats say that those who want to rule a country should first rule their own family... In fact, it is almost the same.

(End of this chapter)