warring states careerist

Chapter 500 After Fenglin Volcano
Everything these merchants discussed was appalling in the eyes of the nobles.

The power of merchants is very strong, especially when the old land system is about to disintegrate, the commodity economy begins to develop, and gunpowder and iron tools enter the stage of history, this power will be magnified by the times.

Except for those big countries in all the countries in the world, it is easy for the businessmen gathered here to overthrow a small country.

And once they start getting a taste of it and the profits, they can't get enough of it.

It's just that now, no matter how much they discuss, they still can't get around the Mohist school.

To establish a cooperative company with such a shareholding system, it is necessary to have a strong force and a system to ensure the rationality of all the rules and systems.

Even if they discussed it in Taoqiu, when they finally set up this speculative company, they still had to go to Sishang to register.

Without registration in Sishang, many people dare not invest, and the trust between people cannot match the constraints of rules, systems and laws.

Except for Sishang, which is governed by the Mohists, no other place in the world allows or has no precedent for such a thing.

Sishang can, and there are systems to follow, rules to follow, and a special exchange.

Although certain taxes and fees are charged for each transaction, people would rather pay these taxes and fees than the certainty of ownership and the huge benefits contained in the bill.

And the things they discussed really couldn't get around the Mohists.

Arms, weapons, military uniforms, stirrups, etc., can only be provided by the huge group of Mohist workshops in Pengcheng.

Coupled with the lack of cash in many people's hands, many bills need to be exchanged at the gold bank. They have been closely linked with the interests of the Mohists. Although this link is invisible, it is better than any blood relationship. more closely.

This event, which is enough to subvert a country and make excess profits, has attracted the attention of countless businessmen in Taoqiu and other places, and it has been regarded as the biggest event in the eyes of businessmen in these years.

The amount of funds and bills they plan to raise is enough to shock a feudal monarch with hundreds of miles of land.

But in the eyes of Shi Jiatun, who was going to Taoqiu, all of this was actually not a big deal.

For these years, Shi Jiatun has been in charge of part of the finances of the Mohist family. Since the first money was obtained for the Mohist wheat flour and other things, the tide has risen, and the finances of the Mohist family have become more and more responsible for the expansion.

The things planned by these businessmen are tacitly approved by the Mo family.

In Shi Jiatun's view, this "big gift" prepared for the Zhongshan Kingdom is equivalent to a huge amount of income for the Sishang Mohists.

Arms, weapons, clothing and tents, there is no other place to buy these things except in Sishang.

Shi Jiatun felt that Shi was a person who plucked too much.

Even if the restoration of the Zhongshan state is part of the Mohist grand strategy, in order to contain the power of the state of Wei and prevent the state of Wei from interfering in Sishang.

Shi still took advantage of this very beneficial event to absorb a lot of money from the merchants.

Shi Jiatun estimates that more than half of the money will be used to buy various goods in the workshop, which is equivalent to the businessman investing money in the handicraft industry, but this kind of investment is not initiated by the businessman, but is settled appropriately. It was a trap that was thrown into it by the Mo family.

The Mo family has done this kind of thing more than once to restore the country's loan.

From Chu to Yue, from Yue to Zheng, from Zheng to Lu, and then from Lu to Zhongshan, behind every loan for the restoration of the country, it can bring about the great development of Sishang handicraft industry.

Gunpowder workshops under technology monopoly, weapons workshops under division of labor, and cotton spinning workshops with large-scale hired labor and hydraulic machinery. Every war between the princes of the world will bring huge orders and stimulate the development of Sishang. It also increased the total social wealth of Sishang by an unknown number of times.

Shi Jiatun estimated that in the past few years, the income of the Sishang Mo family, the weight of land tax has been decreasing, and various industries that were previously inconspicuous can faintly compete with the land tax.

Gold mining, coal and iron, munitions, road construction, shipping, construction, glass luxury goods, trading companies in Baiyue Yangyue, tea horse iron trade, bill transaction stamp duty, South China Sea land management auction... These various incomes make Sishang The land can implement "benevolent government" for the farmers who own the land, and the sum of the messy things is just a tithe, which is already far lower than the taxes and fees of other countries.

The three-legged form of merchants providing money, farmers providing people, and Mohist monopoly workshops regulating the market have determined the stability of Sishang.

Even if there is an unsustainable situation, the Gold Bank can still issue bonds for the benefit of the world and pay the interest to survive the most difficult time. Shi Jiatun estimates that if it really reaches that point, it can raise enough funds to arm ten people in just a few months. The money of several divisions.

As for now, it is far from that step.If it weren't for Sishang's education expenditures that have increased year after year, I am afraid that Sishang's income in these years is enough to organize an expedition to fight for supremacy, but even if he is in charge of money, Shi Jiatun still spends a lot of money as proposed proposals in education.

This hidden strength growth has been reflected in these years. There are more and more literate people in Sishang, the quality of some industries and professions is improving day by day, and the quality of soldiers is getting better and better with the joining of the younger generation in Sishang. amazing.

The stronger Sishang's strength is, the harder Shi Jiatun's waist will be and the higher his vision will be.

Therefore, in the eyes of Shi Jiatun, Taoqiu’s event that shocked the merchants, shocked the nobles, and made the monarchs of various countries start to be wary of the merchants was nothing more than the fact that the merchants worked together to support the development of the Sishang handicraft industry and provided a large amount of resources for the Sishang handicraft industry. Order.

He came to Taoqiu, urging the completion of this matter was just an additional task, and the real task was far from it.

Half a month ago, at the expanded meeting of the Mohists' high-level officials, the proposal of "preparing for war within a controllable range" was unanimously approved.

This time the Mohists want to completely integrate the power of Sishang. Ever since Wu Qi broke Daliang City and Zheng Guo was divided into two parts by Wei and Han, Sishang has become the powder keg of the Central Plains.

Qi, Chu, Wei, Han, the four countries are actually eyeing Sishang covetously, but the situation in Sishang is solved by diplomatic means, so that the situation in Sishang only needs to worry about Qi, Wei, and Han for at least ten years. .

The meeting half a month ago proposed a "war within a controllable range", so there is no need for a full-scale mobilization in Sishang, and it is only necessary to use the volunteers of the existing organization to carry out a war.

If there is a war, the Mo family is not afraid. The worst plan is that the coalition forces of various countries invade Sishang, but entering Sishang is like entering a quagmire. The densely packed new fortresses and the reinforced city walls will make it difficult for the coalition forces of all countries to move forward.

However, Sishang cannot withstand long-term wars, so this time, once countries intervene, they must immediately send troops outside Sishang to resolve the war.

After the meeting half a month ago, the volunteer divisions have begun to be secretly mobilized. The sixth and seventh divisions have been mobilized to the direction of Zhan and Tan. Once the situation in Fei country is out of control, once the decision of Fei country to join a deeper alliance is received , Immediately send troops to solve the nobles' resistance in Fei country.

The remaining main forces began to gather in Pei, Teng and other places.

The army was assembled, and Shi Jiatun was not a member of the military committee, but these gatherings for battle had a constant connection with him.

The increase in the number of volunteers and the change in combat methods have caused huge problems in the previous strategy of "giving food to the enemy".

"Sun Tzu, Military Struggle" once had a classic four-character quote "Fenglinshanhuo" summarizing combat.

Exactly: Therefore, it is as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, as plundering as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as difficult to know as yin, and as moving as thunder.

However, the next sentence immediately after "Fenglin Huoshan" is to plunder the countryside and divide the masses, distribute the profits broadly, and move by hanging power.

Army operations, according to Sun Tzu, need to be carried out by plundering the people and dividing troops, otherwise the logistics will be enough to become a disaster.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the time for countries to send troops to battle is to choose the time to harvest immediately. In this way, "eat the enemy for one minute, and I will treat me for twenty minutes; for one stone, I will treat me for twenty stones." On the one hand, it can weaken the enemy country. On the one hand, it can solve its own logistical problems.

From a utilitarian point of view, this is undoubtedly the correct choice.

But the Mohists cannot use it.

Because the Mohist is talking about the concept of "people under heaven", only when the state of Chu is from the state of Chu and the state of Zhao is from the state of Zhao can the people of the "enemy state" be plundered.

But the Mohists believed that they did not have a fixed country, but belonged to the world, so doing so would be tantamount to plundering their own people, which cannot be justified from their own moral logic.

If you treat others as an enemy country, others will also treat you as an enemy country. This is the same reason.

What's more, the volunteers have sufficient logistics and fair treatment, and instilled the concept of "benefiting the world" as the core of the army's thinking.

The bottom line is that any military officer who dares to come up with a policy of "plundering the countryside and dividing the masses" may go to a military court and be tried and shot that day.

You must have the world in your heart, and you must have a broad vision. You can't do things like plundering the countryside and dividing the crowd for a small profit. Even if you lose a battle for this, you can't break the rules.

Rules are one of the two most important foundations that Mozi believed that Mohism would be able to develop and grow for the benefit of the world.

Therefore, if the Mohists want to prepare for the war, they must organize logistics in advance. This is the most important reason why Shi Jiatun came to Taoqiu.

Nowadays, there is no organization, individual or prince with more "money" than the Mohist school, so Shi Jiatun, who is in charge of Mohist finance, thinks that the solution to this matter is "as long as there is money, there is no problem that cannot be solved in Song and other places." .

With the development of the commodity economy, the beginning of private ownership of land, and the deepening of cotton and grain cultivation in the Song Dynasty, Shi Jiatun’s ideas may not be very correct elsewhere, but they are correct here.

As far as the Song Dynasty is concerned, including a part of the Lu State and a part of the Wei State to the south, as long as there is money, food is not a problem at all.

But the problem is that once a war breaks out, food may be difficult to buy, the price will increase, and it will be difficult to concentrate.

Therefore, Shi Jiatun had to prepare a large amount of grain along the generations of Huling, Fang Yu, Kangfu, Chuqiu, Tao, Anyang, and Zhuzao before the war.

(End of this chapter)