warring states careerist

Chapter 566
I felt that this was the second day of a strange event. Compared with the war between Qi State and Mohist School, a big event actually happened.

More than 5 Qi captives were also escorted to the valley, and they built thatched huts in an open space outside the city to settle down. It is enough to come to the camp once every three days.

The engineers and soldiers in the army began to measure the land area of ​​the fugitive nobles, especially those nobles near the cities who had closed their fields to eat and Lutian.

However, such a major event, the salary dealer has nothing to do with it.

He has no sons or relatives in the army, whether Qi Hou wins or loses, whether these prisoners are detained or released has nothing to do with him, and he doesn't care.

On the contrary, it is the fact that those who went to transport food returned from Beijishui, and everyone who went there received money, is worthy of attention for the salary sellers.

Even if one day it was rumored that the capital Linzi was breached, it might not be as important as this matter.

As for the rumors that the nobility's fiefdoms were to be allocated, the salary sellers didn't care either.

One distribution, which has nothing to do with him, is said to be mainly distributed to those farmers who cultivated on the fief.

He was considered as the part of people whose personal interests had the least influence after the Mo family entered the city this time.

But still, the least impact on personal interests is not without impact. For example, the fact that the person who transported the grain returned safely and received the money is very important to him.

He turned around and didn't feel embarrassed to go home. The foresight of the past few days seemed to be a joke today, thinking that if he went back, he would be nagged by his wife and laughed at by his son.

So after walking around a few times, he walked to the neighbor's house and the house of a person he was familiar with. The family went to Beijishui to transport food three days ago and returned today. He wanted to ask for clarification.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw the woman of that family wrapping a bolt of indigo cotton cloth around her body, happily comparing how to cut a piece of clothing.

Seeing the salary seller coming, the neighbor came up to meet him, and the woman who was happily fiddling with the cotton cloth said first: "That day my beloved asked you to go with me, but you didn't go. If you did, I would give it to your family. Change your clothes. Take a look at the cotton cloth on Sishang, but it is much thinner than the linen cloth here, and it is also a few inches wider. Feel it..."

The salary seller stretched out his hand to touch it a few times, and praised: "It's also common in recent years. But where would you be willing to buy it? It's all family members who get some hemp retting, twist it into thread in their free time, and weave it by themselves. I bought it. But it's less..."

The woman obviously just heard her husband talk about what happened to Sishang on the way, and she said, "Oh, there is no one who spins linen on the other side of Sishang? A family of [-] acres of land, planted two seasons of grain, and paid for it." The tax is my own, and I go to buy the cotton cloth produced in the workshop."

"The Mohist who went to the north with my family to transport grain, they planted hundreds of acres of cotton together in their village, and when it was time to harvest the cotton, they picked it together and sold it for money..."

It is easy for salary sellers to understand this kind of cooperation, because the world has the basis of the system of enforcing public land. If this kind of thing is incomprehensible in an era when private land is busy hundreds of years later, it is almost incomprehensible today. unusual.

It is nothing more than that the labor income of the public land belongs to the lord, while the income there belongs to everyone in the village community.However, there is no difference in the mode of labor, and it is indeed more effective than planting by one person, and there will be no situation of being overwhelmed by rainy days.

After chattering for a few words, the neighbor also knew what the salary seller was doing, and said, "I said, you really lost money by not going this time. Mohist volunteers are different from other troops. They keep what they say. They have a song about the Three Rules and Eight Regulations, which says that from the time when Mozi was guarding the city, even if they borrowed things from our peasants, they would have to pay back."

"During my trip this time, someone's horse stepped into a field mouse hole and broke its leg. They registered directly, and compensated a horse when they came back."

The salary seller was even more astonished, and said in surprise, "Is there such a thing?"

"Is that false? I saw it with my own eyes."

The salary seller raised his head for a long while, couldn't believe it, and said after a long time: "This is really a ghost. There are such people in the world? Hey, I heard that Sishang uses grass and silk as money. The money he gave you , isn’t that kind of grass?”

The neighbor took out a bunch of knives and coins from his pocket and said, "Do you see this is grass silk? We don't accept grass silk from the Mo family, but the big merchants here do, and the Mo family directly exchanged money here. They After exchanging money, if we go to Sishang to buy ironware and cotton cloth, won’t we resell it as well?”

The salary seller took it and weighed it a few times, and the neighbor said the amount he gave was indeed quite a lot, and he regretted that he didn't go.

After asking a few more words, the neighbor said: "I have to go again tomorrow, and the money is calculated according to the day. You don't want to go this time."

The salary seller kept saying: "Then go, then go. Hey, isn't there food in the treasury in the city? The soldiers and tithes collected this year are all in the treasury. Why do you have to go? Food transport in the north? The north has also been captured?"

The neighbor said with a smile: "Dr. A has already run away. The Mo family only sent three hundred riders to take down Ayi. The nobles have all gone to Pingyin. But we are not going to Adi to transport food, but It was shipped in a warehouse."

"I heard that Xue Ling is even more so. Only 50 people from the Mo family passed by, and the doctors and gentlemen over there all ran away. The carriages transporting the family's belongings lined up for a long time, and the Mo family did not chase them."

The salary seller snorted and said: "People who eat meat are afraid of death. This Mo family is really good. It would be great if we can directly take down Linzi this time."

The neighbor also nodded and said, "I'm thinking the same way. Even if we don't take Linzi down, we can cut it off. By the way, tomorrow morning, we have to transport food again. It doesn't mean that all the captives have come, we have to For food, there is now a hundred thousand army, and there is a lot of food to eat and drink every day. The local treasury has some, I heard that it will be returned to us after a while, saying that this gift is unjust, it is all our blood and sweat..."

The salary seller was even more fascinated when he heard it, nodded and said: "It would be great if our doctor Yizai could understand this truth. Alright, then I'll go first and go back to prepare."

The neighbors didn't stay with each other, just said: "Then you go back quickly. Tomorrow morning, don't forget."

The salary seller never thought that the time to deal with the Mo family would be earlier than he expected tomorrow morning.He was still thinking in his mind, when he went there tomorrow morning, would someone laugh at how his legs were healed, or would they punish those who cheated the Mo family?

As soon as he got home, he didn't want to ask him the day before yesterday if he had cows and horses at home. The salary seller subconsciously wanted to pretend to be lame, but seeing the smiling eyes of the man, he finally couldn't pretend his legs were weak. Some can't walk much.

The inkman didn't look at his legs anymore, but said with a smile: "Fellows, I'm here today to buy some firewood. Let's sell it to us at the winter price at a par price, whoever it is, don't you think so? "

Now that I have asked, what I have seen and heard in the past few days has also confirmed those rumors. There is no reason why the salary sellers are unwilling. Ling, tied the bull's head to recharge the salary, and only paid copper coins.

When Mo Zhe left, the family happily weighed the copper coins, smiling happily, and forgot to talk about his foresight that day.

In the early morning of the second day, he drove the carriage to the vicinity of the military camp without eating.

The neighbor said that he would take care of the food on the road, as long as he had enough to eat, but he would skip breakfast and eat more at noon, which would save him a meal of food.

When we arrived near the barracks, some young neighbors laughed and said, "Oh, let me tell you, your leg and your horse's leg will get better soon."

The salary seller blushed and said, "How do you know that they are really teachers of benevolence and righteousness?"

A person who is easy to tell jokes on weekdays said in a melodious voice: "He is to see if we can get the money first. If we can't get it, he will call us stupid. If we get it, then he is really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. Can you really break his leg? So, a good person is easy to bully, if it is really a noble doctor, he would have to break his own leg to come here today..."

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, the salary seller was not angry because his cunning was ridiculed, he just blushed and felt embarrassed, and said in his heart: "That's natural. If it were noble officials, I would definitely break my leg today If not, they will punish me when they see that my leg is not broken, maybe they will really break my leg..."

After a few days without saying anything, he went to follow the crowd to Beijishui to transport grain.

For three meals a day, they eat wheat flour and fried rice, and the dishes are salted fish or some fried soy beans, which are very fragrant and full.

In the past few days of food transportation, the army in Guyi has decreased a lot. It is said that they are going to fight against Pingyin.

Yesterday, the salary sellers saw another group of volunteers by the Beiji River, they went down by boat and landed in Ayi.

There are quite a few huge bronze cannons in the army, but he didn't recognize them. He just heard about them. He couldn't help sighing a few words, thinking: "These are all made of copper, how much does it cost to make them? The Mo family is really rich, no wonder I won’t be greedy for the few money in our hands, just these few cannons, take out any one and melt it, that’s enough..."

Seeing those cannons, I felt even happier, and thought that if there were these cannons, the Mo family might really want to take down Linzi if they were not sure.

In this country of Qi, the surname changed from Jiang to Chen, but there is no difference. A doctor is still a doctor, a nobleman is still a nobleman, whether he should receive Qiu Jia Fu or should receive Qiu Jia Fu, but if it is changed to the Mohist family, it will be very different.

Although I can't get the land, at least I don't have to worry about losing my property.I also don't know how to farm. If I really win Linzi, I still have a lot of strength under the policy of the Mo family, and my life will be better than before.

If you live well, others will live well, and if others live well, there will be more people who are willing to spend money on firewood instead of cutting it to save money, and you will live better...

What he thought was simple and not complicated.

So he strained his ears to listen to the rumors of the people who transported the grain together, and he didn't know whether Pingyin City had been captured.

The matter of transporting food for four or five days came to an end temporarily. He took the money and returned home. As soon as he entered the door, he heard his old wife say: "You go to the market tomorrow. The Mo family announced in the city yesterday that they paid the Qiujia Fu this year." Yes, no matter how much, each family returns some treasury property."

Salary sellers are used to seeing such strange things a lot in the past few days, but they feel that they are extremely common and not surprising at all.

When these unprecedented things are no longer weird, people will know that there is another possibility in the original world: those strange things that were previously unheard of will be taken for granted in the new world.

Since I only went to collect it tomorrow, I couldn't be idle today, so I thought that the Mo family still needed firewood, so I might as well cut down some trees to exchange for money.

As long as the military gives money happily, then the money is still easy to earn.

Thinking that the Mo family will not stay here for too long, as long as they live for another month, their strength can be exchanged for a lot of money.If I can live there for a year, I will have to buy an ink cart, handle an axe, and hire one or two people...

With a simple longing for a new life, he drove the car to the outside of the city. At a place where he usually chops firewood, he saw a group of Mohist soldiers busy on the top of the mountain from afar.

Now that he was not afraid, he leaned over, and after getting closer, he knew that this was the "engineer" of the Mohist family.

He didn't know what an engineer soldier was, and the pronunciation of Sishang workers was different from that of Guyi workers, but he knew that these people were busy measuring the nobles' fiefs recently.

The reason why they can be recognized at a glance is that these "engineers" all wear a kind of strange hat, no lower skirt, but something called trousers.

After he leaned over, he found that many local people were also there.

An officer wearing a leather hat is holding a strange cylinder, looking into the distance, and there are several people beside him holding something in their hands and drawing something there.

He didn't understand either, and just as he was about to ask something, the officer wearing a fur hat turned around and said in Qi language to the locals watching: "Look, Jishui has turned a corner here. The reason why there will be disasters when it rains heavily."

"The terrain in the north is not high, so it can be blasted open. After straightening, Jishui will go straight, even if it rains, it will be fine. And on the south side, ten thousand mu of fertile land can be developed without water. , the ground is full of silt, this is a good land. As long as the seeds are sprinkled, the harvest will be abundant."

When the salary seller heard about this matter, he didn't care much about it. He said in his heart: "I cut firewood for a living, and I don't farm the land. Even if it is flooded, I don't have any loss. But if it can be repaired, it will save a lot of money." I am old and my son is lame, so I can be exempted from the money for strengthening the embankment every year, but I still have to pay the money..."

Then I thought: "Cultivation is cultivation, just don't let yourself work."

But he didn't know why he was needed. After the officer finished speaking, the local stakeholders applauded one after another.

If this matter is done by a local doctor, he may be amazed by a real gentleman, thinking that it is a blue sky and a scorching sun.

But among the volunteers of the Mohist school, although they also lamented that the Mohist school is indeed beneficial to the people, it seems that it is not so weird and unbelievable.

On the contrary, if you don't do this, you will feel weird.

The flooding of Jishui is a big event in Guyi. It seems that someone has said this, and these Mohists are taken to heart.

This matter has nothing to do with him, as he was afraid that he would have to pay for the work, so he cautiously asked insincerely: "If it is repaired, it must be in the slack time, otherwise it will hurt the farmers even if it is paid... ..."

When he asks this question, he doesn't really care about hurting the farmers, since he doesn't cultivate land.

He asked this question because he wanted to know: when will he cultivate?Will I be paid for repairs?Or do you want everyone to work?
The question was concealed, and the officer didn't seem to understand his careful thoughts, and sighed: "Hurry up sooner rather than later. Summer is coming, and heavy rain is coming... Hey, the governor and the doctor are really vegetarians." , The Jishui flooded for hundreds of years, but no one took care of it for hundreds of years."

A person next to him sneered and said, "The nobleman's fief is not close to here, so what are they building? People in their own fief want to build a city wall for their own city."

The officer sighed and said: "Zi Mozi said: In ancient times, if the title was not high, the people would not respect it; The salary, let him do things, and cut off the orders. How can a husband bestow it on his ministers? I want to make things that benefit the people come true."

"Giving titles, salaries, and official positions are not rewards for those people, but for those people to do things well. For a reward, it is like buying pearls but leaving the beautiful case and throwing away the jewels."

"The righteousness of this world is taken for granted in this world. If it doesn't change, it will perish the world sooner or later."

The officer shook his head, and the salary seller was finally a little horrified: in the eyes of the Mohists, titles, salaries, and official positions are not rewards, but just a prerequisite for doing things that benefit the people.

Giving titles, salaries, and official positions is to make the people respect and trust them, so that they can lead the people to accomplish things.

It turns out that the origin of all this is to make things that benefit the people...

this is too scary.

In the ears of the salary sellers, this is the saying that the sun comes out from the west, the sun and the moon are reversed, thunder in winter and snow in summer.

To be a noble and an official is to "make things that benefit the people come true"?
This is a statement that subverts everything that has been taken for granted for hundreds of years and thousands of years. It is shocking enough to make people break out in a sweat.

The salary seller feels that his head is about to explode, is there such a reason in the world?
Originally, what the Mohists did could still be understood in terms of benevolence and righteousness. He thought that if there was a better doctor or general, he might not be able to be a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

But what the Mohist said now can no longer be understood with benevolence and righteousness. These words are meant to overthrow everything in the world.

It's like trying to make people think that snow in summer and thunder in winter are normal...

is it possible?

Originally, he was still a bit daring to get close to the Mo family, so he took a step back unconsciously, and thought blankly: "The Mo family is a bunch of lunatics, a group of lunatics who take snow in summer and thunder in winter for granted. This is not a group of normal people ..."

For some reason, he felt some inexplicable fear.

It is not that there are no good people in this world, so the existence of good people will not make people feel too surprised.

But there has never been anyone in this world who regards everything that a good person, a good ruler, a gentleman, and a doctor does as an obligation, unless he is a lunatic.

The salary seller was a little flustered, thinking that there was no normal person in Sishang.
He also thought about the Chongtian ghosts in the Mohist family. Could it be that he was dealing with a group of ghosts?
In a panic, he stretched his hand into his bosom and touched the few money he received yesterday. The heavy feeling made him feel the reality of this world again, so he was relieved, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in his heart: "Looks like it's not a ghost, but a group of crazy and stupid people... It's fine if it's not a ghost, it's fine if it's not a ghost. I heard that the Mo family's ghost is Tianzhi. Their giants are not transformed by ghosts, right?"

"Or if you enter the Mo family, you will all become ghosts. This is not the reason that people can think of. The title and rich salary is for the sake of benefiting the people? This is not the principle of the world, maybe this is the principle of the ghost world. ?”

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, so I stopped chopping firewood, drove the car back home, asked my old wife to cook a meal, and added a lot of chili peppers to the soup, which made my whole body sweat. Only comfortable.

After sweating, it occurred to me that strange things like chili peppers had also come from Sishang. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that I had seen through something that no one in the world knew: Sishang was full of ghosts...

(End of this chapter)