warring states careerist

Chapter 596 The Sun of Mount Tai ([-])

The appropriate sentence cuts across the board, and everyone present did not have any objections, and they all understood the reason.

The Sishang Mohists were in power, and some aristocrats who originally owned land were "forced" to become operating landlords or became shareholders and participated in industries such as textiles, mining, and handicrafts.The money bought by the people was given to the nobles, but the nobles could not sit still with the money in their hands, so they had to invest in the booming handicraft industry in Sishang.

Coupled with the leading technology of the Mohist School and the tax exemption in the markets of Chu and Yue, the handicraft industry has extremely high profits and has completed a successful transformation.

With the end of the five-, ten-, or 20-year redemption period, a large number of people who have acquired land have more consumption power. When the external market is gradually saturated, the internal market with self-cultivated farmers as the main body in Sishang has also begun. work hard.

But in Qi State, it would be inappropriate to do this again.

At that time, it was not said that under the will of heaven, laborers should have land as a matter of course, because it was because of the need to temporarily stabilize the nobles on their shoulders.

Now the old nobles in Sishang either almost died in the Pengcheng quelling the rebellion, or obediently became operating landlords and the emerging bourgeoisie who invested in the textile, mining and metallurgy industry. Now the morality of nobles owning land is for them There is not much temptation anymore.

In the final analysis, it is still interests. There are not many nobles who really want to maintain the etiquette system. In fact, what they want to maintain is the naked interests under the tender etiquette.

Originally, the Mohist looked like a pitiful martyr who hoped to gain the concern of scholars all over the world.

Now, it is a domineering force with strong soldiers and strong horses, who will directly run over anything that damages the progress of the times.

Insufficient cadres, insufficient manpower, and the pressure of the princes of the world have all made it difficult to occupy the Qi State for a long time. One size fits all is the best way to mobilize the people, and it is also the only one that can make Qi State Great Wall South within a few decades after the withdrawal of the Mohists. The means by which the popular revolutionary atmosphere was raised.

Those who can participate in this meeting are all trustworthy people, and the Mo family's own people, and the confidentiality regulations in it are naturally clear.

Occupying the Qi State will eventually be withdrawn. This is a grand strategy.Once Tian Qing knew about it, it would be impossible to talk about taking the initiative to attack.

Shi dared to say this because he believed that these people could not leak the secrets, and Gao Sunzi mainly investigated and managed such things, so Shi was very relieved.

After the general policy was settled, some details were discussed, and the meeting ended.

A group of young people like Shu Guitian who have already arrived in Boyi naturally do not have the opportunity to participate in such a meeting, but after the meeting is finalized, they will also need to go to the front line to start the work of distributing noble land.

Perhaps they are just "tools" or numbers that can measure the land on the agreed list, but for the tens of thousands of farmers who are eager for their own land, they are the embodiment of hope.

After only staying in Boyi for one day, Shu Guitian and a few classmates received an order to participate in the land division and survey work of Liang's father's generation.

The leader of the team was a Mohist who joined the Mohism in the Jiashen year. His surname was Sun, his first name was Pu, and his style name was Xiang.

Shu Guitian and the others behaved honestly in front of these Mohists who joined the Mohism in the Jiashen year, restraining their usual giggles.

This is not because of the remaining noble blood in Sun Pu, but from Shu Guitian's point of view, those who were able to join the Mo family in Jiashen year were all capable and full of enthusiasm. In front of people, the truth that I know is really ridiculous.

He guessed well, and those who could be sent to Father Liang to preside over land division and clearing must be talents.

This time the battle between Qi and Mo has taken Boyi as the boundary.

In the northwest of Boyi, in the Jishui River Basin, the mass base there is much better. Because of the destruction of the Pingyin Army, the Qi people in Daliang were captured and educated before being released and returned to their hometowns.

Those ordinary people can be used as the main force to cooperate with the follow-up work of the Mohist school, and the northwest of Boyi is simpler.

In the southeast of Boyi, some of the common people there belonged to the father of Liang and entered the fee first, and now they join the Linzi army and have not been annihilated.

A large number of nobles were in the army, and they were not trampled down by the Mohist forces like Pingyin, which made the people feel relieved.

The common people who went out with the army have not yet been captured, and the rural people have some distrust of the Mo family after all, and they don't know what kind of people they are.

This is especially true in Liangfuyi. Sun Pu was sent here because the organization recognized his methods and abilities.

In the evening, Shu Guitian and the others ate a meal with Sun Pu and other older Mohists. They were simple meals in the army, and they got to know each other for a while.

After the meal, before these young people went back to rest, Sun Pu stopped Shu Guitian in a place where no one was around, and asked, "Is your father okay?"

Shu Guitian had heard such questions a lot, and knew that it was not because of himself that Sun Pu could say such extraneous words to himself, so he replied skillfully: "The body is still good. Very tough."

Sun Pu also nodded, and asked casually, "I remember your four brothers and sisters?"

"Yeah. Eldest sister and elder brother are both in Zhaodi. Brother Zhong is at home and will be serving in the military next year."

Since it is said to be in Zhaodi, needless to say, it is obviously near Gaoliu.After all, Shu Guitian had a good father, and the Mo family knew a lot about the fact that Lushui was named after the First World War.

At this time, several middle-aged people came over, and Sun Pu waved his hands and said, "Do your best, go first."

Shu Guitian knew that those people were probably going to discuss the matter of going to Liang's father tomorrow, and he was just called by his deathbed to write and calculate. He couldn't know some specific strategies, so he left immediately.

In the early morning of the next day, four or five carriages carried these young people, and followed the company of four volunteers, and headed towards Father Liang.

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Outside Liang's father's city, in a manor with closed fields, an old man with white beard and hair was adjusting his bowstring in his free time.

In the past few years, muskets began to spread, and many nobles would put one in their homes, but the old man's house did not have half of them.

Not only are there no muskets, but there are also none of the glassware and other luxuries on Sishang. The whole house is as clean as it was 20 years ago.

The long curved bow is beautiful in shape, at least it takes a craftsman five years of cold and heat to make it, and the bowstring trembles slightly, making a slight sound.

The old man looked to be in his 50s, with a burly figure, and he was recognizable as a warrior at first glance. His thick thumb was covered with calluses, and he didn't know how many times he had pulled the bowstring.

The old man half-closed his eyes and muttered, "This bow should be improved."

There was not only one person in the room, there was another person at the head, who bowed and listened, seeing in his heart that the Patriarch was so calm, Xinxia also admired it.

Secretly said: "Now that the Mo family has reached Father Liang, there are rumors that the land of the nobles will be distributed to the common people. The patriarch is so indifferent, it is really admirable."

He is not the old man's family, but belongs to the old man's "children".

The old man is a scholar, although he is a sergeant and has a lot of land, but as a scholar, he cannot entrust the family affairs to a corporal who is also a scholar, and can only use the servants.

Most of these Li children are his distant relatives, or some people who have no blood and cannot be born. They are born by attachment, which is equivalent to the retainers of doctors, but doctors can have retainers but scholars cannot, so it cannot be like this call.

The same slave children have different identities. Some slave children are similar to tenant farmers or serfs, but some belong to retainers.

The old man flicked the bowstring for the last time with his long nails, and asked, "What's going on in Father Liang's city today?"

The bowed man hurriedly replied: "The city is opening granaries to release grain. The people don't know the righteousness, so they all cheered, saying that the righteous teacher is the true meaning."

The old man snorted, his face was full of disdain, and said: "The phoenix rises from Qishan, and it cannot live without a phoenix. People in the world think that the phoenix is ​​nothing but gorgeous wings, but they don't know that the wild pheasant lives like a phoenix." Yu Wu is nothing but a bastard."

"It's suitable for the slut of Shangqiu, I want to find a surname for myself, hahahaha..."

The old man smiled and shook his head, but the man who bowed didn't know the allusion, but he also laughed dryly, wondering what does this mean?
He didn't know that the old man was humiliating the Mo family's coach Shi by borrowing the two allusions of "Lutai scattered wealth" and "Juqiao sent millet".

In the past, when King Wu conquered Yin, he sent Nangong Shi, one of his four friends, to distribute the money from Lutai and the corn from Juqiao warehouse.

Nangong is the surname of an official position, and Nangong's name when it is appropriate has only one appropriate character.

Because he was an official in charge of the internal affairs of the Nangong court, he took his official position as his clan and was named Nangong Shi. His descendants were granted the title of Zeng, and they are now vassals of the Chu State. Gong Zaoye's father and grandparents were also employed by the King of Chu when they were smelters. Congratulations to Marquis Zeng for casting chime bells.

Nangong was in charge of distributing wealth at Lutai and distributing millet at Juqiao in the right year, and now Liang's father is also doing this, the old man ridiculed it, the children of Nali didn't know about it, but they also guessed that it was not a good thing.

After laughing, the old man asked again: "Is there any movement in the city? Any news about Qingzi and Gongziwu's army?"

The bowed man shook his head and said: "Young Ziwu's army has not moved. It is still in the south of Yingyi. It's been a few days of news."

"As for the city... the Mohists are already promoting the division of fields."

He first talked about the movements of Tian Qing's army, and then he talked about things in the city, because he was the old man's confidant and knew what the old man was worried about.

The old man's two sons, the eldest inherited the rank of sergeant, led the army and paid the fee first with Father Liang, and now they are in Tian Qing's army.

The youngest son is in Linzi, and as Tian's servant, he also has his own Lutian in Linzi. Linzi is safe now, so there is no need to worry.

As parents, they always worry about the safety of their children first. There is no difference between high and low on this point. The retainers understand in their hearts that if they are confidantes, if they don't even know this, it would be a bit unwise.

(End of this chapter)