warring states careerist

Chapter 677
But for another example, the Mo family has its own price for the goods that are transported over, but they must be expensive in fact. The current house in Yunzhong is not suitable. Even if the people can afford it, they will not live in thatched huts Some Chilling.

As for silk and other things, the price is a bit too high. The local people in the cloud are essentially rich farmers, not the rich and noble, so even if these things are shipped over, they can't buy them.

People must first ensure their basic necessities of life, and then they can engage in other industries.

And what the Mohists want to solve in the cloud is the problem of food, so the direction of consumption cannot be considered when it comes to food.

The last direction that can be considered is clothing and housing.

The situation in Yunzhong is that the local area is a remote area ruled by the State of Zhao, and grandma does not love her uncle, which also leads to the fact that the local "tyranny" is just a sick cat and far less than a tiger.

With the improvement of productivity and the use of new technologies such as iron tools, the local people actually have great potential for food production.

However, due to the high cost of transporting goods here, and the Mohist's long-standing concept of "saving use", most of the goods transported here before were cotton cloth, padded jackets, ironware, etc., which made the living standard of the local people go from starvation to fullness within a few years. Dressing warmly solves the three difficulties of the people.

But in the same way, after the three difficulties of the people are solved, because of problems such as poor circulation, blocked roads, and being far away from the Central Plains, the people in Yunzhong are not active in expanding farming: after selling the money, they don’t know how to spend it. Just drink it, because the grain in the cloud does not participate in the market cycle of the entire Zhao country, it is just grain rather than commodities.

Guogang thought that since Yunzhong needed to relocate a large number of people, Yunzhong City must be re-planned. He had seen the redevelopment of the city by the Sishang Mo family, and now the city in Yunzhong could not accommodate the upcoming increase. large population.

That being the case, the means in "Light and Heavy" and "Luxury" can be used to guide people's consumption, so that they urgently need "money", instead of the original concept of money being limited to the exchange of ironware and salt.

Then, when building a new city, the local people in the cloud will be regarded as the wealthy households in "Luxury"; and a group of newly liberated serfs organized by the Mohists will be used as the people who can't make a living in the famine years in "Luxury". People, the Mohists will lead the consumption for several years after an overdraft.

That is to say, outside the urban area, lead the construction of a batch of new houses, because there will definitely be no shortage of people at that time, and the construction technology of the Mohist school will naturally be much higher than that.

This batch of new houses is made of bricks, spacious and bright, and equipped with small 璆Lin as windows. At the same time, they are sold at a price that is much lower than the cost and can be repaid by the local people in Yunzhong after three to five years of work. The people in the cloud are a kind of "gift" that benefits the public.

Then the money does not need to go through the cloud for the time being. Since gold, jade and copper coins are only currency and equivalents, they can be exchanged or not.

It allows local people in the cloud to directly exchange potatoes, corn and other grains without charging any money.

In this way, the prices of grains such as potatoes and corn can still be kept very low, because the currency in the cloud has not increased, and there will be no large-scale price increases.

Not only should money not be spent in the cloud, but also try to prevent some novel goods from entering the cloud, so that the money itself has no meaning in the cloud in the short term and cannot be spent.

It is also possible to pre-purchase in advance, allowing local people in the cloud to live in next year in advance, and at the same time stipulate the repayment period, but only accept food repayment.

The people in the cloud know the price of goods, and they also know the price of ordinary grain. They will definitely feel that they have calculated their own calculations, and with a little guidance, they will find a way to grow more grain, and because of the closed nature of the cloud, there is no way to buy it from other places—if If they can buy from other places, the Mohists don't have to worry so much.

Not for the time being, we can draw a big pie first and rely on propaganda to guide, so that the public can accept and see a better life that is close at hand.

Similarly, after the first year of reclamation and stabilization, it can promote the development of local industry and commerce in the cloud, including a series of industries such as carpentry, construction, brick making, and charcoal burning. This is what a city can keep expanding. An important factor that makes people willing to stay in the local area.

Although there are a lot of things to be busy in the whole cloud next year, it is said that things like building new houses should be ranked behind and should not take up manpower.

However, only a small amount of manpower is needed to stimulate the enthusiasm of local pioneers to solve the problem of planting with money instead of trust and coercion.

At the same time, the Mo family didn't actually lose much money. The Mo family itself wanted to buy food, and it was more expensive to buy and transport it from other places.

As for the new house, what actually needs to be spent is the cost price of the newly built Qilin workshop from Gaoliu relying on the lake alkali in the Huren area and the Gaoliu coal mine.

The people who migrated also need to eat. Even if they go to cultivate, they cannot be self-sufficient in the first year, so they can use their labor while ensuring basic food and clothing.

At that time, it will be nothing more than the food and drink expenses of hundreds of full-time construction workers, carpenters, etc., and part of the expenses of Qilin.

What we have obtained is a large number of planting and reclamation by the local people, stable local prices, and the trust of the people rather than natural resentment caused by coercive means.

At the same time, it can also enable the later people to have new goals after completing the initial reclamation, ensuring food and clothing, and repaying loans such as ironware. An indispensable craftsman in the center of the city north of the Yellow River.

In fact, the money of the Mo family is spent, but it is spent in other places instead of in the cloud.

During the harvest period of potatoes and corns from spring to next year, the local grains in the cloud will be used for food. After the potatoes, corns and other grains are harvested, the grains in hand will be basically eaten up, but because the previous contract can guarantee that the original price will be purchased, over-planting The cheap food will not cause price rises at all.

Guogang's method is basically like this. After he said something roughly, the Mohist who came here couldn't help nodding and said: "Your method sounds very good."

"However, whether it is applicable or not needs to be calculated with the art of knowledge. This is not something I can figure out. It needs to be reported back to the higher-ups, and they will make a decision."

"This is just a temporary measure, so what do you think about the future development of Yunzhong?"

"Taking this opportunity, I will also report it to you. After all, you have been in the cloud for a long time, and you have studied these techniques of importance, extravagance, and economy."

Guogang really had some other ideas, and when he heard the commissioner's affirmation first, he let go of his heart and expressed some of his ideas one by one.

What I thought before was naturally just some expedient means.

Once there are tens of thousands of people in Yunzhong and other places, the development of the whole place will be completely different in the future.

To consider stability, but also to consider people's hearts, to consider the sense of identity, to consider why to fight and so on.

The Mohists do not use the land granting system for military merit, because the land granting system for military merit and the land granting system look the same at low-level military merit, but once it reaches a slightly higher military merit, problems such as "affiliation" and "subordination" will appear.

Who will grow the military field that rewards others with [-] mu of land?There is only land, and there is no supporting "convict labor" policy, and [-] mu of land is meaningless.

Especially in the border areas, where industry and commerce are not well developed, it is impossible to transform military meritorious land into market-oriented farms. The end result will inevitably be the emergence of a large class of military meritorious landlords, which will eventually lead to the warlordization of border areas. This is not allowed.

Of course, it is also restricted by the morality of Mohism and cannot be implemented.

At the same time, taking into account the issue of "restrictions", Guogang also felt that some industries could not be developed in the Yunzhong area.

Such as iron ore, iron smelting, etc.

He felt that the Yunzhong area should always be subject to the stable area controlled by the Mohist, so as to prevent the local forces from not obeying the orders of the Mohist thousands of miles away.

But at the same time, it is necessary to develop local industry and commerce. He was born in Qi, and he has his own views on "the benefits of fish and salt" and "business benefits the people".

Even beyond this insight, there are deeper considerations.

After living in Qi for more than [-] years, living and studying in Sishang for six or seven years, and practicing in the cloud for four or five years, Guogang consciously understood something.

He also said some of his own views.

"In the ancient city, one city is Sishang and Songyue today."

"Now Sishang is inseparable from Song, Yue, and Chu; Song, Yue, and Chu are also inseparable from Sishang. The root cause is that the goods produced in Sishang are not used locally in Sishang, but are sold to Song, Chu, and Chu. Yue and other places. Although Song, Chu, Yue and other places are still full of princes and kings, they are inseparable from Sishang, which is a step closer to our Mohist's view of "the world."

"I heard that in ancient times, hundreds of countries and thousands of countries existed independently, because the cities themselves could produce pottery and bone tools, and food could be produced nearby, so in ancient times, hundreds of countries and thousands of countries were each hundreds of miles away."

"It is said to be the world, but it is actually a broken state. Even with the Shang and Zhou dynasties, they are just separate states. When will Chu and Yue be inseparable from Qilu, Wei Han and Qin Shu, and when will it be considered the real world. "

"The same is true in the cloud. It cannot be fragmented, cannot exist alone, and cannot be closed to form a state of its own. It must be connected with the outside world."

"The prosperity of the world is all for profit; the chaos of the world is for profit. Only by benefit can Yunzhong and Tianxia be connected and inseparable, and Yunzhong can recognize Tianxia's theory."

He chuckled and said, "If one day Chu and Yue reject Sishang's goods and impose heavy taxes, the businessmen who want to come to Sishang will immediately feel that the world should be one."

"It's the same in Yunzhong. Although Zigeng and Liangjiazi can serve in the army, they can rely on Xuanyi to make them recognize that the world is fighting for righteousness, but they also need to be connected with each other."

"If Yunzhong can be self-sufficient, and there is no profit from foreign transportation, why will Yunzhong be inseparable from the world after decades?"

"That's why I said that there must be some industrial and commercial goods in the cloud that can be sold to the Central Plains outside the cloud; but at the same time, there must be some goods in the cloud that cannot be obtained outside the Central Plains."

"You can't be a tall willow in the cloud. Gaoliu is located in the north, but it is Xiaosi. There are lin, felt, iron, coal, cattle and horses, and grain. One place is enough. If there are more, within five hundred miles of the cloud will be enough." It is a big city, so it can survive alone, and the internal connection, how can we identify with the world? How can we know the world?"

"Like an ancient city, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all within a hundred miles of the city, how can the people of Qi City need to know about Qin City?"

"For example, Sishang Kuaiji is thousands of miles away, but Kuaiji people know the iron, cotton, and porcelain of Sishang; Sishang also knows the glue, lacquer, and ivory of Kuaiji...The people of Sishang naturally think that the world includes Kuaiji."

"Yunzhong only knows about Sishang and Gaoliu, because other places have nothing to do with them, and it is difficult for them to feel that those cities are part of the world. They only think that the world only has Sishang, Gaoliu, and Yunzhong, because their goods are only related to these few cities. There's communication everywhere."

The special commissioner was so convinced by his words that he was stunned and couldn't help but think of the story of "Mao Sui recommending himself" adapted from the Mohist story. Although the real Mao Sui was not born yet, he kept saying: "You are a sharp awl , I didn’t have a chance to pass through the cloth before.”

"You have quite a lot of opinions on "Severity", "The Wealth of Nations", "Slightness", and "Luxury". Have you ever compiled them into a book?"

Guogang held back the excitement in his heart, and said calmly: "I have read a lot in the past five years, combined with what I have learned before, I have indeed written something. As for how, it still needs to be judged."

After all, I dug out two booklets written by myself from a small wooden box in the house.

The title of the book is "What is the Currency of the People".

The other book is called "On the Consolidation of Cities, States, and the World".

(End of this chapter)