warring states careerist

Chapter 709

Shi's fingers lightly tapped on the table a few times. Among the mohists who were listening next to him, some of them were familiar with his habits. Juzi Xindao was ready to fight back, but he didn't know how Juzi could convince the leaders of the peasant family.

This time the Mohist countermeasure is to divide the hundreds of schools.

Those who can be discussed should be discussed first, and those who have no irreconcilable contradictions should become allies.

If you can't talk about it, just don't talk about it, pull allies and smash them to the ground in the big debate.

The Mo family and the farm family... have a good relationship, that was in the past.

As for now, the contradictions are deepening, and the various means and strategies of the Mohists are, in the long run, forcing small farmers to go bankrupt and cottage industries to become penniless workshop workers.

The times are developing, and the changes in the past 20 years have brought the world under the chaos of great changes, especially in some places with convenient transportation.

The state of Chu is close to the Yangtze River area, and it is very close to Sishang, so it is most affected by the industrial and commercial development of Sishang.

Problems such as annexation of land and bankruptcy of small farmers will first appear on the trade route closest to Sishang.

More farmers suffered from the triple exploitation of usury, feudal land rent, and the excess profits of Sishang industry and commerce. It was difficult to maintain and they chose to flee.

There is no vast North America as a pressure relief valve, but there is a vast and sparsely populated land of Chu. It is under such circumstances that Xu Xi and others have attracted a large number of fleeing farmers, gathered together, and cultivated the land. Build the homes they built on fantasy.

He tapped his fingers on the table, not thinking of countermeasures now, knowing himself and the enemy can win every battle, he has already studied the theory of the peasant family.

He knocked on the case, just feeling in his heart...

No wonder it is said that heresy is more troublesome than heresy.

These utopian people have to say that they are progressive in the sense of "putting people first", but they do not follow science at all.

This kind of fantasy is completely unacceptable, and it is easy to be used by nobles and princes to suppress the buds of capitalism and scare these small peasants with the horror of the emerging class—look, how terrible the Mohist system is Ah, is retro better?

It made them easy to be used and became a sharp knife for the royal power to curb the development of industry and commerce.

Small peasants can tolerate the monarch, because at least there is still hope, what if a wise monarch comes?What if the corvee is frivolous?What if it is tax-free?
But they can't tolerate the development of industry and commerce. The first cut of capitalism's germination must be cut on their heads.

Under extreme poverty, with nothing, how much is a spoonful of salt sold by a merchant?How much is an iron farm tool sold by a merchant?Why?
The ass decides the head. They think so, and they are right on the whole, so the cornerstone of the farm theory is "the market does not pay the same price", hoping to use something other than money as an equivalent to ensure their own interests.

Using the method of sages and people working together, cooperation and division of labor, equal labor exchange, and discussion of government by the whole people, a kind of "great benefit in the world" that can be realized in fantasy can be achieved.

It is not without reason that this theory was born in Chu State. On the one hand, due to the economic development, the areas along the river in Chu State endured the double exploitation of their own feudal aristocrats and "Sishang imperialism"; Development was born under the influence of the idea of ​​a small country with few people.

In the situation of Shan Yusi, it is inevitable to debate with the farmers.

At this Manmin Law Conference, most of the farmers hoped to ban the import of grain, so as to raise the price of grain and make a profit.

There are already some factions within the Mohism itself.Farmhouse's doctrine could easily lead to a larger debate.

From a moral point of view, what Xu Xi did seemed to be similar to that of the Mohists, but actually took two completely different paths.

Xu Xi himself is also from aristocratic background, although he is down and out, but the family business also has quite a lot.

He really saw the hardships of the people, especially the small farmers in Chu State who were double exploited by Sishang imperialism and the feudal aristocracy of Chu State.

So he abandoned his family business, bought iron oxen, pretended to entrust the study of "Shen Nong", and led the fleeing people to reclaim the wasteland.

It claims to want true equality, to have land to the tiller, to have no price difference, and to build a real land of benevolence and righteousness.

The land belongs to the princes and nobles. If they do this, the prince must be very dissatisfied.But Xu Xi came from aristocratic background and knew some people in the aristocratic circle. Finally, he got approval and allocated a small piece of land along the river in Chu State.

Like his grandson, they all rely on the permission of the nobles to divide the land.

In this regard, the Mohist school was actually similar at the beginning. To put it bluntly, doing righteousness in Sishang is equivalent to using Mozi's prestige and the relationship of the Mohist people in the aristocratic circle to create a fiefdom.

It's just that after getting the fiefdom, the differences between the Mo family and the peasant family appeared.

Farmhouses are priced at the same price, and wise men and people work together to weave and weave mats. The elected wise men set the price, and then the wise men buy ironware, set the price, and exchange without taking profits.

The Mohists are advancing, advancing, and advancing by whatever means.Killing witches, seizing divine power, coercing nobles, carrying out land reform, hiding taxes from salt and iron, opening iron smelting workshops, instigating wars among countries in the Central Plains, selling arms, relying on official positions to earn salary and pay party dues, etc. can be used or not, and they will succeed in 15 years Transformation, began to earn excess profits from the outside world, acquiesced in the annexation of the land of the Song Dynasty, dumped Chu, Yue, Song and Qi, and colonized Fulou in the South China Sea.

The time difference between the activities of the two sides is not too much, and the utopian commune of Jiabu Price in the farmer's city has only a thousand people.

The Mohists supported industry and commerce, used the profits for education and military expenses, and used the blood and sweat of Kyushu to support one place, and won the Qi State and interfered in the internal affairs of various countries.

To use the words suitable for Mohists to evaluate farmers, it is called "it can be used for the cooperative management of a village, but it cannot be used to benefit the world."

If there is no primitive accumulation, no accumulation of profits, and no excess profits, why start an industry and commerce?Why popularize third-grade primary school education?

Regarding Xu Xi's accusation, I really want to answer this question head-on.

That is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences. It has to be talked about from perceptual consciousness to rational consciousness, and from the inevitable stage to the difference between utopia and science. There is no need for the two sides to be so rigid.

But I had to answer again.

Xu Xi's words were too heavy, and it became a dispute between the hypocritical equality and the true equality.

There are such differences within the Mohist school itself. Regarding synonymous, universal love, and equality in equality, the Mohist school is divided into several factions. As soon as the internal ambiguity is suppressed, the peasant family has nothing to do with it.

He didn't want to answer directly, since Xu Xi dug a hole for him to jump down, he was going to dig a hole for Xu Xi to jump down.

So he asked back: "Well, sir, he also visited the village community in Sishang a few days ago. From your point of view, are the farmers in Sishang village community richer than the village community where you gather people to farm by the river?"

He is secretly changing the concept, taking the average level of the above excess profit, not analyzing the source, and disguising the vertical comparison as a horizontal comparison.

There is a generational difference in productivity between the village communities in Sishang and the village communities in Chu State, but Keshi insists on pretending that this is a reasonable horizontal comparison.

It is an obvious logical trap to test the waters first, to try Xu Xi's theoretical level, and the basis for comparison between the two sides is completely different.

If Xu Xi puts forward the reason that the two sides are different and cannot be compared, Shi will know how to argue next.

Similarly, if Xu Xi agrees with Shi's argument, but finds some other reasons on the basis of agreeing, Shi also knows how to argue.

Xu Xi has no objection to this.

"I have seen the villages in Sishang, and there are hundreds of them. They are indeed much richer than ours in Chu. But the prosperity of Sishang stems from the poverty of Song, Chu, and Yue. What we are talking about now is benefit The world. If you think Sishang is the world, but Song Chuyue does not belong to the world, then you and I have no way to argue."

Smiling inwardly, he adjusted his strategy.

His face was extremely serious.

This is a matter of principle.

As soon as Xu Xi finished speaking, Shi immediately shook his head and said: "Song Chuyue, even the Kyushu, Sushen, and North Korea established by Dayu, as for the sacred mountain Kunlun, and Beihai Cangwu, they all belong to the world. This is beyond doubt and inseparable. The meaning of Tianxia in Mojia Li Tianxia. Sishang is a part of Tianxia, ​​and it is only a part, and this has never changed."

"What I want to ask is, it's the same labor, why are the farmers in Sishang so rich? In other words, you gather people to farm in Chu State and don't pay taxes. Compared with those farmers in Chu State, your life is better. The root of it is your farm family. Is it morally correct? Or is it because you don’t pay taxes, don’t give up labor, don’t serve in the army, and don’t cultivate public land?”

"And the village community in Sishang has to pay taxes, participate in military service, and organize water conservancy. Why is it richer than your village community?"

Xu Xi and others gathered in Daze to work together. The life of the farmers was better than before they fled. I asked another key question: the reason for this better life is because the feudal labor rent was lifted?Or is your life better because of your moral guidance?

Xu Xi is still in the middle of a perceptual understanding of the root of the farmers' plight.

He saw the aristocrats extorting violently, seeing merchants wantonly raising prices, and seeing farmers go bankrupt and flee.

Then use all your own property to support a land of benevolence and righteousness led by a sage, where there is no second price, and full labor is exchanged for full commodities under the division of labor. There is no way to complete the initial primitive accumulation.

But because of his relationship with the nobles, the nobles gave him this piece of land, and he does not need to pay taxes, perform labor services, or bear labor rent.

From this, with the most basic sensibility, he saw that the more than a thousand people under the jurisdiction of the farm family were living a much better life than before they fled.

So he emotionally believes that all this is because of his morality, as long as the sages and the people can work side by side, the price is equal, the primitive accumulation of industry and commerce can be suppressed, and the interests of small farmers can be protected, then the world can be governed.

It is appropriate to ask Xu Xi directly with a sophistry, why the village in Sishang is not doing as you want, but is richer than you?

This is another double trap.

If Deng Xi said that this is because the farm tools you use are advanced, then you have to ask why you have been doing it for so many years, and why don’t you have so many advanced farm tools?Is it just because the disciples of the Mohist school and the Gongshu class are the disciples of Zhu Xia's two mechanical masters?Or is there another deeper reason?

If Deng Xi said that there were indeed reasons for not paying land rent for feudal labor, not serving in the army, and not being forced to work, then the initiative on this issue was brought into his own hands.

Shi is not going to persuade the peasant family to completely die out, but to form an alliance with the peasant family under the premise that some things that are temporarily inconvenient for the Mohist family will be done by the peasant family...

He is avoiding the question of whether it is "unfair" for industry and commerce to exploit farmers with scissors, and even ten mouths can't tell.

(End of this chapter)