warring states careerist

Chapter 8
On the way back, on the side of the ditch between the rice paddies, the children were either looking for black sweets, or competing with the turtledoves for the sweet mouthfuls of mulberries, and the mouths they ate were either black or purple.

The smoke from the kitchens among the city walls was wafting before the sun set. At this time, most people could not afford to use lamps and candles, so they could only eat dinner while there was still some dim light.

Push open the creaking firewood door again and put the firewood away.

The mulberries were handed to the sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law pinched a few. She didn't know if the mulberries were sweet or because she thought that the uncle had finally done something, so she stopped her cold face and said "eat"!
Back in the house, I finally saw my elder brother with my own eyes. He was about the same size as himself, but his waist was a little bent early on, and there were marks left by years of making shoes.

The elder brother named Ji is holding a piece of tanned animal skin in his hand, and seems to be thinking about whether to use it on the upper or mend the sole.

The sister-in-law passed a mulberry from behind his neck, and found the position of the mouth tacitly and accurately.The deer didn't look up, and obediently opened its mouth to swallow the mulberry.

After chewing a few mouthfuls, he threw the soft tanned leather aside, raised his head and asked, "Did you go to collect firewood in the afternoon?"

"Well, I want to do something for the family."

Deer nodded, and only said the same thing as his wife.

"Have a meal."

After speaking, he put away all kinds of shoemaking tools and wiped his hands.

Shi felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere. In his memory, this elder brother seldom spoke, but today he always felt hesitant to speak.It's like the water droplets on the leaves in the morning, no matter how you look at it, it will fall, but it won't fall until the sun rises high and evaporates.

The smell of rice wafted from the side, so I stopped thinking about it and started to eat my first meal in this world.

The corn and rice cooked in the three-legged earthenware pot probably has not been washed carefully to preserve the fragrance of the corn.

There is a small piece of salted fish on top, naturally without oil.Next to it is a can of soup made from green vegetable leaves and salt water. The dish inside is the mainstream vegetable at this time, okra.

In the common people's house, corn is rice and bean leaves are soup.

Beside the pottery jars were some beautifully dug spoons. Common people seldom use chopsticks, but even with chopsticks they have to be very particular.

Aristocrats have forks, spoons, chopsticks, knives, etc. when eating. Each tableware has its own purpose, which is a kind of noble etiquette.

For example, you must use a spoon instead of chopsticks to eat corn and rice, and chopsticks to eat soup according to the situation: if there are vegetable leaves, you cannot use a spoon, you must use chopsticks to pick them up; on the other hand, if there are no vegetable leaves in the soup, you must not use chopsticks .

The so-called soup has vegetables, use 梜, no vegetables do not use; rice millet do not use chopsticks.

This is also doomed, even if you get mixed up with a surname in the future, you will not be able to join the upper class, and the rules of eating a meal will be laughed to death and become the laughing stock of the upper class.

There are too many things to do, and he doesn't have time to spend a few years learning rituals.

Since they are at home, there are not so many etiquettes. They eat with a spoon, and use the spoon to pick up the okra boiled in salt water and use it with the following rice.

After a busy afternoon, Shi was also hungry.The corn rice has no taste, the salted fish is a bit smelly, and the leaves of the vegetables are watery, but I can’t eat them hungrily.

Halfway through eating, Ji suddenly said: "Brother, I am not happy that you go to collect firewood."

Shi was taken aback, the spoon stopped by his mouth, wondering why his brother was upset.

"My parents went early. Of course I would be happy if you learned how to make shoes or help with other things early in the morning. You should remember that you said you didn't want to make shoes and wanted to do something big. I only persuaded you Once, after that, I didn't persuade him again."

I recalled it for a while, and it was true. I didn't know what the elder brother meant, so I didn't answer, but just nodded.

"Well, being a human being is like making shoes."

"A piece of leather, what kind of shoes to make, must be decided before cutting the leather. Halfway through making it, and wanting to change it, what's the use of this piece of leather?"

"Now Mozi is giving lectures in the city, but you don't cherish it. At this time, you may think of your home. Isn't it like a piece of leather that is half a shoe? If you want to do something, just keep doing it, otherwise the things you did before are useless Yet?"

Shi quietly raised his head and glanced at his sister-in-law, thinking that his sister-in-law was going to say something like "It's only natural for him to do these things", but he didn't want to look up and find that his sister-in-law was just eating there, without saying anything, and her expression didn't change. Fiddled with a piece of salted fish into her husband's crock.

"Brother, I didn't change my mind. It's just that Mozi didn't give lectures in the afternoon, so I went to collect some firewood. Besides, in the morning, Mozi also said that I can carve rough jade. This is true. If you don't believe me, go ask those people."

"Really?"

He couldn't believe it, what kind of character is Mozi?Even if my younger brother is smart, it's impossible to get a rare evaluation in such a short time.

Shi scratched his head and told the morning story again, but concealed the source of the story. This shoe-buying joke, which Shi thought was not funny, drew bursts of laughter from his brother and sister-in-law.

After a while, Ji said again: "That's good. Know what you want to do, don't change it halfway. By the way, your sister-in-law made you a new dress, and you can wear it when you go to lectures. I'll try it later to see if it fits."

Shi laughed and said, "I'm studying ink, not Confucianism, so I don't need to wear new clothes. Mozi all wear short brown. But, thank you, sister-in-law, when I have money in the future, I will definitely make you a brocade silk."

The sister-in-law snorted and said, "No, I'm afraid of wearing hot leather."

Deer also laughed a few times, but didn't make a real statement, and didn't mention the rest.

After eating, there was no light to light, so I went back to my room while it was still a little dim.

On the wooden board was a pile of soft wheat straw, which was his bed, and next to him was a linen shirt that fit him well.

Carefully collected the small bag of seeds, nestled in the straw, rubbed his shoulders, although tired, it was too early, and he couldn't fall asleep anyway.

With both hands resting on the back of the head, legs crossed, pondering over what happened today, the idea of ​​being at ease as soon as it comes has already been settled in the morning when I was thinking about it.

The so-called courage or wisdom is never to complain about unchangeable things, things have come to this point, that's all.

Thinking about the conversation with those farmers in the afternoon, I feel that even if there are thousands of whimsical ideas, with the current level of agriculture, many things have no chance to be implemented even if they are made.

At this time, there are many deep mountains and old forests, and inaccessible places are everywhere, but they are all too far away.These seeds are too important. If you rely on yourself alone, it will take at least three or two years to do nothing and watch this bag of seeds turn into several baskets of seeds, and you also have to worry about being snatched away.

It is absolutely impossible to rely on yourself.Not to mention whether to snatch it or not, even if you run to the deep mountains and old forests, what will you eat in the past two or three years?
Eating at home, brother and sister-in-law can support an idler, but if you go out, the expenses are not something that brother-in-law and sister-in-law can afford.

After thinking about it, the bag of seeds is still the key to breaking the game, but if you want to protect the bag of seeds and become your own weight instead of being taken away by others, you must rely on the power of the Mohist family and become an official Mohist. By.

In troubled times, you can't take one step at a time, and feel that you have to plan where you should go in the future.

Even though the Mohist thought has great historical limitations and many unreliable places, Shi is more willing to trust the Mohist than the meat-eater nobles.

Looking for orthodox Confucianism, farming is a "little man".

It’s not enough to find someone from the Xihe School to revise Confucianism. The Duke of Wei is too powerful, and Wei has talents but Wei rarely employs them.

Those people in Yang Zhu are liberals, so they can't do anything.

Compared with them, the Mohists are more like Leviathan. At least they understand that in this troubled world, only the centralization of power can achieve success, as long as a few dross and loopholes are dug out.

In addition to these transnational political forces, there are also those vassal states, but if you think about it carefully, you can't count on it.

Even if Qi State builds the Jixia Academy in the future, it is to prove the legitimacy of the Tian family replacing Qi. The genuine bragging about imperialism only has high prestige and average strength.

The reputation of Jixia Academy is created by engaging in yin and yang and five elements, and the good and evil of human nature. The knowledge that I know will not be valued by Jixia Academy in the future.

Going to Qin country can only be a loyal dog. The outsider who has no influence is Qin Jun’s favorite loyal dog. When needed, he is bloodletted to appease the nobles. The monarch uses it to balance the seesaw of domestic nobles.

South Korea is the follower of Wei Guo, and Zhao Guo is also in a difficult situation at this time. The two countries can only fight against Wei Guo if they want to break the situation. Even if Wu Qi leaves in the future, the Wei soldiers left behind will be enough for Wei Guo to waste some time .

For the rest, Yan State is too poor, Yue State is too barbaric, Chu State has too many monarchs in Xiaoxi Zhou, and Lu State is too conservative...

As for the Song Kingdom, it is basically dead, caught in the middle of the big country, can only pretend to be a grandson, if it rises a little bit, it will be crushed to death by the rest of the family...

No matter where you go in the future, these problems must be faced and resolved. This means that you must ensure that you have a power that is independent from the monarch and the monarch, otherwise you will end up dead end or discard it after use. Organization happens to be the perfect force to borrow.

Once Mozi passed away, the position of giant must be passed on to Qin Huali, no matter in terms of seniority or prestige, this is inevitable.

But Qin Huali and Mozi are both teachers and friends, they are too old, it is just a transition.

After that came Meng Sheng and Tian Xiangzi. Meng Sheng sacrificed great righteousness to take small righteousness and died in the game that Wu Qi set up before his death.

Thinking about it now, Meng Sheng should be about the same age as himself, or even a teenager is limited, so there is still a chance.

Once Mozi and Qin Huali passed away, I won the trust of Mozi and mastered the power to compile the "Mo Jing"...

You can be the Bernstein of the Mohist school, change the Mohist theory to the point where Mozi is resurrected and wants to hack himself to death, then a big thing can be accomplished.

Calculated, Mozi is already old, and he can live for ten years at most; it will be two or thirty years before Wu Qi was shot to death, and Meng Sheng was deceived by the nobleman Xiaoyi to die in the city.

The Mohists are full of talents, how to stand out is the top priority, and the immediate priority is to do a few things so that Mozi accepts himself as a direct disciple and becomes an official Mohist.

Racking his brains to recall the history he knew, he didn't know how long it had passed, the room was pitch black.

There was a squeaking sound from the next door, a faintly suppressed babbling sound.

He smiled helplessly, covered his ears and lay in the straw, trying hard to sleep, which was originally easy.

Although straw is soft, it will eventually pierce people.

Looking at the world, who is in the straw, but thinks about the general trend of the world, I am afraid that I am the only one.

Yu Shi smiled wryly and shook his head sadly.

Before going to bed, he thought: "After soaking in hemp tomorrow, I will look for an opportunity to go to Mozi to listen to his lectures, and then say a few amazing words, so that I can sneak into the Mohist family earlier. In the future, once Mozi passes away, I can come here anyway." "

"First, pretend to be a fanatic who wears ten-year-old short brown clothes, a soup of gooseberries, and rubs the top of his head to benefit the world."

However, he didn't know that Mozi had left Shangqiu, nor did he know that the major event that affected the entire Warring States period had happened in Qi.

So, I had a good dream.

(End of this chapter)