warring states careerist

Chapter 812 Controversy Difficulty ([-])

When Chu Sima arrived in the Central Plains, it was already mid-August, and this move attracted the attention of the world.

Several months had passed since the coup d'état of the State of Song, and the situation had gradually stabilized. Sishang quickly stabilized the situation by relying on the rapid defeat of the aristocratic coalition forces and the military management experience accumulated in Sishang, Qixinan, Huaibei and other places.

If it is a civil war in Zhuxia, the crueler and fiercer it is, the faster and more violent it is, the better. Only in this way is the least painful for Kyushu. A chaotic war that lasts for several years or even decades or hundreds of years will easily hurt the foundation , leaving many irreparable rifts.

The situation in Song State is the same. After it stabilized soon, Song State is looking forward to a real change, and is also nervous about the interference of various countries.

On the other hand, inside the Mo family in Sishang, the judgment of the situation became clearer, and they believed that the chances of Wei Chuhan sending troops to intervene were getting smaller and smaller.

Although both Wei and Han are gathering troops, judging from the number of gatherings and the mobilization of farmers, it doesn't look like they are going to interfere with Song.

Slogans can be deceiving, but mobilization is very difficult to deceive. The secret inkmen all over Wei and Han kept sending back all kinds of information.

The judgments of Shihe and many senior Mohists are well-founded. If Wei Han really wants to interfere in the affairs of the Song Dynasty, it is not enough to mobilize the troops near the capital. A few sages can't even think clearly about this problem.

In order to test Wei Han's true attitude, Sishang has just reached an aid agreement with Zheng Guo, using loans to transport some firearms and a few copper cannons for city defense to Zheng Guo, without concealment. Much publicity.

At the same time, the second-line troops mobilized by Sishang began to withdraw from the Song Dynasty, and were assigned to various villages to help with the autumn harvest, but they still maintained the original establishment and did not cancel the mobilization.

The consumption of food, cotton, and various military supplies has stimulated the industry and commerce in Sishang, and also made the people in charge of finance of the Mohist family feel distressed by the figures that flow out every day.

The main standing army in the Song Dynasty also began to retreat, giving up several border towns, and instead gathered in the middle of the Song Dynasty to form a large camp and shorten the supply line to reduce consumption.

In some border towns, only a small number of cavalry or formed company infantry remained. Disciples from various schools of thought, especially farmers, have begun to prepare for taking office, and a large amount of statistical data collected over the years has also begun to be sent to those The leader of the school who is about to take office.

On the road from Shangqiu to Kuiqiu, a group of people in short brown clothes stepped forward. Not only the Mohists, but also the peasants who denounced the Mohist school for hypocritical equality want to be truly equal.

Kuiqiu is the most northwestern city of the Song Dynasty, and it is also one of the few townships acquired by the peasant family. At this time, Kuiqiu was very famous. This time it was stipulated that all countries should not dig river embankments when they are fighting, but after 2000 years, there are still people who are not as good as the Qihuan era.

In later generations, Kuiqiu gradually became a poor place as the Yellow River diverted its course many times. The famous and poor Lankao in later generations was near Kuiqiu.

Xu Xi, the leader of the Peasant School, was sitting on a rock at this time, flipping through the "social survey" given to him by the Mohists, and exclaiming from time to time.

His son Xu Xingshi sat aside, listened to his father's admiration, thought of the few social surveys he had seen, and praised: "The surveys done by the Mohist School are really powerful. The land tax and the wishes of the people are clearly done.”

"Based on the morality of the Mohists, and according to this social survey, we can easily come to the conclusions that the Mohists want us to accept."

Xu Xi does not object to this point, indeed.

In fact, the relationship between the peasant family and the Mohist family has also been a relationship that has been constantly unreasonable and chaotic in history.

Xu Xi's son Xu Xing, some people in later generations said that Xu Xing was actually Qin Huali's disciple Xu Zuo, but some people objected.

A hundred schools of thought contend, and until the end, they influence each other. Eight points of Confucianism and three points of Mohism have actually spread into the world. In fact, it is not clear who influenced whom and who originated from whom.

Just like now, although the farmers and the Mohist are "heretics" to each other, the farmers accused the Mohists of "not being truly equal"; the Mohists accused the farmers of being "the fantasy of small farmers"; Support each other.

The Mohists want to bring the peasant family to the Song Dynasty, in fact, they also have the meaning of "sending the plague god": they don't want to turn their faces and offend them, and they don't want the theory of the peasant family to spread in Sishang.

Just like some government-run iron smelting workshops in Sishang, the Mohists believe that this is beneficial to the great cause of the world, and can concentrate funds to develop industry and commerce, so as to achieve the overall prosperity of the world.

Farmers think that this is unfair. It is also labor. The iron tools in the iron smelting workshop get so much food and the extra profits. Is it unfair to farmers?Is it not possible to ensure that the price is not doubled?Is it harming the interests of farmers?
Both sides stick to their own opinions and influence each other.

Some of the disciples of the peasant family agreed with the Mohist’s idea, and turned their backs to Mohism; there were also some of the Mohist’s self-sufficient Mohists, who believed that the methods of the Mohism were really unfair, and turned back to Mohist.

This kind of influence and exchange has made the farming family develop extremely rapidly in Song Dynasty in recent years.

More than 20 years ago, what was suitable for doing in Shangqiu Village can be simply understood as "going to the countryside".

By the time the Mohist family traveled to Sishang for the first time, the entire Mohist family was also doing "going to the countryside".

Witch doctors wearing witch costumes, Mohists who help farmers improve the soil and teach planting techniques, and Mohist who set up villagers' organizations in the village community... These are the foundations of the Mohism in Sishang back then.

Farmers have learned this, and some former Mohists who rebelled against Mohist farmers also brought this method.

And most importantly, the difficulty and darkness of the new era brought about by the sprouting of the commodity economy in the Song State because it was too close to Sishang, and the fact that the Mohists did not conduct large-scale activities in the Song State for the time being but in the Chu State , which made the farmhouse develop extremely fast in the Song Dynasty.

Farmers have talents, all kinds of talents.

Harvesting, farming, witch doctors, assassins, warriors... all kinds of things, like a prince without a fief.

A Mohist who has returned to the countryside and has medical skills, responded to the call of the farm family to go to the countryside and opened a medical clinic in the village community. In just one year, hundreds of farmers accepted the farm family's medical treatment in the process of cheap medical treatment. Thought.

Those farmers who go deep into the villages and rural areas and teach the people how to plant have extremely high popularity and prestige in the countryside.

If it is only up to this point, the difference between the peasant family and the Mohist school is almost non-existent, and many farmers can't tell the difference between the peasant family and the Mohist family, thinking that the two families are one family.

The land belongs to the people of the world, not the princes of the emperor, and everyone should own the land to sustain their own survival. There is really no difference in this theory that breaks the old rules.

But what should be done after the land is divided into the world, the differences between the two sides become very serious. Let's take the simple iron smelting workshop as an example.

Is iron smelting profitable?Yes, and it's huge profits.

Is this huge profit justified?
The Mohist believes that it is reasonable, so that we can raise troops, have a lot of funds to build water conservancy, upgrade industries, provide education, realize paradise, win big benefits in the future with small temporary harms, and weigh the pros and cons. This is in line with utilitarian and long-term interests.

Farmers think that it is unreasonable. They are all human beings who have paid for their labor. Why should there be a difference between industrial and agricultural scissors?Why can't the price be equal?Why should farmers be inferior to others?Why can't it be measured by the amount of labor, how much grain is exchanged for a catty of iron is fixed, farmers do not suffer losses, and industrial and commercial people do not lose money?
Of course, the most critical thing is the activities of enclosing and merging land in some areas close to Sishang in the Song Dynasty, which caused great contradictions between the Mohist family and the peasant family.

Without enclosing land, mergers, and lack of cheap labor, the industry and commerce in Sishang cannot develop; the population of Sishang cannot increase rapidly.

Moreover, there are actually some policies in Sishang, which are really... assholes. For example, in Sishang, the control of land mergers is extremely strict, and the system of cooperatives is adopted to ensure the output of soldiers and food raw materials. The land annexation and agricultural commercialization in Sishang were led by the original aristocrats and today's farmers, regardless of or even supported.

Xu Xi also asked some Mohists, and some Mohist's answers really made Xu Xi a little uncomfortable: Everyone has land, everyone is a small farmer, what about the industry and commerce on Sishang?Where does the workshop in Sishang get the labor force?
This is the status quo at this time. From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, the land that was originally unsuitable for farming has become suitable for farming; The proportion of agriculture, industry and commerce can be greatly adjusted compared to before; a large amount of land can be reclaimed. If you want to be an emperor, you can safely guarantee the interests of good families and self-cultivating farmers. However, the Mohists have earth-shaking ideals and do not want to in this way.

In the final analysis, after the Mohist morality has been properly revised, in fact, there will be no small farmers in the Mohist paradise in the future.

In the future, they will either go bankrupt and lose their land to work in workshops, or go bankrupt and become servants on the land where the merged commodities have fallen, or the cooperative will become a member of the cooperative. There is no fourth way to go.

Xu Xi is a kind person. The reason why he founded the farmhouse was that he saw the suffering brought by the old system of feudalism to farmers.

Xu Xi is a kind person. The conflict between him and the Mohists stemmed from the suffering he saw for the farmers when he saw the sprouts of the so-called paradise of the new era.

He is a good man, so he is doomed to be miserable and helpless.

The debate four years ago, coaxed him.

When we parted today, I asked him: If the farmer’s family is engaged in real equality, why should the farmer’s family have the money to engage in civilized education?The whole world is chaotic and quarreling. If the peasant family does not have the protection of the Mohist school, can it really guarantee that its system will not be overthrown by the princes with violence?Farmers engage in the exchange of labor such as price and price, so where do necessities such as cotton cloth and ironware come from?Does the peasant family admit that the social division of labor has increased the sum of wealth in the world?
Relying on passion and ideals, how many people like this in the world can take root in the village to teach and work with the people without thinking about money, profit, or their own lives?
(End of this chapter)