warring states careerist

Chapter 826

Dai Cong didn't care about content such as the whole army, non-offensive, and the League of Nations.

Because the fate of the Song Kingdom cannot be determined by the local nobles of the Song Kingdom, this is already a certainty.

Dai Cong is more concerned about how much money the Mohists are going to spend to help build the alliance platform. This is very critical and important to him, and it can be regarded as the first major event that can win the hearts of the people since he took over the Song Dynasty.

Many farmers who lost their land stayed in Shangqiu, including many who lost their land by annexing their land through various illegal or legal means.

These people are unstable factors in Shangqiu, and Dai Cong wants to solve them, at least in this way, he can get the support of some people.

But he had neither money nor the ability to organize reclamation.

Dai Cong has read some books by the Guanzi School. The Guanzi School’s views on the economy are based on the premise that the economic law is natural and inaction, such as encouraging wealthy households to consume and developing infrastructure in times of famine.

The Guanzi School believes that the sum of social wealth is sufficient, and the important issue is distribution. If the wealthy households can build large-scale construction projects, build houses, and even carve patterns on the firewood for cooking in times of famine, this will promote the reverse circulation of wealth.

However, the rich households in Shangqiu did not have such great power to consume so much labor, and Dai Cong knew very well the consequences of a large number of landless and jobless people gathering in the capital.

Who is rich now?Dai Cong believed that Sishang was a rich man.

To build a League platform, you need money and people.People can use money to buy food and clothing, to suspend that kind of rage, and to maintain the stability of the capital.

Although the money spent on building the alliance platform is not too much, and the number of people who can be replaced by work is not too much, but at least... this is the first "benefit thing" since Dai Cong became the Great Yin of the Advisory Council. Off to a good start.

The subsequent recruitment of the standing army, the construction of canals, and the construction of roads connecting the commercialized agriculture in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty to the Sishang water transportation network, etc., all these have been discussed with him in advance by the Mohists, and they can also quickly alleviate the conflict.

For example, the recruitment of the standing army is similar to that of the disaster victims incorporated into the army in the later Song Dynasty. As long as they are properly trained, they can also have enough combat effectiveness. If half of the Musketeers in Europe in the later generations are scum and half are transported by human traffickers from various places, combat effectiveness is not a problem. .

As for the construction of water canals and roads in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty, the Mo family is also willing to pay for this.

One Mohist’s ambition is the world, not to establish a country by attacking, and sooner or later it must be cultivated, and now it will be part of the world in the future.

The second is economic interests.

The third is that Mohism is not short of currency now; Song State is not short of food and cloth; the reason why the contradictions are intensified stems from the unfair distribution of wealth and the aggravation of the rich and poor caused by private means of production, as well as the problem of reverse circulation.

By the way, the currency on Sishang can quickly become the legal currency of the Song Dynasty, and more precious metals such as gold and copper can be collected. Relying on grain, iron, precious metals and handicraft products as the standard fund is also enough to ensure the credibility of the currency.

It is said to be a meeting platform, but when it is built, it can actually be used as a defensive fortress for future defense.

Coupled with the subsequent immigration and the policy of attracting immigrants to the Hongze Lake area, many contradictions in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty under the overall liberal economic policy of inaction can actually be alleviated by the vast buffer zone of the Northern Subei Plain. fixed.

It’s just that Sishang must first meet the labor demand of Sishang’s industry and commerce, so as to alleviate the shortage of industrial and commercial employment and the demand for industrial and commercial workshops to expand production capacity under the expansion of the market.

Although the farming war policy can quickly win the world, the consequences are also severe.

Farming, war and granting land were progressive in other places under the aristocratic feudal system, but it was reactionary in the area where industry and commerce had sprouted in Sishang.

Sishang does not have enough cadres and enough capable talents to run manor-system cooperatives without manor owners in northern Jiangsu, where the land is concentrated and the population is concentrated. This cannot be the same.

On the whole, the living standards of the self-cultivating farmers at this time are still much higher than that of the hired workers who work as migrant workers in the cities, but at least they can have a meal.

There is a way out, and for Dai Cong, this is considered a great deed. Although the public knows that this is the operation of the Mohists behind the scenes, at least he, the Great Yin of the Consulting Yuan, will not repeat the fate of the riots in the capital city.

Nowadays, the distinction between the country and the country has been broken, but the meaning of the people of the country is the people who live in the capital at the beginning. When most of the population lives in the city and its surroundings, controlling the city is equivalent to controlling the foundation of a country , and in troubled times where coups frequently occur, controlling the capital is basically equivalent to half the success of the coup.

Dai Cong still understands this truth, so he is sincerely grateful for the policies of the Mohists. At least the Mohism doesn't seem to want to be a dead dog. He, the great Yin of the Advisory Council, can continue to work for a while.

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Southwest of the Song Dynasty, the old land of the Chen State, the capital city of Ding, the prince who rebelled against the Chu State more than ten years ago, the current Chen County of the Chu State, Zhoukou Huaiyang in later generations, Yingchen when the Chu State declined, and the capital of King Chen Sheng after the uprising of Daze Township .

The king of Chu, Xiong Yi, was lucky enough to make a tour here. Apart from Che Guang's elite new army who was absolutely loyal to the king of Chu, several powerful nobles from the Qu, Jing, and Zhao clans also followed.

This tour was caused by the coup of the Song State, and the King of Chu had to deal with some matters personally. As the pillar of Chu State's Central Plains royal rule, Chencai Land was also the best place for the King of Chu to guide this major event.

Prince Liangfu went on tour in Dongting Cangwu on behalf of the king, and Prince Zang Zai Yingdu supervised the country.

The prince, who enshrined the tomb to worship the prosperity of the country, and looked at the emperor's food day and night, so he was called Zhongzi.When the king conducts himself, he observes it, and if he has the rules, he obeys it. Obedience is called Fujun, and guarding is called supervision of the country. It is also an ancient system.

In addition to Prince Zang who stayed in Yingdu, there are also several Shangzhu Kingdoms who were promoted because of their military exploits in the capital, and some of the new troops who were allocated land from Chencai land were also near Yingdu, and some nobles with powerful families accompanied them. However, the king of Chu was not at ease to keep them in the capital.

Chendi is prosperous, even though it experienced the flames of war five years ago, the king of Chu carried out land reform in Chendi because some old nobles were loyal to the prince. With drastic measures, Chendi quickly restored its original prosperity, even better.

In other words, at the turn of Chu and Xia, Chen traded in fish and salt, and his people had many merchants.Because of Chu and Xia's aspirations to the top and self-proclaimed barbarians, the exchanges between Chu and the Central Plains countries were mostly divided by Chu and Xia.

The earliest developed areas in the Central Plains, such as Zheng and Song, were all near Chendi, and because of the gap, Chendi became an important passage in the Central Plains of Chu.

Coupled with the development of Sishang, the land reform in Chencai, and the prosperity of Chendi made the King of Chu very happy.

It's just that this kind of happiness is long-term, and now the king of Chu is cursing the stupidity of some nobles in the palace.

News came from the south that there was a civil uprising in Anlu, which was called an uprising according to Sishang.

The people chose to riot because of the nobles who resisted Anlu, seized a large number of weapons, and captured the entire Anlu City, and claimed to establish "true equality", divide the land of the nobles equally, and curb those merchants who are attached to the nobles .

Obviously, this time the uprising was influenced by the Mohism and the farming theory, but if it was said that the Mohism dominated and manipulated it, it was not, maybe some local people spontaneously broke out after receiving some propaganda.

This kind of thing is not big, but it is not small. Uprisings and riots are common, but this time the reason why the king of Chu yelled at the stupidity was different from the original one.

Anlu is on the edge of Yunmengze. At this time, the huge Yunmengze has not yet been developed. Back then when the Jin State defeated Luhun, a large number of Luhun's nobles fled, and many people fled together with the nobles. These people were captured by the Chu State. Settled here, it is called Anlu.

Anlu is backed by a tributary of the Yangtze River and next to Yunmengze. The water transportation is developed, which also brings a lot of strange goods, including some muskets.

The local nobles and feudal lords in Anlu formed a group of private soldiers who used matchlock guns instead of bows and crossbows. Ordinarily, this is normal, but the bad thing is that individuals can hold matchlock guns, so that a large number of farmers in the fiefdom don’t No longer a pawn as a consumable, it has become a projectile unit.

After the riots this time, the people shouted slogans other than true equality, and they also opposed the nobles and not the king, asking the king to implement good governance and deal with those doctors and nobles who harmed the people and imposed heavy taxes so that the people were not able to live.

Originally, the projectile arms of Chu State were cultivated by the "Xiangshe" under the village communal system. Under the village communal system, in addition to continuing the tradition of redistribution of land, the people also needed to perform military service and labor service. It is possible to live on the basis of exploitation.

Under the remnants of the clan communes of the old system, the land needed to be redistributed within the village communes, and they were only gradually disintegrated. However, under the old system and the low-intensity wars of the era of chariot warfare, it was possible to ensure that the population participating in "village shooting" could Select enough projectile arms.

Xiangshe is a folk custom and a military system that selects and projects arms and conforms to the feudal system and the clan era of the village community system.

This is a circle.

If the poor can't afford food, there will be no chance to practice shooting. Therefore, most of the shooter troops are those who can live well, at least not starve to death, and are better than apprentices.These people have no interest in "rebellion" and are often the main force in suppressing rebellion.

However, with the gradual disintegration of the village commune and clan system, the dumping of a large number of handicraft leather and luxury goods in Sishang, the smuggling of weapons and ammunition, etc., the rural shooting system that originally conformed to the village commune system and the aristocratic system gradually disintegrated.

With the disintegration of the land system, the popularization of private ownership, and the aggravation of exploitation, how many people will have the spare power to "rural shooting"?
Crossbows are different from bows. Even if bows can be cultivated in batches, the cost is much higher than that of crossbows, let alone muskets.

The nobles need more troops to maintain their strength against the central government, because the king of Chu has already trained a new army of firearms.

It all takes money.

The handicraft industry is underdeveloped, so we can only start from the farmers on the fief.

Food has been worthless in the past few years, handicrafts and Mohists don't want it, nobles want more luxury goods and want to organize private soldiers, the more money they collect, the more conflicts will intensify.

The intensification of contradictions requires more private soldiers to maintain, and more private soldiers cost more money.

The rural shooting system disintegrated, and a few farmers who were proficient in shooting skills could not be selected, so they had to rely on muskets, so that the apprentices who could only be used by a full-time soldier who could defeat a hundred by one, became the private soldiers of the nobles. Musketeers.

A riot left the local nobles helpless and could only flee in a hurry.

Under the original patriarchal system, scholars were freed from work as warriors, and each of them beat ten; some well-fed commoners were selected as projectile arms with rural shooting, and killing apprentices was like shooting targets.It is really difficult for farmers to resist.

Many previous riots and coups by Chinese people were initiated by local people in the capital, because they themselves are the most important military force in a country.

Anlu is not the capital of the country, but after the appearance of gunpowder, the gap between the nobles and the common people was narrowed. There have been "programmes" - the sages and the people work together, the price is the same, and everyone has private land.

This is truly unprecedented.

It was the nobles who led the people to revolt, they could be regarded as nobles with a conscience, nobles who had been propagated by the ideas of the Mohist peasant family, because the people were illiterate and unlikely to know these principles.

(End of this chapter)