warring states careerist

Chapter 885 Shackles
At the same time when Xu Weiyu Yunmengze started to talk about the content of those meetings, Nanhai, Hetao, Nanzheng and other places were also organizing and studying the same content.

The revised Mohist system has finally achieved self-consistency, from mutual love and mutual benefit to mutual love and mutual benefit. The complete Enlightenment Theory, the jurisprudence of seizing power and the new program have been perfected.

Inside Sishang, the internal integration has been completed. Through this enlarged meeting, discipline has been strictly enforced, and at the same time, the self-suffering subjective altruists and the objective altruists who pursue life have been united together, and they have worked together to exclude and clean up the last Non-aggressive national faction.

The adopted new program and perfect ideology are equivalent to a declaration of war to the rest of the princes, but the rest of the princes did not react too much, because they felt that the Mohism had always been like this, and this time there was not much change from the previous philosophy.

The only thing that changed the name of the Sishang righteous division to the Jiexuan army was that the princes of all countries were quite dissatisfied.Fortunately, the Mohist army in Zhao did not change its name, but continued the name of the Northern Shoujun, and the army in Nanzheng did not change its name either.

It seems that there is no difference from before, but those merchants and workshop owners from various countries who have been in Sishang for a long time have smelled the smell that makes them excited-this time, the theory of Mohism not only provides them with legal principles for their profit, but also provides them with a sense of justice in the future. Reasonable profit-seeking laid the moral foundation.

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Summer is gone, autumn is coming, and winter is approaching.

Outside a village commune near Peize, a young man with a tanned face and a single eyelid blindfold on his left eye took a carriage that was on the way to the village commune.

There are a lot of goods in the car, including chilin, dried meat, sugar, cotton cloth, and some daily necessities that can be used on weekdays.

The driver looked back at the dark young man with blindfolds for a long time, and finally yelled in surprise.

"The concubine returned to the field?"

When he saw a dark young man wearing a blindfold, he smiled, and heard the young man say: "I thought my friends in the village didn't know me after I went to sea for a few years."

The driver stopped the carriage in amazement, looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Shu Guitian stretched out his finger and pointed at his own eyes. He didn't care, and said casually: "I used a sextant to look at the sun all day long at sea. I saw so much that I was almost blind. Now I don't need it if I can."

The fellow driving the car remembered now and asked, "You guys are back? Why didn't you hear about it?"

This was a very sensational event a few years ago. When the Mohists debated with other schools of thought, in order to refute some of Gaitian’s theories and to prove that there is indeed a place in the world that is as prosperous as the Central Plains, a group of fearless The dead people went out to sea in several boats, trying to find the "body poison" that Solucan heard when he was traveling west.

Shu Guitian is among them.

At that time, everyone thought it was a near-death incident, but they never thought that they would come back today, but it is impossible for there to be no news about such a sensational event.

Shu Guitian said: "Everyone was homesick after getting off the boat, so they all took the holiday and hurried home to have a look. The news hasn't come yet."

The driver asked, "Is it really possible to reach that rich land?"

Shu Guitian took out a silver coin with a bright color and obviously exotic style from his arms, and tossed it in his hand a few times.

It was a square silver coin with some weird patterns engraved on it, like a group of tadpoles with two tails swimming around something.

"That's false? The two gentlemen of Juzi have been there before. The place we went to is similar to those described in those stories. Some people there, what do they believe in, never kill, and they don't even plow the land, because the plowed land may be stepped on." Dead bug, so I’m just a businessman. Qi Linzhu sells very well there, and I also saw some brocades, which seem to have been transported from Shu, and I don’t know how to transport them.”

He sighed, shook his head and said, "It's a long journey, and there is no one left. Few of them came back alive. But if the goods are transported, it will be a hundred times more profitable. Brocade Xilin can be exchanged for various local goods..."

Thinking of those companions who died of illness at sea, and those whose ships were destroyed by wind and waves and disappeared, Shu Guitian was in a bad mood.

The driver of the car didn't know the dangers of the sea. Even if he heard about it, he didn't witness the tragedy of his partner's illness and death. Looking at the square silver coin in Shu Guitian's hand, he said in amazement: "You are going to get rich. Follow the rules. , your rewards for this voyage will not be small. If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, how much will you be rewarded?"

Shu Guitian waved his hand and said, "It's okay. One-fifth of the gold and silver and some barbarian goods brought back this time will be shared equally by us. If we form a chamber of commerce in the future, we don't need to own one-twentieth of the shares. Pay for it. If we really want to form a chamber of commerce in the future, those of us can give priority to being captains.”

The man who drove the car said, "It's amazing. It's amazing. They earn a lot more than your brothers and sisters."

Shu Guitian nodded and said: "There are a lot of them. But you can't buy land in Sishang, and you can't hire people when you buy land in Nanhai. The money must be invested in workshops, or invested in overseas trade chambers of commerce."

The driver thought of something, and said, "By the way, it's just the right time for you to come back. Your brother is on vacation, and your sister is back from Chudi. Your father must be very happy with the family gathering. After you come back, what are you doing?" Intend?"

Shu Guitian pointed to his eyes with blindfolds, and half-jokingly said: "One of my eyes has been dedicated to the great cause of benefiting the world. I want to keep the other eye and do what I like. thing."

"Favorites?"

The driver thought, you don’t know the current situation. At last year’s meeting, it was said that the cause of benefiting the world will be carried through to the end. At that time, it is inevitable to be recruited. Even if the service period is completed, as long as the order is issued, you must go , even if they went to the South China Sea.

Shu Guitian stopped talking about this topic, wanted to avoid it, so he pointed to the goods in the car and asked, "Why, you opened a grocery store?"

The driver smiled and said, "Where is mine? It's not that the people in the village community dislike the trouble of buying and selling, and feel that it is better for everyone to pool some money and buy something shared by others, which is much cheaper. The village community was established I bought a grocery store, and I'm just a driver, so where can it be mine?"

Shu Guitian rummaged through the goods beside him, looked at a bundle of cotton cloth that was nearly twice as wide as before, and said, "It's only been a few years, and now can we weave such a wide cloth?"

"Well, I just started to have them this year. I heard that the new looms from the machinery factory are much cheaper than before. But the price of cotton is good, but the village community has to pay enough grain to grow cotton in recent years. What, otherwise, growing cotton this year will make a lot of money."

When the driver talked about the village community, his face was full of smiles. Although the food price is a bit cheap, the life of the village community has been getting better and better in the past few years. The cooperative papermaking workshop and the newly opened The land, and the use of horse-drawn ear-cutters, made food production a lot easier.

The price of cotton cloth has dropped a bit compared to before, and qilinchuang has gradually become a luxury that the villages near Peiyi can afford. Apart from forcing each village to reserve a certain number of acres of grain fields, there is not much enforcement , and there is no need to collect a large amount of grain.

Shu Guitian looked at the Qilin window in the carriage, and after inquiring about the price, he wondered, "It's much cheaper than before?"

The driver laughed and said, "You don't know? There is a new big workshop in Peiyi, but many people are working there. This workshop is strangely tight. It is said that iron ore and salt can be used to make burnt kirlin. Alkali. The newspaper said that the nobles of Yue State who burn seaweed ash to make alkali by the sea are in a hurry. The price is too low, and they can only squeeze their workers. It seems that there was an uprising last month. , smashed several workshops that burned seaweed ash, and said that they would ask the king of Yue to restore the old system so that each of them could have their own fields. Some people fled to our side after the uprising, and our side is still negotiating with the country of Yue, denouncing them for harming The people, the boat master fought a battle with the Yue State, and all the rebels crossed the river and came to our side."

Although Shu Guitian didn't understand why iron ore and salt could be used to make alkali, but he was used to seeing so many strange things on his body these years.If you want to know, you can ask his brother-in-law, but he is not interested, he is just thinking... If these Qilin, porcelain, iron pots and so on can be sold to the place where he came back, but can they be exchanged? Less gold.

As for how much blood and tears, how much despair, and how much suffering of old and new acquaintances are hidden in the stories told by the driver, he actually doesn't care.

He felt that he was different from his father, and also different from his brothers and sisters. They might have a heart to benefit the people, but he didn't.

There may have been, but those unpleasant experiences that accompanied him to help measure the land during the Qimo war are gone.He felt that they were a group of ignorant and cowardly people. Of course, he also knew that his fathers were like this, but their fathers have erased those pasts and created a new spirit of Sishang, who was born out of this and grew up here. He felt pity for the difficulties of the serfs outside, but he didn't want to spend his whole life saving them and doing those small, petty and unpleasant things.

Even he has a feeling of being gradually out of touch. Sishang has been propagating that all the people in the world are one, and he feels more and more unacceptable: it is difficult for him to accept that those peasants who are ignorant and fearful of the nobles are the same people as him.He knew that the Mohists wanted to change the whole world and reshape the concept of the world, and he also knew that Sishang was like this 30 years ago, but what did he think this had to do with him?

Shu Guitian thought to himself, I have a heart of compassion, if I see those people suffer, I might throw a piece of gold.But if I was asked to take root in villages in Qi State to measure the land, teach the truth, and truly liberate them... then forget it, I would rather be blind in this eye, and never do it The kind of boring thing.

He thought, if I don't go, someone else will go.If you really force me to go, then I will run to the South China Sea, bring some people like me, and build a boat. The world is so big, with my ability and the musket in my hand, I can’t find a piece of real freedom anywhere. Freedom, take the lead in achieving the world where each has his own strengths, divides his duties, and does what he likes?

I have been at sea for a long time, and I am used to seeing those high-flying birds; I have been on Sishang for a long time, and I am used to the world where everyone is equal; I have learned a lot of skills through my father's efforts and my own efforts... So I feel that the same , equality, and universal love should be replaced by freedom, equality, and compassion.For the sake of sympathy, for the sake of universal love, if you really force yourself to teach in other villages and villages, then you can only rise up and flee to sea to find freedom.

After thinking about those people who are as capable as himself and who have received sufficient education like himself, Shu Guitian felt that the Mohist's benefit to the people and the world is already a shackle on people like himself.

(End of this chapter)