warring states careerist

Chapter 913 Three Ways

When the military officers of Zhucheng rioted and seized the city for an uprising, an extremely important meeting was being held in Eyi City, and all the participants were Mohists who went to Chu to serve this time.

For the world, rebuilding is the goal, and smashing the old is just the means.

This is also the reason why the Sishang Mo family's military power has been able to completely crush Chu, but it has been delayed for so long before doing so, in order to quickly rebuild a new order after being smashed.

The purpose of this meeting was to convey the resolution of an important meeting a month ago in Sishang, and also to discuss the actual situation in Edi.

Edi is the center of the world, and it is also the gate of Jianghan. This will be the first stop of the Mohists' reform in Chu State, and it will also be an opening shot. Whether it can be done well is extremely important.

In addition, Sishang intends to use Eyi as the seat of the new county of Chudi.

On the one hand, Hubei has coal, Dayeshan iron mine, Dayeshan copper mine, gold mine, and the Yangtze River waterway. It is the most suitable place for the development of basic industries in Chudi. Carve out the coal and iron industry in Sishang, so that Chudi quickly entered the Iron Age as a whole.

On the other hand, it is also to prevent the situation of separatism in Jianghan in the future. Edi is not yet developed at this time, and a large number of immigrants are needed; and its location is almost surrounded by enemies, so it is the most difficult to separatist as a county.

As for the meeting about Chudi held in Sishang a month ago, it was an important meeting about how to go about the future.

Seven years ago, with the help of the Fengchi Society, which died without a problem, they began to clean up the non-aggressive national faction in Sishang, and gradually reached a consensus, but new contradictions have also arisen.

Seven years ago, some members of the Mohist family began to turn to the peasant family, and the differences between the Mohist family and the peasant family on the future construction of the world became more and more serious.

The Mohists criticize the peasants as utopian, and the peasants criticize the Mohists as overthrowing the nobles and raising the mill owners, and they also accuse the Mohists of being the number one workshop owner and businessman in the world, and the two sides quarrel.

The situation in Sishang is very special. For the needs of the war, the rural villages in Sishang adopted a village communal system similar to cooperatives. The people in the rural areas of Sishang are both hired workers and landowners. Under this system, the number of soldiers and population is guaranteed. The stability of the village ensures the grain output, and enables the village community to organize capital and labor to develop some light industries.

Industries such as papermaking, charcoal, lime, brewing, textiles, etc., coupled with the adjustment of monetary policy and the replacement of tax in kind by currency tax, as well as the blood-sucking policy on the surrounding areas, make the development of Sishang much higher than other places, quite a bit The scene of Xanadu.

But the situation around Sishang is different.

After the change of the Song State, the Song State, which is the closest to Sishang, the most influenced by Sishang, the most affected by the development of Sishang's industry and commerce, and the country that wiped out some remnants of nobles, has undergone great changes.

All schools of thought were experimenting with an ideal society in the Song Dynasty, except for the retro-style Confucianism.

Three different models of development also appeared in the entire Song Dynasty.

The first model is the place closest to Sishang, where the scholars and aristocrats completed the transformation first.

They chose to support the Mohists during the changes in the Song Dynasty, and their development is closely related to Sishang.

They themselves have fiefs and wealth. With the development of Sishang's industry and commerce, they began to operate their own fiefs, expand their private fields, and adopted many methods to squeeze the farmers on the fiefs.

They have assets, can buy cattle and horses, iron farm tools, expand the planting area, and sell grain, cotton, etc. to Sishang continuously.

And the source of their wealth is mainly the farmers on the fief.

On the one hand, the farmers chose to flee to Sishang to supplement the cheap labor force urgently needed for the development of Sishang’s industry and commerce; on the other hand, after benefiting from the feudal system with the remnants of the old system, these nobles also completed their transformation and became large-scale land operators. Those who continuously provide raw materials and food for Sishang.

After the Song Dynasty coup, the interests of these people remained unchanged, and a group of people at the bottom who were unwilling to endure fled to Sishang, while the rest gradually began to adapt to this kind of hired labor life.

The second model is a place a little farther from Sishang. After the land is distributed according to the population, trading is allowed, which completely shatters the original land.

In a few years, a sharp divide between the rich and the poor began to appear. Under various factors, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Doing nothing and letting nature take its course,

The rich began to raise horses and cattle, piled up manure, and were able to grow various crops to support the development of industry and commerce in Sishang; the poor managed poorly, and it was difficult to maintain even a little accident, and eventually sold their land.

Some wealthy people own hundreds of acres of land and start hiring agricultural workers.

The poor either became hired labor or fled for their lives.In just seven or eight years, although it is not too serious, the traces are already very obvious.

Both of these models are tacitly approved by Si Shang, and even supported.

On the one hand, there is no need to worry about unstable factors. Sishang's governance and financial capabilities, even if industry and commerce do not develop, are enough to digest these populations and reclaim new land.

On the other hand, the rapid development of industry and commerce in Sishang requires raw materials, food, and labor.

Especially with the seven years of military expansion and preparations for war, industry and commerce have developed more rapidly.Cotton textiles, wood processing, shipbuilding, oil, patent leather and other industries that are closely related to military expansion and preparation for war are developing extremely rapidly, with huge profits, and there is a shortage of people everywhere.

However, the village community in Sishang is a stable soldier, and the policy does not allow this situation in the Song Dynasty. The population of Sishang has not been counted as migrating and fleeing for 30 years, and the natural growth is far higher than before, but it is still difficult to make up for such a large employment gap.

Coupled with the fact that the policy is inclined to protect the stability of Sishang Village, it is even more impossible to obtain a large number of cheap people from the local area.

After the fellowship meeting seven years ago, the morality of the staged development of "Promised Land" was also determined, making these two models an attempt under special circumstances.

This attempt is beneficial to Sigami, but it is not beneficial to the poor farmers who lost their land and fled.

The remnants of the village communal tradition and the well field system thought in the Spring and Autumn Period seem to be a reactionary return to some landless people.

For example, ideas such as the inability to buy and sell village land, re-granting land after death, and village self-government have also begun to spread.

So a third model emerged, which was somewhat similar to the village communal system in Sishang but completely different.

This model can be regarded as an attempt of the peasant family's fantasy, and it is completely contrary to the Mohist way of promoting the development of industry and commerce and the budding of enlightenment.

On the one hand, farmers do not pay much attention to the handicraft industry, and believe that there should be no price difference between the market and the merchant, and that the sages and the people should work together. Their starting point is not to concentrate capital to develop industry and commerce, but a reactionary backtracking under the utopia.

On the other hand, the industries and commerce in the areas controlled by the peasant family are underdeveloped, and they are always in a position of being dumped by others, but they do not concentrate their efforts, and of course they have no strength to develop industry and commerce.

If it is in a remote area or far away from Sishang, an area where industry and commerce are extremely developed, this kind of utopia of a small country with few people, a village, a self-government municipality, Jiabu, and wise men can also be realized.But it happened to be too close to Sishang, and under the huge impact, too many problems appeared.

This in itself is a kind of Togu's average fantasy, and the farmer's set belongs to the fear of social change.On the one hand, it has to endure the exploitation of the aristocratic feudal system, on the other hand, it has to bear the profits of industrial and commercial people, and it is too close to Sishang, so it will be a ghost if there is no problem.

The village community model in Sishang has invested too much, requires too many literate people, and needs a surrounding environment for industrial and commercial development. It can be said that maintaining some Sishang is already the limit of the Mohism, and it is impossible to expand to the whole world.

So when the state of Chu is about to be conquered and things are in good shape, a choice has to be made. What will the world look like in the future?

Neither can completely follow the model of Sishang, because the situation in different places is different, and it is impossible to treat it in the same way; the second is that the development model of Sishang is actually economic colonial expansion, absorbing the blood of the surrounding and the world's Kyushu to nourish one state, if the world is regarded as a As a whole, then this model will not work.

The principle established at the beginning of the war against Chu was to take the second road and abandon the first and third roads.

That is to say, abandoning the road of "nobles making use of feudal labor privileges and transforming through the development of industry and commerce and squeezing farmers" will inevitably retain a large number of feudal remnants.

Also dropped the "vintage" Ida system village community variant.

That is to say, adopt the development policy of dividing land, dividing the rich and the poor, and natural mergers.

On the one hand, there are fewer people and more land. If something happens, there is plenty of land in the surrounding area that can be immigrated to. As long as the governing ability is strong enough, no matter how many times the population is.

The second is that it is conducive to the development of industry and commerce. As long as the handicraft revolution can be completed before the endurance and endurance explode, and the steam engine can be turned on within a hundred years, there will be no problem.

Therefore, on the one hand, Sishang has increased investment in the machinery factory, including a series of investment in cast iron technology, boring machine tools, etc. A large number of literate students are sent there to study, and at any cost, it can be used to burn coal with white steam. Not something that can only be used in coal mines.

On the other hand, in order to be able to deal with the unification war that may last for more than ten years or even decades later, this kind of merger cannot be allowed to appear too early.

At the same time, it is necessary to let the people of Chu State feel the real benefits and ensure the improvement of living standards, which requires a huge amount of investment.

Fortunately, the Mohists have prepared for this battle for 30 years, not only in terms of talent reserves, new cultural and moral systems, new ethics, population, soldiers, but also a lot of wealth.

This time leading the reform in Chu State, it is mainly to grant land and distribute land. On the one hand, it will completely wipe out the remnants of the nobles in the country, and on the other hand, it must also pay attention to the village traditions in the backward areas of Chu State.

The core area of ​​aristocratic rule, simple.

On the contrary, it is quite difficult in backward areas where there are remnants of village communities.

The disintegration of village traditions is a long process. Lu Song and other countries have almost disintegrated long ago, but some remote areas of Chu State still remain.

On the one hand, the village community is a small society, and it is the world in the eyes of the people of the village community. A series of problems, such as rural aspirations, self-government backwardness, birth, old age, sickness and death, are all resolved in the village community.

On the other hand, the development is not enough, so that private ownership has not completely disintegrated the village communal system, and under such circumstances, it is easy to give birth to the patriarchal reactionary utopian system, which must be eliminated.

The most brutal solution is to combine villages, distribute land, strictly manage, quickly disintegrate the original village community, and recognize the private land system in the Central Plains.This has quick results, but it requires a lot of expenditure, a large rebound, and may even form a rebellion.

The slower solution is to be gentler, granting wasteland, fostering agricultural tools and technology, making moderate changes, using a longer period of time, relying on the improvement of productivity and the industrial and commercial development of surrounding cities, and gradually disintegrating.

The disadvantage is that it is difficult to effectively control the village community, and the full war potential of Chudi cannot be unleashed, and the management may be chaotic, and the most important thing is that there are not so many cadres.

After a long discussion and calculation and weighing in Sishang, I finally decided to choose the second method. After all, the developed areas of the Jianghan Plain in Chu State, combined with Sishang and the Yue Kingdom, are enough to provide a crushing advantage to the northern princes. , does not need to fully develop Chudi's full potential.

The rest of the evolution can be done slowly, don't rush for a while, and the assimilation and fusion in the south can take a long time to come slowly.

You only need to gain a firm foothold in the plains and develop production, and the rest will be discussed later. For more remote areas that rule the country as a big place, give up first and don't care.Stay on the plains and river valleys, and leave the rest to future generations.

Edi is the center of the world, so the reform here must be in-depth, and it must be an important node for controlling Jianghan in the future. The reform of the entire Chu country must start from Edi.

However, the situation in Edi is somewhat special, which makes the person in charge of the reform of Chu face a doubt: since it is determined to take the second road, the lord of Edi has completed the first road in a small area What should I do?
Eyi is close to the Dayeshan Copper Mine, and is at the key point of trade between Jianghan and Sishang in Chu State. The situation here is somewhat different.

Although there is a system of fiefdom and fief labor, there are also some large-scale manors with slaves and slave labor formed by Mr. E to buy firearms for wealth, or to open copper mines privately for food production.

Because the prince of Edi could not be self-sufficient, he needed cotton cloth, muskets, ironware, and armor from Sishang, and also needed a certain amount of grain to dig the copper mine of Daye Mountain privately, so this rather deformed land system appeared.

There are special people to manage, using slaves or farmers who have lost their land for various reasons, or farmers who have forcibly deprived their land under the enfeoffment power are responsible for planting and harvesting.

There are tens of thousands of acres of land, all of which are good and fertile and can be irrigated. They are not divided into small plots and leased to farmers, but are operated on a large scale in exchange for various goods on Sishang.

This special case of land, can it be divided?
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