warring states careerist

Chapter 918 Three Views
The word Tianxia has been mentioned many times by Liu San in the past few months.

For him, the word is actually difficult to understand at this time.

For the people in the village, what is the world?
They know that the world is big, but they don't know how big it is, and many of them may have never left the village thirty miles away in their entire lives.

Thirty miles of sky, thirty miles of land, thirty miles of people, salt transported from far away places, plus stars, moon, and sun, this constitutes the whole world in their eyes.

After Mo Zhe started to enter the village, he changed from being a bit lazy in his bones and not liking farming to wanting to see what the world is like.

He thought, there are always people in the world who can live without farming.

He has seen, for example, the owner of the original fiefdom of the village, the sergeant of Chu State.

The sergeant didn't have to work, at least he didn't have to plow the fields, and there would be an inexhaustible amount of food piling up in the house.

He had thought that the Mohist was the same, but he didn't expect that the Mohist didn't send another sergeant to occupy the fief, but divided the fief, and told him that there are many ways to survive in the outside world without plowing the fields .

But it all takes work.

In a daze, in the past few months, Liu San has gradually accepted the saying that wealth comes from labor, and agrees with the Mohist saying that "laborers occupy the wealth created by labor".

But they are all labor, but they are all different.

In the past few days, he saw many strange things, such as railway tracks, such as coal-burning machines, such as coal, but he felt that although this kind of labor was not farming, it was not what he liked.

He doesn't know what he wants to do, because he doesn't know how many industries there are in the world, so he can't choose, or even imagine.

So he opened his eyes wide, observed all the new things he could observe, and wanted to find a job he thought he liked, and he might be able to do it in the future.

A few days later, their company was transferred again.

Several companies next door were arranged to dig ditches, one was to connect the waterway from the Yangtze River to Eyi, and the other was also to build a farmland area that could be irrigated in the future.

Looking at those people wielding shovels to dig the river, someone told him that there are people who make a living by doing this.

Instead of serving in the military, he was hired to dig river channels, and his daily income could be exchanged for about twenty catties of wheat.

Liu San shook his head secretly, thinking, this is not what he wants to do, even if it is not farming.

The village community has begun to use new weights and measures. Liu San knows the concept of catty, and is quite shocked that the money earned from working on Sishang for a day can be exchanged for twenty catties of wheat.

Those people in the original village community worked for a year, and I am afraid that there is not much food left.In his opinion, such things as digging a river can be done by a man, and he can get twenty catties of wheat every day, which really made him understand Sishang's prosperity.

But he is now in compulsory service, but there are not so many.

He secretly wrote down the figure of twenty catties of wheat per day in his heart, and he left here with his company.

A few days later, they came to a wasteland. Several people were looking into the distance with something that seemed extremely weird to Liu San. He didn't know what it was, but he knew that he would definitely not be able to do that kind of work.

The work assigned by the company is all they can do. It looks a bit like building a city. When I was in the village, I was asked by the owner of the fief to dig the soil and build the wall of the fief.

In the distance, many people wearing the same military uniform as him were pushing wheelbarrows one by one, piling the soil on the road that already had a certain shape, and many people behind them were pulling heavy stone rollers and rolling on it.

"Is this for building a city?"

He asked the company commander, and the company commander said no, he was just building roads.Then they were assigned the task of carrying stones in a distant quarry, and they had to complete the quota every day, and there would be money rewards for overfulfilling, but the money would not be distributed for the time being, because even if it was distributed, it would not be spent here, and even if You can't buy anything when you go to the city, especially if everyone wants to buy something.

Liu San trusted what the company commander said, and everyone in the company trusted it, because they were sure that a Mohist who divided up the land and didn't occupy the best fiefs would not count what they said.

He didn't ask what the stones were for.

After arriving at the quarry, everyone carried a wicker basket on their backs, and just after receiving it, they heard several explosions like thunder.

He had used an arquebus before, and knew the existence of gunpowder, but he did not expect such a loud sound.

The gravel flew, and he thought that this could really blow up the mountain.

Those who blasted the mountain wore different clothes from them, indigo blue, and wore strange hats on their heads to distinguish them.

It was only later that Liu San learned that these rock blasters were all mobilized from Sishang, because the gunpowder they used was not the black gunpowder, but another kind.

The person who told this story may know it, but Liu San doesn't know what he said. He can only vaguely think that this explosive seems to be related to some soda and soap making workshops in Sishang. No matter how much more he didn't know.

When he went back to wash his hair, he still looked curiously at the dispensed soap, thinking how could this thing be connected with the explosion?
Then watching the soap bubbles floating on the water slowly disintegrate, he seemed to understand something, but in fact he didn't understand anything at all.

He and the people in the company carried the stones for more than half a month, and finally realized that the stones were really used for road construction. Those stones were piled up on the flat and compacted roads, and then some wood was laid on them.

These timbers were all brought from the forest not far away, and there was a hydraulic sawmill next to it.

After laying these timbers, the long iron called rails that they loaded and unloaded by the river before were placed on these timbers.

Liu Sanxin said that he was finally able to see what kind of car could run on this kind of road.

Out of curiosity, he also gradually adapted to this kind of life. Although he was exhausted every day, he could rest for one and a half days every ten days.

I can eat enough to eat every day, although the food is not good.When resting every ten days, there is no place to go nearby. Many people will go to the woods to release their long-suffocated lust. It is not an embarrassing thing to have a tacit understanding with each other.

There are almost no women nearby, and some women have husbands, and there are no prostitutes in the Mohist army, so it can only be like this.

During the break, he curiously asked those responsible for blowing up the mountain, how much money could they make every day?
The other party gave a sum, which was about [-] catties of wheat a day, and they had to pay more when they came out to Chudi.

Liu San couldn't help being jealous, so he asked the other party how to do such a job?The other party said that he had to be literate, had to finish elementary school and went to a special school to learn some basics, and had to train for a month, and then the other party told Liu San clearly that he had no chance.

The other party also told Liu San that this kind of work is very dangerous and prone to accidents, so the salary is high.However, they belong to the public sector. If they are disabled, they will be paid to support them until they die. If they can live and work until they are 50 years old, they can retire.

Liu San asked, what is retirement.The other party thought for a while and said, "I don't have to work but I have money to spend."

This answer surprised him a lot, and he wondered what Sishang really looked like?Before leaving, he couldn't help asking again: "You can buy [-] catties of wheat every day. Is there so much wheat there?"

The other party replied with a smile: "There is not so much wheat, but there are cotton cloth, linlin, pottery, iron pots, wooden tables, silk... It is impossible for all these money to buy wheat."

He has seen the lin window, and the iron pots in the grocery store, but he has never seen pottery and so many things he just heard.

He thought, he should meet him, and after he retires, he can do what he wants to do, earn a lot of money, and buy a lot of things.

Then I told him a very inspirational story, saying that there was a man in Sishang who started from carrying stones, accumulated money little by little, and finally opened his own workshop.He also solemnly told Liu San that as long as he works hard, he can get rich.

This story omits a most important point.

There is indeed such a person, but the money for this person's workshop is not from carrying stones, but after carrying stones, he went to the South China Sea to traffic long-term workers.

The most important part is hidden, and after simplification, there is a perfect set of rhetoric: Labor creates wealth, as long as you work hard, you will have a chance to make a fortune, so work hard.

Those workshop owners must be more industrious, smarter and more capable than others, otherwise why would they be able to make a fortune?
This principle sounds no problem, so Liu Sanhuai has such a dream, receives the pocket money in the military that can buy half a catty of sugar every month, and starts a life of desperately carrying stones in exchange for a meager salary, rest Shi Shi followed the military night school to learn literacy and arithmetic all day long, and studied Sishang's language with a restrained tongue.

Not long after, the road connecting the coal mines and iron mines in Eyi was finally completed.

Liu San saved some money, and when the road was finished, he also got some psychological satisfaction—someone preached that this was beneficial to the world.

He also finally saw the carriage running on it, and saw the carriage pulling the previously unimaginable lumps of coal and galloping on the iron road like a four-horse chariot.

He thought, these two horses are much faster than the previous six or seven horses, so it is true.

He asked the company commander who came from Sishang, are there many such railway tracks on Sishang?

The company commander thought for a while and said, not many, only some mines far away from the river are used, at least he has never seen it in Pengcheng, because Pengcheng has a good river, so there must be more ships.

(End of this chapter)