warring states careerist

Chapter 949

Zhou Tianzi was forced to cry bitterly by the interest of usury, all the scholars who served the emperor wept, and they couldn't bear it.

This expedition is in the name of the emperor's call.

Teachers of the emperor should not be like a group of beggars. At least the emperor's style and etiquette must be displayed, so that he can take this opportunity to reshape the authority of the emperor and at least make the princes respect him a little more.

Zhou Tianzi was really poor.

He just wanted to take this opportunity to seize some land and get some trophies in exchange for some money.The usury loan that was borrowed before has not been paid off, and the merchant has settled the debt.It has been heard for a long time that Sishang is rich, and the Mohist army has several bronze cannons in one brigade. If you get several bronze cannons, copper cannons are very expensive now, and you can always repay those usury loans.

Now that there is no money to borrow and no military expenses, how can we go to war?Conscripting soldiers from villages and towns, with insufficient armor, poor weapons, and damage to the majesty of the emperor, and unable to win the spoils of war, it would be a joke to go out.

In history, his great-grandson could hide in the debt shelter because his great-grandson could still borrow money so he was qualified to hide from debt.But now that he is the emperor, he can't even borrow usury loans, so naturally he doesn't even have the qualifications to avoid debts.

It is even more impossible to ask the scholar class for compulsory collection, because this time the emperor of Zhou is under the banner of righteousness, and if it is compulsory collection from the scholar class, it will be inhumane and tyrannical.

After thinking about it, it seems that the only way is to increase heavy taxes, force the purchase of bonds, and force borrowing from the common people and businessmen.

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At the same time, accompanied by Xu Xing and Chen et al., who were from the peasant family, they inspected some village communities in the northwestern part of the original Song Dynasty that were built according to the improved peasant family concept.

At this time, the summer grain has just been harvested. With the support of water conservancy facilities and the good natural environment where the Yellow River has not been diverted, this year is another bumper harvest year.

After Song Gong abdicated, many townships controlled by the peasant family naturally joined the republic where the emperor was to be elected.

After years of disputes between the Nongjia and the Mohists, they finally reached a settlement on some issues.

The Mohists allowed farmers to implement their policies on the land they controlled, but only after paying taxes and providing soldiers, and the army was controlled by the Mohists.

After these years of debates, farmers have also begun to self-revise their own theories in line with the times.

According to the basic concepts of the peasant family that "the sages and the people work together", "the market does not pay the same price", and "the income from the labor belongs to the laborer", Xu Xing and others did a good job in these townships in the Song Dynasty.

Fewer people and more land, a large amount of land that was wasteland in the Bronze Age but reclaimed from fields in the Iron Age, the use of cattle and horses, and the topography of the Eastern Henan Plain all make this set of farming theories rejuvenate here.

Taxes are low, and after the integration of Sishang, there is no need to rely on agricultural products for primitive accumulation. Under this special environment, the peasant family has embarked on a path that leads to the same goal as Sishang.

In a very ordinary village, Xu Xing introduced: "This village has a total of [-] households, and the land is owned by everyone. According to the amount of labor, the annual income is deducted from the education, development, water conservancy, and business expenses of the village. In addition to what is needed, it is distributed to the people according to the amount of labor."

"The village community has its own workshops and some handicrafts. They work collectively on the farmland when the farming is busy, and develop handicrafts and workshops when the farming is slack."

"The sages in the village are not part-timers, and they are distributed according to the amount of labor at the end of the year when the village distributes wealth."

Shi looked at Xu Xing for a while, and said with a smile: "You have corrected your father's thinking. According to what your father said, the village communes should not exchange with outsiders, and the village communes should focus on farming, and the rest of the basic The cloth farm tools and the like are all made by ourselves during the slack season. This is considered an orthodox farmhouse.”

"If you had done this earlier, why would there be such a big difference between us?"

Xu Xing smiled awkwardly, and was not easy to answer.

Looking back at the debates between the Mohists and the peasants over the years, the root problem is that the theory of the peasants mentioned by the Mohists was utopian and fantasy at the beginning.

As for now, it is quite different from the original farm theory.

When the peasant family began to revise their own theories, the Mohists had already begun to reconcile with the peasant family, providing a large number of iron implements for cattle and horses and some agricultural equipment suitable for extensive farming.

If you don't look at the distribution method, the production methods of these places controlled by farmers are very similar to those of the large farmland estates in the east of Song Dynasty.

They are all large-scale planting, using cattle and horse equipment to replace manpower, concentrating capital and manpower to build water conservancy, and improving land.

The greater part of its income also goes to the landowners.

The only difference is that in these places occupied by farmers, the land belongs to the owner of the village community; while in some manor farmland in the east, the land belongs to one person, and the rest are hired workers.

This difference has led to the fact that the eastern part of the Song Dynasty can sell a lot of grain to Sishang every year; and in these places controlled by farmers, the same land and the same harvest, the amount of grain sold to Sishang is obviously less... because the people in the village community When you are full, you want to eat well.

Now that the Mohism has come out of the predicament, the food is sufficient, and the industrial and commercial development system has gradually stabilized. They are not interested in collecting more food from the farmers. Instead, they hope that the original fantasy of the farmers can continue.

Seeing that Xu Xingshi was just joking, he also said: "In the past, Mozi once said that the total wealth has increased? Is the people rich? This seems to be one thing, but it is actually two things. The total wealth of the world has increased. , and whether the people are generally rich or not may not be the same.”

"From my point of view on the politics of Sishang, the world is not one today. With Yu and Xu prefectures absorbing the labor wealth of the other seven prefectures, Sishang will naturally be generally prosperous. But if the world is unified in the future, it will be hard to say."

"I heard about the government of the Chu land. After a few years, the land can be sold. Over time, the rich will inevitably become richer and the poor will become poorer. As a giant, don't you want to solve this problem?"

Shi shook his head and said: "If you want to practice the theory of the three appearances, you can't do it in one lifetime. The universe is infinite, and the years are infinite. What will happen in the future will be discussed in the future."

He doesn't want to talk about it.

He inspected the No. [-] Machinery Factory in Pengcheng last month. Judging from the current situation, a boring machine that can scrape cast iron to the thickness of copper coins may appear in a maximum of one or two years. With the previous research and accumulation, as long as it is solved If the boring machine problem is solved, a practical steam engine will soon appear.

The emergence of new devices will inevitably lead to an increase in the speed of wealth accumulation and the increase in the speed of widening the gap between the rich and the poor. No one can say for sure what the world will look like by then.

But there is one thing, the general backwardness of the surrounding area makes Zhuxia have an almost unlimited pressure relief valve, and the insufficient population can also make it take longer for the accumulation of internal conflicts to erupt. There is still a lot of time.

He thought for a while, then asked Xu Xingdao with a smile, "Tell me, what will the world be like in the future?"

Xu Xing shook his head, sighed and said, "The people choose their own path, and then they will get everything on the path. Good and bad, it is impossible to only choose good or bad."

"For example, land distribution. People think that they own their own small pieces of land, cultivate and harvest, and then buy other people's land to live a more prosperous life."

"Everyone thinks so, but in fact the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. There are always fewer rich people and more poor people."

"They chose private ownership and dreams, and naturally they have to bear the consequences of private ownership. The road is their own choice."

"Either, annex the land and become a wealthy person. Or, lose the land, go to the city to work in the workshop, and go to farm for servants. The general trend of the world is mighty and unstoppable."

Xu Xing's face darkened when he heard these words, but he smiled and said: "It's nothing. In the future, when most people in the world will become hired workers in workshops and farms, they will have nothing but labor, not even a small piece of land. At that time, they will recognize your morals such as 'no price for every price' and 'full labor for full remuneration'. This is a good thing for you, isn't it?"

Xu Xing said sternly: "Shizi was joking. You said that the learning of a hundred schools has both bones and skin. Like Confucianism and Yang's learning, if you talk about its bones, it is also for the stability of the world and the prosperity of the people. A true gentleman, follow his bones; And those who only know how to criticize their skin will one day become those who still oppose benefiting the world for the sake of Zhou etiquette."

"The bone of the peasant family lies in true equality. The bone of the Mohist school lies in the wealth and false equality of the world. The peasant family does not look forward to the day when most people in the world have no food to eat and no clothes to wear .But I hope that this day will never appear. This is the way to go. Otherwise, what do we have with those who only know how to hide, dare not change, dare not change, and still use the teachings of thousands of years ago after a thousand years the difference?"

Shi laughed and said, "Yes, that's why the peasants and the Mexicans can reconcile now. If you have always insisted on a small country with few people and emphasizing agriculture and not exchanging ideas of self-sufficiency with the outside world, how can you reconcile today?"

"It's just that there are silverfish aristocrats who get something for nothing. Opposing them is the top priority. As for the future, even if the world is unified, we must deal with their counterattack. It may be ten years, twenty years, or even three or fifty years. By then, you and I will be dead. Return to the dust, what happens after that, posterity will think about it.”

"Just like Yao and Shun, in the era of slash-and-burn farming and using stones, how could they think of today's affairs and implement today's politics?"

Xu Xing did not object to this, nodded and said: "The peasant family will fully support the earth-shaking war of the Republic. It will also abide by the laws of the Republic, and conscription has been done."

"However, the morality of the peasant family is different from that of the Mohist school. After the world is unified in the future, our common enemy will be gone, and the differences will be resolved. Therefore, we hope that we can get more practice of the peasant family's morality." righteous land and population.”

Xu Xing mentioned the issues that the farmers were most concerned about.

Now many schools of thought have formed allies with the Mohist School, and against the aristocrats, they are all firm allies with the same interests.

But the brothers are still clear about the accounts, and the farmer contributes, what will they get in the future?
Some things are better explained in advance.

(End of this chapter)