warring states careerist

Chapter 973
The official income of Qi State military officers is very low, as long as they rely on their own fiefdoms to operate.

Qihou can't afford so much money to pay the army, and Qi's environment does not allow it to be done like Sishang, neither can he receive enough money, nor can he buy whatever he wants, and the officers are even more Hope to have their own fief as long-term income, so these officers of the Xuanyuan family mainly rely on the income from their own fief.

Fourteen hundred acres of cotton is not a lot, but compared to an officer commanding about 300 people, it is not a lot.

This time when the Mohists sent troops to Jiaodong, they had already carried out land reform in Jiaodong, and the methods were extremely cruel: all the privileges of any noble fiefs were cancelled, the people were encouraged to harvest land that "does not belong to them", and a large number of family members of low-ranking nobles were arrested. , publicly humiliating and judging, is already a sworn enemy.

The parents and wife of this aristocrat who is worried about his land income are both in Linzi. He was born as a black-clothed imperial guard and became an officer only last year. His wife and parents had been in Linzi before, and his distant relatives took care of the land.

But there are also people whose parents, wives and children are all in Jiaodong. An officer sighed, took a sip of wine and said, "People's hearts are not old, and the world is going downhill. Mohism's way of doing this will sooner or later corrupt the morality of all Xia in Kyushu. Everyone seeks profit. , Human nature is annihilated."

"Even if such a person wins the world, it won't last long, right?"

"In the old days when Mi Zijian ruled Shanfu, our army crossed the border, and the wheat in the public fields had already matured."

"Someone suggested that it is better to encourage the people to harvest the wheat, and whoever reaps it will own it. This will prevent our army from using the wheat in the public fields as military rations."

"However, Mi Zijian believes that letting the people harvest the grain that does not belong to them belongs to them, which is to encourage the people to steal and be immoral. Even if they win for a while, they lose for a long time."

"So he strictly forbade the people to harvest the wheat. After our army passed by, they harvested the wheat for food. Although the Lu people were defeated, the name of Mi Zijian was spread all over the world. Even Linzi at that time had many people who were called real gentlemen. Lu The country is defeated, but the rules of the world's public and private fields are preserved, and the people abide by the rules, this is the real gentleman for the world."

Speaking of this, he took a sip and cursed: "Look at the Mohists again, what have they done? Is it possible that the whole world is the king's land, the emperor divides the feudal lords, and the feudal lords divide us. Those lands are obviously not owned by the people, but the Mohist instigated The people go and take land that doesn't belong to them."

"This is to encourage people in the world to become thieves. If such people win the world, the world will probably end, right?"

At this moment, the noble officers missed a gentleman like Mi Zijian very much, and missed those real gentlemen who would maintain the system and rules.

Another officer was somewhat drunk and cursed loudly: "The reasoning of the Mo family is just unreasonable. When my ancestors fought with the emperor, where were those common people? Children and grandchildren, what is wrong? Those common people did not have the merit of fighting back then, but now they want land? Why?"

The aristocratic officer who became more and more angry stood up, threw the wine bottle on the ground suddenly, and said angrily: "In the past, the Taigong hoped to establish the country in Qi, and the chariots were no more than one hundred and five, and the chariots were no more than seven hundred. There were mixed barbarians and barbarians around, Lai Yi, Huai Yi, etc. Threats abound."

"Our ancestors fought bravely and expanded the area from a mere hundred miles to a hundred and twenty cities with a radius of thousands of miles. Why did our meritorious deeds become moths in the mouth of the Mohists?"

"What were those common people doing back then? How many were the original Laiyi? How many were just pawns following the chariot? Do we have to rely on them to fight?"

"My ancestors made military exploits, and as descendants, they should have enjoyed all of this. This is the only thing in heaven and earth! What's wrong with us?"

"The untouchables want land?"

The officer laughed loudly, stretched out a finger and made an insulting gesture: "When I go back, I will definitely kill those who followed the Mohist to harvest the land and turn it into private property, so as to frighten them. Fear of force, I think these people on Sishang deserve to die."

"Have you seen the way people in these villages look at us today? Ha...hatred, resentment, viciousness, but there is no awe."

His words resonated with everyone.

In their view, they are not at fault, whose wealth is not passed on to their children and grandchildren?
It's the same even if it's me, fighting bravely, what is it for?
Don't you want your descendants to own land, fief, population, status, and wealth?

Some people were originally Jiang Qi's nobles, and some were also from Chen Tian's lineage, but they were all the same.

They think that when their ancestors followed King Wu to conquer Zhou, what were the ancestors of the common people doing now?

Now want land?Why should I give it?Why should land belong to everyone in the world because it belongs to nature?
Some aristocratic officers who were still sober tried to explain their rationality with reason, and said: "Isn't Sishang still the same? Land does belong to people, but land can be bought and sold. Money can indeed be passed on to descendants. What is the difference between passing the fief to the descendants?"

"There are also those workshops in Sishang. According to the Mohists, wealth comes from labor. Are the looms and jacquard machines in those workshops made by the workshop owners themselves? No, but they belong to them. According to According to the Mohists, it should be attributed to the craftsmen who made the machines."

"I don't think the Mohism is any different from ours, but they talk about how they are benefiting the world, but we are harming the world?"

"Bullshit! I think it's just that those big businessmen want to buy our land, but they can't buy or sell it because the land is closed; those workshop owners want the farmers who close the land to work for them, but they can't move because the people can't change their jobs!"

There was even a military officer with a kind of indifference as if he had seen through everything, and sneered: "The untouchables are ignorant, and the people only know the immediate benefits, but they don't know that after the land is private, can they be against those wealthy businessmen? One day, they will pay for their short-sightedness and ignorance!"

"At that time, tens of thousands of people will lose their land and enter the city to work in workshops, or to work on those powerful lands."

"Under the fiefdom registration system, at least farmers still have their own land that cannot be sold. At least we still need their labor instead of starving them to death."

"But they chose the Mo family. In the end, they will have nothing! At that time, they will even lose the few acres of land they used to grow potatoes."

"It's a pity that they still wave the flag and shout for the Mohists. How is this different from shooting a wild goose after the completion of the project, and the wild goose takes off its wings and sends them off?"

Several noble officers shook their heads, feeling that the people were really stupid and it was difficult to reason with them.

All the systems on Sishang brought not only panic to the nobles, but also a kind of disillusionment of the nobles' ideals.

An orthodox military officer who was a sergeant's family in Jiang Qi's time said with a sad tone, "The prince has a doctor, the doctor has a scholar, and the scholar has a servant. This is an indivisible whole."

"The Mohists talk about contracts, but in fact only those who are untrustworthy use contracts. Do real gentlemen use contracts?"

"Gentleman said: Faith can't be controlled, and quality is useless. If you act with forgiveness, you need to be polite. Although there is no quality, who can tell the difference? If you have clear faith, the hair of streams and marshes, the vegetables of apples and algae, Baskets, pots, pots, and pots of water, "Wind" include "Caiyu" and "Caiping", and "Ya" include "Xingwei" and "Zhuzhuo", which also show loyalty and faith."

"Only courtesy can educate the people. Even if there is no contract, it cannot be abandoned."

"The Mohists don't talk about etiquette. Instead, they think that etiquette is difficult to achieve, so they simply don't do it, and release the evil of human nature, saying that human nature is neither good nor evil. In fact, they have always believed that human nature is inherently evil. If not, how can Do you think that the strife in the world is not due to lack of education, but due to wrong rules?"

He shook his head and said again: "That's why, originally, the monarch, the minister, the doctor, the scholar, and the common people are a whole that has no contract but is better than a contract."

"It's a kind of family, and the family has parents, brothers, children, and grandchildren. It's just that in this big family, some people are the parents, and some are the children and grandchildren."

"As the princes and nobles entrusted by the emperor, they uphold the will of God and care for the poorest common people with love, so that the poorest common people know that it is not that the king does not want to control them, but that he does not know their suffering."

"They believe that if they are wronged and humiliated, they will still believe that the king and the doctor will uphold justice for them in distress, and there will be a truly upright gentleman who will care for them with compassion and benevolence."

"What did the Mo family do?"

"They have enacted written laws, instigating the people to find loopholes in the law, so as to gain wealth. Those who are truly disciplined become victims before the law, while those who do not obey the rules, behave cunningly, and can find loopholes, Then he suddenly became a rich man."

"They disappear the benevolence between people, leaving only the straightforward interest relationship. Those servants cultivate the land just for money; and when the servants are sick and suffer, when they suffer, those have many People in the land will not manage them like parents, but let them die of illness, because there is no so-called contract between them."

"They advocate equality for everyone, which makes everyone have ambitions. You can be in the top position when you are fit, why can't I? In this way, the people below always want to make trouble at the top, and the people at the top have to beware of the people below. This is There will be no trust between people in the world, only guarding and deceit."

"Businessmen are ruthless, those cold merchants and workshop owners use stinky money to get everything they want, take advantage of loopholes in the law, hoard goods that may make a fortune, and keep their children from learning the Six Arts Rituals Le went to learn arithmetic, geometry, and sailing in order to get rich, and all of them were full of the stench and vulgarity of getting rich."

"They use less burial festivals, so that the ancestors can't get enough sacrifices, so that people can't get enough utensils to use after death, and they are extremely concise when offering sacrifices to God, which makes God angry with everyone in the world, which leads to chaos in the world. Blood flowed like rivers."

"Some of you have never been to Sishang, but I have been. What I have seen is that the hired workers in the damp and noisy workshops work hard every day. They are worried that they will be abandoned if they get sick, and they have nothing. Once they are fired from those workshops What can we do? Sishang ridiculed us, saying that the farmers on our fief only have three or five mu of land, but I want to ask, what do those hired workers have?"

When the noble officer said this, his eye circles were already a little red, and he said sadly: "I almost became a Mohist, but I found that Sishang is not a paradise, but it is even more sinful."

"I'm not fighting for myself, I'm fighting for the world, for the rules, and for the real benefit of the world."

"Perhaps, our rules still have many deficiencies, and there are indeed some people who are not enough to be called gentlemen, but all of these can be taught. Compared with the crime on my body, I would rather keep everything unchanged."

"I hope that we can return to the era when neighbors do not buy land, princes and officials have their own positions, the world is like a family, and gentlemen care for each other. There are no laws and regulations, and everything depends on true gentlemen to judge right and wrong, not to those cunning people. Opportunities to take advantage of loopholes; without money, the people will not change their jobs, keep their jobs, farmers will be farmers, farmers, merchants, businessmen and scholars, people will have no ambitions, etiquette will prevail, households will not be closed at night, and everyone will be in good health."

"If that's the case, why would I regret to die?"

When he talked about the strong love, he flicked his sword and sang loudly.

If you judge the other's behavior, and if you write the other's note, you can get rid of it.Qidi gentleman, the parents of the people.

If you judge the other person's behavior, you can use the other person's note here to wash the shackles.Don't be a gentleman, the people will return.

If you judge the other person, you can write it down, and if you give it to the other person, you can irrigate it.Is it true that a gentleman is a gentleman, and that the people are worthy of you.

(End of this chapter)