warring states careerist

Chapter 33

Qin Huali saw that Mozi saw things and thought about people, and said that he had never heard of the regret of old age, and sighed at the age of his husband, and couldn't help but feel sad.

He didn't know that Mozi had a regret of old age half a year ago. After his disciples questioned ghosts and gods after that illness, he knew that he had to integrate Tian Zhiming ghosts with benefiting the world and love and non-gong before he died.

But time is running out, and he has to deal with these matters of the Mo family himself, which is really beyond his capabilities.

Qin Huali didn't know this, and thought that since the master meant to accept that man named Shi as his disciple, he brought up this matter again.

But Mozi shook his head and said, "It's not urgent. According to what you said, this Shi is also a person with a strong mind. Didn't you spend several years hesitating when you rebelled against Confucianism and returned to Mo? Ni Fusheng, I am afraid it will take a few years to make him change his mind."

"There are different matters. The most important thing at this time is that after the rebellion of the Gongsunhui in Qi State, a group of Mohists couldn't distinguish between righteousness and righteousness, and they were corrupted by salary and rich enjoyment. Finish these things first, and go to work in your free time." Ask his family about his usual behavior, and his family always knows him best."

Qin Huali asked: "Sir, didn't you explain what Shengchao said very clearly?"

Mozi smiled bitterly and said, "That Shengchuo asked me yesterday, and he thought he was right. He didn't know that he had heard some of Yang Zhu's knowledge under Xiang Ziniu's subordinates, and he had plausible arguments."

"He said that he got his salary in exchange for his ability. Is it possible that a Mohist should eat thick rice and wear short brown? If so, he would rather not be such a Mohist. He also said that although his ability is taught by me , but I am not qualified to control his choice, people should be their own masters, even Mohists should not let giants make decisions."

"He's not the only one who thinks this way, many people think so. How many people are willing to wear short brown clothes and eat corn after studying for nothing?"

Qin Huali didn't understand why this matter developed to such a point, but Mozi knew it in his heart.

A few years before this, even if Sheng Chuo was recalled and deprived of his power to be an official, the disciples did not have any complaints.

But after Mozi's illness last year, things finally got out of control.

Many people do it just for the righteousness of the world, and some people do it because they believe that ghosts and gods like it.

These two look the same, but are completely different.

Before Mozi's illness last year, there was no difference between these two kinds of people.

Those who really do righteousness are doing righteousness and obeying the righteousness of Mohism; those who have learned the skills but believe that doing so is because ghosts and gods like it are also doing righteousness, and because ghosts and gods like it, they abide by the righteousness of Mohism.

After being ill, many people have become convinced that ghosts and gods may not exist at all. Otherwise, if you talk about ghosts, who in the world can compare with Zimozi's sincerity?
Since Mozi has not been protected by ghosts and gods, who would believe that ghosts and gods like to do this?Since ghosts and gods cannot protect him, why should he abide by the righteousness of the Mohist school?

Mozi understood the root of the matter, so he was eager to straighten out his own principles, integrate them, and try to plug this loophole.

Qin Huali still doesn't know the collapse of faith caused by this incident, so he thinks that this incident is as important as the upcoming Mohist Conference.

"Sir, I'm thinking that this person is just the opposite of Shengchao. He has skills, but he doesn't use them in exchange for a generous salary. Obey the righteousness of the Mohists. Isn't this an opportunity? You can let this person shame those people!"

Mozi thought to himself, it seems that Qin Huali is very satisfied with this, and said: "This person is true or not, we need to check again. Don't rush it for a while, but you can let him know that he is not a Mohist but still sticks to the righteousness of the Mohism. Speak out. Wait until things here are straightened out, and then deal with the appropriate things."

Qin Huali responded: "The disciple knows."

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Shi, who was far away in Binshan picking stones, didn't know that Mozi had returned to the Song Dynasty, and he didn't know that his disguise as a Mozi would soon be exposed.

At this time, he was driving an ox cart with some men in the village, and a few stones that could be used as millstones were pulled on the cart.

Tools bought with the gold I won, and stones for millstones are easy to get.

Large stones, drawn with ink lines, and punched with wedge holes.Take a chisel to knock a hole in a circle, stuff it into the wood to swell with water, and it will naturally crack neatly.

If you have an iron tool, you don’t even need a wooden wedge to expand it. With a little bit of precision in your hand, as long as there are seventeen or eight holes, the stone can be broken all at once.

The section is neat, even without deliberate grinding.Of course, the grooves on the stone mill to drive out the wheat flour have to be carved carefully.

Shangqiu is located in Henan. Although the Yellow River has not been diverted at this time, the land is fertile and fertile.Since the soil is rich, it is difficult to find suitable stones, so we have to come so far and pull a few back.

Normally, winter is the time for performing martial arts. At this time, the village community has a high degree of autonomy, and it is necessary to perform feudal obligations, so it is necessary to perform exercises.

It's just that Song Guo didn't want to rise up, and Song Gong was forced to hang himself by his vassals, and the domestic chaos was severe.

The outside is sandwiched between Qi, Chu, and Jin. It's okay if they don't rise up. Once they rise up, they will die. There is no chance of breaking the game.

Instead of arousing the alertness of other countries by performing martial arts, it is better to act as if humans and animals are harmless, and just want to become a weight for all countries to compete for hegemony, and the North and the South are dependent.

Things like martial arts performances in winter are rarely organized, and it is only now that they have the opportunity to organize people to hit rocks.

This trip of pulling stones is also suitable for examining the population density at this time.

After more than half a year of accumulation in the village community, and this trip to pull stones, he became more and more convinced that his judgment was correct.

There are few people and a lot of land, so there is no need for intensive farming, and the main problem is not at all that the bottom class cannot survive due to land mergers.

At this time, what needs to be done is four words: do the best of the land, and definitely not land equalization and land reform. If you get the main contradiction wrong, nothing will happen.

At this time, the land in the hands of a farmer in a Jingtian village is about the same as that of a small landlord after the population explosion.

The [-] mu of land in the well field is a kind of "people do their best" under the conditions of backward tools, and no amount can be planted.

The yield does not need to be too high, one mu of land can produce 120 catties, if Kyushu is unified, coupled with the use of these seeds and annealed pig iron tools, it will be easy to create a prosperous age.

So I gave those seeds weird names, just to deceive the evaluation of the "Kang-Qian prosperous age" - "prosperous age" did not originate from the ruler, the sage, but from new crops and technologies, and made up the name That is the Mohist created the flourishing age.

He is skilled and thoughtful about this method of greedy for the right time and place.

To succeed at this time, we still have to follow the path Mozi once walked.

The low-level officials who rely on paper and knowledge to monopolize a certain country are good at borrowing the contradiction between the nobles and the monarch to make the monarch think that the Mohist is a sharp sword in his hand, but the Mohist also relied on the power of the monarch to survive in the early stage and counterattack when necessary.

Formed a balance of three powers: the monarch alone, the aristocrats entrusting the monarch, the grassroots officials, and the grassroots autonomous villages.

If the monarch wants to centralize power, the first enemy is the nobles. To fight against the nobles, he must rely on the power of the bottom. To rely on the power of the bottom, he needs a large number of grassroots officials. The grassroots officials and the nobles are sworn enemies, but they absolutely do not like absolute kingship.

Once iron ox farming and new farming techniques are popularized, the power of the nobles will grow faster. They have land, people, cattle, horses and capital in their hands, and their development will be several times faster than that of the bottom.

If the monarch wants to fight, he can only continuously increase his own strength. The power of the monarch can only come from the bottom, so the bottom monarch who fights against the nobles must also let them grow.

Once the bottom layer grows up, with money but no power, talent but no blood, then no one can control it.

This three-balanced seesaw can have a lot of room for movement if played well.

Politics is a continuation of the material foundation, so a group of capable but powerless classes must be created in order to maintain this balance.

The agricultural revolution is the basis for the great development of the exchange economy and the handicraft industry. After all efforts are made, the development of the handicraft industry will also prevent the emergence of the small peasant economy.

When they have [-] mu of land, iron implements, and oxen in their hands, no one wants to stay up late to spin yarn for their own use. It is too tiring.

When you only have two acres of land in your hands, if you don’t spin yarn for your own use, the whole family will have no clothes to wear. It’s a very simple reason.

The template of taking history as a mirror is that it does not require too detailed farming techniques, and everything is based on the rough planting techniques of large plots of land.

This is a simple arithmetic problem. Suppose intensive cultivation can produce 120 catties per mu, but the limit of each labor force is 34 acres of land; instead of extreme intensive cultivation, the yield per mu is 34 catties, as long as each labor force can cultivate [-] acres land, it can be flat.If it is higher than [-] acres, it can be surpassed.

Can a labor force own 34 mu of land at this time?Based on the observations near Shangqiu, I believe that if ironware can be used and developed, it can definitely be higher than this value.

Fewer people and more land, this is the reality.

The sudden increase in production resulted in low food prices, which inevitably led to a large number of people living in cities as handicraftsmen, and finally formed a delicate balance after chaos.

I don't know if the Legalists have made similar statistics, but he is sure that the Legalists' statement of "doing their best" is absolutely in line with the current situation, and it can be said that it has grasped the main contradiction.

These people who came to pull the stone with him did not lack strength, nor did they lack courage, nor did they lack the motivation to pursue a better life.

I believe that as long as they are given an iron plow, five or six families can share one cow, and these people can quickly reclaim a large area of ​​land.

Such barren land, as long as you leave those big cities and the great plains that have been developed for hundreds of years, there are actually many more.

It's just that whether it's planting, measuring, teaching simple characters, or going deep into the village to spread technology and win trust by giving water samples, a large number of people are needed.

How to ensure that those who have learned knowledge are willing to go deep into these places?Are you willing to spend as long in the village as you pretended to win Mozi's trust?

He is a die-hard atheist, so it is impossible for him to adopt the temptation of being liked by ghosts and gods, that ghosts and gods will bless them, and even if they do so, they can ascend to the land of nothing for nothing.

He has always believed in one sentence, that since ancient times, there have been people who have worked hard in Zhuxia, some who have worked hard, some who have pleaded for the people, and some who have sacrificed their lives to seek the law... Although it is equal to the genealogy of the emperor and the relatives The so-called "official history" often cannot conceal their brilliance, which is the backbone of Zhu Xia.

Such people abound, and he feels that there is no need for an unknowable god with a personality to guide and intimidate him.The temptation of heaven, the pain of hell...

None of these are needed, and life continues.

If there is no God with personality in the world, there will be no likes and dislikes of God, and there is no need to consider the likes and dislikes of God in terms of emotion and personality.

The mutual aid in the village community is also for the benefit of each other, not for the favor of ghosts and gods.

He firmly believes that this is possible, and there will always be people who want to rule the world and shine with ideals to join in.

Therefore, he never talked about the punishment of ghosts and gods and hell.

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"Since I've done something wrong and ghosts and gods won't punish me, then what am I afraid of? Isn't it better to win wealth than to farm? Even if what I said is right, it's still not as good as those nobles? It's okay, it's okay, it's okay If ghosts and gods won’t punish, then they definitely won’t…”

In Shangqiu City, a farmer named Sang Sheng in a village commune kept muttering to himself, as if trying to convince himself.

Whenever I talk to myself like this, I have already been persuaded by myself in my heart, and I just worry about the cost of doing something afterwards, so as to firmly believe in my choice.

In his hand, he held six corn kernels and two peanuts.

This is what he secretly hid after seeing those harvests with his own eyes.

The harvested crop seeds were hidden by Shi with a few of the most trustworthy people, leaving only some samples for display in the big house.

At the time of harvest, Sang Sheng has already planned what to do now, in exchange for a fortune and a reward.

So he held these few seeds and wandered in front of Dai's courtyard that dazzled him, looking for an opportunity to offer a treasure.

He thought, anyway, ghosts and gods will not bring disasters, so whoever is a person like Mo Zhe is really stupid.I am not stupid.

(End of this chapter)