After leaving Mozi, Shi rode a horse and walked casually around the streets of Pei County, greeting people from time to time.

This Song Yi, which withered ten years ago, has long since changed. There has never been a war, the revolution of iron cattle farming, the development of industry and commerce, and the economic center of Taoyi, which is not far from the north...... All of them have made Pei County an important city connecting the upper and lower reaches of Surabaya.

Cities are different from their original cities.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the city was more like a castle to protect the people inside the city and exercise control over the outside of the city. Rely on the exploitation of agricultural products outside the city to feed the nobility in the city.

Cities have well-developed markets that provide a place for the exchange of goods.

On the banks of the Surabaya River, wooden boats coming down from the upper reaches are docked at the river, and the wharf is full of people.

The cotton, grain, and salt transported upstream were exchanged here for ironware, primitive porcelain, cotton cloth or other handicrafts, and the huge wealth brought by the transshipment again and again.

When a ship docked, a group of people, dressed in tatters, were resting on the shore.

Shi rode over on horseback, and estimated that these people were the "people who changed their karma" who were transported by the "Mo family's traffickers" from the upper cities or small nobles after driving people to reclaim the land.

Sure enough, these people all speak a Songdi accent, but the accent is a little different from Peixian's fusion of national dialects.

The escort is not necessarily the ink man, but also some merchants or small nobles.

If it weren't for the Mo Scholar to pick it up, for every person the merchant transported here, he could get forty Mo family tokens, and he could buy any strange things that appeared in Pei County, and he could make a fortune when he transferred them back.

This boatload of people was not sent by the merchant, but by the ink man, and the ink man who led the way said hello to him.

Shi jumped off his horse, and the guards who followed him tied the horse to the tether stone next to him, and a few Lifu with bales of cotton on his back bypassed the horses.

Shi walked up to the dozens of people and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

Seeing that he was dressed in short brown, with leather boots under his feet and a sword hanging from his waist, the dozens of people knew that he must be a character among the ink scholars, and they all said: "From the side and from the mile." ”

Fanghe is not far from Pei County, at the confluence of Heshui and Surabaya, at this time the Yellow River has not yet taken Huai into the sea, where it is fertile soil.

Shi squatted beside the resting people, and casually said, "No land at home? ”

Because Fang He is too close to Pei County, he will be more affected by the change. The Song Kingdom was now in turmoil, with the big nobles clinging to their power and personal control over the peasants, and some small nobles and the taxis with more private property had begun to change their identities.

Originally, the internal inquiry court in Shangqiu could only control the vicinity of Shangqiu, but the imperial father family gradually used the common people to oppose their political enemies, and a strange and contradictory situation appeared in Pei County.

On the one hand, the interests of the various nobles did not move, and they still chose to choose the old way of rule. On the other hand, the abolition of private land and wells in Shangqiu, Taoyi, and Peixian is underway.

With the increase in population, the original land division system can no longer meet the needs of the population.

This kind of change is not led by the Mo, and it is inevitable that there will be a situation where the land is divided equally, but each household will carry out a change after assuming the military taxes and taxes on the basis of its own share of land.

Some of the minor aristocrats took the opportunity to forcibly occupy or change the name to obtain a part of the original public land, and this forcible occupation had little effect on the farmers who were the basis of the land-sharing system.

The land is generally 200 acres, and in the past, it was necessary to change the fields, and the primitive labor methods could also ensure that they would not die of hunger.

However, as iron tools began to be popularized on a large scale in the Song Dynasty in the form of "installment redemption", these farmers under the land sharing system reaped real profits, and divided 200 acres of land into private land, and the change in agricultural technology put them in a relatively wealthy yeoman farmer class.

On the whole, they are the mainstream of the world.

And the real impact of this change is mainly those who have insufficient land and need to rent other people's private land. This group of people was the poorest, only slightly stronger than the slaves, but they were not the mainstream of the world, and their numbers were not enough to support all the political demands of the Mo.

The development of the handicraft industry in Pei County requires a large number of people who have changed their jobs. Agricultural technology and the limited reforms of the Song State not only created a group of yeoman farmers, but also created more "cultivators" and unemployed people who could not even "assist farmers".

The ink scholars scattered all over the Song Kingdom used various ways to gather such people in Pei County.

After Shi asked the question, these people answered one after another, and most of them were similar to Shi Xiang.

Someone said: "It is said that Pei County is good, and you can earn money by working here for a few years." The Mo family also organized a joint farming, and in the future, when they had money to buy iron tools, cattle and horses, they would have their own land. ”

This is the standard mentality of an expelled peasant, and he laughs, "It's good to think so." Nothing can be lost. Do a good job in Pei County, and after a few years of earning enough money, you can divide it into the co-farming society, and you will have your own private land in the future. ”

A person next to him asked, "I heard that it will take six years to do it?" ”

Shi Haha smiled: "More than six years?" How can I say that I can eat enough here, so that my relatives will not be abandoned in the wilderness. ”

"That's just as well."

A few people muttered, and Shi talked about Peixian's policy again, so that these people could rest assured.

If it's deception, it's not at all.

Those who come either enter the developing workshop, or enter the mine and smelter, and select the strong ones to join the volunteers, which are really not tolerated in the handicraft workshop, and can also organize reclamation.

From the point of view of capital appreciation, as long as the value created by these six years of labor can outweigh the value of the six years of food and drink that transported them, it is considered earned.

It's just that the Mohists have organization, ideals, and beliefs, and they are not enough to do that kind of infinite oppression.

Moreover, the Mo family can do this, and there will be learning from other places, and the Mo family must rely on Peixian's higher living conditions and a better future to attract people to flee here.

It's not just such a changer, the Mo family connived at those semi-serfs on the land to flee, as long as they fled here, it didn't have anything to do with before...... Some nobles came here to pass by, because a few ink masters did something "excessive" and incited more than 400 families to flee together.

However, the Mo family itself wanted to intensify the contradictions within the Song Kingdom, and its own strength was strong, and after the battle between Niu Qiyi and Tengcheng, these dignitaries did not dare to speak up, and could only scold the Mo family for "causing trouble in the world" and "corrupting the etiquette system".

Under this situation, a series of strange situations have emerged in Pei County.

The amount of land for the farmer has basically reached the limit of individual cultivation, and the average household has 120 acres of arable land, which has led to an excellent life for the farmer.

For the time being, there has been no situation in Pei County where homesteaders have gone bankrupt and turned into handicrafts, and many peasant households have completed the redemption of iron cattle in installments ahead of schedule, and the surplus grain in their hands has increased.

The fact that Pei County sucked blood to feed the local area also ensured that the Mo family did not need to squeeze the local peasants vigorously, but instead used the Song State as an extensive dumping market.

This has created a strange situation in Pei County.

The handicraft industry is in urgent need of development, the surplus food of the people has increased, and the wealth accumulated as capital is sufficient, but there is an extreme shortage of handicraft labor force among the people.

The handicraft industry in Pei County was basically concentrated under the control of the Mo family, because only the Mo family could get enough people. The gains outweigh the losses for the workers employed in the private handicraft industry. The locals have land, and if they give less, no one will do it, and if they give more, it is completely unprofitable.

The fugitives from other places were controlled as soon as they came, and they were divided among the workshops of the various Mo families, or they controlled the organization of the co-farming society.

The development of commodity handicrafts certainly requires a market and a large number of free laborers. In the case of an average of 120 acres of land per household, and an average of three cattle and horses per household, this kind of free labor is really a rare commodity, and can only be constantly sheltered, lured or lured from other places.

Without bankrupt peasants, there would be no large-scale free labor, and the Mohists' basic base in Pei County was handicraftsmen and small farmers, and it was impossible to implement the policy of peasant bankruptcy, so they could only pin their free labor force outside Pei County.

So a strange workshop model has also appeared in Pei County, such as the "iron pot" workshop that has just been established this year, which adopts the form of private equity raising and three-year dividends. Because the Mohists control the "labor force", capital cannot increase in value without this thing.

Or some village communities that originally had collective labor on public land were organized into a new type of village community, and in addition to farming, some village community workshops were set up, which was strongly supported by the Mo family. For example, in his spare time, he made bricks, fished paper, squeezed oil, etc., relying on the labor force of the village community.

At the same time, the Mohists' workshops were not entirely military production, such as iron pots and other rare items, which promoted currency exchanges, expanded the scale of paper, masonry, oil and other commodities on the market, and quietly recycled the surplus grain of farmers into the warehouse as primary handicrafts.

After the agricultural reform, the per capita surplus grain of the farmers in Pei County increased, the commodities increased, and the purchasing power also increased several times, which is why many businessmen who came to Pei County sighed that "Pei is a land, the city is popular, and there are no less than 70,000 Juyi".

Under the premise of maintaining a certain technological advantage, it is equivalent to a county's handicraft industry, facing an almost unlimited Kyushu Huaxia market, and there is no situation where a product cannot be sold for the time being.

With the progress of agricultural reform in the surrounding area, the super-profit grain exchanged for handicraft products can support more handicraft classes who have been lured or fled here.

As for the outside of Pei County, it is not a place to consider for the time being. Because Pei County is a big pie that gathers all the good things of the "Promised Land", those dark sides are manifested elsewhere, but they set off the "good governance" of Pei County.

How did the good governance of Pei, Peng, Liu, and Teng come about?

It is a huge yeoman farmer with iron cattle ploughing reform and the support of new crops, as the cornerstone of political stability, and the main soldier to rely on.

It is a huge "government-run" handicraft industry and mining industry with nearly 20,000 people as the backbone of the economy, and it uses the advantage of technological leadership to suck the blood of Kyushu.

It is a huge ruling group that is disciplined, educated, and organized with the heart of not turning its heels to benefit the world.

As well as simple paper money and cloth money to complete currency replacement, relying on popular fund-raising to create a new many handicraft workshops of the regime binding model.

It's a gluttonous monster. It is the business of the ink man to benefit the world, and this monster wants to transform the world in its own way in order to obtain more benefits.

This gluttony is very interesting, and if he wants to eat more, he will have to reshape the world in his own way in order to eat more. The world is changing and progressing for the sake of altruism.