When it comes to economic issues, it will inevitably lead to a lot of speculation, and some people get up and ask: "What if Tian Yan gets money from the nobles?" In that case, the farmers and industrialists may not be able to see through it, but they think that Tian Yan Xu is a Ming Jun. ”

A few people nodded, and said solemnly: "There is a big problem with what you said. ”

"From the point of view of heaven, labor is the means to create wealth."

"Where does the wealth of the aristocracy come from? The king grabbed wealth from the nobles, and in the end, wasn't it still the peasants and industrialists? ”

"Now there is a piece of land, and the king asks the nobles to levy a tax on the acreage, so from whose hands does the nobles take the money? The nobles originally asked the peasants to collect 20 yuan, but now the monarch asks for 10 yuan, do you think the nobles still ask the farmers to collect 20 yuan and give the monarch 10 yuan? Or directly ask the farmer to collect thirty yuan, give the monarch ten yuan, and keep another twenty yuan for himself? You might even ask the farmer for forty dollars? ”

The man who spoke had always known that he had taken some matter of principle very seriously, knew that he had said the wrong thing, and knew that he had not taken this into account, so he hastily admitted his mistake.

From before the death of Mozi, Shi began to sort out the Mohist remarks and form a system, the most important volume for the world is "The Wealth of the Nation" or "The Rich Country", because for the "righteousness" of the world, this article is a declaration of war against the aristocracy, a document that proves that the aristocracy is silverfish, and it is reasonable for the peasants and industrialists to overthrow them.

Since wealth comes from the nobility and not from the nobility itself, taking money from the nobles is equivalent to taking it from the hands of the nobility.

Where does the aristocracy get its wealth if they don't work? If you want to take wealth, you must always take it from somewhere, and not out of thin air.

If there was no Sishang Mo family, in fact, the life of the nobles was very good, and the people were accustomed to taking it for granted.

But now the Mo family has done so many things and done so much propaganda, so that the people have a comparison.

Shi has always said that when the light shines through the darkness, it is the time when people are most willing to pursue the light. On the contrary, under the boundless darkness, the darkest midnight, people are often accustomed to it.

The country of Qi is too close to Sishang, and the close Sishang Mo family can cut off any road to reform in the state of Qi, and force the idea of any rich country and strong army of the Qi Guotian clan to the opposite.

Gao Sun was actually convinced by most of his heart, but he was still worried, so he said, "You can't hope that the enemy is stupid. The State of Qi is rich for the benefit of fish and salt, and there is also a school in the name of the pipe in Qidi, and it has also participated in our arguments with Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others. ”

As soon as he said this, Shi Renjun couldn't help but say: "The Guanzi School is mostly virtuous, but they can't be applied to this era, nor can they be applied to the current Qi State. ”

"For example, a piece of gold, you can't say it's not very good, but now that you're in the middle of the desert, which one would you choose, gold or a piece of wheat bread? Is it true that if you choose a wheat cake, you can say that gold is like a wheat cake? ”

"The essence of the Guanzi school lies in the mountains and seas of officials."

"That sounds great, but there's a catch."

"Guanshanhai can enrich the treasury, but the premise is that Guanshanhai can live in the official. That's why I said we were going to withdraw our troops from Qi, but we had to sign a peace treaty. ”

"The premise of Guan Shanhai and "Extravagance" is that the country of Qi is closed. Only Guanshanhai can sell the iron of Qi, only Guanshanhai can sell the salt of Qi, the nobles and wealthy families of Qi cannot buy goods from other places, the unemployed homeless people of Qi cannot go to other places to make a living, and Qi can control any industrial and commercial deposits operating outside Guanshanhai. ”

"Can these Qi countries do it? He can't do it, so what are you talking about? ”

"If the State of Qi wants to rely on the Guanshan Sea to enrich the treasury, it is not impossible, it must first defeat us, and do not allow the goods and iron tools of Sishang to enter the Qi realm, or impose heavy taxes."

"However, now that Qi State can't beat us, if he wants to beat us, he has to have the money to arm the armor and train the soldiers. However, he didn't manage the mountains and seas, but he got money. If you can't get money, you can't arm the armor and train the soldiers. If you can't arm the armor and train the soldiers, you won't be able to defeat our ......."

Shi said this dead loop several times in a row, and when he said that, he stretched out his hand and compared a ring and said, "This is a dead loop in the art of knowledge, and he can't solve it."

Regarding the situation of Qi State, in fact, Shi understands it far more deeply than others, because he had learned such a painful history in his previous life, and there was only one solution to this history.

It is true that the government treasury can be sufficient, but the premise is that the countries cannot interfere, the economies of all countries are in a closed internal circulation, and the existence of the Sishang Mojia and the gradual development of large-scale cross-regional and cross-border commodity exchanges are excluded.

It's not that he didn't consider the possibility that Qi Guo might become rich and strong, but he racked his brains and never thought that Qi Guo would have any possibility of becoming stronger under his nose in Sishang.

The two nooses of the tariff-free and allowing the Mo family to set up a salt industry and mining in Qi could not be freed, because Qi did not have a strong enough embryonic industrial and commercial bourgeoisie to be the main force to break free; Nor is there a party that believes in "benefiting the world" but plans a bourgeois revolution to be the vanguard.

In the end, Shi felt that as soon as these two shackles of the Mo family were put on, the Qi State would inevitably be angry, not only would it not be strong, but it was afraid that the internal contradictions would become more and more serious.

The southwest region of Qilu will not be occupied no matter what, which will seriously stimulate the princes of the world, and will also contain the entire center of gravity of the Mo family in the southwest region of Qilu, making it difficult to complete the layout of the entire southward strategy.

Gao Sun Zi recognized the southward strategy, and the only thing he was worried about was that this time it would give Qi a chance to develop and grow, after all, it seemed that the Mo family had helped Qi clear up a lot of contradictions.

The grandson was no longer silent, and there he bowed his head and pondered what Shi had said.

Someone stood up and said, "In this way, there is no future for the Qi Kingdom anyway?" Is it possible to deduce all the possibilities of knowledge? ”

For the future, the Mohists have always tended to be "knowable" and "inferred".

This is not a change brought about by Shi, Shi is just a corrector of the Mo family, and when he first joined the Mo family, it was because the Mo family had a great space for transformation and a complete set of internal logic systems.

Some people said before that the Mandate of Heaven is unknowable, some people say that the Mandate of Heaven is mysterious and unknowable, and some people say that the people who knew the Mandate of Heaven when King Wu was defeated have perished with the demise of Yin Shang, and some people have asked King Wu about the Mandate of Heaven and then became seriously ill......

Back then, Peng Sheng once asked Mozi, what do you say about the art of knowing the will of heaven, can you know it in the future? The things of the future are not known by your knowing.

Mozi asked rhetorically, if your parents are about to die, if you can rush back to them in one day, they will live. Now if the distance is 100 miles, a horse, a cow, do you think your parents are dead or alive? Your parents are dead and alive now, but life or death depends on your choice, how can you say that the future cannot be known?

The Mohists paid special attention to "inference", because Mozi believed that "those who are enough to repeat their words are often the same; If it is not enough to hold it, do not use it often. It is not enough to hold it often, and it is a mouthful. ”

That is to say, any idea, if you can do it, you will promote it, and if you can't do it, you will promote him, that is nonsense. This is used to attack Confucianism, because Mozi thinks that Confucianism's set sounds good, but it is impossible to do it without practical operation, so no matter how reasonable it sounds, it is nonsense.

After these things were appropriately corrected, the Mohists attached great importance to logical reasoning, and history itself is logical, which is the historical concept established by the Mohists, which leads to the more mysterious "history" and "politics" can sometimes be reasoned and know the macro trend of the future.

Now the situation in the world after the end of the Qi-Mo War requires a reasoning and an inference, so as to determine the next direction of the Mo family.

Shi's previous inferences were that Qi could not be strong, in order to persuade Gao Sun to support his more moderate and somewhat capitulationist withdrawal and to appease the radical young men in Sishang.

Now the question raised by that person is whether he wants to be entangled in the matter of Qi State anymore, so he followed that person's words and said: "Whether there is a future in Qi Country depends on what Qi Country is?" ”

"If the Qi State is the private property of the Tian family, then I said that the Qi country has no future, or the Tian family has no future."

"But Qi is not a person, a person has only one idea, but Qi is composed of thousands of Qi people. If the sovereignty of the people of Qi is in the country, your question is whether the people of Qi country have a future? ”

"Of course there is, why not? After they awakened, they overthrew the aristocratic Hetian clan, everyone was equal under the Emperor of Heaven, developed production, and learned the will of heaven, how could there be no future? ”

"So far, we are against the Tian clan and the nobles, but not against the people of the Qi country, this must be clearly distinguished. In the future, we must also pay attention to this on some public occasions. ”

"As for what policy Tian will adopt in the future, that will only be known and inferred from this in the future. But no matter what he does, as long as we can grasp a few points when we sign the peace treaty, then the Tian clan and the noble Qi State will have no chance to turn over. ”

"Now that I'm done with my words, who has a different opinion about the general strategy of Qi State?"

After finishing speaking, Shi first glanced at his grandson, who was silent for a while and nodded, "I don't have any opinions." ”

The eldest grandson was still immersed in the controversy just now, and was still pondering the various inferences of the Qi Kingdom, at least there were no flaws now, and the few things he was worried about seemed to have been resolved.

If you want to benefit the world, the world is wide, there must always be a sequence, what Gao Sun Tzu is worried about is that after the Mo family withdraws from the Qi country, those Qi people who have already received the benefits of the Mo family will suffer twice; And whether the Tian clan and the nobles will make the Qi State a strong enemy in the north of Sishang because the Mo family helped them clean up some internal contradictions.

At least for now, it sounds like Shi has already made a statement.

Since he said that he couldn't ignore the people of Wenshui and Jishui, he was already morally in line with the righteousness of the Mo family, and there was no essential difference with his grandson.

Since he analyzed that although the internal contradictions of the Qi Guotian clan have been cleaned up, new contradictions have arisen, then Gao Sunzi's worries about the strength of the northern Qi State are gone, and in his judgment of the situation, Gao Sun Tzu has formed a kind of trust and habit for the suitable, which has been cultivated under the ups and downs of the past twenty years, not because of some kind of private trust.

Suitable means that after analyzing the various possibilities of Qi State that may become stronger, and then excluding the possibility that Tian Yan will become the "ink man", the rest of the strengthening may only need to add a few articles to the peace treaty, even if it is completely locked up, so as to respond to all changes, it is not impossible.

The difference between the two people is only that they will go north for a quick victory, have a chance to pacify the Central Plains and then seek the four sides?

It is better to continue the original strategy of the Mo family, first the south and then the north, and solve the problem in the south first under the premise of maintaining Huaibei and Sishang, which can cultivate cavalry and attack the Central Plains.

The appropriate approach was more modest, and in the current situation, Gao Sun was convinced that he could only oppose it, but could not get broad support.

Shi You, at the beginning, first stated that he would not attack the country but benefit the world, which made Gao Sun not completely oppose Shi's mind.

The grandson also understood the internal situation of the Mo family now, and also understood Mozi's evaluation of him back then and why he couldn't be the giant of the Mo family.

After the tone was set, a general plan for alignment and covenant based on this tone was born.

Removing the content that has been decided, the only variable is that the Mo family wants to get Jucheng.

Because of the background of the southward migration of the Yue Kingdom, it is a sure thing that Langya actually belongs to the Mo family, and Jucheng, as the eastern end of the defense line of the Great Wall of Qi, and as the nail behind the Qi State that may threaten the Mo family, this is bound to be pulled out.

Jucheng is close to Langya, and it is not in the west where the countries are intertwined, so the countries will not be overly stimulated after getting it, and there will be no situation where Wei Hanqi needs to be guarded against at any time.

Moreover, Jucheng is in hand, which is equivalent to the recurrence of such a situation as Feidi, the Mo family can choose to defend in Surabaya and launch an attack on Linzi in Jucheng, even if Qi and Wei form an alliance, they can also solve the Qi State first, so as to be in an invincible position.

In this way, the Yue Kingdom moved south, so that most of the northern Jiangsu Plain was under the control of the Mo family. As the northern gate of the Northern Jiangsu Plain, as long as an army is stationed there, it can retreat to the place where the essence of the Yimeng Mountain is guarded; The attack could cut off the Jiaodong Peninsula from the eastern front and threaten Jimo with the help of Xi Liuzhou's division.

The strategic situation of the entire Mohist family has been greatly improved.

Yutai and PlaNet in the northwest followed the Weishan Lake, which had not yet appeared at this time, to the south to Xuzhou and Suzhou.

The northeast was bounded by Juxian, Yimeng Mountain, and Linyi in the later generations, and occupied most of the granaries of the northern Jiangsu Plain along the East China Sea, and went south to Yancheng, controlled a part of the Hangou Canal, and at this time called Guangling, Yangzhou and Haiyang also had enough power.

In the west, the Song State, which was influenced by the Mohists and had always balanced the power of the aristocracy, served as a strategic buffer and could intervene in the contradictions between Wei and Chu at any time.

In the south, the Yue country, which has completely declined and can no longer be strong, can be used at the right time to go straight to Yangzhou along the canal built by Wu and Yue to fight for hegemony and drink the Yangtze River.

The north is the Qi State after the weakening of Qi and Mo War, especially after giving up the southwest of Qi but getting Jucheng, Qi is completely without the courage to form an alliance with other countries against the Mo family: in addition to removing the instability of internal affairs, the Mo family can finally have two aligned strategic directions after getting Jucheng, and the northward movement of the southwest Lu region or the back road of Jucheng Jimo make the Qi State dare not form an alliance with various countries: dare to form an alliance, and the first to be beaten must be the Qi State.

The country moved south to preserve its strength. An Wen, the nobles of the Wu State, who had been instigated by the Mo family and gradually became stronger after the agricultural reform, had just completely quelled the Wang Ziding Rebellion, which had lasted for nearly twenty years, so that the Yue State had to establish good relations with the Mo family, so that the Mo family could mediate the possible attack of the Chu State.

Wei and the Mo family made peace, but the Mo family did not take Chengyang, so that Wei could always threaten Lu, Song and Qi, especially the extremely rich southwest Lu region and Taoyi at this time.

But Tao Yi will now affect the whole body: if Wei does not form an alliance with Qi, then there is only one way to attack the Mo family, and that is to go south by Heshui, or not hesitate to drag the Song State into it to wage war against the Song. And to form an alliance with Qi State, Qi State will definitely not agree.

In fact, Shi gave up the southwest region of Qi State, which was to instigate the contradiction between Qi and Wei: if the Mo family occupied the southwest of Qi, then the Mo family would lie between Qi and Wei. But now leaving Chengyang to the Wei state, without taking the slightest land in the southwest of Qi, leaving a weakened Qi state, and forming a Qin state with eye on the West River, will make the relationship between Qi and Wei drop sharply. The Mohists can stand in the middle, maintain a stable equilibrium, and even deter.

The state of Chu in the southwest is vast, sparsely populated, and has many feudal kings, and the king of Chu takes advantage of this great victory and wants to centralize power, and it is basically impossible to start a war against the Mo family.

The Song State, as a buffer state in the struggle for hegemony between Jin and Chu back then, is actually facing a tripartite balance now, which makes the Chu State even more afraid to move: the Mo family and the Song State have an alliance, and the Song State must send troops when the Mo family is attacked. Both Wei and Chu were in between, and they only needed to consider each other's attitudes, but now they had to consider the attitudes of third parties, and they were extremely afraid of the Mo family forming an alliance with each other.

As a result, a stable equilibrium after a major war will be achieved in the next few years, and all countries are licking their wounds, and can only watch the Mo family expand in northern Jiangsu but can do nothing.

The Sishang Mo family has survived the most dangerous time, and the comprehensive turning point of the strategic situation makes it possible to completely abandon the slogan of "non-offensive", and can shout a slogan that is even more frightening but helpless for the nobles.

The Sishang Mo family can be regarded as finally passing the stage of maintaining in the middle, forming good neighbors, and helping to maintain the balance of Wei and Chu, and who is weak to help whom, and is qualified and has the strength to use the strategy of long-distance and close attack, and who is weak to fight whom.