After admiration and envy, Wu Qi also had different doubts.

He trained as a military soldier in Xihe, and became a military soldier's family and was exempted from some taxes and forced labor, so everyone was fortunate to be a military soldier.

The reform of Shenghui and others in the Qin land was to grant land with military merits and distribute serf servants, so that the Qin people could be warlike and profitable.

Since the Mohists think that "the good ones benefit the way, the second is the teaching, the second is neat, and the lowest ones fight with it", so how does the Mohists ensure that the people who serve in the army can fight to the death?

This is something that Wu Qi did not figure out, because he felt that the best soldiers must be homesteaders, and the local volunteers in Taoqiu were mostly craftsmen, could such an army fight and win?

Originally, he thought that in such a place, the people must be "rich and weak", if the people are rich, who wants to fight?

The reform of Qindi is to make everyone in poverty, and to tempt these people to rely on war to make profits.

Heavy taxation and felony were imposed, and ordinary people could easily commit crimes, so that the majority of people could be guaranteed prisoners and poverty, so that people could be warlike, and war was almost the only means of crossing classes.

With the theory of the country in troubled times, Wu Qi believes that this is the right choice in the troubled world.

However, here in Sishang, it is the opposite, while making the people rich, it can also defeat the world's powerful countries in a row in the water and the most important places.

This puzzled Wu Qi.

Seeing that he was about to enter the city, Wu Qi had the idea of walking in the pottery mound to watch.

Because he is not only a general, but also a talent for phase change, this vision allows him to focus not only on military change.

With this thought in mind, as the convoy slowly entered Taoqiu City, Wu Qi heard the sound of cheers from the carriage, and the local people of Taoqiu organized themselves to welcome the return of Suo Lushen and others on both sides of the road.

This should be organized, and it is also closely related to the Mo family's lectures here, and the merchants here have seen the Mo family's "new newspaper" half a month ago, which introduces some of the national customs of the extreme west...... and the temptation of "transshipment of silk and glass, a hundredfold benefit" that merchants are most concerned about.

The closer he got to Sishang, the louder the cheers after entering the city, and it also made those who had followed Solu Shen back after a lot of hardships to feel the significance of their event.

After hundreds of people entered the city, they arranged to rest in the building in the city.

Merchants come and go here, and the number of people has been more in recent years, not to mention hundreds, even thousands of people can be arranged.

This building is completely different from other places, made of red bricks and red tiles, and some of the houses are inlaid with green glass, which is very expensive elsewhere.

These glasses can only be made in small pieces today, resulting in a unique architectural style that was in the infancy of glassmaking: the windows are large, but the lattices separated by the latticework for inlaid glass are small.

The floor of the building is inlaid with bricks and stones, and meals are provided in the building, and the accommodation is made of white cotton bedding, which looks very fresh.

This is generally a place where merchants stay, and commoners can live here as long as they have money, but the price is relatively expensive, and few farmers live there.

The food is sumptuous, especially the cooking style here is completely different from the style of the original Central Plains aristocracy, and Wu Qi is also a big finger.

After resting in the pavilion for two days, news came that Suo Lushen and others had returned to Peidi along the river first, and the identities of their Qin envoys should not be disclosed for the time being, so they would rest here for a few days before leaving for Peidi.

In this case, Wu Qi discussed with them that he would take a walk in Taoqiu.

This is no longer Wei Di, even if there are a lot of espionage studies in various countries, there may be people who recognize him.

But Wu Qi thought that even if he was old and no longer in his luxury, seven or eight ordinary assassins could not get close, and there were Qin dead soldiers around him, so he was not afraid.

Taoqiu was originally the fief of the Cao State, but after the Zhu Ji, it was occupied by the Song State with a Yin Shang atmosphere, so although the layout of the city has undergone several changes, there is still the shadow of the Zhou system.

This building is located in the northern district of the city, which is a commercial area, and the atmosphere of travel is already different from that of the Sanjin or Qin.

During the merchants' exchanges, there are many rangers or skilled fighters with sword guards around them, which are actually the bodyguards of these merchants.

In the reform of Qin Land twenty years ago, officials were allowed to wear swords. In the land of the Three Jins, non-scholars cannot wear swords.

With Zhong Ni opening a private learning box, and with Mo Zhai and others holding swords to benefit the world, the customs of Song Qilu and other places have begun to quietly change, and sword matching is no longer a display of aristocratic status.

It's just that the aristocracy has been in politics for hundreds of years, and everyone in the world dreams of aristocrats, so in Song Luqi and other places, anyone who can afford to buy a sword will generally buy a bite as a decoration.

Wu Qi looked at the guards around the merchants who came and went on the street, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the swords on these guards ...... It's long.

It was so long that Wu Qi was sure at a glance that even with the scabbard, Wu Qi could know that what was wrapped inside must be an iron sword. Because the bronze sword can't do it that long.

In addition to the iron swords, some of the merchants' guards wore shiny bronze handcuffs around their waists, which in the eyes of the Song Dynasty had become a crossbow-like self-defense weapon, and gradually accepted and familiar with the locals.

Occasionally, you can even see some longer firearms, which are obviously weapons in the Mo family's army.

Wu Qi looked around and noticed that many merchants were heading towards a place called the "Exchange", which was bustling with carriages and horses, and was guarded by sword-wielding men at the door.

Over the years, Wu Qiqin has learned geometry nine numbers, and he knows more about the words of the Mo family, especially these three words are simple, and he can't help but read a few words silently, and he can guess what he is about.

Outside the exchange, there are several liquor shops and restaurants, some of which are just grass pavilions.

The armed guards around the merchants did not seem to be able to enter the exchange, so they waited outside.

Wu Qi was in the museum for a few days, and learned that people here drink more leaves called "tea", and add more "cane sugar" transported from Haiyang and other places along the waterway.

This was a custom that had not existed in the world twenty years ago, but it has become an indispensable part of life in the market, and the guards with weapons in their hands mostly drink tea and wait under the grass pavilion, or gossip.

Wu Qi said secretly: "The world says that Sishang is rich, and it can be seen from this custom of drinking tea alone." Idlers can drink tea, and if there are more idlers, there will be fewer farmers. There are few peasants, and the price of grain is actually cheap, according to the Mohists, this is the per capita productivity far better than other places. ”

"Sugar, not salt, can be eaten or not. Since there is a lot of food in the market, you can also see that this place is rich. If you want to come to Qindi, the custom of drinking tea and adding sugar needs to be above the sergeant. ”

When he looked at the streets, he wanted to observe some subtleties, the so-called seeing subtleties.

Feeling in his heart, he and the guards around him walked to a grass pavilion, where there were several guards with guns and tea.

In his early years, he traveled to Wei, Song, Lu, and Jin, and he was also fluent in various local dialects, so he hinted that the guards with a strong Qin or Jin sound did not make a sound, and walked over to ask for a pot of tea.

The shopkeeper asked, "One packet of sugar or two packets of sugar?" ”

Wu Qi didn't think much about the cunning of the businessmen, and he was not short of money, so he asked for two packs, and took advantage of the topic to talk with a few gun-wielding guards next to him.

After talking for a while, Wu Qi pretended to ask inadvertently: "Have you all been in the army?" ”

The guards nodded and said, "All of them have been righteous teachers." When the Taoqiu Righteous Master was formed, we got involved and became musketeers. I did it for three years. ”

"You also know that today's business is dangerous everywhere. If you are a merchant in Sishang, you will naturally not use us, but if you want to make a profit, you have to go to a dangerous place, and those of us who have been righteous teachers are the most popular among businessmen, and we are more hired at a high price. ”

Speaking of this, the guard who spoke said proudly: "Those ranger swordsmen, although they are highly skilled in martial arts and good at using swords, but the merchants are still more willing to hire us righteous masters to retire. If we wrestle with the sword, we are inferior to them. But if we escort the wagons, surround the chariots, and load muskets to suppress the robbers, they are not as many as we are. ”

Wu Qiqi nodded, he thought so. When the gunpowder first came out, his cronies and servants asked him: Is it that as soon as the gunpowder comes out, the formation is no longer necessary. Wu Qi's answer at that time was that the more this was the case, the more important it became.

Those rangers are really brave in fencing wrestling. However, the battle against the robbers is far worse than the discipline than the rebels. After the first battle of Lushui, Wu Qi sighed a lot...... The Yue people feigned to the north but did not chase them, and there are very few troops in the world who can do this, which shows the strong discipline of the righteous teachers.

Besides, the musket is now out, and most of those who can use the musket skillfully are from righteous teachers, and this thing is indeed a sharp weapon against robbers with a chain of car formations.

Wu Qi wanted to know more about the military system in Sishang, so he asked, "Don't you have any land at home?" Doesn't it mean that those who join the army in the righteous division will organize joint farming even if they have no land after retiring? ”

The guard smiled: "I am a potter's mound, and I don't know how to farm and I don't want to farm. What's so good about farming? I like to look around, in the past few years, I have been to Chu and Baiyue with the gold master, which is much more interesting than farming. ”

"Every year the owner gives a lot of money, although it is dangerous, but it is happy. I don't want to farm. The righteousness of the Mo family, saying that if you want to benefit the world, it has to be the Mo person. We are not ink writers, so we only ask for profit. Benefiting oneself without harming others, everyone benefits the world. ”

"Although I did not become a Mo man to die for the benefit of the world, but I protected the owner of the gold to let the goods circulate, so that the people of Baiyue had iron and salt to use, and the people of Jingchu had cotton cloth to wear, and I did not steal and break the ban, which can be regarded as beneficial to the world......"

Wu Qi was secretly shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart that the Mohist family lectures in this Taoqiu land are extremely popular, and the people in the army are from work, and they can actually sit and talk about righteousness, which is really amazing.

But he didn't know that the righteous teacher had to organize the study of literacy every day and preach more morality. The guard looked at Wu Qi's expression differently, such surprise had been asked before, so he smiled and said, "You don't have to be surprised. This doctrine of righteousness and benefit is what our representatives speak every day. I thought it made sense, and it was, so I wrote it down. ”

"Those who are volunteers in the army are more literate, which is why the owner of the money is willing to hire us. Merely...... It is an oath that must be obeyed, and it is extremely difficult, unless you have this ambition, you don't want to be more difficult to join the ink. ”