In this world, if there is something that sounds mysterious and seems difficult to do, but it can be achieved, Zhao Zhiai feels that if it comes from the mouth of the Mo family, it can be trusted.

Although he was surprised by the statement that the treasury was becoming more and more abundant, since it was said by the person in front of him, Zhao Zhiai only listened quietly and did not refute it.

After listening to a paragraph, Zhao Zhiai felt that it seemed to be really a win-win situation, and it sounded like it was really harmless to the Chu State.

This time I asked the Mo family for help, and the means of help given can be roughly divided into two.

Hire the Mo family to help repair and improve the city defense system in Yingdu, since this is hired, then you always have to give money.

Helps to strengthen the defense of the city in the defense line of the Great Wall of Luguan, increases the chance of holding the direction of the city of Luguan, and provides a long-range projectile with sufficient scale.

At first, it didn't seem like much, but this crisis of succession in Chu State must not be solved within a year or two, and it will need a steady stream of external support after that.

Money, food, supplies, weapons......

All this is a sum of money that is difficult for the current king of Chu to pay, because he still needs to deal with future wars.

The way in which the loan for the purchase of weapons was repaid was a little strange to Akinoe.

The interest was pledged by the goods tax, and after fifteen years, the Mo family hoped that the king of Chu would give the Mo family a tax-free copper festival.

In the early years of the Warring States period, the collection of peer taxes and excise taxes had already been popularized in various countries.

Although the king of Chu lacked the ability to centralize power, the scope of his real jurisdiction was not large, and the ability to collect taxes was not strong enough, there were still officials in some important positions to collect taxes.

Decades later, the Ejun of Chu had obtained a duty-free pass from King Huai of Chu.

The festival of cars and boats.

The scale of tax exemption is specified above, except for prohibited goods such as gold, feather arrows, weapons, etc., the rest of the goods are exempt from duty.

This is the kind of interest compensation method that is suitable for Pei Peng, which is necessary for Pei Peng to use Chu as a dumping ground after it was developed, and it is also a must to unite and cultivate some businessmen who have inseparable interests with the Mo family.

Moreover, a few years ago, the Mo family had sent people to Bashu in advance to promote the development of the salt boiling industry there.

The follow-up plans to arrive at the Huaishui estuary to dry salt and burn seaweed ashes to make Xuanlin are also to use bulk materials to use Chu as a vast market.

Now I can't see the power of the Mo family's goods, and Zhao Zhiai also feels that there is nothing, and it is appropriate to say that this is beneficial to Chu.

Not to mention the mechanical iron tools of the Mo family, they are some goods and weapons urgently needed by the Chu State, and the Mo family seems to only have these industries as long as they operate, and these are all beneficial to the Chu State.

After a long time, the Mo family was rarely active in Chu, and this tax could not be levied originally, which was equivalent to using something that was not available to repay the interest, and the Mo family could also obtain a steady stream of rare goods.

After thinking about it, Zhao Zhiai made his own opinion, thinking that he could fully agree to the Mo family in this matter.

As for the Boat Festival, it can also be given to ten or eight, and there is no limit on the quantity, and the meaning of the Mohists is also to mainly take bulk goods, and small-scale goods will not use the tax festival.

Zhao Zhiai thinks that he only needs to discuss with the Mo family that those goods cannot be out of customs, such as some strategic materials such as feathers and glue in the Chu State, and the Mo family should not transport them outside.

The Mo family, which is represented by this point, agreed very happily, and immediately said: cattle, horses, glue, feathers, weapons, etc., will not be transported from Chu State, but they can be transported to the interior of Chu State.

Zhao Zhiai only felt that the Mo family was simply too kind, the merchants had transportation, and some strategic materials in Chu were exactly what the countries needed, and the Mo family did not ship them abroad, so it was nothing to agree.

After discussing the payment of interest, Zhao Zhiai listened to Shi Shi again about the means of principal compensation.

This means of principal compensation, to Zhao Zhiai, sounds like the Mo family's brain, which is really idealistic to think about the righteousness of the world.

The means of principal compensation given by the appropriate not only do not cost a penny to the treasury of the state of Chu, but can really increase the fullness of the treasury of the king of Chu.

Because Shi said that now the Mo family can smelt iron.

He also moved out the two masters who had "walked Kyushu" and said that there was also iron ore that could be mined and smelted in the area of Wancheng in Nanyang.

There are more Han Dynasty iron-smelting sites in Nanyang than in Pengcheng, and it is the hinterland of Chu State, which is the best foothold for the Mo family to infiltrate the hinterland of Chu State step by step.

Therefore, the method given by the Chu State to pay the principal is: allow the Mo family to open a mine in Wancheng for a contract period of 20 years, and the Mo family will carefully make accounts and give one-tenth to the king of Chu after the annual profits.

During this period, the rest of the people can also open mines, but if the king of Chu can contract all the mining rights in the Nanyang area of Wancheng to the Mo family, tax the rest of the people and exempt the Mo family, the Mo family can also give the king of Chu an extra twentieth of the profit.

Blast furnace pig iron annealed cast iron is an important material basis for the progress of the times, and it is also the agricultural basis for the Mohists to allow the development of commercial exchange and handicrafts in the world, which must be popularized in various countries as soon as possible.

It is clear that only in this way can agriculture develop, and that the development of agriculture is the basis of commerce and handicrafts.

For Zhao Zhiai, iron is also something that the Chu State has always wanted.

It is not that there are no iron tools in the Chu State, but there are really few iron farm tools, and the cost of iron tools made by those sponge iron forging methods is still too high, and the production cycle is too long, and it is too expensive to make agricultural tools.

The iron of the Mo family is the main product of Pei County now, and Pei County is indeed a little too far away from the essence of Chu and the fief of the Zhao family.

In consideration of the cost of transportation, the possibility that the road traffic to Nanyang would be cut off in the future Central Plains War, and the necessity of infiltrating the Chu State and supporting a group of handicraftsmen and large merchants, such a method was proposed.

In fact, this is an extremely insidious method, but there is no such model at this time, and Zhao Zhiai does not feel that there is anything wrong with it.

In addition to standing on the truth of the Mo family, after expounding the truth that this is beneficial to the world, he also expounded the benefits to the Chu State from the perspective of the Chu State.

One is that the people can have a large number of agricultural tools, and the essence of the Chu State will develop faster.

Second, the king of Chu can get income every year, and these incomes are not available in the past, which is equivalent to nothing.

The third is the mining of this kind of thing, which needs to be done by "the world's heroes", and the government cannot do it well, and ordinary people without capital power cannot do it well.

When it comes to the world's heroes at this time, there are probably no other businessmen who dare to compete with the Mo family for the name of the first power.

On the one hand, the technical problem is that if you "recruit apprentices" to do it, it is easy to "flee and not defend" it.

If the people are requisitioned to do it, they will have to "go down to the grievances, and there are soldiers on the border, so they will have old grudges and not fight."

Politically, it also seems to be reducing the cost of the rule of the King of Chu.

I am sure that the king of Chu will agree, because the ruling ability and ruling level of the Chu State are too low, and even the nobles and feudal lords can't clean it up, let alone say that the salt and iron monopoly is a difficult centralized means of heaven - the Chu State can do this, and it will not be forced to let the right Yin come all the way to Pei County to ask the Mo family for help and ask the Mo family for a loan.

Shi said that as long as the king of Chu agreed to this matter, the principal would be repaid. Twenty years later, if the king of Chu feels that it is still advantageous, then he can renew the contract, and then it will be thirteen points, which will be valid for a long time.

Moreover, this time the battle for inheritance may last for a long time, and there are many places where Chu uses money and weapons.

The Mo family also said that if the king of Chu really only fought a defensive war, as long as he could ensure "non-offensive", the Mo family could continue to borrow money to the king of Chu in the future.

It can even be used as a means of payment in the form of "renting land", "tax package", "franchise" and so on, without the need for cash repayment from the king of Chu.

Shi also swore that in this way, the development brought by the Mo family to the Chu State, the people benefited, and the wealth of the Chu State also increased greatly, which was really beneficial and harmless.

After thinking about it, Zhao Zhiai really felt that there was nothing to question.

The Mo family's actions were already unexpected, and they were no longer in the rules at this time. If it were someone else, he would definitely have doubts, but this is what everyone in the Mo family said, and he has already believed eight points.

Just out of the underlying worry in his heart, he asked, "What is the Mo family doing this for?" ”

Mozi laughed and said, "Of course, it's for the sake of 'benefiting the world'." The people of Lichu, the battle of Lifei, this is in line with the Mohist principle. ”

"Righteousness is the treasure of the Mo family, and gold and jade are the treasures of merchants, which are all benefits, but different benefits. The so-called mutual benefit is the ideal of the Mohists. ”

In this way, the Mo family got righteousness, the king of Chu got weapons and cities, the merchants got gold and jade, and the people got iron tools...... Why didn't the Mohists do it? ”

Zhao Zhiai pondered for a while, and didn't think about who was "not profitable", no matter how you look at it, it seems to be like what Mozi said in the end: everyone can benefit.

Even so, he can only agree verbally, and the real decision can only be made after the King of Chu and the nobles discuss together.

However, Zhao Zhiai said: "I can know the hearts of the Mo family to benefit the world, and the Emperor of Heaven will also be moved." Such a thing can be agreed to by the king. ”

"It's just that there are some things that I can't decide for myself, but rest assured, as far as I know, the king will agree!"

The Mo family's offer of such conditions was unexpected by Zhao Zhiai, and it could even be said that there were some surprises.

Not only can he complete his mission, but his family's support for the prince's suspicion can also be rewarded enough, and in public terms, he seems to have indeed contributed to the society of Chu.

It seems that the Mo family is a group of crazy people who benefit the world, and Zhao Zhiai feels that if they were just businessmen, they would definitely not put forward such strange conditions, and would only find a way to get "gold and jade benefits".

Seeing Zhao Zhiai's agreement, everyone in the Mo family present smiled secretly in their hearts, the means of saying the right thing in their hearts were really effective, but it was hidden too deeply, if he didn't explain it, who in the world could know the horror of this at this time?