Chapter 355: Tian Yuan Forced and Cornered Teng (15)
Propaganda is indispensable, and the world needs idealists.
But outside of benefiting the world, the "utilitarian" propaganda of the Xuanyi Department heard by the people is as follows:
The new iron pot is really profitable, and those who have invested in the village community or wealthy farmers have questioned why they can't expand production? The answer is that there is not enough manpower.
So these people gritted their teeth at the population of the Shiqing nobles in Lutian: it was clear that only 500 people were needed to manage the land, but these stupid nobles used 2,000 people to bind those farmers...... These 1,500 people can always squeeze out a few hundred people to work in the workshop, right?
The wealthy peasants who were the first to follow the Mo family to carry out land reform, relying on the manpower advantage of four and five men in a household, completed the installment payment of iron cattle and horses early, and coveted in the face of patches of uncultivated virgin land.
Relying on the high price of cotton in the past few years, he has accumulated enough wealth, as long as he pays a part of the money, he can buy a piece of fertile land, reclaim it and cultivate it for five years, that is himself, but ...... Lack of manpower, their own land has reached the limit, there is a shortage of people everywhere, and it is impossible to grab ...... I can only watch the farmland with hired workers sell truckloads of products every year, and beat my chest.
Seeing that those peasants who were bound to the fields of the Shiqing nobles could not move freely to cultivate their fields and become hired laborers, the views of the Shiqing nobles in their hearts were left with "bad people" who hindered their profits.
Laid down the Teng country, helped the Teng country to restore the country, within a year the sales of iron increased sharply, although it is an installment model, but as long as you are willing to do it, now there is so much land, three or five years later, you can take it back, which is what some Peixian people related to iron have seen.
Since Teng could sell so many goods, of course they supported the transformation of more vassal states in the way of the Mo family, in order to get the profits they could get.
Those who have worked in the handicraft workshop of the Mo family for several years, seeing that they have learned a craft, open their own workshop, and hire a few "wanton maids", they are afraid that they can make a lot of money in just a few years.
What kind of paper, oil, these things, but only in Pei County has a large number of sales, they not only need more "unbridled wages", but also need a broader city like Pei County.
Conquered the small Teng State, in the eyes of the people of Pei County, in addition to the benefit of the world of publicity, there is also a surge in the sales of iron tools, hundreds of unbridled hired workers came to Pei County to fill the newly established iron pot workshop, an extra brigade of volunteers who can guard their good life, more than 100 vacancies of officials whose children study in Peixian Township Schools can be qualified when they grow up, and the surge in demand for cattle and horses has made some breeding villages and communities happy......
Those who are interested in the world will transform the world in order to benefit the belief of the world.
The people gathered for profit have unconsciously integrated into this monster and transformed the world for their own gain.
A wider market, more free labor, and more opportunities to make a fortune...... The primary goal of all this now is to get rid of the feudal aristocracy that bound the peasants and the system of feudal land, and then transform the world into a world where everyone's surplus wealth can buy more goods.
At this time, the biggest irrationality in the world is the nobles of Shiqing.
At this time, the most constraining of productive forces in the world was the system of sealing land and lutian land that bound the peasants.
All this, from the point of view of reason, from the point of view of absolute rational interests, should be broken.
It's just that in this process, there will always be many imperfections and even shadows.
Shi looked at these deportees who were about to be sent to the workshop or selected to join the righteous teachers, and encouraged the crowd: "Do it well. When you come to Pei County, you will be equal regardless of whether you are rich or low. Peixian is not a place where milk and honey flow everywhere, but at least it can ensure that the work can make you live as a person. β
"Six years is not a long time, but it is not a short time. However, compared to before, there is always a hope, right? β
Everyone nodded yes in a laugh, and when he was about to take the opportunity to say a few words, he heard someone behind him call him.
It's weird.
If it is internal to the ink person, it is called a comrade. If it is the public, it is basically called by its name.
This person called out "Brother Shi", Shi turned around, and saw the six fingers who had grown up riding a horse towards this side, and there were a few people behind him, and he could see the sturdy Gongzaoye from a distance.
In the past two years, Liuzhi has followed Gongzaoye in Pengcheng, and now he is no longer that half-grown child, but a sturdy young man.
Shi himself has already changed his appearance, his body is stronger than before, he has a light beard, his face is tanned, and he really has the appearance of an "ink" person.
Six fingers greeted happily, and the horse came over, and Gongzaoye also came over to say hello.
There were also six or seven people who followed, all of whom came back this time to participate in the September Syndicate Meeting, and it was a rule that the ink scholars from all over the country should send representatives back.
Those who can participate are undoubtedly the essence of the Mo family.
A few people said a few words, and Gongzaoye said that he would go to see Mozi first, and if he had nothing to do in the evening, he could have a drink, and he would choose a restaurant near the pier.
Six Fingers can now also participate in this expanded, hundred-person synonymous meeting, after all, when he and Shi joined the Mo family, the Mo family only had four or five hundred people in total.
After saying goodbye, everyone went to work.
In the evening, seven or eight people came to the restaurant near the wharf, where business was booming, and merchants from the north and south mostly ate and drank here, and it was not the kind of withered and dilapidated appearance.
In Shi's opinion, it has more or less the appearance of a wine shop in later generations, and the food in it is also rich.
A few people chose a place to sit down, asked for some wine, and asked for some Peixian special dishes.
During the meal, he didn't say anything about political affairs, and the situation in Pengcheng was well known.
Gongzaoye only joked: "I, Peng Chengshou, am just a tablet." In fact, everyone in the Mo family can do the same, as long as the giant signs the order, everyone can do it. Below me, most of the officials are ink scholars, but they are not those who listen to Peng Cheng, but the commissioners sent to Peng Cheng by the Central Committee of the Mo people, and I just happen to be. β
Six Fingers also said some interesting things that happened in Pengcheng, but he didn't ask some ridiculous things like "when will I follow you to do things", if he could even ask such childish words, I am afraid he would not be qualified to participate in this synonymous meeting.
After the Shangqiu coup d'Γ©tat, the Mo family coerced the Song family to reach an agreement with the nobles, and Pengcheng was operated as the second capital of the Song state, which was actually a thank you gift for the mediation of the Mo family in the Shangqiu coup.
Several people don't want to provoke the Mo family, but Pengcheng and Pei County are still different, and the policy in Pengcheng is still slightly different from Pei County.
Some of the nobles recognized the Mo's laws in exchange for the Mohists' recognition of their private ownership of their land, and integrated into the new system of rules.
The other part did not approve of it, but it was not good for the Mo family to directly come forward to suppress it and directly make enemies with the princes of the world, so they stabilized it first.
Two years after Pengcheng's massive land reform, the contradiction became acute: on the one hand, the yeoman farmers who were thriving, and on the other hand, the farmers who were in the land under the semi-serfdom system.
So the Mo family came up with a strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and after gaining a firm foothold in Pengcheng, they immediately organized a large-scale reclamation and mobilized a large amount of grain from Pei County along Surabaya.
When everything is ready, after "obtaining the approval of the overwhelming majority of the population", the change is announced. Of course, the legitimacy of this change is contrary to the times, because the so-called vast majority of the people of the Mohists are not human beings under the rules of the times.
The policy of change is simple and very warm. At least that's how it looks.
The decree stipulates that any peasant who does not occupy the land of the nobles can leave the village community and the public land, carry out the land reclamation, and pay the taxes that they would otherwise have to bear.
However, this decree was immediately opposed by the local nobility.
Because the decree gave freedom to the peasants, it took away the cheap to almost free source of labor of the nobility.
What is lacking at this time is not land, but labor.
The aristocracy didn't take a penny of the land, the question was how could the nobles themselves go and cultivate the land? Besides, the family could not cultivate the large amount of land, and the original feudal obligations were abolished, which was fatal to the old aristocracy.
Judging from the "July", the peasants had many feudal obligations in ordinary times, including providing the nobles with unpaid labor, repairing houses, hunting, training, and harvesting and cultivating without compensation......
This decree of the Mo family was based on "morality" and completely destroyed the economic foundation of the aristocracy.
Borrowing Surabaya's excellent transportation conditions from top to bottom, it can be said that they want grain for grain and iron for iron, and the purpose is to force the local nobles in Pengcheng to "rebel".
If it were a normal feudal dynasty, the implementation of this decree would be meaningless. However, the Mo family's control over the grassroots was not comparable to that of the late decaying feudal dynasty, and in just a few days, with strong material support, a large number of farmers who had been originally aristocratic and closed fields hoped to have their own new land.
Of course, there are also some people who have long been accustomed to this kind of life, and they are reluctant to give up on the nobles, and the Mo family does not care about these people.
Within a few days, the nobles panicked - people ran away, and they wanted to have eggs on the land?
If it was in the past, it was just a small-scale escape, and it was captured and executed to make an example, anyway, it was a secret law of the nobility.
But now, it is written law, and the rationality of the law comes from the "public will" of the Mohists. Moreover, the Mo family prepared enough food, and a large amount of good Daze wasteland that could be reclaimed, which was nothing more than a matter of two years of hardship, and the old nobles finally panicked.
Because it was inconvenient to directly kill the nobles so as not to cause panic among the princes, the Mo family was originally going to adopt a milder semi-coercive policy of "twenty-year redemption".
However, the old aristocracy entangled forces and came to a rebellion, shouting slogans to expel the tyranny and cool government of the Mo family.
It just so happened that the battle of Niu Qiyi had just ended, and Wei Chu knew that the Mo family's technology was terrible, and the situation in the world was greatly beneficial to the Mo family.
Under these circumstances, the Shangqiu side of the common people's court exerted pressure, forcing Song Gongzi Tian and the Inquiry Yuan to make Emperor Yin's father Zang think that what happened in Pengcheng was a "rebellion". Pengcheng's side immediately put down the rebellion, killing and intimidating, several nobles were killed, and the rest expressed "repentance" and supported the policy of 20 years of redemption.
Those who did not die fled, and the land was directly owned by the "public". The rest of the repentant and agreed to redeem it, the Mo family did not give gold or copper at all, but gave a pile of paper money, and it was impossible to spend it when they left the Mo family's control area and the surrounding Song cities, but they could invest in the coal and iron-smelting workshops in Pengcheng.
Where there are no immortals in the change, there are many fewer people in Pengcheng than in Peixian, and the change in Peixian is to take advantage of the Shangqiu coup when Emperor Song's father Zang Du begged the Mo family again to kill the local nobles, Pengcheng's is quite mild compared to Peixian, and only a few hundred people died.
A large number of scholars and down-and-out aristocrats became operating landlords under the private property system, and the new crops integrated with handicrafts such as winemaking and textiles greatly increased their incomes, and they did not extremely resist the policies of the Mo family.
After all, at this time, there were few people and few people, and the land problem was not so acute, and the strong execution power of the Mo family and the large area of wasteland that could be reclaimed as arable land buffered the sharpness of the contradictions.
These are all suitable to know, and this is not a secret within the Mo family, and Gongzaoye will naturally not say these things at this time.
It was only after a few glasses of wine that he talked about a "friend" of his, who was more important than the big one.
This friend's story is suitable for listening.
At this time, Shi Zai's only emotion after drinking was ...... "Guangling San" has been extinct ever since.
Because the eternal swan song "Guangling San" originated from an ancient song called "Nie Zheng Assassination Han".
The friend who nagged after drinking was named Nie Zheng was named Nie Zheng. According to the news heard by the Mo people in Qi and Weidi, it is not only the Korean Yan Zhongzi who is befriending Nie Zheng now, but also the rebel Mo Shengxuan, Qin Gongzilian and others......