Instead of answering, he asked, "When you returned from the Far West, what you saw and heard along the way, did you think that if you traded, you might be profitable?" ”

Hearing this, Suo Lu Shen hurriedly nodded and said, "There is no wood for a hundred miles, and no corn for a thousand miles." But pearls, jade, silk and the like, a hundred times more profitable, if you trade to the west, you can really succeed, and you will be rich if you want to come to Qinjun. ”

"From the Qin land to the west, passing through the Yiqu Yueshi, there are some small states and states. The population is more than 10,000, living in the city, there is yellow sand outside without fear, producing melons and fruits, and planting wheat. After here and further west, about 2,000 miles, there is a large country of Persia, with a lot of gold and silver, rich and no less than the princes of Middle Earth, good chariot warfare. The silk I brought there was sold for a high price. Even if there is a danger in the exchange, the profit is enough to make people not afraid of life and death. ”

Solushen knew that on his last trip, many of the goods he carried were suitable for his own use. Along the way, they were able to make a profit by selling and exchanging, and there were also many seeds brought back by Solu Shen according to some of the crops described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

He was not surprised, but it was appropriate to say that he had two masters who had traveled, so it was reasonable to be able to prepare goods in advance that could be sold for a lucrative exchange.

As for the matter of "helping Qin", Suo Lushen knew about the abundance of trade profits along the way, thought about it for a while, and said: "In my opinion, it is excellent." ”

"Such as silk, dyes, glass and other things, Qin Di is not produced, if they want to transship, they still have to buy from the Central Plains. If you want to buy, you can have many more people working for a living, and the goods will be more abundant. ”

"Going up the Heshui, the economic water to the big river, and turning to the Weishui, it is enough to transport these goods over. The Qin people have the advantage of the terrain and can benefit. There are benefits of production in the Central Plains, and they can also make profits. ”

"The Qin land is changing and warlike, if we get Nanzheng, there is a valley apart, the Qin people know whether to take it, and they will also measure whether to attack Nanzheng. If it is advantageous to the west, the Central Plains can have a lot less war, and the future circulation of writing will also be conducive to the world being one. ”

After Solushen finished saying his opinion, everyone laughed and said, "That's what we mean." So there are some things that you need to work hard and try to sort them out as soon as possible. ”

Naturally, Solushen readily agreed, and knew that this matter was important.

After another glance at Shi, he finally said: "Shi, I have traveled west in the extreme west this time, and I have also seen a country whose elegance is no less than that of Middle-earth. The more you know, the more doubts you have in your heart, and some ideas are about to be discussed with you. ”

Solushen only roughly talked about what he had seen and heard about his trip to the west, but he knew that the current West was also the time when a hundred flowers were blooming, Greek culture was at its peak, and the so-called Renaissance in later generations was mostly looking for the source from here after the popularization of iron tools and commerce, the so-called "Togu reform".

The importance of this exchange is self-evident, especially since Solushen is not an official but a member of the Mohist academic community, and what he sees and hears is naturally different from the perspective of the official's visit.

Shi said: "This matter is not urgent, I also want to discuss it with you." It's just that now the affairs are busy, and you have to prepare for the westward journey, as well as the Sungkyun teaching materials......"

"Next month, we will gather the public to form a law in Si for thousands of miles, and it is the promulgation of the general laws and regulations in Sishang, you just happen to listen to and participate, and you can learn more about the current situation in Sishang."

"I'll talk about it when I'm done with all this."

Solushen nodded, looking forward to it.

Ten years ago, when the Mohists left, they had just won the victory of the water, and although it had been ten years since the change, it would take ten years for the people to organize and educate the people, and it was only now that they began to promulgate and negotiate formal decrees in a way that was in line with the morality of the Mohists.

After asking a few more questions, Suo Lushen knew that this time the gathering of people to discuss the decree could be said to be the first major event in the entire Sishang, and as for the affairs of Qin and Zhao, they were just a small turmoil.

This time, it is necessary to draw up the constitution and discuss and discuss a series of issues such as the Land Law, the Marriage Law, the Tax Law, the Inheritance Law, the Employment Law, and so on.

It needs to be done by gathering the representatives of the public in the Sishang area in order to have legitimacy in line with the morality of the Mohists.

The law is the ruling tool of the ruling class, just like the secret laws of the aristocracy and the decrees of various countries, but the ruling class has changed, and the formulation of the entire law is inevitably incompatible with the mainstream law in the world at this time.

However, the land of Sishang has a foundation of more than ten years and has enough economic heritage, and the release of this law is like the fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman in October.

Suo Lu Shen keenly discovered the timing of the Mo family's method this time, which is worth pondering.

In the north, the Central Plains of the Three Jin Dynasty will be in chaos, and the Qin people will ask for the Mo family, I have to say that this is a time worth playing. However, the matter of the Qin people is the icing on the cake, and the matter of the Zhao people, I am afraid that the Mo family has already planned it, otherwise they would not have sent a figure like Hu Feizi to Handan.

He only guessed these things by himself, and didn't ask too much. Shi also told him that he had prepared some books for him and asked him to hurry up and read them, all of which were some things about the Mo family in Sishang in recent years, as well as some academic discussions.

In the days that followed, several horses galloped to Taoqiu to invite the Qin people into Pengcheng for negotiations.

At the same time, it is almost the time when the representatives of public opinion in various places have finished harvesting autumn wheat and are ready to go to Pengcheng.

These representatives of public opinion are not aristocrats, they may have been ordinary people twenty years ago, just fugitive slaves. Now they still don't have the name of nobility, and they haven't been rewarded with 10,000 acres of land because of some of their past exploits, and some are just trusted by everyone.

Some representatives of public opinion still have to collect wheat in person.

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On the banks of the Surabaya River, near the former Peize, now in the countryside of Peize.

It's wheat harvest time.

On the way, Wu Qi, who was heading to Pengcheng, pointed to an object in the spring wheat field in the distance and asked in surprise, "What is that?" ”

The Qin people around him are all guards in other places all the year round, and Rao is well-informed, but he doesn't recognize them.

It was running through the wheat fields, pulled by three horses.

Three horses in front, and the one behind it looked like a carriage, but smaller than a carriage. On the left side of the "cart", there is a pile of wood, like a woman's spinning wheel, with strips of wood stretched out widely, turning as the horse advances.

There were about six or seven of these wooden strips on the left side of the carriage, each of which was about half a zhang long.

With each turn, the horizontal strips of wood crushed the ripe, golden-brown wheat, and then the iron knives underneath swung with the wheels to cut the overwhelmed wheat to the ground.

A middle-aged man sat in the carriage of the strange machine, and flicked his whip incessantly, and the horses moved forward in pain, and the wheat fell flat to the ground.

They were followed by a few men who gathered up the wheat that had fallen to the ground, and selected a bundle of ears to tie up a large bundle of wheat.

The flat, once silty earth had not a single stone, and the horse-drawn wheat harvesting machine cut the wheat three or four times as fast as a human being.

Wu Qi has guarded the West River for many years, and some plains of the West River have also introduced the popular cocoon cars in Sishang. He had seen many agricultural tools, but he had never seen such strange tools.

Originally, wheat was a cheap food, and it was generally used as military food. Later, with the advent of water-powered mills, winter wheat was also cultivated on a large scale in places such as Xihe.

The most worrying thing about growing wheat is harvesting.

Originally, there were no columbian carts, and the speed of planting wheat was about the same as the speed of harvesting. There is only so much time to plant wheat in the spring, which is almost equal to the time it takes to harvest it, so you can harvest as much wheat as you can plant.

However, with the advent of the columb, the speed of wheat planting increased, and one person, one horse, one cart, one could plant fifteen acres of wheat a day, but when it was harvested, even if a person used the iron sickle sold by the Mo family, he could only harvest two acres.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, and a large amount of land has been cultivated due to the advent of iron tools, but the speed of wheat harvesting also limits the amount of land planted.

This strange instrument in front of him can harvest wheat three or four times as much as a person, Wu Qi couldn't help but be surprised.

asked all the people around him, but no one recognized him, Wu Qi secretly thought, I'm afraid this is another device made by the Mo family like a cocoon.

Although Mo Zhai has passed away now, in addition to those who stayed in Chu State, most of the disciples of the public loss class have entered Sishang because of the old relationship between Mo Zhai and the public loss class. Mo Zhai originally had some wood disciples, and the iron tools in Sishang had been used for nearly twenty years, and all kinds of tools were forged, and new instruments were emerging here in an endless stream.

Wu Qi knew that Qinchuan was suitable for growing wheat, and when he saw this tool, he was curious, so he asked someone to stop, got out of the car and walked to the place where the wheat was cut.

When I got closer, I saw a middle-aged man about forty years old driving the horse in the carriage. Behind him were several women and two teenage children.

If you look closely, it turns out that there are not only such strange carriages and equipment in this wheat field, but there are as many as three.

In addition to these carriage equipment, there are also some people who bend down and use sickles to cut the wheat, apparently also fighting with the heavens, the wheat is likely to suddenly ripen in ten days, and then if it is not harvested as soon as possible, once it rains, it will sprout and fall ears, so these people are fighting with the sky.

As he got closer, he heard one of the two teenagers who were tying wheat behind the Namara's apparatus complaining.

These two teenagers, both in their teens, look almost identical, and obviously must be twins.

One honestly bowed his head to the bundle of wheat, and the other got up from time to time and sighed: "Mom, the wheat is itchy on my body, let's drink some water and rest after this piece." ”

A woman who was tying wheat in front of her turned around and scolded, "I'm really getting lazy." When I was a child, I didn't have a sickle for cutting wheat, and I relied on picking ears, so I don't know how tired I was more than this! This year, the village community bought a few new horse-drawn wheat harvesters, as long as you bend over and bundle, are you still tired? You children, you are really not as good as the generation, you should really be thrown to the time when the Mo family did not come to our Sishang twenty years ago, and let you live for a few days......"

The young man had a hippie smile on his face, waving a bundle of ears of wheat in his hand, and said, "Isn't the Mo family's study of Tianzhi just to make people suffer less? When I was eating, as soon as I said that you were cooking with less oil, you said how it was twenty years ago, how was it twenty years ago...... Oh, now if you want to go back to 20 years ago, it's easy, you see this wheat harvest, you can pluck the ears of wheat by hand, don't use an iron pot when eating, use a clay pot when eating, the mill at the entrance of the village uses water power, you can also push it by hand, and you can cut firewood without burning coal in the big pot of paper made in the village workshop......

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy had no malicious intent, which caused the person next to him to tie up the wheat laughing, and the woman still felt sorry for her child after all, and scolded with a smile: "Then you and your brother will go under the tree first, and give the salt water to everyone to take to the ground, you can always do this, right?" What a lazy meat, how did I give birth to such a thing as you! ”