Zhou Tianzi was forced to cry bitterly by the interest of usury, and all the scholars who served the Son of Heaven wept, and they couldn't bear it.

This expedition is in the name of the call of the Son of Heaven.

The teacher of the Son of Heaven can not always be like a group of beggars, at least the style and etiquette of the Son of Heaven must be displayed, so that he can take this opportunity to reshape the authority of the Son of Heaven, at least let the princes have a little more respect.

Zhou Tianzi is really poor.

He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to seize some land and get some booty in exchange for some money. The loan shark he borrowed before has not yet been paid off, and the merchant has a whole debt. I have long heard that Sishang is rich, and the first brigade of the Mojia army has several copper cannons, if you get a few copper cannons, now the copper cannons are very expensive, and you can always repay those usury who forced debts.

Now that I can't borrow money and have no military expenses, how can I go on the expedition? The soldiers of the countryside were not fully armoured, the soldiers were unfavorable, and the majesty of the Son of Heaven was damaged, and they could not take the spoils of war, so if they went on the expedition, it became a joke.

Historically, his great-grandson could run to the debt hiding platform, and that was because his great-grandson could still borrow money, so he was eligible to hide from debt. And now that he is the Son of Heaven, he can't even borrow usury, so naturally he doesn't even have the qualifications to hide from debts.

It is even more impossible for the scholar class to be forcibly expropriated, because this time Zhou Tianzi is under the banner of righteousness, and if it is forcibly expropriated from the scholar class, it will be unkind and tyrannical.

On reflection, it seems that the only way to do this is to increase heavy taxes, force the purchase of bonds, and force borrowing from the common people and merchants.

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At the same time, accompanied by Xu Xing, Chen Xiang and others, Shi Zheng inspected some villages and communities built according to the concept of improved farmhouses in the northwest of the former Song Kingdom.

At this time, the summer grain has just been harvested, and with the support of water conservancy facilities and the good natural environment of the Yellow River has not been diverted, this year is another bumper harvest year.

After the abdication of the Song Dynasty, many townships controlled by the peasants naturally joined this republic that wanted to choose the Son of Heaven.

After years of arguing, the peasant family and the Mo family finally reached a settlement on some issues.

The Mohists allowed the peasants to enforce their policies on the land they controlled, but only if they paid taxes, provided soldiers, and controlled the army.

After years of controversy, the peasants began to revise their doctrine in line with the times.

According to the basic concepts of the peasants, "the sage and the people plough together", "the city has no two prices", and "the income from labor belongs to the laborers", Xu Xing and others did a very good job in these townships in the Song Dynasty.

The small number of people and the abundance of land, the reclamation of land that was wasteland in the Bronze Age and the land in the Ueda in the Iron Age, the use of cattle and horse equipment, and the topography of the Great Plain in eastern Henan all made this set of peasant doctrines rejuvenate here.

The tax is low, and after the integration of Sishang, there is no need to rely on agricultural products for primitive accumulation, and the farmer's set has embarked on a road with Sishang in this special environment.

In a very ordinary village community, Xu Xing introduced: "There are a total of 300 households in this village community, and the land is owned by the owner. According to the amount of labor, the annual income is distributed to the people according to the amount of labor, except for the education, development, water conservancy, and management needs of the village community. ”

"The village community has its own workshops and some handicrafts, and when the farming is busy, the collective works in the farmland, and when the farming is not working, it develops the handicraft industry and workshops."

"The sages of the village community are all not out of production, and they also share the wealth according to the different amounts of labor at the end of the year when the village community distributes it."

Shi looked at Xu Xing for a long time and said with a smile: "You have corrected your father's mind." According to your father, the village community should not exchange with the outside world, the village community should mainly focus on farming, and the remaining basic cloth and farming tools should be made by themselves during the leisure time. In this way, it can be regarded as an orthodox farmer. ”

"If you had done this earlier, why would there be such a big disagreement between us?"

Xu Xing smiled awkwardly, and it was difficult to answer.

Looking at the polemics between the Mohists and the peasants in recent years, the problem with its origin lies in the fact that the peasant doctrine mentioned by the Mohists was a utopian fantasy and fantasy at the beginning, and it was to regress to the point of a small country and a widow and no exchange with the outside world.

As for the present, it is very different from the original peasant theory.

When the peasants began to revise their doctrines, the Mo family had already begun to reconcile with the peasants, providing a large number of cattle, horses, iron tools and some agricultural tools suitable for extensive farming, which was also an important factor for the development of these villages and communities to this point.

If we don't look at the distribution method, in fact, these areas controlled by the peasants are very similar to the production methods of the large farmland estates in the east of the Song Dynasty.

They are all large-scale planting, the use of cattle and horse equipment to replace manpower, the concentration of capital and manpower to build water conservancy, and the improvement of land.

The majority of its income also goes to the occupants of the land.

The only difference is that in the areas occupied by the peasants, the land belongs to the owners of the village community; And in some manor farmlands in the east, the land belongs to one person, and the rest are hired laborers.

This distinction led to the fact that the eastern part of the Song Dynasty could sell a huge amount of grain to Sishang every year; In these places controlled by the peasants, the same amount of grain sold to Sishang is significantly less for the same land and the same harvest...... Because the people of the village community are full, they want to eat well.

Now that the Mo family has come out of the predicament, the food is sufficient, and the industrial and commercial development has formed a system that has gradually stabilized, they are not interested in collecting more food from the farmers, but hope that the farmers' initial utopia can continue.

Xu Xing was just joking, and also said: "In the past, Mozi once said that the sum of wealth has increased? Are the people rich? This may seem like one thing, but it's actually two things. The increase in the total wealth of the world may not be consistent with whether the people are generally wealthy. ”

"I look at the politics of Sishang, such as today's different, with Yu and Xu Erzhou, absorbing the labor wealth of the remaining seven states, Sishang can naturally be generally rich. But if the world is unified in the future, it will be difficult to say. ”

"I heard about the politics of Chudi, and after a few years, the land can be sold. Over time, the rich will inevitably get richer and the poor will get poorer. As a giant, don't you want to solve this problem? ”

Shi shook his head and said: "The saying of the three tables, if you want to practice, you can't do it in one lifetime." The universe is infinite, the years are infinite, and the future will be talked about in the future. ”

He didn't want to talk about it.

Last month he inspected the No. 1 Machinery Factory in Pengcheng, and according to the current situation, it may be a year or two at most, a boring machine capable of scraping cast iron to achieve the thickness difference of copper coins can appear, and with the previous research and accumulation, as long as the problem of boring machine is solved, practical steam engines will soon appear.

The emergence of new equipment will inevitably lead to an increase in the speed of wealth accumulation and the expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor.

But there is one thing, the general backwardness of the surrounding areas makes Zhuxia have an almost infinite pressure relief valve, and the lack of population can also make it take longer for the accumulation of internal contradictions to explode, and there is still a lot of time.

He thought for a while, smiled and asked Xu Xingdao: "You say, what will become of the world in the future?" ”

Xu Xing shook his head and sighed and said: "The people have chosen their own path, then they will get everything on this road." Good and bad, it is impossible to only have good and bad things. ”

"For example, when dividing land, people want to own their own small plots of land, cultivate and harvest them, and then they can buy other people's land and live a richer life."

"Everybody thinks so, but in reality the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And there are always fewer rich people and more poor people. ”

"They have chosen private ownership and dreams, and naturally they have to bear the consequences of private ownership. They chose their own path. ”

"Or, annex the land and become a wealthy man. Or, lose your land, go to work in the city, go to the city, work in the workshop, go to work for others. The general trend of the world is mighty and unstoppable. ”

Xu Xing listened to these words, his face was gloomy, but he smiled and said, "It's nothing. In the future, when the majority of the people in the world will become hired workers in workshops and farms, and they will have nothing but a single labor, not even a small piece of land, they will recognize your morality of 'the market is not worth the price,' and 'full labor is fully rewarded,' and so on. That's a good thing for you, isn't it? ”

Xu Xingzheng said: "Shizi said that he laughed. You said that the learning of a hundred schools of thought has bones and skin. For example, Confucianism and Yang Zhixue, if you talk about their bones, it is also for the stability of the world and the prosperity of the people. A true gentleman, walk his bones; And those who only know how to criticize their skins will eventually one day become those who are still opposed to the benefit of the world for the sake of Zhou Li's righteousness. ”

"The backbone of a farmer's family lies in true equality. The bones of the Mo family lie in the wealth and false equality of the world. Farmers do not look forward to the day when most people in the world will not have enough food and clothing, and they will be fully rewarded for their work. Rather, I hope that this day never appears. Otherwise, what is the difference between us and those who only know how to wear the skin, who dare not change, who dare not change, who still use the teachings of a thousand years ago? ”

Shi Da laughed and said: "Yes, so the agricultural and Mo families can reconcile now." If you have always adhered to the idea of small countries and widows valuing agriculture instead of exchanging self-sufficiency with the outside world, how can reconciliation be possible today? ”

"It's just that if there are silverfish aristocrats who don't work for nothing today, opposing them is the first priority. As for the future, even if the world is unified, we will have to deal with their counterattack, which may be ten or twenty years or even thirty or fifty years. By then, you and I will have died and returned to dust, and the rest of the year will be for future generations to think. ”

"Just like Yao Shun, in the era of slash-and-burn stones, how can you think of today's things and implement today's government?"

Xu Xing did not object to this, and nodded: "The peasant family will fully support the earth-shaking battle of the republic." It will also obey the laws of the republic, and the conscription has been done. ”

However, after all, the morality of the peasant family is different from that of the Mo family. In the future, when the world is unified and our common enemy is gone, then the differences can be resolved. Therefore, we hope that we can get more land and people who practice the righteousness of farming. ”

Xu Xing said that the farmer was most concerned.

Now many schools have formed allies with the Mo family, and they are all firm allies with the same interests.

But the brothers still settle the accounts, and the farmer has made a contribution, what can he get in the future?

Some things are better explained in advance.