Chapter 300: The Eve of the Great Chaos (9)
The Mo family is not allowed to have slaves, so they use the name of long-term workers to work for ten years...... This is true, and after ten years, he also learned the language of Sishang, and one person was granted a hundred acres of wasteland, a set of iron tools, and a musket. As for whether it will survive to ten years, it is unknown.
The serfs who fled from the Song State, the Chu State, the Yue State, and the Qi State were not among them, because the control and organization of the Mo family in Sishang was enough to organize them.
In the South China Sea, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and there is really a lack of labor development, and the morality of "saving money" and "long labor" is also turning a blind eye.
Now Sishang has Huaibei and the East China Sea, there is a shortage of people everywhere, the land is vast, the industry and commerce are developed, and the planting industry and commerce are profitable.
As soon as the news came, those who were engaged in trade in the South China Sea immediately brought back more than 4,000 people, and made a lot of money: mainly after the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, the southern trade was easy to ship, but when they came back, they had nothing to carry.
Sugar, deerskins, and the like were acceptable, and in addition to the rice that had to be carried in order to reduce taxes, "long-working" was also one of the lucrative trade objects, probably second only to gold, silver, and copper.
The official forces of the Mo family over there are only a few cities along the coast and along the mouth of the Pearl River, which follow the Sishang model and engage in forced assimilation.
However, the cadres are insufficient, and it is difficult to develop the Sishang model, and the pioneering means of this variant and deformation are mainly based on private forces.
Fortunately, the Mo family has calculated an account, and there is not much of a state over there, even if there is a war, the people who are engaged in trade on the military side can afford it, and they may not even need to use the regular army, but it is enough to use those "Sishang technical fighters" who retired and went out to make a fortune.
Under the difference in weapons and organizational strength, the Central Plains countries have long been beating those primitive states, not to mention the retired veterans of the "Sishang Technicians" with powerful artillery and formation discipline.
Ximen Yan has heard a little about the South China Sea, and he can't help frowning at the title of "Changgong".
More than 4,000 long laborers were transported to Sishang, and they were sold out in less than three days, and the coal and iron ore directly came forward to buy 2,000.
the release of the "wasteland management law" in northern Jiangsu and Huaibei; the rise in the prices of cotton, indigo, oilseeds, mulberry, silk, etc.; The emergence of new technologies such as animal-powered carding machines, water-powered oil mills, and division-based cocoon cooking workshops prompted many vassal states to bring their capital to Sishang by merchants, and they all said: If you dare to transport 10,000, I will dare to buy 10,000.
And enough deposit was given on the spot.
Most of the land that has been allocated in Sishang is not allowed to be bought and sold; The best land of the vassal states cannot be bought in the hands of the nobility; The political system of Sishang is not a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, but it is comparatively the most favorable to industry and commerce relative to the rest of the vassal states, and a large amount of capital runs to Sishang every year, subject to the labor force has always been limited, and now the introduction of the "Long Labor Decree" is simply the dawn for those emerging industrial and commercial classes.
Sishang needed a large number of people directly under the central government as soldiers and workers in the government-run workshops, robbing the people who fled from the Song, Qi, Chu, and Yue, and where could the industrialists and businessmen rob the largest capital group in Sishang, the Mojia, so they had to retreat to the second.
Land annexation was allowed, the number of soldiers was reduced, and the society was unstable.
Land annexation is not allowed locally, labor costs are raised, and capital cannot be increased without labor.
Outside of Sishang, land sales and mergers are still mostly not allowed, including the Qin State on the historical line of later generations, which is also a private land that is allowed to be annexed.
The promulgation of the long-term labor decree can also be regarded as an opportunity for more capital to pour into Sishang and open up Huaibei.
When Ximen Yu was in Yecheng as early as the time, he felt that he was a superfluous person, a silverfish, and he was fanatical. After being scolded by Simon Leopard, he can be regarded as able to see the reality clearly.
Sishang's theory of interest analysis is a compulsory course in the weekday classroom, and it is also one of the categories of exam questions for the entrance to the Xuan Order, so he naturally studied it.
For those nouveau riche who made a fortune in the South China Sea, he still has a little bit of a sense of superiority from "aristocratic background" in his heart.
And it seems that there is a little bit wrong with the long-term labor law.
In fact, after he came to Sishang, his understanding of the Mo family deepened day by day, and many places reversed his imagination of the Mo family in Yedi.
What my father said, now I hear it, but I think it has a little taste.
He originally thought that the Mo family was a group of saints who "suffered from their own hardships, benefited the world, and everyone sought holiness", and the folk customs in Sishang should be quite conservative, and he didn't want to find out after coming to Sishang...... Compared to other places, the atmosphere in Sishang is simply open to the extreme.
The economic foundation determines the superstructure, and the characteristics of 20 years of development, the monopoly of excess profits, the birthplace of new technologies, and the comprehensive development of the education system, coupled with the most important morality of the Mohists, "righteousness is profit", it is impossible for Sishang to be conservative.
For example, the "tiptoe" dance that the theater has just performed and is obviously in the mouths of human traffickers is simply "rotten".
幣, it is said that there is no heel of the small shoes; tiptoe, it is also a light tiptoe.
This kind of Zhao Di dance, wearing heelless dance shoes, stretching the body, tapping the ground with his toes, spinning at high speed, and under the market culture, he wears ...... Less, once performed, overcrowded.
Tiptoe is not ballet, but a close relative of ballet. They all wear heelless dancing shoes and rely on their toes to point to the ground.
Many Handan women came to Si to perform, and there was no shortage of everyone, as for whether it was art or vulgar, that is, everyone has their own opinions.
Not only that, Ximen Yu once thought that all the ink artists were wearing straw sandals and short brown, and they were righteous in the world...... As a result, when I arrived in Sishang, I found that there were indeed many people wearing short brown straw shoes in Sishang, and those who wore short brown straw shoes were not unaffordable, but just a faction of the Mo family: it was claimed that everyone in the world could not wear cotton clothes and cotton shoes, and they would never wear them first.
There are quite a lot of people in this faction, but it doesn't affect them to listen to music and watch performances.
Except for the people of this faction, although the other ink masters are not extravagant, in terms of the overall standard of living, they are really several times higher than the farmers elsewhere.
In the morality of the Mo family, everyone is encouraged to get rich, but there is only one condition: they think that the feudal aristocracy, such as the rentier and rent aristocracy, is silverfish, but they do business, work, etc., vigorously support and advocate "getting rich through labor".
When Mozi was there, he said: If you are in harmony with the will of heaven, the emperor will bless you and make you rich.
As a result, affluence is distorted into the embodiment of "the will of the Emperor of Heaven to make people's lives better".
Before the theory of "surplus value" was introduced, after the overthrow of the aristocratic feudal land ownership system, when the illusory concept of "equality" was maintained, and under the concept of "wealth comes from labor", it was easy to distort it into this way: the emperor must have hoped that people would get better and better, so how could not be considered to be in line with the will of heaven?
Therefore, wealth can be "unscrupulous", but the harm is not guilty, the law does not prohibit it is permitted, I go to the Yidi settlement in the South China Sea to sell guns, I buy and sell the Yidi population, our chamber of commerce instigates the civil war of the tribal city-states, and our chamber of commerce lures the local people to work in the gold mines...... But I became rich, and the law didn't say it was inaccurate, so my actions were in line with the will of Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven protected me.
In the final analysis, the Mohists were not peasant families, did not represent the interests of the small peasant class, and opposed the aristocracy, but did not oppose the joint use of land: the centralized use of land was good, but it only depended on who owned it.
The Mo family does not represent the interests of small handicraftsmen, the large workshops of the division of labor system, and all kinds of large workshops that smoke are all in the hands of the Mo family, and interest groups have already been formed, how can they cut their own flesh because they influence the production of cottage industries?
Could it be that the Mo family, which has the largest number of primitive factories with the workshop system, has to speak for their own interests when they become giants, is it possible that they can still decide not to compete with the people for profits in order to "harm the interests of cottage industry in factories and harm the interests of the small peasant class with low grain prices", blow up all the workshops, and pass a bill to ban grain imports and protect grain prices?
Today's Mo family is no longer the Mo family of the Mozi era.
Since he entered the Mohist family and was in charge of the Xuanyi Department, he actually represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, which did not exist at that time, but had now begun to sprout: at this time, it was the representative of the advanced relations of production and the direction in which Zhuxia was advancing.
After Mozi's death, his theoretical level and prestige were the highest, and he was able to correct them easily.
The Mohists demand equality and care more for the people, because the three words "benefiting the world" are destined to emphasize the "benevolence and righteousness" of the Mohists, although they represent the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, but it is impossible to stand on their side without a bottom line, and out of morality, they must pay attention to the interests of the bottom.
In essence, commercial capital runs to Si, not because Sishang is good, but because Sishang is not so bad for large industrialists and businessmen compared to other places.
At the very least, Sishang said that everyone under the emperor was equal, that there was no sin, that the main body of the law was people, and that the unity of power and duty was the biggest enemy of the new bourgeoisie was the old aristocracy, and the old aristocracy could often use the small peasant class to oppose the new bourgeoisie, and Sishang was the only place where they could protect them thoroughly.
The enthusiasm of the burghers for equality, the fanaticism of the new petty bourgeoisie for the benefit of the world, the self-suffering and extreme Mo-chan who are like saints with the heart of benefiting the world, the demand of the new industrial and commercial capital for the unified market of Kyushu, the group of high-ranking Mohists who have systematically studied the phased paradise, and the peasants who have just been allocated land are like heaven compared to 20 years ago and before they fled...... This is the power of Sishang's expansion.
There are those who are zealous, those who are faithful, those who are fanatical, those who seek profit, those who have to serve, and those who treat their work as a mixed meal...... This is the Sishang of the Mo family at this time.
Although it is still insufficient, and the Mohist propaganda gang is needed to finally force it to pass, but the voting ratio is actually comparable to the Mohists who must implement the central resolution.
Although the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, although Sishang is not hurt, the interests of the farmers must be damaged: in the Song Kingdom and other places, some nobles drove out the fiefdom farmers, leaving a part of the population to operate, and a large amount of grain was sold to the bottomless pit of Sishang, and the price of grain was getting cheaper, and the interests of the farmers in Sishang were not damaged.
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