The old nobleman wanted to raise his sword to kill himself again, but he was pulled again, and in the confusion, he only listened to the ink man on the side and said: "Die for twenty dollars?" It's not worth it. You have a chariot, a sword in your hand, a jade at your waist, and a horse in your king, which one is not a hundred times ten dollars? Why bother? ”

When the old nobleman heard this, he was even more dizzy, and he only felt as if countless people were laughing at him.

If you want to commit suicide, you can't raise your sword, and if you think about it again, what is the matter with suicide at this time? When it is mentioned by later generations, it is necessary to talk about his death in violation of the law and not wanting to pay the forfeiture money, at that time not only was not vigorous, but it was necessary to laugh and be generous.

He came with the ambition of seeking death and benevolence, but he didn't want the Mo family to treat him as nothing.

According to what he thought, as soon as he entered the city, the Mo family would be shocked, and the highest governor of the Mo family here would definitely come in person, and when the time came, he would make a generous statement, and the Mo family was speechless, and his face couldn't hold back and he was annoyed and angry and killed him, so that the world knew it.

But he didn't want to, not only did the Mo family not give him the opportunity to speak generously, but they treated him like a commoner pariah, which was the most unbearable for him.

Even if Xiang Ziniu was defeated that year, the Tian family took Liang's father's field, and sent someone to inquire in person and ask him to continue to work, but he categorically refused, and let his son replace him in order to let himself end up from the beginning.

Now that Mo said that the head coach of the Mo family did not ask him in person, he didn't want to even these little ink masters to regard him as an ordinary person, how could this not be an insult?

If you kill him directly and take it seriously, it is not an insult.

But if he is equal to others, it is the greatest insult.

The old nobleman thought to himself, if it was an ordinary peddler's pawn, if he violated this law, he would definitely be punished, but in fact he regarded himself as the same as those peddler's pawns? How can we endure such humiliation?

Suicide is not allowed, and there is no money to pay these fines and confiscations, so it is really impossible to advance or retreat.

For a long time, he also thought that if he continued to make trouble, he would lose any dignity, and he would be treated as a joke by those ordinary people, so he had to pretend that his hand was loosened and the sword was taken away by others.

The written clerk stared at his sword and said, "This sword can be used as collateral, and you can go back and get the money, or ask a friend to borrow money, and then return it to you." ”

The old nobleman said angrily: "The sword does not leave the body of a gentleman!" Cannot. ”

The clerk's eyes wandered to the jade on his waist again, and he said angrily: "A gentleman is like jade, jade is like a gentleman, no!" ”

Every time the ink man's eyes turned, the old man said something like "a gentleman must travel thirty miles, he must not take it", "a gentleman must not be dressed properly" and so on.

There were more and more people watching the excitement around, and the expressions on their faces changed from the fear and inferiority that their ancestors were accustomed to, and the panic of receiving the grain from the warehouse, to a kind of relaxation of watching the excitement.

Taoist saying: Conform to the nature of things and have no room for selfishness.

The unintentional actions of these ink artists are exactly in line with this artistic conception.

Whether it is punishment or attention, in the end, it is better to ignore it, and let the people see the contempt for the nobility in the eyes of the Mo family.

If you pay attention to it, the people will think: nobles are still nobles, you see that the Mo family wants to deal with them, and they have to pay so much attention.

Now it is regarded as ignorance, but it makes the people feel that it is nothing more than that, just a person.

What's more, with a hint of happiness in their hearts, many people thought of the time when they had no money and were forced to pay the Qiujia tax, military tax, and labor tax, and at that time it was useless to cry and beg for money, and they could only borrow money from the nobles.

Look at the present, this nobleman still has to borrow, which really makes many people who have experienced such a thing happy in their hearts, thinking: Gentleman, gentleman, you also know how sad it is to pay money.

Looking at the lively Shu Guitian giggling from a distance, I couldn't help but think of some interesting things in Sishang, such as some nobles who had not fled in the past 20 years, and now some people have no dignity.

After the division of land in Sishang, although the nobles had some money to redeem, some nobles did not know how to grow crops, and felt that they had to maintain the dignity of the nobles from industry and commerce, so they had to sit and eat.

When a nobleman's annual expenses are not small, all kinds of sacrifices, clothing, jade, swords, chariots and horses, etc., are not a small amount.

If not, it is always difficult to say that he is of noble blood when he meets people, how can his ancestors be broad, otherwise how will people know that he is a nobleman?

The money bought is not invested in the industrial and commercial industry, only the little land remains, and the annual expenses have to be maintained, and in the end it can only be sold by people who have passed down all kinds of family property from their ancestors.

Shu Guitian remembered that he went to Pengcheng with his father a few years ago, just in time for Pengcheng to make a mass suicide in Pengcheng more than a dozen nobles in the city to protest against the Mohist policy.

Those nobles dressed in the last splendid costumes, neatly dressed, with swords and jade, with the last of the noble glory and decency, slaughtered themselves in front of the city gate to show their resentment.

It's not that they can't survive, if they grow their own crops or do business or business, or if they don't pay attention to the etiquette of those nobles, they can still live.

can live according to the way of life of the aristocracy, but they really can't live, it is better to die, at least the remaining money can get a set of coffins according to the rites of the scholars, and it can also be said that they will not fall into the identity of the nobles throughout their lives.

It was the first time Shu Guitian saw the suicide man, and he was very impressed, but at that time, there was no reaction in the city at all, and soon after asking their families to collect the body, many of their children and heirs devoted themselves to industry and commerce, or the remaining land of their own crops.

The economic foundation does not change, and the nobles will never be killed, killing Zhou Tianzi and Shang Tianzi. With the change of the economic base, the aristocracy will naturally become extinct, and without the means to get something for nothing, how can we maintain the aristocratic life that can only be maintained without work?

Thinking about it, in the past 20 years, the aristocracy has really become extinct, leaving only the descendants of the nobles who live by industrial and commercial crops or lending and investment, but they are not half similar to the nobles.

Today, when he heard this old nobleman talk about something like "the sword does not leave the body of a gentleman" and "you can't travel thirty miles without a ride", Shu Guitian couldn't help but think of the descendants of the nobles who sold property, horses, jade, bronze utensils, and sacrificial vessels in Sishang and the nobles who killed themselves in front of the city gate, and couldn't help laughing.

The commotion on the street not far away finally ended in a relatively "decent" way, and the Mo family signed a deed, asked the old nobleman's residence, and only said something like "no one can be untrustworthy", and asked the old man to pay the money to the city within ten days.

Until now, the old nobles who entered the city with a strong and fierce heart had no face left, so they had to leave in disgrace.

As he went, the retainers who were driving finally knew to avoid pedestrians, and the chariots and horses stopped galloping as they had come, and walked slowly.

I don't know if it's an illusion, after this incident, those who receive the grain of the millet; The people who listened to the preaching of equality and wealth creation through labor under the Emperor of the Mo family had some natural light on their faces, and their waists seemed to be straighter than before.

After order was restored, Sun Pu looked at the address of the old man recorded in the paperwork, and someone quietly told the identity of the old man of the Mo family.

Sun Pu shook the paper in his hand, and said with a smile to the brigade representative beside him: "This is really a coincidence. The old nobleman, the eldest son is in the army, and the younger son is in the Linzi court, but he didn't run. It's just right, let's deal with the land on his side first. It's hard first, then easy. ”

The brigade representative beside him snorted and said, "This old man should recognize the victory." I heard that he was a vassal of Xiang Ziniu back then, and when Shengqiu was a retainer of Niuzi and led the army to invade Lu, he must have been under Shengqiu. This can be regarded as having some relationship with my Mo family...... Hahahaha. ”

Sun Pu also smiled, and the brigade representative said: "Most of the nobles in the city have fled, but it is a good score." This old man is coming with great momentum today, presumably to frustrate our spirit. If he dares to come, he will be stubborn, and he will commit suicide at every turn, which is a hard bone. ”

"Father Liang's situation is different from Jibei, and the organization not only let you come, but also because of the special situation here."

Sun Pu understood that the situation he said was not as good as what Jibei meant, and the collapse of the Pingyin Army in Jibei led to a large number of Qi people being captured, and after being captured, they were organized together for education and then released, in fact, the public base was indeed better.

In particular, a large number of nobles were captured, and the complete defeat of the nobles in the First Battle of Nanjishui was equivalent to the Mo family's footing in Jibei to break through the mentality of the deep-rooted hierarchical system for hundreds of years.

When there is no reverence for the aristocracy, the people who are eager for profit can burst out with great power.

The situation here is different, and it is indeed not easy to do, so Sun Pu thought of some things to explain to him before leaving.

It is necessary to accumulate experience in such a place, to experience the emotions of the people, to speculate on the reactions of the people, and to sort out the experience for the future.

What do the people in the fiefdom think, what will they do, what shackles do they hate and resent, and what do they want to be lifted the most?

What do the people in the fields outside the fiefdom think? How will it be done? What shackles do you hate and resent the most?

It's not like Sishang back then, I'm afraid it is still necessary to treat it differently, and to accumulate enough experience, after all, the world is vast, Sishang will have Huaibei, the East China Sea, but Xuzhou in Kyushu, a corner of the world.

Moreover, at that time, Sishang was not large, and the proportion of ink writers was extremely high, and some of the methods that could be used in Sishang may not be able to be used here.

More importantly, the purpose of this time is not to "divide", but to "reason", that is, to mobilize the people, which requires more means and skills.

Although it is a one-size-fits-all approach as a whole, it is necessary to deal with it skillfully in the process of cutting, and the ultimate goal is to achieve the "reason" of letting the people know.

Most of the nobles in the city fled, which is easy to do, because the people in the city are not as easy to organize as they are outside the city, and it is easier for them to get in touch with the outside world, it is easy to organize, and it is easy to publicize, and the talkers of the Xuanyi Department are all the new generation of Sishang, who are used to preaching after being organized, but few people have a little bit of the experience and means of mobilizing the people around the Mo family scattered around Peizhi twenty years ago.