At the same time that Xu Xiaoyu and Yun Mengze began to talk about the content of those meetings, Nanhai, Hetao, Nanzheng and other places were also organizing and learning the same content.

The revised Mohist system has finally reached self-consistency, from mutual love and mutual benefit to mutual love and mutual benefit, and the complete legal theory of the Enlightenment theory of seizing power and the new program have been perfected.

Through this enlarged meeting, the discipline was tightened, and the subjective altruistic faction that suffered from extreme self-suffering and the objective altruistic faction that pursued life were united, and the last non-offensive faction was eliminated and cleaned up together.

The adopted new program and perfect ideology were equivalent to a declaration of war against the rest of the princes, but the rest of the princes did not react much, because they felt as if the Mohists had always been like this, and this time there was not much change from the previous philosophy.

Only when Sishang Yishi changed his name to the Xie Hanging Army, the princes of various countries were quite dissatisfied. Fortunately, the Mojia army in Zhao did not change its name, but continued the name of the Northern Army, and the army in Southern Zheng did not change its name.

It seems that there is no difference from before, but those merchants and workshop owners from various countries who have been in Sishang for a long time smell the smell of excitement - this time the theory of the Mohists not only obtained legal principles for them to seek profits, but also laid a moral foundation for them to seek profits in the future.

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Summer goes, autumn comes, winter is near.

Outside a village near Peize, a young man with a tanned face and a one-eyelid patch on his left eye boarded a horse-drawn carriage on the way to the village.

The car was loaded with a lot of goods, including Xuanlin, jerky, sugar, cotton cloth, and some daily necessities that could be used on a daily basis.

The driver looked back at the swarthy young man with an eye patch for a long time, and finally shouted in surprise.

"Shu Guitian?"

When I saw a swarthy young man with an eye patch, he smiled, and heard the young man say, "I thought that my village partners didn't know me in the past few years when I went to sea." ”

The driver stopped the carriage in amazement, looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with your eyes?" ”

Shu Guitian stretched out his finger and pointed at his eyes, but he didn't care, and said very casually: "I used a sextant to look at the sun all day long at sea, and I saw too much, and I was about to go blind." Now you can't use it. ”

Only then did the fellow townsman who was driving the car remember and asked, "Are you back?" Why haven't you heard of it? ”

This is a very sensational thing a few years ago, when the Mohists and the hundred schools of thought debated, in order to refute some theories of Gaitian, and also to prove that there is really a rich place in the world that is no less than the Central Plains, a group of people who are not afraid of death went out to sea in a few boats, bound to find the "body poison" that Suo Lushen heard when he traveled west.

Shu Guitian is in the middle of it.

At that time, everyone thought that this was a matter of nine deaths and one life, and they never thought that they would come back today, but it is said that such a sensational thing cannot be without news.

Shu Guitian said: "After getting off the boat, everyone was homesick, so they all took a vacation and hurried home to see." The news has not yet arrived. ”

The driver asked, "Is it really possible to reach that place of abundance?" ”

Shu Guitian took out a silver coin with a very bright color and obviously an exotic style from his bosom, and tossed it in his hand a few times.

It was a square silver coin with some strange patterns engraved on it, like a group of tadpoles with two tails swimming around something.

"Is that still fake? The two gentlemen of the giant have been there, and we have gone to places that are similar to those depicted in the stories. There are some people there, who believe in anything, never kill, and don't even plough the land, because the ploughed land can trample on insects, so they just become merchants. Xuan Linzhu sells very well there, and I also saw some brocade, which seems to have been transported from Shudi, and I don't know how. ”

He sighed, shook his head, and said, "The road is far away, and there is no one of the three." Few came back alive. But if the goods are transported, it is really a hundred times more profitable. Brocade Xuan Lin exchanged for all kinds of local goods......"

Thinking of those partners who died of illness at sea and whose ships were destroyed by wind and waves and disappeared, Shu Guitian was in a bad mood.

The person who drove the car did not know the danger of the sea, and even if he had heard of it, he had not seen the tragic situation of his partner's illness and death with his own eyes, and looked at the square silver coin in Shu Guitian's hand, and said in amazement: "You are going to get rich." According to the rules, you will not be rewarded for this voyage. If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and how much will you be rewarded? ”

Shu Guitian waved his hand and said, "It's okay." One-fifth of the gold and silver and some Yidi goods brought back this time belonged to us equally. In the future, if a chamber of commerce is formed, we don't need to pay for one-twentieth of the shares. In the future, if we really form a chamber of commerce for trade, we can all give priority to being captains. ”

The man who drove the car sighed, "Amazing." Terrific. It's a lot more profitable than your brothers and sisters. ”

Shu Guitian nodded and said, "That's a lot." But you can't buy land in Sishang, and you can't hire people to buy land in the South China Sea, so the money is either invested in workshops or invested in those chambers of commerce that trade overseas. ”

The driver thought of something and said, "By the way, you came back at the right time." Your brother is on vacation, your sister has also returned from Chudi, and your father must be very happy when the family gathers. What are your plans when you come back? ”

Shu Guitian pointed to his eyes with blindfolds, and said half-jokingly: "One of my eyes has been dedicated to the great cause of benefiting the world." There is only one eye left, and I want to keep it and do what I love. ”

"Favorite things?"

The driver thought, you don't know the current situation, last year's meeting has already said that the cause of benefiting the world will be carried out to the end, and it will inevitably be conscripted at that time, even if the service period is completed, as long as the order is issued, you have to go, even if you go to the South China Sea.

Shu Guitian stopped talking about this topic and wanted to avoid it, so he pointed to the goods in the car and asked, "What, you opened a grocery store?" ”

The driver laughed, "Where is mine?" It's not that the people in the village community dislike the trouble of buying and selling, and they feel that it is better for everyone to buy and sell than to make some money together, and buy some for everyone to use, which is much cheaper. The village community set up a grocery store, and I was a car driver, so where could it be mine? ”

Shu Guitian rummaged through the goods around him, looked at a bundle of cotton cloth that was nearly twice as wide as before, and sighed: "It's only been a few years, and now you can weave such a wide cloth?" ”

"Well, it's only started this year. I heard that it was a new loom made by the manufacturer, and it was much cheaper than before. However, the price of cotton is good, that is, in recent years, the village community must pay enough grain to grow cotton or something, otherwise it will make a lot of money by planting cotton this year. ”

Although the price of grain is a bit cheap, the life of the village community has been getting better and better in recent years, and the cooperative papermaking workshop plus the newly reclaimed land, as well as the use of horse-drawn ear cutting machines, have made the production of grain much easier.

The price of cotton cloth has dropped a little compared to before, and the Xulin window has gradually become a luxury that the villages and communities near Peiyi can afford, except for the mandatory requirement for each village community to keep a certain number of acres of grain land, it is not too mandatory, and there is no need to levy a large amount of grain.

Shu Guitian looked at the window of Xuan Lin in the carriage, and after asking about the price, he said in surprise: "It's much cheaper than before?" ”

The driver laughed, "You don't know? Peiyi built a large workshop, but many people worked there. This workshop is strangely tight, saying that it can use iron ore and salt or something to make alkali for burning Xuanlin. The newspaper said that the nobles of the Yue country who burned seagrass ash to make alkali on the seaside were in a hurry, and the price was too low, so they could only squeeze their workers, as if there was an uprising last month, smashing several seagrass ash burning workshops, saying that they wanted to ask the king of Yue to restore the old system so that each had its own land. There are also some people who fled to our side after the uprising, and our side also negotiated with the Yue country, denouncing them for harming the people, and the boat division fought a battle with the Yue country, so that those who rebelled crossed the river and ran to our side. ”

Although Shu Guitian didn't understand why he could make alkali with iron ore and salt, there were too many strange things in Si over the years, and he was not used to seeing them. If you want to know, you can ask his uncle, but he is not interested, just pondering...... If these Xuanlin, porcelain, iron pots, etc., can be sold to the place where he returned, they can be exchanged for a lot of gold.

As for how much blood and tears, how much despair, and how much suffering of the old and the new are hidden in the stories told by the people who drove the car, he actually didn't care.

He felt that he was different from his father, and he was not the same as his brothers and sisters, and they may have a heart for the people, but he did not.

There may have been, but the unpleasant experiences that accompanied him in the Qimo War to help measure the land are gone. He felt that it was a group of ignorant and timid people, of course, he also knew that his parents used to be like this, but the fathers had erased the past and shaped the new spirit of Sishang, who was born here and grew up here, and took pity on the difficulties of the serfs outside, but he didn't want to save them all his life, to do those small and unpleasant things.

Even he had a feeling of gradual disconnection, and he felt more and more unacceptable about the unity of the world that Sishang had been propagating: it was difficult for him to accept that the peasants who were ignorant and afraid of the aristocracy were the same as him. He knew that the Mo family wanted to change the whole world and reshape the concept of the world, and he also knew that Sishang was like this thirty years ago, but he thought what this had to do with him?

Shu Guitian thought to himself, I have compassion, and those who see it suffer, I may throw down a piece of gold. But if I was asked to take root in the village community in Qi again, measure the land, teach the truth, and truly liberate them...... Forget it, I'd rather be blind in one eye than do something that was so boring.

He thought, if I don't go, someone will. If you really force me to go, then I will run to the South China Sea, take some people like me, get a boat, the world is so big, with my ability and the musket in my hand, where can I not break into a truly free and easy, take the lead in achieving each other's strengths, divide their duties, and do what they like?

I have been at sea for a long time, and I am used to seeing those high-flying birds; I have been in Sishang for a long time, and I am used to the world where everyone is equal; Relying on my father's dedication and my own efforts, I learned a skill...... Therefore, I felt that synonym, equality, and love should be replaced by freedom, equality, and compassion. For the sake of synonymology, for the sake of love, if you really force yourself to teach in other villages and villages, then you can only get up and flee to the sea to find freedom.

Thinking about those who have the same ability as himself and who have received enough education like himself, Shu Guitian feels that the Mo family's benefit to the people and the world is already a shackle locked on his people.

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