Chapter 45: Differences

I was surprised in my heart, but I made a look of surprise on my face and said, "It turned out to be the queen of the warriors!" I have also heard of your father's reputation in Xihe, and I thought that he would be in a high position in Sishang, and I did not want to be a farmer. ”

The young man said, "My father was also in a high position." This year, he was elected as one of several representatives of our township who could participate in the Mass Righteousness Association. Why is it not high? If this is the world set to be one, wouldn't a person like him, who can consult the government and ask the government to extract opinions, also be considered Uncle Hou? ”

Wu Qi has also heard a little about some of the Mohists' governing strategies, the so-called theory of gathering the righteousness of the people, which he has always criticized.

How can you let those people with mud on their legs say nonsense? The people are ignorant, if it is the people who come, will not the world be in chaos?

Wu Qi thought to himself that when Ximen Leopard was repairing water conservancy in Ye, it was also compulsory, because the people were reluctant to serve if they wanted to repair water conservancy, so he sighed that "the people can make happiness successful, but they can't know the beginning", which is to say that the people's ignorance can benefit them, but they can't explain the truth to them.

However, at this time, it was inconvenient for Wu Qi to say more, because what he saw along the way, before he arrived in Peiyi, he saw several ditches and waterways for irrigation, and he didn't know how the Mo family made the people willing to build it here.

Before he understood, he could only suppress the doubts in his heart, and smiled at the young man: "I'm a newcomer to Sishang, and I don't know the rules here." If you make meritorious deeds elsewhere, don't you divide the land and population for food? In the army of righteous teachers, there is no real benefit to making meritorious deeds? ”

When the young man heard this, he laughed and said, "The master said that the nobles do not have crops, so they take the fruits of those who work, and they are the biggest silverfish in the world." How could the Mo family have a fief? Besides, the appropriate year said, the fief can be, the land of Baiyue is boundless, whoever wants a fief will go. However, people who say they want land, but in fact they want the peasants on the fiefdoms to do their labor...... Hey ......"

After that, the young man shook his head, probably learning from the expression of their master, showing a look of disdain.

Wu Qi was secretly shocked, and said in his heart that this young man was only fourteen or fifteen years old, although many countries today will serve at the age of fifteen and are considered adults, but in other places, how can he see a fifteen-year-old boy who can say this truth?

If it is said that it is a noble background and a family history, it is understandable. It's just that this person is clearly not an aristocrat, and the Mo family has deep roots in Sishang, which has made these teenage teenagers so fanatical, thinking that the truth of the Mo family is taken for granted!

Where is the slightest shadow of Zhou Li on this young man's body? Sishang is so big, how many such teenagers are there? How many people have received education since birth that is instigated by the Mohist system that is incompatible with the world system?

Wu Qi thought to himself, could it be that the righteous teacher is good at fighting and daring to fight, all relying on such indoctrination and instigation, is it true that everyone is a person who cares about benefiting the world?

Think about this is impossible, if that is really the case, the belonging of the world, there will be no suspense within twenty years.

So he asked, "What good is it for your father's meritorious deeds?" Didn't the Mohists say that righteousness is profit? ”

The young man nodded and said, "Of course there are advantages, how can there be none?" He has two of the best military medals, and every year the Federation of Disabled and Meritorious Servicemen gives out a lot of money. If we aspire to join the army, we will also take care of it when we enter the military academy. ”

"Who wants the land? How good it is to ask for money. No matter how much land is given, who will plant it? In Sishang, as long as you have money, you can buy anything, and you can also invest in a stock workshop, which is all income. In our village community, the income of this oil mill and paper mill has long been almost the same as farming. ”

Wu nodded his head and said secretly in his heart: "The Mo family in Sishang can give money, but I can't in Xihe." How can you have so much money? Second, Xihe has no workshop income, so he can only buy land, but if there is too much land and no one is there, it is difficult to cultivate. I am in Xihe, and all those who enter the military are exempt from the labor of the family; Sishang is a person who has made military merits and gives money every year...... It's no different. ”

"They are all Elidomians, but in the West River, money is not a long-term heirloom, but it is free from labor. In Sishang, there are many workshops and trade, and the money can be passed down for a long time. ”

Along the way, he had already become accustomed to the situation that the closer he got to Sishang, the more different the customs and habits became from those of the Central Plains, and he probably had some opinions of his own in his heart.

When it comes to the origin, whether it is the military soldiers in Xihe, or the military exploits in Sishang, or even the changes that have been made in Qin, they are all to guide people with profit.

Wu Qi vaguely felt that it was just that the situation was different in different places, so the manifestations of this "benefit" were also different.

However, what is the difference? And what creates such a gap?

Wu Qi hadn't fully figured it out in his heart, but he just felt that it was the same thing in ignorance.

But he felt that it was also beneficial for Sishang to get to the West River, but it was not effective, because people preferred to ask for land and be exempt from servitude; And Xihe's method is taken to Sishang, but I am afraid that it may not be possible for the soldiers to die.

People are all the same, what is the root cause of the disparity? Is it just because of the Xuanyi indoctrination of the Mohists?

While he was thinking about it, he heard a shout in the distance, and the young man heard the shouting, so he made a gesture of please, "Tell me to hurry up and bring water." ”

Wu Qiqi nodded and said: "It just so happens that I have heard of your father's reputation for a long time, and this time, I happened to meet this warrior who captured the king of Yue by the king of Mengchu......"

So he followed the boy to the edge of the field, where the wheat harvesters were resting, and some of them patted the wooden horse-drawn ear-cutting instrument and said, "This is a good thing." There are fewer people and more land, this thing is really good, although the cut is not as clean as people, but it saves a lot of effort. ”

A person next to him also echoed a few words, to the effect that when harvesting wheat in previous years, in order to worry about the rain, he always had to get up early and be greedy for darkness, and his waist would be broken when he was busy.

He also muttered that the price of grain was too low in the past few years, and only said that in the past, boatloads of wheat and millet could often be seen in Surabaya, and many families in the Song Dynasty had slaves and many people who could hire workers, and the grain production would be more, but there were few people here and even fewer people who were willing to be hired laborers.

One of them said to the middle-aged man sitting on the horse-drawn machine: "King Qing, when you go to Pengcheng this time, don't forget the wishes of our people in the countryside." You have to give your opinion, can you not buy grain from Song Di? Or set up a tax card in Sishang, so that less wheat and millet from Song can come to our Sishang. ”

"Otherwise, the price of this grain is getting worse and worse, and the people in the village are a little complaining. According to what everyone in our township discussed, unless there is a disaster, if not, a card will be set up in Si, and the grain of the Song Kingdom will not be allowed to come in. If you invite disaster, let's talk about it separately. Or, set a price, and only when the price is high can grain be collected from the Song land. ”

Wu Qixin, who was walking not far away, said: "It is the valley that hurts the peasants, and in the past, Li Kui practiced the law of leveling in Wei, which the Mo family cannot ignore." Why is it that the farmer still has such worries in Sishang? ”

He looked up at the middle-aged man sitting on the horse-drawn machine, but he was forty years old, and his face was tanned by the wind and sun all the year round, and he was not very stout.

Wu Qi thought to himself, it turned out that the warrior who captured the two kings was not a strong man like Evil Lai.

King Shuqing, who was sitting on the instrument, also noticed Wu Qi who was following his son, although he didn't recognize it, he also felt that this person should be a character. On this normal day, there are many people who come and go, and many people stop to ask a few words, and he is used to it.

When he saw someone coming, he jumped down from the apparatus and said to the man just now: "Since everyone elected me as a representative, I must say this." It's just that it's hard to pass or not. Nowadays, Peiyi and Pengcheng have tens of thousands of households, among which there are many businessmen. When the price of food rises, we are happy, but they are not happy. Besides, it is difficult to say that this synonym is not only for us farmers, but also for those in the cities. ”

"Each has its own benefits, it depends on how to make everyone acceptable."

After responding, he greeted Wu Qi, said hello, and chatted with Wu Qi with his head bowed.

From the planting of the village community to the distribution of the profits of the village community's workshop; from military service to hard labor; From the school in the village community to the 15th tax, a lot of taxes and fees such as education and road construction have been added, and now they are considered tithes, and the land system between the villages and communities is ......

Wu Qi intends to ask, and he has a wide range of knowledge, so he can talk back and forth with King Shuqing, who has studied all year round in the past few years.

In the end, Wu Qi finally came to his senses, and finally understood what the root of the difference he had thought about before was.

For example, in Xihe, there is a family, and the man ploughs and the woman weaves.

One-seventh of the corn and wheat grown is taxed, the rest is kept for food, and the rest can be exchanged for a little salt or the rest of the necessities of life.

The women weave and weave hemp at home as a garment for the family.

Self-sufficient, with little exchange.

Even if these strange workshops are built in Xihe, they can't be sold at all, and how many of those noble people are there?

But here, in this village community, these people take advantage of the benefits of Surabaya and the workshops and handicrafts developed in Pengcheng in Peiyi, and seek profit first.

There was even a village community that saw cotton making money a few years ago, and the village community planted cotton all over the place, and then spent money to buy grain from the Song Kingdom and pay taxes and grain.

Land was no longer a necessity for self-sufficiency, but a means of making money, no different from those workshops.

Few of the women in the village community weave and spin their own fabrics, because the textile industry in Pengcheng is developing rapidly, and the division of labor and cooperation is far better than the efficiency of weaving cloth for each family. These village women have time to weave, so they might as well go to the village community's workshop to get paper for money to buy cloth.

Now the village community is disgusted with the low price of grain, so it has decided to plant a large area of potatoes next year to make wine, which will be more profitable. This is unthinkable in Xihe, because even if Xihe could do this, who would these wines be sold to?

Wu Qi felt that this was the root cause of the difference between Sishang and other other policies, but just as he had thought about the five types of ordinary soldiers: one was to fight for fame, the second was to fight for profit, the third was to accumulate evil, the fourth was civil strife, and the fifth was due to hunger, he saw the appearances, but he still did not think clearly what the root cause of these apparent differences was.

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