As a formal ink artist, when he followed Mozi back to Shangqiu, his mood was very different from before.

It wasn't the first time he had seen Shangqiu City, but it was the first time he had really seen Shangqiu, an ancient city that could be traced back to the Emperor's time, because he finally had the slightest qualification to participate in the city's related matters.

Before that, no matter how big the city was, it had nothing to do with him.

Shangqiu City was the capital of the Song Kingdom, and according to the regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, the length of the capital of the Gonghou State should not exceed seven weeks.

Hundreds of years ago, Zhou Li was definitely the most scientific, and according to Mozi, it was the norm that upheld Tianzhi, which was completely in line with the level of productivity at that time, but now it is quite outdated.

At that time, whether it was the construction of the city, or the division of Hou Dian Caiwei Nan and Gonghou Bo Zinan, it was all in accordance with the means that were most conducive to the clan system and all the people were soldiers.

At the time of the Xia Shang, there were tens of thousands of states, and a large number of counts and viscounts according to the area of Xiali. At that time, one mile was two hundred and fifty meters, and one foot was only thirteen or fourteen centimeters.

After the Shang destroyed the summer, the Shang ruler was used instead.

After the change of weights and measures, the habit of saying that he was an earl and viscount by area did not change.

So a group of counts who didn't follow Shang Tang to destroy Xia suddenly found that according to Shang's weights and measures, they were demoted to viscounts by Shang, a bunch of viscounts became barons, and a bunch of earls who didn't follow Xia to destroy Xia were not as big as Shang's viscounts.

When Zhou destroyed Shang, the remaining barons were basically thousands of years old before Xia, and according to the habit of Shang demoting the earl to a viscount back then, there was a saying that the barbarians were called viscounts.

Chu is viscount, although he made Xiaoxi Zhou, destroyed a bunch of concubines, and even the feudal state of King Wen's Siyou Nangong Shi became his own vassal state, but he still abides by Zhou etiquette to a certain extent, and the side chief of the city wall does not dare to overstep it, so he can only play the side ball.

The Song State was the third Ke of the Zhou Dynasty, the authentic duke, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, he could build a big city with a side length of seven miles. But now the strength is not good, and he dare not surpass.

Shangqiu City is not a standard square, and it is not difficult to build a standard square city at the current level of mathematics.

However, the square is not easy to exploit the loophole of the Zhou Li.

The shortest wall of Shangqiu City is three kilometers, which is exactly seven weeks, which is not transgressed.

But the longest wall was close to four kilometers, which was more than seven weeks, which was considered an encroachment.

Although Zhou Tianzi was hit in the shoulder by Uncle Zheng back then, and Chu Zi won the important matter, there is no authority, but everyone still has to symbolically abide by those etiquettes.

Even in the era when the Seven Heroes had been formed, the shortest wall of the main city of the Seven Heroes was seven miles, but the longest city wall was generally shorter than nine miles.

The city of the Son of Heaven is nine miles, and the city of the prince is seven miles, so if you want to drill loopholes, you must not exceed nine miles at the longest, but the shortest must not exceed seven miles.

If any side exceeds nine miles, it is beyond the Son of Heaven.

If the shortest side of all the sides exceeds seven li, it is more than the prince.

There are many talents from all over the world, and the endless means of wiping the edge ball are emerging, which highlights the wisdom of logic at this time.

Whether it was Zhou Tianzi or the Gonghou State, there was not so much population at the beginning of the founding of the country.

In such a big city, it is impossible to have all residential areas and a large part of farmland.

Now that the population is growing, there are still some vegetable fields or farmlands in the city, not all of them are residences, bazaars or palaces.

A big city that has been built for hundreds of years has its own merits. It was also by relying on Shangqiu City that the Song State could continue to defend the city and survive in the cracks of the Jin and Chu hegemony, and it also gave Mozi a strong backing to stop Chu from attacking the Song Dynasty.

In Shi's opinion, Shangqiu City is already quite grand.

The walls are ten meters high, nearly twenty-five meters wide at the base, and nearly ten meters wide at the top.

There are some small natural lakes near the city wall, most of which are used by the people of the city to soak hemp, and can also be used as natural moats when people attack the city.

Such a city is completely different from the city in the Spring and Autumn Period, where a few dozen people could capture a barony and capture a baroness.

Suitable home, in the heart of the city, close to the bazaar.

This time, I followed Mozi to meet Emperor Sicheng, and I happened to pass by the door of my house, how to say that my ancestors were also people who had dealt with Sicheng of the Song Kingdom.

They belonged to one of the few people who could enter the courtyard of the Sicheng Imperial Mansion without a carriage.

After following Mozi into the Sicheng Royal Middle School, the Sicheng Emperor led people to greet him in the courtyard and stood on both sides of the courtyard with Mozi to salute.

Mozi deserves the courtesy of the chamber, and Emperor Sicheng must also make a good gesture.

After entering the inner room, he was led to kneel down to his seat.

Mozi sat on the east side, facing west.

Si Chenghuang sat on the west side, facing east.

Due north is empty.

The disciples of Shijia Dolphin and Shi were seated in the south, facing north.

The master faces east, and the equal friend who can fight against him faces west, and the lowest rank will sit south and face north.

There was no one in the north, because Emperor Sicheng couldn't find a person with a slightly lower status than himself, but a higher status than Mozi, to sit there, so he could only vacate it.

Such a person belongs to the Shuren who is not subordinate to the courtesy, but his current identity is a disciple of Mozi, so he is qualified to sit in it.

There are all kinds of tableware on the desk, and I don't know how to use it.

Fortunately, it was only a banquet for the ink man, and there was only some corn and some bean soup, and some wine from the fading birds.

Emperor Sicheng knew that Mozi asked for thrift and non-music, so this banquet was much simpler, without any music and dance movements, and the sound of silk strings.

Eating is not the goal, the purpose is to talk about things.

As a disciple, Shihe Jia Dolphin has no right to decide, and can only supplement on some issues, and it is Mozi who really talks to Sicheng Huang.

Shi secretly glanced at Mozi and thought of some suggestions from last night.

Last night, when the Ink Masters were discussing this matter, Shi Shi came up with a bold idea.

Last night, after Shi finished talking about Fuxi Nuwa, many ink writers praised him.

Only the three ink artists who had just solved the question of one liter of rice for one person who had just solved the question that day Shi Shi had made a joke.

"Suitable, the last time you casually made up Xi Zhong's matter, it has made Gongsun Ze unhappy. Now he is making up about Jonny, and in a few days these people will tell you what happened here, and he will come to you. It's not good for you to say that this is a reference to the design, right? Jonny lost his father at the age of three, how could his father see if he had a single eyelid and a double eyelid? ”

When appropriate, I can't stop laughing, thinking of the stories of making up celebrity quotes commonly used in later generations, and saying that everything is repeated again and again, and this kind of casual fabrication of celebrity behavior can no longer be said.

Mozi didn't care, at this time, the people of the village community only knew the name of Zhongni and didn't know about Zhongni, so there was nothing to talk about such things. If you talk about chickens and dogs, where is it easier to remember than a celebrity?

He believed in the Heavenly Will, as he often gave in the example of dialectic: a man has only seen a white horse in his life, and then thinks that white is a characteristic of a horse. But in fact, the characteristics of horses are not like this, but need to be summarized to find common points and distinguish differences.

The appropriate examples of big and small shows are not isolated evidence like the white horse, so they can be considered correct.

Of course, Mozi didn't care what Gongsun Ze thought, anyway, the grudge between Confucianism and Mo had already been settled, even if this matter reached Gongsun Ze's ears, it would not be easy for Gongsun Ze to find suitable trouble.

At that time, when it came to Gongsun Ze and Zhongni, he naturally thought of Zhou Li, and then talked about the matter of the three families of Jin inviting people to join the alliance.

Mozi can see it thoroughly, the Qi country is in chaos, and all countries want to take a bite, maybe a big war affecting several countries will break out.

The Qin State has a good relationship with Chu, and if it can't bite the Qi State, it will definitely take the opportunity to bite the Three Jins; The State of Qi still occupies Guanqiu in the north of Shangqiu, which is an enclave for the State of Qi, but it is inserted near the Taoqiu of the State of Song, which was snatched by the State of Qi from the State of Wei three or four years ago.

Many of Sichenghuang's fiefs are near Taoqiu, and according to interests, Sichenghuang is likely to hope to take advantage of the opportunity of Qi's internal strife to take Guanqiu.

But Mozi really didn't expect that Emperor Sicheng wanted more than that, and hoped to take the opportunity to borrow the power of the Three Jin Dynasty to deal with the Song Gong lineage, and he didn't expect that those seeds in his hands would become Jiahe, borrowing the matter of Tang Shuyu's sealing of the Jin Dynasty to a division in line with the mandate of heaven.

He always talks about fate and does not believe in the destiny of heaven, so when he analyzes this matter, he does not think in this direction at all.

Dozens of ink scholars discussed for a long time, and they didn't understand what the use of Si Chenghuang wanted those grain seeds, and they didn't understand it.

But Shi had already made up his mind to exchange some seeds for money, because the Mo family was too poor.

The Moshi had their own craftsman's workshop and could also produce weapons, but these weapons were never sold, but only used to defend the city, the so-called righteousness.

If it is sold, it will be regarded as providing weapons for the unjust war, which is contrary to Mozi's idea.

I don't think so, but it's hard to say at this time, I can only use the reason of doing righteousness to find a way to get some money for the Mo family to expand the power of the Mo family.

Since everyone couldn't guess why Si Chenghuang wanted the grain seeds, he said: "Since you don't know, then you don't have to guess, just ask Mr. tomorrow to ask." but if it is used to do unrighteousness, it is not sold. But if it is neither an unrighteous nor a righteous worker, it can always be sold. The money we use to do righteousness is the same as the money we sell. ”

He had already convinced Mozi of this, and Mozi agreed, so he asked, "How do you want to sell it?" ”

Shi had already thought about it and said, "Sir, you have seen the affairs of the village community, do you believe that you can produce two stones per mu according to the methods I said?" ”

This is something that all the ink scholars who know about the grain also agree, let alone Mozi.

Shi Shi then said: "In this case, the disciple has an idea. Tomorrow, we can pay the tax on a portion of the land of the Emperor of the City. If he had a piece of land and could harvest 2,000 stones a year, then we could wrap it up with 2,500 stones. ”

When the city Jia Dolphin heard this, he immediately understood the joint, and high-fived and praised: "The appropriate method is good." If the fixed amount of tithes is two thousand stones. However, if you use the appropriate method, but strictly follow the number of tithes, it may be 4,000 stones. In this way, those farmers can profit. This is a righteous act. ”

When Mozi heard the word "tax package", he thought deeply after all, and said worriedly: "If this matter becomes a trend, Mozi can do it, and it is not good for others to learn it." And when he took away with two thousand stones, he would receive four thousand stones for profit, and it was the peasants who suffered. ”

Shi smiled: "Mr. is too worried." Now who can profit from the tax of two thousand five hundred stones, except for me? The profit in our eyes is to do what is right; The profit in the eyes of businessmen is gold and copper. They trade to and fro, and they make a profit. The rest of the nobles have no such heart and no ability. If the tax is only increased and the law of cultivation is not changed, the farmers will be dissatisfied and the public will be outrageous. Only those who are inkers can now be appropriately endowed, and the civil use is even more sufficient. In the future, it will not be beneficial for many farmers who can teach new farming methods to spread them all over the world? ”

"Sir, I'm only afraid that if this method of cultivation is spread all over the world first, the taxes collected by the princes and nobles will not be ten acres and one stone. For example, today, how many people can uphold the heart of doing righteousness and benefiting the world, except for Mo? Instead of believing in them, believe in yourself. At the very least, we can really make people benefit and accumulate small meanings into great righteousness. ”

Moreover, if the land is rich, the people will be able to believe in a new method of farming. Since the gentleman thinks that the power of the king is the agreement of the ministers, the disciple thinks that before the new cultivation method spreads to the whole world, the law should be reached first, and the tax amount of the mu should be fixed, and the person who will be the ink will be the overseer, and if it violates the law, it will be ...... Penalize! ”

"If you want to punish and be punished, you must have more people who know the will of heaven and believe in the rules of the Mo. When the agreement is completed, the law can also completely prohibit the law of tax package. ”

"Sir has a sword, so he can reward and punish. The ink artist is about the sword of the world, and the disciple has not yet seen it. How to forge the sword of reward and punishment in the world? The words of the will of heaven are copper, the hearts of all people are charcoal, and the things that benefit the world are Xiqi, and I have all three things, so why not cast the sword of reward and punishment? ”

"I am in the village community, and I have this three-hearted sword, so I can reward and punish the village community; If the Song State has this three-heart sword, the Song State can be rewarded and punished; If there is such a sword of three hearts in the world, the world can be rewarded and punished, who dares not to obey? ”