Chapter 17: The Gathering of Ghosts and Gangsters (End)

The fish was cut open, the scales were scraped off, the dirt was removed, and it fell into the large clay jar of the boiling village community and the public village meeting.

Clear water, escape from the bottom of the well, sacrifice heaven and earth, nine fish boiling.

The hot and clean stones, thrown into a clay jar that is difficult to heat, bring out the umami of the fish and boil out a thick white soup.

The last handful of coriander and broken garlic leaves from the forks that never affect the seed setting give this simple pot of fish soup a touch of future and hope.

All kinds of sunflowers, leeks, and pickled gourds were placed in front of the village community, and the corn and millet porridge brought by each family from home were gathered together.

The most delicious soup means the most unpalatable fish, but even if it is unpalatable, the people in the village are still reluctant to give up the tasteless fish and are satisfied.

In addition to satisfaction, there is also infinite expectation and hope for the future.

Paradise, which can attract everyone, is always free of milk and honey, so it is destined to be impossible to build on earth.

It can attract the lowest level of paradise, you don't need to get it for nothing, you just need to get something from your work, and sometimes it's just hidden in the peach garden and you can smell the chickens and dogs. So this is not destined to attract the aristocracy.

After listening to the imagination of the Fifth Paradise, these farmers in the village community finally understood that all things are relative, changing, and moving.

When you are hungry, the Paradise is a mouthful of corn; When you are thirsty, the Paradise is a well of water; When you are tired, the Promised Land is a house of wheat straw......

So they understood why there was a ninefold paradise.

When Ru Mao drank blood, slash-and-burn cultivation was a happy land; When slash and burn farming, Dayu's water control is a happy land; When there is a clan dispute, Xia Dingtian is a happy land...... As for whether this is really the case, anyway, they have not read "Chinese", they can't even read words, and they can say whatever they want.

The Promised Land at that time was not the Promised Land at that time, and the Promised Land at that time will not be the Promised Land at that time.

For them, the Land of Nine Paradises was too far to even imagine.

So they knew what the fifth paradise looked like, and it sounded so good, so worth doing.

In the umami of the fish soup, such an image comes to people's minds.

From the prudence of the far north to the hundred Yue of the wilderness; From the coast of the East China Sea in Penglai to Kunlun where Mu Tianzi drove and traveled, the summers were unified and there was no competition.

In order to do the best of the land, as long as the land is cultivated, it belongs to each family, and the first five years are exempt from taxes, and the second five years are one in fifteen.

This tax was not for the purpose of unrighteous hegemony, but for the construction of river embankments, to defend against the plundering of the Rongdi, and also to support the officials.

At that time, the officials took the sages, so that the nobles were not always noble, the lowly were not always cheap, and the virtuous were virtuous.

The ink absorbs the essence of plants and trees, condenses into a kind of silk, can write, the price is as cheap as hemp, light as cicada wings, so everyone reads and writes, knows the will of heaven, and selects the most virtuous and the most able to comprehend the will of heaven as the official.

At that time, every family had a cow, and behind the ox was a ploughshare made by the ink artist in accordance with the will of heaven, which could cultivate dozens of acres of land in a day.

With the strength of the force, the uninhabited wasteland can be cultivated, and after five years, the officials selected will measure the land and issue a contract taken from the essence of the grass and trees, which is as thin as the wings of a cicada, to determine the ownership.

At that time, the officials knew the calculations of heaven, and even if it was a round land with many edges and corners, they could accurately calculate the number of acres, which was not bad at all.

At that time, a crop called onibu was planted in the fields, and when the fire was flowing in July, the white flowers bloomed like snow.

These white flowers can be woven into cloth, and there is no need to soak and peel them, and the most diligent woman can spin the yarn of a new dress in a few days.

That kind of cloth is as white as snow, although it is not as good as silk, but the yield is very high, and the common people's homes can also have two clothes a year.

At that time, there will be three new kinds of grain in the field.

A kind of grain that looks like the size of a child's arm, and the grains are densely arranged on it, crystal like jade, like the teeth of the cleanest noble lady, which is endearing.

This new grain can be planted on barren hills, and now the land that is not needed is also useful. This new grain can be rubbed into two small liters of grain.

The other two grow underground, each the size of a woman's foot. The taste is like the kind of sauce sent from the Chu State eaten by the princes and nobles, and it is glutinous like boiled millet and sticky.

Moreover, the yield per mu of these new grains is higher, so high that if a person plants 100 acres, not only will the whole family have enough to eat, but also some chickens, guineas and dogs, or exchange money or eat for themselves.

At that time, every family could eat a chicken or a few catties of sheep every year at the winter solstice.

In addition to these three new grains, there are many vegetables that grow in the land from Sushen to Baiyue, from the East China Sea to Kunlun.

There is a dish that is like fire in color, and it tastes like the tip of your tongue is burned by fire, and you are covered in sweat after eating a meal in winter.

There is a kind of vegetable, the shape is like a ghost finger, crisp and sweet like honey, the color is like meat, if you encounter the spring frost of the famine year, plant three acres, the whole family can have no hunger.

At that time, each family would have three or five pieces of bad gold farming tools. It's much cheaper than gold and copper, but it's better to use than gold and copper.

The people of the Mo family will build workshops to smelt evil gold, which is taken from the ground and is endless, and can produce thousands of pieces every day.

At that time, there would be a kind of bow loss, and the stupidest person could learn it in three months, so those enemies who were greedy for wealth could not support it, and the soldiers of Kyushu were five with one, so fifteen taxes were enough.

At that time, there would be a kind of stone sintered with clay that was used to build houses, and there was no longer any fear of silverfish and ants. The windows will be pasted with the kind of cheap silk made of grass and trees as thin as cicada wings, and it is not afraid of wind and rain.

At that time, ditches would be dug to fetch water during drought and drain flood water during flooding. There are also several canals, and the fish of the East China Sea, the vinegar of Luoyang, the Zhe of Chu, and the wheat of Song land meet each other. Kyushu is round, each taking care of it. Youzhou is famine, and the grain of Qingzhou is transported across the sea; Jingzhou is barren, and the rice of Bashu is led down the river......

At that time, according to what Mr. Mo Zhai said, the saint will be chosen as the Son of Heaven. This saint is the one who knows all the heavenly wills, and if he does not, he will make a covenant between the king and his courtiers. With the covenant law as the son of heaven, there are officials under the covenant, and everyone is equal under the covenant, even if you are a prince, you can't go against the covenant and gallop.

Those who violate the law will be punished by all. The unjust war is spit on by everyone. There is no way, the will of heaven, and the promised land, everyone from it, then the happy land can be built in Kyushu.

Such a simple description does not have the slightest fantasy of being unrewarded, just the appearance of a so-called "prosperous" feudal dynasty.

But even so, it is enough to make the people of these villages fascinated, and even feel a little out of reach.

As for the next paradise that they occasionally heard about, they didn't even think about it, it was too far away.

Because how is it possible for a woman to spin ten spindles of yarn at a time? How is it possible that there is a black stone instead of firewood? How is it possible that there is a colorless and transparent water-like thing installed on the window to shield it from the wind and rain?

Besides, the Fifth Paradise is enough, and the rest is reserved for children and grandchildren, and in this life, I just want to be able to see the said Fifth Paradise, how dare I hope for it?

How could the people of the village community not think of what kind of valley could be as thick as a child's arm? What kind of dish can be crispy and sweet like honey and as luster as meat? What kind of way can make bad gold not easy to break and cheaper? What kind of ploughshare can be pulled by an ox?

But man always has the power of illusion, and even the most humble person should have.

In addition to the fantasies, they don't know that some of the grains and vegetables in these fantasies will soon appear in front of their eyes.

At that time, this theory of the Promised Land will no longer be a fantasy, but will become a possibility—since the vegetables and grains are true, the rest must also be true, and it is also the Paradise deduced by the heavenly ghosts who are well versed in the Heavenly Will.

And the reeds and reeds that had already seen corn and carrots, finally understood what to do, which was far more ambitious than they thought, and there was some understanding in their hearts about what the ink artist was doing. They won't say it, because they know the harvest is about to come.

The terrible thing about prophecy is that it is half-truthful. When the half-truth appears, no one can guarantee that the rest is not true, if not that it just didn't happen.

At this time, no one can make such a prophecy, except for suitability.

And when part of this prophecy is fulfilled, the rest of the prophecy becomes the direction that everyone is working towards.

Half-true, who can guarantee half-truth?

When corn, sweet potatoes, carrots, cotton, and other things that are only available in the fantasy of the Promised Land really appear in front of us, who dares to say that cow ploughing, cheap iron, paper, and exams are not practical?

If there is a prophecy and it is partially fulfilled, then you can hold the right to interpret the Celestial Will.

When the time comes, whoever makes it can take this proverb and say that it is Tianzhi.

It's shameless, but it works.

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Shi in front of the pottery jar in the village community, looking at these intoxicated farmers, he knew in his heart that when the day of the corn harvest, even if he had completed the first step, it would be the most difficult step.

The imagination and laughter of these farmers seemed to him so cheap.

In his previous life, he was not from a high background, but even so, he couldn't look down on the fifth paradise he depicted, no matter how good the feudal dynasty was, he couldn't catch up with everything that the most ordinary person in his previous life had.

But to these farmers, it was like a fly that saw carrion, and plunged into it and never wanted to come out.

He studied for so many years in his previous life, and the most useful thing he learned was to grasp the contradictions and resolve them.

The contradictions in the world today are obvious, and they are nothing more than three things.

In the world of great disputes, the princes are strife, so heavy taxes and heavy taxes, and if they are not heavily taxed, they will be destroyed, and the great unification may not be light and thin, but the great unification will certainly not be light and thin, this is a necessary and insufficient condition, but it is a necessary condition.

The aristocracy was divided and the serfs were bound, so the productivity of labor was restricted. Free peasants, with definite property rights, can reclaim more land when there are fewer people and more land.

The tools are backward, the iron is not annealed, and the level of productivity is insufficient. The contradiction at this time was not to suffer from inequality, but to suffer from widowhood, and the vast land was everywhere, and the population of Kyushu was less than 25 million, and there was no danger of inequality due to a small amount of land and a large number of people in 200 years.

These three things complement each other, and whoever can solve these three contradictions can dominate the world. Whoever can discover these three contradictions can become the most powerful of the hundred schools.

But the second contradiction, which seems to be the simplest, has stumped countless people. Characters like Wu Qi were shot to death, characters like Shang Ying were torn apart, countless battles between nobles and kings, and countless internal power struggles, many of which were just for this.

Wei only solved a small part of the second point, and could become the first power in the early years of the Warring States period. Even if the Chu State had the good conditions for the defeat of Wuyang and the great reduction of the power of the aristocracy, and there was a talent like Wu Qi, it still ended up without a problem after all.

It is not a dynasty fan, nor is it controlled by a certain state.

In his opinion, it doesn't matter where he goes in the future, whether it's Qin or Chu, as long as Zhuxia is fine.

But no matter where you go, make sure there are enough people to use.

Even if it is a change in the law, he must ensure that after getting rid of the old nobles, there will be enough people who believe in the Paradise of Heaven and learn to read and write, arithmetic, farming, and river repair techniques to replace those old nobles; There must also be enough homesteaders who trust him and believe in the paradise to withstand wave after wave of aristocratic counterattacks.

He didn't want to be like Shang Jun was torn apart by a car, and Wu Qi was shot to death, so he had to have a chance to start without mercy and kill him cleanly.

After the killing, let the new landlord class and the industrial and commercial class make up for it. Practice has proved that if you don't watch "Zhou Li", you can govern the country, unlike the nobles of Zhou Li, who eat with knives, forks and spoons, but chopsticks, and Zhu Xia can't die.

This is the trend of the times, and even using paper and printing technology well can ensure that he can't even get out of such a thing as the Han Jin Gate Valve.

This deformity can only appear because of the limitations of information and communication technology, they are the medieval clergy who have the power to interpret the Bible, and paper and printing will blow them to shreds.

It was Cai Lun and engraving printing that destroyed the gate valve.

The master didn't want to be a saint, but he couldn't stand the fact that future generations forced him to be a saint. When Zhong Ni made the Spring and Autumn Period, because it was inevitable that there would be mistakes in copying bamboo slips, the name of Zhongsun He Ji was accidentally copied into Zhongsun Ji, but since later generations praised him as the leader of the sage, of course the sage could not be wrong, even if he has his own deep meaning, so he interpreted the scriptures with righteousness, thinking that this was deliberately copied by the Confucian sage, in order to ridicule those whose names are two-character people, and the energetic Confucianism was changed to Confucianism.

Wang Mang, the great inheritor of Confucianism, practitioner, retro person, and true idealist of Confucianism, was fully retro as soon as he was in power, and even forbade the Han people to give two-character names. This is one of the most devout believers, but in the end, he caused a commotion, and instead became synonymous with traitors, how wronged.

Of course, the Mo family is subject to limitations, and there are also a lot of dross things, and even some things are terrible, especially in the matter of Ming ghosts.

But the advantage of the Mohists is that it is easy to change something.

For example, Zi Mozi said: "I have a heavenly will, such as the rules of the wheel man, and the discipline of the craftsman." The wheels and craftsmen adhere to their rules and rules, in order to measure the members of the world, saying: 'Those who are in the middle are also, and those who are not in the middle are not.' ’”。

Tianzhi is a kind of rule. Just like the person who makes the wheel sees whether the circle is round or not, it is useless to pull anything else, take out the compass and ruler and measure it, is it not based on the mouth.

It is not clear what this celestial chronicle is, but it can easily be changed to the constitution, science, logic, history, and even the theory of productive forces.

Anyway, there is a sentence "the agreement between the king and the ministers". If you can't find a saint, then take the agreed constitution as a saint and establish him as the Son of Heaven, and he is a hypocrite.

What conforms to science, promotes the development of productive forces, promotes the growth of the total national wealth, promotes the increase of national strength, and conforms to the general process is Tianzhi. The so-called middle is also, and the wrong is not.

This thing is not moral, it is easy to measure.

This thing is easy to change, and the Mo family still has hundreds of idealists who can die without spinning, and it is the easiest to succeed.

In Shi's view, if you want to change the Book of Ink in the future, this heavenly will must be made clear.

Tianzhi is not technology, but science.

There is a big difference between the two.

Science is a way of explaining the world that can promote technology as well as explain it.

The technology needs to be explained, otherwise there will be a logic that pangolins can be used as medicinal herbs because pangolins like to burrow, but this seems to be true in terms of the way it explains the world......

Everyone interprets the world the way they believe it is, because pangolins contain a substance in their body that allows them to pass milk. Or is it because pangolins like to drill holes, so they can pass through milk......

This is one of the reasons why the hundred schools of thought contend, and it is also doomed that no matter who wins the power, the rest of the Zhuzi doctrine will be killed.

There can only be one explanation for the world. When the rationalists gain power, they are not soft in killing the superstitious faction, and vice versa.

Legalism can change the world, but it cannot explain the world, and it does not give a future that the bottom can fantasize; The wisest Legalists knew that the lawless ancients had to formulate different policies according to the changes in the situation, but they could only rely on the king, and it was difficult to change them when the great unification was completed and needed to be changed.

This is their big problem, and this is one of the reasons why they don't want to go to Xihe to join Wu Qi, Li Kui, and Uncle Gong but find a way to blend into the Mo family.

It was the only school of thought that taught logic, and the only one that had its own armament and was not completely dependent on the monarch.

As for the villagers in front of them who were so drunk, they didn't need to know so much for the time being.

It is enough for them to wait for these people who have been denounced by the nobles as villains, scoundrels, guilds, or fools to see the things prophesied by the prophecy of corn and sweet potatoes appear, when he is threatened by others, when he has the opportunity to change the law and be thwarted by the nobles, and when the nobles fight back, and this is enough.

Those who fight for their hopes are the hardest to stop.

At this time, these people who drank fish soup were only twenty or thirty households, fifty or sixty people.

But he believed that when Mozi returned, the seeds of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots began to spread along with the legend of the Nine Paradises; When the annealed iron was circulated in the pottery, the number would become 2,000, 20,000, or even more.