The departure of those people did not bring a sensation to the group of people of the Yang Zhu School, at this time it was extremely common for scholars to change the Menting School, and the views of the Yang Zhu School and the Mohist School on "sacrifice" were also a dead knot that could not be untied.

Meng Sunyang said a few words to the disciples who stayed behind, and continued to move forward, and when he arrived at a manor, it was already noon, so that he could rest and eat lunch at this time.

The owner of the manor greeted him when he heard this, Meng Sunyang and the others were all scholars, and after greeting each other, the owner of the manor hurriedly asked the servants to prepare a meal.

The owner of this manor is also a person who knows the heroes of the world, and he can't help asking: "Could it be Meng Sunyang, who argues with the fowl?" Could it be that the cocoon silk is the silk, the mango needle is the hook, the wattle is the rod, and the pellet is the bait? ”

The owner of the manor pointed out the most proud things in the lives of several figures of the Yang Zhu School, and the look of surprise was praise, and everyone was used in their hearts, and they replied separately.

Zhan He is also a well-known figure in the Yang-Zhu School, and is as famous as Meng Sunyang and Zihuazi among the disciples of the Yang-Zhu School, and was praised by Zhuang Zhou in later generations.

He is good at reasoning and logic, but he likes to pretend to be profound, so later Han Feizi made up a story, saying that Zhan He was sitting at home, and there was a cow outside, Zhan He didn't look at it, but after listening to the cow's bark, he said that the cow outside was a black cow and a black horn, and his disciple went to see it and said that it was a white horn, and Zhan He said that it must be wrapped in a white cloth with a horn, you read it wrong, and his disciple saw it as expected.

Han Feizi used this story to criticize Zhan He for not observing everything and guessing idealistically, of course, because Zhan He's reputation for being good at reasoning has been left in later generations and there are too many extremely magical performances in the eyes of people who don't know reasoning.

The owner of the manor praised Zhan He for being good at fishing, and that was another story.

Meng Sunyang and others were entertained, so they talked a few more words with the master, and learned that the owner of this manor was also a scholar, with the surname of the son, Dongxiang, and the last ten generations were also clansmen, because their ancestors were named Dongxiang doctors, so the descendants of later generations took Dongxiang as their clan.

He has a single name, the word Ziqi, and his peers can't call him by his name, because at this time the name is generally cheap, and when he grows up, the scholars have an identity and can't call each other two dogs, three eggs, and black stomachs, unless it is the elder Mr. Teacher can call him by name, so everyone in the Yang Zhu school can be called Ziqi, and when it is relayed, it is called Dongxiang Ziqi.

The lunch prepared by Dongxiang Ziqi no longer has so many traces of etiquette, or it is already seriously affected by the quiet influence of Sishang.

After a little conversation, Dongxiang Ziqi talked about what he had seen and heard over the years.

He is one of the best squires here, with more than 6,000 acres of private land at home, dozens of people working with him, a lot of cattle and horses, planting cotton, wheat, rape, etc. every year, selling them in Sishang, and getting countless money.

Its houses are all made of bricks and tiles, and there are two Xulin windows that can be regarded as status symbols outside of Sishang.

More than 20 years ago, when the coup d'état of the Song State, his father was still a scholar, but it was not affected, and then the central power of the Song State was completely destroyed, and the grassroots rule outside the city was almost completely lost.

At that time, his family had about 1,000 acres of land, which was actually obtained by turning the public into private, and the Song State already had private land at that time, but the public land system, the private land system, the village community redivision system, and the feudal serfdom system coexisted, and it was very chaotic.

Soon after, the area near Sishang began to be brutally annexed, because the development of industry and commerce in Sishang and the innovation of agricultural technology made it profitable to manage the land, and for twenty years, Dongxiang Ziqi used various means to continuously annex the land.

or occupy public land, or borrow important land in a famine year...... The original homesteaders, because this is not Sishang, there is no support from cattle, horses and iron tools, and the price of grain has been reduced for two years, which makes their lives very poor, or because they are bankrupt and sell their land, they are destroyed and exiled to Sishang; Or because he sold his land and left with the dream of making a fortune in Sishang.

In the village community where the non-yeoman farmers were not farming, Dongxiang Ziqi gradually encroached on the land that had to be redistributed every twenty years; Or they directly seized the land, and the farmers who still owned a little bit of the land gradually became helpers.

Up to now, Dongxiang Ziqi has owned 6,000 acres of land, operating and developing, and has a lot of income every year.

He was a rich man, but he was no longer a nobleman.

Most of the aristocracy is rich, but rich is not necessarily an aristocracy, and the basis of the existence of the aristocracy is the feudal system and personal dependence.

The nobles have the right to dominate the land and the people on the land, and when the princes of the Son of Heaven fief the land, they seal the land bound to the people, otherwise a large amount of land is allocated to the nobles but there is no one, is it difficult to let the nobles go to farm the land by themselves?

In addition to some economic reasons, the coup d'état of that year made the political pattern of the Song State change greatly.

It turns out that the balance of aristocratic politics requires the balance of power in the aristocratic fiefdom, and the balance of the power of the fief is closely related to the number of serfs in the fief.

The peasants in the fiefdom, for the nobles, are not only tools for cultivating public fields and tools for daily labor, but also soldiers, and the nobles without soldiers have no say in the political situation of the feudal system, especially the three surnames of the Song Dynasty, so the nobles need to firmly bind the farmers to the land.

After the coup d'état of the Song State more than 20 years ago, various places were in chaos, and several nobles could only control their own fiefdoms, while the nobles close to the Sishang region turned one after another.

If you don't turn around, you can't do it, the exploitation is too harsh, next to Sishang, and the farmers in the fiefdom are running towards Sishang one by one...... Even if there is still a fief, no one will work, and it is impossible for the nobles to work on their own, and no matter how big the fief is, it is equivalent to nothing.

Sishang underwent the most drastic land reform, and these places near Sishang took 20 years to follow a pattern of forcible annexation.

This kind of forcible annexation was accompanied by the progress of production technology, and many of the people who worked as domestic farmers felt that their living standards were better than they had been twenty years ago, so many people remained in the domestic farming, and Sishang served as a pressure relief valve for this change, which did not lead to a large-scale peasant uprising.

Dongxiang Ziqi hired a man who was proficient in crops to manage his land, reform the planting technology, and in the past few years, Sishang was in urgent need of grain, cotton and oil crops, so that he earned a lot of money every year.

This time, Sishang sent troops to the Song State, but he was not affected, because Sishang's policy was very clear: the land of the fugitive nobles should be recovered from the people, and the anti-fiefdom should not be opposed to private land.

However, he is still a little worried, what he is worried about is not that his land will be divided, Sishang's policy is very clear, he will not divide such a land.

What he is worried about is the poor and lowly people who work on his manor, whether they will divide the land?

Especially when I heard that the peasant families of the "true equalizers" were also going to participate in the ruling of the Song State, I was actually very alarmed.

If the cultivators in their own manor also divide the land, then ...... Even if your own 6,000 acres of land are your own, who will plant them?

Today's cropping technology, iron cattle ploughing, high-yield crops, ridge crop rotation and intercropping and other technologies have spread to a hundred-acre field, and a family of nine will not have hunger if there is no famine.

If he really gave those people land, or organized production and land reclamation like Xueshang, or divided the fiefs of those big nobles to the people, including the servants and cultivators in his own estates, then his 6,000 acres of land would be no different from ten acres of land.

Now there are a lot of sayings, and today I saw Yang Zhu School and others passing by, Dongxiang Ziqi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was determined, as long as it was not a farmer, it was easy to say.

It is densely populated, but there is still a lot of land or land that could be cultivated during the Iron Age.

What Dongxiang Ziqi is afraid of is that the farmer or the Mo family is in power with executive ability and organizational ability, and the reclamation of land requires capital investment and organizational level, otherwise the people will be content with the status quo and would rather continue to farm, after all, there is no money, no cattle, no iron, no farm tools, and no seeds to spend the previous few years.

He sincerely hopes that a group of schools of thought that "rule by doing nothing" will not care about anything, do not organize the people to cultivate, do not organize the people to produce crops, and do not provide loans and support to the people, everything will go naturally.

During the banquet, Meng Sunyang mentioned the "beautiful and ugly second concubine" incident when Yang Zhu lived in the hotel, and said: "Yang Ziyan, be virtuous, don't be virtuous." We are now about to govern this place, and in the past, the son of Mi ruled a single father and ruled by the sound of the harp, that is, because he was good at listening to the thoughts of the people and knowing what the people wanted, rather than thinking that the policies they implemented were virtuous government, which is an example of learning from experience. ”

"I don't know what Ziqi wants most?"

Dongxiang Ziqi looked at everyone, he was also a cool person, he was not fake, and said bluntly: "If you are honest, I want slave private property." ”

Several disciples of the Yang Zhu School suddenly hissed, and Meng Sunyang waved his hand and said: "Don't mess up, everyone has ideas, and they may not do it, besides, this is to say something from the heart, don't make a noise." ”

After all the disciples quieted down, Dongxiang Ziqi said: "If the person who ploughs for me is a slave and my private property, then of course it is the most beneficial to me. ”

"First, now that there are fewer people and more land, and there is more cultivation in Sishang, whether they are working for me or for the people of my fiefdom, once I suffer them here, or if they can live better elsewhere, they will run."

"If he is a slave, it is my private property, then even if he runs to Sishang and the South China Sea, as long as he is caught, it will still be mine. My private property belongs to me, and Sishang also recognizes private property, and there is a law to protect private property. ”

"But if I run away for the people who are working for the servants and the people who are sealing the fields, what can I do?"

"You also know that Sishang respects private property, and when Mo Zhai defended the city in the past, even if the house was demolished and built with wood when the city was defended, it needed to be repaid after the registration was made. If these people are not slaves, then they are not my private property, and they will not be sent back to me if they run away or leave Sishang......"

"The mistake is that now that the iron ridge is made, the land that was originally uncultable can also be cultivated, and the so-called Huaibei land of the Mo family is fertile soil that can be cultivated, and it is too easy for them to leave. Even if I work for my help, I spend a lot of money to keep them, originally only two meals a day, but now I need three meals, and even a little oil and water during the busy farming season, otherwise they will have to go to Sishang or would rather join the Sishang Farming Society to reclaim the land and suffer for three or five ......years."