As if he had been pardoned, the young man beckoned to his fellow brother and said, "Go, go and get water under the tree." Eh, the bamboo cage I laid down in the morning by the river, let's go see if there are many fish. Cut wheat today, and let our mother fry fish for the big guy in the evening......"

The honest brother on the side said: "Go ahead, this is to cut wheat for our family, I am not lazy, make people laugh." ”

The cheerful young man didn't blush, and sighed: "I'm not lazy, but I don't want to do these farm things." Besides, I have been admitted to the Xiliu Military Academy, and I will not rely on this to eat in the future. ”

Speaking of this, the mother, who was busy in front of her, turned around and scolded: "I am more tired in the military school, and your brother didn't say he was tired all day long?" You think it's just light? You're so lazy, it's a trivial matter to go inside and get beaten, and you can't stand it and ask someone to come back, that's going to be a shame for the dead! ”

The young man laughed and said, "I can stand that kind of suffering." I'm the most annoying of this kind of day when you see the end of the year at a glance. Planting in spring and harvesting in autumn is so boring. ”

"The world is so big, I've been studying for so many years, if I don't go out to see, it's not interesting. The eldest brother is now in Takayanagi, and the eldest sister is also in the north, and they don't necessarily have to be diligent in doing farm work. I heard that my sister hid with my uncle for a long time in order not to come back to harvest wheat......"

As he spoke, he saw his mother bow her head and hold a piece of dirt to throw him, turned around and ran, and said to the brother next to her while running: "We should change our names, I should be called Shu Bao, and you should be called Shu Gui Xiang." ”

After saying that, he ran away with the head mouse, and the mother's dirt naturally did not fall on his head, so he smashed it far away on his heel and splashed a lot of dust, causing everyone to laugh.

Wu Qi, who was watching from the sidelines, was slightly surprised in his heart, the common people had no surnames, and these two children actually had surnames and names.

He also knew that Xi Liu was the title of the Yue people's water master, and the three Jin Dynasty had no water division, and the strength of the world's water division belonged to Chu and Vietnam.

Originally, the Yue people were unparalleled in the water war, and later the public loss class was a hook refusal, a big boat, the Huai River and the Yangtze River fought for hegemony, the Yue people were defeated, and Chu Zhizhou was the first in the world.

Now the Mo family actually has a water master?

Wu Qi signaled the people around him not to follow, and walked under the tree by himself, and the young man on the opposite side who should be called Shu Guixiang was not panicked by Wu Qi, who was wearing a sword on his body, but just looked sideways, and went to carry the water jug.

Wu Qi walked over and said with a smile: "Young man, beg for saliva to drink." ”

The young man didn't recognize his life, so he took a jug and handed it over, and asked, "You are not from here, where are you from?" ”

Wu Qi took the jug, and said in his heart that this was already Sishang, and it was just a teenager, so he said without any vigilance: "Wei Dixi River." ”

The young man scratched his head and sighed, "I know Xihe." There is a person named Wu Qi, who changed in the West River, and the masters talked about it. ”

Wu Qi was stunned, and then realized that this was already Peiyi, a place where the Mo family had been running for 20 years, and most of the children here had to go to school and be enlightened, and the Mo family had never been stupid about the situation in the world, and they talked more.

It's just that I didn't expect to hear my name here, so I asked with a smile, "Who else have you heard of your name?" ”

The boy said, "That's a lot." We have a lot of stories in our textbooks. said that Wu Qi was trustworthy, said that Wu Qi was in Xihe, invited one person to eat, and then said that he would eat after the guests came. As a result, the guest forgot in a hurry on the second day, so Wu Qi went to send someone to invite, and he really didn't eat. ”

This means that to be honest and to do what you say. It is also said that Wu Qi attacked the small pavilion of the Qin people, and in order to convince people, he set up a chariot, saying that those who could carry it to the north gate would be rewarded. The people laughed, but one of them was carried away and was rewarded immediately. It is said that we must also be honest in doing things, so as to be convincing. ”

After the young man finished speaking, he smiled again: "There are a lot of stories about Wei in our textbooks, and there is also a man named Ximen Leopard in Wei State, Zhidou Hebo, we have also learned this." ”

After listening to this, Wu Qi thought to himself that this matter of Ximen Leopard was indeed a matter of this, but the Mo family used similar methods to treat obscene wizards in Pei County back then, but the killing seemed to be worse than drowning, so he didn't tell these children.

However, these two things, keeping one's word and attacking the pavilion...... Wu Qi said in his heart, how the didn't I know I had done these two things?

I was slandered in my heart, but I was happy, I didn't expect that the Mo family would also make up their own stories, but make a name for themselves. Moreover, the young man in Sishang can actually know the story of Wei and the names of Wu Qi and Ximen Leopard, which is a means of educating the people to change customs and customs, which is indeed incomparable.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile and asked: "Then you said that Wu Qi Liyuan, can you write the words of this pole?" ”

The young man pouted and said, "The Yuan of the pole, but it is one of the five hundred words that we will know after enlightenment, it will not be impossible." Of course I would. I also know that the Yellow Emperor is the Xuanyuan clan, that is because the Yellow Emperor made a chariot, which is a great achievement, and later because of the chariot, he defeated the Yan Emperor with a chariot. Just because of the car, it is called Xuanyuan. ”

Wu Qixin said, I'm afraid this story is not also arranged by the Mo family, but I have never heard it. But after thinking about it carefully, there was some truth, so I couldn't help nodding and taking a sip of water, but I didn't want the water to be salty, and I almost spit it out. Thinking of borrowing water from someone to drink, he spit out rudeness, so the ninja swallowed it and said strangely: "The water on Sishang is salty? ”

The young man shook his head and said, "Not really." This is the salt added to the boiled water. The Master said that there are many small insects in the raw water that cannot be seen by the naked eye, and although he cannot see them, they are taught that way, and they should be right. These little bugs make people sick, so they have to be boiled. Cutting wheat sweats, and the sweat tastes salty, so you should eat some salt, otherwise you will be prone to heat stroke. ”

"Every year, the village community receives some salt specially used to boil water, and it is free to drink."

Wu Qi sighed, and after thinking about it, he also felt that it made sense to eat salt when the sweat tasted salty. I also want to hear that the Mo family is drying salt in Qi and Yue, the price of salt is getting low day by day, and there is water transportation here, and it is not difficult for the village community to send some salt.

From this small matter, it can be seen that the Mohist government is indeed to benefit the people first, otherwise why bother with all these troubles?

I'm just afraid that the Mo family has this shackle, and many things have to be done. If you don't do it, it will not be in line with the righteousness of the Mohists, and the doctrines of the Mohists will spread all over the world and can be read by everyone, so if you don't do it, you will be criticized.

Wu Qi was not thirsty, but he just wanted to find a reason to ask about the situation in Sishang, so he put down the water jug and thanked him, pointed to the harvesting equipment in the distance and asked, "What is that?" Also dispensed? ”

The young man said: "It's called a horse-drawn wheat cutter, which is made by the disciples of Zimozi and the disciples of the public loss class. However, it was not distributed, but bought by the village community. ”

Wu Qiqi nodded and asked, "I think this thing, cutting wheat is several times more than a person." How much does it cost to buy such a thing? ”

The child said in an extremely ordinary and commonplace tone: "I heard my father say that one is worth 30,000 catties of wheat, right?" ”

Hearing this number, Wu Qi was shocked, there were at least three of them he saw just now.

This is not counting the nearly nine horses pulled by the three units, it is just a machine, and it costs 90,000 catties of wheat, which is a few thousand stones when converted into small stones!

But the boy had no experience at all, and spoke as if it were a common thing, as if it had become commonplace.

This 90,000 catties of wheat, this village community can easily take it out? This is still after paying taxes, such an astonishing amount, about the income of those nobles who owned 10,000 acres of land in the past.

When the young man saw Wu Qi's surprise, he said, "Actually, it's not much." Three machines, 140 households in the village, even if it is wheat, is only less than 100 catties per household. Nowadays, the Ueda that can be watered is only planted with winter wheat, and there are 180 catties. Besides, this is bought collectively by everyone in the village community, and the income from the paper workshop is nothing. ”

"This year it's a new purchase, so apply it. If it is combined, I will buy more next year. My father said that when I came to the river valley, there was still a lot of land, and I could use the columbs to plant and harvest this thing, and I could get busy and open up a lot of land. Second, even if you don't open the land, now that the papermaking workshop is booming, there is a shortage of people, and you can save a lot of effort with this thing. In recent years, the price of wheat is acceptable, just a variety of things. ”

"Besides, the winter wheat was harvested, and the potatoes were planted. My father said that the village community should set up another wine-making workshop, and hired people, and now this wine is selling well, and the potatoes are cheap and unlucky, so it is better to make wine. ”

Wu Qi was even more curious about how rich this village community that had not long entered the jurisdiction of the Mo family, and it seemed that the village community could buy more of these 30,000 catties of equipment?

He was more and more surprised, it sounded like the manor of the noble feudal lord, and the buying and selling of equipment could actually be combined by the village community? Are those workshops also run by village communities?

But this ...... Isn't this just a feudal manor without nobles?

He thought again, this child has a name and surname, could it be that this village community is actually some high-level figures of the Mo family? Otherwise, a village community is so rich, and the grain harvested by one person is six or seven times or more than the annual labor of one person in Xihe, which is a bit too terrifying.

As early as the advent of iron tools, Wu Qi was well aware of the role of these technological innovations, just as he strongly suggested that Wei Hou send Xizuo into Peiyi as he said: an increase in the yield per mu and an increase in the surplus grain for each person will be able to support more full-time soldiers.

If the Mo family's village community in Sishang is like this, then I am afraid that the chaos in the world will really be set in this black.

Thinking of this, Wu Qi asked with a last bit of expectation: "I just heard that you have a name and surname, but your father is a disciple of Mo Zhai?" Or ...... Scholars and nobles? ”

The young man scratched his head and said, "Noble? Counting up the generations of my family, it has nothing to do with the aristocracy. My father was the first to approach the king of Chu in Shangqiu, and everyone named him King Shuqing. Later, he caught Yue Wang Phong in the water, a nobleman... Hey, there are more nobles arrested, my dad said that when we were in the water, after the Yue people were surrounded, we shelled the military formation of the Yue Junzi Army with shelling, shelled several times, and the nobles who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and cried bitterly also had ......"

Wu Qi was shocked, he knew the name of King Shuqing, although this was a Shuren, but he was able to capture two kings in a row, and he was also a warrior like Bi Wan, who would have thought that he would farm here?

I think again, they all say that the Mo family is still virtuous, is it not necessary for such a warrior? Don't give high-ranking officials generous favors to receive the hearts of the world's corporals? Is this man not resentful?