Faced with such a vulgar, realistic, philistine, and shameless simple question, Meng Sunyang suddenly found that his people seemed to have been floating too high all along, so that they were a little ungrounded.

They could argue with the Mohists about individual and collective issues for more than a decade, and when Shi asked them "what to do", they were speechless.

Now when Dongxiang Ziqi asked the simplest question of "tax", Meng Sunyang suddenly understood that there was still a lot of way for the Yang Zhu school to go.

At least, the Mohist set of things, whether the Yang Zhu school recognizes it or not, at least the taxes, military systems, government decrees, and decrees are consistent, in line with their so-called heavenly will, and can be explained within the system.

Meng Sunyang never thought that he would have to face such a seemingly simple, but extremely difficult to answer.

If the Yang Zhu school rules the world, the taxes will not be collected? If you collect taxes, is it considered to be a loss to others?

Another example is that the Mohists collect business taxes and support poor peasants, is this considered to be a loss to the merchants' gross and benefit others? The Mohists can explain all this with the reasons of "love", "people", and "the benefit of the world", but how can the Yang-Zhu school explain the rationality of tax collection within the framework of its own system?

Out of compassion, they feel that those who are "forced to live" are not as good as death, and they are extremely pitiful, so they hope that they can obtain land, so that they can at least be better than death, and achieve the state of losing life, so what is this legal principle?

Is it because of compassion?

Or according to the Mohists, there was no Son of Heaven in ancient times, and the land was owned by the people of the world, and now it is just natural to give the fiefdom back to the people?

Is this the way the Tao is naturally the case? Is the rule of inaction so inaction? If we agree with the Mohist approach, is it the same as agreeing with the Mohist saying that "the way of heaven can be known, reason can be pushed, and doing it according to heaven is no different from the self-transformation of non-action, and it can be achieved more quickly"?

Xu Xi of the peasant family could see at a glance that the reason why the Mo family let them govern those townships was to use their morality of "true equality" to overkill and clean up the remnants of the nobility there. The reason why it can be seen is that the peasants agree with part of the Mo family's principles, but there are some differences in line on the question of how to go at this time.

Meng Sunyang has not yet figured out what the fundamental reason is why the Mo family let them govern these townships, so it is difficult for him to make policy decisions, once he does something wrong, the Mo family will use silent means to discredit their school prestige and become a laughing stock.

The Mo family seems to have generously tried to govern the various schools of the Song State and the Song Kingdom, but in fact, except for the peasant family, which had enough influence in this Song State coup, the rest of the schools did not have money, soldiers, mass base, and governing experience, and everything they had was not earned by themselves by shedding the blood of thousands of people like the Mo family, but by the Mo family, which doomed them to become a kind of puppet.

What is now in front of Meng Sunyang is a question of faith and morality.

Dongxiang Ziqi was questioning Meng Sunyang, if you divide the land among these helpers, then it is equivalent to plucking my hair and harming my interests, so your argument that you don't hurt others to benefit the world doesn't make sense.

The land of a hundred miles cannot be governed, but the world is not good?

The dilemma that Meng Sunyang faced at this time was also the dilemma that the Yang Zhu School would inevitably face in the world of change.

If the patriarchal system is not loosened at all, this fashion is before the Spring and Autumn Period, then it is impossible to talk about not plucking a hair, because except for the nobles, the commoners have no hair to pluck, and the whole world is not the king's land.

If the times have advanced to the point where everyone has a hair to pluck, then it is better to say that based on this, although the existence of a government will definitely be needed in the end, and all kinds of corrections may be necessary, it is still feasible in the end.

But the problem is that the Yang Zhu school is now facing an era of great changes unseen in a thousand years, and Shi once asked Yang Zhu the question "what to do".

The current situation is that although the patriarchal system has collapsed, it still exists, the aristocratic system exists, and there are small producers of homesteaders with private property and private land.

Shi also asked them, how many people in the world are qualified to be plucked now? You want your hair not to be plucked by the nobles and princes, why should you? Just reason with them? You have to let there be more people in the world who can be plucked, and then you can make your morality accepted by the princes and nobles, who do not rely on reasoning to let them not pluck your hair, but by swords, muskets, and cannons......

But to do this, there must be sacrifices, which goes against the righteousness of the Yang Zhu school to honor oneself and not pluck a hair that is not good for the world, so they are also destined to sing supporting roles in this big era.

Zhan He and the others didn't think about the question of "what to do" that Shi asked, and they also knew that Shi Shi's idea was actually very right, and even a few people faintly felt that the morality of the Yang Zhu School needed to be revised.

But...... If you want to seize power by violence, you have to learn from the Mohists, and then learn everything from the Mohists, such as collecting taxes, raising soldiers, compulsory service, sacrificial spirit, the collective system, compulsory education, and being forced to be thrown into the village community as a teacher after being educated...... All kinds of things, in that case, what is the difference between it and the Mo family?

If you don't violently seize power, you will go back to the original question, how many people are qualified to be plucked in the world now? How can these people guarantee that their hair will not be plucked? When the princes and nobles want to pluck their hair, can they resist?

The Mo family gave them a chance to "govern by seizing power non-violently", that is, now, but before they could govern, Meng Sunyang had already fallen from the sky, and found that it was so difficult to really start thinking about these earthly problems.

After secretly assigning the scope of governance to the townships of the Song State, the Yang and Zhu factions felt very happy and satisfied, after all, what the Mo family gave them seemed to be the more developed and wealthy areas of the Song State except for a few large cities, and the remnants of the patriarchy of the princes and nobles were much less than those of the peasants.

It looks wonderful...... But in reality, they face far more problems than farmers.

As far as the peasants were concerned, those townships were basically the fiefs of the aristocracy, and there were few yeoman farmers, let alone those operational landlords similar to those near Surabaya, who divided the land according to the means of land granting.

But for the Yang Zhu School, the Mo family dug an unfathomable pit for them.

The problems they have to face are difficult for even the Mohists, who have been in power for 20 years, to face.

This includes...... The land system, the population movement system, the possibility of population flight from the adjacent industrial and commercial areas, how to ensure that the local operating estates leave labor under the premise of organized reclamation and colonization, the market fluctuations to be suffered by the raw material production areas, the support and opposition of different classes in the future, the contradiction between the desire of a large number of domestic cultivators to have their own land and the new aristocracy that has annexed the land for personal control, the problem that local industry and commerce are facing the impact and suppression of Sishang industry and commerce, The contradiction between the development of the local handicraft industry and the frenzied flow of people to Si Shang is in urgent need of manpower......

Meng Sunyang didn't take all of this into account.

The Mohists wanted a Song state that provided military allies and markets and soldiers to the west, and raw materials and cheap population to the east.

It's just that the purpose of the east side will inevitably be not so great, but it is easy to dirty his hands, rather than this, it is better to ask the Yang Zhu School, which seems to have reconciled with the Mo family, but in fact has been morally contrary to the Mo family, to take the blame.

If it is done well and stabilized, it will naturally become the scenario that Sishang wants: yeoman farmers go bankrupt and flee to Sishang to provide Sishang with population and cheap labor, and annex the land mercenary farming system to provide raw materials and food for Sishang.

If it can't be done well, it can't be stabilized, and the people will resist fiercely...... I'm sorry, it has nothing to do with the Mo family, it's that your Yang Zhu school is not in good power, you see how well our Sishang is developing, if you can't develop, that's your problem, and by the way, it proves that your doctrine can't make the world rule in practice.

Meng Sunyang has not realized this trap so far, and the Dongxiang Ziqi he is facing now is just one of a lot of contradictions that need to be solved urgently, and there are many more similar to it.

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In another place in the Song Kingdom, the corpse leader was asking his closed disciple Wei Ying.

"Aren't you ambitious? Now there is an opportunity to govern for a hundred miles, and if it can be governed, it will be famous. How unwilling? ”

The young Wei Ying saluted Mr. and said, "Sir, I have the ambition to govern the country of ten thousand times, but I do not have the talent to govern the country of a hundred miles. ”

The corpse smiled and said: "This is a big fallacy, it can't be cured for a hundred miles, how can it be cured for ten thousand times?" ”

He didn't mean to be sarcastic, because he had always known the intelligence and mind and ambition of this disciple, and this time in the debate of the hundred schools, Wei Ying came forward to ask the peasant family four questions, so that he was already famous at a young age.

At least the corpse noticed that after the incident, Shi also came to inquire about Wei Ying, exchanged a few more words, and even praised him a few words and said that he was quite talented.

Now it is no longer the child of the shoemaking family in Shangqiu, but the leader of the world's leading scholars.

The corpse leader felt that Wei Ying would not be untargeted, so he deliberately said so.

Sure enough, Wei Ying replied: "Sir, governing the country of ten thousand times is not the same as governing the country of a hundred miles, especially since this land of a hundred miles is still a land of a hundred miles under the protection of the Mo family. ”

"If you govern the country of all multipliers, you must consider the military so that it cannot be invaded by foreign enemies; Consider the decree and convince the people; To have spells, to be able to restrain subordinates; You must know the finances, otherwise you will not be able to raise soldiers; Be proficient in diplomacy and make the nation ...... friend or foe."

"But this hundred miles...... If you don't need to run the army or diplomacy, what can you actually do? As long as the army is governed, it is necessary to consider the land system, the will of the people, the interests of the people, taxation and military endowments, the busy and idle farms, and the ...... of industry and commerce."

"But here, we don't have to worry about anything. According to the step-by-step, everything is according to what the Mo family wants, then it will be a great rule. When it comes to military power, it is in the hands of the Mohists; When it comes to diplomacy, the Sishang Council is in charge of everything; When it comes to finances, it is only necessary to pay the prescribed taxes to the central ......"

"This hundred-mile land, I don't need to guard the martingale, even if it is a middle-aged person who has just finished learning from the academy in Sishang, he can be ruled in three or five years. Then what is the difference between me and the hundreds of thousands of officials in Sishang? Ignoring everyone, it is really difficult to calm the ambition in my heart. ”

"The government I practice can make this hundred-mile township compete within a thousand miles, but does the Mo family need such a person? Will it be allowed? Everything is according to what the Mo family wants, how can I show my talent? ”

"Besides, sir...... How can it be considered a great rule? ”