On the way to breakfast with a group of ink scholars, Shi also told Mozi about the pi calculated by the ancestor Chongzhi of later generations.

The method is correct, and it is not necessary to spend years calculating.

Mozi still decided to check it himself, use a ruler to draw a circle, measure the circumference, and then check whether this value is accurate.

If it is accurate, it can be used directly, and if it is not accurate, it will take some time to recalculate according to the appropriate circumcision method.

In front of Shi's house, the first and later ink artists gathered together, drinking soy milk and eating wheat cakes outside, attracting a group of onlookers who asked what it was.

Shi then asked Six Fingers and Lu Hua to take some wheat cakes, break them and distribute them to these people, and then took the opportunity to sing poems such as the last line and the rebellious Paradise after considering it.

Such a deliberate meal made the reputation of wheat flour and tofu soy milk spread throughout Shangqiu in just one day.

When drinking soy milk, I dipped it in soy milk and drew a hydraulic grinding plate on the wooden board, and it was not difficult to make it with the talents of Mozi and a carpenter's disciple.

"That's what I think, sir. In the future, once the wheat is promoted, it will always be milled. The power of the ox and horse is too slow, and the water is endless and never stops, just right to use. ”

When the time came, they gathered the strength of the people and built a mill every few hills. or wind, or water. With this mill as the center, as in the village community, the righteousness of the Heavenly Wills and the Ink Maker is preached, or it is a place of sacrifice. In this way, the hearts of the people are united, and it is easy to spread some cultivation methods that are in line with the will of heaven. ”

He wanted to make one "village committee" after another with the water-powered and wind-powered mill as the center, and of course the mill must be in the collective hands of the village community, managed by the inker, not privately owned.

When there are many people and few places, the hydro-wind mill cannot be promoted at all; However, when there are fewer people and more land, there is a sudden explosion of productivity increases, and all kinds of simple machinery can be fully rolled out.

With the tragedy of the Warring States War, manpower will only become more and more expensive, and simple machinery that can save manpower will also be urgently needed by all countries, so that the bottom finally has the opportunity to be treated as a person.

This kind of thing is impossible for the nobles to do, and they have no ability to do it, so they can only rely on the ink master to gather everyone to do it, and then spread it out in an all-round way.

Let the ink become the second power at the grassroots level, become a hidden invisible king, and an invisible king who transcends the limitations of fiefs and borders.

Mozi had seen everything that Shi had tossed in that village community, and he also knew that Shi was skillful in his methods, and he understood the key after a little thought.

If Sumai is promoted, it is best to have black jade, ghost fingers, sweet potatoes and other crops as rotational crops.

If the wheat is promoted, if the wheat is not ground into flour, it is still a food worse than corn and sticky rice. But the cake was in his mouth, and Mozi knew that the taste of wheat after grinding was stronger than that of these corn sticky rice.

Using the means suitable for the village community and using the mill as the center of preaching to gather the people can obviously spread the righteousness of the ink among some villages and communities more quickly.

As a public property, the mill can also promote the mutual benefit of the people of the village community, and can also strengthen the cohesion of the village community.

There is no shortage of stonemasons and carpenters in the Mo family, what is lacking is the use of carpenters and stonemasons to do righteousness and means, which is just to enrich this, and stonemasons and carpenters do not need to be used only to make equipment for defending the city.

As for the lack of people, Mozi was not worried.

The desire of the people to pursue the Promised Land is powerful, and one person in the village community can bring out three or five people, and a mill of thirty miles can be as fruitful as planting crops in a few years.

Building a mill requires prestige and organizational skills.

When the mill can be built with the strength of the people, its prestige and organization can also be done with the strength of the people.

Perhaps what Mozi was thinking at this time was still the sword of rewarding and punishing the world.

But what he didn't think clearly was that when it was really enough to reward and punish the kings of the world, why did these people who gathered their bodies to forge swords still need a king with noble blood on their heads?

The next giant who holds the sword, how can everyone be him Mo Zhai thinks like this?

Then why didn't the inkman who was the blade of the sword not do righteousness himself, instead of asking the king to do righteousness?

When the sword has a soul of its own, is it the person holding the sword who decides where the sword goes? Or does the sword choose who the master is?

Mozi would never have thought that the mill in his eyes was just a reference.

There are communal mills, and there are communal oil mills. Cotton has been promoted, and there should be places for collective ginning and dyeing. Salt and iron are not monopolies, and there must be places where salt and iron are sold. With ironware, there must be a special blacksmith shop. All these things are like places where you can learn how to farm, compost, and weave.

All of this is concentrated in one place, organized by the Mo, and what is the political center of the village community outside the city, which is not invisible?

The nobility retained the tradition of village self-government for military purposes, which also provided ample opportunities for such people.

In Shi's view, relying on the salt drying method, iron casting, and textiles, you can accumulate sufficient wealth. Before it was determined that the table could be lifted, the activity funds of the inkman only needed to be obtained from the handicraft scissors.

Profit, the farmer does not see.

The collection of taxes, military levies, silk taxes, and millet taxes were to be done by the kings and nobles, and resentment was borne by them.

This is the best of the other, and the evil is the other, so let's look at the after-effects.

Not every country can be like Qi Huan Gongguanzhong, the salt and iron franchise of mountains and seas, and with that half of the ability, there will not be such a thing as a nobleman seizing power and vassals being too strong. Under the feudal system, the number one enemy of the monarch is always his own group of relatives who have the seed of princes and generals, and it is not the turn of the bottom.

These things that Mozi didn't expect meant that Mozi didn't have to think about it.

But there are many more practical things to consider.

The stone cone on the side of Shi and who had made a grinding disc with Shi first asked his own questions.

"Yes, you're thinking great. Those hydraulic grinding discs, thinking about the carpentry skills of my husband and me, are not difficult to make. Your heart is not skillful, my hands are skillful but my heart is not smart, these things are not difficult. However, you always need money to do these things, and where does the money come from? ”

Not only did he ask, but the people on the side also agreed.

Meng Sheng said on the side: "Since I have such a righteous heart, I still have some land, and I will fund him after selling it." ”

Gongzaoye smiled when he heard this: "Although you have some land, you can compare these righteousness to be suitable, like a dime and nine oxen." He spent nearly two taels of gold in a small village, and if he wanted to use such a method, he didn't know how much gold he would need. He doesn't have much money, but when he spends it, it's not comparable to ordinary taxis. ”

Meng Sheng also knew that according to the method of spending money to do righteousness, the little land in his family was really nothing, and said to him: "Sui, I have been friends with the sister-in-law of Huan Dingjun of Chuyang City since childhood, he is a person who values love and light money, and you can also borrow some from him." ”

When he heard this, he hurriedly refused, saying no.

Nobles like Huan Dingjun and Yan Zhongzi have money and status in their hands, so they can win people's hearts and make people think well. For them, it may be just a thousand gold, but for those who have received it, they have to pay it back with their lives. This is righteousness, the righteousness of a promise.

Gong Zaoye snorted coldly on the side and said, "Meng Sheng, don't mention that Huan Dingjun, this person is light on wealth for the sake of righteousness?" It's just to exchange wealth for these people who have the heart to do chivalrous deeds. ”

Shi didn't know what Gong Zaoye had experienced before, but after a few conversations, it could be seen that he was quite disdainful of those nobles, and he didn't ask too much.

Meng Sheng shook his head and didn't answer, nor did he argue, he felt that everyone had their own judgment and their own reason.

Mozi munched on the dry cakes soaked in soy milk, and listened to the disciples arguing here, not speaking, just listening.

He knew that if Shi really knew how to smelt evil gold, plus those cotton peach ghost cloths, money would not be a problem.

Not only can it solve the dilemma that the ink can only rely on those who contribute to the official ranks, but also can do greater things than before, and the influence will be greater.

In the past, Tao Zhugong, Zigong, Yidun and others were all positions that could make the king stand against each other. Mozi felt that now there was a great righteousness that could allow the nobles to fight against the court, and if there was another benefit from the cultivation of goods, perhaps his own doctrine would be easier to implement, and it would indeed be possible to cooperate with those methods of cropping to benefit the people of the world.

After swallowing a bite of the chewed cake, he suddenly asked a few people around him: "You said that if these tofu and dry cakes are sold to those nobles, they may make a profit?" ”

Many of these people around him are from small aristocratic backgrounds, and some of them are also side branches of doctors, although they don't talk about Zhong Mingding's food family, they can also participate in the circle of high society.

Meng Sheng said first: "It's okay to make profits. The wheat flour is delicate, the tofu is soft and smooth, and it is indeed delicious. ”

A group of people from small nobles also nodded in agreement, but Shi Zun, who was not from a noble family, said: "However, whether it is tofu or wheat flour, as long as you make a grinding plate, anyone can make it." ”

Shi stretched out two fingers, shook his fingers, and said, "Cone, it's not like this. If you can't make threads under the grinding disc, you can't get wheat flour out. This is one of them. Second, although tofu is simple, as long as the people who make it don't say anything, they can't make it. Besides, the people of Shangqiu eat wheat flour, and perhaps the people of Linzi will know such a method ten years later. Ten years, I can do a lot. ”

"Gongzao Metallurgy just said that Meng Sheng's land is like a cow and a dime compared to the money we need to do righteous things, but the accumulation of ten thousand hairs is a cow. So a dime can't be taken lightly. Taking Shangqiu as an example, it is seven miles longitudinal and horizontal, and according to one mile of a tofu shop, it can accommodate more than ten shops. ”

"If you have what you can gain, you will take half of it for five years, and after five years it will be its own. Or you can get it with a lump sum payment. It seems that Shangqiu doesn't get much from a city, but how many big cities like Shangqiu are there in the world? Linzi, Qufu, Taoyi, Luoyang, Jinyang, Tang, Quwo...... There are not many such cities. ”

"It only takes three or five people who are familiar with these cities to sell these fishing techniques, or the ink masters who live there can do it themselves. This thing is new, others don't, and 100 cows can be exchanged every year. ”

"I have the method of brewing spirits, and I have those vegetable mixtures, plus wheat flour, wine, tofu, vegetables and vegetables, and there are many nobles and merchants in the giant city and Dayi, which just benefit."

"One can collect money and do righteousness; secondly, it may also feed the people; Third, the world can also know that this is the means of my inker, and the name of my inker; Fourth, in the future, fabrics such as ghost cloth will also be easy to sell...... Five......"

When he said five, he came to Mozi with his own food and said, "Sir, I think so. Take the food shops in those giant cities and cities as the place for my Mo family to stay. If there is anything unrighteous, we may know it early. If we go to other countries in the future, we will have a place to rest, eat and live. ”

Mozi snorted, and said in his heart that this is exactly the way to defend the city, and it can be regarded as a meticulous work.

Everyone applauded, on the one hand, it was applauded and this kind of meticulous work, and on the other hand, there was an extra person who was good at managing goods and crops among those who applauded and ink.

There is no such character as Zigong among the ink scholars, and the city Jia Dolphin is proficient in the contract of doing business, but the ability to do business is not strong.

The wine shop seems to be an inconspicuous small business, but in the later generations, Taishi Gong made "The Biography of the Goods and Colonies", in which there are Zhang's who made 10 million yuan by selling vinegar and wine, Zhang Li who relied on treating cattle and horses as Zhong Ming's home, and Yongle who accumulated thousands of gold by being a merchant along the streets......

At this time, it is not difficult for anyone who has some ability, some wisdom, is good at management, grasps the opportunity, and becomes a big businessman on the rich side.

These Mozi people who have followed Mozi for a long time have not changed the righteousness in their hearts, but they still hope to improve after all.

They don't want to have a good life, and they feel that they can eat a dry cake and drink a bowl of soy milk every day, even if it is excellent, and they don't need any bells and bells.

Now that there is one more person in the ink who seems to have the ability to make money, of course they are happy, and they think a lot in their hearts: "Shi is really good, and when you go to those big cities and giants in the future, you can be regarded as having a place to eat and rest." ”

This is not contrary to doing righteousness.

But there was more to it than that, so he said, "One more point. The gentleman's talents are well known, but they are not willing to listen to my words. I think that in those giant cities and towns, the righteousness of the ink is spread, and the identity of these ink writers is not revealed, but as secret ink people. In the future, if there is an opportunity, he can persuade the king to do righteousness, and the king does not know that he is a Mo, and he does not even want to listen to it. ”

This kind of secret ink man's method, Mozi has never thought of it.

Shi said very calmly: "The names of these secret ink masters, registered in the register, still belong to the ink masters, but outsiders don't know them. I, the secretary, are recorded in the register, and the giant himself holds it, and the only person who knows his identity is a man of ink in those giant cities. ”

"If something happens in the future, you can also know in advance. Once there are chivalrous young men in the city, they can also rely on those who eat and teach them the righteousness. The words of the world, Junmo, what does Mr. think? ”

He said it frankly, but in the final analysis, the most important point is that if Mozi allows it, then all the rosters of secret inkmen are handled by his own secretary.

After the act of registering in the register became a convention, the open-faced ink artist was also handled by him, the secretary.

What exactly is the duty of the secretary, it is necessary for him to fight for it himself. He doesn't engage in conspiracy, he can only be above board.