Chapter 101: Good Governance
After making this report, the dozen or so people present did not unanimously agree with the appropriate idea.
They agreed with the overall strategy, but they could not help but have some criticism about the practice of applying the sale of weapons and smuggling goods to exacerbate the contradictions between the nobles and the king of Chu, and between the nobles and the fiefdom peasants.
If it is clear that doing so will cause people to suffer, should it be done?
If it is for the sake of long-term goals, then the justice of the purpose and result, does it not need to consider the process?
After all, the righteousness of the Mo family is there.
In the end, the plan was approved by a modest margin, and those who opposed it only respected the rule of the minority and obeyed the majority, but it did not mean that they agreed with the appropriate opinion.
As for continuing to increase the penetration in the Chu State, it is not difficult.
The Mohist spread outside of Sishang, combined with the experience of a part of religion, the history of Zhuxia has always suppressed religion, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was a large-scale uprising during the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, and Wudou Midao established a **** regime in Hanzhong.
But at this time, none of the princes of the world had a way to oppose the "customary means of religion".
These include almsgiving medicines, medical treatment, associations and mutual assistance, etc., all of which are commonly used outside of Sishang, and are also suitable for learning from the means of religious propagation.
In addition to religious methods, it is also customary to use methods similar to those of some purposeful NGOs.
It is impossible to sincerely help the development of the Chu State, it is also impossible to help establish an iron-smelting workshop, glass handicraft industry, sugar extraction industry, textile industry, etc., and it is also impossible to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to support the construction and teach people to fish.
For the people, on the contrary, it is those means that cannot solve the problem at the root, such as sending some medicines, helping to give some ironware, and helping to fight against the powerful people of the village community, which cannot solve the problem at the root, and it is easier to attract the people and gain their support.
For example, if the Mo family provided a large number of craftsmen to help the Chu State establish its own iron smelting industry and handicraft workshops, the people would get more benefits, but the people would not know how much human and financial resources the Mo family had produced, but it would be easier to gain the recognition of the people with less money to send some medicine, borrow some iron, and fight mouth cannons.
In terms of future infiltration, where will the money come from? Take a small part of the profits from the arms trade with the nobles of the Chu State.
Where did the money of the nobles of the Chu State come from? From the hands of the people.
Who is the people resenting? It was the aristocracy and not the Mohists who engaged in the arms trade; Who does the populace like? It is the Mo family that takes out a part of the profits to be a good person, but in fact engages in the arms trade.
The two are the same Mohist, but they are different.
Reality is always so magical, and it has been used to this method over the years, and it has worked.
After voting to approve these strategies, Shi decided to go to the Song State as a Mo family giant to express the Mo family's attitude towards the Song coup.
If it weren't for the situation within the Mo family, the situation of Sishang being counted as a prince at this time would actually be very inappropriate to go to the Song Kingdom, which was not in line with international law and international etiquette under the Zhou rites.
International law and international etiquette under the Zhou rites are in an order of respect and inferiority, for example, small countries such as Teng and Xue can go to Linzi to "meet" the Marquis of Qi, but it is impossible for the Marquis of Qi to go to Teng Xue to meet the Marquis of a small country. Even if it is an alliance, it will choose to be in the border area.
For example, when the Duke of Qi Huan razed the country, the power of Yanhou Lai Huan was able to stabilize the situation, and when he sent Qi Huan Gong to the border to show respect, Qi Huan Gong immediately ceded the land that Yan Hou sent to Qi to send to Yanhou, because unless it was the Son of Heaven, the princes could not leave the country.
All kinds of rituals are not only clothing, food, housing and transportation, but have formed a complete system in the world.
It's just that now that this system has collapsed, and the Mo family has never recognized this system, it is suitable to go to the Song Kingdom as a Mo family giant, not a court meeting, just an ordinary visit, and it also shows an attitude of the Mo family not following the Zhou etiquette.
Everyone is not opposed to this matter, since the grand strategy has been set, then the Song State as a bait to attract the attention of the princes to the Central Plains is a key part, as the Mo family giants to go, it is to let the countries focus on the Central Plains, a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in the Central Plains, for the future of the Mo family "Ming Xiu plank road dark Chen Cang" Huaishui Xinyang strategy to prepare.
Because he is in the prime of life, the position of deputy giant is not a young man like this when he was a giant, but an old man who has a high reputation but is already dying, staying in Pengcheng to preside over the daily work of Sishang.
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In mid-October, after more than ten years of absence from Shangqiu, Shi once again looked at the city wall of Shangqiu.
Along the way, too many people welcomed them.
I think of a poem that doesn't fit the style of the time.
The bleak autumn wind is now again, and the world has changed.
However, at this time, October is already winter, and in some places where the old calendar is used, the New Year will be celebrated this month, and even though the spirit of the people in Shangqiu has changed completely different from more than ten years ago, there is still the existence of a bloodline Song Gong, and he has no cheekiness to think that he has changed the world.
In the distance, the "fake" Da Yin Dai Cong came to the suburbs to greet him, this fake is not the other, acting on behalf of his political intentions, Dai Cong, the identity of the Da Yin of the Inquiry Yuan, has not yet completed the formal process.
After the meeting, Dai Cong insisted on being the forerunner to show respect.
"When Mozi was in the past, he saved the Song Dynasty to save Lu, and his righteousness was close to the blue sky, the lord of ten thousand times, the king of a thousand times, seeing that Mozi did not try to fight against the court, in order to respect his righteousness."
"Today's Shizi is out of the blue, saving the Song people from fire and water, and relieving the upside down ...... of Qi people"
People have to bow their heads under the eaves, and Dai Cong doesn't understand where his position as Da Yin comes from.
When he said this, it was also a sign in the law of re-etiquette that Shi was still coming as a giant of the Mo family, and it was natural for him to come to greet him, and he was on an equal footing with the Song Gong Court not because Sishang was an uncrowned prince, but because of the so-called righteousness of the Mo family.
Shi smiled secretly in his heart, thinking that everything always needs to be made up for some reason, what Mozi, who was able to fight against the monarch back then, relied on was not the righteousness that those monarchs refused to accept, but the strength of the hundreds of Moshi righteous soldiers behind him who could go to the soup and fire, and the strength to save Song and Lu to participate in the alliance.
Dai Cong is the forerunner, which means that he is one level lower than the Song Gong, and he is qualified to compete with the Song Gong, so he is the forerunner.
He said something about Dai Cong's petition for the people, and he also benefited the people, which can be described as a comrade.
It is also said that Dai Cong is not only the chief of the Inquiry Yuan, but also the sage chosen by the people, from this point of view, the head of Sishang is equal to Dai Cong, and it cannot be said that the people elected by the people of Sishang are one level higher than the people elected by the people of the Song Kingdom.
It is polite for him to stand up to the Song Gong court, and it is reasonable to be equal with Dai Cong.
So they both boarded the car and went together.
After saying the scene, the group crossed the gate that was suitable for defense back then.
After many years of absence, the appearance of Shangqiu City has undergone great changes, and the new city defense with the "walking wall" system has replaced the previous square city defense that conforms to the etiquette and law and is enough to defend in the Bronze Age.
The Mo family's influence in Shangqiu is very great, the roots are very deep, and there are a lot of people who welcome them, and this scene also makes Dai Cong, who is in the same company, more aware that his own Yin is just a decoration, at least he can't do things that are contrary to what the Mo family thinks.
The people of Shangqiu have a special feeling for the Mo family and Shi, in addition to the morality of the Mo family, Shi is a serious Shangqiu person after all, and many of the elders of the family may have also made boots from Shi's father.
This time to return to Shangqiu, it can be regarded as another aspect of the Mo family's morality of "equality and virtue", the son of the former shoemaker can now be equal to the princes, in any case, this is also a thing that breaks the tradition of princes and generals.
When he came to the city in the city, he asked someone to stop the carriage and made a statement on the carriage.
First of all, he explained the reason for sending troops this time from the morality of the Mo family, and then talked about the bravery of the people of the Song State who spontaneously revolted and built barricades to resist the unrighteous imperial father's family, and finally said a few promises.
That is, if the countries do not interfere, then the Mo family will also withdraw their troops from the Song State, and will not leave a single soldier, because the people of the Song State already have something worthy of their own protection, and I believe that the people of the Song State can defend it.
If the countries do not recognize it and send troops, then the Mo family will still fulfill the previous non-offensive covenant, reluctantly promise to die, and will never break its promise.
Second, the Mojia Association provided free assistance to the new government of the Song Dynasty with some iron tools, cattle, horses, etc., in addition to free assistance, it could also use loans to support the production of a large number of iron tools and farm tools.
Third, it is hoped that the Song State can cancel the tariffs on all Mohist goods, and ban the toll taxes that the Song nobles had established before, so that the people of the Song State can use all kinds of handicraft products cheaper.
Fourth, the Mohists would set up a gold and silver trading house in Shangqiu, issue currency, and have the same guaranteed reputation as Sishang, use Sishang's currency, and be able to provide large loans to support the construction of the Song state.
Fifth, the Mo family would send a group of instructors to the Song State to help the Song State establish an army with the right to go to war in the Senate of the Counselor Yuan, which would protect the Song people from the invasion of brutal and unrighteous people, and the Mo family could even provide an interest-free loan for the weapons and uniforms of this army.
Sixth, the people of Sishang supported the choices made by the people of the Song Dynasty for their own interests and a better life, and donated a large amount of money, which will be sent to the Song State in full, and a special committee was set up to supervise the use of this money - the money of the Mo family belongs to the Mo family, and the money of the people of Sishang is the people of Sishang, these two are sometimes the same thing, but sometimes they are not the same thing.
As soon as these statements came out, there was a thunderous burst of joy.
Needless to say, the first two articles were about military and aid, and the third article hoped that the Song State's decision to unilaterally ban tariffs was also applauded, and the meaning of this was very profound.
The central government of the Song State has ended, the competitive handicraft industry between the Song State and the Si State has ended, and the Song State has completely reduced to a part of the Si Shang in the economic concept.
The competitive handicraft industry of the Song State is the silk embroidery industry, and there is no other industry that can compete with the handicraft industry in Sishang, and the embroidery and silk industry is precisely what Sishang does not have the energy to do.
The private iron-smelting workshops that once existed in the Song Kingdom have long since gone bankrupt; The low-end pottery industry has never been the direction of competition for Sishang's handicrafts; There was no salt industry in the Song Kingdom, and the Mo household salt drying method squeezed the Hedong salt of the Wei State out of the Song market; The cotton textile industry did not develop much in Song Guo itself......
For the people of Shangqiu, cheaper iron, cheaper salt, cheaper cloth, cheaper ceramics, etc., are exactly what they hope and like. If you can't use up all the production in Sishang, why do you want to produce it yourself? Moreover, the imperial father Yue Ling, who has the ability to have the idea to oppose it, has been captured; Some of the industries that have interests and incentives to oppose them have gone bankrupt, and the people, mainly farmers and market vendors, have no reason to oppose it, but on the contrary, they feel that it is good governance.