Chapter 284: The Smoke of Gunpowder Ends Up and the Saddle Stirrups Hang Down (4)
As for attracting landless cultivators from some cities to come to Peiyi as soldiers, it is completely a bit of a mercenary flavor.
If you look at the world, the Mo family can be very rich, as long as the Mo family agrees to let go of their hands and feet, a steady stream of wealth can be concentrated here.
The "Biography of the Goods Colony" records the huge wealth that has accumulated tens of millions at every turn.
Under the conditions of great unification, the power of the super-rich may not be able to manifest, but if there are really tens of millions of super-rich at this time, it can shake one side.
Meng Weijun gets 100,000 yuan a year from loan sharking, plus the income from the fief, he can afford to support 3,000 customers.
If you let go of your hands and feet, taking advantage of the Jin and Chu hegemony and rising again, the Central Plains War is about to start for more than ten years, not to mention that the annual money of 100,000 yuan is not a problem to multiply several times.
However, the difficulty lies in the Mohist doctrine of love and non-attack, and if some things cannot be sold, they cannot be regarded as "the warlike king who helps the world".
The Xuanyi Department, which has a good grasp of this point, has already begun to blow the wind in advance, just to convince these high-level Moshi leaders who are determined not only to talk about the purpose, but also to talk about ideals and morality.
The grandson of the elder brother once had an argument with him because of the liquor, believing that this was to consume the world's food for a few people to enjoy, which was beneficial to the princes and nobles rather than the world.
Even if the wind blows three years in advance, it is still extremely difficult to convince everyone.
Pei County is not along the coast, but the salt of Surabaya goes down to the Huaishui estuary, where there are a large number of aquatic plants, after incineration is the best alkali ash, but also the best source of alkali for the glass manufacturing industry before the emergence of the LΓΌ Blanche method.
He can't do without the Mo family, and without the organization of the Mo family, he can't do anything.
But if you want to succeed in the Mo family, you must be reasonable, make it clear that this is beneficial to the world, and then get the support of the Mo family to do it.
This is true of many, many other things besides Xuanlin.
If you can only choose one of the two, you would rather choose a Mo family with rules than an opportunity to become rich in business.
Now muskets, artillery and stirrups have been shown to everyone.
The corresponding reform of the military system has also been spoken.
For the rest, it is necessary to state the route and purpose of the Mohists in the future, at least clearly state the short-term purpose.
Pei County and Pengcheng have already arrived, and the Mo family now needs a goal within five years and ten years.
Everyone heard the overtones of Shi's previous words, and Shiya understood that there were some things that had to be said today.
If even these people can't be convinced, when the Mo family gathers, there are really some things that can't be said.
Because some words, if they are said very clearly now, the Mo family will soon fall into the siege of the kings of the world.
He looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Giant, fellow disciple, I have heard that there are two kinds of schemes in the world. β
"One is a conspiracy, such as a trap set by a hunter, which requires insight into the movements of the beasts in order to succeed."
"One is for the sun, like the warm sun in spring, it doesn't want to melt the ice and snow, but just comes out to shine on the earth, and the ice and snow will naturally melt."
"Now the firearms have been released in the saddle stirrups, and the iron crops have been changed, just like the warm spring sun, which will melt the ice and snow."
"It's just that the process may be a little slow, and what we have to do is to take advantage of this spring like a warm sun and do something to make it all faster."
"In the end, we can benefit the world. Otherwise, if the methods of firearms, iron, improved seeds, and composting are exhausted now, it is said that our Mo family will die, and it will naturally benefit the world after a long time anyway......"
He has already talked about the relationship between the productive forces and the relations of production, and between the military system and the level of agricultural production, and everyone is still convinced of this, and in the long run, as long as the world will one day profit.
However, in the long run, everyone will die, it is meaningless to say this, and it is naturally impossible for everyone in the Mo family to do this.
The meaning of adaptation has always been the same, that is, to develop technology, and then when the technical level is enough to support the "Promised Land", let the world's political affairs and laws be moral, in line with the corresponding technical level.
This is the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
In the eyes of the Mo family, Shi is good at taking advantage of the situation, from the previous battle of Shangqiu to the later attraction of Tianxia warriors, as well as the Central Plains soldiers who almost facilitated, they are all taking advantage of the situation.
This time, however, the right momentum is not the balance of forces of various countries, but the hidden but real trend of productive forces.
If this potential can be borrowed, it can be regarded as in line with this change that has not been encountered in a thousand years. All countries have taken advantage of this momentum to change their laws, but they do not know about it, but they do it with a keen instinct.
Mozi listened to the statement of the conspiracy and said with a smile: "Since you have talked about the conspiracy, you might as well say it more clearly." β
Shi took a step back and said with a smile: "Then please make the giant a fiefdom noble, everything is based on 'profit' first, don't talk about benevolence and righteousness." If you, a fiefdom nobleman, talk about benevolence and righteousness, why do we Mohists and Confucians need to preach benevolence and righteousness in the world? β
Mozi nodded and said with a smile: "Listen to you." I am now a fiefdom nobleman. β
Shi said to the public again: "Then please be a farmer who rents land on the private land of the nobles." β
Gongzaoye also smiled: "Although I don't know about crops, except for crops, farmers can do everything else." β
After thinking about it, he said: "Giant, you now have tens of thousands of acres of private land, rent it to farmers, and pay rent per mu every year. This has been the case since your grandfather's time. In addition to these private fields, there are also closed fields. β
Mozi nodded and said, "There are many such people in the Song Kingdom. Many nobles took advantage of the public land to embezzle it for private use, and forced others to cultivate private acres in the name of public land labor. β
Shi nodded, and said to the grandson on the side: "You are now a businessman who learned from Pei County, not a disciple of the Mo family, and you don't talk about benevolence and righteousness, only about interests." Merchants value profit over separation, as has been the case since ancient times. β
The grandson also nodded yes.
Shi Dao: "Nowadays, wars are raging, Jin and Chu are competing for power, and those who can get huge profits are grain, cloth, copper and iron. β
"Copper and iron aside. Now the grandson has learned from Pei County, and has obtained the method of cotton seed and ridge cattle farming. He had money, so he bought a ploughshare and ploughed oxen. β
"Then, Juzi has 100,000 acres of private land, which originally required thousands of households to work hard in order to rent and pay rent, and the annual income was 100,000 yuan."
"After lending more, after the peasant households pay the rent per mu, it is difficult to make a living, and the surplus money in their hands cannot buy iron tools for ploughing cattle, let alone the method of using ridges, and can only use stone tools and bone tools to cultivate, year after year, the poverty becomes more and more poor."
After speaking, he glanced at his grandson and said: "Now that the grandson has learned from Peixian County, and has the money to buy iron tools for cultivating cattle, if you calculate carefully, the 100,000 acres of private land of the giant only need to hire 300 cultivators." β
Helpers and cultivators have already appeared in the Warring States Period, that is, agricultural employees who work full-time to farm land for others.
Chen She, who rebelled in Daze Township, "tasted farming with human servants".
When Han Feizi commented on the "profit-seeking" of people in the world, he also said: Those agricultural hired workers work hard, and the master treats them well, not because the agricultural hired workers love the master, nor does the master love the hired workers, but just take what they need. Entertain them and give them money, so that they can work hard, and vice versa.
Shi looked at Mozi with a smile and said with a smile: "The grandson wants to make a profit now, so he asked the giant son that the annual tax on your private land is only 100,000 yuan per mu, and the farmer will not be able to repay it at every turn." Therefore, he pays 150,000 yuan a year to rent your private acre, will you agree? β
Without waiting for Mozi to answer, he said: "I am the Mo family of Pei County, and now I know Tianzhi and have done many things. β
"Such as Xuan Lin, which can transmit light but isolates wind and rain, such as the name of ice, such as white as snow, and porcelain like gold and bronze...... And so on, it's expensive, everyone else has it, but you don't, and you feel more and more that you are short of money. β
"With the popularization of ironware, the rent you collect remains the same, but the grain you collect is cheaper and cheaper, and the Mo family only collects money and sells you Xuanlin ceramics and other utensils, so you are even more short of money."
Mozi glanced at Shi, thinking about what Shi had just said before playing this role, "profit first", and said: "Since the grandson pays 150,000 yuan, and it is another payment, how can I not rent?" β
Gao Sun Sun also thought for a moment from the perspective of Shi Shi, and asked, "It's just that my 150,000 yuan, can I really make a profit?" β
Shi nodded and said, "Yes, you can make a profit." Iron oxen ploughing rotation can increase or even double the yield. β
"You have obtained the cotton seed of Pei County, the countries are in great dispute, and cloth is urgently needed, cotton cloth can be spun into cloth in Pei County, and the efficiency is several times that of hemp, so cotton cloth is urgently needed. You're going to make a profit. β
The grandson thought for a while and said, "If that's the case, then I'll rent the giant's private acre." Just ......"
He glanced at the public smelting on the side, and said with a smile: "It's just that the original 100,000 acres of private land need to be leased and planted by thousands of households. Now I have iron tools, oxen and carts, etc., and I need no more than 300 cultivators, and I have to build and smelt them...... You don't want to farm, go and do something else. β
Gongzaoye knew that he was pretending to be a farmer who rented the private land of the nobles, and when he heard what his grandson said, he said to the giant: "Giant, please have a benevolent heart, if I don't farm, what do I live on?" Even if I reclaim wasteland, I'm not in Peiyi, and I don't have the money to buy ironware......"
Mozi shook his head and said, "You can't give me money, I'm afraid that if you don't leave, I will send private soldiers to drive you away in order to rent it to my grandson." β
Gongzao Ye said with a bitter face: "But where can I go?" How should we live? β
Shishun pulled out the poultry slippery on the side again, and said: "The poultry is a weaver, and the new loom of Depei County is good." At a time when iron tools were widespread in the world, when farmers had surplus grain and exchanged for daily prosperity, and when various countries were in urgent need of cloth for war, they accumulated money and bought 20 new looms, and there was a shortage of manpower. β
Hearing this, Yu Huali looked directly at Gongzao Ye and said: "Gong Zaoye, you have no land to cultivate, why don't you enter the city and weave cloth with me." For the sake of profit, I will only take care of your two meals a day, and I will give you less money. β
Gong Zaoye thought about it and said with a wry smile: "Even if you only care about my two meals, I will go too." Is there another way? β
He looked at Shi, and Shi finally smiled: "There is another way, it just depends on whether you are willing to go." β
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