Chapter 344 Tianyuan forces and joins the corners (4)
After arguing for a while, Luhua prepared the meal and said with a ease: "Eat first, and talk while eating."
Gao Sunzi and others were hungry, so they cleaned up the wooden table with Shi.
The game of Go that has never been played on it is difficult to solve in the black and white battles near Tianyuan, but there is no force or obstacle at the corners, which is suitable for maneuvering and turning.
After packing this game of Go, eight or nine people in the house sat on the table together, without talking about some etiquette at this time, women could also eat at the same table. If the nobles saw it, they would definitely exclaim that the ceremony was broken and the music was broken, but the people in the house had already become accustomed to it.
First, the Mohist school is a moral morality that everyone is equal, and they will not discriminate against women when defending the city. Instead, they believe that women can "carry soil and build wood".
Secondly, because of cotton cloth, the commodity economy around Peixian has had some abnormal prosperity. When it was able to support itself without the land, combined with the Mohist concept of equality and the legacy of the female status of the clan era, Peixian's female status was generally slightly higher than elsewhere.
Moreover, because a large number of women need to bear a series of people who eat "Mo family's financial expenses" such as medical skills and children's education, the establishment of this model has also led to many changes in the customs of Peidi in nearly ten years.
The meals are not special, but compared to what most people eat at this time, they are already rich and cannot be compared with the nobles.
Each person had a bowl of batter, corn rice, and a jar with vegetable oil, chopped pickled toon leaves, and a bird egg with meals.
Each person also cut "white noodles and vegetable rolls" about two centimeters thick for use as a dish.
There is a layer of white flour on the outside, and the inside is chopped and extremely salty salted fish and scallion oil. In fact, it is just a roll with a lot of dishes. However, because the salted fish is too salty, it can only be eaten as a side dish instead of a staple food.
Gao Sunzi smiled and said, "This salted fish roll was only eaten when the wheat was harvested at the beginning. I remember when I was digging the first canal in Pei County, this thing was so popular that people could deliver food. Now I can eat it."
A very simple sentence actually tells the changes in Peixian in recent years.
During the wheat harvest season, it is the time to get hot, and you sweat a lot and you need to replenish salt.
At that time, wheat flour was quite rare. Vegetable oil, smelly salted fish, and wheat flour were simply a feast.
This strange way of eating was formed from digging the canal, but it was surprisingly popular among the people, and over time it became a custom here.
Nowadays, this habit is still retained when harvesting wheat, but it can be eaten normally.
Although this is not really delicious in appearance, if a farmer outside Pei County can eat this food, it will be like when sacrificing the head of the family in winter to give wine and food.
As for Chinese toon, it is a specialty here. To the south is Pengcheng. Pengzu's legend said that it was born under the toon tree, and the toon tree has a long life, so there are many toon trees here.
The toon buds are salted and can be eaten on weekdays, and this pickled vegetable has the same benefit: no maggots are produced.
Even if salt is added to the other pickled vegetables, maggots often grow, including sauce. Perhaps the emperor and the princes had special "scholars" to eat, and they would not grow maggots, but the public would mostly grow maggots, and they would catch the maggots and continue to eat them.
Therefore, this simple meal is considered a delicious meal compared to the vast majority of the people in the world at this time. Those who are seventy can eat meat, even if it is a dream of benevolence and righteousness, the living standard under low productivity cannot be imagined.
There are many low-level aristocrats in the Mohist family, such as Gao Sunzi, who are orthodox aristocrats. This is why the most people in the "suffering oneself" sect are those who can live a life of low-level aristocrats by taking a step back.
I took the chopsticks and ordered the can of toon buds and eggs, and said leisurely: "I have heard that in ancient times, there were big toons, who regarded eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. This is the big year. The morning bacteria do not know the new moon, and the cicadas do not know the spring and autumn. This is the small year. Therefore, the small year is not as good as the big year. If it is the big year, I will not care about the spring and autumn for a while."
Gao Sunzi was knowledgeable. Although Zhuang Zhou had not been born at this time, Shi's words still won his praise. He also understood Shi's implicit meaning and smiled and said, "You and I are all cicadas, how can you not care about the spring and autumn for a while?"
Shi also smiled and said, "Although you and I are cicadas, the Mohist family's righteousness is endless, and it is the eight thousand years old. Some things need to be long-term."
"When you look at it with Lili, look at it for a long time, are these things not beneficial to the world?"
Gao Sunzi knew what Shi wanted to say, but he could not refute this question.
This thing is indeed beneficial, and if Xu Lin is done well, it can be transparent and transparent, instead of the grass that closes the windows, so that everyone in the world can live in a bright house where the winter is not cold and sunny.
In the long run, it will inevitably be beneficial.
Shi said again: "Besides, don't we make these things and do not spread them to all directions through industry and commerce, and those princes and nobles will not plunder the farmers' fiefdoms? These things were originally beneficial to the world, just like swords. The saints were created by the Heavenly Ghosts to kill tigers and leopards and stabilize the world. Some people used them to kill people, but they said that the crime of murder should be counted on the saints and craftsmen who made the sword. Is this correct?"
Gao Sunzi looked at Shi and said solemnly: "But you have to know that you made these things in order to make the princes and nobles like them, and to exchange them for copper, grain, money, and jade. This is like when you were making a sword, you hope that this sword would kill people, so this is different from what you said!"
The tone of the two became more and more intense. As they were about to cause trouble in the liquor workshop, the few people next to them wanted to persuade them, but they didn't know what to say.
Shi also said solemnly: "I made these things not to let the princes and nobles exploit the fiefdom, but to benefit the world!"
"Zi Mozi said that Mozi should respect the three expressions."
"If the world is poor, it is rich; if the people are few, it is crowded; if the people are in chaos, it is governed!"
"I have not violated these three expressions, and all of them are for the sake of the world's wealth, the people, and politics! I am in line with the meaning of the Mohist three expressions!"
"What is wrong is the current system in the world. Farmers are imprisoned on the fiefdom and cannot leave or leave. To solve this problem, it is not to let the nobles wear straw sandals and short brown! You are treating the symptoms, not the root cause!"
Gao Sunzi also said sternly: "You are right, I never object to it. However, these things do make Pei County prosperous and the farmers on the fiefs in other parts of the world suffer! I don't oppose the reform of the world's system, but I hope that the Mohist family will also have the heart of the world and the people in the process!"
"Like water, it cannot be stained with mud."
Shi counterattacked: "Zi Mo Zi said that pros and cons require power. Being able to get big profits and get small profits is a harm! I am doing it for the benefit of the world, and you are just for the benefit of the world. It doesn't make sense to talk to the princes and nobles, so you have to rely on fighting!"
"It takes money, food, copper and iron."
"Only by winning can we solve the world's worms like princes and nobles from the root! Only then can we benefit the world."
"Jia Tong, the city today, is here. Ask him, how much grain does a cannon need to exchange for copper? Can Pei County rely solely on agricultural land to support the current charity master? If it cannot support it, how can it benefit the world in the future?"
The people present were either from the right direct line or from the Gaosun faction. Some things can be said clearly without any cover-up.
The conflict between the two is not just a matter of luxury goods, but also a series of economic policies in the future.
The tall grandson's school is not the most extreme.
The most extreme faction of the Mohist school was derived, and there was also a fantasy faction that seriously transcended the times, hoping that "the wise men and the people would farm together and eat, and govern with food in their own way" and "the market and the merchants would not be priced" - the value of each commodity was measured by labor, which was equivalent to the price, and the pricing should not be violated, so that everyone's labor could be exchanged for the same labor products, with exchange and no capital appreciation, so that the whole world would be governed.
Although the explanation is not clear, its class instinct still gives such a fantasy, and it becomes more and more perfect with the emergence of some of the theories of the Mohist school.
Shi Jiatong was the first to follow Shi to come into contact with some economic things and also took charge of the Mohist financial expenditures. Therefore, he hoped that Shi Jiatong could use very realistic things to slightly shatter Gao Sunzi's overly idealistic ideas.
Shi Jiatong had long wanted to prevent the two from quarreling again. When he saw the question, he hurriedly replied: "I will calculate it with a 600-pound copper cannon, not mentioning craftsmen, but only talking about the copper used."
"Six hundred kilograms of copper can melt a small amount of 30,000 yuan. Calculated by the grain prices of Yue, Qi and Sanjin, 30 qian per stone of corn. The corn converted into this cannon is one thousand stones..."
"The county magistrate of Chu has an annual salary of only 10,000 shi. The annual salary is not considered as a land, and the county magistrate of Chu can only be able to make ten cannons a year."
"Before Pei County had no change, the new valley was composted with good iron vegetation and high-quality oxen ingredients. A family of nine people would eliminate what they eat and use. If they were in a good year, they would only get two stones after deducting rent and taxes."
"If this cannon is calculated before, it will cost the surplus of a family of nine in 500 households a year. The surplus of nearly 5,000 people will be collected, and only one cannon is enough!"
What Jiatong said in the city was naturally the case of a series of agricultural changes, when labor productivity and yield per unit per mu were extremely low.
For county officials like Duke Luyang, his land may be nominally only 3,500 or 5,000 households, and the remaining ones belong to the land under his rule. Of course, more land embezzled and collected.
Such a number is shocking and an intuitive manifestation of the inadequate development of agriculture in the world.
Gao Sunzi murmured. He also knew that many things were expensive, but he did not intuitively understand that they could be so expensive.
But he turned around and asked, "Now the changes in the Peidi farmland have been made. Is it still easy to have a thousand stones of corn?"
The stone at this time was a small stone made of Zhou, which was equivalent to about 30 kilograms of corn, and a thousand stones of corn was only 30,000 kilograms.
This was indeed a huge fortune in the past, but in Pei County today, it is really nothing. Not to mention 500 kilograms of corn or wheat, I am afraid that 100 farmers can take it out without moving their muscles. In total, nine kilograms per person can only be calculated as 30 kilograms per person.
It is planted in two seasons, supplemented by food such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. Thirty thousand kilograms of grain are just the entire output of a hundred acres of fields. It seems unreasonable to be considered cheap by Gao Sunzi.
When Jia Tong heard this, he continued, "Shi said before that a farmer produces 400 kilograms of grain a year and 800 kilograms of grain, that's not twice the difference."
"People want to eat 300 kilograms. Originally, only one hundred kilograms left can be exchanged or taxed. Now, eight hundred kilograms are produced, but in fact, the remaining five hundred kilograms are five times the amount that can be exchanged."
"In fact, it's more. It can be exchanged for more with melons and vegetables and other new species."
"But... Yue, Qi's grain price is not the grain price of Pei County. These grains cannot be exchanged directly for copper!"
Chapter completed!