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Chapter 354 Tianyuan forces and corners (fourteen)

After leaving Mozi, he rode his horse and walked casually in the street market in Pei County, with people greeting each other from time to time.

This Songyi, which was withered ten years ago, has long changed. There has never been a war, the transformation of iron ox plowing, the development of industry and commerce, and Taoyi, the economic center not far from the north... have made Peixian an important city connecting the upstream and downstream of Sishui.

A city is different from the original city.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the city was more like a castle, used to protect the Chinese people in the city and control the outside of the city. It relied on exploiting agricultural products outside the city to support the aristocratic class in the city.

The city has a perfect market and provides a place for commodity exchange.

On the banks of the Sishui River, wooden boats that came down from the upstream docked by the river, and the dock was filled with people.

The cotton, grain, and salt transported from upstream are replaced by ironware, original porcelain, cotton cloth or other handicraft products, and the huge wealth brought by repeated transportation.

After a boat landed, a group of people poured out from it, wearing ragged clothes and resting on the shore.

I rode over there and thought that these people were the "mother-class traffickers" who were transported from the upper cities or small nobles after driving people to collect land.

Sure enough, these people all spoke Song-like accents, but they were somewhat different from Peixian’s dialects of various countries.

Those who transport escorts may not be the Mo, but may also be some merchants or small nobles.

If the Mohist is not picked up and dropped off, every time the merchant ships here, he can get forty tokens from the Mohist family, buy any strange things that appear in Peixian, and then transfer them back to make another profit.

The ship was not sent by the merchant, but by the Mozhe. The leader of the Mozhe greeted Shi and asked hello.

As soon as he jumped off the horse, the guards followed tied the horse to the horse-tie stone next to him, and several lieutenants carrying packed cotton were bypassed by the horses.

He walked to the dozens of people and asked, "Where are you from?"

The dozens of people saw Shi wearing short brown clothes, leather boots, and swords hanging around her waist. They knew that he must be the one among the Mozhe, and they said one after another: "From the Fanghe."

Fanghe is not far from Pei County, at the intersection of Heshui and Sishui. At this time, the Yellow River has not yet captured the Huai River and entered the sea, and it is fertile soil.

I squatted beside everyone who was resting and talked casually: "There is no place at home?"

Fang Yu was too close to Pei County, and the changes were affected even more. The Song Dynasty was now in chaos. The great nobles held their own power and personal control over the peasants. Some small nobles and the taxi class with more private property have begun to change their identities.

The Xunzhengyuan inside Shangqiu could only control the vicinity of Shangqiu, but the emperor's family gradually took advantage of the common people to oppose their political enemies. The reforms appeared in Pei County a strange and contradictory situation.

On the one hand, the interests of the great nobles remained unchanged, and they still chose to choose the old-time rule. On the other hand, the land private ownership and the abolition of well fields in Shangqiu, Taoyi, Peixian and other places are underway.

With the increase in population, the original shareholding system can no longer meet the population needs.

This kind of change is not dominated by the Mohist, and it is inevitable that there will be no situation of equalizing the land and dividing the land. Instead, each household will make changes to each household based on its own land and bear military taxes.

Some of the little nobles took the opportunity to occupy or change their names to obtain part of the original public land. This kind of occupation had little impact on the farmers who were based on the land system.

The land portion is usually 200 acres, and in the past, the land had to be changed. The original means of labor can ensure that it cannot be starved to death.

However, as ironware began to become popularized in Song land in a large scale in the form of "in installment redemption", these farmers under the field system gained real profits, and divided 200 acres of land into private land. The transformation of agricultural technology left them in a relatively wealthy self-cultivated farmer class.

Overall, they are the mainstream in the world.

The main reason for this change is that of those who lack their own land and need to rent others to plant private land. These people are the poorest, and are only slightly stronger than the slaves, but they are not the mainstream in the world, and the number of people is not enough to support all the political demands of the Mohists.

The development of handicraft industry in Pei County requires a large number of people who have changed their industries. Agricultural technology and the limited reform of the Song State have created a group of self-cultivated farmers, but also created more "farmers" and unemployed people who cannot even "farmers" take turns.

The Mo people scattered throughout the Song Dynasty gathered such people to Pei County in various ways.

After Shi asked the question, these people answered one after another, most of which were similar to Shi’s thoughts.

Some people said: "It is said that Pei County is good. If you work here for a few years, you can earn money. The Mo family organized the farming together. In the future, if you have money to buy iron tools, cattle and horses, you will have your own land."

This is the standard mentality of the expelled farmers. Shi smiled and said, "It's good to think so. You can't lose hope in everything. Do it well in Pei County. After working for a few years, you can go to the Communist Farm and you will have your own private land in the future."

A person next to him asked, "I heard that it takes six years to do it?"

Shi Haha laughed and said, "It's been more than six years? Why do you say that you can eat enough here so that your relatives won't abandon their bones in the wilderness."

"That's true."

Several people muttered, and Shi talked about Pei County's policies, asking these people to rest assured.

If it is a deception, it is not considered a matter of fact.

Those who come either enter the developing workshop or enter the mining smelting factory and select strong people to join the charity master. In fact, the handicraft workshops cannot accommodate them, and they can also organize the cultivation.

From the perspective of capital appreciation, as long as the value created by these six years of labor can be better than transporting them, the value of the six years of food and drink consumption can be considered profitable.

It’s just that the Mohist school has an organization, ideals, and beliefs, and it is not enough to do such infinite exploitation.

Furthermore, the Mohist family can do this, and there will be some learning elsewhere. The Mohist family must rely on the higher living treatment and a beautiful future in Peixian to attract people to escape here.

Not only such a change of business, the Mo family instigated the half-serfs on the Lu Field to escape. As long as they escape here, they had nothing to do with before... Some nobles came here to seek extraordinary people because several Mo people did a little "out of the way" and incited more than 400 households to escape together.

However, the Mo family itself wanted to intensify conflicts within the Song Dynasty and had strong strength. After Niu Lanyi and Tengcheng fought, these nobles who were interested in people did not dare to say anything, and could only scold the Mo family for "disturbing the world" and "corrupting the etiquette system."

Under such circumstances, a series of strange situations occurred in Pei County.

The farmer's land amount basically reached the limit of personal cultivation, with an average of 120 acres of arable land per household, which led to the farmers' life being very good.

There is no situation in Peixian where self-cultivated farmers go bankrupt and become handicrafts. Many farmers have completed installments of iron oxen in advance, and the remaining grain in their hands has increased.

The situation in Pei County sucking peripheral blood to nourish the local area also ensured that the Mohist family did not need to try their best to squeeze local farmers, but regarded the Song State as a wide dumping market.

This created a strange situation in Peixian.

Handicraft industry urgently needs to develop, with the increase of surplus food among the people increasing, and wealth accumulated as capital, but it is extremely lacking in handicraft labor among the people.

The handicrafts in Pei County are basically concentrated in the control of the Mohist family, because only the Mohist family can get enough people. The private handicrafts are not worth the cost. Locals have land, and no one can do it if they give less, and they are completely unprofitable if they give more.

The fugitives from other places were controlled as soon as they came, divided up by the workshops of various Mohists, or they were controlled to organize the joint farming club.

The development of commodity handicrafts certainly requires the market, but also requires a large amount of free labor. With an average of 120 acres of land and an average of three households and one cattle and horse, this free labor is really rare and can only be relied on continuous shelter from other places, luring or attracting escape.

Without bankrupt farmers, there would be no large-scale free labor force. The basic foundation of the Mohist family in Pei County was handicraftsmen and small farmers, and it was impossible to implement the policy of farmers' bankruptcy, so they could only place free labor force outside Pei County.

So a strange workshop model also appeared in Pei County. For example, the "Iron Pot" workshop just established this year adopted the form of private equity fundraising and three-year dividends. Because the Mohist family controlled the "labor force", capital could not increase its value even if it lacked this thing.

Or some villages that originally had collective work in public fields were organized into new types of villages and houses. In addition to farming, some village workshops were set up, which was strongly supported by the Mohist family. For example, in their spare time, they relied on the labor force of the villages and communities.

At the same time, the Mohist workshops are not entirely produced by military industry. Rare things like iron pots have promoted currency exchanges, expanded the scale of paper, bricks, oil and other commodities on the market, and quietly recycled the remaining grain from farmers into the warehouse as primary handicraft products.

After the agricultural reform, the per capita surplus grain of farmers in Pei County increased, commodities increased, and purchasing power increased several times. This is why many businessmen who came to Pei County lamented that "the city of Pei is popular, and there are no less than 70,000 households in the city."

On the premise of maintaining certain technological advantages, it is equivalent to a county's handicraft industry, facing an almost unlimited Jiuzhou Huaxia market, and there is no situation where a commodity cannot be sold at the moment.

With the progress of the surrounding agricultural changes, the excess profit grain exchanged for handicraft products can also support more handicraft classes who have been lured or fled here.

As for Pei County, it is not a place to consider for the time being. Because Pei County is a big cake with all the beauty of "Playland". Those dark sides are revealed elsewhere, which instead sets off the "good governance" of Pei County.

How did Pei, Peng, Liu, Teng's good governance come about?

It is a huge self-cultivated farmer with the reform of iron ox plowing and supported by emerging crops. It is the cornerstone of political stability and the reliance of major soldiers.

It is a huge "official" handicraft and mining industry with nearly 20,000 people as the pillars of the economy, and uses its technologically advanced advantages to absorb the blood of Jiuzhou.

There is a huge ruling group that is disciplined, cultured and organized, with a heart that never stops from helping the world.

As well as simple paper money and cloth coins complete currency replacement, relying on public stock quotations, a regime binding model of many handicraft workshops has emerged.

This is a Taotie monster. Benefiting the world is the business of Mozhe, and this monster is to transform the world in its own way to gain more benefits.
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