The tall man couldn't help but sigh at Wu Qi's doubts, thinking that the land on Si is not as good as that in Qin. If Qin could have such a situation, why should those strict laws be implemented?

He had once doubted the definition of the sum of wealth, but only to make the Qin policy reasonable as "responsive to the will of heaven". Moreover, he has never forgotten to study and study in recent years. He knew a lot about Taoqiu, and Shengchuo also sighed a lot, but what he had no choice was that Taoqiu's method could not work in Qin.

There are situations in various places, and Si Shang has been a place where these rebels have learned from the eyes of these rebels over the years. There is also a special booklet for the Taoqiu situation to assist the theories such as "sum of wealth" of the Mohist school.

Those books are inevitably somewhat obscure for ordinary people, but I know a lot about these people who have been paying attention to the Mo family.

Taoqiu itself is rich. After Fuchai dug the canal and Tao Zhu Yidun became rich, this is the world.

The initial tax system was implemented in the Lu State after the Ji family reform. Before the Mohist family appeared, the properties near Taoqiu were quite rich, and the concept of private property rights appeared early.

After the coup in the Song Dynasty, the surrounding Taoqiu was increasingly influenced by the Mohists.

The Mohist policies on Si Shang were too radical and had unique conditions, so some policies were basically not under pressure to implement them.

For example, Teng, Ji, Tan and other countries were originally occupied by Yue, and Yue has a large number of king fields here.

After the Battle of Hanshui, the power of Yue withdraws from the Sishang area. The liquidation of some of the nobles who were close to Yue, and the large number of kings after the retreat of Yue, the land reform implemented by the Mohist family here did not have much obstacles.

This is something that Qin cannot learn.

Speaking of this, the tall man sighed helplessly.

If Qin wants to make such a change, it must touch the interests of the old nobles. The Mohist school seized the favorable opportunity in Si Shang and relied on defeating Yue and carried out the reform in a more relaxed way.

When Qin lost Xihe, the interests of the nobles themselves were greatly damaged. They could only divide the land within Qin. Behind the conflicts between them, a slight impact would trigger a huge rebound. If the young master had not cleaned up some of the nobles in the name of a coup, changed land and moved the capital, it would have been even more difficult to carry out such changes in Qin.

The policies implemented by the Mohist school on Si in another way affected many cities along the Si Shui coast of the Song Dynasty.

With the development of handicrafts in Sishang, it became the production center of the world's iron smelting center, academic center, textile, glass gunpowder military-industrial and ordnance; with the completion of the land reform in Sishang, a large number of farmers had surplus grain for commodity exchange and internal development of the market; with the development of river ships... The cities along the Sishui River, Taoqiu and other Sishui River, took the lead in carrying out a series of "profit-seeking changes".

It is precisely "the good ones benefit the way, the second is to teach them, the second is to be neat, and the lowest is to compete with them", which has always adhered to the method of "benefiting the way the way".

Especially after defeating Yue State, they signed some treaties with Yue State; after Chu State obtained the right to tax exemption and right of passage, the development of handicraft industry in Si Shang showed an explosive period.

After the outbreak, winemaking and textiles were all profitable, and the prices of raw materials rose. The large number of new goods and luxury goods produced by the Mohist workshops required a lot of money to buy, which also prompted many people to seek profit.

Originally, some of the little nobles of the Song Dynasty had already made profits by renting land during the slow changes over the past hundred years.

The physical land rent is collected per mu every year, and one mu of land costs seven kilograms of corn per year. Life is quite good, especially when the Mohist family had produced only a few dozen kilograms per mu, the land rent for the seven kilograms of corn was considered a re-rental.

However, with the development of the Si Shang economy, these little nobles of the Song State were surprised to find that... their money and food were not enough to spend.

Everyone is aristocrat, so at least you need to have decent status. Other people have a glass window and show off with a glass cup. Will you buy it yourself?

But, there is no money.

The little noble who had two thousand acres of fiefdom or private land was also considered a sergeant, but the annual rent income was only 14,000 kilograms of grain.

In the past, this was enough to "reward to replace his farming", and to practice martial arts, chariots and fire fighting techniques, and to become a full-time military aristocrat.

But now... look at the dazzling array of goods, look at the land rent of 17,000 kilograms of grain per year, watch the warriors who challenged the army in a battle of silos were bombarded into sieve by the guns of the Mo family, and watch the merchants on Si Shang make a profit of 100 times that they become the king of "Sufeng"...

Of course, there are also those real "gentlemen" who are obedient to the etiquette system. Every spring, they still take the lead in farming and encourage farmers to collect land rent to live a full-time gentleman life.

However, most people seek profit. After hearing the Battle of Shui, the young nobles changed their mindset after hearing that the warriors were beaten into sieve. The young nobles looked at the pioneers who were the first to grow potatoes and wine, cotton, and indigo to make profits. Their eyes were red. What kind of etiquette was really worth mentioning in the face of interests.

Therefore, when the Mohist family did not manage Taoqiu, Taoqiu, a place where merchants gathered, spontaneously produced many changes.

The ritual rent of seven kilograms per acre of land and the novel commodities day by day made these little nobles who owned the land easily choose: take back the land, rent it to small merchants who had learned to run farmland in the Mo family, or run it themselves.

Two thousand acres of land originally had to be rented to others for 60 households. But now, the emergence of iron oxen plowing and ridges has less than sixty households.

After taking back the land and operating it by yourself, more than half of the renters could not survive and could only go to Taoqiu to seek survival, or be loaded with ships by those from the Mo family and transported them to Si.

At this time, the population was insufficient and there were too many wastelands. The emergence of iron tools also made a lot of land that was not suitable for cultivation become fertile land. The Mohist school organized the population to attract people to reclaim land or develop handicrafts, and the contradiction was not serious.

With a large area and sparse population, there are a large amount of wasteland as the outlet for this reform. The Mohist school has been able to complete the catharsis, and the reforms in the Taoqiu area have not shed too much blood within the past decade.

These little nobles transformed themselves and began to stand on a high ground to mock those who still adhere to the "noble spiritual etiquette system" and became richer. They were not big nobles, and the benefits brought to them by the etiquette system were far less than the land's output income.

Speculation, operation, making money, and making money became something that the little nobles in the Song Dynasty discussed every day. The land originally rented to farmers became a manor for planting potatoes and making wine; the land originally scattered was recovered and became a farm for rotating indigo grass, cotton and beans.

The land reform also brought more commodity raw materials and important free labor to Taoqiu. Even though the Mohist families kept loading people on board the Si, there were still many farmers in Taoqiu who did not leave, but instead sold their land to the city to seek survival.

It is precisely because of "using poverty to seek wealth, farmers are not as good as workers, workers are not as good as businessmen, and embroidery is not as good as relying on the city gate." Taoqiu, a commercial city in the world, completed its transformation in a deformed way.

With every step of development in Si Shang, every new commodity appears, and every time the market for the settlements of wild people such as Chu and Yue is expanded, there will be more merchants and employees in Taoqiu.

Those handicraft industries that have no monopoly and are abandoned by the Mohist family have developed rapidly in the pottery industry. The textile industry, dyeing industry, shipbuilding industry, woodworking industry, and pottery industry have developed rapidly in recent years.

The power of merchants is growing, and they are rich but have no power. Because of their hindrance, they have no political rights, so they begin to want their own political rights and agree with the Mohist philosophy that "everyone is a minister of the Emperor of Heaven is equal, and no one distinguishes between old and young, noble and humble, can be promoted as soon as they have talent."

People like Solusan may see the inequality hidden behind this, but the development of society has not yet reached that level and it is difficult to achieve overnight, so Taoqiu's development is on the rise.

Handicraftsmen and small merchants gathered daily to listen to the lectures of the Mohist school, and with the pursuit of equality of the citizens, they became the main force of the citizens.

The great merchants were busy joining some workshops and special "companies" established by the Mo family. For example, after the Battle of Hanshui, the Mo family asked the King of Yue to ask for many "Xiliu" navy and shipbuilding craftsmen. It was clearly stated in the treaty ten years ago. So along the Sishui River, through Hangou, the Huaihe River, and then to Chu, the merchant ships in the Baiyue area made a lot of profits every time, and many large merchants had joined in it, and the interests were connected.

The sugar-making industry developed in Haiyang, tea; iron smelting, arms, glass, coal on the Si area; grain and cotton in the Song area; horses from the north, local breeding... All these have made Taoqiu a city full of money.

In this case, what the merchants panicked the most was that there was no "written law". The monarchs and nobles could deprive them of many things. They needed to control their own strength. In addition, the Mohist policies were more beneficial to them, and the interests were connected, so they naturally chose the Mohist family as their backer.

The monarchy of the Song State itself declined. After the coup, the Mohist incited internally and tried his best to curb power.

After several struggles, Shangqiu was finally able to pay a certain amount of tax every year in exchange for the semi-autonomous rule of the city and become the same existence as the Shangqiu people.

The policy expansion of Wei and Qi made them feel deeply panicked, so they paid for money, local employees and a large number of idle people, and the Mohist family produced technology, and spent three years to rebuild Taoqiu City, becoming an important military fortress and industrial and commercial city that controlled the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Wei.

And invested in the establishment of a righteous teacher, but this righteous teacher was in the hands of the Mo family, because the Mo family's policies were more popular than the nobles and monarchs, and the organized catharsis of reform also alleviated the contradiction of this change a lot.

The Mohist lectures were extremely prosperous in Taoqiu, and the handicraftsmen and citizens themselves were the main supporters of the Mohist.

However, all of this cannot be copied elsewhere.

The Mohist school has technological advantages and can use various novel commodities to impact the original handicrafts and aristocratic agriculture of various countries.

The Mohist family relied on the Vietnam War to obtain a large number of "king fields" to carry out land reforms, alleviating contradictions, and expanding the market in Si Shang. The purchasing power of a self-cultivated farmer is more than ten times that of the original Gongtian and Kunjia.

Little nobles can make profits from change and are driven by interests to spontaneously change their identities and become business landlords and farmers.

"If you don't sell woodcutters for a hundred miles, you won't sell millet for a thousand miles." The Heshui and Hangou built by Fuchai made the cost of river transportation much lower than that of land transportation, and the water system of the Going Connect and the Yellow River and the Yangtze River allows the commerce here to expand externally.

The war against Yue State received various commercial discounts, which became the dumping place for goods, and also made the internal conflicts of Yue State even more profound. After the internal chaos in Chu, the Mohist infiltration in Chu State also made the Chu city and towns in the Yangtze River area a market; barbarians such as Baiyue could also dump a large amount of goods in exchange for various goods urgently needed in the north...

All of these are conditions that Qin did not have, so Qin could only implement the "land grant system" because land was the largest income of Qin. Once land transactions were liberalized and a system like Si Shang was implemented, I was afraid that "the people all complained" and wanted to return to the era when at least there was land to cultivate.

The changes carried out by Shengchuo and others in Qin were like this, adapting to local conditions. The changes made by Shang Yang in Qin were also the same in the historical line: Qin was not a private land ownership, but there was a record of selling everything, but there was no land. Before Wang Jian conquered Chu, he wanted to "five generations of envoys who also asked for good land."

If these people were not born in Mo and had studied more books by Mo, they might have been unable to understand the development of Si Shang, just as Wu Qi sighed when he saw Taoqiu's city.

Technological changes can bring wealth and power, but systems that are compatible with technological changes can stimulate this power more. The distant Qin Dynasty's iron tools have not yet been popularized.
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