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Chapter 40 Ambition

After thinking for a moment, I heard the grocery buyer complaining, saying that it is difficult for hired workers to come now. Although it is enough to eat vegetables, it requires some oil to add some oil. I also said that when there was no iron pot, I just came here. The emperor also ate pickled leek flowers, but now the employer doesn’t like it.

Wu Qi nodded secretly, thinking that the vegetables were connected with vegetable oil. The iron pot was produced and the Mohist family sold iron pots, which also allowed many people to make a living by growing vegetables, and to make some people rich by opening oil mills.

Those who originally could only farm can now choose to grow vegetables and work in oil mills. There is still so much land, but more people can survive.

Hearing the man was still muttering, Wu Qi smiled and said, "Didn't the Mo family say love? The hired people don't love to hire workers, but to make them do more work in order to make profits. On the other hand, the hired workers work hard, not to love their masters, but to get money. This is nothing wrong. If your master cannot benefit, he naturally doesn't need to treat the hire workers like this, right?"

When the man heard this, he smiled and said, "That's the reason, but the Mo family also said that by raising the price on the ground and paying the money on the ground, they still want to make people pay less and work more. Hiring workers is like collecting more money and working less. This is a spear and a shield."

"I heard someone give lectures a few days ago, and that's what I said. Don't say it, it's really the case when I think about it."

Wu Qi asked, "What does your master do to do?"

The man said: "Buying land is the season for picking cotton. If it is rainy, it will be compensated. It is the time to use people."

"But you usually need oil, water, vegetables and vegetables. These people who work with others will lose nothing except their strength. But in recent years, food, drink, clothing and use are even better than when they were farming... It's really unreasonable."

Wu Qi smiled and said, "Everyone seeks profit. I heard that it is necessary to rain when picking cotton. When using people, we naturally have to treat those servants well. But on weekdays... they demand profit, but they have nothing but strength, so I'm afraid they don't have to do this, right?"

Speaking of this, the man said, "That's not the case. These servants have long said that they didn't eat well here, so they went to Si Shang to suffer for a few years. They can organize ploughs there or go to workshops to do work. They were harder in the past few years. If they really didn't give them food, they would pay more money. When they went to Si Shang, who would cultivate the land of the head of the family? If no one cultivated them, how could they benefit?"

"The head of the family has long sighed that it is too close to Si Shang, and it is not good either. It is good that there are any good things in the Mo family, and you can know here that you can benefit from planting."

"It's bad, it's because the day of employment is expensive. The Mohist family recruits people there. If the employer cannot be kept enough, the employer will have to leave."

"The Mohist school has been preaching these principles in the market all day long, and everyone knows them."

Wu Qi nodded and smiled, thinking: "Although the Mo family did not explicitly manage Taoqiu, they actually still manage it. The common people also benefited from the Mo family. This is the reason they have always promoted the teaching. If the Mo family was not in Si, I would be afraid that the employment of workers would be less daily... They have no land and only have the energy to give them some food at that time, and they would have to work, and they would die if they didn't do it..."

Thinking of this, I thought that the Mo family was doing things, but I really couldn't learn it. In this way, the lower-class people were eager to the Mo family and knew in their hearts that Si Shang would not fall, so their lives would be better. If Si Shang had no Mo family, their lives would have to endure hardships.

However, the Mo family did not hinder the merchants from profiting and the landlords were operating. Compared with the nobles of the Shiqi, these merchants and landlords would rather support the Mo family, at least not to be extremely opposed.

In this way, how many people in Taoqiu are irreconcilable with the Mo family?

Taoqiu is like this, and Song land is close to Si, what does it look like?

The prosperity of the Song State can be seen from Taoqiu. Wu Qi thought to himself, could he do this if he governed the Song Dynasty?

After thinking carefully, he finally shook his head and knew that if he had governed Song, it would be impossible to make Song so prosperous and the people enlightened.

If you govern Qin by yourself, I am afraid that this will not be possible. What will happen if the Mo family governs Qin? Will Qin Rusi go to the top? Or will it choose the means of Shengchuo and others?

If the Mohist family ruled the world, they could make the world as prosperous as Si Shang, and the people were prosperous, and they would become the one who entered Qin to do so, and they believed that they could not do it. Then what was the purpose of all this? Isn’t it against the will of heaven? The one who moved against the rich?

Thinking of the "necessity" mentioned by the Mohist school, what is the meaning of everything he does to seek fame and fortune? In the end, he is actually harming the people of the world and hindering the wealth of the world?

Wu Qi believed that if the world wants to be stable, it must rely on war and ultimately achieve the goal of the world, so that there will be no military disaster.

The Mohist family once stopped fighting unjustly and helped defend the city.

Nowadays, the Mohist school talks less about injustice, more about punishing injustice, and has military weapons for righteous men. I think there is such an idea.

Since that's the case, what are the purposes of what I did?

What after the world is stable? Even if the world is determined by one, one is the preface of the world, not the preface of a country and one land. If you cannot make the world rich like the Mo family, what will future generations evaluate what you have done in this world?

From the fact that vegetable farmers can sell vegetables for a living, to the handling of conflicts between the employer and the employer, this is very small.

But Wu Qizhi was about becoming a general and a prime minister. The thoughts caused by these trivial matters were what methods would he use if he became a prime minister?

Will you allow those fields to be concentrated in the hands of man? Can you guarantee that those fields are concentrated in the hands of man? Can you allow employees to survive without being extremely bitter? Can you make these people feel grateful to you without being resentful?

If you can't do it, how can you be considered unparalleled in the world? Everything you ask for and do will eventually become a "harmful act" in the Mohist language.

All of this is because he has been influenced by many moral propaganda of the Mohist school over the years, and inevitably recognized the concept of "sum of wealth" and recognized that doing things must follow the origin of heaven in order to do well, so he had such thoughts.

A few trivial matters seemed to him as difficult problems that he could not solve.

He spent his whole life seeking fame and fortune. When he was neglected in Wei State, when the Qin people invited him to Qin, after seeing Taoqiu's wealth, he finally began to think about the meaning of seeking fame and fortune.

He once thought that he had talent and could use it, which was enough to shock the world. He only wanted a place where he could display his talents, because he firmly believed that he could do a lot.

At least, it can be achieved by "supering the three armies and euthanizing the soldiers, so that the enemy country will not dare to plan; governing all officials, be close to the people, and implementing the treasury..."

He feels that if he doesn't do it, others can't do it, so everything he does makes sense.

He likes this feeling of being in charge of a country's reform and seeking prosperity and strength, but in Taoqiu, he feels that everything he does is meaningless.

When he was young, he traveled and killed those who mocked him. In order to achieve his mother's serious illness, he did not go back, all to show his ambitions.

Perhaps, it is a kind of thought of confronting the rules of the world: why are those nobles born as nobles who are born as nobles, and they can gain power after the ceremony, and they have no ability.

If you cannot do the three armies and make the soldiers die, the enemy country dare not plan, and you cannot dominate all officials, be close to the people, and be a treasury, but you can be called a minister because of your bloodline.

This kind of dissatisfaction brings the kind of ambition, the kind of ambition that can stabilize the world after implementation, but this kind of ambition... it becomes a bit ridiculous in the face of the changes brought by the Mohist school.

Wu Qi thought to himself that he also felt that the world was unfair and should not have been like this, but everything he did before was to make himself a nobleman and resist these unfairs within the existing rules of the world.

However, what the Mohist family has to do is to push the world to reshape the world. There are many talented people in the Mohist family, who are not from high origins, but they do not recognize the system of the world but just do not recognize their own identity and talents. They think that the rules of the world are not right, so why should I do the ultimate after this rule? How good is it to directly overthrow and reshape the world?

When it comes to power, you cannot understand the ambition of heaven, so you cannot make the world rich, and you will definitely not make the world as if it were the Si Shang.

In terms of ambition, I just recognize the rules of the world and then make myself arrogant under these unfair rules, but Mozhe wants to overturn all this. This is a comparison between fireflies and moonlight.

Then everything I have done and everything I will do is only one "fame and fame"? What is this fame and fame? Is it the pleasure of governing the world? Is the joy of shaking joy in the world?

I am not loyal to Wei, not loyal to Lu, not loyal to Wei, not loyal to Wei, not loyal to Qin, nor are I necessarily loyal to Qin. These kings and princes in the country are just places for their own ambitions.

I don’t know why I am loyal. I have talent and I don’t need to speak, but my words are different. I turn around and leave. Why should I be loyal to the Marquis of Lu and Wei?

I am a Wei person, but according to the Mohist school, I am also a member of the world.

I am a Wei native, but what does Weiguo have to do with me? Weiguo belongs to Weihou and Shiqing. That is not my Weiguo. I have no fief in Weiguo, so I don’t have to be loyal.

I became famous in Lu Wei, but do they love me? It’s just to use me, and I’m just to show my ambitions. But my ambitions are so small and ridiculous than everything the Mo family has done now. Is this ambition still necessary to uphold? Why do you have to use each other and talk about love and loyalty?

If I talk about the matter of eating the king's fortune and being loyal to the king, I have a salary in Wei State, but according to the Mo family, the king did nothing, and the salary was all done by farmers' industrial and commercial labor, so naturally I don't need to be loyal to the monarch.

All the rewards I received were distributed to the soldiers; I lived in the military camp all year round, sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers; I sought power just to display my talents; I didn’t even care about my family when I escaped, and my mother would not go to the funeral when she died of illness...

Everything is for ambition.

Twenty years ago, my ambitions could convince myself to be so ambitious.

But now, what is left of my ambition? It is as small as dust, ridiculous as a child, and I can't even think of my ambitions clearly. What is the purpose of what I do?

For wealth? I have had a daughter since I was a child. The rewards I received when I became famous and guarded Xihe were given to soldiers. I am not for wealth.

Being a woman's beauty? It can be either there or not.

Then I pursue power just for the sake of power itself, or for the sake of power to show my ambitions.

Wu Qi thought of the conversation he had with Shengchuo many years ago. That time he said, just as the Mohist school said: Let everyone get their strengths and do the world; if they divide their positions, they will get the world's affairs; if they like it, they will prepare the world's affairs.

The power I pursue is nothing more than treating the ruling army as a kind of work that loves carving, hunting and music after eating and drinking.

I "love politics and army" so I pursue power because I don't have power, but I am not qualified to do what I like.

If you like something, you always have to make a judgment on how good or bad you do it.

If you like carving, you must be vivid; if you like music, you must be lingering around the beam for three days and lingering sounds; if you like hunting, you must be able to make arrows without any silence, beasts and birds fall in response to the sound.

I like to rule, but the Mohist school can do what I can do. But I can't do what I can do.

What is the point of this ambition being carried out again? People in the world asked me, can I make the world richer, will the people govern? If the Mo family had run Si Shang, I would be arrogant and say that if I ruled, you are not as good as me, and the world is unparalleled. But now, with comparison, people in the world will ask me, can I make the world richer than the Mo family? Can the people in the Mo family be more governed?

Wu Qi looked up at the sky, and felt a little disappointed.
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