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Chapter 43 - Mow

Shi smiled but did not answer, and asked back, "You returned from the extreme west, and what you saw and heard along the way, and you felt that if you trade, you might benefit?"

Upon hearing this, Solusan nodded quickly and said, "No woodcutter's trafficking for a hundred miles, nor does he earn millet from a thousand miles. However, if you trade westward, you will be able to succeed. If you think Qin Jun will be rich."

"From the Qin land westward, through the Yiqu Yuezhi, there are some small countries with many people. The population is more than 10,000, and they live in the city. There is yellow sand outside, which produces fruits and wheat. After going west, about two thousand miles away, there is a great country, Persia, with a lot of gold and silver, and it is not as rich as the princes of the Middle Earth, and is good at fighting chariots. The silk I brought there was sold at a high price. Even if the exchanges were dangerous, the profits were enough to make people not afraid of life and death."

Solusan knew that when he went on a trip, many of the goods he carried were suitable for preparation. He could make profits by selling and exchanging them all along the way, and there were many seeds brought back by Solusan according to some of the crops described in the "Shan Hai Jing".

He was not surprised, anyway, he said that he had two masters who had traveled, so it was reasonable to prepare in advance that they could sell goods that could be sold in exchange for profitable.

As for the matter of "assisting Qin", Solusan knew about the rich trade profits along the way, and thought about it for a while, and said, "In my opinion, it's great."

"For example, silk, dye, glass and other things are not produced in Qin. If they want to transfer, they still have to buy them from the Central Plains. If they want to buy them, they can produce more people to make a living by employed people and make a richer goods."

"Along the He River, the economic water reaches the river and turns to the Wei River, which is enough to transport these goods. The Qin people have the benefits of the terrain, and can make profits. There are the benefits of production in the Si area in the Central Plains, and can make profits."

"The Qin area is changing and warlike. If we get Nanzheng and have Baogu, the Qin people know that they cannot take it, so they will also measure whether to attack Nanzheng. If it is beneficial to go west, the Central Plains will have less war. In the future, the text will be spread, which will also help the world to be determined."

After Soluchan said his opinion, everyone laughed and said, "We mean that too. So some things need to be harder and try to sort them out as soon as possible."

Soluchan naturally agreed readily and knew that the matter was of great importance.

I looked at Shi again and finally said, "Shi, this time I went west in the extreme west, and I also saw a country that was as beautiful as Middle-earth. It was just when a hundred schools of thought contend. The more I knew, the greater the doubts in my heart, and some thoughts were about to discuss with you."

Soluzan just roughly talked about his experiences and experiences to Shi, but Shi knew that the West is now when a hundred flowers bloom, and Greek culture is at its peak. The so-called Renaissance in later generations was mostly about looking for the source from here after the popularization of iron tools and commerce. It is just the so-called "reformation through ancient times".

The importance of this exchange is self-evident, especially since Solusan is not an official but a member of the academic group of the Mohist school. What he sees and hears are naturally different from the perspective of the officials' visits.

Shi said, "This matter is not urgent, I am just about to discuss it with you. But now the matter is busy, and you have to prepare for the journey to the west and the Chengjun textbooks..."

"Next month, we will gather all righteousness and form a law across thousands of miles of Si. It is the promulgation of common laws and regulations on Si Shang. You will be able to attend and learn more about the current situation in Si Shang."

"Let's talk about it when these things are done."

Soluchan nodded, looking forward to it.

When I left ten years ago, the Mohist family had just achieved a victory. Although the subsequent changes have been ten years, it took ten years for the public to organize and educate. It was not until now that I began to issue and discuss formal laws in a way that "gathers the righteousness of the people of the country" in a way that conforms to the morality of the Mohist family.

After asking a few more questions, Solu Chan knew that this time, the discussion on laws and regulations was the most important thing in the entire Si Dynasty. As for the Qin people and Zhao local affairs, it was just a small storm.

This time, we will formulate the Constitution, discuss and discuss some issues such as the Land Law, the Marriage Law, the Tax Law, the Inheritance Law, the Employment Law and other issues.

It is necessary to gather the public representatives from the Si Shang area to complete it together to achieve legitimacy under the moral integrity of the Mohist school.

Law is the ruling tool of the ruling class. Just like the secret laws of the nobles and the laws of various countries, the ruling class has undergone changes, and the formulation of the entire law will inevitably be incompatible with the mainstream laws in the world at this time.

But the Si Shang land has more than ten years of foundation and sufficient economic background. The release of this law is like the fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman in the womb of a ten-month-old woman. It is ten years of pregnancy, but now it is just a ripe melon.

Solu Shen keenly discovered the time point of the Mohist practice this time, which is worth pondering.

The three Jin generals in the Central Plains were in chaos in the north, and the Qin people asked for the Mo family, so I have to say that this was a time worthy of fun. However, the affairs of the Qin people were considered an unexpected surprise. The affairs of the Zhao people were probably planning for a long time, and otherwise, they would not have sent people like Hu Feizi to Handan.

He only guessed these things by himself and did not ask much. Shi told him that he had prepared some books for him and asked him to take the time to read them. They were all about the Mohist school in Si in recent years and some academic discussions.

In the next few days, several horses ran towards Taoqiu to invite the Qin people to come to Pengcheng for negotiations.

At the same time, it was almost time for the public opinion representatives from all over the country to harvest Qiumai and prepare to go to Pengcheng.

These representatives of public opinion are not nobles. Twenty years ago, they might have been common people, but just escaped slaves. Now they still do not have the title of nobles, nor are they rewarded with tens of millions of land for their past achievements. They only have the trust of everyone.

Some representatives of public opinion still have to collect the wheat in person.

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On the banks of the Sishui River, the former near Peize, and now the Peize countryside.

It is the time to close wheat.

On the way, Wu Qi, who was heading to Pengcheng, pointed at something in the spring wheat field in the distance, and asked in surprise: "What is that?"

The Qin people around them are all used as guards in other places all year round. Even though they are knowledgeable, they do not recognize them.

The thing was running around in the wheat field, pulled by three horses.

Three horses were in front, and the object behind looked like a carriage, but smaller than a carriage. On the left side of the "carriage", there was a pile of wood, like a spinning wheel for a woman spinning, stretching out some wooden strips wide, and constantly turning as the horse was pulled forward.

There are about six or seven of these wooden strips on the left side of the carriage, each of which is about half a meter long.

Every time the crossing wooden strips will overwhelm the mature, golden wheat, and the iron knife below will cut the overwhelmed wheat to the ground with the rotation of the wheel.

A middle-aged man sat in the carriage of the strange machine, constantly wigging his whip, the horses were in pain, and the wheat fell flat on the ground.

A few people followed him, gathered the wheat that had been poured on the ground, and selected a bunch of wheat ears to tie up a large bundle of wheat.

The flat land that used to be silted did not have a single stone. The horse-drawn wheat-cutting machine cut the wheat down at three or four times the speed of human beings.

Wu Qi has been guarding the Xihe River for many years, and some plains of the Xihe River have also introduced chariots that have been popular on Si Shang. He has seen many agricultural equipment, but he has never seen such strange equipment before.

Originally, wheat was eaten cheap, and was generally used as military food. Later, with the emergence of hydraulic mills, Xihe and other places also began to plant winter wheat on a large scale.

When growing wheat, the most worrying thing is harvesting wheat.

There was no chariot at the beginning, and the speed of planting wheat was about the same as the speed of harvesting wheat. In spring, there was only so much time to plant wheat, which was almost the same time as the time to harvest wheat. Therefore, as much wheat you can grow, you can be busy harvesting as much wheat.

However, with the emergence of chariots, the speed of planting wheat increased. One person, one horse, one cart, one can plant fifteen acres of wheat a day. However, when harvesting, even if a person uses the iron sickle sold by the Mohist family, he can only harvest two acres.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed due to the emergence of iron tools, but the speed of wheat harvesting also restricts the number of planting.

Wu Qi couldn't help but be surprised that such strange equipment in front of him could harvest wheat three or four times as much as others.

When asked everyone around him, no one recognized him. Wu Qi thought to himself, I'm afraid this was another new equipment made by the Mohist family, which was like a car.

Although Mo Zhai has passed away, the disciples of Gongshuo squad were not only staying in Chu, but also mostly entered Si Shang because of the old age of Mo Zhai and Gongshuo squad. Mo Zhai originally had some wooden disciples. The Si Shang iron tools have been used for nearly twenty years and have been forged in all kinds of tools, so new equipment here is emerging one after another.

Wu Qi knew that Qinchuan was suitable for growing wheat, so he became curious when he saw this tool, so he asked someone to stop the car and got off the car and walked towards the place where he was harvesting wheat.

After getting closer, I saw a middle-aged man driving the horse in the carriage. He was about forty years old. Behind him, the one who was responsible for collecting the ears of wheat were several women and two teenage children.

If you look closely, it turns out that there are not only such a strange carriage and equipment in this wheat field, but there are as many as three.

In addition to these carriages and equipment, some people are bent over and using sickles to cut wheat, which is obviously also fighting for time with the sky. The wheat may suddenly ripen within ten days. If it is not harvested as soon as possible, it will sprout and fall into ears once it rains. Therefore, these people are fighting with the sky.

As we walked closer, we heard one of the two teenagers who were baking wheat behind the horse-drawn equipment complaining.

These two teenagers are both in their teens and look almost exactly the same, so they must be twins.

One honestly lowered his head on the bundle of wheat, while the other stood up from time to time and sighed: "Mom, the wheat makes me feel itchy. Let's drink some water to rest after finishing this piece."

A woman who was strapping wheat in front of me turned around and scolded, "I'm getting lazy. When I was a child, I didn't even have a wheat sickle to cut, and I just rely on picking ears. I don't know how tired it is than this! This year, the village club bought a few new horse-drawn wheat harvesters. As long as you bend over and tie them up, you are still tired? You children are really worse than the previous generation. You should really throw you away until twenty years ago when the Mo family didn't come to our Si Shang, so that you can have a few days..."

The boy looked like a hippie smile, waving a bundle of wheat ears in his hand, and said, "Isn't the Mohist school just to make people suffer less? When I was eating, I said that you put less oil in cooking, and you would say how it was twenty years ago and how it was twenty years ago... Oh, now if you want to go back twenty years ago, it would be easy. Look at this wheat harvesting, you should pull the wheat ears with your hands. Don't use iron pots or pots when eating. The mill at the entrance of this village uses water power and you can also push it with your hands. You can also cut wood without burning coal to chop wood..."
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