As a formal Mohist, when he followed Mozi back to Shangqiu, his mood was very different from before.

This is not the first time he has seen Shangqiu City, but the first time he has really seen Shangqiu, an ancient city that can be traced back to the era of Emperor Ku, because he finally has a little qualification to participate in matters related to this city.

Before this, no matter how big the city was, it had nothing to do with him.

Shangqiu City is the capital of the Song State. According to the provisions of the Zhou Li, the border of the capital of the Duke and Marquis State shall not exceed seven weeks.

Hundreds of years ago, Zhou Li was definitely the most scientific and according to what Mozi said, the most upholding the norms of heavenly aspirations, which were completely in line with the productivity level at that time, but now it is quite outdated.

At that time, whether it was building a city or collecting Wei Nan, or the Duke, Hou Bozi Nan's feudals, they were all based on the most beneficial methods to the clan system and the whole people's military service.

During the Xia and Shang dynasties, there were tens of thousands of countries, a large number of viscounts and viscounts based on the area of ​​Xiali. At that time, one mile was 250 meters, and one foot was only thirteen or four centimeters.

After the Shang Dynasty destroyed Xia, it was replaced by a Shang ruler.

After the change of weights and measures, the habit of saying that one is a count and a viscount by area has not changed.

So a group of Counts who did not follow Shang Tang to destroy Xia suddenly discovered that according to Shang's weight and measure, they were demoted to viscounts by Shang, and a bunch of viscounts became barons, and a bunch of Counts who did not follow Shang's viscounts were not as powerful as Shang's viscounts.

When Zhou destroyed Shang, the remaining barons were basically the thousand-year-old kingdoms before Xia. According to Shang's habit of demoting the count to become a viscount, the barbarians were called viscounts.

Chu was a viscount. Although it became a small Western Zhou Dynasty, it destroyed a bunch of monks, and even the fiefdom of King Wen's four friends Nangong Shi became his own vassal state, it still abides by the Zhou rituals to a certain extent. The edges of the city wall did not dare to cross it, so it could only play the edge ball.

The Song State was Sanke of the Zhou Dynasty and the authentic duke. At the beginning of its founding, it could build a city with a border of seven miles long. However, now it is not strong enough, so it is even more afraid to surpass it.

Shangqiu City is not a standard square, and it is not difficult to build a standard square city with the current mathematical level.

However, squares are not easy to get loopholes in Zhouli.

The shortest wall of Shangqiu City is three kilometers, which happens to be seven weeks, and this is not a transgression.

But the longest wall is nearly four kilometers, exceeding seven weeks, which is considered an outrage.

Although Emperor Zhou was shot by Zheng Bo, and Chu Zi was not authoritative, everyone still had to abide by those etiquettes.

Even in the era when the Seven Heroes had become, the shortest walls of the main city of Seven Heroes were seven miles, but the longest walls were generally shorter than nine miles.

The emperor's city is nine miles, and the Duke's city is seven miles, so if you want to get loopholes, the longest must not exceed nine miles, but the shortest must not exceed seven miles.

If any edge exceeds Jiuli, it is beyond the emperor.

If the shortest side of all sides exceeds seven miles, it is surpassing the Duke and Marquis.

There are many talents from all countries, and the emergence of such methods of tracing the edges has further demonstrated the logic wisdom at this time.

Whether it was the Zhou emperor or the Duke and Marquis, there was not so much population at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Such a large city cannot be all residential areas and a large part of the farmland.

Now that the population is growing, there are still some vegetable fields or farmland in the city, rather than all residential buildings, markets or palaces.

Building a big city that has been built for hundreds of years has its own unique features. It is precisely because of Shangqiu City that the Song State was able to defend the city and survive in the cracks of the battle for hegemony between Jin and Chu, and also gave Mozi a strong backing to stop Chu from attacking Song.

In a reasonable opinion, Shangqiu City is already quite grand.

The city wall is as high as ten meters, the bottom of the city wall is nearly twenty-five meters wide, and the top of the city wall is also nearly ten meters wide.

There are some natural small lakes near the city walls, most of which are used by people in the city to soak the hemp. Some people can also serve as natural moats to protect the city when they attack.

Such a city is completely different from the city where dozens of people were able to capture the Baroness in the Baron Kingdom.

A suitable home is the center of the city, close to the market.

This time, he followed Mo Zi to meet Si Chenghuang, and happened to pass by his doorstep. No matter how you say that his ancestors were people who had dealt with Si Cheng in Song.

Their ranks are among the few people who can enter the Imperial House of Sicheng without a carriage.

After following Mo Zi into the Sicheng Royal Family, Sicheng Emperor brought people to greet him in the courtyard and stood with Mo Zi on both sides of the courtyard to greet him.

Mo Zi deserves the etiquette of the party, and the Emperor of Sicheng must also make sufficient gestures.

After entering the inner room, lead the kneel to the seat.

Mozi sat on the east side, facing west.

Sichenghuang sat on the west side, facing east.

It was empty in the north.

The disciples of Jiatong, Shi, and others sat in the south, facing north.

The master faces the east, and equal friends who can compete with him face the west, and the lowest level must face the south and north.

There was no one in the north, because Sicheng Emperor could not find someone who had a lower status than him but a higher status than Mozi, so he could only be free.

Such people are common people who are not as polite as common people, but now they are disciples of Mozi, so they are qualified to sit in it.

There are various tableware on the table table, and I don’t know how to use it.

Fortunately, it was just a banquet for the ink, and only some corn rice and some bean soup, as well as some wine that faded out of the birds.

Emperor Sicheng knew that Mozi asked for money and not music, so this banquet was much simpler, without any music and dance movements or the sound of silk strings.

Eating is not the purpose, the purpose is to talk about things.

As a disciple, Shi Jiatong had no decision-making power, so he could only supplement some issues. Mo Zi was the one who actually talked to Sichenghuang.

Shi glanced at Mo Zi secretly and thought of some suggestions from last night.

When the Momen discussed this matter last night, Shi proposed a bold idea.

Last night, after talking about Fuxi and Nuwa, many ink people praised it.

Only the debate on the issue of the three Mozhe who asked him that day, Fifty-four and Shi made a joke.

"Soon, you made up Xi Zhong's incident last time, which made Gongsun Ze unhappy. Now you made up Zhong Ni's incident. After a few days, these people passed the incident here and he would come to you. You can't say that this is a sign of the name? Zhong Ni lost his father at the age of three. How could his father see if he had single eyelids or double eyelids?"

At the right time, I kept laughing. Thinking of the stories of making up famous quotes that were commonly used in later generations, I thought that everything was repeated and repeated, and I could not say such casually making up celebrity behaviors.

Mozi didn't care. At this time, the people in the village only knew the name of Zhongni, but did not know about Zhongni. It was nothing to say about such things. If you talk about chicken, pig, dog, and pig, how could you compare to a famous scholar and make people remember it?

He believed in the will of the right words, just as he often gave the example of the debate technique: a person has only seen a white horse in his life, so he believed that white is the characteristic of a horse. But in fact, the characteristics of a horse are not like this, but need to be summarized and found common points and distinguished.

The examples of "big and small" are not isolated evidence like "white horses", so they can be considered correct.

Of course, Mozi would not care what Gongsun Ze thought. Anyway, the hatred between Confucian and Mohism had already been formed. Even if this matter reached Gongsun Ze's ears, it would be difficult for Gongsun Ze to come and find trouble again.

When talking about Gongsun Ze and Zhongni, he naturally thought of Zhou Li, and then talked about the three families of Jin who are now invited to join forces.

Mozi saw through the situation. Qi State was in chaos and all countries wanted to take a bite. Maybe a war that affected several countries would break out.

Qin State had a good relationship with Chu, but if he couldn't bite Qi State, he would definitely take the opportunity to bite the Three Jins; Qi State still occupied Guanqiu in the north of Shangqiu, which was an enclave for Qi State, but was inserted near Taoqiu of Song State. This was stolen from Wei State three or four years ago.

Many of Sichenghuang's fiefs were near Taoqiu. According to interests, Sichenghuang might hope to take advantage of the opportunity of Qi's internal chaos and attacking Qi.

But Mo Zi really didn't expect that Si Chenghuang wanted more than that. He also hoped to take the opportunity to borrow the power of the Three Jins to deal with the Song Gong lineage. He didn't expect that the seeds in Shi's hands would become Jiahe, and borrowed the incident of Tang Shuyu's conferring Jin to a feud that suited the destiny.

He always talks about being undestined and does not believe in destiny, so when analyzing this matter, he did not think in this direction at all.

Dozens of ink people discussed for a long time, but they still couldn't figure out what the use of Si Chenghuang asking for those rice seeds, and Shi didn't figure out.

But Shi had already firmly decided to exchange some seeds for money, because the Mohist family was too poor.

The Mozhe has his own craftsman workshop and can produce weapons, but these weapons are never sold, but are only used to defend the city, which is the so-called righteousness.

If it is sold, it will be a weapon for the unjust war, which is contrary to Mozi's idea.

Shi didn't think so in his heart, but it was hard to say at this time. He could only use Xingyi's reasons to find a way to get some money for the Mo family to expand the power of the Mo family.

Since everyone could not guess why Sichenghuang wanted rice seeds, he said, "Since I don't know, there is no need to guess. I will ask the teacher tomorrow to know. If it is used to do unrighteous things, I will not sell them. But if it is not done unrighteous things or righteousness, I can always sell them. The money we sell is the same for the same thing."

He had convinced Mo Zi to this point, and Mo Zi agreed and asked, "How do you want to sell it?"

Shi had already thought about it and said, "Sir, you have seen the matter about the village community. Do you believe that according to the methods I said, can you produce two stones per mu?"

Among the Mo people, those who understand Jiafeng agree with this, let alone Mozi.

Then he said, "Since that's the case, I have an idea. Tomorrow, we can collect taxes on part of the land of Sichenghuang. If he has a piece of land and can collect 2,000 stones of millet every year, then we can pack it with 2,500 stones."

When Jia Tong heard this, he immediately understood the joints and slapped the high-high and praised: "The right method is good. If the quota of titanium tax is two thousand stones. But if the appropriate method is used, it is strictly taken according to the titanium, it may be four thousand stones. In this way, those farmers can benefit. This is a kind of morality."

When Mozi heard the word "tax-packing" and thought deeply, he said worriedly: "If this matter becomes a trend, Mo can do it, but it will be difficult for others to learn it. Since he took two thousand stones to leave, if he wants to make a profit, he will definitely receive four thousand stones. Those farmers will still suffer."

Shi smiled and said, "Sir, I am too worried. Now, who can benefit from taxes of 2,500 stones except me? The profit in our eyes is righteousness; the profit in our eyes is gold and copper. They can profit by trafficking. The other nobles have no intention and no such ability. If the farmers only add taxes but do not change the method of farming, the farmers will be dissatisfied and the public will be overwhelmed. Only I am can increase taxes appropriately, and the people will be more useful. In the future, many farmers who know how to cultivate new farming will be taught to spread to all directions. Wouldn't it be very beneficial to the world?"

"Sir, I am afraid that the method of farming will spread all over the world first, and the taxes collected by the kings and nobles will not be ten acres per stone. As for today, how many other people can uphold the heart of righteousness and profit in the world? Instead of believing in them, it is better to believe in yourself. At least, we can really benefit people and accumulate subtle meanings to achieve great justice."

"Besides, if the land is rich, everyone can believe in the new method of farming. Since the gentleman believes that the power of the king is a common agreement among the ministers, the disciples believe that before the new method of farming spreads throughout the world, they must first reach the agreement and set the tax amount of the acres, and use our Mo as the supervisor. If they breach the contract, they will... be punished!"

"If you want to punish me and be able to punish me, more people must know the will of heaven and believe in the rules of the Mo. Accumulate small amounts and build a mountain of soil. When the agreement is completed, the tax collection method can be completely prohibited."

"Sir, he has a sword, so he can reward and punish. Mo is a sword in the world, but his disciples have not yet seen it. How to cast the sword in the world? The words of Tianzhi are made of copper, gather the hearts of everyone to charcoal, and benefit the things in the world to tin. My Mo family has these three things, so why not cast the sword in the reward and punishment?"
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