Chapter 79: One of the Experiences
With this simple and ridiculous idea in mind, Aoi walked to the market where the merchants lived with her empty hands, with her filly belly and the depression she had complained about by her wife.
It is precisely because "all those who are in power are close to the palace, those who are not in power are close to the door and those who are in power are close to the market."
Before Wei Rang became a wise man who was elected, his official identity was a merchant, so he was close to the market.
After approaching Wei Rang's mansion, the guard at the door did not make things difficult for Aoi. Aoi only said: "I came to find the wise man I chose, I am a native of Feiguo."
The guard immediately went to report and checked whether there were any weapons on Aoi's body. Then an old man looked through Aoi's palm and asked with a smile: "Have you served in the charity master?"
When Aoi heard the word "Ya", she smiled and said, "I have been a musketeer."
The man nodded and said, "I see it. Please follow me."
A simple word "please" is a common word used by Yishi.
After passing through the front hall, he was introduced to the hall where Wei Rang was. Wei Rang asked Aoi to sit down and asked, "Is there a name..."
Aoi reported her name and said, "When I chose the wise man that day, I chose you. So, you represent our interests. If there is anything I can find you, is that true?"
Wei Rang smiled and said, "That's what it should be."
Aoi sat down and naturally and relaxedly told what her wife said one by one, just as she was holding a meeting in the Soldiers Committee in the Yishi Division.
Wei Rang nodded solemnly and took out a letter: "This matter... we did something wrong. The Mohist family also sent a letter to everyone and talked about these things."
"After all, although he was elected, he never had the experience of governing a city and a city. This is like a cattle that cultivates land. If you have not learned it, you can't get it right away."
"The nobles have fiefs since childhood. They don't need to learn how to grow crops. What they learn is to manage their families. When it comes to experience, this is something we cannot compare to."
"But... the direction is wrong, the more experience it is, the worse it is. It's like I want to go to Chu but go north. The faster the horse, the further away it is..."
Kui laughed and said, "Didn't it be said that the earth under our feet is round now? It may not be wrong to go to Chu and go north."
Wei Rang laughed loudly, and after laughing, he took a deep breath and sighed: "What you said is difficult, whether it is difficult to say it is easy or not. The situation in the capital is difficult to say, and the policy is not determined, and merchants dare not come here, and there are traitors hoarding it. The Mohist school said that if you want to benefit the people, you will transport some salt, but you will have to wait a few days."
"In addition to salt, there are also food, service, treasury and other things, which need to be done. Let me do this, I will mention this matter tomorrow and solve it within a few days."
At this time, there was no incident where the wise men went back on their word. Aoi nodded and said, "I told my wife that this matter can be solved."
He looked at Wei Rang and couldn't help asking again: "So what are the wise men planning to do now? Is it the capital city reform? This is not right..."
Wei Rang also became interested and asked, "If the capital of Fei is to change, I am afraid the nobles will not like it. They have private soldiers and soldiers, and they will inevitably bleed..."
Kuiqi said, "I think you are not very virtuous. When I was a righteous teacher, I heard from the representatives of the company that if you fight for something, you will not fight. If you don't fight for something, you will not fight. If you don't fight for something, you will fight. This is just like when we fight with people in the market. There will always be people who beat me. If I ask someone to not hit me, they will hit me. But if I don't say anything, I will swing two punches first, and I won't have to ask him in the future, but he will not dare to hit me..."
Wei Rang was secretly happy. He didn't know how many people there were like Kui, but he knew that as long as such a person was there, his mission could be completed and there would be great benefits in the world.
This familiar discourse originated from the spread of the Mohist school over the years. Anyone who speaks with such a principle can immediately feel that the other party is close after understanding it.
Wei Rang asked, "If this is the case, I'm afraid you will join the army. Will the women in your family agree? I heard you say...it seems..."
Aoi smiled bitterly and said, "Now it is the people who are righteous. I can say that I don't want to go. Can you go? I didn't want to go before, but I wanted to be arrested. I could go before, but why don't I go for my own benefit?"
"If I don't go, I won't even lose the power I don't want to go in the future? I don't want to go back to my previous days."
Speaking of this, Kui was a little complaining and muttered, "It's you wise men. I have heard in the market these days that some people say that as long as the nobles recognize the changes in the capital, the fiefs of the nobles will not move, and as long as they recognize Gongziluan, they will be fine. Who chose these wise men?"
"Even if it is for the sake of selfishness, this is not right. What is a wise man? At least the sages must have a far-reaching look, right? I, the sages, have seen it. If this is the case, the capital will not be stable. Why can't this sages see it?"
Wei Rang thought to himself, you have seen farther than others. The things you learned in the righteous teacher were incompatible with the old days. These things were originally secrets of the nobles, but now the Mohist school wants to "everyone is a scholar", so naturally it feels something is wrong.
Besides, there are many factions in the city now, each with their own different interests. Each has their own interests and each with their own class behind them. How can many things be solved so easily?
If the Mohist school wants Fei Guo to be a preview and experience, all of this must be experienced, otherwise it will not be "learned by history" and will have to shed blood again in the future to understand these principles.
Wei Rang was also a little depressed. The things we discussed in the past few days were too many, too far and too big, full of different rhetorics, attracting different people.
The moment when Meng Sheng left the palace and announced that his advice was fruitless, it only made the people lose their fantasy of the king.
Now, the people still hold the fantasy of not invading the nobles: the capital has a policy of the capital, the fiefdom has a policy of the fiefdom, and each party does not interfere with each other's own politics, so the nobles will not object.
This idea is naive. The propaganda of the Mohist school over the years is not ineffective. People like Kui have learned instinctive struggle and hatred from their original naivety, but they are not the majority.
Wei Rang said, "Since I am the wise man you have chosen, you have heard many statements these days. I insist on promoting the policy to the entire country of Fei, but some people do not support it or even oppose it."
"In fact, some people have used this to talk about these things in the past few days: the common people, farmers, industry and commerce do not understand politics and cannot govern the country. Even a town cannot govern it. If you want to govern the country, it is afraid that the world will be in chaos and it will not be feasible."
Kui curled his lips and said, "It's hard to say. The Mo family's Shi is a shoemaker. Our former brigade commander was a servant in Chu State. Our former company commander, his father, was a servant. He once managed the public servants in Pengcheng, and used to be a customer... This is all I heard."
"Didn't the Mo family say that the heavenly ghost knows the will of heaven, and before dying, it will bring the will of heaven into the minds of the world. In fact, everyone has knowledge in their minds, but it seems like they are locked, and learning is the key to unlocking the lock."
"When I was a righteous teacher, even the representatives said that the reason why aristocrats were able to govern was not because of their bloodline, but because they had the opportunity to study. We couldn't even eat enough, so how could we talk about learning? So, they hid the truth and told the world that it was because of bloodline. Isn't this ridiculous?"
Kui stood up and suddenly gave a military salute from a righteous army and said, "Please do your best! You must be good at making a good reputation for the common people, industry and commerce, and tell those nobles that the wise people selected by the common people, industry and commerce can also rule the country. If you don't do it well, they will say: Look, this is the truth, put verification first, and this way of governing the country is not good..."
Wei Rang quickly stood up, gave a scholar's courtesy, nodded solemnly and said, "That's the reason, you can inspire me. The reason why the nobles rule is not because of their noble status, but because they learn."
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Hundreds of miles away in Pengcheng, seventy or eighty people gathered together in a spacious house. On the podium, he was just taking the time to teach, and he happened to be saying this.
"The reason why the nobles can govern is not because of their bloodline, but because they have the opportunity to study. The common people can't even eat enough, so how can they talk about learning?"
It was just a turning point after saying these words, but Shi didn't say anything like this. He said: "So, what Fei Guo is doing now is also an experience for us."
"If the Mohist family could become an official and govern a city and a town, how many people would there be? How many people would there be who can manage the orderly people? How many people would there be who can know how much firewood, how many meters, how much salt should be needed every day, how to stabilize prices, how to not harm farmers or merchants, how many people would there be?"
The dozens of people below took out quill pens, dipped the split feather handles with ink, and quickly wrote down the contents on the paper.
From time to time, people look up to see the preaching, nodded slightly, or turned their eyes to the banner on the wooden board full of words - the city governing training class.
Many of the lectures on the podium were great figures of the Mohist school, and they were all talking about everything.
From the farmers' expectations, how to mobilize the people if they want to build ditches, how to control prices, calculate population and household registration, implement laws and regulations, to the contoured city management, governing experience, etc., we will all preach.
Shi, Gong Zaoye, Wu Mabo, Gao Sunzi, Gao Zi, who was once unpopular, and even a young man who was better managed in a village would appear on this podium every few days.
The People's Law and Law Conference in Si Shang is still in progress, but there is a rest every day. Today, some news from Feiguo is coming, just talking about the issue of city governance. The students are all young people, and they are the first group of young people who can enter politics or be useful in the new system that have grown up in the school system.
Ten years ago, even if the Mo family obtained the entire Si Shang Huaibei, it would be difficult for them to rule because of insufficient cadres.
In the past ten years, the Mohist school has been secretly or explaining that it is necessary to cultivate grassroots or middle-level cadres who can fill Si Shang.
This is also one of the increasingly tough and intense confidences that the Mohist school has promoted in recent years. Otherwise... the nobles would have to be invited to rule, and there would be no medicine. The new culture and new system created by the Mohist school, at least at this time, can only discuss the Jiangkou of Si Shang, Huaibei, and then completely abandon the old nobles.
Chapter completed!