Everything these merchants discussed was horrifying in the eyes of the nobles.

The power of merchants is very strong, especially when the old land system is about to collapse, the commodity economy begins to develop, and gunpowder and iron tools enter the stage of history, this power will be magnified by the times.

Apart from those big countries in the world, it is easy for the merchants gathered here today to subvert a small country.

And once they start to taste the taste and profits, they will never get tired of it.

But now, no matter how much they discuss, they can’t avoid the Mohist school in the end.

To establish a cooperative company with this shareholding system, it is necessary to have a strong force and system to ensure the rationality of all the rules and systems therein.

Even if they discussed in Taoqiu and finally established this speculative company, they still had to go to Si Shang to register.

If you don’t register in Si, many people dare not invest. The trust between people cannot resist the constraints of rules and regulations and laws on people.

Except for Si Shang, which is under the jurisdiction of the Mo family, no precedent for such a thing is allowed or there is no precedent for this kind of thing.

Si Shang is OK, and there are systems to follow, rules to follow, and there are special exchanges.

Although there are certain taxes and fees for each transaction, these taxes and fees are more likely to pay taxes that they think are relatively cheap than the determination of ownership and the huge benefits contained in the bill.

Moreover, the things they are discussing are indeed inaccessible to the Mohist school.

Only the huge workshops in the Mohist area of ​​Pengcheng can provide you with arms, weapons, military uniforms, stirrups.

In addition, many people lack cash and many bills need to be exchanged and traded in the financial bank. They are already closely linked to the interests of the Mohist school. Although this connection is invisible, it is closer than blood relationships.

This major event that was enough to subvert a country and seek excess profits attracted the attention of countless merchants in Taoqiu and other places, and has become the biggest thing in the eyes of businessmen over the years.

The amount of funds and notes they planned to raise was enough to shock a monarch with a fiefdom of hundreds of miles.

But all this is not a big deal in the eyes of Jia Tong, who is heading to Taoqiu.

In recent years, Jia Tong of the City has been in charge of part of the Mohist family's finances. After obtaining the first amount of funds for the Mohist family's wheat flour and other things, the waters have risen and the Mohist family's finances have become increasingly responsible for expanding.

The things planned by these merchants were tacitly approved by the Mohist school.

In the view of Jiatong, this "great gift" prepared for Zhongshan Kingdom is equivalent to a huge income for the Si Shang Mo family.

Arms, weapons, clothing, tents, there is nothing else to buy these things except on Si.

Shi Jiatong felt that he was a man who plucked his hair by the geese.

Even though Zhongshan Kingdom restored the country in the Mohist country's grand strategy, in order to restrain the power of Wei, it prevented Wei from interfering in Si Shang.

Shi still used this great benefit to absorb a lot of money from the merchants.

Jiatong, the Shishi estimated that more than half of this money would be used to purchase various goods in the workshop, which is equivalent to merchants investing money in handicrafts. However, this investment was not taken by the merchants, but was settled and put into it after taking the initiative, and then transferred to the Mo family.

The Mohist family has done more than once to restore the country to loan.

From Chu to Yue, from Yue to Zheng, from Zheng to Lu, and from Lu to Zhongshan, every loan to restore the country can bring about great development of Sishang's handicraft industry.

Gunpowder workshops under technology monopoly and weapon workshops under division of labor and cooperation have already appeared in cotton spinning workshops that employ labor and hydraulic machinery. Every war between the princes in the world will bring huge orders, which stimulates the development of Sishang and increases the total social wealth of Sishang by countless times.

Jia Tong of the Shishan City estimated that in the income of Si Shang Mo family in recent years, the weight of land tax is decreasing, and various previously inconspicuous industries can actually compete with the land tax.

Gold mining, coal and iron, arms construction, road construction, shipping, construction, glass luxury goods, trading companies of Baiyue Yangyue, tea and horse iron trade, bill transaction stamp duty, South China Sea land management and auction... These all kinds of incomes allow the land of Si Shang to implement "benevolent government" for farmers who own the land. The messy addition is just tithes, which is far lower than the taxes and fees of other countries.

Merchants and business pay for money, farmers pay for people, and the Mohist monopoly workshop regulates the market, which determines the stability of Si Shang.

Even if there is a difficult situation, the financial bank can still issue Litianxia bonds and pay interest to survive the most difficult moments. The Shi Jiatong estimated that if he really got that step, he could raise enough money to arm more than a dozen divisions in just a few months.

As for now, it is far from that. If it weren't for the increasing expenditure of education in Si Shang, Si Shang's income over the years would be enough to organize an expedition to fight for the world. However, even if he was in charge of money, the city Jiatong still made a proposal to invest a large amount of money in education.

This hidden strength growth has been reflected in recent years. More and more people are literate in the Si Shang Land, and the quality of some industries and professions is increasing. The quality of soldiers is becoming more and more amazing with the addition of the younger generation of Si Shang.

The stronger Si Shang's strength, the harder Shi Jiatong's back is, the higher his vision.

Therefore, Taoqiu's incident caused sensation among merchants, shocked the nobles, and made the monarchs of various countries begin to be wary of merchants' major events. In the eyes of Jiatong, it was just that the merchants worked together to support the development of Sishang handicraft industry and provided a large number of orders for Sishang handicraft industry.

He came to Taoqiu and urged the completion of this matter to be an extra task, and the real task was far from that.

At the enlarged meeting of the Mohist high-level officials half a month ago, the appropriate proposal to "make war preparations within the controllable range" was unanimously approved.

This time, the Mo family wanted to completely integrate the power of Si Shang. Since Wu Qi conquered Daliang City and Zheng State returned to Wei and Han in two parts, Si Shang has become the gunpowder barrel of the Central Plains.

Qi, Chu, Wei, Han, and the four countries were actually eyeing Si Shang, but they only solved the Chu State with diplomatic means, making the Si Shang situation only need to worry about Qi, Wei and Han within at least ten years.

The meeting half a month ago made a proposal for a "controllable war", so there was no need for a comprehensive mobilization of Si Shang, but only a war was needed to use the existing organization's charity army to engage in.

When fighting, the Mohist family was not afraid. The worst plan was that the coalition forces of various countries were attacking Si Shang, but entering Si Shang was like entering a quagmire. The densely packed new fortresses and reinforced city walls would make it difficult for the coalition forces of various countries to move forward.

However, Si Shang could not withstand the long-term war, so this time we must make plans to immediately send troops outside Si Shang to resolve the war once all countries interfere.

After the meeting half a month ago, the Yishi Division had already begun to secretly mobilize. The sixth and seventh divisions were mobilized to the direction of Tan. Once the situation in Feiguo was uncontrollable, once the decision of Feiguo to join a more in-depth alliance, the troops would be sent immediately to resolve the resistance of Feiguo's nobles.

The remaining main forces began to gather in Pei, Teng and other places.

When the army gathered, Jiatong, the city, was not a member of the military committee, but these gatherings and combat matters were constantly related to him.

The increase in the number of righteous troops and the change in combat methods have caused huge problems in the previous strategy of "food for the enemy".

"Sun Tzu, Military Battle" once summarized the classic four-character saying "Wind, Forest, Mountain Fire" that summarized the battle.

It is precisely: therefore, it is as fast as the wind, its slow as the forest, it invades like fire, it is as motionless as the mountain, it is difficult to know as the yin, and it moves like thunder.

However, the next sentence that follows "Fenglin Volcano" is to plunder the countryside, divide the profits, and hang power.

The military operations, as Sun Tzu said, need to rely on plundering the people and splitting troops to carry out the operations, otherwise the logistics will be enough to become a disaster.

Therefore, in general, when countries fight and send troops, they choose to harvest immediately, so that they can achieve "eat the enemy for one bell, and be the mere twenty bells; stalk for one stone, and be twenty bells". On the one hand, they can weaken the war potential of the enemy country, and on the other hand, they can solve their own logistics problems.

From a utilitarian perspective, this is undoubtedly the right choice.

But the Mohist school cannot use it.

Because the Mohist school talks about the concept of "people in the world", only when Chu is a Chu and Zhao is a Zhao, can the people of the "enemy country" be plundered.

But the Mohist school believes that it does not have a fixed country, but belongs to the world, so doing so is equivalent to plundering its own people, which is unreasonable from the logic of its own morality.

If you treat others as an enemy country, others will also treat you as an enemy country. This is the same thing.

Moreover, the Yishi Army has sufficient logistics and good treatment, and has instilled the concept of "benefiting the world" as the core of military thinking.

If a military chief dares to come up with the policy of "poaching the township and counting", he may be sentenced to the military court on the same day and be judged and executed. This is the bottom line.

If you have to be in mind and have a broad vision, you cannot do anything like plundering the countryside for a temporary small profit. Even if you lose a battle for this, you cannot break the rules.

Rules were one of the two most important foundations that Mozi believed during his lifetime that the Mohist school was enough to develop and strengthen the world.

Therefore, if the Mohist school wants to prepare for the war, it must organize logistics in advance. This is the most important reason why Jiatong, the city came to Taoqiu.

Nowadays, there is no organization, individual or prince who has more "money" than the Mo family. Therefore, in the heart of Jia Tong, the city who is in charge of the Mo family's finance, the solution to this is "as long as you have money, there is no problem that cannot be solved in Song and other places."

The development of the commodity economy, the beginning of private land ownership, the deepening of land grabbing and growing cotton and grain in the State of Song Dynasty, the idea of ​​Jiatong in Shi may not be very correct elsewhere, but it is correct here.

In terms of Song territory, including part of Lu and part of Wei State’s south, as long as there is money, food is not a problem at all.

But the problem is that once war begins, food may be difficult to buy, prices will rise, and it will be difficult to concentrate.
Chapter completed!