Chapter 54: Idle Chess and Illness (Part 2)
On the way to breakfast with a group of Mozhe, Shi also told Mozi about the pi calculated by later ancestor Chongzhi.
The method is right, and it is unnecessary to spend years to calculate.
Mozi decided to check it himself, draw a circle with a ruler and measure the circumference and then check whether the value is accurate.
If it is accurate, you can use it directly. If it is not accurate, you need to spend some time to re-estimate according to the appropriate method of cutting the circle.
In front of the house, the first and later the ink-men gathered together, drinking soy milk and eating wheat cakes outside, which attracted a group of people to watch and ask what it was.
So he asked Liuzhi and Luhua to hold some wheat cakes, break them apart, and then distributed them to these people. He also took the opportunity to sing and deleted the last line of poetry and the paradise that was tempted to resist.
Such a deliberate meal made the reputation of wheat flour and tofu and tofu milk spread throughout Shangqiu in just one day.
When drinking soy milk, I dipped it in soy milk and roughly drew the idea of a hydraulic grinder on the wooden board. With Mozi and a group of carpenter disciples, it was not difficult to do it.
"Sir, this is what I think. Once Sumai is promoted in the future, it will always be ground. The power of cattle and horses is too slow, and the water is endless and never stops, and it is just right to use it."
"At that time, we will gather the strength of everyone and build a mill every few hills. It may be wind or water. With this mill as the center, it will preach the meaning of the will of heaven and the will of the ink, or serve as a place for sacrifice. In this way, people's hearts will be in harmony and it will be easy to spread some methods of farming that conform to the will of heaven."
He wanted to build one "village committee" after another with the hydraulic and wind mill. Of course, the mills must be controlled by the village community and managed by the ink-dogs, not owned by the private sector.
When there are too many people and too few land, hydraulic wind mills cannot be promoted at all; and when there are too few people and too many land, there is a sudden explosion of productivity, so all kinds of simple machinery can be fully deployed.
With the fierceness of the Warring States Period, manpower will only become more and more expensive, and simple machinery that can save manpower will be urgently needed by all countries, and it will finally give the bottom a chance to be regarded as human.
Such things are impossible and have no ability to do, so they can only rely on the Imperials to gather people to do and then spread them all.
Let the Mo become the second power at the grassroots level, become the hidden invisible monarch, and the invisible monarch beyond the limitations of fiefdom and national borders.
Mozi had seen everything Shi was struggling in that village community, and knew that Shi was skillful in his methods. He understood the key point after a little thought.
If Sumai is promoted, it is best to have black jade, ghost fingers, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. as rotational crops.
If Sumai is promoted, it is still a food that is worse than corn sticky rice if it is not ground into powder. But in the mouth, the mozi clearly shows that the taste of wheat is stronger than these corn sticky rice after grinding.
Using the means appropriate to the village and community, using the mill as the center of preaching to gather people, this can obviously spread the meaning of the Mozhe among some village and community more quickly.
As a public property, the mill can promote the mutual benefit of the people in the village and community and strengthen the degree of cohesion of the village and community.
The Mohist family did not lack stonemasons, nor did they lack carpenters. What they lacked was the methods and means of using carpenters and stonemasons to perform righteousness. This was just enriched, and stonemasons and carpenters did not have to only use them to make equipment to defend the city.
As for the lack of people, Mozi was not worried.
Everyone's desire to pursue a paradise is strong. One person can bring out three or five people in the village and community. It is calculated as a mill of thirty miles. In fact, it will be as fruitful as planting crops in a few years.
To gather the strength of everyone and build a mill requires prestige and sufficient organizational capabilities.
When you can gather the strength of everyone to build a mill, your prestige and organizational strength can also gather the strength of everyone to do something else.
Perhaps what Mo Zi thought about at this time was still the right sword to reward and punish the world.
But what he didn't think clearly was that when he could really reward and punish the kings in the world, why should these people who gathered their bodies to make swords still have a noble king on their heads?
How could everyone be the next giant holding the sword beside him, Mo Di, think like this?
Why shouldn't the ink man who is a sword blade do righteousness by himself instead of asking the king to do righteousness?
When this sword has its own soul, is it the person holding the sword who decides where the sword will go? Or who will the sword choose the master?
Mo Zi would not have thought that the mill in Shi's eyes was just a reference.
There are public mills, public oil mills. When cotton is promoted, there must be places for collective ginning and dyeing. If salt and iron are not specialized, there must be places for selling salt and iron. With iron tools, special blacksmith shops must be places for all kinds of these, there must be places for learning to cultivate, composting, and weaving.
These are all concentrated in one place, organized by the Mohists. In the villages and communities outside the city, what is it that is not an invisible political center?
For military purposes, the nobles retained the tradition of village and community autonomy, which also provided sufficient opportunities for such people.
In a suitable way, relying on salt drying, cast iron, and textiles, you can accumulate enough wealth. Before you can confirm that you can lift the table, the ink-man's activity funds only need to be obtained from the difference between handicraft scissors.
The profits are not visible to the farmers.
For tax collection, military taxes, silk taxes, and millet taxes, just let the kings and nobles do it, and they will bear the resentment.
This rises and the other goes down, this is evil and the other is good, so let’s take it as a result.
Not every country can be like Duke Huan of Qi, Guan Zhong, who specializes in the salt and iron, and if he has half of his ability, he will not be able to seize power and vassals too strong. Under the feudal system, the number one enemy of the king is always his own group of relatives with kings, princes, generals and ministers, and it is not the bottom.
For Mozi, these things that Mozi didn't expect meant that they didn't have to be considered.
But there are many things that need to be considered within the thoughts of, which are very realistic.
On the side of Shi, Shi Zhi, who had made millstones with Shi, asked his questions first.
"You think very well. Those hydraulic grinders are not difficult to do if you miss me and my husband's carpentry skills. You are not difficult to do with your mind but your hands are not good, but you are not good at it. But, you always need money to do what you said, where does the money come from?"
Not only did he ask this, Gong Zaoye and others on the side also agreed.
Meng Sheng said on the side: "Since I have such a righteous heart, I still have some land and will help him after selling it."
Gong Zaoye smiled and said, "Although you have some land, you can compare with the meanings you want to do, just like a penny and a nine-ox. He spent nearly two taels of gold in a small village. If he wanted to use this method, he didn't know how much gold he would need. He didn't have much money, but it was not something that ordinary taxis could compare to when spending money."
Meng Sheng also knew that according to the method of spending money and doing righteousness, the little land in his family was really nothing, so he said to Shi: "Shi, my legitimate son of Huan Dingjun of Chuyang City has been friends since childhood. He is a person who values love and neglects wealth, and he can also borrow some from him."
When Shi heard this, he hurriedly refused and said no.
Aristocrats like Huan Dingjun and Yan Zhongzi have money and status in their hands, so they can win people's hearts and make them think well. For them, they may only be a thousand gold, but for those who receive kindness, they have to pay back with their lives. This is righteousness, the righteousness of a promise of a thousand gold.
Gong Zaoye snorted coldly from the side, "Mengsheng, don't mention Huan Dingjun. Is this man light money for the sake of doing righteousness? It's just to exchange money for these people who have the heart to be chivalrous and righteous. "
Shi didn't know what Gong Zaoye had experienced before, but after several conversations, he could tell that he was very disdainful of the nobles, so he didn't ask much.
Meng Sheng shook his head and did not answer or argue. He felt that everyone had their own judgment and their own reasons.
While chewing the dry cakes soaked in soy milk, Mozi smiled and listened to the disciples arguing here, without saying anything, just listening.
He knew that if he was really good, he would have the method of smelting evil gold. With those cotton litter cloth, money was not a problem.
Not only can the embarrassment of the fact that the Mo people can only rely on those officials to contribute their salaries, but they can also do something greater than before and have a greater influence.
The former Tao Zhu Gong, Zigong, Yidun and others were all able to make the king compete with each other. Mozi felt that there was a great righteousness that could make the nobles compete with each other. If they had the benefit of the profit of the merchants, perhaps his theory would be easier to implement, and they could indeed cooperate with the methods of farming to make the people in the world profit.
Shi swallowed the chewed cake and suddenly asked the people around him, "You said that if this tofu and dry cake are sold to those nobles, you may benefit?"
Many of the people around him were from small nobles, and some of them were from other families. Although they did not mention the family of Zhongming and Ding Food, they could also join the upper class circle.
Meng Shengxian said: "It is OK to have a deli. The wheat flour is delicate, the tofu is soft and smooth, and it is indeed delicious."
The small nobles also nodded in agreement, but Shi Cidao, who was not from the nobles, said: "But, whether it is tofu or wheat flour, as long as you make a millstone, anyone can make it."
Shi stretched out two fingers and shook his fingers and said, "The cone is not like this. If the threads under the millstone cannot be made, the wheat flour cannot be produced. This is one of them. Secondly, although tofu is simple, it is difficult for them to make it as long as the people who make it. Moreover, if the people in Shangqiu eat wheat flour, perhaps only ten years later in Linzi will know this method. In ten years, they can do a lot of things."
"Public Zaoye just said that Meng Sheng's land is like a dump of money we need to do things with righteousness, but accumulating ten thousand dollars is a dump of one cow. Therefore, no dump of one cow should be underestimated. Take Shangqiu as an example, it is 7 miles long and one tofu shop can accommodate more than ten stores."
"If you can make a profit, you can take half of each within five years and get it after five years. You may get it by paying money at one time. It seems that Shangqiu doesn't get much, but how many big cities are there in the world like Shangqiu? Linzi, Qufu, Taoyi, Luoyang, Jinyang, Tang, Quwo...there are not many such cities."
"Just three or five people familiar with these cities can sell these catch techniques, or the Imperials who live there will be self-operated. This thing is new, but others don't know how to do it. A hundred and ten cows can be exchanged every year."
"I also have the method to make strong wine, and there are some vegetables and vegetables to mix them, including wheat flour, wine, tofu, vegetables and vegetables. There are many noble merchants in Jucheng Dayi, which is just right to benefit."
"One can collect money to make sense; two, it can also make people eat; three, the world can also know that this is the method of my ink and show my ink and the fourth, the future, the future is also easy to sell cloth such as ghost cloth...5..."
When he said five, he brought his own food to Mozi and said, "Sir, this is what I think. Taking food shops in those giant cities and cities as the place where my Mo family will be settled. If there is any unrighteous thing, we can know it early. If I, Mo, go to other countries in the future, there will be a place to rest, eat and live."
Mo Zi nodded, thinking that this was the method of defending the city, which was considered a detailed work.
Everyone cheered, on the one hand, it was to cheer for this kind of meticulous method, and on the other hand, it was to cheer for someone who was good at managing goods among the people.
There is no such person as Zigong among the Mozhe. Shi Jiatong is proficient in business contracts, but he is not very capable in doing business.
The wine shop seems to be an inconspicuous small business, but later Taishi Gong did "Biography of Merchants", which included Zhang, who made 10 million yuan by selling vinegar and wine, Zhang, who became a Zhongming family by treating cattle and horses, and Yongle, who became a peddler along the streets and alleys...
At this time, it is not difficult to become a wealthy businessman if you have some abilities, some wisdom, good at management, and master the initiative.
These Mo people who have followed Mo Zi for a long time have not changed their righteousness, but they still hope to improve their hunger and fullness.
They didn't want to have a good life either. After a meal today, they felt that it was great to have a dry cake and drink a bowl of soy milk every day, and they didn't need any food to beep and dine.
Now there is one more Shi who seems to have the ability to make money. Of course they are happy and think in their hearts: "Shi is really good. In the future, when you go to those big cities and towns, there is a place to eat and rest."
This is not contrary to the meaning of action.
But these are not the only ones that I think of, so I said: "There is another point. The wise men and the princes know all their talents, but they are unwilling to listen to the words of my ink. I think that in those giant cities and towns, the meaning of those who spread the ink will not be revealed, but as secret ink. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can persuade the king to do righteousness. Moreover, if the king does not know that he is ink, he will not even want to listen."
Mozi had never thought about this secret method of Mozhe.
Shi said frankly: "The names of these secret Mo people are registered in the book and still belong to Mo people, but outsiders do not know it. The records are registered by me, the secretary, and the master personally grasps them. Only one Mo people in those giant cities and towns know their identities."
"Once there is something in the future, you can also know in advance. Once there is a young man who is brave and righteous in the city, you can also rely on those who teach the ink of the food shop. What do you think of the world's words? "
He said it openly, but the most important point is: if Mo Zi allowed it, then all the secret Mo people's lists were handled by him as the secretary.
After the behavior of registering and forming a routine, the person who is in the open face is also the secretary who is in charge of it.
Chapter completed!