A few days later, before the Mo family's great gathering, his reputation spread like a month ago and once again among the Mo people.

The last time it spread was because he was not a man of ink, but he was working alone in the meaning of ink.

This time it spread because of the wheat flour incident that caused sensation in Shangqiu City.

Most of the conversations between the Mozhes in the past few days begin with this.

"Two hundred and twenty gold!"

In just a few days, the merchants in Shangqiu City brought in 220 gold to the Mozhe, and it was neither unrighteous nor robbed, but they sold their knowledge into money.

A suitable saying began to spread among the ink masters: Xiaotianzhi has strength and money.

This sentence is implemented and verified by applying practical actions.

Mozi said that this matter is best for the best of the people with the Jin Jiatong, but there is nothing to reward. Since you are willing to do meaning, then help you do righteousness.

Two hundred and twenty golds seem to be a lot, enough for these ink people to be happy. It is not only a matter of money, but also a method of practice according to the appropriate explanation can be implemented, not just a fantasy.

Two hundred and twenty gold is actually not much, compared to the benefits that the big cities that have absorbed wealth in recent years can get. Moreover, the price of gold at this time really makes Shi a little... at a loss.

At this time, copper was used in war, and the grain output was not much. Apart from the farmers' food and taxes, the amount included in circulation was not much.

As precious metals and ritual metals, the price of gold is somewhat unbalanced with food. It is not the price of gold in later feudal dynasties. It is much lower, so low that it is hard to imagine.

If calculated based on food, it must be exchanged for various strange weights and measures.

The weights and measures have not been unified yet, and the weights and measures are very chaotic, and the copper coins in different places are different. There are more than 20 weights and measures in Qi, Lu, Song and other places. The Three Kingdoms alone have five types: quadruple, quintal, hexadecimal, octal, and decimal, and these five types have various arrangements and combinations.

If it is just four, four, four, and ten, it would be fine. What is even more hateful is that there are extremely strange fundamentals such as four, five, and sixty.

Based on the rich product, gold purchasing power is the highest, and the weight and measure is slightly normal, one hour is 193 liters, which is equivalent to about 400 kilograms of grain. When the grain is affordable, ten minutes of grain can be exchanged for one gold.

In other words, one gold can be exchanged for 4,000 kilograms of grain.

The seventy gold that Jiatong in Shi seemed amazing, but in fact it was nothing. On average, three or four hundred Mo people could share 700 kilograms of grain, which was enough for these people to eat for two years. If there were no other items in the past two years, Mozi would have to sell the carriage and horse that pulled the bamboo slips, and then take the Mo people to make wheels and carriages to make money.

It can be confirmed that with the development of agriculture, the exchange price of gold and grain will become higher and higher, but at this time the gold is not really valuable. One gold can be exchanged for three to four thousand small coins, and even fewer sword coins like Qi State like that of about 40 grams.

In the prosperous feudal dynasty when ox plows and ridges are promoted, it is almost impossible to exchange twenty taels of gold for 4,000 kilograms of grain in the absence of famine.

But this is the reality at this time, the cruel reality of scarce agricultural production. Until the large-scale promotion of iron and winter wheat in the Han Dynasty, the Han Book also recorded the price of fertile soil per acre and gold.

Four thousand kilograms of grain, and four thousand kilograms of grain that can be used for market exchange, are definitely not the same concept, and are far from each other.

A family of nine can produce five or six thousand kilograms of grain a year, but after deducting food and taxes, the remaining one or two hundred kilograms are only available, and it also has to deal with conscription or natural disasters.

The remaining two hundred kilograms are the goods that can be used for exchange and circulation with gold and the market, and the origin of the exchange economy. The five or six thousand kilograms harvested in autumn cannot be calculated in exchange at all.

In a suitable way, this not only shows the low level of agricultural productivity at this time, but also shows the superb level of smelting gold at this time.

Since it is an equivalent, the average working time cannot be ignored. Even those who dig out gold are slaves, they still need to eat and drink.

Four thousand kilograms of grain require six light and strong laborers plus one hundred weeks of acres of land for a year. In other words, each light and strong laborer who digs gold needs to dig at least four taels of gold a year to be profitable, otherwise the nobles would rather use these slaves for planting and reclamation.

In the past six months, I have compared the prices of various general equivalents and have a general concern in my mind.

He is not the kind of person who borrows money to do good deeds, nor is he the kind of person who does not care about gains and losses. It’s just that the things he spends money to buy are not something that ordinary people are willing to spend money to buy.

Calculated based on the equivalent at this time, even if there is a gold mine in Pengcheng, Peidi, it will have no mining value at this time and will only lose death.

According to the current price of linen, one ft8 to ten yuan, a poor money will be exchanged for one pound of grain. In this way, if a woman wants to gain independent status, she needs to weave at least thirty feet of linen every year to ensure that she cannot starve and wear clothes, so she no longer needs to rely on the land.

At this time, spinning hemp requires one-stop sprinkling hemp, tearing the skin, rubbing the velvet to weaving cloth. It is difficult for ordinary women to weave thirty-foot cloth, and their status in the village community will not be too high.

If cotton is promoted in Peidi, collective cooperation in cotton ginseng and strips are adopted and individually contracted and weaving is adopted.

Not counting the premium caused by the novelty of cotton cloth, coupled with the reduction in grain prices caused by the innovation of agricultural and planting technologies, a woman only needs to weave forty feet of cotton cloth every year to have an independent economic status, and being able to spin forty-five feet of cotton cloth can surpass the status of a family farmer at this time.

Similarly, if various new crops can be planted, ridges and ox plowing can be promoted, and the yield per mu can be increased, and the food consumed by each farmer every year can be deducted. As long as each farmer can produce 500 kilograms of grain for market circulation, it will be equivalent to the remaining five taels of gold at this time.

How to calculate it? It is cost-effective to replace the method of grinding wheat flour with gold to buy oxen and invest the reserves.

Subcontract spinning and weaving to earn the value of women's surplus labor; let farmers buy the ox in installments in the form of metal currency to cope with deflation and rising precious metal prices caused by increased productivity but not metal currency.

In this way, the total remaining wealth of Peidi can exceed the purchasing power of these gold at this time and be rich in the people within one year.

Within three years, you can use hidden means to receive the money and profits into the hands of the ink person, and everyone will applaud the ink person to perform righteousness.

It also comes with some things that cannot be bought directly with money - the hearts of the people in Peidi, the economic liberation of women, and the accompanying female teachers to support the training of grassroots officials who successfully rebelled more than ten years later.

This has not yet been considered the profitable industries such as iron ore mining, glass bead luxury goods after winning people's hearts.

Therefore, although the money sold is not much, in Shi Jiatong's opinion, if he sells wheat flour himself, he can make more money within ten years, but Shi still thinks that this is a long-term transaction that can be sufficed.

What's more, the recognition and appreciation of Mozhe who was close to him, as well as Mozi's recognition of his own abilities.

My own righteousness and understanding of Tianzhi have been shown to Mo Zi in the village community. What I need now is one abilities after another, especially the display of organizational abilities.

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He told Mozi that the reason for establishing the Secretariat was very simple: to record the Mohist school's great righteousness and daily discussion, it required a large number of bamboo slips. There is no time to make the grass silk now, but it doesn't take long, so you can directly record the bamboo slices that do not require the completion of the greening and insect removal, and you can copy it on the grass silk soon.

But even if there is no need to finish the bamboo slips and remove insects, peeling, numbering, and sorting the bamboo slips cannot be done by one person, so some manpower is needed.

This reason is very sufficient. Mozi also agreed to the appropriate request in order for the upcoming gathering of Momen to solve many problems.

As the secretary of Mozhe, Shi finally had three or four "army" under his command, and the institution called the Secretariat was officially established.

Luhua and Liufing were among the first group of people in the Secretariat, there was also a young man who was a man who knew seal script.

This older man was responsible for reading out the classics and sorting them into official script from the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right to

The younger one is called Qisui, who is a bamboo craftsman who is an industrial and commercial official, can also be called Caimi Qisui.

The old one is called Xiaosheng. He was born with a smile when he was born. His family thought it was ominous, so he was not welcomed in the family. He had learned words and worked as a minor official who sorted out the classics of the Song Dynasty to prevent insect worms. He must have been from being a nobleman in the other branch, but he did not talk about his family, so he didn't ask much.

These four people, plus the responsible ones, have a total of five people in the entire Documentary Office, which is the weakest institution in the entire Mozhe Organization.

That is, regardless of money or punishment, nor of weapons manufacturing and defense of cities and weapons, but I think this is a good start.

With the means of making money a few days ago and the simple breakfasts that the Imai had eaten, he really took root among the Imai, and some people joked with him and called him "Secretary Shi".

He didn't care, but was willing to make people call him that.

After getting the money in Shangqiu, the city’s noodle shops and tofu shops in Shangqiu City were all arranged by Jia Tong, so he calmed down and cut the bamboos in the Hebei Library every day.

There are not many words written on a bamboo slip on a page. It is said that someone copied a book called "Compendium of Materia Medica" using bamboo slips. Half a pound of books was copied into bamboo slips and turned into 250 pounds. It is not a false statement to read books and talk about pounds at this time.

Fortunately, these temporarily used bamboo slices do not require too many processes, they just record them and copy them onto the paper later, so it is not too slow. Many of them are shoddy and cannot be preserved for a long time. Some of them are not even scratched with bamboo skin, and they are written directly in it when used.

The bamboo was very fast, and it was obvious that it was a veteran. A bamboo could be split and scraped in his hand in a moment.

Xiaosheng did it slowly. He had managed classic bamboo slips, but he had never done anything to cut bamboo.

When the five people were working, Xiaosheng asked, "Shi, what exactly is the kind of grass and wood silk you mentioned?"

Shi held a piece of bamboo in his hand and thought about how to describe it. He lowered his head and quickly cut the bamboo, and had already taken over the words.

"Xiaosheng, you are so stupid. The silk of plants and trees is first of all, it is a kind of silk. Just like a white horse, first of all, it is a horse. Have you never taught you? Have you never seen a silk book? Of course, it is just that. One can write a lot of words. It is just made of plants and trees, which is much cheaper than silk. Of course, the silk here uses silk books, not silk for wearing. Although these two are the same, they are not the same. Just like a wooden bird, it obtains the name of the bird that can fly but not eat. Then you say that the wooden bird can…”

Zaime Qisui said that these Mohist disciples talked about all day long, but their work in their hands did not slow down at all, and they still nagged: "So this is a good thing. You don't know, cutting bamboo can easily cut the hand. Look at my hand so fast, I don't know how many times it was cut when I was a child. In the future, it would be great if I had straw silk, and I don't have to cut bamboo anymore. So, you should teach me the kind of official script. In the future, our library will not have to cut bamboo, so I can do something..."

Xiaosheng only asked one question, and Zaimi Qisui had already spoken to the future.

Xiaosheng clicked helplessly, lowered his head and stopped talking, thinking that you are lucky that you are not good at adversity, otherwise you would have a partner in the adversity fifty-four.

Shi smiled and replied a few words. It seemed that these people thought that this library was a place for copying.
Chapter completed!