Chapter 189 The Sun of Mount Tai (7)
The old nobleman wanted to raise his sword and commit suicide, but was pulled back. In the chaos, he only heard the Mozhe beside him say, "Die for twenty coins? This is not worth it. Since you have a car, a sword in your hand, a jade in your waist, and a horse on your body, which one is not a hundred times more than ten coins? Why bother?"
When the old nobleman heard this, he felt dizzy and felt countless people laughing at him.
If you want to commit suicide, you cannot raise your sword. Besides, what is going on at this time? When later generations mention it, it is necessary to talk about his death by violating the law and not wanting to pay the fines and confiscations. At that time, not only will it not be violent, but it will be a joke.
He came with the ambition to seek death and benevolence, but he did not want the Mohist school to regard him as nothing.
According to his thoughts, as soon as he entered the city, the Mo family would be shocked. The highest official of the Mo family here would definitely come in person. At that time, he would make a generous speech. The Mo family was speechless and could not hold back his face and beheaded him in anger. This would be known to everyone in the world.
But he didn't expect that the Mo family not only did not give him the opportunity to speak generously, but also treated him like a commoner and untouchable, which was the most difficult thing for him to bear.
Even though Xiang Ziniu was defeated in the battle, Tian took over Liang's father's field and sent someone to ask him to continue his career. He flatly refused and asked his son to replace him so that he could live in unity.
Now, not to mention that the head coach of the Mo family had not come in person to ask him, I didn’t expect that even these little Mo people would regard him as an ordinary person. How could this not be an insult?
If he was killed directly and solemnly, it would not be an insult.
But if he is equal to others, it is the greatest insult.
The old noble thought, if an ordinary vendor pawn would violate this law, he would definitely be punished. This actually treats himself as the vendor pawns? How can he endure such humiliation?
If you commit suicide and have no money to pay these fines and confiscations, you really can't get ahead or retreat.
After a long time, he thought, if he continued to make trouble, he would have no decent status and be treated as a joke by the common people. He had to pretend to let go of his hand and the sword was taken off by others.
The written document stared at his sword and said, "This sword can be used as a mortgage. You can go back and get the money, or borrow money from a friend, and I will pay it back to you when the time comes."
The old nobleman said angrily: "The sword will not leave the body of a gentleman! No."
The clerk's eyes glanced at the jade on his waist again, and he said angrily: "A gentleman is like jade, jade is like a gentleman, no!"
Whenever the eyes of the man turn, the old man says something like "A gentleman must ride thirty miles away" and "A gentleman must be dressed in a straight dress".
More and more people were watching the fun, and the expression on their faces was rooted from the fear of their ancestors and the anxiety of being inferior to others, as well as the panic of receiving warehouses of grain, to a kind of ease of watching the fun.
Taoism says: Follow things naturally without tolerance for personal gain.
These ink-like actions that unintentionally fit this artistic conception.
Whether it is punishment or attention, it is better to ignore it in the end, so that the people can see the contempt for the nobles in the eyes of the Mohist family.
If they pay attention, many people will think: Aristocrats are still nobles. You see, if the Mo family wants to deal with them, they must pay so much attention.
Now it is considered to be ignorant, but the public feels that it is nothing more than that, it is just an individual.
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Look at the moment, this nobleman actually needs to borrow money. It really makes many people who have experienced such things happy and think: Gentleman, gentleman, you also know the sadness of paying money.
Looking at the lively Shu Guitian in the distance, he laughed and couldn't help but think of some interesting things about Si Shang, such as some nobles in Si Shang who had not escaped for the past twenty years, and now some people have no dignity.
After Si Shangdi, although the nobles had some money to buy, some nobles did not work hard and thought that they would be cheap in business and business, and they had to maintain the dignity of the nobles, so they had to sit and eat the rest of the country.
When a nobleman spends a lot of money every year, all kinds of sacrifices, clothing, jade, swords, chariots and horses are not a small amount.
If you don’t do this, it’s hard to tell everyone that you have noble blood and how rich your ancestors are, otherwise how can you know that he is a noble?
The money that was redeemed was not invested in the lowly industry and business industries, and only the land was left, and the annual expenses were maintained. In the end, people could only sell the various property passed down from ancestors.
Shu Guitian remembers that he went to Pengcheng with his father a few years ago, and when Pengcheng caused more than a dozen nobles to commit suicide collectively in the city, it was a demonstration of protest against the Mohist policies.
The nobles wore their last gorgeous clothes, dressed neatly, with swords and jade, and carried the last noble glory and demeanor, and committed suicide before the city gate to show resentment.
It’s not that they can’t survive anymore, but if they are farming, doing business, or no longer paying attention to the etiquette of those nobles, they can still survive.
But if they live according to the way of living, they really can't survive. It's better to die. At least the remaining money can be made into a coffin and buried with the courtesy of scholars. It can also be said that they will never fall into the status of a noble in their entire lives.
That was the first time Shu Guitian saw someone committing suicide. He was deeply impressed, but there was no reaction in the city at that time. Shortly after asking their family to collect the bodies, many of their children and children devoted themselves to industry and commerce, or to cultivate the remaining land they had.
If the economic foundation does not change, the nobles will never kill each other. If the Zhou emperor and Shang emperor are killed, the nobles will naturally become extinct. There is no way to get something for nothing. How can we maintain a noble life that can only be kept without effort?
Therefore, the classmates who returned to the field were surprised to see the real aristocrats and exclaimed. After thinking about it carefully, in the past twenty years of Si Shang, the aristocrats were really extinct, leaving only industrial and commercial farms or the descendants of nobles who made a living by lending and investing, but they were no longer similar to the aristocrats.
Today, when hearing the old nobleman talking about words such as "the sword is inseparable from the body of a gentleman" and "you must ride for thirty miles", Shu Guitian couldn't help but think of the descendants of the nobles who were selling their property, horses, jade, bronzes, and sacrificial vessels on Si, and the nobles who committed suicide in front of the city gate, and couldn't help laughing.
The noisy on the street not far away finally ended in a relatively "decent" way. The Mo family signed a contract and asked the old nobles clearly where they lived, saying only "people must not be trustworthy" and asked the old man to pay the money to the city within ten days.
Until now, the old nobles who entered the city with a fierce heart had no face to stay, so they had to leave in shame.
When they left, the retainers who drove finally knew to avoid pedestrians, and the carriages and horses no longer galloped as fast as they did when they came, and walked slowly.
I don’t know if it was an illusion. After this incident, the people who received grain from the warehouse and listened to the preaching of everyone under the Mo family’s Heavenly Emperor, and labor to create wealth, had some natural light on their faces, and their waists seemed to be straighter than before.
After the order was restored, Sun Pu looked at the address of the old man recorded in the document, and someone secretly told the identity of the old man in the Mo family.
Sun Pu shook the paper in his hand and joked with the brigade representative beside him, "This is a coincidence. The old nobleman, the eldest son is in the army and the younger son is in the Linzi palace, but he didn't run away. It just so happened that he would deal with the land on his side first. It's difficult first and then easy."
The representative of the brigade next to him nodded and said, "This old man should recognize Shengchuo. I heard that he was Xiang Ziniu's vassal, and Shengchuo was a Niuzi's retainer back then. When he led the army to invade Lu, he must have been under Shengchuo. This is also considered to have some connection with my Mo family...hahahaha."
Sun Pu also laughed, and the representative of the brigade said: "Most of the nobles in the city fled, which is easy to get involved. The old man came here with great momentum today, and he must have been to slapped our spirits. Since he dared to come, he would be stubborn and would commit suicide at any time. It was a tough bone."
"The situation in Liang's father's situation is different from that of Jibei. The organization not only lets you come, but also because the situation here is special."
Sun Pu understood that the situation he said was not as meaning as Jibei. The demise of the Yin Legion of Pingyin of Jibei led to a large number of Qi people being captured. After being captured, they were organized to educate and release them. In fact, the public base was indeed better.
Especially the large number of nobles were captured, and the aristocrats in the battle between the Southern and Jishui River were completely defeated, which was even more like the Mohist mentality of breaking through the deep-rooted hierarchy in Jibei for hundreds of years.
When there is no awe of the nobles, the people who are eager to seek profit can burst out with powerful power.
The situation here is different and it is indeed difficult to do, so Sun Pu thought of some things that he would explain before leaving.
We must accumulate experience in such places, experience the emotions of the people, speculate on the reactions of the people, organize the experience, and think about the future.
What do the people on the fiefdom think and what will they do? What kind of shackles do they hate, resent and want to lift them?
What do the people in the fields outside the fiefdom think? What will they do? What are the most hated, resented, and wanted to lift the most?
This place is not like the time of Si Shang. I am afraid it has to be treated differently and accumulate enough experience. After all, the world is vast, and Si Shang has Huaibei and the East China Sea, and it is just Xuzhou in the Jiuzhou and a corner of the world.
Moreover, the Si Shang was not big at that time, and the proportion of the ink was extremely high. Some of the methods that could be used by Si Shang may not be able to be used here.
More importantly, the purpose of this time is not "dividing", but "reason", that is, mobilizing the people, which requires more means and skills.
Although the overall situation is one-size-fits-all, the process of cutting must be handled with skills, and the ultimate goal is to achieve the goal of letting the public know the "reason".
Chapter completed!