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Chapter 300: The Eve of the Great Chaos (9)

The Mohist family was not allowed to have slaves, so they used the name of long-term craftsmanship to work for ten years... This is true. Ten years later, I also learned the language of Si Shang. One person granted 100 acres of wasteland, gave him a set of iron tools, and a musket. As for whether he could live for ten years, it was unknown.

The serfs who fled from Song, Chu, Yue, and Qi were not listed here because the Mohist control and organizational power in Si were enough to organize them.

In the South China Sea, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and it really lacks labor force development. Moreover, the morality of "simple" and "long-term work" is to turn a blind eye.

Now Si Shang has Huaibei and the East China Sea, with a shortage of people everywhere, vast land, developed industry and commerce, and profitable planting industry and commerce. At the Law Production Conference a while ago, Changgong Trade was unanimously approved by everyone and allowed to be carried out in Si Shang.

As soon as the news came, those who were engaged in trade in the South China Sea immediately shipped back more than 4,000 yuan, making a big profit: mainly because after the development of industry and commerce in Sishang, trade and shipments in the south were easy, but there was nothing to carry when they came back.

Sugar, deer skin and the like are just fine. In addition to the rice that must be carried for tax cuts, "long-term workers" are also one of the profitable trade targets, perhaps second only to gold, silver and copper.

The Mohist family's official power there is only the coastal city, along the estuary of the Pearl River, and the Si Shang model is carried out to engage in forced assimilation.

However, there are insufficient cadres and it is difficult to develop the Si Shang model. The methods of pioneering this variant are mainly based on personal power.

Fortunately, the Mo family did some calculations and there was not a large country there. Even if war started, the people who engaged in trade on the other side could afford it. They might not even need to use regular troops, but use the "Si Shang Fighters" who retired and made money.

With the difference in weapons and organizational strength, the Central Plains countries had long beaten those primitive countries, not to mention the retired veterans of the "Si Shang Fighter" with powerful fire cannons and formation discipline.

Ximen Tsui had heard about the South China Sea, and he couldn't help but frown at the title of "Changgong".

More than 4,000 workers were transported to Si Shang, and sold out in less than three days. The coal and iron mines directly bought two thousand.

The "Wild Land Management Act" in northern Jiangsu and Huaibei region was released; the prices of cotton, indigo, oil, mulberry, silk, etc. increased; the emergence of new technologies such as livestock carding machines, hydraulic oil pressing workshops, and division of labor and cooking silkworm cocoon workshops have prompted the capital of many vassal states to be brought to Si Shang by merchants, and they all said: If you dare to transport 10,000, I dare to buy 10,000.

And a sufficient deposit was given on the spot.

Most of the land already allocated on Si Shang is not allowed to be bought; the best land in the vassal states cannot be bought by the nobles; the political system of Si Shang is not the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, but in comparison, it is the most beneficial to industry and commerce compared to the other vassal states. Every year, a large amount of capital travels to Si Shang, which has always been restricted due to labor. Now the issuance of the "Long Work Act" is simply a dawn for those emerging industrial and commercial classes.

Si Shang needed a large number of direct-level population as soldiers and workers in official workshops. They robbed Song, Qi, Chu, and Yue who fled, and how could industrial and commercial workers robbed Si Shang Mojia, the largest capital group, and had to settle for the second best.

Local land annexation is allowed, troops are reduced, and social instability is instability.

Land mergers are not allowed locally, labor costs are increased, and capital cannot be added without labor.

In addition to Si Shang, land transactions and annexation are still mostly unacceptable, including the Qin State on the historical line in later generations, which is also a private land that grants land rather than annexation.

The introduction of the Changgong Law also created an opportunity for more capital to pour into Si Shang and open Huaibei.

When Ximen Lu was in Yecheng, he felt that he was a redundant person, a sworm, and was full of fanaticism. After being scolded by Ximen Bao, he could see the reality clearly.

The theory of interest analysis in Si Shang is a compulsory course in daily classes and one of the categories of exam questions for the examination in the order of admission. He naturally learned it.

For those nouveau riche who made money in the South China Sea, he still looked down on the superiority of "noble origin".

And I feel a little wrong with the long-term work order.

In fact, after he came to Si Shang, his understanding of the Mohist family became increasingly deep, and many places reversed his imagination of the Mohist family in Ye.

What my father said now seems to have a bit of a sense of thought.

He originally thought that the Mohist school was a group of saints who "suffered themselves from the extreme, benefited the world and everyone sought saints". The folk customs of Si Shang should be quite conservative, and they didn't expect to find out after coming to Si Shang... Compared to other places, Si Shang's atmosphere was simply extremely open.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure, twenty years of development, monopoly of excess profits, the birthplace of new technologies, the comprehensive laying of the education system, and other characteristics, coupled with the Mohist morality that "righteousness is profit", it is impossible for Si Shang to be conservative at all.

For example, the "tip-tip-tip-tip-tearing" dances just now were obviously "decayed".

Wan means that the small footsteps have no followers; tiptoes means that the light steps.

This kind of dance in Zhaodi is wearing heelless dance shoes, stretching his body, pointing the ground with his toes, rotating at high speed, and under the urban culture, it is worn... less, once the performance is performed, it is crowded.

Tire is not ballet, but the close relatives of ballet are all wearing heelless dance shoes and relying on the toes to touch the ground.

Many women from Handan specialize in performing in Si, and there are many people. As for whether it is artistic or vulgar, everyone has their own opinions.

Not only that, Ximen Tsu once thought that all the Mo people wore straw sandals and were short brown, and they were in the world... As a result, when they arrived at Si Shang, they found that there were indeed many people wearing short brown straw sandals. It was not that they could not afford to wear short brown straw sandals, but just a faction of the Mo family: they claimed that they could not let everyone in the world wear cotton clothes and cotton shoes, and they would never wear them first.

There are quite a lot of people in this faction, but it doesn't affect them listening to music and watching the performances.

Apart from this faction, although other Mo people are not extravagant, their overall living standards are really several times higher than those of farmers elsewhere.

In the morality of the Mohist school, encouraging everyone to get rich is only one condition: it is believed that the feudal aristocrats who are profitable and rented are worms, but they strongly support and advocate "working to get rich".

When Mo Zi was there, he said: If the will of heaven is in harmony, the Emperor of Heaven will protect him and make him rich.

As a result, wealth is distorted into the embodiment of "the will of the Emperor of Heaven to make people live a better life."

Before the "surplus value" theory was introduced, after overthrowing the feudal land ownership of aristocratic feudal land, and when maintaining the illusory concept of "equality", under the concept of "wealth comes from labor", it is easy to be distorted into this: the Emperor of Heaven must have hoped that people will get better and better, so how can it be considered as in line with the will of Heaven if they are not rich?

Therefore, wealth can be "used by any means", but the harm is not guilty. If the law does not prohibit it, it is allowed. I sell guns to the barbarian settlements in the South China Sea, I buy and sell the barbarian population, our chamber of commerce incites civil war between tribes and cities, and our chamber of commerce lures and strengthens the locals to work in gold mines... But I got rich, and the law did not mean it, so my behavior was in line with the will of heaven and the protection of the emperor.

After all, the Mo family is not a farmer, and does not represent the interests of the small peasant class. They oppose the nobles, but do not oppose the use of land together: centralized use of land is good, but only depends on who owns the ownership.

The Mohist school does not take the interests of small handicraftsmen. The large workshops made by division of labor and various large workshops emitting thick smoke are all in the hands of the Mohist school. Interest groups have long been formed. How could it be that they would cut their own meat because of their influence on the production of family handicrafts?

The Mohist family, who has the most original workshops, has to endorse their own interests, if they are giants, can they still decide not to compete with the people for profit, and they will blow up all workshops and pass the Act of banning grain imports and protecting grain prices?

The Mohist school today is no longer the Mohist school of the Mozi era.

Since I entered the Mohist school and was in charge of the Xuanyi Department, it actually represents the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie that did not exist at that time but has begun to sprout: at this time, it was the representative of advanced production relations and the direction of the advancement of the summer.

After Mozi's death, his theoretical level and prestige were the highest, and he was very comfortable to correct.

The Mohist school demanded equality and cared for the people, because the three words "benefit the world" meant that the Mohist school had to talk about the "benevolence and righteousness" of the Mohist school. Although it represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, it was impossible to stand on their side without any bottom line. Out of morality, it was necessary to pay attention to the interests of the bottom.

In essence, commercial capital is not because Si Shang is good, but because Si Shang is not that bad for large industrialists and businessmen than elsewhere.

At least, Si Shang said that everyone is equal under the Emperor of Heaven, and only harm is not guilty. The subject of the teaching is human beings, and the unity of power and obligations is the greatest enemy of the emerging bourgeoisie is the old nobles, and the old nobles can often use the small peasant class to oppose the emerging bourgeoisie. Si Shang is the only place where they can protect them.

The enthusiasm of the citizens for equality, the fanaticism of the emerging petty bourgeoisie "benefit the world" is like a saint, the self-defeating Mo people who are in the heart of benefiting the world, the emerging industrial and commercial capital requires the requirement of Jiuzhou to unify the market, a group of Mo family leaders who systematically learned the stage-based paradise, and just divided the land to life twenty years ago and before the escape... This is the power of expansion on Si Shang.

There are passionate, faithful, fanatical, profit-seeking, and those who have to serve, and those who regard work as a living... This is the Si Shang of the Mohist family at this time.

This time, the legal debate on "restriction on purchasing foreign food" at the Law Preparation Conference, industry and businessmen are actually able to compete with farmers' representatives. Although it is still insufficient, it needs to be promoted by the Mohist propaganda to finally pass it forcibly, but the voting ratio is eliminated by the Mohist people who must implement the central resolution, which is actually comparable.
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