Chapter 307: Pseudo Tengwen Official Chapter Sentences (1)
The heavy snow covered up a lot, including beauty.
After the woman died, she was buried in a mat with a mat according to the Mohist family's "Festive Burial".
The death that should have been tragic was said to be a vulgarity that "we are used to being a stilbear and can't stand it if we do this little work. If it were the case, wouldn't we have died long ago?"
Some people even said that she might have been pregnant with someone, but she just played with her and did not promise her, so she committed suicide.
At least those female workers who fled here and were born to slaves and other women who came from this.
Soon people forgot about this matter, they had to learn calligraphy at night and work during the day, so where could they have time to deal with these things?
The merchants in the city discussed all day long how to transport grain to Yunzhong to obtain shares of the Grassland Chamber of Commerce; the farmers in the city discussed all day long about what to plant in spring soon; the craftsmen in the city discussed whether to recruit workers in the workshop and do things; the soldiers in the city discussed this year that those Hu people were scared and didn't come to rob, and there would be no military achievements without Hu people...
After heavy snow, spring is approaching.
News from afar came that in June, the princes would meet in Heze, Song, because Song was one of the few countries that had not been involved in this war that affected the Central Plains, and was also an acceptable location for alliances that all countries could.
The newspaper said that many things should be discussed, including the laws of war in the state, the prohibition of massacre of cities, the exchange of land between Wei and Zhao and Han, the treaty of Qi and Mo, the peace agreement between Chu and Wei, etc.
Some people in Gaoliu are full of expectations for peace, but some are also full of dissatisfaction with peace: the labor force in Gaoliu workshop is scarce. In order to maintain the population of soldiers, the Mohist family reclaimed wasteland and divided land on a large scale, but there were still many people under the feudal land of the nobles of various countries. If they did not start a war, they would smash the nobles in the fiefdom. Where would they hire people?
In addition to this news, the newspaper also said another thing. Many schools of Xia came to Si Shang to discuss the three paths of heaven, earth, and man.
This news was lively in the city for a while, but it was soon overshadowed by the fact that a large number of Mozhes in Gaoliu moved south.
As spring comes, many Mo people come from Si. The original work has been handed over, and those Mo people who have received the order to set off.
The family members were escorted by cavalry from two companies, walking on the road from Yan State to the sea, from the sea to the Yellow River, and from the Yellow River to Si Shang.
Those who transferred the Mo people took Zhongshan Kingdom to Juluze, and then crossed the western front of Qi from Juluze.
Not only were there walking teams from Gaoliu to Si Shang, from Nanzheng, Chu, Qi, Sanjin, Zheng, Song... there were many people flocking to Si Shang, and Si Shang was like a huge vortex, with people of various purposes gathering here.
Affiliate.
Debate.
Transferred.
Studying.
Escaped.
Shipping "long-term workers".
Trade silk porcelain iron tea cotton cloth linsugar.
Many, many.
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Si Shang, Peiyi.
In a spacious and bright room, the windows of Hulin, which are divided into many small grids due to poor processing technology, still see more light in than window paper.
The warm sunshine in early spring shines through the green panes and sprinkles on the carpets of flower weaving from Handan on the ground.
At the northernmost corner of the room, two people were kneeling on the ground and sitting opposite each other.
Between the two people, there was a table table, and two porcelain cups fired from the Si Shang kiln were placed on it, with eight red characters written in glaze.
"If you benefit the world, you will be able to live and die."
Two cups of green Haiyang tea were soaked in the porcelain cup, and one cup was half drunk, and a woman in a modified cotton cloth was carrying a copper kettle to add water.
Behind the table table, there is a row of small square tables. Behind the small square table are six unique stenographers, dipping their quill in ink, and quickly recording something with more simplified characters for shorthand.
On the bottom of the table table, there were more than twenty people kneeling. On the left was the owner of Si Shang. People from all departments of the Mo family dressed in standard Si Shang short brown; on the right were also dressed in short brown, but the style was different from those on Si Shang.
On the left side of the table, it is appropriate.
On the right side of the case table is a representative figure of the Chu farmer family, the leader of the Chu farmer school, and Xu Xi, a grandfather of Xu Xing, who later had a conflict with Mencius.
All the schools of thought gathered in Si Shang, and the Mohist school needed to come forward to receive it. Before the big debate, some things need to be resolved first: alliance.
Although the Mohist family is at its peak now, they have just finished the attack of Qi and interfered with the civil war of inheritance rights of Zhao.
But as a school, the leader of the school came, and the Mohist school had to come forward to receive the giants.
Shi and Xu Xi had a short time chatting, but they couldn't help feeling the illusion of time and space disorder. Decades later, Xu Xi's grandchildren would spread the theory in Teng Kingdom, and took away the younger brother and disciple of the great scholar Chen Liang, and rebelled against Confucianism and returned to the farm. Mencius was so angry that he angrily denounced Xu Xing as a "Nan Barbarian" - a man with the Southern Barbarian's tongue.
It was a unilateral debate, because Mencius did not argue directly with Xu Xing, but Xu Xing came to Teng Kingdom to conquer Chen Xiang with reason and personality charm, which made Chen Xiang rebel and return to the farmer, while Mencius debated with Chen Xiang, who had just come into contact with the farmer.
In the records of Mencius' disciples, Mencius won a great victory because of the farming philosophy, which seemed to be mentally retarded.
Just like the strange debate between Mencius and Gaozi recorded by Mencius' disciples, the Mohist school had already solved the concept that the color in the two words "white color" and "black color" were the same before going there. As Mozi, Gaozi believed that he was eloquent, but he was not kind and righteous, and wanted to be an official. When he debated with Mencius, he could not win the debate as simple as a question of "sex" of human nature and dog nature, but he was not as good as a dog. It was really... magical.
What's even more amazing is that as Mencius recorded as a brain-dead and mentally retarded farmer, Chen Xiang, who had just gone to Song State, was the younger brother of the great Confucian Chen Liang, and Chen Liang had just died. His disciples had to bear huge moral pressure when they rebel against Confucianism.
The famous debate originally took place in Teng Kingdom, but now there is no Teng Kingdom on Si Shang. Teng Kingdom originally relied on the successful restoration movement of Yue Kingdom's migration southward. Teng Kingdom, which was built by the Mo family, is now just a city on Si Shang.
Peiyi is not far from Teng Kingdom, which is precisely why this sense of chaos in time and space intertwined.
He studied the theory of the farmer over the years and understood that Xu Xi on the other side was not an idiot, but I was afraid it was not as simple as Meng Ke defeating Chen Xiang.
The two of them had only had a cup of tea. Shi had already heard that the other side had put three traps on him, and now Xu Xizheng put the fourth trap for him with a sincere look on his face, a trap he had to get into.
"Now, there are grain and cloth piled up in the warehouses of princes and nobles. They do not crop or flock. They support one person with the world. The Mohist family opposed their behavior and called them sworms, which our farmers also agreed."
Listening to this, Shi raised the teacup, pretended to drink water, and his mind rotated rapidly. This trap was too obvious. There were many clues in the previous debate, and Shi was considering how to take his next sentence.
Now Xu Xi was praising the Mo family, and Shi had to answer the conversation, put down the cup, and smiled and said, "Zi Mo Zi said that benefiting the world is naturally to benefit the people of the world. How can one benefit the world by supporting one person in the world?"
Xu Xi praised again: "I heard from Chu that you are one of the students most valued by Mozi, and you are a person who can inherit Mozi's knowledge."
"So I have a question and I want you to answer it."
Shi felt nervous and thought to myself that he was here, and he also put on this hat. I dug a hole and had to drill it.
My mother was criticized in her heart, and she smiled and made an attitude of asking for advice.
Xu Xi said: "Now merchants sell, buy low and sell high. The wealthy family has tens of thousands of dollars. Even if there is no fief, there is still a pile of grain cloth in the warehouse. Dancers in the courtyard are accompanied by them. They are not frugal. Is this considered to be the support of one person in the world?"
"Many industries in the Mohist family in Si Shang used labor to produce cloth, iron, and lin in exchange for grain, cotton, and oilseeds. According to the Mohist saying "The Richest of the Country", labor creates wealth, but why are the farmers in Si Shang becoming richer, while the farmers in Chu and Yue are getting poorer? Is this considered to be a farmer supporting industry and commerce?"
"When the Mo family said that it is beneficial to the world, is Chu Yue not the world? Since the Mo family said that it is beneficial to the world, is the farmer not the world?"
"Please give me an answer to this doubt."
Unlike Si Shang, the farmers in Song Chu and other countries have been suffering in the past few years.
On the one hand, they have to endure the exploitation of the lord and nobles, military taxes, labor and so on.
On the other hand, they were exploited by the emerging bourgeoisie in Si Shang. The dumped industrial and commercial goods and the low grain prices all made the vassals increase land rent in order to support their luxurious life.
One of the few self-cultivated farmers went bankrupt, and a large amount of cotton fabric produced by handicraft factories was dumped. Grain prices were reduced and taxes were rising, which made them unable to bear it.
The Song State was even worse. The development of industry and commerce in Si Shang brought about the commercialization of large-scale planting. The little nobles annexed the land and drove away the tenant farmers. Those little nobles were not stupid. According to the previous tithe standards, only a few kilograms of corn per mu were collected. The progress of agricultural production technology, the decrease in grain prices, and the abundance of commodities all made them drive away farmers who paid tithes according to their original yields for the sake of profit, so as to concentrate on planting commercial crops such as cotton, oil, indigo grass, wheat, etc.
Outside Si Shang, the merchants put in more effort, and all kinds of goods were sucking the farmers' blood, and the farmers could not bear it anymore.
Many people think that although aristocrats are not good, they are at least better than merchants; being serfs is not free, but they are better than being free to starve when driven out of the land.
I know this is an unavoidable topic, especially with the development of industry and commerce and the intensification of feudal systems in various countries, the lives of farmers outside Si Shang are really... I didn't get much good from the Mo family, but I saw all the bad things in the new era.
Xu Xi dug a pit that he had to jump down.
Shi refused to answer positively, and immediately turned in and asked, "I heard that the farmers also tried to benefit the world. So how did the farmers do it in Chu?"
Xu Xi said: "We are in Jianghan, and we gather more than a thousand people, most of whom are fleeing farmers. They live in the mountains and lakes and reclaim the land by themselves. The local vassal prince wanted to expel him, but I convinced him."
"More than a thousand people plough and eat together, and the wise and the people plough together. During the slack farming period, weave straw mats together, build houses, and weave linens."
"Concentrate food, exchange of iron and other essential goods, and are distributed by wise men. Looking at the Mohist theory of "The Richness of the Kingdom", I thought that money is just the currency of the people and can be controlled by merchants, but can not work be used as the basis for exchange?"
"So I set the exchange price according to the amount of labor required for linen and straw mats, and I must not raise or lower the price, so that the market and business are not worth the second price. Everyone's labor has received a lot of wealth..."
"No one takes away the fruits of others' labor, and no one's labor results are cheated away. This is the real benefit to the world."
"The Mohist school said that synonyms, equality, and love. From my perspective, equality in Si Shang is false equality. As a giant of the Mohist school, don't you think that the iron tools produced are far more than their labor? Si Shang is now a businessman who benefits, but the farmers and farmers in the world are suffering. It is really heaven and earth. Can this be called equality?"
Chapter completed!