Chapter 75: Discussing Major Events
It is not realistic to let the King of Chu express his opinion that he will not interfere with the State of Song now. The situation has not yet stabilized. All countries are still watching Wei and Han's attitude. The King of Chu will inevitably face huge pressure from the nobles within.
But those who were sent out for surveying and mapping had agreed that in order to inherit Dayu's will, everything had nothing to do with the war, and this was recognized by all countries.
The King of Chu could still order the ban on harm in this matter, but now he has been slow to order, so I am afraid that it is also a meaning to use the Mo family to appease the nobles: if you fight or not, it is unknown, please be at ease.
The meaning of self-defeating and extreme is simple and clear, using violence to fight violence, using terror to fight terror, and using killing to fight killing.
Fighting violence with violence is sometimes the best way, just like robbery and murder. It is useful to reason, but it is more effective to be sentenced to death after being caught. Use the deterrence of death to make the other party be afraid of the other party.
What’s important is that the Mo family does have the ability to rely on assassins to kill nobles. Consider it and said, “This is indeed a solution.”
"On the one hand, we negotiated with the King of Chu, and on the other hand, we threatened with terror. If he dared to kill our people, we would kill them, and the nobles might not be united."
"As long as you are not united, there is great potential for this."
Everyone nodded and said yes, it was true. As long as the nobles were not united, there would be room for operation.
If the King of Chu ordered no harm, if all the nobles worked together and forced Chu Mo to start a war, it would be useless.
But as long as someone retreats because of this death threat, the meaning of this matter is different. A few nobles choose to take action, and the King of Chu can use the reason of disobeying the king's order to deal with the nobles, which is just right to centralize power.
If you want to do this, you have to hurry up. Since the emperor's father Yue Ling is covered with blood, he is also a chicken that can kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
At that time, Tian Wu slaughtered Wu City in order to delay the pursuit of Si Shang. The warning to kill Tian Wu was to consider the consequences of the princes and doctors in the world and not to do the massacre of the city easily.
Today, the shooting of the emperor's father Yue Ling is not only an over-correction that the noble nobles are trampled by the bottom class, but also a deterrent.
If the nobles are not united, they may not dare to be martyred. As long as they have not completely turned against each other, they will not dare to kill the Mo family.
After the discussion of the matters inside Si Shang was discussed, the aftermath of the Song State was mentioned again, that is, the fact that the hundreds of schools of thought entered the Song State, divided the government, divided the power and the autonomy.
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Since the big debate four or five years ago, the peasant family has been stationed in Si Shang. Some peasant children have joined the Mo family, while the other has inherited and developed the morality of the peasant family.
This time in the chaos in the Song Dynasty, the peasants were also considered trend-catching people.
After the development of the morality of the farmer family and the morality of the Mohist family gradually began to diverge, and this kind of difference was found from the beginning and could not be bridged.
Taking the village and community in Sishang as an example, the popularity of the cooperative system has made farmers see another possibility.
However, the Mohist school believes that Si Shang is not enough to be an example of the whole world, because Si Shang has sufficient military strength and controls the regime, so this can be done.
Most of the farmers elsewhere in the world are trapped on the land, and their understanding of the great righteousness and nature is not enough to support them to directly overcome this hurdle.
In other words, Si Shang believed that the land annexation of the Song State, the people lost land and fled to work, and the number of entrusted servants and hired workers was increasing. This was a thing that was beneficial to the world and was supported.
However, in Sishang, in order to ensure the soldiers and when conditions permit, cooperation can be used to gradually change the form of villages and communities: that is, the concentrated use of land is correct, but it is a question of whose hands the land is concentrated.
The model that farmers initially anticipated was that wise men and the people were farming together, and that there was no price for the market and merchants. They used labor as an equivalent to conduct profit-free exchanges. For example, the labor consumed by me in growing grain for the same labor and textile fabric, so that no one could suffer any loss and achieve true fairness.
This is also due to the differences in the interests of the classes represented by the two sides.
Since the Mohist school was in charge, it has represented the interests of handicraftsmen, urban citizens, and industrialists. The main force of the soldiers is handicraftsmen and self-cultivated farmers. The future concept is to expand externally, through the merger of land and market development, it can overcome the difficult stage of "cotton eaters" and "silks eaters".
The first thing the farmer represents was the interests of landless farmers. These farmers suffered triple exploitation, especially in places outside Si Shang, which were exploited by the land of nobles and lords, exploited by merchants manipulating prices, and exploited by the dumping of handicraft products on Si Shang.
It is not unreasonable for them to oppose merchants and hate them: merchants make high profits like salt through collusion with nobles, and farmers have to bear military service and labor service. With this kind of expenditure, they are on the verge of bankruptcy and escape at any time.
The Song State was too close to Si Shang, and the suffering of the new era was staged earlier in the Song State. For example, the large amount of land near Si Shang was annexed to operate and provided the agricultural products and raw materials needed by Si Shang; Si Shang was also a tacit and even supportive attitude towards this matter, because Si Shang lacked a cheap labor population, and the Song State annexed land, while Si Shang developed industry and commerce, stabilizing the foundation of Si Shang's soldiers, killing two birds with one stone.
This is the difference between the farmers and the Mohist families, and it is also the interest represented by the farmers after development: farmers who have lost land for various reasons.
I feel that the idea of equal labor exchange and even the idea of a Chinese Jia Bu Erqi is a standard fantasy, but they claim to be a true equal faction, but this is not possible, and it does not conform to the situation where the market is unlimited and the land is unlimited.
After that big debate, the farmers saw a new path, that is, the village-community cooperation path in Si Shang. They put a lot of energy outside Si Shang, hoping to pass through the process that Si Shang thought must go through.
Because there was a public land system before.
The poem says: "Ye Xi became the king, and now he was aware of it. He led the farmers to sow hundreds of grains. He was a virtuous man, and he finally had thirty miles. He also served you to farm, and he was a couple of ten thousand dimensions.
This collective labor under the well-field system still has strong remnants in the villages and communities. In this case, can we jump directly to the Si Shang model?
For example, propaganda and incitement in villages and communities, directly launch riots, taking advantage of the reality that a large number of landless peasants in the state of Song Dynasty gathered in cities, and directly rioted and seized power, and achieved one step by assassinating nobles and arming farmers.
The farmer had communicated with Si Shang, but Si Shang had a clear attitude and made severe criticisms. The relationship between the farmer and the Mo family was very unpleasant.
Shi also tried his best to talk to Xu Xi, the leader of the peasant school, that the situation in Si is unreplicable.
First, at the beginning of the uprising, the Mohist family had four or five hundred foundations that gathered the essence of the world.
Secondly, when Wei and Chu competed for hegemony and Qi and Yue fought, it provided enough space for the Mohist family to develop in Si.
Third, the Mohist school first liberated a large number of self-cultivated farmers and distributed them land, and then gradually used the benefits to induce them to choose a cooperative system.
Fourth, relying on methods such as conspiring assassination by a few people cannot solve the problem.
Si Shang’s opinion is that since Si Shang has started construction, it is better for farmers to cooperate with Si Shang and rely on Si Shang’s military and material resources to gradually develop.
But the people from the farmer did not agree. They believed that the time had come and that something big could be done in the State of Song. They had great fantasies about the farmers all over the world, believing that they would raise their arms and shout and respond.
Si Shang believed that farmers were trapped on the land. Under the hundreds of years of system, their knowledge was destined to be impossible to respond to every call. This was purely a fantasy. They could only use the Si Shang model to transform and develop little by little through the Si Shang model.
Moreover, the Mohist family completely disagreed with the plan of the farmers after seizing power: they value agriculture and suppress commerce, standard prices, and even opposed a large number of commercial land near Si Shang.
After years of development, the differences between the two sides are actually a very simple but unresolvable difference.
That is, the so-called "Nine-level Paradise" of the Mohist school, can it be skipped directly from the first level of this model near Si Shang, Song State?
Do you have to go through various things including land mergers and management and industrial and commercial employment development and profit-making? Can you directly take advantage of the remnants of the village and community public land system and jump directly to the step where the land is collectively owned by the people?
There were suffering in the old era, and the same was true in the new era.
Just like those farmers who were forced to flee to Si Shang because of losing their land, ask them, do they like to work as servants in cities? Of course they don’t want to, they want to have their own land.
Many people even sighed: It would be better to go back to the era of etiquette and law. At least at that time, I could still be a serf at that time, and I could not buy it in public fields.
Until now, the land of the Song State has been changed, and the land of the Song State can be bought and sold. The rich are connected by fields, and the poor are not allowed to stand a place. There is no way out, so they have to escape to Si to work and reclaim.
When the farmers saw this kind of suffering, they also learned from the previous sufferings. They shouted the slogan of "There is no price for the market and the amount of labor is exchanged for equivalents, and the land belongs to the world and the people who plough the land have their own land." However, their slogan is destined to fail.
Moreover, if you are not careful, you will be used by the king and become the source of thought for valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce.
The peasants developed rapidly in the Song State before, and even put forward their own political slogans.
That is, to ban the difference between the gentleman's courtyard and the common people's courtyard that was in the future civil strife in the Song Dynasty. Everyone can elect wise people to enter the Inquiry Yuan according to the population ratio; the land belongs to all the people of the Song Dynasty; limit the highest prices; and even extremely radically shouted the slogan "The Song State, which is owned by the land under truly equality, and the public ownership of the Song State."
Speaking of the ideas of the Mohist school today, it seems very similar to those of the farmer school, but in fact it has already parted ways. The Mohist school now would rather go to the cruelest reality than to think that it is beautiful and has no material foundation, and has been arguing about the inevitability of the development of this paradise.
I only listen to the slogans, and it seems to be very similar to the Mohist school, but the details are completely different.
The original plan of the farmer was to take advantage of the conflict between Dai and the emperor's father, and take advantage of the opportunity of re-election of the Senate Yuan to seize power and implement reforms.
However, the incident suddenly began and the farmer's plan fell. Since the Mo family chose to take action and send troops, the farmer immediately responded.
Because the Mohist family was not prepared to directly govern the State of Song, and the situation in the State of Song created a large number of people supporting the farmers, the power of the farmers in the State of Song was stronger this time.
The Mohist idea was that since the peasants had already formed a power in the Song State, the situation in the Song State had to be viewed separately.
The area close to Si Shang has already appeared and has developed rapidly. There is not much left in the old system, and it has continuously provided food, cheap labor and raw materials for Si Shang. The eastern part of the Song Dynasty cannot move.
The area far away from Si Shang has not yet begun. The nobles and the merchants who depend on the nobles oppress the people too much. The remnants of the old era are also the deepest, which is suitable for the farmers to completely clear out the violent means.
And what they think is to make the Song State an autonomous consortium. Since the peasants do not recognize the Si Shang route, they might as well become allies to develop in the Song State, use their power to clear the remnants of the old era in the western part of the Song State, and retain the buds of the new era in the eastern part.
Chapter completed!