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Chapter 90 The Tragedy of Contention (1)

It was already mid-August when Chu Sima arrived in the Central Plains, and this action attracted the attention of the world.

Several months have passed since the coup in the Song State, and the situation has gradually stabilized. Si Shang quickly defeated the noble coalition and the military management experience accumulated in Si Shang, southwest Qi, Huaibei and other places, and quickly stabilized the situation.

If it is a civil war in Zhuxia, the more cruel, the more intense, the faster, the better. Only in this way is the least painful for Jiuzhou. The chaos that lasts for several years or even decades or hundreds of years can easily damage the foundation and leave many irreparable cracks.

The situation in Song State was the same. After it soon stabilized, Song State was looking forward to a real change and was also nervous about interference from various countries.

However, within the Mo family in Si Shang, their judgment on the situation became clearer and more convinced that Wei, Chu and Han would be less likely to intervene.

Although Wei and Han were all gathering troops, judging from the number of gatherings and the mobilization of farmers, it was completely different from the way they wanted to interfere in the State of Song.

Slogans can be deceived, but it is difficult to deceive people by gathering and mobilizing. Secret Meurs scattered throughout Wei and Han constantly send various information back.

The judgments of many senior Mohist leaders are based on. If Wei Han really wants to interfere in the affairs of the Song State, then it is not enough to mobilize the troops near the capital. If the number is small, it is to deliver vegetables in the Song State. Wei Han also has many wise men, so they will not even be able to figure out this problem.

In order to test Wei Han's true attitude, Si Shang and Zheng Guo had just reached an aid agreement, using loans to transport some firearms and several copper cannons to Zheng Guo, which was not hidden and was promoted.

At the same time, the second-tier troops mobilized by Si Shang began to retreat from the State of Song and were assigned to various villages and communities to help with the autumn harvest, but they still maintained their original organization and did not cancel the mobilization.

The consumption of various military supplies in grain and cotton cloth stimulates the industry and commerce in Sishang, and makes the people in charge of finance feel sorry for the outflow of numbers every day.

The main standing army in the Song State also began to retreat, giving up several border cities, and instead assembled in the central part of the Song State to form a large camp and shorten the supply line to reduce consumption.

In some border cities, only a small number of cavalry or established company infantry were left behind. Various schools of thought, especially disciples from the peasants, have begun to prepare for taking office. A large amount of statistical data collected over the years has also begun to be given to the leaders of the school who are about to take office.

On the way to Kuiqiu, a group of people wearing short browns stepped forward. The school of short browns not only Mohist schools, but also angrily denounced the Mohist schools as hypocritical equality and truly equal farmer families.

Kuiqiu is the northwest city in the Song Dynasty, and it is also one of the several towns obtained by farmers. At this time, Kuiqiu was very famous. It was the place where Duke Huan of Qi came to join forces. It was also the first time that the Xia Dynasty stipulated that countries should not dig river embankments when fighting. However, two thousand years later, there were still some people who were not even as good as the Qi Huan era.

In later generations, Kuiqiu gradually became a poor place as the Yellow River diverted repeatedly. Lankao, which was very poor in later generations, was near Kuiqiu. However, at this time, the Yellow River did not divert, and Ji River flowed by, and it was still a fertile and fertile land.

Xu Xi, the leader of the peasant school, was sitting on a stone at this time, looking through the "social investigation" given to him by the Mo family, and exclaiming from time to time.

His son Xu Xingshi sat beside him, listening to his father's praise, thinking of the social surveys he saw, and praised him: "The investigations made by the Mo family are indeed amazing. The land, fiefdoms, the annual expenses of civilians, land taxes, and people's wishes are done clearly."

"Based on the morality of the Mohist school, according to this social survey, we can easily draw the conclusion that the Mohist school wants us to accept."

Xu Xi did not object to this point, it was indeed the case.

In fact, the relationship between the peasants and the Mohist family was also a chaotic relationship in history.

Xu Xi's son Xu Xing, some people later said that Xu Xing was actually Xu Fei, a disciple of Qin Huali, but some people expressed their opposition.

The various schools of thought contend, and at the end, they influence each other. The Confucianism and the Mohism three points have actually spread all over the world. It is actually hard to tell who influences who and who originates from whom.

Just like now, although the farmers and the Mohist families are "heretics" to each other, the farmers accused the Mohist families of "not real equality"; the Mohist families accused the farmers of being "the fantasy of small farmers"; but the cooperation between the two sides should cooperate, the joint force of the joint force, and the mutual support of each other.

The Mo family wanted to bring the farmer's house to Song State, but in fact they also had the meaning of "sending the plague god": they did not want to turn against each other, nor did they want the farmer's theory to be spread in Si.

Just like some official iron smelting workshops on Si Shang, the Mohist school believes that this is beneficial to the great cause of the world, and can concentrate funds to develop industry and commerce, thereby achieving overall prosperity of the world.

Farmers believe that this is unfair. It is also labor. The iron tools in the iron smelting workshops receive so much food. Is the extra profit unfair to farmers? Have you failed to achieve the right price of the market? Is it harming the interests of farmers?

Both sides have their own opinions and have an influence on each other.

Some peasant disciples recognized the Mo family's ideas and rebelled against the farmer and returned to Mo; some Mo people who suffered from the extremes believed that the Mo family's methods were indeed unfair and rebelled against the Mo family.

This influence and exchange has led to the development of farmers in the Song State in recent years.

More than 20 years ago, what I did in Shangqiu Village and Community can be simply understood as "going to the countryside".

When the Mohist family first walked and Si Shang, the entire Mohist family was also doing the "going to the countryside".

The witch doctors wearing witch costumes, the witch masters who helped farmers improve soil to teach planting techniques, and the witch masters who set up villagers' organizations in the village community... These are the foundations of the Mohist family's foothold in Si.

The farmers learned this, and some Mohists who rebelled against Moh and returned to the countryside also brought such methods.

And most importantly, the difficulties and darkness of the new era brought about by the germination of commodity economy caused by the Song State being too close to Si Shang State, and the reality that the Mohist school did not engage in large-scale activities in the Song State but in the Chu State, all made the farmers develop extremely fast in the Song State.

Farmers are talented, with all kinds of talents.

Jiahe, farming, witch doctor, assassin, warrior... all kinds of things are like a prince without a fiefdom.

A meghan who was a doctor who had gone to the countryside to go to the countryside, responded to the call of farmers to go to the countryside to open a medical clinic in the village. In just one year, hundreds of farmers accepted the idea of ​​the farmers while looking for medical treatment at a cheap price.

Those farmhouses that go deep into villages and communities and teach people to grow have extremely high popularity and prestige in the countryside.

If it is only this point, the differences between the farmers and the Mo family are almost non-existent, and many farmers can't even distinguish between the farmers and the Mo family, believing that these two families are all one family.

The land belongs to the people of the world rather than to the emperor and the princes, and everyone should have the land to maintain their own survival. Just this theory of breaking the old rules is indeed no difference.

But what should we do after the land is divided into the world? The differences between the two sides become very serious. Let’s take a simple iron smelting workshop as an example.

Is there any profit for iron smelting? Yes, and it is huge profits.

Is this huge profit reasonable?

The Mohist school believes that it is reasonable that only by raising troops can we have a lot of funds to build water conservancy, upgrade industries, provide education, realize the paradise, win future benefits with temporary small harms, weighing the pros and cons, big advantages and small benefits, which is in line with utilitarian and long-term.

Farmers believe that it is unreasonable, and they are all people who have paid their labor. Why should there be a difference between industrial and agricultural scissors? Why can't the market be worth the price? Why should farmers be inferior to others? Why can't they measure the amount of labor? How much grain is fixed for a pound of iron to be exchanged for, farmers will not suffer losses, and industrialists and businessmen will not lose money?

Of course, the most important thing is the enclosure of land near some areas of Si Shang State, and the activity of annexing land caused great conflicts between the Mohist and the farmers.

Without enclosing land or accumulating land and lacking cheap labor, the industry and commerce in Si Shang cannot develop; the population in Si Shang cannot increase rapidly.

Moreover, there are actually some policies in Si Shang, and some of them are... bastards. For example, the land annexation in Si Shang is extremely strict, and the cooperative system is adopted to ensure the output of soldiers and raw materials for raw materials. However, when it comes to Song, the land annexation and agricultural commercialization near Si Shang are dominated by the original nobles, and today's operating farmers, regardless of whether they are concerned or even support them.

Xu Xi also asked some Moji, and the answers of some Moji really made Xu Xi feel a little uncomfortable: Everyone has land and everyone is a small farmer. What should I do with the industry and commerce in Si Shang? Where does the workshop in Si Shang get labor?

There are few people and many lands, and there are few people and many lands. This is the current situation at this time. It directly jumped from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, making land that was originally not suitable for cultivation become land that is suitable for cultivation; the various high-yield crops brought by suitable for agriculture, industry and commerce can be greatly adjusted compared with the previous ones; a large amount of land can be reclaimed. If you want to be an emperor, you can safely guarantee the interests of good families and self-cultivated farmers. However, the Mohist family had earth-shaking ideals and did not want this.

After all, after the Mohist morality has been corrected, there is actually no small peasant in the Mohist future paradise.

In the future, either they will go bankrupt and lose their land to work in workshops, or they will go bankrupt and get merged goods to become tillagers on land, or the cooperative will become a member of the cooperative, and there is no fourth article to leave.

Xu Xi was a kind man. The reason why he founded the farmer's family was because he saw the suffering brought to the farmers by the old system's feudal system.

Xu Xi is a kind person. His conflict with the Mo family originated from the fact that he saw the so-called "beyond land of the new era" and the suffering brought to the farmers.

He is a good person, so he is destined to be suffering and helpless.

The debate four years ago was just a matter of coaxing him.
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