Faced with such a simple problem of vulgarity, reality, mercy, and shameless pursuit of profit, Meng Sunyang suddenly realized that people like him seemed to have been floating too high for a long time, so they were a little unearthed.

They can argue with the Mohist school about individuals and collectives for more than ten years. When asked what to do, they are speechless.

Now when Dongxiang Ziqi asked the simplest "tax" question, Meng Sunyang suddenly realized that there were still many ways for the Yang Zhu School to take.

At least, the Mohist school, whether the Yang and Zhu School recognize it or not, the minimum taxes, military system, government orders, and laws are consistent, in line with their so-called will, and can be interpreted within the system.

Meng Sunyang never thought that he would face such a seemingly simple but extremely difficult question.

If the Yang Zhu School ruled the world, and taxes were not collected? If taxes were collected, would it be considered a loss of others?

For example, the Mohist school collects business taxes and supports poor farmers. Is this considered to harm the merchants' hair and benefit others? The Mohist school can explain all this with the reasons of "either love", "either people", and "benefits of the world". How did the Yang Zhu School explain the rationality of tax collection within the framework of its own system?

Out of compassion, they feel that those who are "forced to live" are not as good as death, which is extremely pitiful, so they hope that they can obtain land, so that they can at least be stronger than death, and achieve a state of losing their lives. So what is this legal principle?

Is it because of compassion?

Or according to the Mohist school, there was no emperor in ancient times, and the land belonged to the world. Now, it is just a way to transfer the fiefdom to the people.

Is it natural to do this? Is it so inaction to govern without action? If you agree with the Mohist practice, is it equivalent to approving the Mohist statement that "the way of heaven can be known, rationality can be pushed forward, and following the heavens, there is no difference between inaction and self-transformation, and it can be achieved faster"?

Xu Xi from the farmer could see at a glance that the reason why the Mo family let them rule those villages was to use their "true equality" morality to overcorrectly clean up the remnants of the nobles there. The reason why it can be seen is that the farmer recognizes part of the principles of the Mo family, but there are some differences in the routes on how to go at this time.

Meng Sunyang has not yet figured out the fundamental reason why the Mo family let them rule these towns, so the policy decisions he wants to make are difficult. Once he makes a mistake, the Mo family will use silent means to wipe out their school's prestige into a laughing stock.

The Mohist school seemed to generously put the various schools of Song and Song and they tried to rule, but in fact, except for the peasants who had enough influence in this Song coup, the rest of the schools had no money, no soldiers, no mass base, and no experience in governing. Everything they had not earned themselves by the Mohist school, but by the Mohist school, which was destined to be a kind of puppet.

What is now facing Meng Sunyang is a matter of faith and morality.

Dongxiang Ziqi was questioning Meng Sunyang, if you want to divide the land by these servants, it would be equivalent to pulling my hair and damaging my benefits. Then the argument that you don’t lose someone else’s penny to benefit the world will not make sense.

A land of hundreds of miles cannot be governed, let alone the world?

The dilemma that Meng Sunyang faced at this time was also the dilemma that the Yang Zhu School must face in a world of change.

If the patriarchal system was not loose at all, this fashion was before the Spring and Autumn Period, then there would be no way to talk about it if it was not pulled out, because except for the nobles, the common people had no hair to pull out, and all the world was the king's land.

If the times have advanced to the point where everyone has hair to pull, it is easy to say. Taking this as the foundation, although it is definitely necessary to eventually require the existence of a government to correct all kinds of things, it is still feasible in the end.

But the problem is that the Yang Zhu School is facing an era of great changes that have not been seen in a thousand years. I once asked Yang Zhu the question of "what to do".

The current situation is that although the patriarchal system has collapsed, it still exists. The aristocratic system exists. There are small self-cultivated farmers with private property and private land. Some of the people who are qualified to be "plucked" first, with some private property and private land, hope that the nobles and princes will not pluck their hair, but they will not be willing to think that this is against their own interests if they let them benefit the world.

Shi once asked them, how many people are qualified to be plucked in the world now? Why do you want your hair to not be plucked by nobles and princes? Just tell them the truth? You have to make more people in the world who can be plucked, and then you can make your morality accepted by princes and nobles. Princes and nobles do not rely on reasoning to make them not pluck your hair, but rely on swords, muskets and cannons...

But doing so requires sacrifice, which violates the righteousness of the Yang Zhu School of self-respecting and not giving up a penny is not beneficial to the world, so they are destined to play supporting roles in this great era.

Zhan He and others have never thought about the question of "what to do" asked by Shi, and they also know that Shi's idea was actually very correct. Even a few people vaguely felt that the morality of the Yang Zhu School needed to be compensated and corrected.

But... if you want to seize power violently, you have to learn from the Mohist school, and then learn everything about the Mohist school, collecting taxes, raising soldiers, compulsory service, sacrifice spirit, collective system, forced education, and forced to be thrown into the village and community as a teacher after being educated... What is the difference between that and the Mohist school?

Without violent seizure of power, we will go back to the original question. How many people are qualified to be plucked in the world now? Why do these people ensure that their hair is not plucked? Can the princes and nobles resist when they want to pluck their hair?

The Mohist family gave them an opportunity to "give governance by non-violent power." Now, before they could manage their governance, Meng Sunyang had fallen from the sky and found that it was so difficult when they really started to think about these problems on the ground.

After secretly allocating the scope of governance in various townships of the Song State, the Yang Zhu School felt very happy and satisfied. After all, what the Mo family gave them seemed to be the relatively developed and prosperous areas of the Song State, except for a few large cities, and the patriarchal remnants of the princes and nobles were also much smaller than those given to the peasants.

It looks beautiful...but in fact, they face more problems than farmers face.

For the farmers, those villages were originally basically fiefs of nobles, with few self-cultivated farmers, and there were no business landlords similar to those close to Sishui. They just divided the land according to the means of granting land.

But for the Yang Zhu School, the Mohist school dug an unfathomable pit for them.

The problems they have to face are difficult for Mohists, who have had twenty years of experience in governing.

This includes... the land system, population mobility system, population escape from areas with developed industrial and commercial areas, how to ensure that local commercial estates leave labor under the premise of organized colonization and colonization, and the market fluctuations that have to be suffered by being reduced to raw material production areas, and the support and opposition of different classes in the future, a large number of tillage farmers hope to have their own land and emerging aristocrats who have already merged the land for personal control. Local industry and commerce are facing the problem of impact and suppression of Si Shang industry and commerce. The local handicraft development urgently needs manpower and people flow frantically to Si Shang...

Meng Sunyang did not consider all these.

The Mohist family wanted a Song State that provided land for military allies, markets and soldiers in the west, and a land for raw materials and cheap populations in the east.

However, the purpose of the east side will inevitably be less generous and will easily dirty your hands. Instead of doing this, it is better to ask the Yang Zhu School, which seems to have reconciled with the Mo family, but in fact, some morally contrary to the Mo family have always taken the blame.

If you do well and be stable, it will naturally become the scene that Si Shang wants: self-cultivated farmers go bankrupt and flee to Si Shang to provide population and cheap labor for Si Shang, and merge land tillage system to provide raw materials and food for Si Shang.

If you can't do it well, you can't stabilize it, and the people will resist fiercely... Sorry, it has nothing to do with the Mo family. That's because your Yang Zhu School is not in good condition. You see how good our Si Shang has developed. If you can't develop, that's your problem. By the way, it proves that your doctrine cannot make the world rule in practice.

Meng Sunyang has not realized this trap yet. The Dongxiang Ziqi he is facing now is just one of a lot of conflicts that need to be resolved urgently, and there are more similarities to it.

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Another place in the Song State, Zijiao was asking his close disciple Wei Yang.

"Don't you have great ambitions? You are now in a position to rule for a hundred miles. If you can be very powerful, you will be famous. How can you not?"

The young Wei Yang saluted to Mr. After saying, "Sir, I have the ambition to govern the country of ten thousand chariots, but I have no talent to govern the marquis of Baili Township."

Zi Jiao smiled and said, "This is a big mistake. If you can't cure a hundred miles, how can you talk about curing ten thousand chariots?"

He had no intention of ridicule, because he had always known the intelligence, mind and ambition of this disciple. During this debate in the Hundred Schools, Wei Yang came forward to question the peasant family for four questions, which made him famous at a young age.

At least after Shi Jiao noticed it, he came to ask about Wei Yang in detail, and communicated a few more words, even praised him for his talent.

Shi is no longer the child of the shoemaking family in Shangqiu, but the leader of the world's leading scholarship. A few words of praise from people with such a status can basically be used as a resource for their own career.

Zi Jiao felt that Wei Yang would not be targeted, so he said it specifically.

Sure enough, Wei Yang replied: "Sir, governing the country of Wancheng is different from governing the Baili Township Marquis, especially this Baili land is still a Baili land under the protection of the Mo family."

"If you govern a country with thousands of charities, you must consider military affairs so that it cannot be invaded by foreign enemies; you must consider laws and regulations to convince the people; you must have magic to restrain subordinates; you must know finances, otherwise you will not be able to support soldiers; you must be familiar with diplomacy and make countries or enemies or friends..."

"But this hundred miles... just say that there is no need to govern the army or diplomacy, so what can we do? As long as we govern the army, we need to consider the land system, the will of the people, the benefits of the people, taxes and military taxes, busy farming and slack farming, industrial and commercial copper and iron..."

"However, here we don't need to take care of anything. We follow the steps and do everything according to what the Mohist family wants, so we will inevitably have great governance. When it comes to military power, it is in the hands of the Mohist family; when it comes to diplomacy, the Si Shang will be in charge of everything; when it comes to finance, we only need to pay the prescribed taxes at the center..."

"This hundred miles of land does not require me, Wei Yang. Even a middle-aged man who had just finished learning from the school in Si can be very powerful in three to five years. So what is the difference between me and the hundreds of thousands of officials in Si? It is difficult to calm my ambitions if I am nothing but everyone."

"The government I have done can make this land of hundreds of miles compete within a thousand miles, but does the Mo family need such a person? Will it allow it? How can my talents be shown as the Mo family wants?"
Chapter completed!