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Chapter 163 Shackles

Just as Xu Ruoyu Yunmengze began to talk about the contents of the meetings, Nanhai, Hetao, Nanzheng and other places were also organizing and learning the same content.

The revised Mohist system finally reached self-consistent, from both love and mutual benefit to both love and mutual benefit. The complete enlightenment theory of seizing power and new programs have been improved.

Inside Si Shang, the internal integration was completed. Through this enlarged meeting, the discipline was strictly enforced, and the subjective altruists who suffered from extreme suffering and the objective altruists who pursued life were united, and worked together to exclude and clean up the last non-aggressive and founding faction.

The new program and perfect ideology passed are equivalent to declarations of war against the other princes, but the other princes did not react much because they felt that it seemed as if the Mohist school had always been like this, and this time it did not change much from the previous concept.

The only thing that Si Shang Yishi changed its name to Jiexuan Army was quite dissatisfied with the princes of various countries. Fortunately, the Mo family army in Zhao did not change its name, but continued the name of the Northern Army, and the army in Nanzheng did not change its name.

It seems that there is no difference from before, but those merchants and workshop owners from all over the country who had been in Si for a long time smelled the scent of excitement. This time, the Mohist theory not only obtained legal principles for them to seek profit, but also laid the moral foundation for their future profit rationality.

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Summer is gone, autumn is coming, and winter is approaching.

Outside a village community near Peize, a young man with a tanned face and a one-eyelid eye mask on his left eye took a carriage leading to the village community.

The car was loaded with a lot of goods, including 白, jerky, sugar, cotton, and some daily necessities that are available on weekdays.

The person who drove the car turned around and looked at the dark young man with a blindfold for a long time, and finally shouted in surprise.

"I will return to the land?"

When I saw a dark young man with a blindfold smiled, I heard the young man say, "I thought my village friends wouldn't know me in the past few years."

The driver stopped the carriage in surprise, looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Shu Guitian stretched out his finger and pointed his eyes. He didn't care. He said casually: "I've seen the sun with sextant all day long at sea. I've seen too much and I'm almost blind. Now I don't need it if I can."

The fellow villager who was driving the bus then remembered and asked, "Are you back? Why haven't you heard of it?"

This was a very sensational event a few years ago. When the Mohist school was debating with various schools of thought, in order to refute some theories that Gai Tian said and to prove that there is really a wealthy place in the world that is no less than the Central Plains. A group of fearless people took several boats to find the "body poison" that Solusan heard when he was traveling west.

The land is in it.

At that time, everyone thought it was a life-and-death matter, but they never thought they would come back today, but it was said that such a sensational thing would be impossible to have no news.

Shu Guitian said: "After getting off the boat, everyone missed their homesickness, so they all took a holiday, and hurried home to check it out. The news had not yet come."

The person who drove the car asked, "Can you really reach that rich place?"

Shu Guitian took out a silver coin with a very bright color and obviously exotic style from his arms, and threw it in his hand a few times.

It was a square silver coin with some strange patterns engraved on it, like a group of tadpoles with two tails swimming around something.

"Then are fake? The two gentlemen of the Giant have been there. The places we went to are similar to those described in the stories. Some people there believe in what they never kill and do not even cultivate arable land because they may step on insects to death, so they are just merchants. The Ching Linzhu is very easy to sell there, and I also saw some brocades, which seemed to be transported from Shu, and I don't know how to transport it."

He sighed and shook his head and said, "The journey is long, and there are only one left. There are not many people who come back alive. But if the goods are transported, it will be a hundred times more profitable. Brocade Lin exchanged the local goods for various colors..."

When he thought of his friends who died of illness at sea and whose ships were destroyed by wind and waves, Shu Guitian was in a bad mood.

The person driving the car did not know the dangers at the sea. Even though he had heard of it, he had never seen the tragic situation of his partner's death with his own eyes. Looking at the square silver coin in Shu Guitian's hand, he said in amazement: "You are going to get rich. According to the rules, you will receive a reward for this long voyage. If you have merit, how much will you reward?"

Shu Guitian waved his hand and said, "It's okay. One fifth of the gold and silver I brought back this time and some barbarian goods will be equal to those of us. If we form a chamber of commerce in the future, we will not need to pay for one-twentieth of the shares. If we really form a chamber of commerce in the future, we can all be the captains first."

The driver of the car said, "It's amazing. It's so profitable than your brothers and sisters."

Shu Guitian nodded and said, "There are many more. But you can't buy land in Si Shang, and you can't hire people to buy land in the South China Sea. You can either invest this money in workshops or invest in those overseas trade chambers."

The driver thought of something and said, "By the way, it's the right time for you to come back. Your brother is on vacation and your sister is back from Chudi. The family is gathered, and your father must be very happy. What are your plans after you come back?"

Shu Guitian pointed to his eyes with a blindfold and half-jokingly said, "One of my eyes has been dedicated to the great cause of benefiting the world. The remaining one eye is, I want to keep it to do what I like."

"What do you like?"

The driver thought to himself, you don’t know the current situation. At last year’s meeting, I had already said that I would carry out the cause of benefiting the world to the end. At that time, I would have to call it up. Even if I have completed the service period, I have to go there as long as the order is issued, even if I go to the South China Sea.

Shu Guitian stopped talking about this topic and wanted to get around it, so he pointed to the goods on the car and asked, "Why, are you opening a grocery store?"

The driver laughed and said, "Where is mine? This is not the case in the village community who dislikes the trouble of buying and selling, and thinks that it is better for everyone to raise some money and join them to use it together. This is much cheaper. The village community set up a grocery company, and I am a driver, so where can it be mine?"

Shu Guitian turned over the goods around him, and looked at a bundle of cotton cloth that was nearly twice as wide as before and said, "It's only been a few years, can he weave such a wide cloth now?"

"Well, I only started this year. I heard that the new loom produced by the machinery industry is much cheaper than before. However, the price of cotton is not bad. In recent years, the villages and communities must pay enough grain to grow cotton or something. Otherwise, they would have to make a lot of money to grow cotton this year."

When the driver talked about the village and community, his face filled with smiles. Although the food prices were a bit cheap, the village and community's life was getting better and better in recent years. The cooperative papermaking workshops, coupled with the newly reclaimed land and the use of horse-drawn ear cutting machines, have made grain production much easier.

The price of cotton cloth has been reduced a little compared to before. The slim window has gradually become a luxury that villages and communities near Peiyi can afford. In addition to forcing each village to retain a certain amount of grain fields, there is no need to impose too much force, and there is no need to collect a large amount of grain.

Shu Guitian looked at the window of the carriage, asked about the price, and said in surprise: "It's much cheaper than before?"

The driver smiled and said, "Don't you know? Peiyi has built a new workshop, but many people are working there. This workshop is strangely tight, saying that it can be made of iron ore and salt. The newspaper said that the nobles of Yue who burned seaweed ash on the beach were anxious. The price was too low, so they could only squeeze their working people there. It seems that there was an uprising last month. Several workshops burned seaweed ash and said that they wanted to request the King of Yue to restore the old system and have their own fields. Some people fled to our side after the uprising. We also negotiated with Yue and denounced them to harm the people. Zhou Shi fought a war with Yue, which made those who were uprising across the river and ran to our side."

Although Shu Guitian didn't understand why he could make alkali by using iron ore or salt, he was used to it in the past few years. If he wanted to know, he could ask his uncle, but he was not interested, just thinking about it... If these 王子, porcelain, iron pots, etc. could be sold to the place where he came back, he could exchange a lot of gold.

As for how many blood and tears, how much despair, how much suffering a friend of the old and the new is hidden in the stories that the driver heard from, he actually doesn't care.

He felt that he was different from his father, and from his brothers and sisters. They might have a heart for benefiting the people, but he didn't.

Maybe there was, but the unpleasant experiences of him helping to measure the land during the Qi Mo War were gone. He felt that they were a group of ignorant and timid people. Of course, he also knew that his father had used to be the same, but his father had wiped out the past and created the new spirit of Si Shang. He was born from it and grew up here and pity for the difficulties and mercy of the serfs outside, but he did not want to save them for the rest of his life and do those subtle and unhappy things.

Even he felt a sense of gradually being disconnected. The words of the world that Si Shang had been promoting were becoming more and more acceptable: it was difficult for him to accept that those farmers who were ignorant and feared the nobles were the same as him. He knew that the Mohist family wanted to change the whole world and reshape the world, and also knew that Si Shang was the same thirty years ago, but he thought what did this have to do with him?

Shu Guitian thought to himself, I have compassion. I may throw away a piece of gold when I see those who suffer. But if I were to take root in the villages and communities in Qi State, I will measure the land, teach the truth, and truly liberate them... Then forget it, I would rather be blind than do such boring things.

He thought, if I don’t go, there will naturally be someone going. If I really force me to go, I will run to the South China Sea, bring some people like me, and build a boat. The world is so big. With my ability and the muskets in my hand, I can’t find a true freedom and freedom, and take the lead in achieving the world where each person can get his strengths, and work on his division of duties and serve his favorites?

After being on the sea for a long time, I have been used to seeing the birds flying high; after being on the Si for a long time, I have been accustomed to the world where everyone is equal; I have learned a lot of skills through my father's efforts and my own efforts... So I felt that synonyms, equalities, and love should be replaced by freedom, equality, and compassion. For synonyms and love, if I really force myself to teach in other villages and communities, I can only rise up and flee to the sea to find freedom.

After thinking about those who are as capable as themselves and have received enough education as themselves, Shu Guitian felt that the benefit of the Mohist family's benefit to the people and the world was already a shackle locked on people like them.
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