But for example, the Xuan Lin and other things that were transported over, the Mo family has its own price, but in fact it is definitely still expensive, and the current houses in the clouds are not suitable, even if the people can afford it, they will not live in a grass hut but go to install some Xuan Lin.

The price of silk and other things is a bit too high, and the local people in the cloud are still rich farmers in nature, not huge rich people, and they can't buy these things even if they are shipped over.

People must first ensure their own food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and then they can engage in some other industries.

What the Mohists want to solve in the cloud is the problem of eating, so the direction of consumption cannot be considered in food.

The last direction that can be considered is clothing and housing.

The situation in the clouds is that the local area is a remote area ruled by the Zhao State, and the grandmother does not love the uncle and does not love it, which also leads to the local "harsh government" is just a sick cat and far less than a tiger.

With the progress of productivity and the use of new technologies such as iron tools, the local people actually have a great potential for producing food.

However, because the goods are expensive to transport here, and the Mohist family has always been the concept of "saving money", most of the cotton cloth, cotton jackets, ironware, etc. that were transported here before, so that the living standards of the local people have changed from hunger for several years to full food and clothing, which solves the three difficulties of the people.

But in the same way, after the three difficulties of the people were solved, because of the problems of poor circulation, blocked roads, and being far away from the Central Plains, the people in the clouds were not active in expanding farming: they sold the money, but they didn't know how to spend it, so they just had enough to eat and drink, because the grain in the clouds did not participate in the market cycle of the entire Zhao country, and was only grain rather than a commodity.

Guogang thought that since a large number of people were to be relocated in Yunzhong, then Yunzhong City must be replanned, and he had seen the reconstruction of the city by the Mo family in Sishang, and now the city in Yunzhong could not accommodate the large number of people who were about to increase.

In this way, the methods in "Light and Heavy" and "Extravagance" can be used to guide the people to consume, so that they urgently need "money", instead of the original concept of money is limited to the possibility of exchanging iron and salt.

Then, when building a new city, the local people in the cloud are regarded as the rich people in "Luxury"; A group of newly emancipated serfs organized by the Mo family to migrate over were subordinate to the people who had nothing to make a living in the year of famine in "Luxury", and the Mo family led the consumption of an overdraft for several years.

That is, outside the urban area, he led the construction of a number of new houses, because there would definitely be no shortage of people at that time, and the building technology of the Mo family was naturally much higher.

These new houses, with a brick structure, are large and bright, and are equipped with small Xulin as windows, and at the same time, they are sold to the people in the clouds at a price that is much lower than the cost and can be repaid by the local people in Yunzhong for three or five years, as a kind of "gift" for the benefit of the people.

Then the money actually does not need to go through the clouds for the time being, since the gold, jade and copper coins are only currency and equivalents, so they can be exchanged or not.

Local people in the cloud can be allowed to directly exchange potatoes, corn and other grains without charging money.

In this way, the price of food such as potatoes and corn can remain low, because the currency in the cloud does not increase, and there will be no large-scale price increases.

Not only should we not spend money in the cloud, but we should also try to prevent some novel goods from entering the cloud, so that the money itself is meaningless in the cloud in the short term and cannot be spent.

You can also take the way of pre-purchase in advance, let the local people in the cloud live in next year in advance, and at the same time stipulate the repayment period, but only accept food repayment.

The people in the clouds know the prices, and they also know the prices of ordinary grain, they will definitely feel that they are calculating, and with a little guidance, they will find a way to buy a variety of grains, and because of the closed nature of the clouds, there is no way to buy from other places - if they can buy from other places, the Mo family will not have to be so worried.

Not for the time being, you can draw a big pie first, and rely on propaganda to guide, so that the people can accept and see a better life at hand.

Similarly, after the completion of the first year of reclamation and stabilization, it can promote the development of local industry and commerce in the cloud, including carpenters, construction, brick making, charcoal burning, and a series of industries, which is an important factor in the city's ability to maintain expansion and make the people want to stay in the local area.

Although there are a lot of things to be busy in the whole cloud next year, it is said that things like building new houses and new houses should be at the back of the queue and should not take up manpower.

However, it only takes a small amount of manpower to motivate local pioneers to farm, and solve the problem of planting with money rather than trust and coercion.

At the same time, the Mo family actually didn't lose much money, and the Mo family itself wanted to buy grain, and it was more expensive to buy and ship it from elsewhere.

The cost of the new house is actually the cost price of the new Xulin workshop from Gaoliu that relies on the Huren area and the Gaoliu Coal Mine.

Those who migrated also needed food themselves, and even if they went to cultivate, they could not be self-sufficient in the first year, so they could use their labor while ensuring basic food and clothing.

At that time, it will be nothing more than the cost of eating and drinking for hundreds of full-time builders, carpenters, etc., and a part of Xuan Lin's expenses.

What you get is a large amount of cultivation and cultivation by the local people, stable local prices, and the trust of the people, rather than the natural resentment caused by coercive means.

At the same time, it can also enable later people to have new goals after completing the initial reclamation, ensuring food and clothing, and repaying loans such as iron tools, and there are also batches of craftsmen who are not in a hurry to use now, but in the future, Yunzhong will be built into a large city and the center of the Mojia city north of the Yellow River.

In fact, the Mo family's money was spent, but it was spent in the field and not in the clouds.

During the harvest of potatoes and corn from spring to next year, the local grain stored in the cloud is eaten, and after the harvest of potatoes and corn, the stored grain in the hand is basically eaten, but because the contract in the early stage can guarantee that it is still purchased at the original price, the overplanted cheap food will not cause the price to rise at all.

Guogang's methods are basically like this, and after he said some rough words, the ink man who came from the special post couldn't help but nod and said, "Your method seems to be very good." ”

"But whether it is applicable or not, it still needs to be calculated by the art of knowledge, which is not something I can figure out, and it needs to be reported back to the above, and they will make a decision."

"This is just a temporary stopgap measure, so what do you think about the future development of the cloud?"

"Taking this opportunity, I will also report it up, after all, you have been in the cloud for a long time, and you have studied these light, extravagant, and economical techniques."

Guogang really had some different ideas, and when he heard the commissioner's affirmation first, his heart also let go, and he shared some of his thoughts one by one.

What I thought of before was naturally just some expedient means.

Once there are really tens of thousands of people in the middle of the clouds, the development of the whole place will be completely different in the future.

You have to think about stability, you have to think about people's hearts, you have to think about your sense of identity, you have to think about why you're fighting, and so on.

The Mohists do not use the military merit field awarding system, because the military merit field awarding system and the field awarding system look the same when they are low-level military merits, but once they reach a slightly higher military merit, there will be problems such as "subordination" and "subordinate to the peasants".

Reward others with 10,000 acres of military merit land, who will plant it? There is only land, and without the supporting policy of "criminal servitude", 10,000 mu of land has no meaning.

In particular, in the border areas, industry and commerce are underdeveloped, and it is impossible for the military fields to be transformed into market-oriented farms, and the final result will inevitably be the emergence of a large number of military landlords, which will eventually lead to the warlordization of the border areas, which is not allowed.

Of course, it is also subject to the morality of the Mohists, which cannot be practiced.

At the same time, Guogang considered the problem of "constraints" and also felt that the Yunzhong region could not develop some industries.

For example, iron ore, iron smelting, etc.

He felt that it was necessary to keep the Yunzhong region under the control of the Mo family, so as to prevent the local forces from disobeying the orders of the Mo family, who were thousands of miles away.

But at the same time, it is necessary to develop local industry and commerce, he is a Qi people, and has his own views on "the benefits of fish and salt" and "industry and commerce for the benefit of the people".

Even beyond this insight, there are deeper considerations.

After living in Qi for more than 20 years, living and studying in Sishang for six or seven years, and practicing in the clouds for four or five years, Guogang consciously understood some things.

He went on to say something of his own.

"In ancient times, a city was the current Sishang and Song Yue."

"Now Sishang is inseparable from Song, Yue, and Chu; Song, Yue, and Chu are also inseparable from Sishang. The root cause is that the goods produced in Sishang are not used locally in Sishang, but are sold to Song, Chu, Yue and other places. Although Song, Chu, Yue and other places are still full of princes and feudal monarchs, they are inseparable from Sishang, which is one step closer to our Mo family's view of the 'world'. ”

"I heard that in ancient times, hundreds of states and thousands of countries existed independently, because the cities themselves could produce pottery, bone tools, and nearby food, so in ancient times, hundreds of states and thousands of countries, each side of a hundred miles."

"It is said to be the world, but in fact it is a broken state. Even if there is a Shang and Zhou government, it is only a feudal country. When will Chu Yue be inseparable from Qilu, Wei Han cannot be separated from Qin Shu, and when can it be regarded as the real world. ”

"It's the same in the clouds, you can't be fragmented, you can't exist alone, you can't be closed and become a state by yourself, you must have a connection with the outside."

"The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit. Only benefit can make the cloud and the world connected in one place, and each cannot be separated, so that the cloud can recognize the world's theory. ”

He chuckled lightly and said: "If one day Chu and Yue actually refuse the goods of Sishang and impose heavy taxes, the industry and commerce that want to come to Sishang will immediately feel that the world should be one." ”

"It's the same in the clouds, although self-cultivation and good families can serve in the military, and they can rely on Xuanyi to make them recognize the world and fight for righteousness, but they also need to be advantageously connected."

"If the clouds can be self-sufficient, and there is nothing to profit from foreign transportation, how can the clouds be inseparable from the world after decades?"

"That's why I said, let there be any industrial and commercial things in the clouds that can be sold to the Central Plains beyond the clouds; But at the same time, there must be something in the clouds, and you can't get it if you leave the Central Plains. ”

"You can't be a high willow in the clouds, the high willow is located in the north, but it is a small Si. Xuanlin, felt, ironware, coal, cattle and horses, and grain are all there, and one place is enough. If there are more, there will be a big city within 500 miles of the clouds, which can exist alone, and how can it identify with the world? How can we know the world? ”

"If you go to the ancient city, your clothing, food, shelter and transportation are all within a hundred miles of the city, how can the people of Qi City need to know about Qin City?"

"If Sishang will be Ji, thousands of miles away, but the people will know the iron, cotton, and porcelain on Si; Sishang also knows the glue, lacquer, and ivory...... The Si Shangren naturally felt that the world included Huiji. ”

"Yunzhong only knows Sishang and Gaoliu, because other places have nothing to do with them, and it is difficult for them to feel that those cities are part of the world, they only feel that there are only Sishang, Gaoliu and Yunzhong in the world, because their goods and colonies only communicate with these places."

The words actually convinced the commissioner, and he was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but think of the story of the adapted "Mao Sui self-recommendation" in the Mo family story, although in fact, the real Mao Sui had not yet been born, and said again and again: "You are a sharp awl, and you have not had a chance to pass through the cloth before." ”

"You have a lot of opinions on "Light and Heavy", "Wealth of Nations", "Light and Heavy", and "Luxury", have you ever compiled them into a book?"

Guogang held back the excitement in his heart, and said with a calm face: "In the past five years, I have read a lot of books, and combined with what I have learned before, I have indeed written something. As for how, it still needs to be judged. ”

With that, he turned out two pamphlets that he had written from a small wooden box in the room.

One book is called "What is the People's Currency".

The other book is called "The Theory of the Combination of Self-Owned Colonization of Cities, States and Worlds".