Chapter 41: The Union of Menon
In the whole world, the peasant family is the only school that really speaks for the peasants at the bottom. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although many of the ideas they put forward are unrealistic, these simple views do truly represent the ideals of the peasants at the bottom.
The peasant family led by Xu Xing did have a good life in Teng, but when Xu Xing continued to stay in Teng, he found that Teng Wengong was really not a particularly good monarch. Teng Wengong still valued Confucianism more, and the act of courtesy to him was just the subconscious kindness of the nobles to the Magi. When Xu Xing asked Teng Wengong to pay attention to the development of agricultural technology, and not to always store the people's taxes in the warehouse, but to use the taxes collected from the people to the people, Teng Wengong refused him.
In Teng Wengong's view, attaching importance to agricultural technology, wouldn't this become a villain like Fan Chi? The monarch should still do what the monarch should do, as proposed by Confucianism, and the subjects should do the things of the subjects. Xu Xing was disheartened by such behavior, and he knew that he would not be able to realize his ideals in this country.
Therefore, when he heard that a prince of the Song State, a neighbor of Teng State, had actually spent his own money to offer a high reward for agricultural technology, he immediately noticed it. When more bounty news came, Xu Xing gave up the farm that had been running in Teng Country for a long time without saying a word. I ran to Fengyi to see Dai Yan.
Xu Xing's name, even Dai Yan had heard of it in his previous life. So when he heard that Xu Xing had led his disciples to Fengyi, he went directly out of the city to greet him. Xu Xing didn't make much polite contact with Dai Yan when he came to Fengyi, he just asked Dai Yan about the details of the reward. Among the rewards on agriculture, except for those with Dai Yan's extremely high requirements, the other rewards were easily solved by the farmer's line.
Dai Yan immediately sent a bounty to Xu Xing and the peasant disciples, but Xu Xing directly refused to accept it. He said to Dai Yan directly: "I didn't come here to ask for a bounty, but I came to ask for the benevolence of my son; Childe did not hide his wealth in the treasury, but took it out to offer a reward to improve agricultural technology, which shows that Childe has a benevolent heart for the people under his rule, and this is the virtuous gentleman that we and other farmers are looking for. As long as Gongzi can treat the people under his rule well, why don't we spare any money! ”
Dai Yan, a person who doesn't want money, is really the first time to see it, even the Mo family can't do this, Dai Yan can't help but have a deep respect for this Xu Xing. However, he still insisted on his principle: "Sir does not know the law of my Fengyi, and the reward is announced to the world, and as long as anyone can solve the problem I raise, I will pay the bounty." And the reward in the future will be far from being the only one, if the gentleman does not accept it, what wise man will receive it in the future? We Song people call the country of gentlemen, and we have always promised a thousand gold, and please don't refuse my kindness with Fengyi, if Mr. really feels ashamed to accept this property, Mr. may as well use this property on the people of Fengyi. From now on, I will ask my husband to be the agricultural official of my Fengyi, and I hope that my husband will not refuse! ”
Xu Xing thought about it for a while and accepted the property given by Dai Yan and also accepted Dai Yan's appointment. Because he saw a kind of hope in this young man, who attached importance to the development of agriculture, of course, for the good of the people under his rule. He also inquired about this prince before coming to Fengyi, and found that this son's reputation among the people was actually very good, and he had only been sealed here for a short year. He saw a kind of hope in this son-in-law, as if this son-in-law would enable him to realize his ideals in Fengyi.
For the farmer, Dai Yan also set aside a piece of land in Fengyi for their use. On this land, it is not only a farm for farmers, but also a testing ground for them. For the arrival of the peasants, the Mo family not only did not object, but welcomed its arrival. In fact, the Mohists have a lot in common with the peasant families, they are both schools of thought representing the bottom of the society, the Mohists represent the craftsmen at the bottom, and the peasants represent the peasants at the bottom. Both require a simple, austere spirit on the part of the ruler, and both are schools of thought that value technology. Among the disciples of the Mo family, the most welcoming to the arrival of the peasant disciples are naturally those who specialize in the study of animals and plants, these people handed over the logical dialectics to the disciples of the peasant family, and the best of the peasant disciples, Chen Xiang and Chen Xin, summed up their own experience and soon made a great breakthrough in agricultural technology.
The Mohists have never attached great importance to the knowledge of the calendar, but the peasants have studied and recorded it in this regard. Therefore, soon after the farmer arrived in Fengyi, an accurate and qualified calendar appeared in front of Dai Yan.
The farmer also has another skill, that is, he has a profound understanding of plants. Because the farmer worships "Shennong" as his ancestor, he admires Shennong's behavior of tasting herbs, and the disciples of the farmer are never afraid of tasting herbs in order to identify the characteristics of herbs. This is the same as the Mohists, they are all schools with lofty ideals, and they all have the courage to die for their ideals.
Therefore, when the peasant disciples learned that the Mo disciples had pioneered biology, they were particularly interested in the botany, so the peasant disciples also joined in the classification of plants, because after all, the two schools belonged to different schools and were under the same roof, so there was naturally competition. Their competition, of course, is not to be as ruthless as the common people, but to compete for the right to name new plants. Because botany is still in its infancy, in the initial stage, everyone was only active in Fengyi and its surroundings, and there were not many plants found. When the plants in Fengyi and the surrounding areas were discovered and named, the fearless spirit of the disciples of the two factions was immediately revealed, and the disciples of the two factions each took their bags and went to distant places on their own, and began to explore the world in different directions, finding and naming all the plants and animals they had newly discovered.
The disciples of the Mo family, with the support of Dai Yan, also developed greatly in Fengyi. In addition to the talents in the fields of research and handicraft, there are actually many pioneering talents. Because there is no forbidden area for the entire Mo family in Fengyi, the Mo family has sent disciples to various parts of Fengyi in a slightly larger part of Fengyi, these disciples were born at the bottom, have been cultivated in the Mo family for many years, have firm ideals, and at the same time have the spirit of hardship and hard work. They quickly mingled with the peasants at the bottom, taught the peasants to build houses, helped the peasants farm, and promoted the Mohist concept to the peasants; And because they have relatively advanced knowledge and their own combat effectiveness is very strong, they soon made the common people who were attached to several major families in Fengyi begin to divide and disintegrate.
After the peasants arrived in Fengyi, they were also extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of the common people attached to the powerful families, so they chose to unite with the Mo family. These two schools of thought with ideals can really be regarded as the "union of workers and peasants" in this era, and their combat effectiveness immediately soared. In this era, what is the main reason why the common people are attached to the powerful families? In fact, it is nothing more than these powerful families who control the means of production in an agrarian society. The most obvious is that in the village of Fengyi, the patriarch of the big family not only has the right to distribute water, but also the calendar, and most of the advanced tools are in their hands.
Agriculture is also a collective work, which cannot be done by a single person or a family. Without notice from the government and local magnates, these farmers would not even be sure when they should soak their seeds. Even if he could accumulate some experience on his own, their own experience was not as accurate as that of the government and the powerful family. In fact, this is also an important reason why they are willing to pay taxes to the government and are exploited by powerful families.
However, all this began to change in the direct interaction between the Mo family and the peasant family. Because both the Mo family and the peasant family have the ideal of helping the low-income people, they are not stingy in providing help to the peasants. In the village of Fengyi, the disciples of the Mo family sold high-quality agricultural tools to farmers at low prices and helped them repair them for free. The farmer's disciples personally taught the farmers more advanced farming methods. The peasants thus gained trust in the "gentlemen" of these two factions and were willing to be governed by them. And because of the unity of the majority of the peasants, even the patriarchs of large families were careful when distributing water sources, and had to act in a fair manner.
And such changes were all formed by the spontaneous expansion of the Mo family and the peasant organization, and Dai Yan only learned the details of the matter later, and after a major event, he turned to an idea. He directly appointed these disciples of the Mo family and the peasant family who went deep into the grassroots as grassroots officials, because the disciples of these two factions went deep into the most basic villages, and the disciples of the peasant family were obviously good at the management of agriculture, so Dai Yan appointed most of the disciples of the peasant family as the lichang, and named the disciples of the Mo family as Li Shuai.
In addition to the skills of the disciples of the Mo family, their combat ability is also extremely strong. The original owner of Dai Yan's body, Ziyan, is also very strong, and Dai Yan even inherited the excellent swordsmanship he has practiced since he was a child; However, when Dai Yan used his swordsmanship to confront the Mo family disciples, most of the time he was defeated miserably. Dai Yan was not convinced, and gathered his retainers to fight a small team battle with the Mo family disciples, but he lost even more. From this, Dai Yan knew a fact from the mouth of the giant Tian Jiu: in the whole world, in a small-scale struggle of less than ten people, no one can be the opponent of the disciples of the Mo family, especially when this Mo family belongs to the Mo family of the Ranger Sect!
So Dai Yan appointed the disciples of the Mo family at the grassroots level as the marshal, and asked the disciples of the Mo family to teach the peasants to practice queues, strengthen their bodies, and practice swordsmanship in their spare time.
And what prompted him to make this change was that an angry young man arrived in Fengyi. The name of this angry youth is Qu Yuan.