Chapter 451: Difficulties
Sun Bin looked at Yun Yao and said: "The people of the Western Zhou Dynasty studied history until King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou opened the country. When we study history, we have to read "Spring and Autumn" and "Book of Songs", not only before and after the Western Zhou Dynasty, but also after the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the content that needs to be learned has become more, which is like training soldiers and horses. When it comes to a chariot, it's simple to command; Ten tanks also work together, it is difficult; To command a hundred, a thousand chariots, only a few people can do it, and all of these people are famous generals of great powers. The same is true for learning, learning one school is to command a chariot, and learning three schools is equivalent to commanding a hundred chariots. ”
Amazing, Yun Yao has to admit that Sun Bin is indeed very smart, is this the return of ten thousand laws? Although Sun Bin is best at commanding operations, he is a rough bypass through commanding operations, and he also sees through the essence of other aspects of society. Such a person has truly applied what he has learned to all aspects, which can be said to be enlightened.
Nowadays, everyone is illiterate, and there is no systematic and efficient cramming education, and it has taken a lot of energy and financial resources to learn a school, and at the same time, learning Confucianism, Taoism and ink can only be done by gifted and intelligent people.
After all, geniuses like Sun Bin are rare.
Therefore, religion is opposed to writing books and preaching, because it is useless to do so, and it is still necessary to pass on the illiterate by word of mouth, and to tell the story to everyone.
Now those who can learn culture are aristocrats, even if they are down-and-out aristocrats, they are aristocrats, and the landlords still learn relatively little. Even the ascending channel is not given to the landlord, and naturally the knowledge will not be shared with the landlord.
On the Mo side, it is basically not through teaching to spread ideas, but like religion, curing diseases and administering medicine to accumulate prestige, and then gathering everyone to tell stories, which is considered education.
There are too many illiterates and too few readers, and they simply cannot support the integration of three studies. Therefore, the method of mobilizing the landlords of Wei and Qin was to take them together to grab money and land, rather than teaching them to read and write, and teach them etiquette and morality.
So it's a good idea, how can we get everyone to learn it? Don't talk about the core idea of Confucianism and Modao, even if it is the law of Qin, everyone has to say that Qin law is harsh, just because it is too difficult to learn.
After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, a large number of Qin officials were delegated to go deep into the grassroots to popularize the law, and they basically read it to everyone every sentence, and they didn't expect these people to learn to write at all. At that time, the Qin State had already unified the written language, and it was still so difficult for the world to accept the unified law, not to mention that now different countries have different scripts and different languages, and it is basically impossible to unite the nobles and landlords in the world, let alone let them all understand the distinction between Huayi, benevolence, righteousness and love.
Yun Yao's idea was very good, but Sun Bin pointed out the most difficult point with a sharp hit.
"Since Wei Wushu can let the landlord's family support a soldier's food and drink, then it is also possible for the landlord's family to support a scholar." Yun Yao said.
Sun Bin shook his head: "Studying and fighting are still different, you can go home after a year and a half of fighting, and there is a reward for winning the war, so the family only needs to provide a year's rations, and you can get a reward as a reward." And what about reading? Studying for a year is just a beginner, and reading for a few years may not necessarily lead to results, and in the past few years, there is only expenditure and no income, and I don't think there will be many families that can support. The landlord's family also had no surplus food. ”
The landlord here refers to the owner of the land, not the feudal landlords in the future. As long as you own a piece of land, it belongs to the landlord, and as for the amount of output, it is completely unfixed, and it will definitely not be too much, otherwise there will not be many landlords who borrow money from the nobles of the mining estate.
But having the landlord families take part in the war at their own expense is indeed a very economical way to save state expenditures. The Qin landlord may have to provide the expenses of one or two soldiers, including food and clothing. When the Qin State fought the annexation war, it was also fought for two or three years, so the burden on the family was very heavy.
However, this is the tradition of the Chinese peasants, generally speaking, the family supports a person who has left the farmland, from the craftsman, to the scholar, to the soldier, to the last intellectual, and the pattern is unchanged for 3,000 years.
Sun Bin is indeed very powerful, thinking that the cost of studying is much higher than participating in the war, it takes several years to study and there is no output at all, and the soldier may bring back a reward when he returns home after a year of fighting. So it was too difficult for the landlords to support the scholars, even harder than to support the soldiers.
"As long as the tax is reduced, wouldn't every landlord's family be able to support one student?" Yun Yao said.
Sun Bin smiled bitterly: "We spared a big circle and came back." The original intention of our talk is that the Qi State has encountered a problem now, that is, the Qi State is unwilling to give benefits to the landlords, and the reason why the nobles and landlords do not have a unified rule that transcends the bloodline. And now we talk about popularizing education, training scholars, increasing the influence of the landlords, and making the nobility and landlords accept the new rules. But after talking about it, the prerequisite turned out to be that the nobles would make profits first and collect less taxes? Isn't it like a wheel, and nothing solves after one turn? ”
Let everyone accept the new rules first, and learn the new rules to make profits first. Isn't that endless?
How was the landlord problem solved in history? Quite simply, some landlords got rich first, broke the intellectual monopoly of the aristocracy, and then appointed more landlords, as if in the Han Dynasty.
During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, every family with two boys had to produce a soldier, and all families with only daughters needed to raise horses, and it was because of this that there was the feat of attacking the Xiongnu in the north. And the landlords are willing to support Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because of filial piety and honesty, can select talents from the bottom landlords, every family is likely to glorify their ancestors, after all, as long as they give birth to a good son of filial piety, and in the Han Dynasty productivity broke out again, every household has a car, all have iron farming tools.
In the Warring States, iron farming tools were not yet fully popularized, and most landlords owed their lords money, had to pay taxes, and had to let their children go to war, and they themselves had to endure the invasion of war. The landlords of the Warring States period lived in dire straits, so how could they become rich.
Moreover, even if a small number of landlords in the Warring States period became wealthy, after being divided into nobles, they would spontaneously integrate into the aristocratic class and spontaneously become the force that guarded the hereditary aristocracy. Unlike the Han Dynasty, when the feudal division was abolished, the landlord could no longer become a member of the aristocracy.
In the Warring States Period, the hereditary aristocracy was still the coveted circle of the world, and killing the old nobles and the new nobles was like leeks that could always pop up.
Therefore, the Warring States period was not the Han Dynasty, and the landlords who got rich first would also become aristocrats, and would not wave the flag for the landlord class, unless the landlord class of the Warring States was as strong as the Han Dynasty.
But if the landlords of the Warring States were so strong, then it would not be the Warring States, and the productive forces were here. The Song State is actually the country with the best chance to eliminate the aristocracy, but the giant was taken away by Daozu, and since then, the Mo family has been maintaining stability, losing the ability to push through the old and bring forth the new, and finally directly split several parts, and can no longer lead the landlord to surpass the aristocracy.
How to promote the education of landlords and nobles on an equal footing in the Warring States period, an era of limited productivity? Either learn from the nobles of the Qin State to give profits to the landlords, and the long pain is better than the short pain. Either rely on the prestige of the ink master at the bottom and raise your arms, there is no other way.
Yun Yao said a lot but went back to the same place, because she didn't really want to help Qi Guo change the law, her target was Sun Bin, this military strategist is so smart that he will definitely be able to resist the Western Sect, and he is really the best candidate for Tianguan.