Chapter 1856

In fact, the gentry and nobles in the feudal era can be described as meat eaters with a slightly elegant title.

But this carnivorous food does not eat meat such as chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, but refers to that they eat the fat and cream of the people, eat everything of the common people, not eat people in the superficial sense, but eat up the wealth and labor of the common people, etc.

Not to mention ancient China, this was the case in most periods. In every feudal dynasty, whether Han, Tang, song and Ming Dynasties, from the first day of its establishment, gentry and nobles continued to operate the acts of annexing land and storing slaves until the collapse of the dynasty.

In Western civilization, the same is true, and it may even be more cruel. In western history, the Roman Republic, which is talked about by countless people, was in the era of BC. There were civil elections, the operation of protecting the interests of the people, the separation of powers and so on. At a glance, was the Roman Republic before the Gongyuan a paradise on earth? Is it a model of civilization in the old era? No, at first glance, it seems to be democracy. In fact, the Roman Republic in BC is slavery! Slavery!

The citizens of the Roman Republic are divided into three classes: citizens, civilians and slaves!

If you look at this third-class division of human beings, you will know that what to elect and be elected is just nonsense. It is no different from the Western Zhou Dynasty, when people can also be divided into countrymen and savages. You should know that the countrymen of the Western Zhou Dynasty also have a certain right to participate in politics.

This stratum, specifically Xiuyan mansion of the state of Lu, is that from the moment the state of Lu was established, gentry and officials began to annex land and strive to bankrupt generations of self-employed peasants and small landlords. Only then can they have more land and more slaves.

No matter how the former gentry of Xiuyan mansion operated, in this generation, when the ink workers built Lishui water system, the gentry just looked at it. When the ink workers and ink farmers didn't leave, they still didn't do anything until Zhao bailing and other troops left? Then act now. How to annex land, whether they or their grandparents, has countless routines to use.

There is a bumper harvest of grain. Everyone has grain in their hands. The idiom that grain is cheap and hurts farmers can still appear, which is enough to witness their routine and integrity.

Not to mention the disaster year, that routine can be played out.

When Zhao bailing was silent, the local Mo Nong who spoke happily said, "although our research has not made any great achievements, the common people of Xiuyan mansion still live in hardship, but this time Zhao bailing led you to arrive. As long as you arrive, those gentry are powerful and powerful, they dare not do too much."

Compared with the size of Mohism, even the whole state of Lu is not enough. How can we talk about the powerful gentry of Xiuyan mansion? As long as some people in the Mohist school stand here, their status does not need to be too high. One or two hundred leaders come to watch. They hoard and hoard strange things in disaster years, bid up food prices and force people to sell children and women for a bite. The situation of selling themselves as slaves will be greatly reduced.

As for some local Mohists? The weight of the local Mohists is too light. They are all local landless sufferers. Last time Zhao bailing and others came to build water conservancy to help the people spread various ways of deep cultivation and meticulous work, they developed from the masses.

In a short time, they had no deterrent because they were well-informed by the local gentry.

Only an outsider like Zhao bailing can communicate with the superior 500 long and 1000 farming orders at any time, and even the 500 long and 1000 Xia orders in Mo Xia, will the gentry be as afraid as a tiger.

Let's put it this way. If they dare to go too far, Zhao bailing casually contacts the 500 chief of an ink Xia. The other party leads 500 ink Xia to repair Yan mansion, which can easily beat the powerful gentry of Xiuyan mansion.

This is not to say that the gentry of Xiuyan Prefecture are powerful and can't gather up 500 elite soldiers. Even the Li family and Xu family in Xuecheng can easily pull out two or three hundred elite soldiers. With enough time, they can pull up thousands of people, let alone Xiuyan Prefecture, the state capital of Xiuyan Prefecture. The local tyrants and gentry here have stronger strength and more abundant details.

But, fighting the ink man? Believe it or not, their servants' morale will plummet to negative value? Even before the war, tens of thousands of private soldiers gathered together to look spectacular and powerful. It is not rare that the private soldiers of the gentry directly collapsed before the two soldiers were handed over.

Mohism has spread for thousands of years in tianyuxing, and its prestige has reached a limit in the eyes of both emperors and people.

In the happy words of the local ink maker, Zhao bailing looked up and sighed, "this is the only way for the time being."

For the time being, we can only rely on the prestige of Mohism to make the disaster years here less cruel.

For a long time, no matter how huge the Mohist school is, for thousands of powerful gentry groups, the integrity of that group has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and their work style has not changed. They are also very helpless, not to mention, even within the Mohist school, they always appear and betray the Mohist intention for power, wealth, beauty and so on.

Even Zhao bailing knows that this is not the way all the time. If it goes on, it is nothing more than robbing East walls to make up west walls. He can't help but have different ideas. If there can be a country ruled by ink, the hardships of the people will be completely eliminated.

Zhao bailing, who has been traveling in the state of Lu in recent years, and even Liu Guo, who often fights with the Principality of ventra, has built water conservancy and helped farmers popularize various farming methods... He really doesn't know that even the modern giant Yang an planned a big event to go out of the Empire and build the Mexican country. It was nothing more than that big event, which was rewritten by Su Heng.

"Zhang Yuan, you go to inform Wu bailing of Mo Xia, and make sure he takes 100 Mo Xia to Xiuyan mansion as soon as possible. There is no mo Xia in charge. We don't have so much confidence to frighten the local local tyrants."

Once again, Zhao bailing gave orders directly. Mo Nong, who was named by him, immediately nodded and took orders.

In fact, in the state of Lu, there are not many Mohists. The total number of Mohists is less than 1000. On the contrary, it is the state of Liu with frequent wars. A full number of four or five thousand Mohists often help Liu against the Bingfeng of wentra. In Xiuyan state, there is only one Wu bailing that Zhao bailing can think of. That Wu bailing has been leading the team to fight against the pirates around Xiuyan state.

Killing pirates is very important, but it is not so remarkable compared with the future of the 200000 and 300000 civilians in Xiuyan mansion.

Seeing Zhang Yuan go away, Zhao bailing waved again, "back to the mansion, I want to make an appointment with the big grain merchants in Xiuyan mansion one by one to try to reduce the grain price."

Needless to say, in such a drought season, it is absolutely inevitable for grain traders to drive up prices. Only when people can't afford food, in order to live, will they sell themselves as slaves.

He also hoped to use the prestige of Mohism to intimidate those grain merchants and let them not be too unscrupulous.