It is September, and the order is three autumns.

In a village in Peize Township, Shu Qingwang carried a bundle of reeds and threw them to the pond.

Shu Qingwang is his personal name, but this name is a bit too domineering and no one dares to call it that outside Pei County.

This is not the original name of King Shu Qing. However, in the battle of Shangqiu, the spearman of the Pei County Yishi first approached the spear within three feet of the King of Chu. After returning successfully, someone in the Mo family joked and gave him this name when he was joking.

Taking the common people's intention of despising kings and princes, we borrowed the difference between Chu State and Central Plains culture, and used the domineering character "Light King".

Although many nobles from the Mo family knew that the king of Chu was not the emperor's title, but a kind of god sacrificed by Chu, and did not agree with the king of China.

But since the Chu State had "viewed China's politics", the differences in these names would inevitably be misunderstood by most people.

In short, the surname of his name is not Shu, but Shu Qing.

After the Battle of Shangqiu, the name of the King of Chu being captured was considered by the people of the world. After all, it was considered a "scholar", and it would be nice to say it. Before, Cao Mo robbed Qi Huan of the alliance, and it was also a scholar. It was difficult for the Chu people to accept the statement that the common people hijacked the King of Chu in Shangqiu.

But in Pei County, many people know that King Shu Qing was the first to extend the tip of his spear within three feet of the King of Chu.

Shortly after the Battle of Shangqiu, King Shuqing had a lover and married a wife, but at the beginning he was still in the righteous teacher.

Shi had been to his house a long time ago, and there were a lot of labor in the family. Shu Qingwang's younger brother first entered the village school in Peiguo because of his intelligence. Later, he followed Shi and was one of the disciples who were preparing to teach what he had learned throughout his life.

After hearing that his brother had chosen the name of Shu Qingwang, he took his own initiative and changed his extremely unpleasant name to Shu Qinghou.

Later, the righteous army expanded, and Shu Qingwang served as Sima Chang for three years. He became a candidate during his tenure. He retired from the army the year before yesterday and lived a life of a hundred acres of land with his wife who gave him two children.

Yi was pressing his family tightly and wanted him to come back.

Second, at that time, the grassroots level in Pei County also needed a large number of ink users to fill it.

He didn't want to come back at first, but Shi came forward to talk to him, saying that the war was to avoid fighting in the future, and the village community also needed to fill it with the ink people, so he might as well go back.

Zi Mozi said: Let everyone get their strengths and do things in the world; if they divide their duties, they will get things in the world; if they like them, they will prepare things in the world; if they have any strengths and weaknesses, they will have things in the world.

There is no high or low status in the world, only different division of labor. Let everyone get their strengths and like them, so that they can do these things to benefit the world.

King Shu Qing thought about it and felt it was reasonable, so he received a sum of money for retirement and returned to the village community. He was selected as a representative of the village community and was assigned to be a representative of the Mo family in the village.

His family has a lot of labor, and his father is a brave man who fled in his early years. After the Mo family came, he had hope in life and good luck. He paid back the differences between iron tools and cattle and horses in just four years.

After King Shu Qing returned, he organized the people of the village community with his ability to study at Yishi’s night school. With his own connections, he hired two of the earliest paper-making craftsmen to set up a paper-making workshop in the village community.

Usually, every family planted crops, and when the farm was slack, they worked in the papermaking workshops in the village to exchange for money.

Although this papermaking workshop is simple, it is not something that can be supported by one or two households. With his name and prestige, King Shuqing inspired more than 100 households in the village to invest together and opened this papermaking workshop.

In just two years, the Mohist family relaxed the restrictions on papermaking. The Mohist family's official workshops only made some paper for money. The remaining paper was allowed to be private, villages and communities were encouraged to jointly operate, and more support was given.

The main reason is that the papermaking industry cannot make any huge profits. The Mo family itself doesn't want it anymore, and it's really short of paper, so they spread it out.

The papermaking workshop in Shuqingwang Village mainly relies on two people who originally worked in the Mohist workshop, and the rest were mostly laborers. When the Mohist school supported it, it was clear that the two craftsmen in this papermaking workshop must have a share.

Nowadays, many villages and communities have their own industries. Handicrafts are very profitable, but they are reluctant to throw away the land and officially become a business, so they adopt this method.

Some of them are oil-pressing, some are paper-making, some are flower-filled, and some are made of wood. Most of them are supported by the first batch of local ink masters who returned to the village community.

It is September now. I just went to the township office to pay the village tax grain this year. Each family prepared the winter horse grass, soaked some remaining straw into the original soaking pond. After soaking it, it will smash the pulp to catch paper next year.

After cotton became popular in Pei County, few people planted hemp again. The pools that were originally soaked hemp were just used to soak paper materials.

What King Shu Qing did at this time was to throw materials inside. Several people behind were pushing several ink carts with lime inside. He listened to the command of a craftsman next to him to add them inside.

The person who was pushing the cart muttered like he was chatting: "The price of lime has risen again, and those villages have made more money in recent years."

Another person said: "That's nothing. The Mo family has already decided on our paper for next year. After discussing the money, there will always be a profit."

King Shu Qing smiled and said, "That's enough, it's enough. Last year, some villages and communities did not do well and did not meet the standards at all. They didn't accept or say anything, and they were ridiculed in the township office. I don't want us to be so shameless."

He is less than thirty years old now, in his prime, wearing an old military uniform of a charity master, with indigo blue pants on his lower body and a cotton belt around his waist.

Occasionally when I go out, I will wear the three brass medals on my chest, which will attract a lot of attention when I walk.

Everything is fine at home. In recent years, my family has opened 120 acres of land, and my younger brother is one of the few children who follow me to study.

The sisters were married, and the iron tools and cattle and horses at home were redeemed and returned to themselves. Last year, after returning to themselves, the horse gave birth to a foal. If they were born one year earlier, they would have to return it to the Mo family. The ones they had redeemed after they were born last year were their own.

My wife gave birth to twins last year, and now she has four children, so she doesn’t have to worry about it. If she is smarter, she goes to school like her younger brother, and if she is not smart, she will join the army, or if she is separated when she grows up, the Mohist family will also organize a joint farm to reclaim wasteland, and there will always be less and less land.

Pei County does not collect capita tax, but only collects it according to the acres of land. The more children, the more labor force the family will have. And you can also organize the cultivation and farming. The more you have, the better.

Although Pei County knows that the Mo family speaks harmoniously, if they hide the land acres and are found, it will be a serious crime.

In the past two years since King Shu Qing returned home, his life was very good. Whenever his father drank some wine and started chatting, he would always talk about the days when Mozhe fled to Peize before he came, and he would sigh that it was such a good time now, and he would always live a good life as long as he was willing to do it.

Usually he is busy at home. In autumn, he organizes village residents to go to the village to pay taxes and grains. Every two months, he goes to the township office and the rest of the Mo people in the village to learn about the morality of the Mo family. His life is very comfortable.

Sometimes I miss the most glorious moment in my life... the moment when I was only three feet away from the King of Chu who I felt out of reach in the past.

But more often, I think about how to live a good life, live a better life, and be worthy of the oath of "benefiting the world" when I joined the Mohist school.

When I came back, I spoke to the first group of people who returned, on behalf of Xuanyi, and said a lot: There are many ways to benefit the world, and going back may not be a kind of behavior that benefit the world. By relying on what I have learned over the years, I will build the villages and communities and benefit from each other, which will be considered to benefit the world.

A few days ago, the Yi Shi went to war to help Teng Kingdom restore the country, which was a major event. He organized a group of farmers from the village to accompany the army and went out for a walk. Seeing that the Yi Shi can now survive and one person can break through the capital of a country, he couldn't help but feel excited.

I originally thought it would take a long time to fight, but who would have thought that all the villagers would be dismissed before the wheat harvest, and there was no delay in the farmland.

The year is good this year. Most of the villages and communities are newly reclaimed land. Moreover, the irrigation canals in Peize Township pass through the villages and communities. It is another harvest year in autumn. Every family is full of corn, soybeans, and the cattle and horses at home also eat corn materials. Occasionally, some bean cakes can be eaten.

The orders for the village paper workshop were also set early. When the materials were soaked, as long as there was no problem, they could make another profit. Each company could share some money according to the work. He thought about letting everyone concentrate the money and invest it in the newly opened iron pot workshop.

He had thought about it. He had four children, three men and one woman. If he had talent in studying, he would naturally be good. If he couldn't do it, he would have to let a person go to Peiguo to learn blacksmith when he grew up and learn a skill. He would not be hungry in his life.

Like most young people in Pei County, they are full of hope and gratitude for life. They have lost their identity as a man of ink, and most of the time they are no different from others.

But in the end, it's different.

Shortly after King Shu Qing and the people around him put the paper materials into the soaking pond, they heard a copper ringtone coming from a distance. People beside the pond stopped their work and covered the awning in front of their eyes to look at the road in the distance.

On the way, a man in a blue uniform was riding a horse, waving a copper bell in his hand, and was running towards the village community.

King Shu Qing's heart skipped a beat and said, "What happened!"

He didn't know what it was, but he knew what this kind of shaking a copper bell meant. He was either attacked or had urgent matters that required representatives from various villages and communities to go to Peiguo to discuss "public opinion".

This year, when helping Teng Kingdom restore the country, only the representatives at the township level voted, and there was no public opinion at the village level.

Now that the copper bell is ringing, the king of Shu Qing knows that something must have happened.

Leaving the work in his hand, he hurried back to the village community with a few people. The rider was drinking water next to the big house of the village community... The Mo family ordered that he should not drink raw water as much as possible, but to drink boiled water. Therefore, there would always be some cold boiled water in the big pottery jars in the big house of the village community.

The horse riding commander the man Shu Qingwang recognized him. He had already dealt with him in the army and asked hurriedly: "What happened?"

The rider took out two pieces of paper from his arms and handed it over, saying, "Five days later, representatives of the Mozhe from each township will go to Peiguo to convey something. Seven days later, representatives of the people of each village and community will also gather together Peiguo and discuss public opinion."

One is to communicate, the other is to discuss, and each has its own standards.

"If everyone agrees, a big war may be fought."

The rider didn't say much, drank some water, turned over and said, "I have to go to the next village, Qingwang, you can prepare it too, don't be too late."

King Shu Qing nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's not too late."

He walked to the rider, held the rider's knee with his hands, and couldn't help asking, "What do you mean when you say you want to fight a big battle?"

The rider tidied up his belt and said, "The Mo family decided to propose that all the righteous masters who had retired from their hometowns be built, just to discuss this matter. If it is successful, then they will be prepared to fight the King of Yue. If it is not successful, they can only withdraw from Teng..."

King Shu Qing cursed: "Where can't be done? Then Yue is a warlike country, and we can't always guard against them. If I say I should have fought long ago, who wouldn't want to live this good life? But these princes and nobles don't want us to live. The King of Chu has been captured by us, so why are you afraid of the King of Yue?"

The rider smiled and said, "There are only two brigades who belong to our Mo family. The rest are the righteous teachers of the people of Pei County. We always ask everyone's opinions and explain this matter clearly. What's going on? You will know when you go, and I'll leave first."

After saying that, he clamped his legs and rushed out quickly. King Shuqing stood there, subconsciously touched the calluses left by the war in his palm, and thought to himself: "Fight, fight sooner or later, there is no king in the world who is not wary and takes the benefit of the people? If you don't hit him, he will come to beat you and let you follow his rules. The rules of the Mo family are different from those of the king in the world!"
Chapter completed!