Zhao Hou smiled bitterly and said, "You also know some of the Mohist theories. When it comes to defending the city, it is indeed since Modi. The Mohist's art of defending the city is unparalleled in the world, which is beyond reproach."

"But some of Modi's remarks about how to defend the city are actually too 'loved for the people' and have no king."

"If it is said, it is exactly what the people offer corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and animal products to buy flat merchants and write to the master."

This is not considered some technical means of the Mo family defending the city, but it was what the monarch required to defend the city from the Mo Di era. Only by doing this can the Mo family help defend the city, otherwise it would be impossible to help defend the city.

The people offered corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and animal products to buy flat merchants and wrote them to the master.

That is, among the three major and eight items: they do not take the masses one needle and one thread and borrow things. All the things collected to defend the city must be written on the IOU at a fair price, and the person with the main coupon writes the loan note, and then return it after defending the city.

This is not unacceptable to princes and nobles. Sometimes, as long as they can defend the city, they can accept many requirements.

However, the ownership problem reflected in this is something that will be difficult for princes and nobles to accept once they are thought deeply.

The people offered corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and animal products to buy flat merchants and wrote them to the master.

In other words, the people's things are their private property, so they must be repaid in order to defend the city. This violates the principle of feudal division, especially in the eyes of some nobles, the people's things can be taken away directly for the reason of defending the city. Why do you have to pay the letter to the main account for the purchase of the generals?

Since there is a letter of the main coupon, then this is borrowing. Behind the meaning of borrowing is the issue of ownership of the people. To expand it, it is: property is an inviolable and sacred right, unless the legally recognized public needs make clear demands on it, and at the same time, based on the conditions of fairness and pre-compensation, no one's property cannot be deprived.

Nowadays, the Mohist theory has always been practiced around some ideas proposed by Shi. Originally, Mozi might have just thought that this would facilitate the city to defend.

But now that Mozi has passed away, I use some of Mozi's remarks to develop them around "righteousness" and "nature ambition", making the meaning behind these practices more profound.

As stated in "Miscellaneous Shou" - the people offered corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and animal products to buy flats and books with the master - expanded to why this is in line with the will of heaven, and why can it be done like this?

After the expansion, it is possible to borrow, and even forcibly borrow some of the people's property "unless people determine public needs and are based on the conditions of fairness and pre-compensation."

The public needs here are to defend the city, and the Mohist guarding the city is to "defend the city for righteousness". The condition for recruiting people's materials is also based on the Mohist righteousness.

The content of this may be just benevolent for some people who are still chaotic, but for those who can perceive the waves of the world, they pay more attention to the "nature aspirations" hidden behind them.

Gong Zhonglian had heard of this and knew some details of the Mohist art of defending the city. However, he knew that if it was just "the people offered corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and animal products to buy flats and write them with the master", he was afraid that Mr. Zhao would not be so angry that he could say something like the people's hearts were not as good as the ancient times.

Seeing that Zhao Hou said this, he first said tentatively: "Your Majesty, the people seek profit. According to the morality of the Mohist school, if they say that they are all for the purpose of setting up a flattery and writing to the Lord, as long as they can defend Handan, they will not be unable to agree."

Mr. Zhao laughed and said, "Putting the Pin Jia? If it were really Pin Jia, how could I say that the people were greedy and insatiable?"

"The people of Handan are taking advantage of the country's danger and want to lend me usury!"

After saying that, he delivered the letter in his hand to Gong Zhonglian and said, "Look, what else do these people ask for?"

Gong Zhong connected the letter and skipped it over, and finally understood what was the reason for Zhao Hou’s anger.

These letters were a letter from Mr. Zhao who was the son of the prince of Zhao. After Mr. Zhao asked Hu Feizi to help defend Handan for another fifth time, Hu Feizi began to gather the people and gave Mr. Zhao in the name of the people's "public will".

Mr. Zhao just said that if he had been flattened, he would not have said that the people would be insatiable.

The so-called flat-out business is an interest-free loan, which means that when defending the city, all the corn, horses, firewood, houses, etc. from the people will be collected according to the market price record and will be repaid at a fair price in the future.

Looking at the world, this is already shocking. Most nobles will find it incredible: I use common people's things to defend the city, but I still need compensation?

Why do nobles still need to compensate for the common people’s things?

This is a very profound question.

It is so profound that I need various books that the Mohist school can add up to a foot thick to explain the rationality of compensation.

This is also a very superficial question.

It is so shallow that the people do not need to read the arguments of the Mohist books that add up to one foot thick. Just saying this point will gain countless fans.

In addition to these shocking words, the people in Handan are now considered "changing the principal and the interest rate".

At this time, many people were lending usury, and many nobles also changed their careers from relying solely on land rent income to join the lender's business. Mengchangjun, the later generations, was one of the best.

This time, the people of Handan have many requirements, and the first one is the requirement of the people of Handan who make a living by land, which is very interesting.

The letter said that after collective consultation among the people of Handan, in the name of public opinion, the original Gongzizhang and the current Zhaohou made the following request:

Gongzi Zhang has carried out some changes in land granting in Handan. Just as the Mohist school gave the advice, land was granted to the people and taxed only by the people, and the land would become the private property of the common people by paying it out for twenty years.

This change has been going on for many years, but most people still have not paid off all their "loans".

Some of the people distrust the nobles and were worried about whether the land could really belong to them in the future, so they only paid them according to the minimum amount per year.

In response to this, Handan will be surrounded this time. When Handan City is in urgent need of food, everyone went through the Mo family's organization and formally proposed to Zhao Hou: It is okay to collect grain, but as the private property of the people, the grain needs to be borrowed to Zhao Hou in the form of a loan.

According to the two-tenths of interest loans from the nobles today, the food, money and even the money that Zhao Hou needed to defend Handan this time to fight for the throne with the Prince Chao. The farmers, workers and merchants in Handan would use the Mohist family as a guarantee to concentrate the food and money.

Among them, the grain was loaned at the current market price, and the interest rate was paid off in a total of five years. Zhao Hou needed to use land as a way to repay.

In other words, if you lend Zhao Hou a stone of grain, you will need to repay two stones in five years, and the principal and interest of these grains will be able to directly pay the expenses of redeeming the land.

In other words, this is the Mohist, as an intermediary, issued war bonds in Handan. The interest on war bonds was 20%. Zhao Hou did not need to repay the money, but only needed to let the people use the money as a ransom for redeeming the land.

Because 20% of the interest rate is paid in five years, this is equivalent to the fact that the people in Handan can only spend half of their food to exchange for their own land.

This is also the reason why Zhao Hou was angry, and it is also the reason why people's hearts are not as beautiful as ancient times.

For example, today, the recruitment system has just emerged, and the system of half-recruiting and half-providing the domestic soldiers has only revealed signs. It was immediately impacted by the stirrups of gunpowder and firearms, causing the system of government troops to have no advantage except for the light cavalry and informal uprising. It can be said that it will die prematurely just born.

The original system of the world was that the people needed to obey feudal obligations and needed to carry some of the food they had to go to fight with the army.

As for the nobles defending the city, they are guarding their own economic and power foundations. In addition, farmers are dependent on the land and can be enfeoffed or transferred together with the land. Therefore, it is normal to requisition people's food and horses when defending the city. And to achieve what Mozi said, "The people offer corn, cloth, money, cattle, horses, and livestock, and they are all for flattening merchants and entrusting them with the master to write them." This can be considered a benevolent and righteous government.

At this time, the people of Handan actually asked Zhao Hou to pay interest when requisitioning their food. This was simply... I was shocked by the nobles, they were ruthless, people's hearts were not old, the world was getting worse, and so on...

Now, Mr. Zhao feels that he has implemented benevolent politics in Handan and is far better to the people than Jinyang back then, but the people are not grateful and are trying to gain more benefits. How can he not be angry?

After reading the first few posts, Gong Zhonglian said, "I can understand your anger now!"

Mr. Zhao was overjoyed. Since he entered Gong Zhonglian's dormitory, he had been receiving Gong Zhonglian's preaching. At this time, Gong Zhonglian actually said that he could understand his anger and felt extremely happy.

However, Gong Zhonglian then said, "If you are a businessman, I can really understand your anger now. But if you are the monarch of Zhao and the title of Handan, then I cannot understand your anger."

"You have good horses in the stable that can travel 800 a day. Although they are not as good as the eight horses of Emperor Mu, they are not much different. Your cauldron is cooked in the cauldron and there are meat; your palace has beautiful concubines; your palace has no Suihou Zhu and Shi Bi, but there are also various pearls and jade treasures... What you lack is the heart of the people of Zhao."

"As the monarch of Zhao State and the title of Handan, you are angry because the people paid half of the land to redeem money. Then if you are a businessman, you only know how to seek profit, it is understandable."

"But you are not. You need the people of Handan to support the army, you need the food in Handan to ensure that you go to war, you need the money in Handan to ensure that you can buy cannons, muskets, gunpowders and stirrups... At this time, you should feel grateful that someone can lend you money. Even if you are twelve years of interest, you are actually angry. Isn't this ridiculous?"
Chapter completed!