Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 85 Jaiyu's Utopia
In the dim moonlight, the gate of Zhao's lower palace slowly opened.

A carriage drove out of it, and the person sitting in it was Zaiyu who had just talked with Zhao Yang.

Although until the end, Zhao Yang did not fully believe his words.

But Jae Yu was not discouraged at all.

Zhao Yang, as the Six Ministers of the Jin Kingdom, would be abnormal if he could rashly decide to establish a crown prince just because of a few words.

So Zaiyu spoke so hard for Zhao Wuji today, not to change Zhao Yang's view of Zhao Wuji in a short time, but to provide Zhao Yang with another way to look at his heirs.

With Zhao Wuji's talent, as long as Zhao Yang pays more attention to him, he will soon stand out.

And this time when he ran into Zhao Wuxie in the state of Jin, Zaiyu opened up a new way of thinking.

In the past, Zaiyu felt that in order to make the master's thought of "benevolence" be used, he must persuade the rulers of various countries, or use violent means to achieve his goal.

But both paths are too difficult to walk.

Now it is the junction of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the next few hundred years, the benevolence and morality that can survive in the Spring and Autumn Period will have no room for survival in the Warring States Period.

The War of the Spring and Autumn Period still had the decency of an aristocratic war.

The war of the Warring States period has evolved into an unrestrained conquest.

Intrigues, deceit and betrayal, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the world is in deep quagmire, and the people are miserable. This will be the main theme for the next few hundred years.

If you can't provide a set of systematic ideas for the rulers of various countries, just lobby them with benevolence, justice and morality. Although they will still respect you, they will probably not dare to use you.

Therefore, if these long-standing rulers are willing to share interests with the people, they must be lured with greater interests.

For example, farm tools, or more advanced farming methods.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Yang is willing to listen to the thoughts of 'benevolence'.

In addition to being able to lure them with advanced production methods, the ambitions of this group of people can also be fully utilized.

When Yan Zi of Qi State saw Tian's actions, he sighed worriedly.

He said: I am afraid that the Qi State of the Lu family will soon be replaced by the Tian family?Tian's private measuring bucket is a quarter larger than the metric measuring bucket. When they lend grain to the people, they use large buckets.And when taking back the grain, use a small bucket.

Tian's felled wood from the mountain and transported it to the market, and sold it at a price no higher than that from the mountain.

Selling seafood such as fish, salt and clams, the price is not higher than that of the seaside.

And the wealth accumulated by the monarch has rotted and wormed, but the old people in the country are still starving and freezing.

People commit minor crimes and suffer disproportionate punishments.

There are so many people whose legs have been cut off that in every market in the capital, shoes are cheap and artificial legs are expensive.

The people feel pain all the time, and Tian takes the opportunity to appease them, so people support Tian as they support their parents, and being attached to them is like flowing water into a river.

The Tian family did not get such an advanced farm tool as Quyuanli, but they were still willing to give it up for the benefit of the people.

However, the Marquis of Qi, sitting in the wealthy Qi State, would rather watch the food in the treasury rot than share it with the people.

Zaiyu couldn't help sighing: "Marquis Qi's seat is still too secure! If you don't put a little pressure on him, how can he give up his own interests?

It is absolutely unworkable to persuade people like Marquis Qi to implement benevolent government.

However, like the Tian family of Qi State and the Liuqing of Jin State, they will be replaced by others all the time.

Moreover, they all have the ambition to continue to move forward and seek further progress.

Therefore, these so-called "rebellious officials and thieves" have become the targets of benevolent government. "

Thinking of this, Zai Yu suddenly understood one thing.

He slapped his thigh and shouted: "No wonder the master is depressed in another timeline! After a long time of trouble, the actions of assisting the office and advocating benevolence are completely opposite to each other!"

Jae Yu suddenly felt as if he had touched a brand new door.

Perhaps, I should let the seats of the kings of all countries be swayed?
Help Tian in Qi State, help Han Zhaowei in Jin State, help their small hills in Chu State...

As soon as this thought came out, sweat dripped from Zai Yu's body.

The idea was so bold that it surprised him himself.

But after thinking about it, it seems that there is no reason at all.

When Yanling Jizi of the State of Wu visited the State of Jin, he predicted that the regime of the State of Jin would fall into the hands of the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei.

In "Sun Tzu Wu Wen", Sun Tzu also boldly predicted that among the six ministers of the state of Jin, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family would perish first, followed by the Zhi family, followed by Han and Wei, and the Zhao family might eventually control the Jin state.

The reason is that the size of the fields in the Liuqing fief is not the same.

The fields of the Fan family and the Zhongxing family are divided into one mu with a width of 160 steps and a length of [-] steps.

Zhishi is 180 steps wide and [-] steps long.

The width of Han and Wei is [-] steps, and the length is [-] steps.

Zhao's uses 120 steps as the width and [-] steps as the length.

Because the Zhao family has a large field, when the six ministers grant the land, the people are more inclined to cultivate the Zhao family's fields, and abandon the fields of the other five ministers.

Thinking about it this way, the Zhao family is indeed a good 'experimental field'. Not only is it influential enough, but it also has a very important directional effect.

If the Zhao family promotes a benevolent government and makes all the people attached to it, then the noble families of other countries will follow suit...

Even if those high officials don't follow suit, their power will be gradually weakened.

Moreover, I can also give some insignificant technical guidance to the noble families who implement benevolent government...

In this way, the families that do not implement benevolent governance will be annexed, and the families that implement benevolent governance will prosper.If things go on like this...

"Hiss..." Zai Yu scratched his head: "What a genius idea!"

When Jai Yu was thinking about the incomparably vast future, the carriage stopped suddenly.

It turned out that at this moment, he had already arrived in front of the post where the Lu State Mission stayed.

Zaiyu got off the carriage, thanked the driver, and walked into the post in a happy mood.

He is going to wait until he returns to his room to have a good spring and autumn dream, and continue to improve the specific plan for building the utopia in his dream from the classics in the library.

As soon as he walked to the door, he saw a faint light coming from inside.

Zaiyu stretched out his head and looked inside, and it turned out that Zigong was sitting in front of a few desks reading with an oil lamp on.

"Zigong, you are not staying in your own room, what are you doing here?"

Zigong turned his head to look at him, tiredness was written in his eyes.

"Son, I don't understand."

Zai Yu looked at him warily, and walked into the room against the wall: "What do you not understand?"

Zigong held up the book, pointed to the lines of text on it and said, "I don't understand the "Guanzi" you gave me yesterday."

"Oh..." Zai Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and came to sit beside him: "Tell me, which word do you not know?"

"It's not that I can't read, it's just that I can't understand the truth in "Guanzi". Some things in this book seem to be different from what the Master taught us and what I imagined myself!"

Zaiyu knew that Zigong would have doubts.

After all, the Master's ideas are more idealistic, while Guan Zhong's theory is a complete way of managing the world.

The difference in philosophy between the two is not only reflected in ideology, but also in governance.

Facing two completely different schools of thought, if Zi Gong had no doubts at all, he would have seen a ghost!

"Tell me, what do you think you don't understand. Although I can't understand all of it, I still have some unique insights into some chapters of "Guanzi"."

　Today's recommendation ticket is very noisy

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　


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