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451 Difficulties

Sun Bin looked at Yunyao and said, "The people of the Western Zhou Dynasty learned history until King Wen of Zhou Wu of Zhou founded the country. We study history, but we have to read the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Book of Songs. We not only have to learn before the Western Zhou Dynasty but also after the Western Zhou Dynasty. There are more contents to learn, which is like training troops. When a chariot is used, it is very simple to command ten chariots. It is difficult to command one hundred chariots. If you want to command one thousand chariots, only a few people can do it. These people are all famous generals of great powers. The same is true for learning. Learning one school is to command one chariot, and learning three schools is equivalent to commanding one hundred chariots. You must integrate it and have few in the world."

Awesome, Yunyao has to admit that Sun Bin is indeed very smart. Is this the return of all laws? Although Sun Bin is best at commanding warfare, he has learned a rough way through command warfare and has also seen through the essence of other aspects of society. Such people have truly applied what they have learned to all aspects, which is very enlightened.

Nowadays, everyone is illiterate and does not have systematic and efficient cramming education. It takes a lot of energy and financial resources to learn a school. At the same time, only smart people with extraordinary talents can do it.

After all, geniuses like Sun Bin are rare.

Therefore, religion opposes writing books and biography, because it is useless to establish it. For illiterate people, we must pass on words and tell everyone the stories.

Nowadays, those who can learn culture are all nobles. Even if they are down and out, they are still nobles. Landlords still learn relatively few. They don’t even give them to the landlords, so they will naturally not share their knowledge with the landlords.

The Mozhe basically did not spread the proposition through teaching, but like religion, he would accumulate reputation for treating diseases and applying medicines, and then gather everyone to tell stories, which is considered education.

There are too many illiterate people and too few scholars, so they cannot support the integration of the three studies. Therefore, the way the Wei and Qin countries mobilize landlords is to take them to grab money and territory, rather than teaching them to read and recognize words and teach them etiquette and morality.

So the idea is very good. How can everyone learn it? Not to mention the core idea of ​​Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism, even the laws of Qin State, people have to say that Qin law is harsh because it is too difficult to learn.

After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, a large number of Qin officials were sent to the grassroots to promote the law. They were basically just reading it to everyone one by one, and there was no hope for these people to learn the words. At that time, the Qin State had already unified the words, and it was still so difficult for the world to accept the unified law, let alone different countries now have different words and different languages, and it is basically impossible to unite the aristocrats and landlords in the world, let alone make them understand the distinction between China and the barbarians, benevolence and righteousness and love.

Yunyao's idea is very good, but Sun Bin pointed out the most difficult point in a sharp way.

"Since Wei Wuzhang can let the landlord's family support the food and drink of a soldier, it is also OK to let the landlord's family support a scholar." Yun Yao said.

Sun Bin shook his head, "Studying is different from fighting. You can end the war in a year or two, and you will get rewards after winning. So the family only needs to provide one year of rations and get rewards as a reward. What about studying? A year of study is just an introduction, and a few years of study may not necessarily lead to results. In recent years, it only costs no income. I don't think there will be many families that can support them. The landlords have no surplus food either."

The landlords here refer to the owner of the land, not the feudal landlords in the future. As long as they own a piece of land, they belong to the landlords. As for the output, it is completely unfixed. It will definitely not be too much, otherwise there will not be many landlords who will borrow money from the nobles of fiefs.

However, it is indeed a very cost-effective way to save state expenses by the landlords' families. The Qin landlords' family may have to provide one or two soldiers' expenses, including food and clothing. When the Qin State fought an annexation war, it was also possible to fight for two or three years, so the burden on the family was very heavy.

However, this is the tradition of Chinese farmers. Generally speaking, a family supports a person who is separated from the farmland. From craftsmen, scholars, soldiers, and finally intellectuals, the model remains unchanged for three thousand years.

Sun Bin was indeed very powerful. He thought that the cost of studying was much higher than participating in the war. It took several years to study and had no output at all. Soldiers might bring back rewards when they returned home after a year of war. Therefore, it was too difficult to get landlords to support scholars, and it was even more difficult than supporting soldiers.

"As long as you collect less taxes, can you let every landlord family support one student?" Yunyao said.

Sun Bin smiled bitterly and said, "We have spared a lot and then walked back. The original intention of our conversation was that Qi State is now facing a problem, that is, Qi State is unwilling to give concessions to landlords, and not to give concessions because the aristocrats and landlords do not have a unified rule that transcends bloodline. Now we say that education should be popularized, cultivate scholars to increase the influence of landlords, and let both the aristocrats and landlords accept new rules. But after talking about it, the prerequisite is that the aristocrats give in first and collect less taxes? Isn't this like a wheel, and nothing has been solved after a round?"

Let everyone accept the new rules first. When learning new rules, you must first give in. Isn’t this endless?

How did the landlord problem be solved in history? It is very simple that some landlords became rich first, broke the knowledge monopoly of the aristocrats, and then appointed more landlords, just like during the Han Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, a soldier would have to be born in any family with two boys, and a family with only daughters would need to raise horses. It is precisely because of this that the feat of attacking the Huns in the north was the feat of attacking the Huns. The landlords were willing to support Emperor Wu of Han because of the filial and honesty, and they could select talents from the lower-class landlords. Every household could be proud of their ancestors. After all, it would be enough to give birth to a good and filial son. Moreover, there was another wave of productivity in the Han Dynasty. Every household had a car and iron farm tools.

In the Warring States Period, iron farm tools were not fully popular. Most landlords owed the lords money, paid taxes, and had to let their children go to war, and they had to endure the invasion of war. In the Warring States Period, landlords lived in dire straits, so how could they become rich?

Moreover, even if a small number of landlords became rich in the Warring States Period and were enfeoffed and then spontaneously integrated into the aristocratic class and spontaneously became the force to protect the hereditary aristocrats. Unlike the Han Dynasty when the feudal period was abolished, landlords could no longer become members of the aristocrats.

In the Warring States Period, hereditary aristocracy was still the dream circle of the world. Killing old aristocracy and new aristocracy, it was like leeks that always popped up.

Therefore, the Warring States Period was not the Han Dynasty, and the landlords who became rich first would become nobles and would not wave flags and shout for the landlord class, unless the landlord class in the Warring States Period was as powerful as the Han Dynasty.

But if the landlords in the Warring States Period were so strong, it would not be the Warring States Period, and their productivity was here. The Song State was actually the country with the most chance to destroy the nobles. However, the giant was taken away by the Taoist ancestor. After that, the Mo family had been maintaining stability and lost the ability to innovate. In the end, they directly split a few parts and could no longer lead the landlords to surpass the nobles.

How to promote equal education between landlords and aristocrats in the Warring States Period when productivity is limited? Either learn from the Qin aristocrats to give benefits to landlords. It is better to have short pain than long pain. Or rely on the prestige of the Mohist at the bottom and raise his arms and shout, and there is no other way.
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