Chapter 47 Tenant, housekeeper, Mo family and me

(There was a major revision at the end of Chapter 46. Book friends who read it early yesterday recommend a glance to avoid the connection.)

Although he has always claimed that he is a child of the Mo family, and today he is still quarreling with Lu Zang in order to defend the "honor" of the Mo family. However, deep down in his heart, Zhang Qian never took the matter of the Mo family seriously!

The so-called Qin Mo's son was just a lie he deliberately made up to cover up his identity as a time traveler. In fact, most of his understanding of the Mohist school comes from the Internet in the 21st century. Most of his understanding of the Mohist classics and the deeds of many Mohist sages comes from papers collected on his mobile phone.

These fragmented mottos and stories are more than enough to chat at the wine table or to deal with Lu Zang’s fault-seeking person. However, they cannot form a complete theoretical system, and they cannot guide him how to survive in a strange environment and social system.

However, except for the Mohist school who has been learning from recently, Zhang Qian has no better theory to support his will.

Deep in his heart, he subconsciously rejected Ren Cong to deal with the difficulties he encountered today. Because he had vaguely expected that after Ren Cong came back, he would definitely raise the board high and put it down gently.

Deep down, he was not willing to bother Zhang Ruoxu for such a trivial matter. When the initial impulse passed, Zhang Ruoxu's figure distanced him from Zhang Qian's mind.

The other party had just a meal with him, a bottle of flower dew, a bottle of eel and a bottle of monoxide oil, and the last three items were the samples they had to find a ceramic bottle to fill the day before yesterday, and they didn't have time to make any refined packaging. He didn't dare to ask for it, and the other party was willing to mix in his family affairs for a few gifts!

In addition, deep down, there was a strong sense of self-esteem that drove Zhang Qian to solve the problems in front of him alone.

During the day, he just claimed to be the direct descendant of Qin Mo, and quoted classics to claim that in front of He Zhizhang, Zhang Ruoxu and others, "Confucianism establishes words, and Mo people practice it." When he should "practice it" himself at night, he lost the chain! What kind of face does he have to go around with several seniors in the future, and even sit and discuss the truth?

Therefore, Zhang Qian must solve this problem himself. The solution to it must also be a little Mohist, or at least it seems to be more Mohist on the surface!

Although, although Zhang Qian had already realized that the so-called seniors' exams were because they thought too much about the exam.

The school exam does not exist, but it does not prevent him from taking what he is today as his first test question after coming to the Tang Dynasty.

Once this idea was born, it took root in his mind and could no longer be curbed.

"Zijuan, take the paper and pen!" Driven by three points of drunkenness, three points of passion and four points of unyielding stubbornness, Zhang Qian slapped the table and gave a passionate order.

"Yes, young man!" Zijuan was stunned and answered happily when she found that Zhang Qian was suddenly completely different.

The young man no longer has to worry about how to deal with the housekeeper, so she no longer has to worry about her young man. As for the housekeeper, the servant, and the tenant, who is right and who is wrong, what does it have to do with her little Zijuan?

"Young man, are you planning..." Ren Quan was confused by Zhang Qian's sudden cheering up. He tentatively leaned forward half a step forward and asked carefully.

"Do the questions!" Zhang Qian glanced at him and answered with great enthusiasm.

He didn't believe that he could even study a copycat of cauliflower and feng oil essence. The little things he encountered this afternoon could really stump him!

Anyway, the worst result is that all the rent is not collected, and the land on the farm will not be sold to outsiders in the future, and they will directly abandon wild flowers and bees!

The little rent collected every year is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the income from the flower dew.

It’s not worth it to ruin your reputation for this loss!

As long as the tenants do not rent land in Zhangjiazhuang, no matter whether they owe other people’s debts or can’t survive, it has nothing to do with him, Zhang Qian!

Cause and effect, cause and effect, and it is the cause and effect.

If you don’t even touch it, it will naturally not be a cause and effect!

"Boom!" There was really a thunder sounding outside the window, and it was going to rain again. The rain in Shenlong for three years was particularly heavy!

"Young man, it's raining!" I couldn't understand what Zhang Qian said, nor did I understand where Zhang Qian's excitement came from. Ren Quan turned his head and looked outside, reminding him with a smile. "Butler Cui, Butler Cui and others are still kneeling at the door!"

"You go out and tell them to go back to their room to rest first. Tonight, I don't have time to pay attention to them!" Zhang Qian frowned and ordered impatiently.

"Yes!" Ren Quan felt relieved and immediately turned around and walked towards the door.

He saw that Zhang Shaolangjun lost face in front of He Zhuangyuan this afternoon and felt uneasy, so he wanted to sweep the two servants Cui, Zhang Ren and Zhang Fu out together.

Zhang Shaolang is angry at the moment, so no matter who comes to persuade him or how he persuades him, it will definitely not work.

As long as you drag it through today, when Zhang Shaolangjun holds Zijuan and sleeps for a while, the anger in his stomach will almost disappear.

When the anger is gone, you will naturally understand that the butler went to pull the Wang family's cow to "kill the chicken to warn the monkey". The butler completely wanted to protect the interests of the village and was selfless.

After understanding the butler's good intentions, Zhang Shaolangjun will naturally no longer deal with the butler too harshly. At most, he will scold him in public to save the lost face and the image he was accidentally corrupted by the butler!

Just when he was happy for Butler Cui, Zhang Qian's voice came from behind: "Wait, let's go, manager, and ask the butler something for me. How many people owed Zhuangzi's rent and famine around me? Then, let the butler, Zhang Ren and Zhang Fu go back and think about it carefully, where were they wrong today?!" (Note 1: Famine is another name for debt.)

"As for the order!" Ren Quan felt more and more relaxed when he heard it, and his steps were moving like flying, as if he had suddenly learned light skills.

Shaking his head at Ren Quan's back, Zhang Qian turned his gaze to the table.

Zijuan has already taken the paper and pen.

The pen is a wooden charcoal strip that he specially made for himself. Writing with this thing is not as comfortable as a pencil, and it is impossible to write too small, but its convenience is far greater than that of a pen.

Paper is a mulberry paper commonly used by scholars in the Tang Dynasty. It is three times thicker than the A4 white paper in later generations, and the surface is not white enough. But it is stronger and has a length of more than ten feet. I keep writing from right to left, and after writing the whole piece of paper, it rolls up, and it just turns into a "roll".

Zhang Qian didn’t know how many "volumes" they would always be divided into when writing books in ancient China. Is it because some of the books in the Tang Dynasty were rolled up and stored instead of binding them into books?

He doesn't have time and is too lazy to guess.

With a three-point drunkenness, Zhang Qian adjusted the paper that should have been spread horizontally and spread it from top to bottom on Zijuan's quickly tidied up the table.

The mulberry paper spreads along the table like a waterfall, sliding down the end, and falls straight to the ground. Taking a deep breath, Zhang Qian lifts his pen and hangs his wrist. At the top of the mulberry paper, he slowly writes three sets of Chinese characters, tenant, housekeeper, and Mohist.

Put down his pen, tilted his head, and carefully looked at these three groups of Chinese characters for a moment. He raised his pen and hung his wrist again, and wrote a big "I" at a distance from the two words "Mojia".

"Boom!" Lightning flashed through the window, shining his shadow on the snow-white wall. At this moment, his shadow looked like a madman!

Zijuan was startled by the thunder, and quickly ran to the door and summoned the servant to close the window guard outside. Lightning and Qiuyu were quickly isolated from the wooden window guard, but there was still thunder, which continued.

"Right? Wrong?" A set of simplified Chinese characters and symbols were written under "tenant" and "steward" respectively. Zhang Qian stopped writing and began to ponder again, accompanied by the rolling thunder.

Try to put aside the influence of the opera "White-Haired Girl" on him. He tried to think about the problems in front of him without any emotion, just like he treated the test paper.

From the perspective of protecting the interests of the employer, Mr. Cui can only say that he did his work too roughly, but did not make principled mistakes. The butler's salary is paid by the owner of the mansion, and he must ensure the profits of the mansion's owner as much as possible. If he does not perform his duties, he will be sorry for the "high salary" offered to him by the mansion's owner, and the "employees" under his command will also think that he is weak and hopeful!

From the perspective of tenants, if they have paid the rent and mediocre service, there is not much food left on hand, they will definitely find a way to lose the rent. Because the rent and mediocre service is collected by the government, the government has a strong deterrence and harm to them. However, the owner of the land rents the deterrence and harm to them is incomparable to the government.

Therefore, when necessary, the butler must show his harm! He will definitely choose a tenant who owes rent to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.

From the perspective of the butler, they all made similar choices in the Tang Dynasty, but the methods they took were different.

From the perspective of the tenants of the Tang Dynasty, the housekeeper's approach is unforgivable and very wrong. Because after the housekeeper collects the tenant rent, the whole tenant's family will go hungry. When the housekeeper takes away the plowing ox, the whole tenant's family will lose his livelihood!

Even in the case of Wang's exception, although Wang Tian has a serious plot of favoring boys over girls, and even when Wang Tian was so poor that he could not afford to pay the rent, he still had to support his eldest son to study. Her approach is understandable.

If a scholar is not cultivated, the descendants of the Wang family will always be tenants! There will never be a chance to climb up!

No one is qualified to deprive them of their upward space and block their upward path, even if they are tenants!

"Boom!" Thunder and lightning struck down from the air, shaking the roof, shaking the earth. God, I don't know who was angry with him, it's already autumn, and a thunderstorm has actually dropped!

Zijuan and Ren Quan, who had just completed the task and returned to the house, were frightened by the thunder and the lightning that shone through the cracks in the window guard. Zhang Qian, who had completely entered the exam, was completely unaware of the thunder and lightning.

Between the "tenant" and the "steward", a shield and a spear were drawn. He continued to pick up his pen, flying and dancing downwards.

If the housekeeper is not punished, the housekeeper will definitely become more and more serious. Under the pressure of the housekeeper, the tenants will become less and less profitable. Then, they will sell cattle, daughters, and sell land that was already insufficient in their hands.

If the housekeeper is punished, in the absence of money to support his family, the tenants will definitely follow the example of Wang and rush to arrears the tenant rent. Even the situations of gaining qualities as Ren Quan described earlier will appear.

People must live first before they can consider morality and conscience. Ren Quan is right, but Zhang Qian himself did not have the courage to admit it before.

In this case, a smarter solution is to beat the housekeeper and restore the image of the owner of the manor. At the same time, all debts of the Wang family will be exempted and the lease will be terminated with the Wang family.

In this way, the owner of the manor is still a kind gentleman. With the precedent of the Wang family losing their leasing qualifications, other tenants will also carefully consider whether to pay the tenant rent in full or be terminated.

I believe that in most cases, tenants will choose the former.

As for the unlucky housekeeper, who made him get his employer's salary? He has no choice but to blame him for what he deserves.

Wang's family broke the contract first, and the owner of the manor had done his best to his family. The life and death of their whole family in the future had nothing to do with Zhangjiazhuang!

The thunder gradually became smaller, the rain was gurgling outside the window, and the cold air penetrated the bones.

He sighed softly, and tried to expel the sympathy that had just surged in his heart. Zhang Qian turned his gaze to the group of words "Mojia".

What should I do if I am a child of the Mo family?

He wrote "Municipal Love" under the word "Mojia", and then stopped writing, and shook his head and sighed.

After sighing, he wrote again, "Respect the elderly and the elderly, and the young and the young and the young!" Then he sighed even longer.

His understanding of Mohism and Confucianism is only this. He has not systematically learned theories and cannot be used to learn from them.

If he follows the theory of "universal love", he will punish the housekeeper heavily, and then announce the exemption of all the tenants' arrears, and then hope for the kindness of the tenants. The servants know how to be grateful, no one can make a move, and everyone is honest and orderly. Also, God will put away his bad temper as soon as possible, and give him good luck and good harvests in the coming year!

I'm afraid it's not the Mohist school, but the sage rule entrusted by Confucianism. In fact, Confucianism has been waiting for more than 2,500 years but has not yet seen it. Their ultimate solution is to blame the emperor for the natural disasters. Let the emperor issue an edict to blame himself, or find a way to change the emperor to lead the family.

As for whether this final plan is effective, it is different from one's own opinion. At least, the public's grievances will be temporarily reduced, and the losses suffered by the owners will be controlled within their ability.

The real Mohist sages, according to what Zhang Qian knew, would not see the reappearance of the saints' rule, divide their own fields and give them to the tenants, and then wear straw raincoats to grow and eat by themselves. From then on, they would not wear brocade and eat without meat.

He also casually drew a straw raincoat and a hoe at the bottom of the group of words "Mojia". Zhang Qian shook his head with a wry smile. Although the days before the time traveled were average, he had meat every day. After coming to the Tang Dynasty, he basically had no meat. He only had vegetarian life, and he knew that he could not live a vegetarian life at all!

As for planting and eating by oneself, he believed that in less than a year, he would starve to death on the field.

Obviously, he, a child of the Mo family, can only wear a piece of skin and cannot practice it in any way!

After sighing again, Zhang Qian turned his gaze to the word "Butler" again, and then gritted his teeth and drew a whip under the Butler, and then changed his hand to a carriage.

His eyes swept quickly toward the tenant, and when his pen fell, he drew a mantis.

He has no courage and no ability to choose to be a true "Mo family" child. He seems to be able to win people's hearts by punishing the housekeeper and use the method of termination of the lease with the Wang family to serve as a warning to You.

Then, the housekeeper continued to protect the interests of him, the owner of the manor. In order not to fall into the termination of the contract, the tenants could only pay the tenant rent as soon as possible. Then, day after day, year after year...

"If you don't be an An An starving mantis, you will be like a mantis!" A sentence of unmannered words suddenly came into his mind. (Note: This sentence was spoken by a great scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. It is recommended that the other party starve to death and not rebel.)
To be continued...