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Chapter 9 7. Common people use hidden weapons

law of blood reward 吴思 1643Words 2018-03-03
"The Book of Songs·Qi Feng·Futian" describes the barren grass in the public land. In the wild grass, I recognized the "weapon of struggle" of the common people, which is a hidden weapon of "destroyed" The poem goes: (Original text: "There is no field to cultivate the field, and Wei Wei is arrogant and arrogant. No one is worried about people far away, and he is exhausted. No field is cultivated, and Wei Wei is Jie Jie. There is no thought of people far away, and he is exhausted.") The so-called Futian refers to the public land in the well field system.The "public family" 2,780 years ago refers to the aristocratic group, which is the leading class above the common people group, and the land of the public family is the public land.

Mencius once described the system of "community raising public land": "After finishing public affairs, dare to manage private affairs", it sounds like talking about collective large fields and private plots under the people's commune system.Of course, the proportions are different. The public land in the well field system is only one-ninth, while the large fields of the people’s communes account for 97% of the total cultivated land; For the most part, private plots can only be planted in spare time.However, the harvest brought by private plots far exceeds this amateur-level ratio, because commune members do not work as hard on public land as they do on private plots.

More than 20 years ago, when I was a production team leader in the countryside, I was very worried about the overgrowth of grass in the public fields.After reading it, I realized that this is not the "sorrow of the times" of the People's Commune.Go back 2,700 to 800 years, and look at the fields of the Zhou Dynasty. The public fields are already overgrown with weeds.This is not an isolated evidence. He Xiu's annotation in "Chunqiu Gongyang Zhuan" also said, "The people are not willing to do their best in the public land." Laziness is the common people's weapon against public land.There are many descriptions of collective agricultural labor scenes in the book, in which we can see the figure of the supervisor, which is a tool for the aristocratic class to deal with laziness.The outcome of this war is very clear, and the grass is barren in the field, which means that the nobles have lost the battle.The ruling class possesses powerful force, and it is difficult for ordinary people to win on the battlefield with formal tactics, but they can't be provoked but can be avoided.The common people are mostly scattered, and it is difficult to supervise. Only you know whether you work hard or not, and only you know whether you are careful or not.The information advantage of front-line practitioners cannot be taken away, so information warfare can be fought.This is the "low-cost damage ability" that is difficult for nobles to deal with.

The failure more than 2,000 years ago forced the leading class at that time to abandon the system of "using the power of the people to govern public land", and a large number of public land was converted into private land.Collective labor in public fields was also reformed, and changed to a system of collecting "public grain" from private fields. This was the initial tax mu of Lu State, which occurred in 594 BC.This institutional change, which was regarded as a revolution by later historians, indeed opened up a win-win situation in which the two classes benefited from each other, and the newly established rules were not mysterious. If you keep enough for the collective, the rest will be your own", that is, the large-scale contract that emerged in 1978-it turns out that the large-scale contract was not the first.

Imagine that era, the era.The young lovers still miss and hate each other, and the crickets still sing the same, from the fields to the eaves.Hundreds of generations have passed in the human world, but human nature, like that of crickets, has not changed much.Our hearts and the hearts of the ancients are interlinked. Where did those unreasonable hearts and thoughts go?Where are those who refuse to adopt the new rules?There must be such genres and characters, but it has nothing to do with the overall situation.Only one or two of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period or the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period who recognize the new rules is enough. For example, one Shang Yang of the Qin State is enough.Those stubborn countries and stubborn people were finally wiped out and eliminated.Their logistics supply is insufficient, the morale of the army is insufficient, and their national strength is relatively weak. Sooner or later they will be eliminated.

When I first joined the team in the countryside, I asked the lazy members why they didn't work hard.A poor peasant asked: "How much do I have?" It took me a long time to understand that this is the core calculation of farmers living in public ownership.In the private plot, whether you work hard or be lazy, good or bad is your own.Not so in the collective field.For example, there are 80 households in Dazhai, and if you plan 80 picks, only one pick is for yourself.Conversely, if you are lazy and skip 80 pickaxes, you only bear the loss of one pickaxe, and the loss of the other 79 pickaxes can be passed on to the team members.Calculated from the perspective of material interests, the power to motivate Dazhai commune members to dig two picks more or less is only one eighty-tenth of that of private plots, and the leadership's appeal and deterrence cannot make up for the 79% in a long-term and stable manner. This is the reason why the Dazhai road gave way to the big contract.

Our ancestors also said another reason from the perspective of information or supervision costs. "Lu Shi Chunqiu·Shenfen" says: When everyone cultivates a piece of land together, the collective farming speed will be slow, because there are ways to hide laziness.After the land is divided, the work will be faster, because there is no way to be lazy. (Original text: "Nowadays when the land is divided, it is too late to do it publicly, and to hide its strength; to divide the land is to be quick, and to hide nothing too late.") It is easy for a hero to underestimate the common people, but it is not the common people who are finally defeated.Mao Zedong commanded the most powerful force in Chinese history, all the way masculine and purely on the offensive, not only to eliminate small peasants, but also to completely transform people's hearts, trying to create a new set of values ​​and a way of calculating gains and losses.At that time, the propaganda was overwhelming and the indoctrination was pervasive.But for more than twenty years, many things seem to be distant stories in the novel.

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