Fusu seemed a little unwilling to hear it and replied casually:
"It's nothing more than wolves, deer, flowers and the like."
In fact, it's not that Fusu doesn't want to hear it, it's that he doesn't like to see his outlook on life and world being shattered again.
Shen Bing nodded and said:
"Although they are different, they are not far apart."
"Some fishermen once caught fish and kept them in wooden barrels. Because the water in the barrel was stagnant, the fish would soon die one after another."
"But one day the fishermen put a catfish that was going to feed on fish into a wooden barrel together, and found that the fish was hiding in all directions. In the end, it was able to survive for several days without dying."
"Wolves and deer also have this phenomenon. If there were no wolves in the forest, the deer would not need to run to avoid being hunted by wolves. Instead, they would lose their vitality and even have their lifespan shortened."
Fusu couldn't help but laugh:
"The lieutenant general means that if there is no war, the life span of the people will be shortened?"
"People can live as long as they have food and clothing, so why do they need war?"
"Fusu has never heard such a ridiculous statement."
Shen Bing shook his head and said:
"This is not what I meant."
"My subordinate used the metaphor of catfish and wolf, which means that without war, society will progress slowly due to lack of motivation."
"It may even stagnate."
Fusu raised his head and looked at Shen Bing in shock and asked:
"Why did the deputy general say this?"
"Everyone in the world regards war as a scourge, but only the lieutenant general thinks it can make society progress!"
Shen Bing explained:
"It is said that one is born in sorrow and dies in happiness."
"Master, just think about it, if the world is peaceful and the people are rich, why do you need to think about how to make the fields produce more crops?"
"Why do we need to make hand saws and other tools to cut down trees and make various siege equipment?"
"Why do you need to build a wall between you and me and introduce the art of war and the way to govern the country?"
"There is no need to make weapons, armor, arrows, etc."
"Master, do you think so?"
Fusu couldn't help being stunned.
What Shen Bing said was that if there really was no war, what the people would actually do was farm, eat, weave and wear clothes.
Even if there is no war, there is no need for the country to exist, so there will be no way to govern the country.
Then all these Confucian, Legalist and other ideas are useless, as long as "governing by doing nothing" is enough.
This is like the school of fish being chased by catfish or the herd of deer being chased by wolves... because there are catfish and wolves chasing them, they will make progress.
The same is true for people.
Because there is a war threatening them...if they fail, they are likely to be enslaved or even die, so they have to progress, reform, and move forward, and then society will develop.
After thinking for a long time, Fusu sighed thoughtfully, nodded and said:
“A good saying is ‘Born in sorrow and died in happiness’.”
"There is nothing better than this in the world."
"What the deputy general said makes sense, Fusu has learned a lesson!"
After a pause, Fusu asked again:
"Fusu has never heard what the deputy general said, but I don't know who said it?"
Shen Bing was stunned.
This is analyzed using dialectical and scientific methods. How can it be useful?
If I had to name anyone... it would be scientists.
After thinking about it, Shen Bing could only answer:
"This is just my subordinate's random thinking and has no origin."
Unexpectedly, Fusu was even more impressed when he saw this:
"The lieutenant general is too modest. What the lieutenant general said is easy to understand and very reasonable. How can it be just random thoughts?"
"In the past, although Fusu read the books of saints and sages, he still had many difficult questions."
"Now that I heard the deputy general's words, I suddenly felt enlightened. Fusu thanked the deputy general!"
Shen Bing was naturally polite.
At this time, Fusu had already accepted Shen Bing's theory.
This is not surprising at all.
Because indeed, as Fusu said, although a hundred schools of thought are contending and various ideas are emerging one after another, each school is actually at an immature and groping stage, and there are bound to be many unclear problems.
Shen Bing, a modern man, has a modern society's outlook on life and world view. He only needs to adapt to this era...the unexplainable things can be explained immediately.
Shen Bing hasn't mentioned industrialization, separation of powers, etc. yet.
Therefore, the experience of modern society is still very useful. This not only refers to the physical objects of inventions and creations, but also such advanced concepts that can be borrowed.
Especially for people like Fusu who care more about governing the country or the common people in the world, these ideas must be used to conquer him.
Shen Bing received the Chu people who surrendered step by step, but Chu King Qi's side was in chaos.
Because the leaflets were not only distributed to the fiefdoms of the Chu nobles, but also reached Dongting and affected the people of King Qi of Chu.
To be precise, it was not "sent" to Dongting.
Shen Bing didn't have the time to infiltrate the leaflets into Dongting to influence Chu Wang Qi's people.
The reason why the flyers are "distributed" here is because this thing is easy to hide and take away...it's just a piece of paper, fold it in half and then fold it in half again, fold it into a small ball and stuff it into the corner of your clothes, if you want to search it out It really takes some effort.
Then there will inevitably be relatives, friends, etc. between the cities of Chu State. In addition, this paper can be worth eight or ten cents. Merchants will buy it at a low price and sell it to the south where the price is higher. ...So it naturally circulates to the hinterland of Dongting.
This is the power of flyers.
Before this, people often transmitted news by word of mouth. Among them, "word of mouth" was diluted as it was passed on. As a result, no one believed it and it lost its "lethality".
But the leaflets are different. The leaflets are "certificates". Once you take them out and read them, you will believe them: as long as you go to the Huaihe River to surrender to the Qin Dynasty, you will get fields and free new tools.
What do people need?
Isn’t this what you have been working for all your life?
There are too many people in Chu State who have no land and can only work for the nobles and get a little bit of food...
This is different from the feudal system of Qin State.
The Qin State has a tax rate, such as one tax out of twelve, so the more you work, the more you pay, and you still have a surplus after paying the tax.
In Chu State, serfdom was purely about purchasing labor force. The yield in the fields had nothing to do with the serfs. They could just give you so much food that you would not starve to death and then work in the fields all day long.
So what else is there to think about?
Of course, I chose to flee to the Huaihe River and join the Qin Dynasty. Besides, there are many of my fellow villagers there. It is said that some people have gone there and successfully obtained the fields...
As a result, even Dongting began to lose its population.
This made King Qi of Chu worried.
He and Xiang Yan thought about controlling the loss problem but found that it was very difficult.
Because it is impossible to close the city gate and lock all the people in the city and prevent them from leaving... the people go out of the city to work in the fields outside the city, and if the city gate is closed, these people will actually be useless.
Once the people go out to work in the city, it will be very difficult to restrain them.
There is no city wall outside the city, and the farm work is spread over a large area. Especially in the Dongting area, there are water nets and dense forests everywhere. If you hide casually, you will lose sight of it, and you can't see it no matter how you look at it.