If you want to control someone who makes the powerful feel useful, the best way is to make that person sign a contract of betrayal.
After becoming a master, he naturally wants his slaves to do whatever they want. Buying, selling, and beating to death are all very common things.
Before the Tang Dynasty, it was nothing for a master to kill a few slaves. The master had no responsibility. This was the class gap.
In the Tang Dynasty, laws began to appear stating that slaves could not be beaten to death easily, but this did not mean that the master had no chance to kill the slave, there were still some.
It is completely possible to kill a guilty slave and then pour some dirty water on it. Then it is normal to kill a guilty slave. Even if the master beats the slave to death, it will be fine.
As a precaution, just kill a slave and give the slave's family some money, or even sell the entire family at once, and it will be absolutely fine.
Even if ordinary people don't want to become slaves, those powerful people can definitely frame them and turn innocent people into guilty people. They may directly be sold by the government and become official slaves.
That is one level lower than ordinary slaves. After all, private slaves who have signed a deed of sale still have the opportunity to redeem themselves and may become civilians, but official slaves basically have no such possibility, and there is no such thing as redemption.
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When she thought of this possibility, Ling Xiao immediately gave up the idea of being in the limelight. As a down-and-out daughter of a noble family, someone might be willing to step on her hard, and the two younger brothers of the original owner would also be unlucky. When she thought of this possibility,
, she immediately gave up her original idea.
She is not afraid of anyone, but she has to think about the Tao family. Even if no one is forcing her, if there is no backing in the situation in Beijing, she will either be strongly underpriced or may be plotted against.
Ling Xiao thought for a moment, and he realized that he could indeed earn a lot of money by growing flowers well, but it would obviously take a lot of time, and the flowers always had to have a place to grow, so he simply couldn't hide his identity.
After thinking for a while, I decided to find another way to make money so that others would not be able to find out who was behind it, or was it to create some mechanism or something like that?
Try making it into something like a bonsai, with scenery like waterfalls, rocks, etc. But when you make it, it should not be too delicate, so as not to cause trouble.
The Tao family doesn't have a strong backing now, so they generally don't want to cause trouble. Anyway, Ling Xiao doesn't want people to think he's too capable.
I want to make a few of these bonsais and the like and then sell them wholesale. After buying this batch, I will stop making them.
This way, you can make a lot of money and prevent people from finding out who made the bonsai. Ling Xiao made a note of this idea.
If you are going to buy something, be sure to cover your vest, as it may cause new trouble.
Those who make government agencies should also be considered workers. If the work is too exquisite, someone may take a fancy to it.
This was not Ling Xiao trying to scare him, but a real thing he had seen in the capital.
The store's business was so good that it was as attractive as a golden ingot.
There are new powerful people who want to make shopkeepers their slaves.
Ling Xiao was surprised to see that this was indeed the case.
Fortunately, this shop owner already has backing support.
I didn't become a slave to that family.
This incident sounded an inner alarm bell for Ling Xiao.
She found that the rich and powerful really looked like Celestial Dragons everywhere.
Don't care about other people's wishes at all and deprive others of their freedom at will.
While she was eating, she used her skills to insinuate the waiter.
Only then did we know that some good people were directly turned into slaves because of their unique skills.
If that family wants to live as civilians and not join the slave class, it will be a dead end.
There were deaths due to this, and the broken family had to swallow all the pain and leave the capital.
No one knew where that family had gone. Ling Xiao felt helpless when he found out. This was a living thing.
Ling Xiao now looks back at the original owner's memories and finds that the original owner's life was very peaceful and safe, with no such worries at all.
For the original owner, it was a big deal that her step-grandmother didn't like her very much. Other times, she ate and drank without even realizing that class conflicts were very obvious.
After thinking about it carefully, Ling Xiao suddenly understood that the original owner was a little girl who didn't know the situation outside at all. Her troubles were just small worries. She never thought that there were many more miserable things in the world.
matter.
The little girl should have been very well protected by her parents. She did not see this situation. After all, she was still too young. People must have hope when they are alive. If they have been living in suffering, they will either become numb or become cynical. The original owner
Parents don't want to.
If the original owner was still there, she would have grown up rapidly during the process, but it would have been very painful because she would have found that everything was different from before.
Ling Xiao felt a little heavy when he thought of this. Although it is not a troubled time now, it means that troubled times are coming. I just don't know if there are alien races?
What should I do if I check it out after I go back? Ling Xiao feels a little headache. Something goes wrong every time he travels through time, so there is no easy journey.
After seeing things with his own eyes and hearing some things with his own ears, Ling Xiao suddenly had a premonition: The world where singing and dancing are peaceful may be on the verge of collapse.
No! You need to think carefully about what you should do in the future? Ling Xiao resisted the urge to spit out the fragrance and thought about what to do.
First of all, the two younger brothers of the original owner should exercise appropriately to keep them in good health, otherwise they would not be able to run away even if they wanted to.
It seems that we still need to make money. In addition to tinkering with a batch of bonsais, we also need to think of other ways to make money.
After much deliberation, she decided to go into embroidery and make something rare, such as double-sided embroidery.
After this adventure in the capital, Ling Xiao decided that his money-making activities should not be known to anyone.
After thinking it through, she finally decided to do it slowly, waiting to get to know the capital better.
That is, waiting to find out who the local gangster is and how to hide his identity.
After everything is done, it's not too late to take action. Anyway, she has space to collect her things.
It's impossible for outsiders to know who did it.
As for looking for so-called local snakes, the reason is to make people unable to find themselves.
Let everything appear in its normal place but not be found.
Anyway, her original owner's parents had specially prepared some money before leaving, so there was no shortage of money.
Let's plan it slowly. Ling Xiao is not in a hurry. This body has not been refined yet and is still a little weak.
Ling Xiao left the capital without hesitation. Although it looked very prosperous and majestic, it was completely decayed inside.
Those who are at the top will one day usher in a riot, and some of the powerful will be prosperous and wealthy, while others will be destroyed.
After thinking about the place where he lived now, Ling Xiao felt a little headache and felt that it was necessary to see which place was more suitable for living.
Anyway, the area near the capital is not very reliable, because once a war breaks out, the area near the capital is most likely to be affected, and you must know that it may be a battlefield.
The people who may become the new overlord and the people who originally protected the capital may fight here in the capital, and ordinary civilians are the most vulnerable to harm.
Ling Xiao thought for a moment and decided not to move for now. The situation in the capital was so bad, and it wasn't much better in other places. It might be even worse. There were a lot of local emperors outside.
Of course, the most important reason is that Ling Xiao feels that the original owner's brothers and their two children are too young, so it is best not to move casually and settle down first.
Yuzhen watched all this silently. She couldn't imagine such a situation, with the weak and the strong everywhere. "Is this the life of ordinary people?"
"The life of mortals is like this. Many of them are doing nothing, many are doing evil, and some are trying their best." Ling Xiao nodded.
"Actually, they are all the same, both mortals and cultivators are the same." Yu Zhen comforted Ling Xiao in turn, with a somewhat reminiscence look.
She recalled the days she spent on the Wooden Wolf. As cultivators, they were not really able to transcend the mundane world.
The monks would fight over a copy of the technique, setting traps for others in the process.
In other words, it's the same everywhere, everyone is working hard for their own survival.
Although it seems that the people at the lowest level here are living a miserable life and are simply weak.
Yuzhen thought of some of the most incompetent monks on Timber Wolf.
They generally use the most rubbish techniques on the planet.
He himself belongs to the lowest level of monks, and his life is very miserable.
In the final analysis, Yuzhen feels that having strong strength is the most important thing.
"Yeah! That's right! If you don't have the strength, you're just waiting to be picked on. You'd better work hard."
After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he felt that he should live well in the other courtyard for the time being and accumulate strength.
Fortunately, the identity of the original owner is okay. Fortunately, he is not a son of a family, but belongs to the common people.
Of course, although Ling Xiao was separated from the original owner, the second uncle's family, he still needed to contact him in the days to come.
You must know that a small village is also a small society. Don't think that the country must have simple folk customs. Don't be kidding.
Most of the villagers are uneducated and don't know any laws at all. What's even more frightening is that some small villages have local bullies.
There are also those kind of second-rate people who exist. One bad person will cause a lot of trouble, so the second uncle's family is a talisman. Anyway, she can't directly reveal that she is very capable.
Although she can show some magic tricks to scare away those with ulterior motives, this means that she may lose her vest and be favored by other emperors. She will leave, but the original owner and her family will still live.
They still have to live in this world where the land is not the land of the king. The original owner accepted the idea of loyalty to the emperor, so Ling Xiao must consider whether the original owner can accept it. She must know that her behavior is on the verge of deviance.
I don’t know if the original owner will accept it.
Ling Xiao knew that the original owner was an intelligent, kind and generous girl. Even though her cousin was very rude to her and they had different ideas, she still paid more attention to her cousin as she always paid attention to family education.
It is even possible that the original owner would help Tao Baozhu in many things for the sake of the same clan in the years to come. This was engraved in her bones after years of education, and it was difficult to change for a while.
But Ling Xiao is completely different from the original owner. Ling Xiao, who comes from modern society, pays more attention to people's conduct. A cousin like Tao Baozhu will not be taken into consideration by Ling Xiao at all.
Even though the blood relationship between Tao Baozhu and this body is very close, it can be seen that Tao Baozhu's current outlook on life is incompatible, so why should he keep thinking about it?
As the saying goes, people with different paths do not seek each other, and it is just right for each other to go their own way. If the original owner disagrees, Ling Xiao will not touch someone else's cold butt with a warm face.
After hearing what Ling Xiao said, Yuzhen agreed very much. The original owner had a good temperament before, but he cared too much about the so-called family.
Ling Xiao was thinking about what to do during this period. Should he care about the family like the original owner? Or should he do it according to his own ideas.
In the end, I decided to follow my heart. You have to remember that the time between time travel and the return of the original owner is unknown.
I wonder if the original owner will encounter anything particularly difficult during this period?
There is no shortage of hardships in this world, and some hardships can turn people into devils.
The previous original owner was still a young child and thought the world was peaceful.
In fact, if you look closely now, you can see that it has rotted to a certain extent.
Hey! Then will the father of the original owner see something?
This idea suddenly popped up in Ling Xiao's mind, and it was well-founded.
Nowadays, girls mostly have skills such as reading, learning calligraphy, etc., and more importantly, some life skills.
But the original owner’s educational female celebrity was not too much, and Dafang’s family paid more attention to the Six Arts of Gentleman.
Under this education, the original owner could ride a horse. As for the original owner's younger brothers, Sanlang and Wulang, they were still young and couldn't do it yet.
Thinking of this, Ling Xiao seemed to have opened up a new world, and thought more about the original owner's ability to follow his mother's stewardship.
The original owner's mother once told her how to hide things in certain places. So, should the other courtyard build a cellar?
Ling Xiao thought about it for a moment, and then found the hidden property according to the memory of the original owner. After finding it, Ling Xiao once again lamented that someone's life was tragic.
Ling Xiao took a look at the things he found based on the original owner's impression, and found that the original owner's parents were more concerned about books and had built special places in several places to store books.
In addition, some grains are prepared. Mother Xia knows and is responsible for this. The new grains every year are not sold, but are specially stored, and last year's old grains are used to eat.
Ling Xiao felt that it was only because the couple felt that the situation in the capital was not very good that they took the opportunity to leave the officialdom and return to their hometown.
In order for the children to protect themselves, the eldest daughter was taught the Six Arts of a Gentleman. For female celebrities, cooking skills were also taught.
They even asked the original owner to learn some survival skills, and if you take a closer look, it is the deepest love that the original owner's parents have for their children.
All they did was to give their children a chance to survive, and they really thought too far.
At this point, we can see the thoughts of the original owner's parents from many places, everything is for survival.
They simply ignore the differences between men and women and only think about increasing their survivability.
For example, if you are riding a horse, one can ride a horse and the other cannot.
Who is more likely to survive? Naturally, the one who can ride a horse.
Their daughter feels more at ease after undergoing this kind of training.
And a talented woman who can only write poetry, which one is more likely to survive?
After such a comparison, Ling Xiao suddenly realized that they had been prepared for a long time.
Why did the couple let their eldest daughter take her two younger brothers on the road at the most critical moment?
On the one hand, he was forced to do so, and on the other hand, it was because he trusted his eldest daughter that the car the original owner rode in was specially built.
Although it is smaller, it is lighter and can run faster. In addition, they also equipped it with some things to ensure the safety of the child.
Alas! The original owner’s father and mother were good parents who cherished their children. Unfortunately, they were held back by their elders and their lives came to an abrupt end.