The word slave labor has not appeared in the mouth of a man who is the emperor for n years.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the landlord class replaced slave owners and became China's ruling class.
Since then, all countries have ushered in the era of humanitarianism.
Slaves slowly faded out of the mainstream of society, and tenant farmers and homesteaders became the new ruled class.
From then on, benevolence, justice and morality became the mantra of the rulers.
In the Han Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties paid special attention to the survival and security of the peasants and small and medium-sized landowners, and strictly restricted and suppressed slave ownership.
Han law clearly stipulates that the head tax on slaves should be levied based on five calculations. It is an attempt to economically restrict and inhibit the landlords, powerful nobles and slave-owning through heavy taxation.
However, as long as they have the opportunity, the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles will try their best to keep slaves.
The number of servants and servants in some wealthy households is measured in units of thousands.
"As rich as a child, a thousand people" has actually become the standard for judging whether a family is a wealthy family.
As for the princes?
Whose feudal kingdom does not have hundreds of slaves, dozens of singers, and thousands of tenants?
In his previous life, Liu Che was in the Hejian Kingdom and saw the miserable plight of the slaves in the homes of wealthy nobles.
Especially those slaves who work for the wealthy nobles, their living conditions and treatment are even more miserable than those of the slave society hundreds of years ago.
They were regarded as tools and livestock, and needed to work in shackles and shackles, and were not allowed to take them off even when resting.
The slaves and maidservants in the princes' homes were treated slightly better.
At the very least, the princes want to face themselves. They dare not abuse them too harshly, lest they be attacked.
But it's not much better.
For example, the story of Wei Qing vividly tells future generations the living situation of slaves of nobles.
Wei Qing's mother and Wei Qing's sisters are all tools used by the Pingyang Hou family to entertain foreign guests.
To put it bluntly, at this time, the female slaves in noble families were prostitutes raised by the nobles. Not to mention guests, even local servants and husbands could have sex with whomever they liked.
Since Liu Che came to the throne, â—Žstyle_txt; has been extremely disgusted with this situation.
He deeply believes that taking fellow citizens as slaves is not only immoral, but also extremely shameful and tragic.
If you have the ability, you should enslave the Yi and Di tribes.
Just like the white people of Omi in later generations.
Who do you think you are a hero if you bully your compatriots and bully others?
Therefore, after he came to the throne, Liu Che legislated and announced that Han slaves should be counted five times, and Yi Di slaves should be counted once. He hoped to economically guide people to raise Yi Di slaves instead of enslaving their compatriots.
It's a pity that there are no eggs.
The powerful landlords in the world still go their own way.
This made Liu Che gnash his teeth in hatred, but there was nothing he could do.
Taking this opportunity this time, Liu Che decided to stand up and teach these scumbags a lesson.
Slaves around China are very cheap.
Take the example of a Bo slave who is currently being offered a sky-high price in Chang'an. He can easily command 100,000 yuan or more.
Judging from what Liu Che learned from Xu Jiu, in the Bo country of southwest Yi, a well-trained Bo slave can be purchased with just a few pieces of silk and some bronze. The cost is only a few thousand dollars, even now The price of Bo slaves is rising, and the maximum price is 10,000 yuan.
If you place a one-time order, there will be discounts for larger orders, such as hundreds.
In addition, Liu Che's two father-in-laws, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, have mainly purchased slave labor from the southwestern Yi countries in the past two years.
The cheapest Dian slave can be purchased for a piece of silk cloth...
Don't be too cheap. After Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying had Liu Che as their backers, they desperately imported slaves from the southwestern barbarians and used them as consumables. As a result, their profits continued to rise...
In just three years, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying opened three new mines, all using southwestern Yi slave workers to mine and squeeze them as hard as they could - they would not feel bad if they died anyway.
And Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, the two big capitalists, after receiving Liu Che's endorsement, fully demonstrated to the southwestern Yi countries: what is the urinary nature of capitalists.
They stirred up troubles everywhere among several powerful countries in southwestern Yi, such as Yelang, Dian and Bozuo countries.
I will tell King Yelang later that the Bo country has a strong army and is ready to deal with your country. We are really worried about your country. As international friends, we recommend to your country the most powerful war weapon and the best choice for defensive expansion. , the most powerful weapons - the Han army's 'standard' crossbows, halberds, spears and chainmails. The prices are reasonable and large quantity offers discounts.
I turned around and ran to tell King Bo - Yelang Kingdom bought our crossbow machine and halberd, please be careful...
As a result, the Bo Kingdom and the Yelang Kingdom both lost a lot of money, bought a bunch of weapons that had been eliminated by the Han army, and then killed everyone.
In the end, in order to repay the military purchase loan, the prisoners of war and the population that had been captured so hard had to be paid back to these two guys.
Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying played this kind of drama many times in the Southwest Yi.
But the Yi countries in the southwest seemed unaware of it and were still easily deceived by them and jumped into the pit.
This is not because the southwestern Yi kings are stupid, but that they have fallen into a vicious cycle - if they do not buy the Han Dynasty's weapons, they will probably be wiped out by the enemy.
In the past three years, among the southwestern Yi countries, seven kingdoms or tribes that have been inherited for a hundred years or more have disappeared permanently.
Their people, nobles, kings, and priests have all become slaves of others.
The only pity is that the Southwest Yi countries, even including the primitive tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, may have a total population of one or two million at most.
This made Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying really worried.
Therefore, these two guys have been funding and encouraging adventurers who go to Dian Kingdom to explore the path of drug addiction.
I hope to open the way to Shendu and obtain cheap Shendu slaves.
Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun, these two semi-official capitalists, can instigate the southwestern barbarian countries into endless melee and vicious cycle.
What would happen to the princes of the Han Dynasty...
Liu Che has no doubt that the southwestern Yi countries will probably become history in more than ten years.
By then, Liu Che will most likely be able to bring these "orphans" who are "outside the country" back to the warm embrace of Chinese mothers without losing any blood. To be fair, the southwest region was once part of China during the heyday of the Chu Kingdom and the Qin Dynasty. part.
At the very least, the Qin Dynasty had officials and troops stationed there.
The kings of the Dian Kingdom were even descendants of the conquerors from the Chu Kingdom.
Now, it depends on whether the princes and nobles are willing to listen to Liu Che, the emperor's 'suggestion'.
Liu Che thinks they should obey...
Liu Che said to Zhao Yu: "Please go and convey my exact words to all the ministers..." (To be continued.)
ps: Sorry, this is the only update today~ I have to get up early to go to the hospital tomorrow to get the CT report. After ruling out that the dizziness is due to lung infection, I may have to do a brain CT and cervical spine CT.
Well, my dizziness has never gone away~
Even my nose seems to be a little uncomfortable today due to intracranial pressure... I can't explain clearly~
