The eight hundred and thirteenth chapter is never allowed [Also 18/23]
The Western Regions and the grasslands have completely different meanings to Chen Guo.
The grasslands are the life and death enemy of Chen State. They are extremely fierce. For decades, they have burned, killed, and looted on the border of Chen State. They regard the Han people as cattle and sheep and humiliate them wantonly. Chen State calls them "barbarians", which is a bit fearful.
factors are in it.
Now that the grassland and the Chen Kingdom are at peace, the people feel more relieved, and the fear of the Sushen people in their bones has not disappeared.
As for the Western Regions, since the founding of Chen State, the Western Regions have been vassals of Chen State.
They have never had a war with the Chen State. They regard the Chen State as a superior state and will pay tribute every few years. When the people of the Chen State meet people from the Western Regions, they will naturally feel superior.
Because women from the Western Regions are more beautiful and more exotic and wild than Han women, there are many powerful officials in the capital who like to take women from the Western Regions as concubines. However, the Western Regions are too far away from the capital, so their demands are often met with failure.
Not satisfied.
Decades ago, someone discovered the business opportunity in this.
They carried a large amount of supplies and went deep into the Western Regions in exchange for women from the Western Regions. Since most of the small countries in the Western Regions were poor, they could exchange a living person back with a small amount of silk, tea, and porcelain, and then sold it to the upper class in the capital at a high price, and continued to use it.
With the silver you get, you can expand the size of your caravan. If you go back and forth several times, you can accumulate an extremely large fortune.
Of course, businessmen pursue profits, and some people are not even willing to pay the small costs. They secretly rob women from the Western Regions and abduct them back to the capital, doing business that has no capital but can obtain huge profits.
The imperial court had explicitly prohibited this before. Chen Guo claimed to be a state of etiquette, so naturally it could not do such a thing to its friends.
But one moment after another, Xiaowan has become increasingly powerful in recent years, posing a huge threat to Chen State. With constant friction on the border between the two countries, Chen State will naturally not legislate to protect its enemies.
This has led to some people becoming more aggressive, unabashedly and unscrupulously engaging in human trafficking.
Ironically, although Xiaowan was in a tense situation with the Chen State, they never killed or tortured prisoners, nor did they burn, kill or loot at the Chen State's border. They would use Chen State's prisoners of war to exchange for their own prisoners.
He also sent envoys to Beijing to protest against the atrocities committed by some powerful officials in Chen State...
Of course, Chen Guo ignored this.
Even if some censors made some suggestions on this matter out of inner shame, they were quickly drowned out by the opposition.
To Chen Guo, Xiaowan is like a younger brother with stiff wings. He has always been an inferior younger brother, but one day he will break away from Chen Guo's control and fly solo. Naturally, he will not feel comfortable being the elder brother.
Chu Guo was once Chen Guo's younger brother, and he also wanted to fly solo. Chen Guo's attitude towards Chu Guo was completely different from that towards Xiaowan, because Chu Guo's wings were so hard that Chen Guo didn't even want to touch them.
Touch, I can only watch this little brother getting stronger day by day.
Obviously, Chen Guo did not want Xiaowan to become the second Chu State.
King Huai flipped through the information in his hand, smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, and said: "In a country of etiquette, who is the country of etiquette? Some people are full of benevolence, justice and morality, but they are full of male thieves and female prostitutes..."
After being in contact with King Huai for a long time, Tang Ning gradually realized that although he looked like a salty fish, he actually had the soul of an angry young man.
Tangning was also looking through information about Xiaowan, and could understand King Huai's mood at this moment.
Although he is not from Chen country, he is at least half of it. As half of Chen country, he feels only shame at this moment.
Compared with Chen State, Xiaowan is more like a state of etiquette.
They treated prisoners more humanely and humanely. When they treated Chen prisoners of war well, Chen people went to the Western Regions together, robbed ordinary people, sold them back to their country, and used them as slaves.
In their country, women can also serve as officials. This is a joke in Chen State. The great Confucianists laughed at them because they had reversed yin and yang and messed up the ethical principles. Soon the country would be destroyed.
In their country, nobles broke the law and were guilty of the same crimes as the common people. At this time, the powerful officials of Chen State were still buying people's lives with money.
In the eyes of others, Xiaowan is a joke.
In Tang Ning's eyes, the other party's system and structure have surpassed Chen State and the world by who knows how many years.
There should not be much difference between the Chen people in the eyes of Xiaowan people and the Sushen people in the eyes of Chen people.
A small country that has been oppressed and humiliated for decades has gradually grown stronger through its own efforts and is finally able to stand up and take charge. They want to resist oppression and fight back against the thugs who treat their citizens like livestock...
No matter how you look at it, they are all positive characters.
King Huai organized his thoughts and said: "Freedom, equality, justice, rule of law... This is what the Chen country should be like. Only today did I understand that the structure of the Tang Dynasty is far above ours."
"Where is it..." Tangning waved her hand and said, "I just stood on the shoulders of giants."
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The proposal jointly put forward by the Right Prime Minister and King Huai was taken seriously by all officials, and soon caused a storm in the court.
In fact, Xiaowan has sent envoys several times to negotiate with some dignitaries in the capital about robbing the people of the Western Regions and using them as slaves, but to no avail.
Chen State is a country of etiquette, and this kind of etiquette permeates all aspects, even war, there are war etiquette.
The two countries went to war, beheaded envoys, massacred innocent people, kidnapped them and used them as slaves, humiliating them wantonly. This was what the Chen people saw as what the barbarians did. However, now, some people in the Chen state are playing the role of barbarians.
It would be fine if they treat the Sushen people like this. After all, they have a blood feud with the Chen State, but the Western Regions have always obeyed their advice. Those people are for profit, but whether they are the Xiaowan people or the people of other small countries, they sweep the Western Regions, and whenever they see some
Any pretty woman will snatch it back.
Some officials in the court were ashamed of the actions of certain dignitaries in the capital and tried to help them with the text, but it still had no effect.
This matter involves not only etiquette, but also interests.
Some people in the capital rely on these to make money. Cutting off people's wealth will definitely lead to crazy attacks from them.
Officials in North Korea and China, frightened by their power, have remained silent on this issue.
This time, with the right prime minister and King Huai taking the lead, the court immediately responded with countless responses, which shows that the ministers have not been ashamed of this matter for a long time.
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Zhou family.
Zhao Guogong Zhou Wu looked gloomy and asked: "Seriously?"
A person stood below him and said: "Today he and King Huai made this proposal in the palace, and countless people agreed. Although His Majesty did not directly issue the decree, he did not object either..."
Zhou Wu slapped his hand on the table and said angrily: "It's not enough that he bullied Qing'er, he also wants to destroy the foundation of my Zhou family!"
More than 90% of the Zhou family's business is related to this matter. If the imperial court prohibits them from going to the Western Regions to arrest people, it will directly cut off the Zhou family's financial resources.
This is something he will never allow!
Zhou Wu looked heavy. After a moment, he stood up suddenly and said, "Get ready, I want to enter the palace."
Rong Xiaorong says
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