"What Your Majesty said is extreme, it is better to live on your knees, it is better to die standing up, our strength is insufficient, but we are not willing to live on our knees, living a humiliating life, those days, the old ministers have had enough, this time the old ministers will be at will, even if they die in battle, they will live and die with the south!"

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"Haha, life should be a masterpiece, death is also a ghost, you have this idea, it's really a celestial pride!" Xiao Xiaoyu said.

The ministers were suppressed again, how did the emperor seem to have changed, he became very talented, every word he said, it was a classic.

"However, my southern country may not be able to resist the southern barbarians, and in terms of sergeants, it is not a problem." Xiao Xiaoyu paused.

Not a problem? Many people are strange, it's not a problem, can you be a soldier? Even if you really sprinkle beans into soldiers, there is no real sergeant with strong combat effectiveness, and it is a matter of thought, the idea of the fighting spirit of a thousand troops, which can shatter all obstacles.

Sprinkling beans into soldiers, it is just like painting bread to satisfy hunger, and it is just empty of its name, and it cannot be done.

"Let me ask you, how many slaves are there in the world? How many civilians are there? ”

There were countless slaves, and there were tens of millions of civilians, and the household did not include slaves in the imperial nationality, and the status of slaves was no different from that of livestock.

"There are countless slaves, and the empire never counts those people when it counts the population, could it be that Your Majesty wants to use these people?"

"Your Majesty think twice, these people don't look at the usual submissiveness, and they are inferior to everyone, but it is precisely because of their low status and often being bullied, so deep down they have already taken root in their hearts, if they use these people, not only will they not try their best to fight, but they may also turn against each other."

"Yes, Your Majesty, these people are integrated, and their combat effectiveness is probably not as good as those children of the family, although those families themselves are lazy and lazy, but they have also been exposed to cultivation, and their combat power is also okay, much more useful than those slaves."

The ministers dissuaded one after another, feeling that the emperor's idea was very unrealistic, slaves, don't look at their low status, the way of survival is slippery one by one, do you want him to work for you? Hardly possible.

"They are unwilling to sell their lives, that is because the benefits given are not enough, there is no condition for those slaves to be willing and willing to fight, I believe that as long as they give enough benefits, anyone can work hard, you must know that people die for money, birds die for food."

The reason why Xiao Xiaoyu came up with this strategy was because he saw an allusion to an ancient foreign country on Earth.

In exchange for the benefits of freedom, they have the heart to fight.

"No matter how much money you give, these people won't buy it, they care about their lives."

"What if I don't give money, but also status that can change the future of future generations?"

Xiao Xiaoyu said.

The slavery system, he has long wanted to abolish it, the existence of this kind of system, it is inherently inhumane, and now he can use such an opportunity to let them fight for their own freedom from slavery, which will definitely stimulate the fighting enthusiasm of those slaves.

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

"What I mean is that all slaves who join the army will be freed from slavery status and restored to their freedom, and if they kill an enemy soldier on the battlefield, then their family and descendants will not be enslaved in the future, but will become civilians, and if they have made outstanding achievements in war, they can also be added to the rank of knight and become a sergeant, etc."

Shi Nong Industry and Commerce, this is the hierarchy of ancient China, the status of the southern people is similar to it, because this is a world of cultivating immortals, so the identity level here is divided into: warriors, scholars, farmers and businessmen, slaves!

The agriculture and industry department is on a hierarchy, the lowest is the slave, there is no human rights, there is no freedom, and even life and death are in the mind of the master, it can be said that life is like an animal.

"Your Majesty, this has never happened in the history of the Southern Kingdom, or even in the history of other countries, and if slavery is abolished, it will shake the foundation of the empire." A state lord said.

"Haha, shake the empire at all? The country will not exist, afraid of shaking the fundamentals? If you let the Nanban break through, you will regret it when you are all slaves? Xiao Xiaoyu knows that extending his hand to slavery like this will hurt the interests of many people, but he will not be afraid, and he will continue to do it if he decides it, this is an obsession.

"Your Majesty, it's not proper, if you do this, although those slaves are happy to fight, their combat effectiveness is not high."

"Combat effectiveness and other things, everyone also has to worry for a while, fighting a war depends on brains and courage, those people are much more sleek than the children of the family, if they really meet on the battlefield, the children of the family will never be opponents." Xiao Xiaoyu has made up his mind that he will never give up this opportunity because of the opposition of one or two people.

And don't look at those who are usually submissive and weak, that is not a means for them to protect themselves, so that the owner feels that they have no sense of threat, and will live longer.

In the event of a battle...... They are no worse than anyone else, this is pure pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

"Your Majesty..."

"Needless to say, I have decided, and this matter will be done according to my wishes." The emperor, sometimes he needs to listen to the opinions of his ministers, and sometimes he doesn't need to listen, he needs to have the emperor's iron fist and might!

"Obey your orders!"

……

Ministers and governors obeyed.

"Fu Jiugong of Zhongshu Province immediately drafted an edict, conscription matters, and ......"

Xiao Xiaoyu issued a lot of orders this morning, Fu Jiugong of Zhongshu Province personally drafted the edict, Xia Jiuyou of Menxia Province reviewed it, and Zhang Jiuling of Shangshu Province carried out the order and implemented the edict to every state capital.

This edict is related to slaves, civilians, etc., no matter who the slave is, both men and women can go to the battlefield, men can fight with swords, and women can do logistics, so the problem of logistics is solved at once.

Peasants can also go to the battlefield to join the army, and the families of military personnel have preferential treatment, if someone in the civilian family joins the army, then the family has preferential treatment in all aspects, and can even ask the empire to train a descendant of immortal cultivators.

"Taxation and servitude are nothing but brutal means of oppressing the common people, and it is too much to do so, and I intend to remove the taxes of the common people, and only when the annual income reaches a certain amount is taxed, and the labor must be given the preferential treatment that the laborers deserve."

Civilians don't know how many died because of heavy tax and hard labor?

The annual income of the commoners basically has to be handed over, and they can only leave rations, if they don't encounter natural disasters, it's okay, if they encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, the whole family will starve to death, so Xiao Xiaoyu removes these taxes and doesn't want to be an emperor who exploits civilians.

To make money, he has many methods, much stronger than those thin taxes.

"In this case, how can the treasury be replenished? Do you want to rely on the big family to pay taxes? How do I feel that the emperor does not exploit the commoners, but exploits us. "A lot of people are depressed.

"Your Majesty, in this case, the treasury will be empty, and what is the source of the treasury?"

Zhang Jiuling is also worried that tax revenue is the majority of the state treasury revenue, and the peasants' income is missing, but most of it is lost.

"The matter of treasury revenue is not difficult, I think there should be a lot of property of the traitor's family during this time." Xiao Xiaoyu said with a smile.

Hearing these gentle words, everyone was speechless for a while, how did they feel that the emperor at this moment was like a thief? It was as if I was rejoicing in the robbery of countless jeweled possessions.

At this time, the feeling is: This emperor wouldn't order the extermination of those families because he wanted to loot their property, right?

"Back to Your Majesty, the Zhao Shanhe family has seized countless amounts of money, millions of military armor and equipment, and countless properties have been seized by other families."

"Oh!" Xiao Xiaoyu nodded, this is really invisible, making a fortune.

He was glad in his heart.

"If all this property is used for military expenses, is it enough?"

"Your Majesty, if all these properties are regarded as war expenses, it is barely enough, but in that case, there will really be no property in the south, and the operation of the empire will be a problem.

"Don't care about these things, don't think you really don't know, most of the world's money, resources, etc., are in the hands of wealthy families, and the people's resources are just small profits." Xiao Xiaoyu said.

Doesn't he know that the rich are rich, and the poor are poor?

"Since you care so much about the Empire's source of income, I have an idea." Xiao Xiaoyu then said: "The source of property, in addition to paying taxes, can also be used for business, and some things that can only be obtained by state means can be used for trading." ”

"You can also run some treasure shops, pill pharmacies, auction houses, etc., and you can definitely make money." Xiao Xiaoyu said softly.

Trade? Doing business in the name of a country? This...... I have never seen other empires, or the southern kingdoms before, if they want to have income, it is very simple, that is, to increase taxes, although there are complaints from the bottom, but they dare not disobey.

The country does business, this is the first time they have heard of it, but this also makes them suddenly, no one in the hall is a fool, and when they hear Xiao Xiaoyu's suggestion, their eyes are all bright.

As you can imagine, if you do business in the name of a country, the effect is absolutely amazing.

Now they don't know what a state monopoly is, and they don't know what an auction house is, and the one with the highest price has to wait, and when they see Xiao Xiaoyu's way of doing business in the future, they will definitely be surprised.

But the most important issue now is not these, but the war of the Empire, the war against the Nanban.