Chapter 158: Abolition of Slavery
Now Zhao Xing is ready to completely abolish the slavery system in advance and enter the feudal system, so that the process of history will be accelerated a little more.
The Fei Yi family is the big slave owner, and he can't turn the corner for a while: "You still say that the reform should benefit everyone, and this article alone is equivalent to depriving people of their family property, and it will be opposed by all people." ”
Zhao Xing said lightly: "It is said that your Fei clan also has a branch that went to my Dai County." ”
Fei Yi didn't know why Zhao Xing suddenly turned the topic to this, so he nodded: "The patriarch divided my two brothers and brought a group of slave craftsmen to go, I don't know the specifics." ”
Zhao Xing nodded: "Please ask the head of the Fei clan to come over, let's ask how the Fei clan of Daijun is developing now, how is it?" ”
Although Zhao Yong didn't know what it meant, the teacher ordered him to do so, and ordered Xiao Huangmen to invite the patriarch of the Fei clan.
It didn't take long for the patriarch of the Fei clan to come in a hurry, and he knelt down to the monarch at the bottom of the stairs to bow down, and Fei Yi avoided the table and stood aside with his hands tied.
Zhao Yong smiled and asked the patriarch to sit down, and then asked kindly: "Old man, I invite you to come today to ask how the income of your branch to the Daijun family is." ”
Zhao Xing added: "I want to ask you how much your branch in Daijun earns under the same land area. ”
The old patriarch replied cautiously: "The output of 100 mu is 50 more than that in Liangyi." It is estimated that at the end of the three-year period, the net income can be more than the old house in Liangyi. ”
Zhao Yong was stunned, and Fei Yi stepped forward and bowed down to ask: "Why is this so?" ”
The patriarch smiled and said, "Xingjun issued a decree calling for the release of slaves in three years, and the slaves have hope and motivation. At the same time, I promised that their present land would be given to them in the future. Therefore, they cultivate carefully, and the output is naturally more. And in the future, if I give them tenants, I will no longer have to care about their food, drink, and Lazar, and the rent I collect will be the net profit. Therefore, according to Xingjun's rules, even if I charge half of the rent, that is, 100 acres and 100 hundreds, this is the net profit. ”
Fei Yi was stunned, he never thought it would be such a result.
Then the patriarch said to everyone: "Because of this comparison, I am going to release all the slaves of my Liangyi family, except for servants and servants, as commoners this year. Tenant the land they used to cultivate directly to them, rent, I want to be a little higher than Daijun, and I will receive sixty percent of the output, after all, the old mansion has a lot of expenses here. ”
Zhao Yong swallowed his saliva: "Can those slaves accept it?" ”
The patriarch said proudly: "Not only accept, but also grateful to Dade for my decision, although I harvest sixty percent, but they can go into battle as a family, the elderly and children do it together, get up early and be greedy for darkness, and let them earn two percent more." The people are full of energy and income, of course, they are grateful to me, and I am idle, and I no longer have to worry about their food, drink, Lazar, wife, children, birth, old age, sickness and death. It also ended up being idle. Besides, sometimes, we worry about it, and we often attract the resentment of the slaves. Now it's okay, the common people, go to live their own lives, everyone will live their own lives, and then it may be better than we worry about them. ”
Zhao Yonghe Feiyi nodded: "I understand." Then after Zhao Yonghou rewarded the patriarch of the Fei clan, everyone continued to sit down and talk.
"This is to speak with facts, this is the purpose of allowing the eight major clans of the Zhao State to enter my Dai County in the first place. Let the eight clans themselves feel the superiority of the feudal system over the slave system, let them feel for themselves, free slaves are more likely to get wealth than owning slaves, and then let everyone willingly follow my call. ”
Zhao Yong, Fei Yi and others couldn't help but applaud: "The teacher does things, it is really a matter of walking and looking at three, Zhao Guo can have a teacher, it is really a great luck for Zhao Guo." ”
Empress Dowager Zhao was deeply touched: "There are 30 places in our family's Wangzhuang, should they also be changed?" ”
Zhao Xing interface: "Actually, the most important thing to change is Wang Zhuang, for example, the eunuch Ling is in charge of Wang Zhuang, and he is tired and tired every day, how much does he earn?" ”
The eunuch Ling was embarrassed: "This year, the harvest is in vain. For this, I was reprimanded by the Queen Mother. ”
Zhao Xing asked: "Did you suffer a natural disaster?" ”
Liao Chong shook his head: "No." ”
"Is it abandoned?"
"Nope."
"So what's the reason?"
Liao Chong said frankly: "Wasteful." Fugitive slaves. ”
The Queen Mother asked, "How could such a thing happen?" "She didn't care much about that, but today she was going to ask. Because the monarch is eighteen years old this year, it is time to get married, and she has already selected a candidate for Zhao Yong, who is the niece of her own Yan Kingdom's maiden family, docile and virtuous, and she is going to give a lot of dowry. This money, in principle, is from the harem.
Liao Chong kowtowed and apologized: "Wangzhuang needs to be managed, so each Wangzhuang has a management attendant, equipped with five small attendants to serve and walk, which requires a Yu Lu offering." And the servants have many false reports, and I can't find out, the greedy people in the head of the village, and the slaves are oppressed, so that the slaves are resentful, destroy farm tools, sabotage and do not do anything, and eventually fugitives abound. In addition, the managers relied on their own preferences to plant wheat for those who are suitable for planting beans, and for those who are suitable for planting grains, and for growing grain. The harvest that caused the harvest was poor, and what could be more or less out of production was lost, and in the end, the expenditure was more than the income, and it was empty. ”
Zhao Xing smiled and said: "Da Ling has a heart, since Da Ling knows the drawbacks, why don't you change it?" ”
Liao Chong said with a wry smile: "Wang Zhuang is the private property of the king, I am just the administrator, and I have no right to decide." ”
Zhao Xing smiled and said nothing.
Liao Chong pleaded with the Queen Mother: "If we practice the law of Xingzi, we only have income and no expenditure, and at the same time, we will also make those slaves grateful to the Queen Mother. ”
Empress Dowager Zhao nodded: "What the Great Order said is right, then let's do it, we can't be as greedy as the Fei Clan, as long as the four achievements are enough." ”
Feiyi was embarrassed, and Liao Chong shouted: "The Queen Mother is benevolent, 50,000 slaves will be grateful to Dade, and the harem can get a net income of one million Hu every year, and the harem is rich." "Liao Chong likes this reform, because in the management of Wang Zhuang, the fat is below, and it is he who is not pleased.
Zhao Xing spread his hands: "Look, isn't it a difficult thing to reform, the big clan represented by the Fei family, and the benevolent people represented by the Queen Mother, as long as they recognize the pros and cons of this, they will definitely support us." In this way, our people will be rich, our output will increase, we will have more soldiers to enlist, and we will have more taxes. ”
Zhao Yong clapped his hands: "The widow immediately ordered the release of slaves throughout the country." ”
Zhao Xing smiled and shook his hand: "Your Excellency, it's too hasty, let's give everyone a period of time to adapt, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach it." ”
So, Zhao Yong accepted the suggestion and issued an abolition order to the world, which was slowly advanced within three years, but after three years, slavery must be abolished.
In this way, Zhao was the first to enter the real feudal society.