Chapter 484: Slavery and a Safety Line on the Horizon
Looking at the three captives lying on the ground to show their submission, and then looking at the people of the tribe who looked angry, Han Cheng could understand the mood of everyone.
These three people are different from the previous bone tribe.
A few years ago, he attacked his own tribe and destroyed the pig tribe, and not long ago he attacked the donkey tribe and killed almost all the people of the donkey tribe.
Now that they have hit their tribe with their intentions, they naturally want to kill all of them, and they don't want them to join their tribe.
However, these people still had to stay, and Han Cheng would not kill them.
Of course, he will not be a citizen of the Blue Sparrow tribe like a rabbit fur, but will exist as a slave.
With more than 200 citizens now as the foundation, it is time for the Qingque tribe to implement slavery.
Slaves, in themselves, represent the absence of human rights and dignity, they can eat the least and worst food, do the most and most painful work, and create a lot of means of production.
When there is a conflict with other tribes, they can be used as cannon fodder to rush to the front line, draining the enemy's strength, and it is not very distressing to use......
It is better than the big cows that eat grass to produce milk.
With so many benefits, Han Cheng naturally wouldn't kill these people.
It would be nice to keep them to be cattle and horses and create more things for the Qingque tribe.
This kind of punishment is much heavier than killing directly, and it does not cause too much murder......
"These three people, you can't kill ......"
Han Cheng looked at the people in the tribe and spoke.
The crowd froze, not understanding why the Son of God would do this.
"They will be slaves to our tribe......"
Han Cheng looked at the crowd and began to talk about the benefits of slaves.
In order to resolve the resentment against these people in everyone's hearts, Han Cheng deliberately became a slave and said that what happened was even more tragic.
With Han Cheng's story, the incomprehension in everyone's hearts gradually dissolved,
Wu stood beside Han Cheng, looked at Han Cheng and then at the three prisoners of war lying on the ground, his eyes became brighter and brighter.
yes, why do you have to kill them?
Wouldn't it be better to keep them alive and work for their own tribe as slaves?
They are all strong male adults who can do a lot of things.
In this way, the tribe can produce a lot more things.
The tribe will also become stronger.
That's a great way to do it!
Wu thought with emotion, and suddenly vaguely remembered that it seemed that the Divine Son had said this a few years ago when he was catching Ruhua, but later the Divine Son had completely integrated into their own tribe, and this time the Divine Son would not prepare for this, right?
He thought so, and when there were few people, he asked Han Cheng about it.
Han Cheng smiled and shook his head: "No, at that time, we were too few to develop slaves, but now the population of our tribe has greatly increased, and we can develop slaves......"
Hearing Han Cheng's answer, Wu was relieved.
At this time, I heard Han Cheng say again: "But when the time comes, a small number may be selected to let them get rid of their slave status and become official citizens of our tribe......"
"Son of God, why are you doing this?"
After Wu heard Han Cheng say such words, he was stunned for a while, he thought for a while and didn't understand the intention of the Divine Son to do this.
In his opinion, these people became slaves and were of great benefit to the tribe.
If there are great benefits, why should some of them be removed from slavery?
Wouldn't it be better for them to pay for the tribe all the time as slaves?
And let them become slaves is to punish them, if they are relieved of slave status, don't they have the effect of punishment?
Wu really can't understand the meaning of this.
He couldn't figure it out, but Han Cheng knew it clearly.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance, he deeply believes this sentence.
Between slaves and slave owners, there were two naturally opposing classes.
It is certain that slave owners oppress and exploit slaves, and it is also certain that slaves will be dissatisfied with slave owners in the long run.
When this discontent converges to a certain extent, conflict erupts.
The safest and most fundamental solution is not to carry out more brutal and bloody repression, which will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and will make the contradictions more acute.
It's better to be blocked than to be sparse.
To solve such a problem, it is to establish rules so that those slaves who live at the bottom can see a glimmer of hope and a way out of this most difficult situation.
Although this road is difficult, although the process is extremely arduous, and only a very small number of people can get out of this situation, only such a road is there, and they will not reach the last step.
In this case, the lack of hope is the most terrible, there is only a glimmer of hope, and they will bravely go towards this hope.
This can not only achieve the long-term peace and stability of slaves, but also greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of slaves to work.
Moreover, those who can generally get out of such a difficult road are basically capable people among slaves.
Those who have the ability to get out of the slave class through this deer, then the rest of the people will be better controlled.
People of slave origin will think about the interests of slaves, and there is no need to worry about such problems, because this will not arise at all.
This is easy to understand, for example, the officials under the imperial examination system, who were born in ordinary people, after becoming the ruling class through the imperial examination road, will not have much mercy in the face of the original ruled class.
Another example is the peasant uprisings in successive dynasties.
Because they can't survive anymore, they will revolt, but when they win a certain victory and gain a certain amount of power, before they know it, they will become the people they gritted their teeth and hated at the beginning.
There are even many that go beyond the ruling class they overthrown......
Of course, this is not enough alone, the citizens of the Blue Sparrow tribe also have to use force, and when there is a restless among the slaves, they will use force to suppress them and let them follow this path again.
Because there is this way, even if force is used, it will not drive the slaves to a desperate situation.
The cooperation between the two can basically ensure the long-term stability of the slavery system of the Qingque tribe.
The truth in this is a bit too profound and complicated for Wu.
Han Cheng told him little by little in a way that Wu could understand, so that he could understand the meaning of doing so.
After a long time, Wu gradually understood Han Cheng's intention to do this, and he admired Shen Zi for being able to think about such a long-term and complex matter.
If it weren't for the explanation of the Son of God, he couldn't understand that this seemingly simple practice of dismissing a small group of people from slavery would have such a great significance, which is directly related to the stability of the tribe in the future.