"Does the king know who these thieves are?" Qu Yuan asked.

"This..." So many years have passed, King Chu Mourning did not track down the killing, and King Chu Su killed people too ruthlessly, so that the predecessor didn't know who did it and killed King Chu Sheng.

"Could it be the nobles?" Xiong Huai was shocked, even his predecessor didn't know who the murderer was, how did Qu Yuan know.

"The king, Weichen doesn't know."

Xiong Huai looked at Qu Yuan, did not speak, and waited for Qu Yuan to explain.

Since you don't know who killed King Chu Sheng, why did you suddenly get involved in the death of King Chu Sheng.

"King, do you know how big our Chu State is?" Qu Yuan continued to crook the building.

"The territory of our Chu State ranks first among all countries in the world, with Wujun in the west, across the mountains from Ba, to the sea in the east, from Nanling in the south, to Fenjing and Xunyang in the north, with a land of 5,000 miles, a vast territory, and no country in the world can compare." This is the most proud thing of the predecessor, in terms of territorial scope, no other country can compare with the state of Chu.

"The king's words are very true." Qu Yuan nodded and said: "The territory of my Chu State is vast, although the fiefs of the feudal monarchs are also in the henchmen, but even if all the fiefs are added up, compared with the territory of the Chu State, it is still not worth mentioning. The reason why the feudal nobles became the henchmen of the Chu State was because of another problem. ”

"Your Majesty, the reason why Wei Chen mentioned King Sheng just now is also because of this problem. Although Weichen was born in the Qu family, when he was young, he had come into contact with many Chinese and savages of the Chu State, and he knew some things about them. ”

Compared with the Chinese people, the status of the savages is even lower, and the rights enjoyed by the Chinese people are not a single one of the wild people. There are many obligations that the Chinese people need to bear, and there are many more to bear.

But savages are not slaves, they are not shackled, or tagged, or closely monitored, and the lives of savages are guaranteed compared to slaves, and they will not be killed by countrymen or nobles at will, and they still have some freedom in life.

In the Book of Poetry, Wei Feng's "Hooligans", the hooligans who talk about, hugging cloth trade silk, is a savage who proposes marriage for himself, and is rejected because he does not respect the etiquette law.

As can be seen from the poem "Hooligans", the hooligans are savages who are free to leave their own places and go to other places.

Xiong Huai looked at Qu Yuan inexplicably, this time the crooked building was a little far away.

Qu Yuan's train of thought jumped very fast, mourning the king from the king, and then talking about the territory, and then talking about the countrymen and savages, so that Xiong Huai had the illusion that he couldn't keep up, is this the IQ gap?

Qu Yuan said solemnly: "Great King, our Chu State is now facing the problem of nobility, and one of the important problems is the problem of the escape of savages. ”

Xiong Huai was stunned, and the problem of nobility involved the problem of savages, and according to the management of various countries, the wild men who fled, or the wild people who were not controlled by the state, could be called thieves. Of course, after the countrymen went bankrupt and fled, they were treated like savages, and they were also thieves.

Could it be that King Chu Sheng was killed by these fleeing thieves?

A new question arose again, and Xiong Huai asked puzzledly: "The escape of the savages is related to the death of the sound king, and it is also related to the nobles?" ”

"Exactly." Qu Yuan nodded and explained: "King, savages are very important to all countries, although savages cannot participate in the army or political affairs, but for any country, savages are an indispensable part of a country. ”

"When savages are farming, they need to be responsible for farming, and most of the royal fields directly under my Chu State and the fiefs of noble feudal lords are cultivated by savages. In addition, the wildlings also need to be responsible for the country's conscription and support the country's construction. ”

"Although the countrymen are also responsible for the country's taxes and servitude, their burden is far less than that of the savages. The proportion of taxes paid by the people of the country is 100 acres, that is, tithes, and the tax system of 1 out of 10. ”

"For conscription, the conscription ratio of the countrymen is twenty to sixty years old, and the wild men are fifteen to sixty-five years old. Moreover, according to the provisions of the law, the annual harvest is used to determine the servitude of the people, and the average is three days per person for good years, two days per person for medium years, and one day for bad years. In the event of a famine or blight, they were exempt from forced labor and taxes. ”

"The savages, on the other hand, do not have these benefits, are required to pay taxes regardless of the harvest, and are called up for service as soon as the agricultural time passes and the country has problems."

When Xiong Huai heard this, he immediately knew what was going on with the wild man escaping, this kind of treatment, if he didn't run, it would be unreasonable. Once you encounter a disaster year, whether you can survive or not is unknown, and you can only see whether your life is hard or not.

"Xianqing, how long has it been since the problem of savages fleeing? So why didn't there be such a problem as the wild man fleeing before? ”

Qu Yuan replied: "Back to the king, the escape of the savages has been occurring for many years, and it is impossible to verify when it started. The reason why there is a problem of savages fleeing is that in the past, when cultivating a field, many people had to work together to complete normal farming. One or several wildlings flee and have a very difficult time surviving outside, not only unable to complete normal farming, but also facing the capture of others. ”

"Now the situation has changed, and I don't know when the appearance of evil gold (iron) farming implements has made it extremely easy to reclaim wasteland. When a wild man escapes, he can reclaim a piece of wasteland in the wilderness and easily feed himself and his family. ”

"When the savages flee, they can avoid the heavy labor of the state, they will not have to pay taxes, and they will be more generous than before. And the wild man himself is also a free body, not a slave, will not be restricted in personal freedom, can go to various places, so the wild man who lived a difficult life fled one after another. ”

Xiong Huai nodded, since the wild man has a variety of choices, he will definitely not hang himself from a tree again, and be a cow and a horse to contribute to a country that does not recognize itself.

"Xianqing, then after the savages escape, won't they be captured?" Xiong Huai thought of the statement Qu Yuan had just mentioned.

Qu Yuan replied: "Yes, so after the savages fled, in order to avoid being captured as slaves by others, or becoming savages again after being found, they faced heavy conscription and taxes from the state. Fugitive savages generally have two options, one is to flee to remote areas, hiding from the country and other people. The second is to take refuge in the aristocracy and become a nobleman's clan, hermit, bin meng, and private disciple. ”

"Become a nobleman's clan! What's in it for the wildlings? Xiong Huai asked puzzled.

"Great King, once a savage becomes a clan of nobles, then he is no longer subordinate to the state of Chu, but to the nobility. Then the private land opened up by these savages does not belong to the royal land of the Chu State, according to the regulations, the private land does not need to pay taxes, and the nobles' clans do not need to serve servitude. ”