Bianjing Imperial Palace.

Zong Ze, who had already decided to beg for bones in the coming year, stood in the hall, looking at Zhao Gou, who was sitting high above, his face was as calm as water, and he shut up and didn't say a word.

He didn't understand why the emperor insisted so much on not keeping slaves?

Zong Ze, who couldn't see the 'later generations', couldn't understand the worry in Zhao Gou's heart at all.

In the eyes of the latter, the representative of the slave country is the beacon country of later generations, and the internal racial contradictions are very acute, that is, the powerful strength and prosperity that are blessed with it cover everything, but which country can have the confidence to always maintain the peak of mankind?

Look at China.

Isn't the peak of every great unified dynasty a world power?

But there are ups and downs.

In Zhao Gou's eyes, sharp racial contradictions have always been a bad factor that threatens the stability of the country's foundation. The scene he hopes to see, the empire he envisions, should be a country that embraces all the externalized people and is completely sinicized, a unified single-nation country.

Everybody is Han Chinese, and there's nothing like that.

But now a group of people represented by Lingnan Chen Yu, together with many ministers above the imperial court, unanimously agree to keep slaves.

From a practical point of view, their reasons are very strong. Whether it is to solve the problem of prisoners of war in the Li Dynasty, or to target the development of the South Seas and the reclamation of the northwest and northeast lands, countless reasons have been put forward to support the 'slave storage'!

Now, the only stumbling block in this matter is Zhao Gou.

Zong Ze also guessed in his heart that the emperor didn't need to keep slaves, and this was by no means his kindness. But the problem is, if you don't ask people to keep slaves, then what are you going to do with those natives of the Li Dynasty?

Are they all killed?

Impossible.

And want to completely digest a huge group of people who are millions of units......

It's really hard for Zong Ze and the others to imagine how long that will take.

Tolerance for foreign races, this is not without in Chinese history, isn't Li Tang in front of Zhao Song the most obvious one? But the result?

Even though there were famous foreign generals in the history of Li Tang who were loyal to the Tang Dynasty and had a good heart, this could not hide the fact that An Lushan was a beard.

It's not that no one in the court doesn't know Zhao Gou's thoughts, it's just that no one thinks it's reliable!

"Of course you can't kill them all. But the first evil is removed, and the rest create more evil, which hurts the peace of heaven. ”

This is not Zhao Gou's benevolence, but where the interests lie, and putting hundreds of thousands of people and 100,000 people into labor camps seems to be a big burden for the imperial court, but in fact it is a huge benefit.

The reclamation of wasteland, the construction of cities and ports, the maintenance of roads, and the maintenance of rivers, canals, and embankments, how many people are 100,000 people?

How much financial expenditure can Zhao Song save after these manpower are fully applied.

At the beginning of the battle outside Thang Long City, the 4,000 Song army and navy defending the city relied on repeated impacts and cross-cooperation by land and water to beat the 100,000 native soldiers outside the city. When Chen Yu led the army from the north, and Xu Huiyan led the troops to fight the south, the 'outnumbered' Turkish army was instantly wiped out. Li Yanghuan, who had just come out of the dense forests of the mountains in the northwest of Beiqi, immediately retreated back into the mountains and rainforests.

Although this battle did not wipe out all the opposition forces, it also dealt a heavy blow to these people. Those local snakes who escaped from the battlefield were chased by the ruthless brocade guards in the following days.

And just when the caught fish were being chased to the sky and there was no way to enter the earth, many captured prisoners of war had begun to be organized to do some work within their ability after recuperating for a period of time.

Not to mention anything else, but the construction of several ports and the two errands of logging and weeding can absorb a large amount of manpower. There is also the development and mining of a certain coal mine, although the value of this thing cannot be compared with the outbreak of the industrial revolution, but there are no large-scale fine coal mines in the whole of southern China.

Taking Liangguang as an example, there are naturally small or medium-sized coal mines, but there are no large, shallowly buried, easy to mine, and ultra-high-quality coal mines.

In addition, the coal mine is very close to the coastline and convenient for transportation, so it will be a super cornucopia in Jiaozhou in the future.

In this way, a large number of prisoners of war were shunted there. Those people worked on various construction sites during the day, and at night they had to attend night schools to be taught language classes that were mainly common language in daily life, in addition to common health knowledge and discipline regulations, just as Song Jun had to familiarize himself with the "Precautions for Life in Nanyang" and government regulations.

Such a collective life may stay with them for a long time, until the arrival of the ship that came to pick them up and take them to the Central Plains. And so many prisoners of war are also a huge burden for the current Jiaozhou dialect.

At that time, it must be a good physical condition first, followed by a good language and other aspects of learning. The instructors who taught them also continued to remind them of how vast the land of the Central Plains was, how superior the living conditions were, and as long as they received re-education in their duty, once they became the people of the Great Song Dynasty, they would be blessed. This is to use the conditions of treatment of prisoner of war camps + labor camps to carry out ideological education to these people.

But if these people are beaten into slaves, hehe, they will not become Chinese in this life.

Zhao Gou knows very well that it is not that the government and the opposition are opposing him now, but that two different beliefs are clashing.

Although there has been such a saying in China since ancient times, at least these officials of the Great Song Dynasty obviously did not have the patience, or in the face of huge interests, in the face of countless low-hanging fruit, the four words "educate the barbarians", one of the verbal slogans of Confucianism, have really become slogans that remain on their lips.

He now has two choices, one is to stick to his own opinions, and the other is to be good.

The former is feasible, and with Zhao Gouxian's current prestige, this matter can definitely be suppressed. After all, slaves are very human blood steamed buns.

And the latter is even better.

That is tantamount to revealing a great treasure to everyone.

Think about it, if slavery is legal, then how can slaves only appear in Jiaozhou?

If you don't talk about it too far, just one Nanyang, as long as the magic box of the word 'slave' is opened, I don't know how many sins can be released.

The tricks that the blank skins used to the Black Shu Li in Africa can easily be replicated on the monkeys of the South Seas,......, well, it seems a bit inappropriate to say that.

But is it a high trick to provoke a fight between the indigenous monkeys, and to exchange money and armor for slaves from the former, so that the monkeys kill each other?

Think about the tricks of the two Han Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties when they dealt with the young people in the north, pull one faction to fight another, and if the strength allows, the ancestors should not play too slippery.

Zhao Gou waved Zong Ze away, he had to think about it.