Chapter 498: Killing One Stone with One Stone
The lights in the dormitory were lit late that night.
Zhao Gou systematically looked at the ministers of the court, and also asked someone to send a secret report from Jinyiwei and the Imperial City Division. It can be determined that the degree of tandem of the Chinese martial arts of this dynasty is not high, that is, the vast majority of courtiers have opinions on this 'slave storage' policy.
This result made Zhao Gou very painful!
He doesn't forget how much time he has left.
A few years later, he 'controlled the dragon and the sky', although the authority in this world will be held by several checks and balances, but if everyone's thoughts are all the same, then it will be easy to abolish the prisoner of war camp and become a slave?
Even they don't need to overthrow the program of the 'first emperor' with great fanfare, how bad the impact is. And if you just need to find another way, there are too many holes to drill!
There is a protective umbrella over the head, and there are huge interests tempted outside, and there are edge balls and gray areas, so you can just use them casually.
As long as Zhao Gou thought about it, he felt that his thoughts were not safe at all. Even if it is used by the ancestors' will, there will not be a bird!
Just like Zhu Ming, what a great example.
Now this 'cruel' reality forces him to consider the opinions of the government and the opposition.
For the first time, Zhao Gou saw his weakness clearly, he was really not a warrior who dared to 'go to my place despite tens of millions of people'. In the past, he used to make drastic reform measures at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, and he cut ruthlessly and ruthlessly, which seemed to be risking the world's disapproval, and he was also facing the stormy waves, but in fact, he pinched the snail with three fingers - nine out of ten.
He had full confidence in his heart and a great deal of certainty, so he acted vigorously and resolutely.
But now, Zhao Gou is very unconfident in his heart.
In the past, many of his actions greatly undermined the rights and interests of the original vested interests, but also took back the interests of the latter and distributed them to the new generation of vested interests. Whether he was at the end of the Ming Dynasty or at the moment, he had a fixed and growing political base.
But in the decision of whether to keep slaves or not, Zhao Gou found that his basic plate was pitiful. More importantly, he has no interest in cultivating, expanding, and consolidating his base, and if all the prisoners of war and their families are integrated into the prisoner of war camps, they will only benefit the country. But if he becomes a slave, Zhao Gou will inevitably take out a part of it to benefit the world.
Even if Zhao Gou is now in the court. His prestige in the world is absolutely unshakable, and it is impossible for him to make the government and the opposition turn a blind eye to interests, let alone make people in the whole world regard 'suffering' as 'taking advantage'.
In the next four or five years, his small and pitiful basic disk has no room for expansion at all, but is more likely to shrink day by day.
For with the deepening and increasing development of the northwest, northeast, and the South Seas, the shortage of labor will only become more and more enormous, and the interests and markets of the word 'slave' will become greater and greater, and it is inevitable that his present supporters will become oppositionists.
Does Zhao Gou still want to attack the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces because of this, or leave a means of checks and balances?
The age of the heir is too young, and the checks and balances left by Zhao Gou will only be for the inheritance of the throne and the establishment of the stability of the imperial power, and will never waste precious resources on this.
Even to put it bluntly, in order to maintain the continuation of his will and ensure the status of the heir, he has to inadvertently win over some ministers under him.
In this case, Zhao Gou felt that if he still insisted on his opinion, it would be a mallet. In his heart, he didn't think it was a smart choice to start a protracted war for this!
To put it bluntly, it is to retreat in the face of difficulties. I feel that I don't have much chance of winning, and I have to spend too much energy......
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Things went through the transition very easily.
A grand 'carve-up party' was also opened up and down the government and the opposition.
Just as Zhao Gou thought, once so many people are characterized as slaves, it will inevitably be divided into a part to benefit the world.
Moreover, this "part" does not refer only to the natives of Jiaozhou, but also to a part of the authority in the entire "slave trade".
In the Central Plains, who has no shortage of slaves among the rich people in the world?
The labor in the Central Plains is too expensive. In particular, the large-scale development of Jinghu and Yanyun, the northwest, and the northeast has greatly eased the population tension in the Central Plains.
A large number of destitute families have been relocated to Jinghu and other places.
The six roads in Guanxi went to the northwest, the two roads in Hebei and the two roads in Qilu went to the northeast, and the Central Plains and other roads looked at Jinghu, as well as the newly opened Luzon and Jiaozhou and other places, as well as the official fields left by the powerful and inferior gentry who were eradicated in various places and returned to the public family...... Although the great migration of the population is a very slow process, before the golden wind moves, countless landlords and powerful people have already felt the arrival of the cold winter.
In the case that many low-level grass people have a second way to live, and if you dare to set the conditions extremely harshly, you may not find enough tenants to cultivate the land.
The acres of land can only realize their self-worth after they are utilized, and the land that no one cultivates can not produce a grain of grain, not to mention that the government still collects land taxes and fees, and the landlords still lose their capital.
Of course, this scene is far from affecting the entire Great Song Dynasty. After all, there are too many poor people in the world, and there are many people who are unwilling to move. But even if this situation is far from reaching the peak, it is also a touch to the gentry and powerful landlords who hold the land.
The most direct impact of this is that some landlord classes have spontaneously transferred their interests to the people at the bottom. They have realized that something bad is looming.
In this way, the class contradictions within the Great Song Dynasty can be well alleviated, so that the entire dynasty can become healthier and more powerful!
Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how much the rich people in the world need slaves.
Just as the poor can use 'emigration' to threaten the landlords to collect less land rent, the landlords also urgently need to use slaves to suppress the arrogance of the poor tenants, and the landlords are not without something to replace you!
"The officials and ministers think that such an amount should be fixed for people. In this world, there are many people who are rich and unkind, who are unkind to the lower and disrespectful to the above. "Although there are not many people like this, there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, and there are really people in the world who don't take charity and the people (donations) seriously. The imperial court did not impose hard punishment on such people, but could only see the soft means of the magistrates.
Now Zhao Ding looked at the word 'slave', and thought of a way in his heart.
This method is not only to punish those iron roosters who are not pulling out a dime, but also to collect wealth for the court, so that the whole world can clearly see the importance of charity and the preciousness of the people.
Even if I am the lowest-level civil lord, I can be 'noble' than you as a pure commoner!"
After all, you can know with your brain that slaves represent wealth!
The same landlord, with the same value, one can use a hundred slaves, and the other can only use thirty slaves, which one earns more profits? Go without saying.
Slaves are only a large investment, and the average cost can be very low.
Zhao Gou looked at Zhao Ding in front of him, and his heart was full of surprise. "Good way, good way!"
He had been worried about the 'mercantil' policy before, but now with Zhao Ding's advice, the role is not only a single charity or slave, but a strong guarantee for the entire civil lord system, so that the 'mercantine' policy behind it has a strong protector.
The slave trade was linked to the minjue, and it was related to the merchant class behind the minjue, and it was the entire imperial court that benefited in this way, so that the mercantile policy also had political support ......, which was simply a lot in one fell swoop.