For the next two days, Xianyang was calm.

The return of Marquis Jingwu to Xianyang did not cause much turmoil among the people, but the Ministry of Household Affairs released the news to the outside world, and published an official document in the Daqin Metropolis Daily, a group of more than 12,000 Dayue captives were registered and sold as slaves, and the specific purchase method please contact the Huaxia Auction Company.

After this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in Xianyang.

Nowadays, Daqin is thriving, industry and commerce are booming, thousands of large and small projects across the country, just Xianyang City can see high-rise buildings and scaffolding under construction everywhere, as well as the two wharves of Weihe are also stepping up expansion and renovation, if you want to say what Daqin lacks now, then everyone invariably thinks of not a lack of food, nor a lack of money, but a lack of people.

Food shortages were old news seven or eight years ago.

Although the lack of money is an eternal topic, in recent years, there has been a relatively sufficient supply of private coins, and there are 500 million exchange notes that are being printed and ready to be issued, and the circulation of private money has been greatly supplemented, so the lack of money is not so embarrassing.

However, the population is insufficient, especially the shortage of able-bodied adult men.

In this era without heavy machinery, whether it is farming, opening mountains and roads, or even transporting goods, it needs to be done manually, but Daqin is developing too fast, and Chen Xu's stall for building Daqin is too big and too open, so population has become the only bottleneck restricting the development of Daqin.

Although nearly 20 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Qin, the recovery of the population after the war will only begin after the complete conquest of the Qi State, without the war and turmoil of the Great Qin, with the encouragement and support of the imperial court, in just a few years, the total number of registered households in the country has increased by nearly two million, and the number of naturalized teenagers has increased on a large scale every year, but the oldest child born after the war is now only about ten years old, which is completely unable to supplement the needs of the adult population for the rapid expansion of the construction of Great Qin.

When Chen Xu first crossed over, the number of newborns had begun to increase on a large scale in places where the war ended earlier, but at the same time, the extreme poverty and poor environment in the countryside also made the death rate of children very high, and a large number of orphans who lost their families became slaves.

And in recent years, with the rapid development of commercial industry, the population has instantly become the biggest bottleneck, the population of all walks of life is not enough, as long as it is a slightly stronger adult will be recruited to work, as a result of which many counties and towns have given birth to a large number of population brokers, lobbying civilians everywhere to go out to work, not only high wages, but also benefits such as food and housing, factories and mines around the country also promote high prices to recruit people, but on the whole, it is a drop in the bucket, not to say that there are few responders, but the demand is too large and the supply and demand are insufficient, As a result, all industries are underfed.

It's not that civilians don't want to go out to work, but Tian Lu restricts civilians from abandoning farmland, Chen Xu changed countless anachronistic laws, but only Tian Law has not been loosened, industry and commerce can certainly strengthen the country and enrich the country, but in this primitive and barbaric era, food is the most solid foundation for national stability, so Chen Xu promoted the law to allow farmers to go out to work or do some trading and business on weekdays in the slack season, picking mountain goods to plant cash crops and breeding to subsidize families, but the requirements for farmers to farm are still very strict, Although the grain tax has been continuously reduced, at least half of the grain must be paid in the summer and autumn, and the rest can be supplemented with money, which not only ensures that the granaries in various places can receive enough grain, but also allows the peasants to keep enough grain to make a living.

In the past, the law of Tian stipulated that the grain tax on the newly opened barren land would be halved in the first five years, but Chen Xu revised it to no tax for the first three years, halved for three years after three years, and paid the tax in full after six years, which also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the people to open up the wasteland and grow grain.

Therefore, under the strict constraints of the field law, a large number of peasants could not leave their homes for a long time to work, and the general range of activities was around the local county, which made the local demand for the population extremely hungry, and the best way to solve this labor shortage was slaves.

Slavery belongs to the lowly status, belongs to the lowest level of human life, and it can't even be called a human being before, it is in the same status as livestock, and the clansmen can kill the government and don't care, it is an absolute private item, so as long as the honorable nobles in Daqin will buy some slaves as cattle and horses.

And there are two sources of slavery.

One is the prisoner of war, which is the biggest reason why the princes fought in the past, that is, in order to rob enough people, the more people can cultivate more fields, and there will be more soldiers.

The other is criminals who have no (MO confiscation) status, including criminals, traitors, bandits, and so on.

Anyone who is beaten into slavery is basically not allowed to turn over for the rest of his life.

There are generally two ways to deal with slaves, the first is that there are a skill can be classified as subordinate ministers, commonly known as official slaves, such as a large number of craftsmen and slaves in the Ministry of Industry, and a large number of singers and weavers in Shaofu, etc., and those who do not have skills are slaves, and they are generally assigned to the border passes, tuntian, and border or mines, salt fields, copper and iron workshops, etc., to carry out hard work day and day, until they are tired and sick to death, and then they are pulled to the barren mountains and mountains to be lost.

At the beginning, Chen Xu's victory in Nanyang to save the public is the truest portrayal of the worker slaves.

Of course, these are all on the surface, but in fact, the darkness on the inside is ten times more outrageous.

At the beginning of Wancheng, the family of Lu Dong, the owner of the foot shop, was stripped of their household registration by Ma Teng and Gao Yao and some officials as slaves and sold to the owners of copper and iron workshops like Ran Yi.

There are also some slave merchants who deceive, abduct and even forcibly plunder some orphans and beggars everywhere for training, and then get slave certificates from the government and sell them.

Therefore, the origin of slavery is very complex, but most of them are prisoners of war and criminals.

And these slaves are the favorite group of all factories and miners.

Just like feeding livestock, half a pound of moldy coarse grain every day ensures constant gas, and then it is flogged and pressed desperately.

Therefore, in the current situation of the extreme shortage of people in Daqin, suddenly the government wants to sell so many slaves, which ignites the enthusiasm of the entire Xianyang business community, and countless wealthy businessmen and slave traders are rushing to the household deployment to inquire, and those who go through the back door want to get a few more people.

Just like Hu Kuan, Zhang Cang and others expected, the hands are fast and the hands are slow, and in less than half a day, the more than 10,000 Yue's prisoners of war were divided up by the merchants, slaves, and merchants, and then they were transported down the river by big ships to build roads and mines or build wharves and seaports.

As for their lives or deaths, no one cares.

The First Emperor and the Manchu Dynasty did not care, because this was the rule since ancient times, and if they were defeated, they would be slaves.

The people of the world also feel that this is the most normal rule, and no one will have the slightest mercy.

As for Chen Xu, he can't manage it if he wants to, and he won't care about it now.

In order to promote the rapid development of Daqin, even his own compatriots have to be squeezed, those prisoners, slaves, and people are working hard for the development of Daqin, and the officials, craftsmen, craftsmen, and craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences, the College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture, and the experimental factory are also driven back and forth throughout the country of Daqin, and these foreign captives naturally cannot escape this oppressed fate.

Every great era is built by countless people with their lives and blood donations, and under the Great Wall that towers over the border passes, I don't know how many Chinese children have been buried, but it still can't erase the eternal status of the Great Wall in the hearts of Chinese people.

Chen Xu believes that if he is wrong, then the Qin Emperor and Han Wu are wrong, in the face of the country's righteousness, all mercy and mercy are the benevolence of women, and only by waiting for this pain to pass will it lead to a new and great era.

The lively slave trade soon came to an end, but the peaceful Xianyang court soon set off a huge wave again.

Three days after the Marquis Jingwu returned to Beijing, in the early dynasty, the Marquis Jingwu wrote to the First Emperor, in addition to pleading guilty for stealing and selling a large number of enamel equipment for the Western Army, but also directly stated the current military system that was accumulating more and more evil, and asked the First Emperor to reform the military system, and also came up with a detailed reform plan.

Meng Tian's recital caused an uproar in the court, and even the First Emperor was shocked and distracted.

After listening to Meng Tian's statement about the accumulation of shortcomings in the military system, more than a dozen officials from three provinces and six departments all stood up to excuse Meng Tian, bluntly saying that the resale of enamel equipment by the officers and men of the Western Army was indeed caused by the accumulation of defects in the military system, and that the Marquis of Jingwu was stationed in the Longxi military camp, although there were military laws and supervisors, but after all, they were thousands of miles away from the two armies, and the news was closed and inconvenient to transmit, so it was understandable that the soldiers on the front line were blinded.

After Meng Tian's statement, Di Daohou Li Xin bowed to the ground with snot and tears to explain in detail the miserable situation of the soldiers in the Western Regions, took the responsibility for the army stationed in Dunhuang on his own head, and asked for the dismissal of the lord and the punishment of the official.

In the process of listening to Li Xin's crying, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all sighed, and some people couldn't help wiping away their tears, even the First Emperor couldn't help but throb, obviously feeling that he seemed to be a little reluctant to snub Li Xin this time.

As the saying goes, a crying child has milk.

After Li Xin cried, some officials who were good friends with Li Xin or had private PY transactions in the past few days also stood up at this moment, hoping that the First Emperor would be able to take it lightly, and under the inspiration of the atmosphere of the Western Army soldiers who were not afraid of hardships and hardships to protect the Western Regions, and also defeated the Dayue clan, a large number of doctors and doctors who had nothing to do in the court on weekdays felt that it was time for them to shine again, and they jumped up to excuse Li Xin and other Western Army soldiers.

"The minister does not ask His Majesty for forgiveness, but the 20,000 soldiers of the Western Army are indeed suffering from reselling enamel equipment, and this matter has nothing to do with the Marquis of Jingwu, so the minister is willing to accept any punishment from His Majesty, but also ask Your Majesty to forgive the soldiers of the Western Army, without their persistence, the Western Regions will not be at peace!" Li Xin choked and pleaded.

"Your Majesty, as the commander in charge of the Western Army, but he is unaware of this matter, he has committed the crime of negligence, and he is willing to accept His Majesty's punishment, but if the military system is not changed, there will be more such things in the future, and if the West is conquered in the future, tens of thousands of miles away from Daqin, this kind of accumulation will only cause more turmoil in the morale of the army, Your Majesty ......"