Businessmen seek profits.

Chang'an City was to be expanded and become the capital of the Tang Kingdom, which gave merchants unlimited business opportunities.

In the face of such an opportunity, there will not be a few businessmen willing to give up.

And the arrival of merchants brought more prosperity to Chang'an.

The affairs of Chang'an City are going on in an orderly manner.

On the side of Bingzhou, many things are also being prepared one after another.

The matter of moving the capital is too important, many things must not be sloppy, and many aspects must also be taken into account.

And just when Li Yu was focusing on this matter, a big case occurred on the side of Bingzhou.

On this day, Li Yu was reviewing the folds in the imperial study, and Di Zhixun hurriedly ran over.

"Holy Lord, last night in the capital, there was a tragedy."

Hearing that there was a tragedy, Li Yu's brows suddenly condensed, although Bingzhou said that it will soon be no longer the capital, but now it is still the capital, and such a case in the capital is really a bit too shocking, and the impact on their Tang Kingdom is very bad.

"What's the matter, has the murderer been caught?"

"Back to the saint, the murderer has been caught, but the impact of this incident is very great."

Hearing this, Li Yu became more and more puzzled, the murder case will indeed have an impact, but since the murderer has been caught, why does it still have an impact?

"Tell me about the murder." "Here's the thing, the Sun family in the capital is a rich merchant in our Tang Kingdom, the head of the Sun family is called Sun Shan, and he fell in love with the wife of a slave in the family, so he forcibly occupied it, and the slave's wife had a strong temperament, and committed suicide after being humiliated, and the slave saw that his wife was dead, and he was angry and angry, and in a fit of anger, he killed all the more than 20 members of the Sun family last night."

Hearing this, Li Yu was shocked, he didn't expect that it would be a slave who killed people. Although slaves are the property of their masters, they are just like many people want money to make money, so slaves can also be married, so that their remaining children are also slaves and the property of their masters.

It's a lot of money to give birth to one.

In fact, this is the same as people raising sheep and letting them continue to breed.

Slaves are the livestock of slave owners.

But after all, slaves are human beings, and it is normal for them to be so humiliated and really angry that they kill people.

"The slave killed the master's family, and now many slave owners are very frightened, and they are a little worried about their own slaves, in case they are also rushed in and killed by the slaves when they are sleeping, it will be a bit more than worth the loss."

Li Yu asked, "And then?" ”

"Many people want to kill the slaves, or kill them directly, and this situation makes the slaves very uneasy and irritable, and if they continue, they are afraid that it will cause bad disasters."

There were a lot of slaves in the Tang Kingdom, and there were really slave riots, and the situation was really not optimistic.

"Ding, the host triggers the Huangtu hegemony task, abolish the slaves, the task is completed, the reward is 5000 gold coins, and the lottery is 1 time."

Hearing the task of the system, Li Yu was already a little indifferent, but when he saw the 5,000 gold coins, he was still excited, if there were really 5,000 gold coins, he might be able to consider buying the secret recipe for gunpowder.

"Someone, go and call the prime minister and Xu Maogong to me."

Slave matter, it's time to settle it.

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The murder case in the capital has already caused a sensation, and now the capital is also a little uneasy.

The eldest grandson Wuji, Xu Maogong and others soon came to the imperial study, and when they came, they basically knew what Li Yu was going to say.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about the murder of slaves?" Everyone looked at each other, and then, the eldest grandson Wuji stood up and said: "Holy Lord, in fact, this matter is not very serious, it is completely an individual case, how many slaves dare to kill?" And there are a few people who have the ability to kill, but the situation of the Sun family is a little special, so the minister feels that there is no need to put it at all

This is a serious matter. ”

There are a lot of slaves in the house of the eldest grandson Wuji, and these slaves help him do all kinds of things, and he doesn't feel how dangerous the slaves in his house are, so he doesn't take this seriously at all, it just treats it as a murder.

And not only the eldest grandson Wuji, but also other people, didn't take this seriously, but Xu Maogong knew Li Yu very well, and more or less understood what Li Yu meant at this time. "Shengshang, the minister feels that the existence of slaves is very detrimental to the stability of my Tang Kingdom, they are also human beings, why should they become slaves, if they can participate in the things that other people participate in, they can have their own land, they can marry wives and have children, and they can be soldiers, then it will be for our Tang Kingdom

It's undoubtedly an opportunity for great strength. ”

Xu Maogong understood what Li Yu meant, so he catered to Li Yu and said, but after he said this, the others immediately frowned.

"Lord Xu, what do you mean by this, is it difficult to abolish the slavery system?" The eldest grandson Wuji suddenly frowned, and then said again: "Slaves are the property of slave owners, abolish them, you are simply plundering, I am afraid that many people will not agree." ”

Slaves can be bought and sold as goods, but if the family background is good, there will be some slaves in the house, and the free status of slaves will be restored, so they can only plunder from these people, but I am afraid that at that time, Datang will be even more unstable.

Of course, the reason why Eldest Sun Wuji reacted so strongly was because he felt uneasy, an uneasiness that he might have to suffer a heavy loss.

The slave brought him too many benefits, and if abolished, his losses would be severe.

There were also slaves in other officials' mansions, so they didn't approve of Xu Maogong's words, and for a while, Xu Maogong became the target of public criticism. Tang Yu looked at these people, and also felt that things were a little difficult to do, abolishing slaves must be a good thing for the Tang Dynasty, the population has increased, and the source of troops will become very sufficient, at the end of this war, after a war, there are too many dead, if the source of soldiers is not sufficient, it will not be replenished, and it will make a country collapse soon.

But as the eldest grandson Wuji said, slaves are the speculation of those slave owners, and emancipating them is tantamount to plundering the property of these people, how can they be willing?

When the time comes, Tang Guo is only afraid that it will become more and more chaotic.

Of course, the imperial court could buy slaves from slave owners, but this was definitely a huge expenditure, so huge that the entire Tang Kingdom might not be able to support it.

What's more, now because of the need to move the capital, the money of the Tang Kingdom is spent like flowing water every day. Not to mention spending money on slaves.