Xinfeng County, as the name suggests, is the meaning of Xinfeng County.

The area under its jurisdiction and the pattern of the township pavilion are similar to those of Feng County in Pei County.

And the Yuyu Society is fifteen miles north of Xinfeng County.

It happens to be the same distance from the county seat of Feng County, Pei County to its Yu Society.

As an imperial township, the area of the Yuyu Society is naturally very large.

It is almost equivalent to the area of two standard Han township-level administrative areas.

On this day, the sun is still hot.

On the straight road outside the Yuyu Society, a team walked.

Zhang Yue rode on the horse, looking at the appearance of this imperial township that he saw for the first time.

Countless data come to mind in my mind.

It is more than 20 miles long from north to south and more than 10 miles wide from east to west, with ten pavilion units under its jurisdiction, and the total household registration is close to 3,000.

In this pre-Western era, the population was sparse, and the population of some small prefectures in the Kanto region may not have as many people as the Yusha Society.

As such a large township, densely populated place.

The natural economy is also well developed.

On both sides of the road, there are rolling corn fields, and now it is the season when corn is close to ripe, and the whole world is occupied by a sea of corn as far as the eye can see.

In the fields, you can see countless slaves and maids in shackles, holding wooden and stone farm tools.

There are men and women, old and young.

There are Yidi slaves and maids, and there are also Han slaves and maids.

In the shade of some fields, a few men dressed in silk clothes who looked like overseers sat lazily in the shade of the trees, eating drinks and snacks.

Zhang Yue and his entourage were dozens of people, except for Liu Jin, who was in the car, the rest of the people were all one person and two horses, and they were mighty.

Naturally, it immediately attracted the attention of these people.

However, they only got up slightly, observed for a while, and then continued to sit down to drink and eat meat.

This elm society, there is not much else.

The sons of the lords are as numerous as dogs.

Similar battles, they have long been surprised.

But Zhang Yue looked at the situation in front of him, but frowned slightly.

This was the first time he directly attacked the situation of the people at the lowest level of feudal society before the Western Yuan Dynasty.

As far as the eye can see, just the hundreds of acres of land in front of you, I am afraid that there are more than 20 male and female slaves and maids, wearing shackles and tattered clothes, working in the fields.

It's not yet noon, but the temperature is already rising.

The scorching sun scorched the earth, and even the water of the Wei River was a little hot.

However, these slaves and maids worked under such a sun.

Many even wore iron rings around their necks.

This is a sign of a child born in the family.

In Nanling County, there are relatively few slaves.

It is basically a social structure composed of yeoman farmers, tenants, and landlords.

However, in this Yu Society, it is a different situation.

It seems to have returned to the slave society of the Zongzhou era.

The main object of labor became a slave.

But Zhang Yue only frowned slightly, not daring to say too much.

Because slavery is a deep-rooted tradition of the Han family.

From the princes to the common people, everyone rushed to seize any opportunity to keep slaves.

In history, one of the biggest reasons for Wang Mang's downfall was that he actually wanted to restrict slavery!

It just doesn't make sense!

It aroused the outrage of the whole world, not only the landlords and aristocrats, but also the yeoman farmers and the middle class, and the merchants.

Then he killed Wang Mang.

Zhang Yue, who has traced countless historical materials and read a large number of documents of Shiqu Pavilion at the same time, is very clear.

How big is the power to support slavery!

So much so that even the Liu family did not dare to touch the topic of limiting slaves.

However, the emperor of the Liu family can kill the powerful and nobles like killing pigs and dogs.

From this, you can see how strong the power of slavery is!

This is a huge interest group that spreads all over the world and includes almost all the Han classes.

Peasants, yeoman farmers, landlords, merchants, aristocrats, officials, whenever they had the opportunity, everyone kept slaves.

Later archaeological discoveries have also proved this fact with countless conclusive evidence.

Whether it is on both sides of the Yangtze River, or in the Yellow River Basin, whether it is in the distant Jiuquan Zhangye, or in the snowy eastern and western Liaoning.

Archaeologists excavated countless Han slips from the ground, then cleaned and sorted them out, and finally people found that no matter where they were found, they could always find evidence of local slavery.

Especially in the archives of the government, almost all of them can find records of 'there are X big slaves and Y small slaves in a certain township, and the price is as much as possible'.

Especially in the northern counties, the wind of slavery is extremely strong.

Even the yeoman farmers and the urban middle class competed to buy slaves.

In the Han Dynasty, want to restrict slavery?

It will offend not only the entire bureaucracy of the landlords and aristocracy, but also the middle class, yeoman farmers and merchants.

Even the beneficiaries - slaves and maids may be outraged!

Because, slaves and maids are also hierarchical.

Some powerful domestic slaves actually live a better life than ordinary people.

Some slaves and maids who are deeply trusted by their masters can even fake tigers and tigers in the local area, and fish and meat neighbors.

Do you want to liberate them?

Maybe someone will spit in your face!

The reason for this situation is not only due to historical traditions, but also due to the political pattern since the Qin and Han dynasties.

The main reason is that slavery is profitable.

Zhang Yue, who has already done his homework, knows this very well.

The Han people kept slaves, not just to drive slaves and maids to work for themselves.

The main motivation comes from the desire for wealth and the expectation of family prosperity.

It is a well-known fact that the Qin and Han dynasties advocated an economic and social economy of small farmers and individual households who ruled all fields with one husband and five people.

The state does everything possible to dismantle and dismember any possible extended family.

When today's son's younger brother, Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan, gave birth to more than 100 sons in his life, and there were countless illegitimate children.

However, in addition to the heir of his son Liu Zhong, only the thirteen sons of his descendants were able to be crowned marquis with the Tui En Order.

Everyone else is going to fend for themselves!

Liu Quyu, the prime minister after the witch curse in history, is the son of Liu Sheng.

Even the sons of princes and kings, and the nephews of the Son of Heaven.

Others, of course, are not immune.

But this brings a problem - small, single families can hardly cope with all kinds of forced labor.

And there are a lot of conscripts in the Han family.

It is only stipulated by the central government that every male soldier is required to serve the state for three days a year without compensation, and he must enlist in the army for two years in his life.

One year to the central government, one year to the border.

There are many more other kinds of conscription and errands in the locality, large and small.

Where did ordinary people have so much energy to cope with so much cumbersome conscription?

Especially in the northern counties, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the output is not much.

Based on their native homeland, the generals not only had to train their sons and nephews to practice martial arts, but also had to find ways to take care of the township party and protect their own clans, and they also had to win over tenant farmers and yeoman farmers to serve as soldiers for their sons and nephews.

In this way, they can't be too powerful with their own folks.

Tenant rent is usually about equal to nothing, but only a symbolic amount.

In the event of a natural disaster, he even had to take out his savings to help the township party and support the relatives of the clan.

A family of military generals who do not do this can only prosper for one generation at most.

And then there was no successor.

So the question is, how do these military nobles maintain the prosperity of their families and meet the needs of the sheltered township party and clan?

The answer is slavery.

A large number of slaves, all possible slaves.

The stronger the aristocratic family, the more slaves and maids.

They drove these slaves and maids to farm and serve their families.

At the same time, many times, they take these slaves and maids into service.

In the Han Dynasty, many times, when the state wanted to build a certain project, it would levy the people and then ......

The officials sent by the imperial court to supervise will be shocked to find that most of the so-called people who have actually been recruited are slaves and maids who are shackled and carried here by the dogs of the wealthy clans.

Then, the official will take the roster and take the roll call one by one.

At this time, he will find an even more terrible thing--the people who should serve here on the roster are almost all replaced by these slaves and maids-especially when the people who are recruited are from the northern counties, especially the Guanzhong and Longyou regions.

You call a name, and a rich man comes to you with a slave and a maid and tells you that the man is not coming, and this slave and maid will take his place!

The reason why this is the case is that in the Qin and Han dynasties, the people were allowed to pay for someone to serve for them.

Moreover, this system is protected by law and endorsed by the state.

According to state regulations, if a person who serves in the military does not go to the service, he needs to pay 2,000 yuan per month of conscription.

It's called practicing more money.

When the government gets the money, it hires other people who are willing to go to serve in place of those who are supposed to serve.

And the wealthy people make more than that!

You may not believe it when you say it, but in the Qin and Han dynasties, the people who served were not like the later Song and Ming dynasties, they were free laborers, and they had to bring their own dry food.

In fact, for the general government projects of the Qin and Han dynasties, the servants and men all had money to get.

In the Han law, it is clearly stipulated: the guilty are redeemed and the responsibility (debt) is paid to the public, and the order is asked every day, and its fu can be repaid, so that he can live in it every day, live in eight yuan a day, and eat in the public and live in six yuan a day.

The meaning of this decree is that if a person is guilty of trying to atone for his sins or owes money to the government, he is required to pay it, and if he is unable to do so, he is required to go to work at the construction site to pay his debts, eight denarii a day, and if he eats six denarii a day from the government, until he pays off the debt.

This, in turn, proves that the conscripts have money and can eat public meals.

And there is still a standard for this meal.

The countless Han tablets unearthed in later generations also prove this point.

This is equivalent to saying that if you have a slave, then you can earn double money.

On the one hand, you can take other people's practice money, and on the other hand, you can also get the wages of slaves and maids from the government.

Added together, the profits are huge.

So much so that few people can resist their urge to keep slaves.

Therefore, in the north of the Han Dynasty, there was a folk proverb, which almost everyone knows: get rich at the end, keep it with your own book, use everything with your strength, and hold it with your own.

Homesteaders, merchants, landlords, aristocrats, military generals, everyone competed to buy slaves.

The advantage of owning a slave is not only that you can avoid the possibility of being conscripted into the army, but also that you can use the slave to earn money at other times.

For the shrewd Han Chinese, the benefits of keeping slaves are so obvious that fools don't keep slaves!

I didn't see those rich people recorded in the historical records, when Tai Shi Gong described their wealth, he would say: Rich to a thousand!

During the Qin and Han dynasties, almost all conscription could be replaced by slaves and maids, except for military service.

Especially for those two years of compulsory military service, the state will not allow the use of slaves and maids in lieu of service.

But......

Other men are allowed to serve in their place.

This is the common 'blame' in the history books of the Han Dynasty.

The conditions for the requisitioning are very harsh, requiring the substitute to sign a deed with the substitute, and even requiring the two to have the same title and age.

This is also the reason why the military aristocratic families of the northern counties can be so prosperous.

As professional soldiers, they can undertake a large number of 'responsible' businesses from the wealthy lands of the south, and distribute these businesses to their own township party and clans.

As a result, the people in these places are becoming more and more prosperous in martial arts.

Therefore, in Hanji, if you want to limit slaves, it is no different from looking for death.

Because you will offend not just one class, but the whole world!

You're not moving one person's cake, you're moving everyone's cake.

If you don't die, who will die?

But Zhang Yue was still a little unbearable.

Where do slaves and maids come from?

If you think about it with your ass, it must be a bankrupt peasant in the Han family, a poor person with no way out, and a displaced disaster victim.

Looking at these slaves and maids working in the fields in front of him, he couldn't help but think of what happened in Yuyi County not long ago.

Isn't Li Xun's family because they want to keep slaves, so they colluded with Zheng Quan and other prince's retainers to do everything possible to prevent disaster relief, just to turn the people into their domestic slaves and money printing machines!

Not only him, but also Gong Yu, Wang Ji and other students, seeing the situation in front of them, they also bowed their heads a little.

"The wind of slavery in the wealthy family should be curbed...... Gong Yu sighed softly: "If you don't stop this unhealthy trend, I am afraid that in a hundred years, the people of the world will suffer greatly!" ”

"Yes, Dong Zi once said: The rich have no place to stand, the poor have no place to stand, the trouble of this society, the great harm of the country, our generation of scholars, should find a way to correct it!" Wang Ji looked at this situation and was also a little embarrassed.

Back then, Dong Zhongshu wrote to the present day and proposed that although the "Restriction of Names and Names of the People's Field Policy" did not directly say that slaves should be restricted, this is the general meaning.

But the result ......

Today's Zi only partially adopted Dong Zi's suggestion.

The edict said: Jia people have city registration and family members, and they have no famous fields, and they dare to violate the order, and they have no land!

Then a vigorous campaign was launched, killing all the businessmen in the world.

However, the annexation and slavery of the noble landlords and nobles were not stopped.

Liu Jin sat in the carriage and also heard these discussions, and bowed his head slightly.

He remembered the advice of his teachers about the situation of slavery and annexation in the world.

That is, to hide from each other, to engage in a big clan, a big family.

As long as there are many members of the clan, it will not only be conducive to the governance of the world, but also the emergence of wise men and gentlemen, and more importantly, if there are many adult males in the clan, then the people will no longer need to keep slaves to serve.

It's just an arrow with one stone.

In the past, he naturally believed what the teachers said.

But now, I don't dare to think so.

However, what the teachers said is not unreasonable.

After thinking about it, Liu Jin lifted the curtain and said to Zhang Yue in front of him: "Zhang Shizhong, please come and ......"