Bidding farewell to the father of Jiating, Zhang Yue drove to the manor that Storm Shengzhi gave him.

Then, he was stunned.

I remember that just over a month ago, this place was still just a ruin of barren grass and broken walls.

But now, in front of Zhang Yue's eyes, there is a huge manor that is taking shape.

Although it has not yet arrived, the courtyard is adjacent, surrounded by walls, and the watchtower is towering. It's exaggerated, but it's not far off.

The whole manor is well planned, with barns, animal stables, dwellings and main buildings, lined up one after another.

Zhang Yue had no doubt that it would not be long before this place would become a professional aristocratic manor.

Just like the few liehou manors he had seen when he was in Chang'an, they formed a small independent world with regional self-sufficiency.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yue groaned, confused.

He remembered that the last time he left, he only instructed the Tian Li brothers to level the land of the manor, and did not let them make such a big move.

Moreover, Zhang Yue felt that they could not handle such a professional manor construction.

"Could it be that Yuan Chang brought someone to help with it?" Zhang Yue wondered, this is possible.

However, the teacher is not there, and the disciple makes his own decisions?

This is not in line with the behavior of the Han people.

With this in mind, he waved his hand and drove towards the entrance of the manor.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Zhang Yue saw several men dressed as samurai, standing at the gate of the manor.

When they saw a car coming, they immediately got up, greeted them, and asked, "Where did you come from?" Here the servant in the Xinfeng Ling Zhang Gong Manor! ”

Zhang Yue lifted the curtain, looked at them, frowned, and asked, "Who are you waiting for?" Why is it on my doorstep? ”

When those people heard this, they immediately knew, and hurriedly bowed: "Is it a servant of the prince?" ”

"The villain and the others are the subordinates of Xinwu Jun, who were ordered by the master mother to serve the prince...... "He paused his head as he spoke, looking a little trembling.

"Xinwu-kun?" Zhang Yue thought about it carefully, and then remembered, who is this?

The daughter of Princess Wei Chang and Wuli General Luan Da can also be regarded as relatives of the emperor.

However, it is a small transparent among the royal relatives.

According to the information that Zhang Yue knew, this Xinwu Jun grew up and married Liang Zhiren Dangqian.

About the year before last, Ren Dangqian did a stupid thing in the fourth year of Taishi.

This greedy fool started a business of buying and selling forcibly in his own feudal state - he forcibly sold a few inferior horses to a big merchant for 150,000 yuan each!

So he ran headlong into the muzzle of the court lieutenant!

According to the Han law, it is a great sin for a liehou to 'pay more than 500 yuan'.

So this Ren Dangqian was tragic, and was deprived of the marquis by the court lieutenant and abolished as a commoner...... really lost the face of his father, General Ren Pohu.

Back then, General Ren Pohu stepped on the corpses of countless enemies, and became a prince from cloth.

It was also because of this that Zhang Yue heard some things about this Xinwu Jun.

But that's all, I don't know anything else, I only know that this Xinwu Jun has always kept a low profile in Chang'an City.

It is said that she will only go to the palace during the New Year's holidays.

At other times, they generally live in the manor outside Chang'an City, raising flowers and plants.

When did this Xinwujun come to Nanling quietly, and it seems that he still has a good relationship with his sister-in-law?

Zhang Yue's face was full of doubts, but his face was silent, and he drove straight into the manor from the door.

At present, many facilities in this manor have been improved.

The canal has also been renovated, and Zhang Yue can even see that two water wheels are installed on a high slope near the river, slowly sucking water into the ditch.

This kind of waterwheel that Zhang Yue took to give relief to the prince is now popular very quickly in the manors of the noble princes in Chang'an.

Only these dignitaries, the top nobles with technology and technology, have the capital and the financial and technical ability to erect the waterwheel.

Looking ahead, Zhang Yue even saw a man, carrying various tools, turning over the soil and weeding on the leveled land of the manor, preparing for next year's spring ploughing.

Moreover, there are quite a few of them, and after a rough count, Zhang Yue found that there were at least thirty people.

Judging from their clothing, the coarse brown clothes should be slaves.

Zhang Yue even saw that the Tian He brothers, wearing a strong suit, were walking in the land, I don't know if they were supervising the work or what they were doing?

This made Zhang Yue's eyelids jump.

There is no doubt that everything in this manor in front of you is evolving towards a standard aristocratic manor in the context of the Western Han Dynasty.

If left unchecked, in a few years' time, everything on this estate will take shape, and it will become a plantation that is completely self-sufficient and self-sustaining within a certain range.

In later generations, the powerful families of the Eastern Han Dynasty were formed on the basis of such a manor.

"Li Miao!" Zhang Yue saw a familiar figure, walking about a hundred steps in front of him, immediately stopped the carriage and shouted at him.

"Lord!" When Li Miao heard the sound, he immediately trotted all the way, ran to Zhang Yue, and bowed: "Li Miao doesn't know that the lord has returned, and he hasn't had time to greet him, so he hopes that the lord will forgive ...... sins."

As in the past, the son of this sharecropper is still simple and honest.

"What's going on? And what about sister-in-law and Rou Niang? Zhang Yue asked with a frown.

"Returning to the lord, the master mother and the young master mother, at the invitation of Xin Wujun, I went to Xin Wujun's manor to observe the silkworm raising and silk weaving workshop...... Li Miao smiled and said: "As for the changes in the manor, it was the master mother who asked Xin Wujun to help plan the ......"

Zhang Yue nodded, and then he pointed to the people who were working in the fields and asked, "What's the matter with those people?" ”

"Back to the lord, these people are poor people, and the mistress has mercy, so she allows them to rent land in the manor......" Li Miao replied.

"Not a slave?" Zhang Yue was a little unconvinced.

"Returning to the Lord...... They want to be the slaves and maids of the lord......" Li Miao replied: "However, the master's mother said that the lord is an official in the imperial court, serving the Son of Heaven and the eldest grandson, and his reputation is more important than anything else, and he can't covet small profits, let alone ruin the reputation of the lord because of small profits, so he refused, just thinking that his generation has no livelihood, hunger and cold, so he is allowed to rent sixty percent of the tenant rent and rent the land of the tenant manor......"

After Zhang Yue listened, he was suddenly inexplicably moved in his heart.

But then I felt some pain in my face.

Sixty percent tenants?!

How many percent of the tenants in the textbooks of later generations came from Zhou's skin?

Seems like that's all there is to it!

Unknowingly, he actually became a great feudal landlord?

Fortunately, I didn't become a slave owner, which is a very good thing.

Patting his chest slightly, Zhang Yue immediately thought of something and asked, "Are these people refugees?" ”

There have always been fewer displaced people in Kanchu, but the Kanto region is different.

Every year, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Kanto refugees flow into Guanzhong to seek a living.

These poor people eventually became the meal of big landlords and nobles like Zhang Yue.

The economic scale of plantations in Guanzhong has been expanding and expanding in recent years.

Some large estates even have thousands of guests, counter-travelers, and slaves, and are almost a small society.

I listened to Li Miao and said: "Back to the lord, they are not homeless, but ...... Slave ......"

"Huh?"

"My lord, more than a month ago, the princes of Taixue once advocated the release of slaves and maids by the gentry and nobles, and many people responded to ......" Li Miao said: "Thousands of slaves and maids were released from all over Guanzhong......

"And yet...... After these slaves and maids were freed, many of them were sold again......"

Unfortunately, most of these freed slaves and maids were old or physically disabled or sick...... Even if you want to sell yourself again, no one wants to ...... Many people starved and froze to death......"

Zhang Yue listened and fell silent.

Once again, it proved to him that abolition could not be done with lip service.

Just like this abolitionist movement, under the strong pressure of public opinion, many nobles and landlords released slaves.

But......

The Chinese deserve to be the smartest people on this planet.

Especially the Chinese aristocracy and landed gentry.

There's an original sin in keeping a slave, right?

Good! Brother release the slave, you can't scold me, right?

So, the slaves and maids who had been oppressed were released.

Let them fend for themselves.

It's much better than having to spend money to support them.

And these freed people fell into an even more tragic fate than when they were slaves.

When they are slaves and maids, at least there is a master's family, and the master's family does not dare to discard them casually because of their reputation.

Now, take advantage of the uproar of public opinion and throw away these burdens.

Not only can you win a good reputation, but you can also get rid of a big baggage!

Public opinion doesn't care about these at all, and the scholars and young nobles who are noisy and clamoring for abolition in Chang'an City will not come to see this.

All they want is the justice they want.

As for the poor people who have nothing, even full of wounds, where do they go? How do I make a living?

Who's going to pay attention?

"The abolition of slavery without a plan and without the means of production is a hooligan!" Zhang Yue sighed a few times in his heart.

Slavery is a backward and decadent system that should be buried in the dustbin of history, Zhang Yue is well aware of this.

For slavery could not create any progress, nor could it promote the development of productive forces.

The worst feudalism is better than the best slavery!

But under the current system and the current productive forces, Zhang Yue clearly sees that slavery will not simply disappear and be buried.

In history, after the Two Han Dynasty, this decadent system was even restored for a period of time.

The family of gate lords in the Northern and Southern Dynasties was actually a remodeled slave owner.

Realizing this, Zhang Yue knew that it was impossible to stop the slave-owning atmosphere in the Han society now.

If he dares to make such a plan, the landlords and gentry of the world will be able to join forces to tear him apart!

The only thing he can do is to prohibit or restrict the use of Han people as slaves.