Section 208 Student Tide (2)
In the case that Jin Wu does not interfere, and Jing Zhao Yin does not dare to interfere.
The preaching of the students went very smoothly.
They divided into 12 routes, blocked the gates of Chang'an, and gathered hundreds or even thousands of listeners.
Speak out, preach loudly and lash out at the dangers of slavery.
For a time, the listeners were flooded.
Everyone applauded and applauded the impassioned speeches of these young men. (Although many people, in fact, do not support the words of these students at all...... )
So, when the day was over, after the students returned to Taixue, everyone was like drinking immortal wine, fluttering like immortals, and they didn't recognize who they were?
This is the first time in their lives that students have felt the truth and justice of the world in their own hands.
For the literati, this feeling is better than any narcotics and poison in the world.
As long as you taste it, you almost can't stop it.
"My life's scholars, that's how it should be!" Many people stayed up all night and gathered to talk.
"Yes, yes, to educate the world, our duty is also!" Some people sighed, quite a kind of feeling that I knew I was me today.
As for the thousands of acres of fertile land and thousands of slaves and maids in the family, at this time, many people have forgotten about it.
Even when I think about it occasionally, I don't think it matters much.
At present, the most important thing is to continue to expand the momentum, so that more people know what they stand for, and let their names be known to more people.
So, the next day, the students continued to line up and went to the gates of Chang'an City.
This time, they had experience and organizations began to emerge.
Many people call for friends, and they call a lot of friends who are familiar with them or have similar interests in the past.
As a result, the situation began to change subtly.
If we say that yesterday, the students' preaching was more symbolic than practical.
Even the people who listened to their preaching actually had the mentality of watching the excitement.
But now, the situation is completely different.
Every student has a small circle of his own.
In this small circle, there are not only the children of the nobles, but also the businessmen, and the local snakes in Chang'an.
When they gathered their friends together to join the prosperous world.
The public opinion of the entire Chang'an was affected in an instant.
These children of the nobility, these children of merchants, and these children of local heroes, were gathered by the friends of Taixue, participated in the activities together, preached, and whipped the slaves.
Accompanied by the applause and cheers of the onlookers.
They inevitably soaked up the atmosphere.
Young people, strong in blood, coupled with the rally preaching, some people applauded.
Naturally, I thought that the world was in my hands and the truth was in my hands.
In addition, what you preach is indeed the truth, righteousness, and justice.
Suddenly, the situation changed 180 degrees.
What will a group of young people, or young people with a good life, carefree, and full of a sense of justice, get together and feel that they have finally found a just cause?
Of course, it is to hold high the banner of justice and vigorously lash out at the ugly!
Especially when the whipping is ugly and has no cost, their blood is equivalent to being injected with a bunch of adrenaline.
All of them are like being beaten with chicken blood.
Thus, the hurricane took shape.
In just two or three days, the entire Chang'an was swept away by the hurricane.
A lot of people haven't even reacted to what happened at the time.
They had to face the surging public opinion in amazement.
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"Father...... The son pleaded with his father, to cut down on the slaves and maids, and to release the diligent and faithful among them, so that he could give him land rent, and he would be grateful to Dade for the diligent work of my family without complaint! A young man, with a righteous face, found his father who was studying in the study, and knelt down and bowed down as soon as they met: "In this way, you can go to the road of the first king, and the way of Confucius and Mencius is similar!" ”
"Huh?" The middle-aged man who was reading was startled when he heard this, looked at his son in disbelief, and asked, "Why did you say that?" ”
If he hadn't known that his son had always been smart and shrewd, he would have even wondered if he was a fool.
I listened to the impassioned preaching of the young man in front of him: "The son heard that the upper and lower blind dates are benevolent, so the benevolent can observe their love, and Confucius said: The husband is benevolent, he wants to establish people, and he wants to reach people...... Spring and Autumn righteousness, benevolence-based, and the justice of the world is nothing more than the love of ......"
"My family is extremely rich, with 100,000 stone of corn, millions of savings, thousands of hectares of land, and thousands of slaves......"
"It is better to release slaves and maids, thinking that they are tenant farmers, raising the reputation of my family, and accumulating the virtue of a gentleman......"
The middle-aged man listened to it one by one, looked at his son, and was speechless for a long time.
If he wasn't convinced that the person in front of him and his beloved son were indeed the same person, he really suspected that someone was pretending to be his son to fool him.
Free the slaves?
Joke!
Every slave is a moving cash cow.
The annual cost of food and clothing for a male slave in the prime of life is no more than 3,500 yuan.
But he could cultivate sixty to seventy acres of land for his family, and his annual corn was between one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty stones.
Converted into money, it is between 12,000 and 14,000 yuan.
On average, each male slave earns at least 10,000 net money!
At present, the price of slaves and maids selling their bodies is about 30,000 yuan in the official government.
In other words, a male slave can pay back in three years.
The rest is all net gain.
His family has more than 400 slaves, including two or three hundred male slaves, and it is these people who work day and night to increase the family's wealth.
Now, this stupid son actually came to persuade himself to release the slave?
Crazy, right?
If it weren't for such a precious son, the middle-aged man would really want to hang this rebel and smoke him to death.
"My son......" The middle-aged man put down the book in his hand and sighed: "Whose bewitchment did you listen to?" ”
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A similar story has been staged in countless Chang'an wealthy families.
The powerful can resist and ignore the pressure from the outside world, but they are a little scrambling for internal disputes, especially questions and requests from the next generation.
And just then, a piece of news came.
Guanzhong Dajia, the super-rich, and the richest man in the Han Dynasty, Yuan Guangguo, announced that at the request of his beloved son, he would release 200 slaves and maids from his family in order to accumulate yin virtue.
As soon as this news came out, the whole Chang'an shook.
The students and the young 'righteous men' were even more encouraged, as if they had been injected with a shot in the arm.
Their motivation to clamor and propagate the abolition and restriction of slavery has increased.