Chapter 63: Yun Lang's "Prohibition of Slavery"

Although the status of a real craftsman in Dahan is not too high, he belongs to the group of people who are carefree and rich.

The craftsmen who live a prosperous life, even in the countryside, are definitely upper-family families, so the idea of leaving their hometown to make money has never appeared in their minds.

Only a businessman would bother for a few bucks!

In the Han Dynasty, it was definitely an obsession to leave the homeland.

Born in Si, raised in Si, and buried in Si is the most successful life experience for the Han people.

At this time, parting - nature equals pain.

The only way to connect one's homeland with the rest of the world is the road.

Yun Lang, who is well versed in the psychology of soldiers, knows that if there is a road connecting Hequ City to Chang'an in the Han Dynasty, it can effectively relieve the homesickness of the soldiers, even if they can't see Chang'an, they know that their hometown is on the other side of the road when they see the road to Chang'an.

The road of the craftsman Liu Ben was extremely bumpy.

Because he is a road builder, he will naturally not be able to get there as soon as he walks.

He is now a prisoner, sentenced according to the laws of the Han Dynasty, and escaped with the crime of leaving the customs without permission, migrating 2,000 miles, and serving two years of hard labor.

This is how the post supervisor from Bai Mountain's mountain was sentenced, and Liu Ben shouted twice that he was wronged, and was whipped five times by the soldiers.

Fortunately, Sima Xian, a cavalry lieutenant, pleaded for mercy, and the governor reconsidered his actual situation and told him that as long as the road from Baishan Mountain to Hequcheng was built within two years, he would be exempted from criminal responsibility, and in the name of requisition, his name would be compiled into the roster of cavalry lieutenants, and after returning to Chang'an, the government would reward him as appropriate.

The grief-stricken Liu Ben had no other choice, in this place far away from the Emperor of the Heavenly High, the words of that military Sima could decide his life and death.

Therefore, even if Liu Ben was unwilling, he also knew that he would take Qiang slaves to do the drudgery of road construction.

The Qiang people had a lot of slaves, so there was no shortage of people to build roads, and although the work was hard, the Qiang people did not have much intention of resisting.

Because the military commander of the cavalry actually told these slaves that as long as they worked well, the farmland outside the city of Hequ would be allocated to them in the future, and as long as they paid half of the harvest every year, they would become free people.

Working on the construction site and having food to eat, which the slaves did not expect, so the women, the old people, and the children were also sent to the road construction site by the kind cavalry captain Sima to give them a full bite to eat.

Such a situation was unpredictable by Liu Ben, because his four Qiang concubines also came to the construction site and began to earn food for themselves with their own hands.

The road was built very quickly, and in a month and a half, it had extended forty miles to Baishan Mountain.

Incineration, weeding, root removal, lime sprinkling, and soil laying are all the processes of road construction, which are simple and easy.

The snow is finally falling.

Liu Ben also breathed a sigh of relief, and the heavy snow fell, which meant that this year's labor was coming to an end.

The Qiang slaves looked at the snowflakes with sorrow, they couldn't build a road, and they had no source of food.

The three cavalrymen braved the snow to come from Hequ City, and ordered Liu Ben to quickly pack up their tools and follow them back to the city, the first snow in Hequ City usually fell very heavily and lasted for a long time.

Liu Ben, who was in a good mood, and more than 2,000 lost Qiang slaves rode back to Hequ City in an ox cart.

They looked at the young soldier at the gate of the city.

"The road construction work is good, reward a meal of mutton soup, send three days of rations, and continue to come to the city lord's mansion two days later to listen to orders, and there is still work for you to do."

Yun Lang gave an order to Liu Ben expressionlessly, and then a large group of soldiers led a large group of people to the edge of the city wall and eat hot mutton soup and baked cakes.

Liu Ben clenched his fists hatefully, but the slaves happily went to drink the soup, and watched the soldiers unload bags of grain from the ox carts, and they were in a good mood.

Yun Lang saw that the slaves were still stable, so he whispered to the officials who distributed the grain, and ordered the city gate to be closed.

It's been almost two months since I arrived in Hequ City, and winter has already arrived, but the first snow has come a little late.

During this period of time, the Qiang people in the diaspora heard that the Han people did not continue to kill people, and many of them were bold enough to return to Hequ City.

After all, they have already chosen a foregone conclusion, and when there is no food for cattle and sheep, they take the whole family to spend the winter in the wasteland, which is completely looking for death.

The Han Chinese were easier to deal with than they expected, and as long as they were not armed, they could enter the city.

Some people with little wealth were pleasantly surprised to find that their homes had not been ransacked by the Han Chinese, and that there were special Han officials who sent troops to protect their homes.

As long as these people can prove that this is his home, the Han officials will allow them to live in it, and they will also issue them something called a title deed, a house deed, to prove that this is their home.

The Qiang people have been cautiously probing, and when the first mutton soup restaurant opened, the Qiang people did it with the attitude of losing all their money.

As a result, there were many Han soldiers who came to drink sheep soup, and the fat Hequ sheep has always been a delicacy on the grassland, and the Han army ate and drank very happily.

Just when the shopkeeper was already desperate, the Han army would often throw him a few copper coins after eating and drinking, and tell him that with these copper coins, he could go to the grain store opened by the Han army to buy grain......

When the frightened shopkeeper went to the grain store and really exchanged the copper money for the grain, the clever shopkeeper calculated the cost of the grain and his own store, and definitely thought that the mutton soup restaurant could continue to open.

With the example of a mutton soup restaurant, leather shops, cloth shops, and various shops have opened in an endless stream.

Although the total number of shops is not much, considering the location of Hequ City, Yun Lang no longer dares to ask for more.

In Yunlang's eyes, the economy of Hequ City is an extremely primitive barter transaction.

Give me a sheepskin, I'll give you a crop of barley, you give me some linen, I'll give you a sheep...... For countless years, this is how people of different races have communicated with each other.

Yun Lang deliberately introduced the concept of money into the merchants' transactions, even though it was a complete fart for the savages.

However, this is civilization! Or a very advanced civilization that has escaped from low-level trading, he can really free the wildlings from the shackles of primitive trading, and then give birth to more ways to trade.

It is clear that the Qiang people have formed, or are in the process of forming their own civilization, and they have even formed their own political system - brutal slavery!

Before the arrival of the cavalry commander, only the patriarchs, army leaders, warriors, merchants, and farmers with their own farmland were free men in Hequ City, and the vast majority of the remaining Qiang people were destitute slaves!

The reason why this seemingly prosperous city was built like this was because every stone was stained with the blood and tears of slaves.

The granary of the patriarch's house was full of grain, the arsenal of the patriarch's house was full of weapons, and the treasury of the patriarch's house was full of gold.

Now, the accumulation of the Qiang people for a hundred years is all the riding captain.

Sima Qian was fascinated by the original political system, and he felt that such a living example allowed him to extrapolate the state of society before the Warring States period.

And thus a relatively accurate answer is derived.

After consulting with Huo Quzhi and others, the first government affairs of Hequ City promulgated by Yunlang was the "Slave Ban Order".

Even though the slaves didn't even know the three words of the slave ban, they felt a great kindness.

The biggest benefit of kindness is that the wandering Qiang people quickly returned to Hequ City.

Yun Lang actually didn't understand the real social meaning of the "Slavery Ban" after it was promulgated, he only knew that all the countries that promulgated the "Slavery Ban" would quickly become strong in a short period of time.

This is enough for Yun Lang.

He didn't have to learn from the Han family's common light and modest endowments to buy the hearts of the people, for slaves, becoming a free man was already a great gift, if they gave too much and showed too kindness, they would feel fear.

The light and thin endowment is used to buy the Han people who have long become free people's old fritters, and they will enjoy their power with peace of mind, and the slaves still forget it.

The word slave hurts not only the human body, but also the mind of the slave himself.

Naturally, a huge number of slaves cannot be fed in vain, and cash-for-work is a very good method.

Judging by the reaction of the slaves so far, the effect is very good.