"Your Majesty has something on your mind?"

A gentle voice sounded in his ears, and the emperor looked up to find that the eldest grandson was asking with concern.

"Why are you here?"

"Your Majesty asked the king's chamberlain to pass the word and order the concubine to sleep tonight, Your Majesty forgot?"

Saying this, Luo Cheng remembered that the royal chamber of the Inner Servant Province came to ask him to turn over the signs of the concubines, because the queen came, Concubine Li Guifei was bringing filial piety to her father, and Concubine Zheng and Concubine Cui were pregnant, so the emperor turned over the brand of the eldest grandson Zhaoyi.

Under normal circumstances, Luo Cheng lives in the Xingyuan Palace.

Ziwei Palace is divided into the court area and the sleeping area, in the north of the three halls of Qianyang, Wencheng and Wu'an is the first horizontal street in the palace, the east and west ends lead to the east and west respectively, and the north of the street is the sleeping area.

The main hall of the dormitory is the Kaiyuan Palace, there is the Kaiyuan Gate in the south, here is not only the emperor's dormitory, but also the place where the prime minister is usually summoned to listen to the government, and the Chang Dynasty is in the Xuanzheng Hall in the west.

Further north is the second horizontal street in the palace, and the north of the street is the dormitory where the concubines live.

The emperor lives in the main hall Kaiyuan Palace, and there are several halls on his left and right and behind, which are partial halls such as the imperial study.

To the north is the Zhenyuan Palace, there are several halls on his left and right and behind, the Zhenyuan Palace is the residence of the queen, and the surrounding halls are the residences of other concubines.

The two groups of palaces of Kaiyuan and Zhenyuan are the same before and after, plus the surrounding halls, which are closed by walls to form a sleeping area.

In the palaces of the Kaiyuan Palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared thirty-six dragon beds for the emperor in dozens of rooms, and the room in which the emperor slept was different every night, and even before going to bed, Luo Cheng didn't know where he would sleep tonight.

The emperor wants to be fortunate to the concubines, occasionally go to the palace of the concubines, and more often they are directly called by the inner servants to come to bed, the four concubines and nine concubines will generally stay after sleeping, but the lower-level women and royal wives will return to their own residences after sleeping.

The third-class women have Jieyu, beauty, and talent, and there are nine people each, and the royal wife has three Baolin royal women and twenty-seven women each.

Of course, now the emperor's harem is not even full of nine concubines, except for the first queen and four concubines, and there are only a few women in the twenty-seventh generation.

The emperor is busy with government affairs every day, and there are too many things to do, so there is less time for this. Sometimes, even for many days, concubines are not called to bed.

In this hurry, he even forgot to summon his eldest grandson today.

Luo Cheng pulled the eldest grandson to sit down beside him, "I just thought about something, but I was distracted." Now that the north is peaceful, I also announced an amnesty for the world, and those people who were coerced into thieves during the Great Cause period, as long as they are willing to return to their hometowns, then the past is not to blame. After this pardon was issued, the effect was still good, and many of those who had been thieves or avoided the mountains and forests also went down the mountain. However, there are still some people who are reckless, gather in the mountains and forests, and run rampant. ”

To this end, Luo Cheng ordered all counties and counties, and ordered the government soldiers, county soldiers, and township warriors from all over the country to go out together to severely crack down on those bandits who resisted to the end, and arrest them.

The effect is still very strong, especially now that the war in the north has been decided, the imperial court has enough strength to encircle and suppress these bandits, and now the number of captures reported by the counties is very staggering, reaching hundreds of thousands.

For these bandits who resist to the end, the prime ministers of the court also have different views.

Some people believe that they should be lenient and released all of them and let them return to their homes.

Some people also believe that now that the north has just been pacified, many places are still very chaotic, and at this time, it is more and more necessary to use heavy codes to deter lawlessness and should be killed.

Some of those who advocate a strike hard campaign believe that only those bandit leaders and backbone cadres should be investigated, while others believe that they should all be dealt with.

"Is Your Majesty worried about this?"

"Yes, after all, there are hundreds of thousands of people, and there are many vicious outlaws among them, many of whom are just coerced, and there are also people who have committed crimes and now want to repent." Luo Cheng nodded.

"Then what is Your Majesty's attitude?"

Luo Cheng's idea is to have both death and pardon, and to carefully interrogate and distinguish all these captured people. Those who have committed serious crimes must not be let go, and they must be exemplified and exemplified, or put to death in public trials to reassure the people, or reduced to slavery, or exiled to the frontier to colonize and expand the frontier.

For the majority, those who have committed only minor sins, or who have been coerced, should be pardoned for their crimes. Even the families of the thieves should not be implicated.

However, he also has to consider that these people do have a bad reputation in the local area, and have even harmed many people.

Therefore, he planned to immigrate these people to the frontier to enrich the border counties such as Daifang, Wuchuan, Wuyuan, Xiping, and Dunhuang.

"If Your Majesty has an idea, why hesitate?" The eldest grandson asked.

"Hundreds of thousands of people have emigrated to the frontier, and these people have some bad criminal records, and I am worried that sending all these people to the frontier will make the frontier even more difficult to manage."

The eldest grandson said, "The concubine thinks that the frontier is remote and barbaric, the conditions are harsh, and the threat of barbarians must be guarded against, so it is necessary for the border people to be more strong." ”

"Hahaha, what you said is reasonable, it just so happens that I am still thinking about one thing, that is, I plan to move all the Han slaves in the hands of the government to the borderlands, give them freedom, let them reclaim the wasteland, guard the border, and enrich the borderland."

In the Sui Dynasty, it was an era when officials and private individuals owned a large number of slaves, and in today's Qin Dynasty, the number of slaves is still extremely large. Most of them came from wars, such as Luo Cheng's destruction of Goguryeo, and the number of captives taken from Goguryeo before and after reached more than 3 million, and the war against Goguryeo was not over.

Several wars with the Turks also allowed Luo Cheng to get hundreds of thousands of Turkic prisoners.

In addition, the civil strife in the Central Plains also reduced many bandits and enemy soldiers to prisoners, not to mention the large number of slaves looted and sold by merchants in Artesian Ball, Linyi, Silla and other places.

There are a large number of foreign slaves, but there are also many Han slaves, many privately owned slaves, and the share owned by the government is also large.

Although Great Qin now has unified the north, it has 20 realms, but the total population is only about 30 million, including slaves.

This number is far less than the nearly 9 million households and 50 million people at the height of the Sui Dynasty. Now that Great Qin pursues a strategy of foreign development, the population of Liaoning, Andong, Yunnan, Qianzhong, Jiannan, Longyou, and Annan is extremely small, especially the barbarians, and the share of the Han population is too small.

Luo Cheng hoped to quickly improve the situation by freeing the Han slaves in the hands of the government and relocating them to the frontier.

It's just that the slaves are freed, for the imperial court, this is also a big direct loss, after all, every slave is very valuable, this matter will inevitably make many ministers oppose, not to mention that those Han slaves are slaves, and there are many people because of the felonies they have committed.

"Your Majesty, if you look at it from the moment, this will cause the imperial court a lot of losses, but if you look at it in the long run, it will be of great help to Your Majesty's frontier national policy." In the words of the eldest grandson.

Luo Cheng nodded.

"You're right, it's good for the long term. Thirty percent of the population of Great Qin are slaves, of which Hu Yi slaves account for 10 percent, and Han slaves account for 2 percent. Of the approximately 6 million slaves, official slaves accounted for about 40 percent, or about 2.4 million slaves. ”

Thinking of this, Luo Cheng finally made up his mind to implement this decision.