Chapter 254: A Hope for Life

"Besides, I'm also the queen of a country, so you can give me the identity of a widow?" Thinking of this, Fan Xueyi's mouth pouted even more, fortunately, she is also the queen of a country, right? Although the country is about to be destroyed, even if it falls into the hands of the Tang Dynasty, at least one marquis is indispensable, right? You're going to give me a five-grade widow?

"There's no way, I'm still just a prince now, except for a concubine, the highest status is only a widow." Li Zhen looked at the coquettish Fan Xueyi, laughed even more, and gnawed on her mouth fiercely: "If you don't want it, then I can only destroy Zhenla, occupy your sister, give her the position of the widow, and then give you a concubine (ying, four sounds, a kind of princess and concubine, generally refers to the concubine's concubine, that is, the maid of ordinary people, compared to the widow, the status is lower." ) identity. ”

"Don't." Fan Xueyi didn't care about being attacked by Li Zhen, and hurriedly shouted: "It turns out that you don't even let go of my sister, no, I want to be a widow." ”

"In other words, you agreed? Promised to marry me? ”

"Huh?" Fan Xueyi realized that she had been fooled, and she didn't follow: "You are really necrotic, so I don't want to be your concubine." ”

Li Zhen threw her on the bed, made a pounce, and said with a wicked smile: "Then I'm sorry, you have already agreed, and it will be too late to regret it." Now I'll give you another chance, will you say yes or not? If you agree, it's just that, otherwise, this king will have to come to the overlord to make a hard bow. ”

Fan Xueyi saw that he didn't look like he was lying, so she clutched her chest and said repeatedly: "Don't, don't, I'll just promise." ”

"That's right." Li Zhen tilted her body, sat beside her, and reached out to touch her pretty face: "Although you are only a woman of the fifth grade, your status in the palace is second only to the concubine, not to mention that as my Li Zhen's woman, no one dares to bully you - even if I move a finger of you, I will definitely get justice for you." ”

Fan Xueyi grabbed Li Zhen's hand and unconsciously scratched his palm, with a sad face and a sad tone: "I'm not worried about being bullied, but I am the queen of Linyi after all, and the leader of one million (Note 1) Linyi people." I will marry you here and enjoy the glory and riches, while my people will be reduced to slavery and toiled to death in slave camps...... No matter how you think about it, I'm going to be scolded as a woman who has lost my country, right?

Li Zhen, I promised to be your woman, can you grant me a request? ”

The originally smiling face gradually turned cold, Li Zhen slowly broke away from Fan Xueyi's hand, and said coldly: "If you want to use yourself in exchange for the people of Linyi not being enslaved, then I can only tell you that you think too much."

I like you very much, but I want to exchange yourself for the freedom of the people of Linyi, and you are not worth the price! ”

"No, I didn't think about it that way." Fan Xueyi suddenly panicked, hurriedly grabbed Li Zhen's hand, and pleaded with tears in her eyes: "I didn't mean that, I just begged you to give the people of Linyi a chance." You degraded them to slaves, and they deserve it, and I have no problem with that. But I know that if you go into a slave camp, you will have to work until you die...... The people of Linyi are guilty, but they are not guilty to death, I just want to give the people of Linyi a chance to live and give them a way to live. ”

Hearing this, Li Zhen's face eased: "Then what do you think?" ”

In fact, this proposal is not only for the sake of the people of Linyi, but also for the sake of all the slaves in the slave camp. I know that the slave camp is said to be dead and lifeless, so don't even think about it if you go in. Fan Xueyi saw that Li Zhen was not angry, so she burst into tears and laughed: "But such a slave camp is so terrible that the slave camp has even become synonymous with hell, and some people would rather be beheaded immediately than go in." ”

"There's a problem." Li Zhen nodded, today's slave camp is just like Fan Xueyi said, after more than ten years of fermentation, the notoriety of the slave camp has finally spread, and many criminals would rather be beheaded at that time than go to the slave camp. What's more, after hearing that their distribution destination was a slave camp, many committed suicide on the spot. Even if they were successfully assigned to the slave camp, these people were all slow to work, passive and slacking off, and they didn't even give the overseer face - they would die sooner or later anyway, and they would rather die at the hands of the overseer than die of exhaustion on the construction site or be buried alive in the landslide.

This also leads to the fact that most of the slave camps are foreign captives today, but there are very few criminals or villains in the Tang Dynasty, and this is the main reason.

"Do you have any solution to that?"

"I have an idea, I think the reason why the slave camps are hell is because there is only despair and no hope in the slave camps, and if you can give the slaves a little hope, even if it is very small, I believe the situation will be very different."

"For example?"

"For example, give the slaves a promise that when they have worked in the slave camp for many years, you will give them their freedom, and even allow them to join the Tang nationality.

For example, whoever behaves well on weekdays, you promise them to go out and relax for a while.

Whoever can exceed the task can be rewarded with a certain amount of reward, etc., etc...... I believe that with these incentives, the slaves will definitely work honestly, and there will never be any more passive slacking.

In this way, not only do the slaves have hope, and they will no longer easily seek death or passive sabotage, but Datang also has a group of energetic slaves, and I believe that the speed of many projects will be greatly increased. For the sake of her own people, Fan Xueyi racked her brains, and after thinking about it for so long, she finally came up with the best way, that is, this reward system, so that as long as her people work hard enough, I believe that life will be better, and even it is not impossible to be released to become a Datang citizen.

I have done so much, and even lost myself, I can be regarded as worthy of my subjects, and I believe that no one will scold me anymore.

"That's a good idea, well, I'll take your suggestion." Li Zhen nodded and said, in fact, he had thought about this method before, but he had not implemented it because of a doubt. That is, the slaves who have been slaves and experienced the torment of slave camps, after restoring their civilian status, will definitely be full of hatred for Datang. And those who can survive from the slave camps must be those with strong hearts, and if such people are allowed to be free, unless they are particularly unlucky, they can basically work hard to make a career of their own.

Note 1: It is not clear how many people lived in Southeast Asia during the Tang Dynasty, but Bensan was also calculated by the proportional method.

During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, there were 20 million people (according to records), and in 1995, China had a population of 1.2 billion, a ratio of 60:1 to the population of the Tang Dynasty.

In 1996, Vietnam's population was 75.9 million, 75900000÷60=1265000, that is, 1.265 million people.

Of course, this is Bensan's own algorithm, which is definitely inaccurate, but I really can't find the population data of Southeast Asia during the Tang Dynasty, so I can only use this...... Don't spray me, everyone.

In addition, today should be these two watches, I will go to my uncle's house for a while, back is estimated to be ten o'clock, it should not be updated, tomorrow I have to go to relatives, I don't know when I can go (there are a lot of relatives, just my uncle is three, my aunt has five, and there are other relatives, the place where I live is not concentrated, and I don't know if I can finish it in three days, so I will go one today).

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