Xijing Luoyang, the heart of the Great Song Dynasty, gathered from all sides, and all eyes were on it.

Every day, countless journalists and study travelers from all over the world shuttle through the streets and alleys. A little story that happened here will soon spread to various places through newspapers, and perhaps in half a month, it will become a case of a school somewhere in Lingnan. Developed information makes many things impossible to hide.

The fire at the train station shocked many people.

Only then did they discover that behind the prosperity, there was a group of poor people, who could hardly even be called people!

The burnt slaves, who were responsible for loading and unloading coal, lived in tiny huts enclosed by tall walls, with an average of less than a square meter per person.

He went to work during the day and was locked in at night, and in order to prevent escape, he put on three large locks.

When the fire broke out, everyone else fled, and even the guards who held the keys were nowhere to be found, and the slaves could not escape, they could only shout loudly, struggle desperately, bang hard against the wall, and let out a desperate roar.

Soon the canopy was burned down, smoke and fire poured in, and everyone choked and burned to death.

The corpses were strange and distorted, all of them were horribly charcoal-black, and the officials of the government endured the pungent scorching smell and hurriedly transported the corpses away, most of them remembering that they did not see the corpses. All they could see was palm prints on the walls, and in some places they could make out the scratches of their fingernails on the masonry.

What a desperate and desperate way to be!

After witnessing this, even the most hard-hearted person will be moved.

Especially those overseas scholars, they will talk a lot.

It turns out that the glamorous Xijing, the flowery Great Song Dynasty, also has such a cruel slavery system, it is not much better than them, everyone is half a catty and eight taels!

"At this moment, I was ashamed, those barbaric and disdainful eyes made me shake for the first time, is our Great Song perfect...... I don't understand why slavery should be preserved, maybe only heaven will not be unfair......"

One journalist wrote......

In about two or three days, almost the entire public opinion in Xijing exploded, and this sentiment soon spread to Kaifeng and other cities.

Numerous scholars and literati came forward to denounce slavery.

There are also some people who go to burn paper for the funeral of the dead slaves, and recite the scriptures excessively...... For these people, Murong Qingchen only has four words to describe it.

"Eat enough!"

He really couldn't understand what those indignant and eloquent guys had in their heads!

"Aren't there more than 200 people! Lao Tzu didn't kill 2 million people in the Western Regions, it's almost the same, they are miserable, I've seen 10,000 times worse than this! Aren't they living a good life too much, I think they should be arrested and sent to the Western Regions, where they will be under Lao Tzu for three months, and they will learn to be human again! ”

Da Su smiled, "I said Murong, people say that I am white-eyed, but I didn't expect that you are white-eyed than me, and you can't even think about such a thing." ”

Murong was really confused, "Zizhan, tell me, what's going on?" In the past, when building roads, I heard that slaves were often exhausted to death, and tens of thousands of people died, so it didn't matter, why did it make such a big fuss this time? ”

Su Shi wanted to speak, but when he turned his head and saw Xiao Yu beside him, he pushed him.

"Come, you teach your uncle a lesson!"

Xiao Yan smiled shyly, and then began to talk eloquently.

In fact, this is first of all a matter of mentality, when a person is rich and has a good life, he will pursue culture, pursue elegance, and strive to dress himself up differently...... The same is true of the country, at present, the Great Song Dynasty has defeated almost all opponents, the Great Liao, the Western Xia, the Western Regions States, Seljuk, in terms of the vast territory, even more than the Tang Dynasty. We have stood at the pinnacle, and it has often popped up over the years, and the proposition of Yanwu Xiuwen is this truth. And after there are no external troubles, we are also trying to groom ourselves, to be elegant, to be perfect, to meet the requirements of morality...... Therefore, the relatively cruel slavery has naturally been controversial, and in recent years, there have often been opposing articles in the academic circles, scholars, and public opinion. This time it's just a total explosion! ”

Xiao Yu is not wrong, throughout the ages, this is the truth, and it is not only the Chinese people who are seriously ill. Many people will say that we are all the first in the world, how can there be ugly slavery in the prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty? This is not scientific!

Although Murong understood this thought, he also wanted to say naïve! Childish!

"They don't know how much of the clothes they wear, the belts they wear, the roads they walk, and the cars they ride in, how many of them are made by slaves! If we didn't use slaves, how could we build so many railways, who would raise silkworms, grow cotton, dye cloth, and dig coal...... They said it easily, abolished the slaves, believe it or not, the Great Song Dynasty collapsed at least half...... Grandma, don't make Lao Tzu anxious, I'll go to the forbidden army, and when I see a person with empty mouth and white teeth, and fart all over the world, Lao Tzu will beat one until they understand the reason! ”

Murong was murderous, and he got rid of an old and angry young man.

Xiao Yu likes his character very much, straightforward and crisp, jealous and hateful, just a matter of the court, it has never been so simple.

"General Murong, in fact, what I just said is just the background, there is only fertile soil, and without hard-working farmers, you can't harvest food."

Murong is not stupid, he can make such a big fuss, just relying on the attack of the Holy Mother's disease, it is impossible. There must be an entanglement of interests behind it, and it is very huge, but he can't see through it yet.

"General Murong, you say, where are most of the slaves?"

"Do you need to ask?" Murong Dao: "As far as I know, the largest number is the Wa Kingdom, with almost 3 million people, followed by Goryeo, as well as the Khitan, Jiaozhi, and Nanyang natives, plus the captives of the Western Regions and the Seljuks, the total number should be 10 million, right?" ”

"It's 11.3 million!"

Xiao Yu reported the exact number, "General Murong, these people are the best laborers, pull them out of the mainland and get them to work in the Great Song Dynasty, tell me, who is the most unhappy?" ”

"Could it be, a local merchant?" Murong asked.

Su Shi spoke, "How can there be any local merchants, in the past few years, the proportion of Han people in Bohai has risen to 7 percent, and more than half of them are on the side of the Japanese country, and the rest are mostly Japanese women and the old and weak...... We immigrated quickly, developed rapidly, and many places changed the race unconsciously, and now you go to the Wa Kingdom to see, there is almost no difference from the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Isn't that nice!"

Murong was puzzled: "Your Majesty doesn't often say that the whole world is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and all the states in Kyushu are the sons of the Han family. Isn't that exactly what we want! ”

Xiao Yu smiled, "Having said that, these places also need to develop the economy and labor, this is a contradiction!" ”

The last time Xiao Yu went to Bohai Kingdom, his biggest feeling was to sit on the temple and look at the problem, which is a completely different perspective from the real people.

Dad always said that knowledge and action are one, and the ancients also said that reading thousands of books means traveling thousands of miles. In the next three years, Xiao Yu was not idle, he first went around in the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, and then went south, looked at many vassals, and even went to the factory, accounting for half a year that year.

Although he didn't dare to say how in-depth, his insight was far from being comparable to that of his peers.

At the beginning, the family was expelled and vigorously immigrated.

At the beginning, these immigrants were armed, grabbed the land, sold the captured young men to the Great Song Dynasty, and after making money, they bought farm tools, seeds, and developed the land, and worked in full swing.

But as the land was almost divided, the situation changed.

For example, Bohai has introduced peanuts, soybeans and sorghum, and has become an important oil producer and wine-making base. In Goryeo, large farms were established to produce rice.

The economy of the Wa Kingdom was more complicated, with gold and silver mines, silkworm reeling, seafaring and fishing, and so on.

Obviously, these industries need people, and as the first generation of immigrants became wealthy, some people did not want to do the dirty work, and the younger people avoided it.

And recruiting workers from the Great Song Dynasty requires better treatment and sky-high salaries.

Therefore, the colonies tried their best to stop the slave trade, they wanted to keep the slaves for their own use, and even get back the slaves that had been sent to the Great Song Dynasty in the past.

To put it bluntly, this is the battle for labor.

"Under the science sect, there are many remnants of the big family, and as for Ercheng, they have been sent overseas and have not yet returned...... It is not surprising that these people speak for the colony and stir up the storm! ”

"Sure enough, it's them!"

Murong slapped the table angrily, "What a big dog guts!" Didn't you get enough of Lao Tzu's fist? They stopped as soon as possible, otherwise even if Zhou Dunshi is at my moment, Lao Tzu will not be able to make mistakes! ”

"How do you just know how to do it!" Su Shi rolled his eyes, what a reckless man!

Xiao Yu said: "In addition to the overseas colonies, there is also a force that demands the abolition of slavery, and no one can afford to provoke this force. ”

"Huh? Who is it? Murong was taken aback, the son of King Yan of Xiao Yu, he said that he couldn't be provoked, was Wang Ningan also unfair? Could it be the emperor?

"It's the common people!"

Xiao Yu didn't sell Guanzi, "That's the case, General Murong, do you know how many people I have in the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Murong pondered, "It should be a lot, there are 200 million?" ”

"It's 210 million!" Xiao Yu was very helpless, "Since the third year of Zhiping, because of the implementation of the Juntian Order, almost all the people can afford to marry a daughter-in-law, coupled with the development of medical care, the infant mortality rate has decreased, and the population is exploding...... If you go to the countryside, almost every family has five or six children, and some even have more than ten! ”

"In these years, the most tiring thing is the official in charge of household registration, and almost every year, the population will increase rapidly...... According to estimates, in the next 20 years, the population of the Great Song Dynasty will exceed 400 million...... There are so many people, and that little bit of land alone is not enough to live. So there are people who preach that it is the slaves who rob them of their jobs, and in a way, this is also true! Xiao Yu said very seriously.