Chapter 170: The Racial System of the World
"Your Highness, you have won the support of the people in Tianshui, what about those slaves?"
Ou Yezi asked.
"In my eyes, there are only people, whether it is the emperor, the princes or the commoners, we are all people, Tianshui has no slaves now, and in the future, the whole world will be free of slaves!"
Liu Yuetian said solemnly.
After listening to Ou Yezi's story, Liu Yuetian's heart was extremely heavy, yes, there are still a large number of slaves in this era, even in a prosperous place like Dawu.
They do the most humble jobs, have no income, no future, and can only barely survive, and it is not easy to even barely survive.
Slavery is of course a backward system, but it can bring them a lot of benefits for the princes of all parties, because slaves are free labor! At best, it's just food, and it's like food for pigs and dogs.
In addition, most of the slaves are ethnic minorities, and this system is actually a racial system, such as Shi Le, who is a descendant of the Qian tribe, and the old man Ouyezi in front of him is a descendant of the Lu tribe.
Since King Wu of Zhou established the Great Zhou, the eighty-eight princes who raised troops with him were also rewarded and distributed to all parts of the country, but in order to prevent these princes from rebelling in the future, King Wu of Zhou disrupted all their clansmen, and then the fief was far away from their lair.
Eighty-eight princes represent their respective forces, but also represent different races, the Zhou Wu King Dafeng princes attracted a nationwide migration of population, different races mixed together and integrated with each other, after hundreds of years has formed several major races.
One is the descendants of King Wu of Zhou as the main body of the Zhou family, the number of Zhou people is the largest, and it has become the largest family in the world, and the Zhou people are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the first class is naturally the Liu family with the direct bloodline of King Wu, and then other surnames that are fused with the bloodlines of the Liu family and other races, such as the Sun family of Dawu, the Li family of the Tang Dynasty and the Cao family of the Great Wei, these clans have the shadow of the Liu family in their bloodlines, such as Sun Quan, the king of Wu, and his grandmother is a princess of the Great Zhou.
Then there are the clans with powerful princes, such as the Qin clan in Great Qin and the Gesar clan in Tibet, whose race is also noble.
A little lower is the local big clans, these clans have a long history, have produced many celebrities, and have served as high-level in the imperial court, such as Henan County Taishou Zu, his ancestor was a general of the Great Zhou, and Huan Wen of Anding County is the same, each has a centuries-old heritage, such a clan is not a noble, but it is a wang clan, far from being comparable to other clans.
To put it bluntly, the nobles and the noble clan are still powerful clans, basically there are dozens of them across the country, about hundreds of thousands of people, in fact, the power of the whole world is in the hands of these people, they are born with rights that ordinary people cannot have, even if they are captured in the war, they will not become slaves, because they do not have the genes of slaves.
In addition, there are some clans that have been glorious in history, but the clans that have gradually decayed after countless wars and other reasons, although they do not have the right, but they still have a certain reputation, such as Liu Yuan, his ancestor was the king of the Huns outside the territory, and was later defeated and surrendered by King Wu, the family was torn apart, Liu Yuan's branch was directly renamed into the Liu family, but it could only stay in the remote place of Tianshui, and it grew up after hundreds of years of development, and such a clan was far beyond ordinary people. Even if Liu Yuan was captured by Great Qin in the end, it would be impossible for him to become a slave.
These are based on the blood of the family, most tens of thousands, the least is a few thousand, the family is a race, and has great power.
You can see King Nurhachi, don't look at his power, but the other princes and kings still look down on them from the bottom of their bones, because the other party does not have a long history, and the rise is too short and the background is insufficient, even if they are equal in status, then no one will think that they are nobles.
In addition to these families with a long history, the rest is based on race, such as those farmers, military households and merchants who have lived in the Chang'an region and the Central Plains for a long time, after hundreds of years of integration to form the most extensive race in his Great Zhou, collectively known as the Central Plains nation, although not rich and noble, but also ancestors have worked under the protection of the major aristocratic families for generations, even if they were captured in the war, they will continue to do the work of farmers and military households on the other side, serving the new masters, You can only become a slave if you make a big mistake.
The Central Plains people are the main body of today's race, they have common habits, speak the same language, and provide various resources for other big families, but they are not all.
In some border areas, some ethnic groups are very small in number, clothing, food, habits and even language are very different from the Central Plains people, if it is in the south, it is called barbarians, if it is in the north, it is the Yi people, for example, Shile is the Qi people, that is, barbarians, these people are inferior, lowly, backward symbols in the eyes of the Central Plains people, and they are also the best candidates for slaves.
Are these so-called barbarians really inferior, lowly and backward? Of course not.
In Liu Yuetian's previous life, there was also a phenomenon of racial discrimination in history, the main reason is caused by the uneven development of race, the larger number of races occupy better land, have a more comfortable life, such an environment will inevitably develop faster, with a more advanced civilization.
The leadership of civilization made them feel a kind of natural superiority, so they looked at other races with a colored eye, let them do those menial jobs, did not let them enjoy their due rights, and even said that they were inferior peoples, born to be enslaved.
But in fact? These nationalities are no worse than those so-called superior nations, and even stronger than each other intellectually, and there are many famous scientists in the history of Liu Yuetian's time who were descendants of those so-called inferior peoples.
The same is true in this era, Ou Yezi and Shi Le are the best of this group of minorities, they stand out from the lowly status, but what about their compatriots? With their current capabilities, they still can't solve this problem.
Shi Le's dream is to achieve a great cause, and then his relatives and clan will be proud of it, and Ou Yezi's dream is even more extreme, he wants to completely destroy this world, and ......... through the sword he forged.
"This is the dream, because of the dream, Ou Yezi's predecessors forged a weapon that surpassed the legendary blade......... Fairy Sword? ”