Volume 4 The Difficulty of Shu Road Chapter 344 [Harsh Government]
A lunch meal is eaten until the afternoon, and then it is over.
Of course, the doctors in Langzhong of Wushan County continued to sit in the hall after eating for an hour, and the servants and people who should see a doctor after eating, and those who have seen a doctor and those who are not sick will slowly gather around the table of Huang Jie and the five elders and parents, squatting or sitting, and listening quietly on the side.
Regarding the history of the servants, Huang Jie has probably heard seven or eight points from Elder Ermine, but for the current situation of the servants, Elder Ermine rarely mentions it, and he really can't bear to listen to Huang Jie, who has been talking about the ancients, borrowed urine to escape first, and touched his head with Sun Xin and Sun Guxian, who had been secretly making eyes.
Sun Xinxin took the booklet in his hand and said: "Da Lang, the treasurer of Wushan County has already counted the money, and a total of 12,000 guan, 10,000 copper coins, and 2,000 silver taels, of which 1,500 guan is the hanging red of Hua Dalang yesterday, and the other 500 guan is a little bit of Wuxian Zun's heart." ”
Sun Gu also reported: "At noon, a total of less than 30 stone of rice grain was cooked, and there were a lot of meat and vegetables left, did you prepare the night food according to the regulations?" That's right! After noon, hundreds of servants came from the north and west of Wushan County, and I heard that there were still many servants on the way to the west. ”
Huang Jie listened to what the two of them said, and then he had a rough idea, and said with a smile: "I just asked, there are roughly twelve servants in Wushan County, and there are more than twenty-five and more than 100 villages in Kuizhou." ”
Sun Xin didn't say anything when he heard it, but Sun Gu frowned and said: "In this way, I'm afraid that there are no less than tens of thousands of people, Da Lang really has a way to dispose of these servants?" ”
Huang Jie also nodded and said: "The way is naturally yours, whether it succeeds or not, it depends on God!" Brother Goro, just prepare for the night food, and it doesn't hurt to make more. ”
After explaining some things to the two of them. Huang Jie also returned to the table, but found that in this moment's effort, there were actually four more in the place where the five portraits were originally placed, and it was thought that four more servants had arrived.
After returning to the table, I saw that there were many more fresh faces on the table, and Elder Mink was also busy introducing Huang Jie to wait for a brief greeting. Elder Ermine was about to come to prepare to talk about the ancients, so Huang Jie also asked: "Elder Ermine, the matter of the servants in your mouth has also made the younger generations suddenly open, but the younger generations now have a thing that the more they hear about it, the more they don't understand, why do the servants want to divide the raw and cooked, and why do the servants refuse to settle down and naturalize?" ”
Elder Ermine glared when he heard this, and before he could answer, several parents and elders next to him also changed color when they heard this, and a gray-bearded elder also shouted: "Who said that my Yu clan refuses to naturalize." However, the government of the Song people did not regard our Yu people as a common people, and only said that they would pay taxes and take on labor, but they did not distribute land ......to my Yu people, and did not allow our Yu people to enter the city to trade, and wanted to build another Yu city for trade.
With the white-bearded elders at the beginning, the parents and elders of various families also relayed to accuse the Great Song Dynasty of discrimination and persecution of servants over the years. Huang Jie finally understood what he heard.
Since ancient times, these people have been regarded as "animal people" by the courts of various dynasties, and they are deeply discriminated against and enslaved. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, all adults of the Yu nationality who had the ability to work were occupied as slaves by officials and nobles, and some were forced to work in the fields, some were driven to the mountains to hunt, and some were locked up in handicraft workshops. Many women were forced to serve as concubines and servants of the nobles, suffering humiliation and servitude.
Moreover, the ancient servants were fierce and good at war, and whenever the dynasty wanted to use sword soldiers to go to war, they were forced to join the army and underwent some harsh training. Be driven to the bloody battlefield. In the eleventh year of Shang Tang's accession to the throne, he used the army formed by the servants as the main body to destroy the Xia Dynasty and establish the Shang Dynasty.
In the late Shang Dynasty, which had been maintained for more than 500 years, the cruel system of human sacrifice and martyrdom became increasingly popular. Whenever the princes and nobles held large-scale sacrifices, in addition to killing pigs and sheep, they also had to kill many slaves as sacrifices. When the princes and nobles died, they had to kill or even bury alive a large number of slaves for burial, and the Shang Dynasty's system of human sacrifice and martyrdom was entirely based on arbitrarily depriving tens of millions of slaves of their lives.
Therefore, in order to get rid of the inhuman situation, the ancient servants were forced to gradually migrate to the remote southwestern frontier. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, they have fled to the southwest Bashu region, and continue to split, among which the deep mountains and forests are not far away from the Han assimilation of this part of the servants also became the Shengyu people, and those who are willing to assimilate with the Han people gradually matured into the "Ba people".
To this day, the Great Song Dynasty court still implements a policy of ethnic discrimination against them, first of all, it does not regard the servants as the people of the Great Song Dynasty with full capacity for behavior, does not recognize the ownership of the mountain farms, mountains and forests and fields they open up in the deep mountains and old forests, and also excludes them from the salt and salt rationing system, including the pacification policy that Wu Xian once intended, and has never granted land to the servants who are willing to settle down and lifted the salt ban.
Wu Xian's naturalization policy only focused on domicile, paying taxes, undertaking forced labor, and implementing the "Baojia System", as long as these servants were registered and registered, paid taxes and undertook forced labor, and accepted the control of the "Baojia System", it was also completed. As for what the servants ate and drank after naturalization, and what they relied on to make a living, the government didn't care...... No, you servants didn't live well before naturalization, and after naturalization, you can naturally forage for food and feed.
Want a field? The people of the Song Dynasty are not enough! Didn't you servants cultivate their own slash-and-burn crops and open up wild fields in the mountains? Just pay the taxes according to the area of the fields and mountain farms, and who cares what you plant and reap!
Need salt? It's okay to buy money and grain, but you outsiders naturally can't enjoy the same welfare treatment as the people of the Song Dynasty!
Even, the servants are barbaric, and their clothing and habits are very different from those of the Song people, so the urban servants of the Song people still don't want to go, just go to the countryside to get a city to trade by themselves, and don't forget to pay the city tax to the government on time!
The above is the naturalization methods and attitude of the Great Song Dynasty government towards the servants, in such a practical situation, it would be hellish if the servants would be willing to naturalize, it is better to continue to stay in the deep mountains and old forests to be a wild man who drinks blood, neither to pay taxes nor to be subject to the jurisdiction of your government!
Just when Huang Jie listened to the elders and parents talking about the harsh government of the Song Court, three more servants came with portraits, and the twelve were all unfolded and arranged in a circle, and it could be seen that all the portraits were the same content.
Huang Jie couldn't help but think of one of the "Book of Rites", so he also recited: "Confucius passed the side of Mount Tai, and there was a woman crying in the tomb. The Master listened to it. Zilu asked: The cry of the son is also, there is a heavy one. And said: Yes! In the past, I died in the tiger, my husband died again, and now my son is dead again! The Master said, "Why don't you go?" Said: There is no harsh government. The master said: The boy knows it, and the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger! (To be continued.) )