How long is the journey from the Western Regions to Chenjun of the Empire? They started walking in the spring of last year, walked for nearly two months before entering the empire, and then set out from the Hetao area, and walked for almost four months to reach Chen.

The origins of this group of slaves who were escorted from the Western Regions to Chenjun were very complex, ranging from white-skinned and dark-skinned people from Mediterranean countries (or powers) to black-skinned and wheat-colored people from Central Asia. When they set out from the Western Regions, there were 130,000 people, some of them died of illness while they were on the road to the Western Regions, and there were about 125,000 people when they entered the Hetao.

The empire was desperately short of labor, and its policy, which did not care much about the lives of aliens, was slightly changed. In fact, it is precisely because I began to care a little about the lives of aliens, otherwise I would not have just died about 5,000 people on the road for more than two months, but more than that.

Some of the 125,000 slaves were selected during their time in the Loop, and they were people who knew how to herd herds, and they would be left in the Loop as official slaves to graze horses for the horse ranches established by the empire. The number of people in this part is not too large, only about 2,000 people. At the same time, for some other reason, three thousand women were selected from the slaves who remained in the Loop.

After staying in Hetao for about half a month, the slave brigade, which had improved some nutrition, set off again under the escort of the imperial troops, and they took the route of Yanmen County, not from Beidi County or Shangjun to the south.

Halfway through, military and local officials always arrived, and they picked out the slaves they thought would be useful, once, twice, three times...... I don't know how many times I selected, and there were still slaves who died of illness on the way, the number of 120,000 slaves when they set out from Hetao became smaller and smaller, and there were less than 30,000 left in the batch that arrived in Chenjun.

"Look at mostly male slaves in the prime of life?" Huang Ye asked the escorted officer: "Is the number in the early 30,000s?" ”

The officer, a military marquis, nodded expressionlessly: "A total of thirty-one thousand four hundred." There were only 3,000 women in that number. The rest are all men. ”

The younger Confucian student on the side asked curiously, "Is it a defeated prisoner?" He meant, otherwise how could it be mostly male.

"Yes, most of them were defeated captives, and some were exterminated horse thieves and sand thieves, including those who had been previously captured by horse thieves and sand thieves." The Marquis said.

The young Confucian was surprised: "Huh? We have exterminated horse thieves and sand thieves. Why weren't those who had been taken captive released before? ”

"Why release?" The middle-aged military marquis looked puzzled and looked at the young Confucian student strangely: "They are not our clansmen, and we have no responsibility to protect them. ”

Huang Ye stopped the young Confucian student, and he had to stop it.

The empire has been propagating the state and the nation in recent years, and it is the kind of one-size-fits-all national policy, that is, there are only two nations in the world, one is its own nation and the other is not its own nation. The military was the first to accept this argument, and they must be the ones who accept it. After all, anything can happen on the way to the open, they are in a hostile environment, and many times they can be more aggressive if they don't treat the alien race as a human being, and they also avoid the trouble caused by kindness.

Naturally, in order not to turn the army into a beast, the army is implanted with the notion that they have a duty to protect their fellow citizens of the same race, and that they cannot use the same methods of treating other races on their fellow citizens. This notion has been repeatedly emphasized. A lot of times things are repeated over and over again, with some examples to guide them. It's not like that, it's going to be like that.

"Don't talk to the military about that." Huang Ye instructed the young Confucian students step by step, saying: "The military is the least likely to accept our (Confucian) idea of world unity, and their profession is destined to be either friend or foe deep-rooted. ”

The young Confucian hesitated, "But...... Then it's not good to treat the innocent. ”

Innocents? It's really an innocent person, but it's also an innocent person of a different race, and Huang Ye, who has already "kept pace with the times", can't say that.

"I heard that ......" Chen Yu didn't know when he came to the two of them. In a mocking tone, he said: "At the beginning of the journey, there were 130,000, and less than 100,000 actually lived to the destination. ”

Chen Yu had heard those words from some escort teams, and the ridicule on his face was not for anything else, but purely to mock Huang Ye's argument that the hope of Confucianism was among the aliens.

"They're going to hate us." Chen Yu looked at Huang Ye. After a pause, he said: "Because in their eyes, we are all cruel imperial people." ”

"......" Huang Ye didn't say anything, but he thought depressedly in his heart: "If you are not a strong imperial person, do you want to be a foreigner who is bullied and wantonly abused everywhere?" ”

The young Confucian also looked at Chen Yu strangely, as if he was young and didn't know what to do, and asked Chen Yu: "As far as I know, the empire has always been very good to the people of our nation, why are we cruel?" ”

"Not cruel?!" Chen Yu stared at Li Qi, that is, the young Confucian student, with a mouthful of ridicule and resentment: "Your so-called kind imperial people slaughtered one or two million Baiyue, who originally had three or four million, and now there are nearly one million who have become miserable slaves in the empire; Your so-called kind imperial people, swept the steppe, slaughtered nearly 400,000 people, and plundered more than 500,000 ......" is more like a roar later.

Li Qi was dumbfounded, not only was he young, but some people next to him had any expression when they heard Chen Yu's roar.

"Why don't you say that Baiyue is encroaching on southern Xinjiang? Why don't you say that Baiyue wantonly slaughtered 340,000 people in Changsha? Why don't you say that the grassland Hu people have gone south to kill and plunder for hundreds of years? Junhou Zhao Ping looked angry and stared at Chen Yu: "Are you blind, or do you have something wrong with your brain?" ”

Chen Yu couldn't help but take two steps back when he saw Zhao Ping's hideous posture on his face and drew his battle sword, not daring to roar loudly anymore, and justified in a normal volume: "That was a long time ago, haven't we already taken revenge?" Now that they can no longer threaten us, we should show the mercy of the strong, and use tenderness to make them recognize, educate them, and treat them well......"

"You do have a sick brain!" Zhao Ping seemed to laugh angrily, looked at the many people with different faces around him, his eyes swept over the faces of one after another scribes who had just arrived, and said, "You really should let an idiot like that sick brain go to the frontier." Go and get in touch with the alien. ”

Several scribes who did not belong to Confucianism couldn't hold back a "poof" laugh, they more or less knew that there were too many Confucian disciples, because there were really too many Confucian disciples, and there would inevitably be a few more peculiar people, but when they heard the funniest of the many Confucian arguments, they couldn't help but laugh on the spot.

Several people laughed, and the Confucian disciples, who also felt that Chen Yu's tone was strange, immediately covered their faces. Some of the soldiers of the military also burst into laughter.

Huang Ye listened to a laugh with a bitter face, Chen Yu is not the only person among Confucians who has this kind of thought, it should be said that more than ninety percent of the Confucian disciples have that kind of thought, only a very small number of Confucian disciples can't hold that kind of thought after thinking about it, but they don't dare to show it for the time being.

Does World Harmony Exist? In particular, is it possible to have a world of great harmony that everyone respects? The more we know how big the world is and how many nations there are, the more thoughtful Confucian disciples will inevitably wonder whether the ideological education they have received is right.

"Is human life considered justice?" Chen Yu didn't blush, not ashamed, but angry. He roared, "What's the difference between this and a beast!? ”

"Lonely and unheard!" Zhao Ping walked up and almost pointed at Chen Yu's skull. It was both ridicule and miserliness, and said: "130,000 slaves, 100,000 survived, we have enough to cherish the lives of these aliens." ”

Chen Yu looked at Zhao Ping suspiciously, but Zhao Ping had no interest in explaining at all.

You must know that the current world is like that, almost all countries and forces really don't care about the lives of slaves, almost when this group of slaves was escorted by the imperial forces on the way back. In the distance, a Seleucid army was also escorting the Ptolemaic slave brigade on its way.

The Ptolemaic Empire was again defeated by the Seleucid Empire, and more than 40,000 people were taken prisoner. Then the Seleucid army entered the territory of Syria, and in view of the fact that the Syrians were on the side of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and the Seleucid Empire did not relent after the victory, so the Seleucid Empire captured nearly 170,000 slaves on the Syrian territory.

The 170,000 slaves who were escorted eastward by the forces of the Seleucid Empire died more than 30,000 in the first month, and the number that finally reached their destination was less than 80,000. It's like losing half of the journey in three months.

Compared with the countries or forces in the world that have the strength to invade and plunder, the empire has really changed recently, except for the Seleucid Empire's treatment of the Egyptians and Syrians without taking human life seriously, the Roman Republic, Carthage, Parthia, which have the strength to invade other countries at this stage...... Who in any country takes the lives of alien slaves seriously?

Chen Yu left in a huff, and there were seven other people who left with him. They are really walking. I don't plan to serve in Chen County, so it's a bit hard to say where to go.

"They ignored the call-up order." Zhao Ping used an indifferent expression and tone: "Walking very chicly, no one cares about it until the deadline, and they will face the law as soon as the deadline passes." ”

Indeed, if he fails to perform his duties after accepting the call-up, he will be prosecuted by the law, and Zhao Ping is not talking nonsense. He had already made up his mind in his heart that once Chen Yu and the other eight people did not come back to report after the deadline, in addition to the truthful description in the report, he would also give Chen Yu and the others an evaluation that they might not be able to bear.

"What should I do?" The young Li Qi found out that those people in the military were full of malice towards Chen Yu and others, and he couldn't find it, because Zhao Ping's soldiers didn't hide it at all. He said to Huang Ye with a little worry, "Why don't we chase it?" ”

Huang Ye nodded, beckoned a few fellow Confucian disciples to come over, and then went to Zhao Ping to ask for some horses.

"Borrow a horse?" Zhao Ping pointed to Chen Yu and the others, who had not walked too far and could still see their backs, and said, "Inconvenient legs? If you don't yell a few times, there's no reason why you can't hear it at such a close distance. ”

Zhao Ping didn't like Confucianism in the first place, it should be said that it was rare for the military to have someone who had a good impression of Confucianism, and just now I heard Chen Yu, a Confucian disciple, say that kind of thing, how could he give Huang Ye, who is one of the Confucian disciples, a good face.

Huang Ye looked embarrassed: "This military marquis, it's not that they can't catch up with the horses, it's that they won't stay in Chen County to serve." So...... The purpose of borrowing horses is to let them return to the imperial capital as quickly as possible, so that they can go to the government to solve the case, or ask to serve elsewhere. ”

Zhao Ping had to look at Huang Ye, who had behaved normally before, with a strange gaze. He said, "You borrowed the horse, and then you let those guys go back to Nanling?" ”

"As the marquis said, they were assigned to serve in Chen, and they were unwilling to stay after signing the agreement, which would be against the law. The harshness behind the Imperial Law ...... not spoke, and Huang Ye simply bowed to Zhao Ping: "Please!" ”

"I originally thought you were a rare Confucian normal person, but I didn't expect ......" Zhao Ping shook his hand, as if regret and contempt, and said: "It turns out that you don't belong to normal people either." ”

What a joke! Military war horses can be borrowed if they say they can borrow it? Borrowing it to ride and play a lap may still be discussed, but it is to borrow it I don't know how many days it will be used, God knows if I can borrow it or whether I will return it. A batch of war horses is worth more than 100 yuan, and a loan is eight, and if Zhao Ping doesn't return it, he will be responsible, so he wonders, and this is a Confucian disciple whose brain circuit is different from that of normal people!

Huang Ye's face turned red, didn't he make an old mistake in a hurry.

Zhao Ping was already explaining to the rest of the people, and he also mentioned one point in particular, the original 130,000 slaves were half male and female, but most of the female slaves on the road were scattered everywhere, some were selected by the soldiers as a reward, and some were purchased by various counties for special industry services, and Chen County was basically a male alien slave because he had to build roads.

"Among the more than 30,000 slaves, there are 3,000 female slaves, and you can buy them at a reasonable price." Zhao Ping smiled, he said: "Those alien women are actually quite good, they have a different flavor, you don't know how long you have to follow the road repair team, it is necessary to buy a few warm beds or take care of your daily life." ”

A scribe who looked rather obscene immediately coaxed: "The rest of the people who were picked along the way won't all be ugly, right?" ”

A burst of laughter sounded, and from the laughter and scolding of some people, Zhao Ping knew that the obscene guy was a disciple of the novelist school, and he couldn't help but make his eyes light up.

Because the emperor took the lead, and then encouraged him with letters that did not act on orders, first those high-level civil and military, and then spread from top to bottom, recently the empire is popular to write autobiographies, Zhao Ping is a word of knowledge, but it is limited to knowing words, and he also wants to write an autobiography, and the feasible text is really a bit bad, and now he meets a novelist, how can he not be happy? (To be continued.) )