Seeing that Zhao Ji had already entered the state, Wang Anshi and the three of them were overjoyed, and Bao Shou sat down, because it was better for Cai Jing to answer such a question. Seeing this, Cai Jing stood up and arched his hand and said: "Holy Lord, the abolition of slavery is incomprehensible to Weichen. There were no slaves in the Great Song Dynasty, so where did this abolition order begin. However, after the establishment of Mingzhu County, the local people of Mingzhu County were turned into mining slaves and slaves were made. Barbarian countries such as Northern Liao and Western Xia also had slaves, but how could there be slaves in the Great Song Dynasty, a state of civilization and etiquette? ”

"Aren't those long-term workers, the kaki who are kept by the housekeepers and the merchants of the Golan house, slaves?" Zhao Ji didn't understand.

"Slaves have no right to life, no right to property, and no right to freedom. Those people mentioned by the Holy God are there, and they are not slaves at all. Song Lu guaranteed those powers of theirs. The saint has time to look at the "Great Song Criminal Law" to know, and it is impossible for Weichen to explain it clearly. Faced with a common sense question like Zhao Ji, Cai Jing could only be speechless.

In the Song Dynasty, those long-term workers, family members, kabuki, and even the concubines of scholars were just part-time workers. Although they can be resold, they all have years of service. In today's parlance, it is the employment period stipulated in the contract. At the end of their contract, they are free. Moreover, they were paid for their service, according to the signed deed of sale. This deed of sale is in fact an employment contract, and if the owner beats them or kills them, they will have to go to court. Murderers pay for their lives, whether they are bureaucrats and landlords, or princes and nobles. Of course, once they entered the Gaofu compound, they were killed and hidden by those evil owners, and there were such things, and the government had no way to investigate them. However, once it is found out, it will also cost its life.

Zhao Ji's use of the logic of later Marxism to treat the Song Dynasty is really ridiculous. Because in China, there has never been a slave system, and there is no so-called feudal system. The feudal system, in fact, is the mining system in Western Europe, which is similar to the feudal system in the Western Zhou Dynasty in China, but wasn't the Western Zhou Dynasty a slave society? This is a contradiction.

If we carefully analyze history, the so-called 2,000-year-old feudal society in China, and even the slave society dating back to the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, are actually a kind of republican system and an imperial republic. This special system can be seen from the ideas of Chinese nationalism. Zhao Ji came to the Song Dynasty and discovered a very interesting republican phenomenon in the past few years. Some bankrupt people, after having no livelihood, often live in clans and trading houses, until the clans and merchants find a livelihood for them or they find a livelihood themselves, all food and housing problems are provided by the clan and the trading houses.

After the imperial court completed the prescribed taxes, it would also return taxes to the people, that is, the excess taxes would be returned to the peasants and merchants. In the event of a natural disaster, the imperial court will also exempt taxes and provide great relief. Just like in the second year of Xining, when Zhao Ji came to the Song Dynasty, it snowed heavily in Bianjing, and the imperial court did not distinguish between high and low, and every household was given a supplementary salary, that is, the money for burning firewood in the cold winter, and each family had half a catty of rice per day and ten cents. As the emperor, Zhao Ji delivered dumplings to the soldiers late at night, and he didn't treat it as something shocking.

Anyone who has watched "Water Margin" knows that everyone who is forced to go to Liangshan has everyone, but there is no one who goes to Liangshan without food. The hero who made human meat buns went to Liangshan, or was he forced? It's a bunch of lazy outlaws. Even so, the Song Dynasty still recruited them, and there was no smell of blood.

Can there be such a people-oriented idea in ancient Europe? It can be seen that Marx, on the basis of studying the history of Western Europe, divided the epochs through the social system, which is not applicable to China at all. Of course, China's long-term imperial republican system does not mean that Chinese civilization has not made progress for 5,000 years. The division of the era should be based on the development of nature by human beings and the extension of civilization. The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties can be divided into the era of river settlement, because the extension of civilization was the development of fertile land and the establishment of homes along the rivers. After the Qin Dynasty, it can be divided into the era of continental expansion, because the extension of civilization is in a flat shape to the outside world, constantly developing new land, and establishing counties. The three dynasties of the Han, Tang and Yuan dynasties can be divided into: east-west expansion stage, north-south expansion stage, and overseas expansion stage.

The Han Dynasty incorporated the Western Regions into the civilization map, the Tang Dynasty included the grasslands and the Northeast into the civilization map, the Yuan Dynasty did not achieve much overseas expansion, but also made expeditions to Java, and the Ming and Qing dynasties have maintained suzerainty over Southeast Asian countries. Because of the lack of development of a continent, Chinese civilization has lost its nourishment since the Yuan Dynasty and has become increasingly backward with Western European civilization. Because of the loss of nourishment, there was a historical tragedy that the Ming and Qing dynasties were unable to create industrial civilization and enter the era of maritime trade.

The Qin, Sui and Song dynasties were a three-stage transitional period, so the Song dynasty had the ability to expand overseas and develop Southeast Asia. What Zhao Ji wants to do is to promote overseas expansion, nourish Chinese civilization, and prepare for the creation of industrial civilization and the entry of the era of maritime trade.

However, Zhao Ji went too fast, ignoring the long-term nature of history, and this kind of overseas expansion is not something that can be done in one generation. The extension of civilization requires generation after generation to make solid progress. Zhao Ji is anxious for quick success, and the arrangement is too big, and he will only feel that the strength is insufficient. If you insist on advancing so violently, it will only drag down the Great Song Dynasty.

Seeing that Zhao Ji didn't speak, Cai Jing continued: "Juntian Ling, Bao Shangshu has already said it, and Weichen won't say it." There is no need to implement the armor protection order. The four university system is divided into nine disciplines, history, philosophy, law, agriculture, engineering, commerce, mining, and military science, all students must learn military science, and there are millions of students in the Great Song Dynasty, plus the students who have to return to the field because they can't get into the exam after they are too old, the Great Song Dynasty is already a soldier for the whole people. The armor protection order, requiring the people to train twice a year in addition to production, will only make the people lose the opportunity to engage in side jobs, and finally make the people uneasy. The reclamation order and the forced labor order are too harsh for the people. Guidance is sufficient, and there is no need for a special decree. ”

"If it's so unbearable, why did you agree before?" Zhao Ji said very dissatisfied. The new decree that he worked so hard and racked his brains to come up with was so unbearable, which made Zhao Ji very depressed.

"Who would dare to disobey the Holy Lord's will in the wrath of the Holy One? Besides, it is not impossible for the Holy Lord to implement these new laws, and it is naturally best to be able to clearly legislate. However, there are no conditions at all now, and if it is implemented now, it will only disturb the people. In the Great Song Dynasty, the current dilemma is no longer a problem of three redundancies, but a problem of food shortage. The high cost of new land development has exhausted the manpower, material and financial resources of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty needs to develop steadily for a few years, and then consider it after recovering the cost. It is better for the Holy One to carry out new laws than to perfect the current ones. The School of Law has been established in the Civilization Academy, which has been improving the laws and regulations of the Great Song Dynasty to avoid the chaotic situation of laws and regulations since the Tang Dynasty. After Cai Jing finished speaking, he sat down.

Zhao Ji pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Well, you guys did a good job, but I didn't think it through." Then he turned to ask Wang Anshi: "Sir, forgive me, I still can't figure out this food shortage, and I hope Mr. will advise!" ”

According to the thinking of Zhao Ji's later generations, it is not difficult to buy a large amount of grain from other countries for hoarding and brewing under the condition of ensuring self-sufficiency in grain.

Wang Anshi saw that Zhao Ji was able to humbly ask for advice, and he also calmed down, and said: "Since the free trade was allowed, in addition to selling all kinds of handicrafts, the export of wine and salt in our dynasty is also very large, these are all things related to the daily life of the people, and if trade is not restricted, it will only cause a food shortage. On the contrary, the surrounding countries rarely exported these things to the Great Song Dynasty, not because of their restrictions, but because they did not have surplus grain. They exported some local products, furs, ginseng, wood, gold, silver and gemstones, etc., which were dispensable for the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty lacked copper and iron, but they were also scarce. The so-called free trade of the Holy Lord did nothing good except for making the Great Song Dynasty pile up with gold, silver and gemstones. Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty is now issuing Jiaozi and selling gold and silver. Otherwise, in this case, the gold and silver will have to become worthless. ”

"Free trade cannot be restricted, and it can be regulated through the introduction of some temporary policies, but it cannot be forcibly prohibited." Zhao Ji immediately denied. Seeing that Wang Anshi was silent, Zhao Ji asked again: "After the Great Song Dynasty exported all kinds of advanced agricultural tools and industrial products to them, after their workshops closed down, wouldn't they go to open up the wasteland?" When the time comes, won't they have food? ”

"They don't have much in the first place, and they are completely self-sufficient. Besides, the grain is trafficked for thousands of miles, the road is bumpy, and the food is all eaten, and there are still things for sale there, and even if there are those that are sold, the price is so high, who will buy it? Naturally, they will open up the land, but the result of the land is an increase in population, not an increase in food. Wang Anshi patiently told Zhao Ji about these common senses.

Only then did Zhao Ji realize that this was not the next generation, the transportation was developed and the volume was large. Now relying on horses, cows, donkeys and other livestock transportation, the transportation volume is so small, the road conditions are not good, thousands of miles away, it is really not enough to eat. No wonder, in ancient wars, the soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. The transportation of grain is indeed a big problem. Moreover, the grain production in ancient times was not high, and the manpower consumed under intensive cultivation was large, and it was a pity that a little surplus grain was eaten during transportation.

At this time, Zhao Ji really understood why Zheng He's trip to the West in the Ming Dynasty would eventually have no shadow, and it would cost a lot of money, and why the Ming and Qing dynasties would close themselves to the country? Why did the Great Song Dynasty, which had developed maritime trade, also adopt the method of official sales and official sales to control trade? Here's why.

Overseas countries, except for some luxury goods, for ancient China, there is indeed nothing to buy. On the contrary, overseas countries buy a lot of Chinese things and export a large number of them, which will only cause the depreciation of ancient China's gold and silver currency and the rise of prices.

For example, the Ming Dynasty did not produce silver, but the Ming Dynasty, which used silver as the main currency, once had the phenomenon of cheap silver and expensive copper. Most of the gold and silver plundered by Europeans from the Americas flowed into the Ming Dynasty through huge trade deficits. In the end, the Ming and Qing dynasties had to close the country and control prices.

On the other hand, the European continent is full of small countries and small land, so they cannot achieve self-sufficiency at all, and can only focus on the development of commerce. But even so, their so-called mercantilism simply could not have been fulfilled without the precious metals stolen from the Americas. Looting and buying became the only way for them to keep the country afloat. This is what Spain did when it first began its voyages, "The wealth that flowed in like water flowed away like water." This phrase very accurately describes their bandit-like way of building a state. If he doesn't pay attention to trade, will the gold and silver he robbed be fermented?

It can be seen that the rise of Western Europe was realized by relying on the Great Voyage to rob gold and silver in the Americas and slaves in Africa after learning the advanced technology such as the four great inventions passed down from the Arabs! Their civilization is the civilization of bandits!

However, history does not assume that during this phase of overseas expansion, Western European civilization developed several continents, civilization was nourished, and they became victors. History is written by the victors, the Mongols who rose by killing were worshipped, the Western civilization that rose by robbery became the mainstream civilization of the world, and the Chinese civilization, which once relied on educating the people and the continuation of the world's great harmony for 5,000 years, has weakened.

Fortunately, the Chinese civilization has a thick history, and will not be completely swallowed by Western civilization like other civilizations.

The bandit-like rise of Western European civilization still brought about a multitude of countries, and none of the nations they conquered convinced them. Although the progress of Chinese civilization has been slow, it has always maintained a great unification, and the civilization has been extended, and few have been divided.

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