Last time, he said that when the Yan Han Kingdom established by Zhou Shuyu eliminated the Northern Zheng State among the nine hundred princely states, he was canonized by Ji Tingdi, the emperor of the Dahao Empire, who was the co-lord of the world. However, for Zhou Shuyu, he needs a stable environment now.

At this moment, Zhou Shuyu is living in a county town called Han County, which is one hundred and twenty miles away from the original capital of Zheng Guo in the north - Zhengxing Mansion, for Zhou Shuyu, the name of this small city makes Zhou Shuyu feel very fond. Zhou Shuyu doesn't like any majestic palaces, but likes to live with the people in a private house.

Because the current Yan Han Kingdom has annexed many small and medium-sized vassal states, its land area has reached nearly 4.8 million miles. Such a vast land naturally requires a large number of officials to manage it. According to the official election system of the Dahao Empire, it is a perceptual system, and all official positions are either monopolized by the big clans, or by the immortal cultivation sects, or even by the rich merchants. Zhou Shuyu believed that this system of selecting officials was too backward, so he proposed a system of selecting officials through the implementation of the imperial examination system. However, he now found himself lacking a large number of officials to carry out his reforms.

Just as Zhou Shuyu was thinking hard, suddenly, Xu Xin, the general he had been promoting, ran in and reported to him respectfully: "Your Majesty, Du Sheng, the king of Xiangyi Kingdom, has brought you a large number of slaves, and the number of people is simply endless, general, do you want to take a look?" ”

Zhou Shuyu was a little surprised, because he was now in a thousand troubles, so he hadn't thought of how to deal with the slave problem of such a huge territory under his rule at all? Now, because he has been crowned as the new vassal king, and he has successively defeated the siege of other great vassal states, the power of the Yan Han State has been greatly consolidated.

At this time, many of the old bureaucratic systems were still running. He was both sad and worried now, but after hearing about Xu Xin's report, he decided to take a look and see what Du Sheng, the king of Xiangyi Kingdom, wanted to do?

Since Xiangyi is a medium-sized vassal state, although it is not in the annexation sequence of the newly rising large vassal state of Yan Han for the time being, even so, this Xiangyi State is already surrounded by the actual control area of Yan Han State. As a medium-sized vassal state, Xiangyi was simply incapable of resisting the power of the Yan Han Kingdom.

At this time, Du Sheng saw Zhou Shuyu, the king of the Yan Han Kingdom, and immediately visited Zhou Shuyu as a subordinate. Looking at Du Sheng kneeling on the ground in front of him, Zhou Shuyu knew very well what this person wanted to do? He was just trying to keep his fiefdom. After all, he has already wiped out nearly 2,000 small and medium-sized vassal states! And this Xiangyi country, where Du Sheng is located, has been surrounded by the territory of the country he has established, if he does not come, then he can only be annexed by his own country.

Du Sheng, the king of Xiangyi Kingdom, said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I am willing to remove the name of the country, and I only ask the king to spare my country, and my country will definitely supply a large number of slaves, gold, silver, wealth and silk and spiritual stones and jade to the king every year." ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at this king and asked lightly: "Du Sheng, why don't you follow the example of those kings and go to Zhengxing Mansion City to see me!" ”

Du Sheng immediately said: "Your Majesty, when you hear that the country you have conquered and destroyed, no matter how magnificent the palace is, you will not take a second look. Therefore, the minister expected that the king would never live in the palace of the former Northern Zheng Kingdom. And the king established the country name as Yanhan, and this small city is called Han County, so the minister guessed that the king would definitely stay in this city. ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at the king in front of him and asked, "So, what kind of slave did you bring me this time?" ”

Du Sheng immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the minister has brought a total of 38,000 slaves, all of whom are young men who have been captured by the ministers who have been brought back from war with the neighboring kingdom of Sheng, and they are all excellent laborers. ”

A flash of anger flashed in Zhou Shuyu's eyes, but it was fleeting. He looked at Du Sheng and asked, "So, are there any scholars among them?" ”

Du Sheng immediately agreed: "Your Majesty, of course, these slaves have all read, after all, they will be able to read the atlas for the king when they build the royal capital for the king in the future." ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at Du Sheng and said, "Since that's the case, then you go back!" ”

However, Du Sheng said to him: "Your Majesty, in addition, the minister has also brought you 3,600 beautiful women carefully selected by the Xiaoxiang Pavilion of your country to help the king's fun. ”

Zhou Shuyu glanced at him coldly, and then said lightly: "Send the beauties to the palace of Zhengxing Mansion and leave those slaves for me." Let's go! ”

Du Sheng looked at Zhou Shuyu and asked, "Your Majesty, what about my country?" ”

Zhou Shuyu said lightly: "Okay, you wait for my approval first." ”

Du Sheng was immediately overjoyed, and he immediately retreated. However, he never thought that when he left, Zhou Shuyu beckoned, called the messenger, and directly wrote his order and asked him to pass it on.

Zhou Shuyu came to the bound slaves, their eyes were full of unruliness, they were all forcibly signed a life and death contract, this life and death contract was all caught in the hands of the master, and the master could grasp the life and death and thoughts of these slaves at any time. These slaves can't survive, they can't die!

When they saw Zhou Shuyu, they thought that they had just changed their masters.

However, Zhou Shuyu looked at them and had already guessed what these people thought, and said to them: "It seems that you are all a little unconvinced!" ”

These people all lowered their heads, Zhou Shuyu looked at them and continued: "What? Don't you all want to be free? ”

However, at this time, one of these people said coldly: "Hmph! Freedom, our thoughts and life and death are in your hands now, even suicide can't do it, you tell us to be free, are you willing to let us go free? ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at them, smiled, and said, "How could it not?" I set you free. What a man I am! I don't like slaves, I like people. They may be afraid of you, but I am not. Listen to that Du Sheng, you are all readers, and I just need a large number of readers to assist me. ”

These people don't believe it, you must know that their price is very high, and the person in front of them will let them go free? Isn't he afraid that these readers, who are readers, will write articles and scold him?

However, just when they were muttering in their hearts, Zhou Shuyu asked people to bring a thick pile of life and death contracts handed over to him by Du Sheng.

These people were stunned, and Zhou Shuyu asked people to bring braziers and said to them: "These are the life and death contracts that Du Sheng brought to you, from now on, you are not slaves!" ”

I saw Zhou Shuyu directly throw these life and death contracts into the brazier, and these people watched in disbelief as their life and death contracts were burned. They immediately felt that they had truly been free, and they were all ecstatic, and either their families had died, or the young men had been taken into slavery, or the women had been bought into the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. They never thought that they would be free, and at this moment he looked at the king in front of him who seemed to be the newly established Yan Han Kingdom.

Zhou Shuyu looked at them and said, "Now that you have regained your freedom, then you should believe my words!" ”

These people immediately said without hesitation: "Okay, we all believe you, I don't know what you want us to do?" ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at all of them and said, "Your relatives, I will find them for you, and if they die, the corpses will also be found." Whoever is alive will be brought to you. I, Zhou Shuyu, do these things, of course, there are conditions. You are all scholars, and now you have suffered these things, and you should also know how the common people live hard? Therefore, I, Zhou Shuyu, invite you to go out of the mountain, which is to ask you to be officials and fight for the interests of the common people. Do you dare? Say it. If you don't dare, I've found a good place for you, and that's to teach in the academy. ”

These people never imagined that the king in front of them would actually grant them an official position and promise to find their relatives, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Among them, one of them stood up and asked Zhou Shuyu, "So, your majesty, what are you going to do?" If you let those immortal cultivators, clans, wealthy merchants, princes and grandsons continue to do evil and harm the people, then please kill us! ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at them and asked, "So, aren't you afraid of offending their interests?" ”

All of them stood up and said in unison, "Humph! We have suffered so much because of them, and we are not afraid of death. We want revenge, we want to put them on judgment. ”

Zhou Shuyu looked at them, nodded, and promised: "Okay, since you have all agreed, then stay with me for a while!" I have to raise your strength, or you will be killed by those people when you go to office, won't it be a pity? ”

All of these people knelt down and said to Zhou Shuyu, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

In the next few days, Zhou Shuyu carefully communicated with these 38,000 people, and almost all of these scholars were admired by Zhou Shuyu's profound knowledge and lofty ideals. They were all born as slaves, and they were accustomed to seeing the tragic fate of the poor people in the world. The lofty ideal that Zhou Shuyu described to them made them deeply admire. Therefore, these days, their cultivation has continued to grow, and at the same time, they have become more and more respectful and supportive of Zhou Shuyu.

After some time, these officials went to various places to take up their posts! And Zhou Shuyu personally sent them away.

Zhou Hu, the attendant who had been following Zhou Shuyu, looked at these officials who were far away, and asked respectfully, "Your Majesty, what if they become bad?" What if they collude with those people and become harms to the people? ”

Zhou Shuyu turned around, Zhou Hu saw a fleeting killing intent in the eyes of the king who he had been following loyally, he immediately lowered his head, for the king, his heart was full of gratitude, respect and loyalty, even if the king let him die, he would not hesitate. At this moment, he is even more respectful to the king, he sincerely hopes that these officials can maintain their original intentions, otherwise they don't have to do it with the king, and those of them who have been swearing to follow the king to the death will also kill these people.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.