Under the threat of hunger brought on by the drought, the various ethnic groups are rapidly merging. Survival is the number one priority for all races, and ordinary individuals don't care much about their own race.

Jin Yiwei and Xuanyi took a two-pronged approach, arrested more than 100 instigators, and once interrogated, it was found that these people were former grassland nobles, who were lazy and hardworking, and did not want to lose their former status, so they secretly instigated people who did not know the truth.

It was not really a rebellion, but it set off momentum and became a bargaining chip in negotiations with the imperial court. The people of the Northwest are fierce, and there was no shortage of such people before, and there is no shortage of them now.

Yang Zheng did not show mercy, and he was beheaded to show the public. There were more people affected by the disaster, and the slave market gradually became popular. The slave trade has existed since ancient times, and the government did not deliberately control it before, and this thing has been repeatedly banned, and it has been banned on the surface, and it will be even more popular secretly.

A turtle dancing girl can be sold for seventy or eighty taels of gold in Daxing, and two or three hundred taels when sent to the Central Plains and Jiangdong...... And it can't be forbade at all, the merchants will use various means to get people into Daqin.

If you like me, the government can't control it. Many women and children who can't survive have no ability to survive, and after being sold into the big clan, they can at least survive.

After many disabled soldiers were discharged, a family of four or five people, either women and children, or old and weak, had 200 acres of land hanging under their names, and the family lacked labor, so they would also buy two young and strong slaves to work together in the fields.

Where there is demand, there is buying and selling. The times are moving forward step by step. In this era, humanitarianism could not be exchanged for food and life, and the slave trade ran through almost the entire feudal era.

There are many people who can't survive who take the initiative to become slaves, and the court can't let others live, right? Since it cannot be banned, it can only be included in management.

"The minister suggested that the household department should open a slave register, make a law, and increase the slave tax." Wei Qian came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

Families who can afford to keep slaves, at least above the middle class, collect their slave taxes, which is tantamount to cutting the leeks of the rich, and it is also a restriction on the local wealthy families.

Although the wealthy clan of the old era was weakened by Yang Zheng by various means, the new haoqiang broke the ground again, the retired generals, the scholar clan who had been attached to Daqin very early, etc., the wildfire could not be burned, and the spring breeze blew and reborn.

The average middle-class family is enough to raise two or three slaves at most. But the wealthy family often has hundreds. The slave tax can be regarded as a precise scythe against the upper class, which can effectively limit the shadow of the wealthy on the population.

What is written in the constitution of the Great Qin State is that there will never be an increase in the endowment, which means that the land endowment will never be increased, and it is not said that the tax will not be raised...... Anyway, the final interpretation is in Yang Zheng's hands.

"Will it cause civil unrest?" Suo Jing was born in a scholar clan and knew how powerful this tax was.

"Turmoil? I want to see who dares to move, who dares to swing! "As the founding emperor, he didn't even dare to collect a slave tax from his mother, what kind of emperor should he be?

If Yang Zheng does not dare to make a move against the interest class, it will be even more difficult for the next generation. The wealthy family can make money and live the immortal life of the Venerable, not because of how good they are, but because Daqin provides a stable social environment, which is the dividend of the times accumulated by thousands of ordinary people.

To enjoy the bonus comes with an obligation. In this era, Yang Zheng is not afraid that they will run abroad.

"Then let's try to levy this tax from Jingzhao County first." Wei Qian stroked his long beard. Yang Zheng thought about it,

"For the sake of prudence, discuss it in the Great Dynasty, and let the wind go first." The pilgrimage will naturally pass smoothly. Under the influence of Yang Zheng, the high-level of the empire still has some pursuits, and their minds are not on enjoyment, Lu Zhi does not accumulate private wealth, although Du Pre, Yanghu, Wei Qiang, Lu Qin, Suo Jing, etc., although they were born in the scholar family, they are low-key, and they know that Yang Zheng advocates thrift and has always cooperated.

They don't object, and the people below don't have the guts to object. Besides, the imperial court did not want to exterminate everything, but it was just to collect a little more tax, and each slave was charged two-tenths of the tax according to the value, and the wealthy families could bear it completely.

Guan Zhong Shimin almost blindly supported Daqin. Coupled with Yang Zheng's prestige, there is no reason to oppose it.

If you don't keep slaves, you don't pay taxes, and if you keep fewer slaves, you don't pay taxes, which has little impact on ordinary people and middle-class families. As for the wealthy family, they have made a lot of money through trade routes over the years, and they don't care about these three melons and two dates.

The relevant laws were also quickly released, and the scholars of the Literature Museum were extremely efficient. In fact, the Han Dynasty also faced the problem of slaves, and set up slaves and maids, clearly marked prices, and bought and sold fairly.

During the period of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, it was also stipulated that the princes and kings above could raise 200 slaves and maids, and in turn, there were 30 ordinary officials, and the total number of officials in the Western Han Dynasty was about 120,000, and the number of slaves was an astronomical number.

In addition, there are official slaves in the official government, and in the era of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, there were courtiers who wrote to the court, saying that the 100,000 officials and slaves under the name of the imperial court had nothing to do, otherwise they would restore their civil status.

When Wang Mang talked about slaves and maids, he said: "The city of slaves and maids is also in the same column as cattle and horses." Slaves and maids live with cows and horses...... In the Eastern Han Dynasty, entering the era of the Haoqiang clan, it was even more wild.

In the late Han Dynasty's work "Changyan", it is mentioned that the homes of the wealthy are hundreds of buildings, the fields are full of fields, and there are thousands of slaves and maids.

The imperial court can't control it at all...... The scholars found the population data of the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the registered population of the whole country is 506000, there are at least 2 million families with slaves, rich families with 1 to 7 slaves, 10 to 100 strong families, plus the number of official slaves, conservatively estimated that there are 13.47 million slaves in the country!

This is still well documented. According to the habit of the noble clan to hide the population, the number of slaves will go up.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Han Dynasty was built on a slave economy. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, even Shi Le, who was born in Hao, was a slave of the Han people!

In the Tang Dynasty, it was a golden age of slave and maid trading, and the government was set up

"Untouchable",

"Good nationality" shall be managed, and good and low shall not intermarry. In fact, this is also in line with the law of the development of the times, how did the West rise in later generations?

The Han Dynasty also specialized in managing the law of slaves and maids, "Servant Contract", which forbade slaves and maids to drink alcohol and make friends privately.

The Literature Museum made a new law with reference to the "Covenant of the Soldiers". The most important one is to guarantee the right to life of slaves, and those who kill or maim slaves are punished by exile or confiscation of family property.

If a slave kills his master, it is a heinous crime and he will be executed. If a slave sues his master, the government can accept it. The imperial court set up slave registers to manage all private slaves and official slaves.

In addition, Yang Zheng also added a special article to strictly prohibit Han people from being private slaves. If you want slaves, you can go and enslave foreigners, and rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest.

The slave tax and slave law were implemented in Jingzhao County, and there was basically no resistance, and the people cooperated abnormally. A large number of high-chariots, Xianbei, and Dada became slaves.

But looking at their appearance, it doesn't seem to matter, in the past, life in the tribe was not much better than that of slaves, after entering the slave registration, the family can get a large amount of money and food, live a life of food and clothing, and have a way to live.

The people of this age did not resist slaves much. The imperial court strictly managed slaves, and after three periods, private slaves, like official slaves, were transferred to govern the people.

They can continue to serve their masters, but their relationship becomes a hired and slave.