"Boom... Boom... Knock ......"

When the sun sets, when the dusk drum sounds, the people of the entire Nanjing city begin to run to their homes in a hurry.

Not only the people, but also some officials rushed to their homes.

In such a scene, Zhu Gaoxu, who went home unhurriedly, looked very different.

Looking at such a scene, Zhu Gaoxu was a little speechless: "This curfew is really confusing." ”

"No way, Your Highness ......" Wang Jian intended to get closer to Zhu Gaoxu, so he explained: "The curfew is also to protect the people. ”

"Since the curfew was lifted in the Song and Song dynasties, children and women have often been abducted by traffickers at night and trafficked to Luchuan, Myanmar, Cochin, Siam, Nanyang and other places."

"Where's it sold?" Hearing Wang Jian's words, Zhu Gaoxu was a little stunned, he didn't expect that human trafficking in ancient times was so serious.

"Burma, Luchuan and Cochin, the lands of the South Seas." Wang Jian didn't understand why Zhu Gaoxu was making such a fuss, but when he thought that he was a prince, he thought that it was too good to be protected by the palace, so he didn't know these things.

In order to solve his doubts, Wang Jian could only explain in depth: "Whether it is children or women, they are basically sold to these places, and even more will be sold to Persia and Taixi." ”

"In the former dynasties, the northern captives were inconsiderate of the Han people, and often ignored them, so the human traffickers became more and more rampant, and even used the captive children and women to collect money by harvesting and cutting them."

"Harvesting and cutting?" Zhu Gaoxu found that he didn't understand too much, so he could only keep asking, but fortunately, Wang Jian also knew everything.

"Harvesting and mutilation is to seize normal living people, especially young children and women, and turn them into strangely shaped and disabled monsters with knives and axes and other methods, and make them beg on the streets."

Some ignorant people buy children and women home, then kill them and then dismember them, and then perform rituals after dismemberment, in a vain attempt to summon the souls of the slain beings to achieve the goal of "seeking and getting for nothing." ”

......After listening to Wang Jian's description, Zhu Gaoxu only felt that his hair was upside down, and he felt terrified.

However, after Wang Jian's description, Zhu Gaoxu also thought of the many disabled children and women he had seen begging on the streets in his previous life.

He thought it was a way to accumulate wealth that only appeared in modern times, but he never thought that the source was actually the Yuan Dynasty.

"Isn't there a legal sanction for these brutes?" Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife, obviously hating the group of traffickers very much after hearing the description.

"Yes!" Wang Jian nodded without thinking: "According to the punishment in the chapter of "Criminal Law: Human Life", all those who participate in the harvesting and cutting of life will be executed, and the property will be fully compensated to the deceased's family. ”

"Although the wife, sons, and family members of the convict do not know about it, they will be exiled for 2,000 li according to the law due to their favor."

"In addition, even if they do not participate in the harvesting and cutting, as long as they know the news and do not tell it, they will be considered accomplices and beheaded according to the law."

Speaking of this, Wang Jian saw that Zhu Gaoxu listened carefully, and he couldn't help but talk about other punishments for human trafficking.

For example, buying and selling are the same crime, and there are also streets to prevent officials from rescuing those who have been "harvested and cut", and they can be beheaded on the spot.

It is not difficult to see that the Ming Dynasty was particularly strict with the laws of abduction and harvesting, and behind such strictness, it also represents how serious the abduction and harvesting and harvesting were in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

"Do you see how many people are harvested and cut?"

After listening to this, Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang Jian, Wang Jian was stunned after hearing this, he didn't expect that this Second Highness would actually pay attention to these.

According to them, there are more than 2,000 people in the nursing home in Shangyuan County, Nanjing, who were 'harvested and cut', most of whom are children who were abducted and trafficked during the Zhizheng period."

"So much?" Hearing the number of more than 2,000 people, Zhu Gaoxu stopped, and he couldn't believe it.

He had already learned about the situation in Nanjing, which was divided into the east and west, with the east city being Shangyuan County and the west city being Jiangning County.

In other words, if there are more than 2,000 people in Shangyuan County who have been harvested and cut, then Xicheng will not be less.

In the city of Nanjing, which has a population of more than 300,000 people, there are more than 4,000 people who have been harvested and cut off.

Wang Jian's words made Zhu Gaoxu better understand what kind of chaos was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

After coming back to his senses, he continued to lead the team forward, and asked Wang Jian by the way: "Does the almshouse only accommodate them?" ”

"More than ......," Wang Jian told him all he knew.

To put it simply, from the beginning of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would build welfare charities such as the Nursery Hall, Anji Fang, Nursing Home, Futian Courtyard, and Leaky Garden.

In the first year of Hongwu and the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang successively issued an edict to establish an orphanage for the elderly.

Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang renamed the orphanage as a nursing home, and ordered each county in the country to establish a nursing home, and the adoption objects of the nursing home were the "lonely and disabled" and the infertile.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang relaxed the scope of adoption, and put orphans and poor and old people who had no one to take care of them into the almshouse.

Those who should be adopted by the local yamen but do not adopt shall be given sixty rods by the officials.

If the official withholds food and clothing, the official will be charged with stealing from the guard, and if the material is withheld for more than 60 taels, he will be beheaded.

These various laws show that Zhu Yuanzhang is sympathetic to the people.

But for Zhu Gaoxu, he once saw the appearance of the people of the three villages of Dashuying when they were notified of the forced relocation.

Therefore, he doesn't think that Zhu Yuanzhang really sympathizes with the people.

"Ten thousand people have the appearance of ten thousand people, and my imperial grandfather is no exception......"

Listening to Wang Jian's narration, Zhu Gaoxu had an understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's multifaceted nature.

He can be a heavenly saint who is sympathetic to the vulnerable, or a cruel tyrant who ruins ordinary people's homes.

What he is depends on what Da Ming needs.

Zhu Gaoxu understands that if he really wants to save his life and climb up, then he has to learn from his imperial grandfather and his thousands of faces.

"Your Highness, we have arrived."

Wang Jian's voice pulled Zhu Gaochu back to reality, and Zhu Gaochu glanced back at the robe behind him.

After walking for three miles, many people had a layer of fine sweat on their faces, and everyone's eyes looked at the streets and alleys next to them, eager to go home immediately.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also raised his hand to make waves at more than 100 robes:

"Tomorrow is a day off, and the day after tomorrow is night, so gather here the day after tomorrow, and I will wait for you here."

"Dismissal!"

"Daming Wansheng! Wansheng! Win by all! ”

More than 100 soldiers shouted in unison, and then they all relaxed, with more smiles on their faces, and rushed to the streets and alleys in groups of three or five.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at their backs, a smile on his face.

Anyway, for now, he can continue to be himself.

"Your Highness, you don't have to come the day after tomorrow, you can take someone to the Song State Mansion."

Wang Jian did not leave immediately, but behaved to Zhu Gaoxu.

However, Zhu Gaoxu did not respond, but turned around and patted the shoulder on the shoulder of this guy who was over thirty years old and only a hundred households:

"You don't have to slap the horse like this, I don't care what others do, you can just perform a trial of 100 households here with me."

"After entering the barracks, you and I are brothers who rely on each other on the battlefield, have you ever been so careful with your own brothers at home?"

"I ......" Wang Jian was stunned by Zhu Gaoxu's words, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Gaoxu also laughed and said, "Okay, go home, the family is waiting for you to eat, and I'll leave too." ”

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu didn't give Wang Jian a chance to speak, turned around and walked towards the road he came.

Looking at his back, Wang Jian opened his mouth, stopped talking, and finally touched the place where Zhu Gaoxu had just slapped him.

After a while, he left the alley with this indescribable mood, and at this time, the twilight drumming of Nanjing City also completely stopped......