Chapter 173: One Ring After One Ring
Li Shimin is very satisfied today, although Li Ke's proposal seems to have little to do, but from Li Shimin's point of view, of course he knows that this is a great restriction on the family door valve, as we all know, although the merchant is at the bottom of the social class, but the family gate valve controls most of the business.
And there are really not many truly completely independent merchant families, to a certain extent, if the gate valve families are like Wei Zheng, and the poor rely on Li Shimin's reward to be able to maintain the expenditure of their mansions, will their influence be as great as it is today?
Of course, there may be another problem when the time comes, and that is corruption, but to be honest, corruption is easier to solve than the current situation.
Because corruption is illegal, the court wants to investigate, the emperor wants to ask for his life, and there is an excuse at any time, but what about the current family of gate valves? It's true that there is no such thing as corruption, but what kind of people are making money in an open and honest way, and they still need to be greedy?
And with more money, the gate valve family can naturally influence many people.
Therefore, Li Ke's approach can be regarded as weakening the power of the gate valve family in disguise.
"You say." Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction.
"Father, Emperor Qi, the hidden dangers in society that the son just talked about are only one of them, and there are also the second." Li Ke said seriously.
"Is that something to do with that?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.
"It can be said that it is related, and the second is the problem of non-editors." Li Ke said.
Non-editorial? Everyone was shocked, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is ...... If you don't go to court, you're done, and if you go to court, you're going to make trouble!
"Throughout the ages, all ministers should know that the world is so big, not only in China, but also in many other places, in addition to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were large-scale slaves in China, and the slavery system has been abolished for many years. But in fact, in my Datang, there are still some equivalent slaves. ”
"And this part of the people I believe everyone knows, that is, non-editors."
"Although the official title of the Tang Dynasty is non-compilation, to a certain extent, they all belong to a kind of slaves, but Erchen feels that as a monarch with achievements, as a man with great talents, and a heavenly khan who intends to become the co-lord of the world, he should try to avoid making his subjects slaves."
Of course, it is not possible to change the existence of a system in a short period of time, but Erchen feels that in the name of the law, it is possible to prohibit the birth of certain non-editors, such as selling their bodies and selling their sons and daughters. Because it's easy to breed too much crime. ”
"For example, similar situations such as forcing good people to become prostitutes, forcibly robbing people's daughters, trapping the people, using money to make the people unable to live, and having to sell their children and daughters, is common in the Tang Dynasty, and widespread in the previous dynasty, if the father is willing to let people investigate, there are a large number of similar cases."
"And if there are too many of them, it will inevitably affect the stability of Datang."
"In Erchen's expectations, there should be only two kinds of non-editors in Datang. One is the Kunlun slaves who were sold to the Tang Dynasty by Hu merchants, the slaves of the Western Regions, the orchids, the Silla maids, the Bodhisattvas, and the non-compilations that were officially convicted, and the people of the Tang Dynasty should not fall into this abyss. ”
"Throughout the ages, there have been countless slaves who have been abused to death by their masters in all dynasties and generations, and many of these slaves have been sold since childhood, and they themselves have no choice, what did they do wrong?"
"Although there are relevant laws in the Tang Dynasty that the master cannot execute these slaves at will, the restrictions are too lenient, and it is too simple for a master to find an excuse."
"Therefore, Erchen thinks that as a dynasty of all countries and a prosperous Tang Dynasty that is powerful in the world, he should not be so strict with his own people!" Li Ke said loudly.
Li Shimin's expression froze for a moment, how happy he was just now, how entangled he was this time. The problem of non-editors wants to be completely solved...... That's even bigger! Not only the family of gate valves, but also the rich family in the world who does not have a few slaves? Of course, the two kinds of non-editorial households that Li Ke said are allowed to exist are currently in the minority in Datang.
Most of the slaves are mainly from the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Kunlun slaves are blacks, but most of the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty are not from Africa, but from later generations of Indonesian and Indian native blacks, India's caste system is made after the Aryan white invaded India, and the top class of Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas are Aryans.
As a pariah, Pudra is the indigenous indigenous inhabitants of India, and among these four classes, there is a kind of Dalit, that is, the untouchables, the untouchables are not human beings at all in the current Ring Sun Dynasty, these people are a kind of black people indigenous to the Indian continent, their skin is almost the same as that of black people, but they are short and small.
This species also exists in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian islands, and after being discovered by Hu merchants in the Middle East, they began to sell it to Datang.
At present, the place where Kunlun slaves exist the most is Guangzhou, of course, some Kunlun slaves are from Africa, there is a good difference between Africa and India, blacks from Africa are generally tall, and they are very popular in Datang, because it is difficult for African blacks in this era to live, or a primitive society, although they are tired of working for their masters in Datang, they are much better than primitive tribes.
Therefore, the black Africans at this time are very diligent in Datang.
On the contrary, black people from Southeast Asia and India are not in good health and are lazy.
The slaves of the Western Regions are from the defeated Turks, the 36 countries of the Western Regions, and the Silla maid is from the Silla country of the Korean Peninsula, and Silla as a subject country of the Tang Dynasty has too many women who can't survive or want to come to the Tang Dynasty and become residents of the Heavenly Empire, so they come to the Tang Dynasty to be slaves.
In the eyes of the Silla people, it was better to come to the Tang Dynasty as a slave than Silla, and after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, the women of Goguryeo were also called Silla maids in the Tang Dynasty.
The source of orchids is actually similar to that of slaves in the Western Regions, but the singers who mainly come from Middle Eastern countries such as Persia and Dashi are tributed by Hu merchants and are also very popular.
The last kind of Bodhisattva Barbarian, Bodhisattva Barbarian is the name of the word brand later, but the source of the Bodhisattva Barbarian is the Tang Dynasty, its inspiration is the female barbarian country of a small country in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, the female barbarian country Li Ke has always thought that the later generations are legends, but it turns out that some things are not groundless, the female barbarian country really exists in the Tang Dynasty, it is not big, and it is still more west in the 36 countries of the Western Regions.
Whereas...... They are indeed all beauties.
The envoys who once came to visit the Tang Dynasty were all beauties, not the same as the feeling of orchids, as far as Li Ke was concerned, they were more like the beauties in Ukraine in later generations, and the way they dressed up was very similar to the Bodhisattva shape in the current prosperous Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, just ...... lSp understands everything, so there is the title of Bodhisattva.
Anyway, Li Ke thinks it's very good-looking, everyone is at the level of Nazareba, and the Bodhisattva is also extremely famous in the Tang Dynasty.
The officials and slaves will not go into details, Li Ke's proposal made all the officials silent for a while.
You must know that even a relatively honest minister like Wei Zheng has slaves at home.
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu, the old minister has questions." Fang Xuanling suddenly stood up.