Chapter 56: A dilemma

After Yun Zhao read Yun Zhang's paperwork, he sighed, closed the document and said to Zhang Xiu: "File it."

Zhang Xiu took the paperwork, and without speaking, put the paperwork on the highest floor of the huge bookshelf.

In Yun Zhao's large study, there were sixteen rows of huge bookshelves, which were full of papers, and only the highest floor had only a few documents.

These documents include Zhang Guozhu's, Han Lingshan's, Li Dingguo's, Lei Heng's, Han Xiufen's, Yang Xiong's, Xu Wuxiang's these people, of course, there are more people, all of whom are important ministers of the Ming Dynasty...... Now, there's one more cloudy.

The document of Zhang Guozhu's torture and murder of Mongolian herdsmen in Lantian City is here......

The documents that Hanling Mountain ravaged Wusizang are here......

Xu Wu wants to clean up the paperwork in Hanzhong here......

The documents of Yang Xiong's suppression of the rebels in Changsha are here......

Now, there is another document that Yun Zhang drove the slaves to dig the road in Shuzhong has also been placed here......

There are no slaves in the Ming Dynasty, or in other words, it is impossible for the Ming people to become slaves, so it is worth thinking about where these slaves came from.

Yun Zhang said that none of these slaves were Ming, which Yun Zhao still believed...... The problem is that the Ming did not allow slaves to appear in the country, and this ban was not only for the Ming people, but also basically for anyone.

This decision was made by Yun Chang after inspecting the route of the railway between Baoji and Chengdu.

It seems that the child has understood the difficulty of building this railway.

The difficulty is not in the capital, nor in the technology, nowadays, the investment in railway construction in the Ming Dynasty is very fanatical, if Yun Zhang is willing to raise capital as his eldest son, this is almost no difficulty.

But what about the people who built the railroad?

If nothing else, it is just a dream to dig a railway on a 300-mile-long cliff and build the past peacefully.

The roads leading to Shuzhong are all paved with human corpses.

This sentence is not speculated by Yun Zhao, but there is a historical record.

During the Warring States Period, in order to open up the road from Shaanxi to Sichuan, King Zhaoxiang of Qin began to build the Baoxian plank road in 267 BC.

This is from the southwest of Meixian County at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and reaches the Baoshui River Valley in the north of Baocheng County, at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, with a total length of about 400 miles.

At that time, gunpowder had not yet been invented, under the natural conditions of the cliff at the top and the torrent at the bottom, the ancestors first used the method of "fire and water rush" to open the mountain and break the rock, and then chiseled a hole one foot square and two feet deep on the rock wall, divided into three rows, upper, middle and lower, and inserted wooden stakes.

The canopy was then built on the upper row of wooden piles, the middle row of wooden piles was paved into a road, and the lower row of wooden piles was supported by timbers, which was finally completed in 259 BC and lasted for eight years.

History books have given high praise to this thrilling road construction process, and literati have also written articles to praise the merits of road construction.

It's a pity that neither the official history nor the wild history says anything about the 16,000 slaves who died during the construction of the road, they are like a group of tools, which were consumed in the process of building the road, and if it were not for some stone carvings faintly left on the cliffs, no one would know their life and death.

Keeping slaves will completely corrupt people's hearts and disrupt the order of the country, Yun Zhao has told many people before, no matter what he looks like abroad, he will never allow it in the Ming Dynasty.

Today it is possible to keep foreign slaves, and when it becomes a habit to keep slaves, one day slave owners will come out and treat their own people as slaves.

In the evening, Yun Zhao returned home, and Yun Zhao had already been sent to Yushan Academy, so only the husband and wife had dinner quietly in the family.

Yun Zhao's dinner has never been too rich, two meat and two vegetarian dishes plus a noodle soup is the dinner for the three of them.

After Yun Zhao finished eating a bowl of noodles, he felt that he was not full, so Feng Ying added half a bowl to him, and after Yun Zhao finished eating the noodles, he pushed the rice bowl aside, looked at Feng Ying and said, "My son brought back 24,000 slaves." ”

Feng Ying was stunned for a moment and said, "Where did the slave come from?" ”

Yun Zhao said: "There are Europeans, blacks, Jiaozhi, Nanyangs, Usti-Tibetans, Mongolians, so to speak, as long as we can see the human race, he has them there." ”

"There are no Ming people?"

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "If there is a great Ming person, this matter will not be told to you." ”

Feng Ying's body trembled, and then said in a low voice, "What does Zhang'er want these slaves to do?" ”

"Dig the railway into Shu."

Qian Duoduo held the rice bowl, hiding behind the rice bowl with two eyes, and purred around the faces of her husband and Feng Ying.

Feng Ying sighed and said, "That kid wants to do something you didn't do. ”

Yun Zhao said: "There are endless motions to use slaves to build domestic railways, and this matter is about to be implemented after discussion at the congress, and this kid shouldn't take the lead at this time."

So, he's being taken advantage of. ”

Qian Duoduo saw that her husband's tone softened, so she smiled and said, "Just get rid of the people who use Ah Zhang." ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "There are no such stupid people, nowadays, the land of Daming is over-expanded, and these people in the country are obviously insufficient, and one of the most important trends is that the value of manpower is constantly growing."

That's why a lot of people have their eyes on slaves.

It's not a matter for one person, it's a matter for one class.

Now, many people have become wealthy, and they feel that they do not have to work, and can comfortably accept the service of others, and the price of hiring a Ming man is enough for them to buy five slaves.

That's why Zhang'er used slaves to build roads. ”

Feng Ying said slowly: "Husband, since the use of slaves is beneficial to our Ming Dynasty, then, why is Husbandjun so cautious? ”

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Ying with a smile and said, "There will definitely be retribution for this kind of thing, do you believe it?" ”

Qian Duoduo smiled and said: "My husband doesn't even believe in the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, how can he believe in retribution at this time?" ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "I don't believe in the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, but I believe that God has eyes." Things in this world are so strange, when we think that one thing is only good for us, and there is no harm to us, the bad will slowly breed.

I have always believed that there is nothing wrong with building this path in our own country, and only by living in a country that we have built ourselves can we enjoy all the conveniences he has brought us and know how to cherish them.

Over the years, with my connivance, the price of manpower in Daming has been rising, and this is the result I want.

In other words, I want to make the people who do not have many means of production rich in this way, and at the same time limit the windfall profits brought by commerce and industry, so as to achieve the goal of common prosperity for all people.

The reason why my Chinese family has been able to stand in this world for tens of millions of years is to rely on hard work, which is our foundation, if we lose this housekeeping ability, I am afraid that we will really become robbers in the future.

Strength is temporary, just like now, we can plunder the four seas to our heart's content, and when we can't continue to plunder? Where do we go from here when we treat exploitation as a normal means of livelihood, but we don't have the ability to exploit others?

The most important thing is that once the slaves are introduced, the rich will always be a part of the people, and it is impossible to benefit the whole people of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the rich will be able to quickly become richer with the help of slaves, but what about the poor? How will those who make a living by selling their labor survive when wages are falling gradually?

Compete with the slaves?

In the end, they will also be reduced to slavery, that's for sure. ”

Feng Ying shook his head and said, "No, we have a congress." ”

Yun Zhao laughed for a while and said, "Do you think that a few thousand people can really represent 160 million people in the entire Ming Dynasty?" If you look at the biographies of these representatives, you will see that the introduction of slaves was beneficial to all of them!

Because, they are the strongest of the 160,000,000 people of the Ming Dynasty!

Do you expect these vested interests to give too much thought to the interests of the people who have been harmed?

Even if there are people of high morals and compassion for the weak among these delegates, can you guarantee that they will have an absolute advantage in the congress?

Morality is vulnerable in the face of interests. ”

Qian Duoduo was puzzled and said: "However, the Shuzhong Railway must be excavated, even if it is not dug now, it must be dug in the future. ”

Yun Zhao sighed and said: "This is the reason why I hesitate, I hope more than anyone else to open the railway from Baoji to Chengdu as soon as possible, so that Shuzhong and Guanzhong will be completely connected."

Then use Guanzhong, the wealth of Shuzhong drives the barren Central Plains, as well as the western border. ”

Feng Ying thought for a moment and said, "Husband, why isn't it a place that is easy to develop first?" For example, what about the rich southeast and Guangzhou, where maritime merchants are prosperous? ”

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Ying and smiled.

He let out a sigh of relief and said: "It is also a matter of national prosperity, if the imperial court tilts a large amount of capital and policies towards these places at this time, these already rich places will be even richer."

The end result is inequality between the rich and the poor, which is still contrary to our goal of common prosperity.

After years of land reform, the people of Daming have initially solved the problem of food and clothing, so the pursuit of wealth is not so urgent.

Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and the northwest do not have too many resources, so we can only solve the problem of inequality between the rich and the poor by cultivating the shortcomings through policies first, and after this shortcomings are high enough, in places where there is a rich foundation for development.

Since ancient times, the cause of dynastic turmoil has not been due to inequality between the rich and the poor. ”

Qian Duoduo blinked his eyes and said, "Husband, how do you know that those places in the southeast and Guangzhou will definitely come first?" ”

Yun Zhao sighed again, took out a document from his sleeve and put it in front of Feng Ying and said, "This is Han Xiufen's eight-hundred-mile expedited, do you know?" The Age of Discovery, which belongs to the Ming Dynasty, is coming. ”