After the Ming law was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Zhu Ci had another major reform.

That's the disadvantage of buying and selling human beings!

Human trafficking has existed since ancient times, selling sons and daughters, selling themselves into slavery, and no matter what the reason, it is always the wealthy and powerful families who benefit.

Slaves that are generally bought, whether male or female, are almost out of the category of human beings, have no rights, and have become so-called property, which can be insulted, beaten, and transferred to others.

Some slaves just serve the young master and the like, maybe not so bitter, but more of them are those low-level slaves, they eat the worst food, do the most tiring work, and are not looked at as cattle and horses.

After all, there are people who are born to be slaves, and once they sell themselves, then their descendants will also be forced to sell themselves, as long as the master's family does not agree, they will not be able to turn over for the rest of their lives.

Such inhumane things, Zhu Ci knew that it must be banned in the future historical development, and what he had to do was to let this day come earlier, so that those slaves who were forced to sell themselves into slavery were liberated in advance, and the future of the Ming Dynasty should be equal to everyone, and there should be no property that can be insulted and whipped away by the master's family!

With the leadership of Zhu Cijiao and the strong support of Li Yan and others, the Ming Law on the ban on slaves and the sale of human beings was soon promulgated, and the slave law and human trafficking were banned as a system of employment.

As the name suggests, the employment system can only be hired, and employment is out of the will of both parties, and it is without harming the dignity of human rights, and it is also time-limited, even if it is employed, it cannot be hired for a lifetime, Zhu Cicheng set the maximum employment time as five years, that is to say, the individual can accept the employment of the master's family to do things for the master's family, the two parties sign a peace agreement, the host pays a certain amount of money to the employed, and the employment period can only be five years, if after five years, both parties are satisfied with each other, they can renew.

Of course, the actual law will be more detailed, and there will be as few loopholes as possible.

After several days of deliberation, the Ming anti-slavery law was promulgated, and from then on, the deed of sale will be completely invalid, all the slaves who were originally sold will be completely liberated, and the master family shall not restrict the slaves who originally sold themselves from leaving under any pretext.

Huangbang, Daming Daily quickly reported the matter to the world.

Ordinary people did not react much except for lamenting that the emperor was for the country and the people, after all, most of them did not have slaves at home, and now their lives are better, and they have no plans to sell their children and daughters, so as long as they do not infringe on their own interests, ordinary people are always habitually obedient to the court.

The biggest reaction was, of course, the purchase of slaves, various squires, wealthy families, etc., and some people who specialized in human trafficking.

After all, the slaves they have on hand are all bought with a lot of money, and some have only been bought for a few days, and there are also those who resell the people, they undoubtedly have more slaves on hand, and they are still waiting to sell them to the various masters.

Those squires and powerful people wanted to resist and refused to carry out the orders of the imperial court, but unfortunately the deed of sale of their slaves was filed with the yamen, which was originally protected by the imperial court, but now it is okay, the yamen does not give the record, and does not recognize the deed of sale.

Once the deed of sale has a legal effect, the eyes of the servants in the squire's family are strange one by one, and the squire's scalp is faintly numb.

In the final analysis, it is only the squires themselves who oppose it, they have a certain amount of wealth and power, but once their slaves lose the constraints of the deed of sale, they are no longer their slaves.

These slaves were originally loyal to their masters, but because their deeds of sale were in the hands of the masters, the masters held their own power of life and death, and now, the master's family can no longer control their power of life and death, and even if the master's family dares to beat and scold themselves, they may directly sue the master's family to court.

No one wants to continue to be slaves without freedom and human rights, and the masters have lost the support of their slaves, and they are weak. In addition, a few years ago, because the imperial court canceled the privileges of the scholars and restricted the land lease price, countless scholars rebelled, and in the end, it was naturally the demise of countless scholars, it can be said that nearly fifty percent of the world's scholars were wiped out in that heroic battle a few years ago.

Today, the remaining nobles and landlords have survived the catastrophe that was directed at them. At this moment, for the sake of slaves for a while, although the nobles and powerful people shouted in their mouths, they actually did not dare to disobey the orders of the imperial court.

In order to achieve the greatest deterrent effect, so that the powerful landlords with slaves would no longer procrastinate, carry out the orders of the imperial court as soon as possible, and tear up the deeds of sale of all slaves, Zhu Cicheng ordered 20 regular armies scattered throughout the country to hold large-scale live-gun drills in their respective defense areas.

All of a sudden, all over the Ming Dynasty, the rumbling sound of guns and cannons echoed everywhere, frightening all the powerful landlords and wealthy families who were instantly frightened and pale, and did not dare to drag it down, with tears in their eyes, quickly tore up all the deeds of sale of the slaves in the family, let go of those who were once slaves, and changed to a mercenary system from then on.

What Zhu Cihesan didn't expect was that when all the slaves were released, the population of Daming increased by 10 million.

Come to think of it, the slaves who originally signed the deed of sale are no longer regarded as human beings, and the yamen does not have their household registration, and without the household registration, there is no population registration, and this part of the population is hidden.

As for why there are tens of millions, it has to be attributed to the natural disasters during the Chongzhen period and the wars of the past few decades, the rogue is raging, the people are not living, a large number of people sell their children and daughters in order to survive, and there are also adults who sell themselves for a bite to eat, and the masters are because slaves were cheap at that time, so most families will buy more slaves, after all, slaves can not only help work, but also one of the property, if you really don't need it, or lack of money, you can also sell others, This led to the fact that the Ming Dynasty had such a large slave population.

In formulating the anti-slavery law, Zhu Ci did not seek that everyone could really be equal in the Ming Dynasty, at least he planted the seeds for equality for everyone, and believed that with the development of history, the concept of equality for all people will become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"It's time for the brothels to be put in order!" Zhu Ci suddenly said meaningfully to Peng Cheng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

When it comes to human trafficking, in addition to the powerful landlords and wealthy families, there is another hard-hit area, brothels!