Chapter XVII: Abolition of Slavery

Zhang Xuan changed as he wrote.

This is the real big deal.

You can win the world immediately, but you can't rule the world immediately, how to stabilize the foundation of a country, Zhang Xuan didn't think about it before, all he thought about before was how to fight the world. I didn't think much about how to govern the world, without him, the world hasn't been beaten yet, and it's not too early to think about these things now.

But now that Jiangnan has arrived, Zhang Xuan can think about something else.

Can Runing's policy be implemented in Jiangnan?

The answer is no.

Runing's policy is good, good, but I want to implement Runing's policy in Jiangnan. Zhang Xuan didn't know how many people he was going to kill in Jiangnan. I don't know how much resistance I have to meet, breaking into the camp is just asking for silver, so don't resist the gentry of the world like this. If it is really like land reform, all over the world, I don't know what kind of chaos will be caused.

Most of the people in the world are actually those centrists, and they don't care too much about the change of dynasty. But if you want to move their interests, you can't. Maybe it's going to be the point of the whole world turning against it.

Without the strength to suppress the overall situation, such a thing cannot be done.

But then again, if you have the strength to suppress the overall situation, why do such a thing. Since it can suppress the overall situation, it shows that most of the people in the world have already recognized it. That is, too many vested interests in the world recognize the imperial court.

In this way, the imperial court is almost destroying its own foundation.

This kind of thing, if you fight the north in the future, maybe you can, after all, the north has been in war for many years, and it is almost a blank land, so it is naturally possible, but in a place like Jiangnan, it can't.

Or even to the whole of the South.

First of all, Zhang Xuan wants to determine what he wants to do?

It's expansion, vested interest groups.

The expansion of those who benefited from the rise of Cao Ying, and the granting of land was the simplest, crude and effective thing among them.

It is indeed a good way to take the imperial court guard to fill the appetite of Cao Ying's soldiers. But even so, it is necessary to analyze specific things on a case-by-case basis, after all, it is not about the imperial court. Many of the guards are no different from ordinary prefectures and counties, no matter how the owners of these lands came to be, but it is already an established reality. You can't be brutal and one-size-fits-all.

"The nobles of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the fields of the Ming hereditary commanders at all levels." Zhang Xuan circled this line of words.

In fact, in Zhu Yuanzhang's planning, the officers of the guards at all levels and the Ming Dynasty were systematic, and the later battalion recruitment was something that was made.

Since this system has determined its own value with its own incompetence, then don't blame Zhang Xuan for sweeping them into the garbage heap of history, really

Now Zhu Yuanzhang has given them a promise to rest with the country. Even so, though. There are more than 4 million hectares of cultivated land in the health system, and even if there are a few discounts among them, one million hectares can be truly divided, which is enough to buy the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people.

If you add the barren land in the north, the amount of land at your disposal in the future is definitely not a few.

This is the land at the disposal of the state power.

Zhang Xuan's thoughts diverged, and then he got up and thought about one thing under the moonlight, how to make more people share weal and woe with the Cao Ying regime.

Zhang Xuan thought hard, and suddenly something broke into Zhang Xuan's mind.

"Slavery." This word is not a strange thing in Zhang Xuan's ears, and after arriving in Jiangnan, there are many such things.

But Zhang Xuan didn't really have an in-depth understanding of what was going on in the slavery rebellion?

But at this moment, Zhang Xuan wanted to know more about this matter.

And at this time, the rooster crowed, and it turned out that the night had passed.

Zhang Xuan didn't care about resting, so he called someone to fetch some cold water, and immediately called several masters in his staff, these people may not have great talents, but they know the folk customs of various places very well.

Zhang Xuan cheered up and asked one by one, only to know that the situation was a little different from what he thought.

The practice of raising slaves and maids in China has been inherited from ancient times, but it has been relatively rare in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, slaves and maids were mostly employed by the employment system.

The sources of slaves and maids in ancient times probably came from these sources.

During the war, captives were reduced to slavery, sold into slavery because of debts, etc., and were sent into slavery and maidservants for crimes, and so on.

And the Song Dynasty war was reduced to slavery, and the law did not allow people to be sold into slavery, and rarely put people into lowly status, but the Song and Yuan dynasties were a big regression, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang inherited a lot of rules of the Yuan Dynasty, which maintained a lot of Yuan Dynasty systems.

For example, the slave system.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty rewarded meritorious heroes, and there were many slaves and maids. In the opening war, there were a large number of slaves and maids. And in many things after that, there were also a large number of people who broke into slaves, such as Jianwen's former ministers, participants in King Ning's rebellion, and so on.

This is still an official slave and a maid.

Of course, this is still one aspect, and this alone cannot form such a large scale of slaves.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of the tax-free quota of the gentry, a large number of people put the acres of land in the name of the gentry, and this thing was called trickery. But the fake is the real and the real is the fake. Over time, this became a reality.

In the Ming Dynasty, the practice of acquiring slaves was very prosperous, and almost all the gentry with names and surnames were thousands of slaves. And the literary style in Jiangnan is prosperous, and there are many scholars and doctors, which is one of the best in the world, which has intensified this contradiction.

The slavery was almost linked to the encroachment on the land.

In this way, all kinds of disadvantages can be imagined, there is also a situation, the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan textile scale is very large, there are many private weaving mills, and the people who work, there are also a considerable number of slaves and maids, all kinds of complicated situations. It complicates the situation even more.

This is also why the same system is particularly heavy in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the north, I don't hear anything wrong with slaves and maids.

Zhang Xuan suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Luo Rucai's refusal to recognize the fame of the previous dynasty has solved a considerable part of the problems, and has also intensified many problems. Therefore, how to deal with this matter, Zhang Xuan didn't know how to start for a while.

But the theme idea is there.

Zhang Xuan spread out the rice paper, picked up the brush, and wrote three big characters on the rice paper with heavy ink on the tip of the pen: "Abolish slavery." ”

Zhang Xuan knew too well how hard the people who fought for freedom worked, and there were also lessons from the past, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Huangzhou, and other prefectures and counties north of Wuhan were with the help of the power of slavery. How could Zhang Xuan not learn from it.

Zhang Xuan has not yet come up with the specific details. But there are general principles.

First, Han people are not allowed to be slaves.

Article 2: Failure to repay debts is a conviction for officials, but it is not allowed to be a slave or a maidservant.

Article 3: Every household servant should be hired and regarded as a good family.

Article 4, abolishing the cheap life, and all matters of the imperial examination and government shall be treated equally.

If yes, etc.

Of course, this is a big game of chess that affects the entire Jiangnan, and Zhang Xuan has to consider many situations carefully, his suppression is mainly treacherous and production-oriented slaves, as for the domestic servants of each family, they are just goods.

There may be ways to limit it in the future, but not now.

Although many things still need to be carefully scrutinized, but with the big framework, Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "As soon as this abolition policy comes out, Jiangnan may have to change greatly, and Donglin definitely disagrees with this change." It doesn't matter, though. ”

It's not that Zhang Xuan looks down on Qian Qianyi, Zhang Xuan thinks that his influence on Luo Rucai is definitely above this Shoufu, as long as there are benefits, Luo Rucai doesn't care what opinions the Donglin gentry have. But governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, such a big policy formulation is the first time for Zhang Xuan, after so many years, Zhang Xuan understands too well that there is a difference between what he came up with and the actual situation.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to take out the ideas here easily, and it depended on the timing and opportunity.

Zhang Xuan wrote down all his thoughts, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, but when he raised his head, he saw the sunset, and in a trance, a day passed. Zhang Xuan only felt sleepy and wanted to take a good rest. But he didn't want anyone to report it, and General Deng and General returned victorious.

Zhang Xuan immediately called cold water again, washed his face, and invited Deng He over, he wanted to ask in detail how the specific battle situation with the official army was. This is first-hand information on the official army, and Zhang Xuan cannot afford not to attach importance to it.

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