Chapter 8: Control Everywhere

Cao Xiang also wanted to say such a thing, and after thinking for a long time, he found that Cao Xin was his own son, and what Li Dang had just said was not spoken.

"Dangli is pregnant." Cao Xiang was a little worried.

"Oh, you're very capable!"

"Compared to a few of you, I can only be regarded as shameful and courageous."

was stimulated by Yun Lang, and Cao Xiang immediately forgot his original intention of opening the topic.

"So, only when a child born by Li can he become the sect master of your Cao clan?"

Yun Lang didn't want to fool Cao Xiang, so he turned the topic back again.

Cao Xiang scratched his head and said: "Actually, I also have a few brothers, and as a result, I ended up becoming the Marquis of Pingyang because of my poor health." ”

"The royal marriage of the princess is actually a conspiracy, a conspiracy to dilute the bloodline of the rest of the family.

Your mother is a royal family, so you have royal blood, and now, you are married to Dangli, and when your son is born, his royal blood will be even stronger. If your son marries a princess again...... Ha ha...... After three or five generations, your descendants of the Cao family will be the blood of the royal family. ”

Yun Lang provoked with ill intentions.

Cao Xiang sneered and said: "You married Song Qiao, half of Yun Zhe's bloodline became the Song family, and then Yun Zhe married someone else's daughter, how much of your grandson's bloodline is your Yun family's?" Yours to be exact?

Unless you disregard humanity and let Yun Zhe marry Yun Yin, it is inevitable that the blood will be diluted.

Don't sophistry in front of me, Lao Tzu is smart. ”

Cao Xiang's words made Yun Lang feel that Cao Xiang was really smart.

The weather is very hot, but the official hall where Yun Lang is located is very large, as long as all the windows on all four sides are opened, there is a cool breeze blowing through here, and it is the best time to drink chilled grape wine at this time.

can drink in the army without moderation, this is the first benefit that Yun Lang found after becoming a general of Shangwei.

In the past, he was restrained by others, and he had to be sneaky when he drank wine, but now that he has become the supreme moderation of this army to a certain extent, the military order is naturally ineffective against him.

They could sit in the breezy hall and drink, and the generals could only supervise the soldiers under the scorching sun to carry back the pebbles the size of a human head......

Even Li Ling, who had only been whipped yesterday, was not spared.

Cao Xiang looked at the ever-increasing wall of Fuli Palace and said strangely: "Ah Lang, the things you build are always bigger than those built by the masters, why is this?" ”

Yun Lang took a sip of wine and said, "I know better than all of you how blessed it is to have a strong city when the great calamity is coming. ”

"The city is not high, the pool is not deep, and the soldiers are not unfavorable...... Mencius said that the righteous help the unrighteous and the unjust, don't you understand? ”

Cao Xiang hoisted his bookbag.

Yun Lang and Li Dang sighed in unison......

Cao Xiang hurriedly said: "I know that people's hearts are unpredictable, and I also know that people's hearts are useless when we really have an accident, but what Mencius said is still correct, so you don't have to laugh at me." ”

Yun Lang patted Cao Xiang on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you remember, as long as Your Majesty can let the people of the world have a full bite to eat, Mencius's reasoning will always be."

The criterion for measuring the way of attaining and losing the Tao is not in the hearts of the people, but in the stomach, Guan Zhong said that he knows honor and disgrace after having enough food and clothing, this sentence is very reasonable.

The current Chang'an always makes me feel precarious...... That's why I want to make General Wei's Mansion stronger and taller.

Be prepared. ”

Cao Xiang frowned and said, "Do you think Chang'an is not safe?" ”

Yun Lang spread his hands and said, "Yes, as long as I see slaves, I have a strong sense of crisis. ”

"Why, they are very obedient now, and my Han also promulgated the "Slave Management Regulations", which prohibits the master from treating slaves harshly, and many slaves in the Cao family's side branch do not need to wear shackles, and even kindly give them marriage.

It seems to me that the unshackling of slaves and the granting of them to reproduce will become a general trend, and within three years it will certainly become a common phenomenon. ”

"Unshackles, marriage? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "A large number of strong slaves have been transferred by His Majesty to dig the Shu Road, and I heard that there are countless casualties.

The steward of my family who escorted the slaves to Shu Dao came back and said that less than forty percent of the two thousand slaves sent to Shu for the first time survived. ”

"How so?"

"Why can't that be? This Shu road is dug along the plank road, the head is the blue sky, the foot is the cliff, the slaves need to tie the rope around the waist, climb down the cliff, dig the road in the middle of the mountainside, as long as the rope is worn, there will be slaves falling directly from the cliff.

Not only that, in the deep mountains and old forests of Shuzhong, tigers and leopards are rampant, plus it is humid and rainy all year round, the Huns, Qiang, and Yiqu people themselves are all northerners, and they are not used to the climate in Shuzhong, and there are more deaths.

As a result, the price of slaves in Guanzhong skyrocketed, and slaves became more expensive, especially the hard-working Xiongnu slaves.

Just as no one wants to torture their big animals, they are expected to work, so it is inevitable to give them more fodder.

In the past, it was said that slaves were not allowed to marry, but now some people are worried that the Han army will kill all the Huns in the surrounding area, and there will be no slaves available in the future.

I feel that the slaves are already in a state of more women than men, so it is better to allow them to marry, one can stabilize the hearts of slaves, and the other can be a long stream, so that we can have endless slaves to use.

There is some truth to this idea. ”

Yun Lang smiled: "Don't you worry about them breeding a Xiongnu tribe in Chang'an?" ”

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "When the ministers in the court saw that the Qiang people were docile, they forcibly elevated the status of the Qiang women and let them choose their favorite Xiongnu men.

At the same time, they also suggested to His Majesty that they should give the Qiang woman a little bit of land, let the Qiang woman plant it herself, and the Xiongnu slaves who became relatives planted every spring and had a few days off during the autumn harvest to help his wife farm the land.

Everything is well arranged, and now, there are very few slave riots in Chang'an City. ”

Yun Lang looked at Cao Xiang's handsome face, and felt a chill in his heart.

The really vicious person is Dong Zhongshu.

In Cao Xiang's words just now, Yun Lang not only heard the truth of the clear place, but also heard the hidden meaning.

The slaves in the Han Dynasty are not only Xiongnu men and Qiang women, but also Qiang men, Xiongnu women, and it can even be said that under the unremitting efforts of the slave hunting group and the Han army, there are slaves from Dongyi, Xidi, Nanban, and Beirong, and even the slaves of the distant Great Qin State are not uncommon in Chang'an.

Why did Dong Zhongshu's proposal only include Qiang women and Xiongnu men, and did the status of the rest of the slaves change?

According to the meticulous way of those old fellows, it is absolutely impossible for him to give the benefits to all the slaves.

Since some slaves have benefited, there will be more slaves who have lost more rights.

That's for sure.

If a Qiang woman marries a Xiongnu man, will a Qiang man marry a Xiongnu woman?

This is unlikely, and if the Qiang have a higher status, the consequence of this will be to breed a stronger Qiang tribe.

They would only marry the Xiongnu women to slaves from smaller tribes, and completely split the Huns, who were outnumbered.

As for the Qiang men...... There is only one dead end!

Cao Xiang saw that Yun Lang didn't speak for a long time, so he smiled and said, "It's very thoughtful, isn't it?" ”

"How many Qiang slaves are there in Chang'an City? I'm talking about men! ”

"No, the Qiang slaves I left at home were all requisitioned by the Shaofu, and my wife lost her temper with me for this, saying that I became a marquis in vain, and I couldn't even keep the slaves at home."

Li Dang finally interjected.

"What is this doing, you ask? You don't have slaves in your house! Cao Xiang was very worried that Yun Lang would do something against everyone's will.

Yun Lang scratched his itchy scalp and shook his head: "It's nothing, just ask." ”

"Dong Zhongshu and a group of other old men think that this is not very decent, and think that as long as Yidi enters our China and wears the clothes of my clan, he is Chinese.

Now, his opinion is very unpopular, you are one of the pillars of Confucianism, don't get involved in it, and go against all vested interests. ”

Yun Lang shook his head and said: "I'm an ostrich now, burying my head in the sand, out of sight, where can I care about my ass being exposed!" ”

"Huh? What kind of bird is an ostrich? Why haven't you heard of it? ”

"Oh, it's a giant bird that can only run on the ground and can't fly, and an egg is the size of a melon.

When frightened, he will stick his head into the sand, in the desert north of the Great Qin Kingdom. ”

"Can you ride?"

"Yes!"

"Then let the merchants of the Great Qin Kingdom get some back, our brothers will not ride horses when they travel in the future, but ride ostriches instead, will this kind of bird run fast?"

"Faster than the galloping horse!"

"That's perfect, that's it."