The issue of slavery in the world must be traced back to its origins, and there is no problem at all if it goes back to 800 years, and there are differences in the number and form, but the essence is that the "noble race" takes away the various personal rights of the "cheap race".

Some of the lowly servants in Gaomen are only biological definitions of "people", but in fact, "they" are only property to Gaomen, that is, "objectified" people.

The huge family formed since the Northern and Southern Dynasties has a large hidden population, and few people really understand it. Even the head of the family of Gaomen may not know how many mouths to feed every day and how many people to feed each year.

They don't know, but the data does.

Since the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the Jiangdong clan has consumed rice, flour, grain, oil, silk and silk every year, and it can be roughly estimated from how much land they control and how many materials they procure. If a few more spies are planted and bought, then even the conventional fire consumption of each company can be calculated, and the discount rate can be calculated.

Why is Jiangshui Zhang's just a local tyrant and just a "cold family"? Because of the accumulation of the Zhang clan in Jiangshui, he is not even qualified to hide the slaves of the people's savings.

Unlike the family, Jiangshui Zhang's can't afford to "sit and eat empty" without tossing. The family's "sitting and eating the mountain is empty" is a pseudo concept, they do sit and eat, but the mountain is not empty.

Fortunately, a little trick played by a local dog made the Jiangdong clan dig out the gold, silver, copper and iron buried in the geography to do investment and financial management.

What's worse is that in the past, I only had to brag about sitting and eating; Now sit and eat, you don't have high-end furniture, expensive jewelry, and exquisite food, so it's a fart to sit and eat?

Zhenguan's twenty years of "sitting and eating" was finally able to empty the mountain, which made a certain local dog very pleased. Without this habit, how can the sales of Xiaobawang learning machine go up? If the sales are not good, how can there be a more excellent typing input method?

"Ah Lang, even if Jiangdong is slightly frustrated, it won't hurt his muscles and bones, right?"

As a girl from a family, Cui Jue is the most understandable, Cui's Xuzhou room in her memory, something leaked out between her fingers, it was enough for a family of five in Xuzhou City to eat for three or five eight years. In fact, Cui Hongdao presided over the Xuzhou house, how many people do you have to feed in total?

Some of them don't add up, 20,000 guarantees, and there is no cap.

Moreover, the number of acres in Xuzhou's books and the actual cultivated land of the people cannot be reconciled at all. The amount of Ueda controlled by Cui Hongdao earlier was about 30,000 mu, but the official registration was only 5,000 mu, and it was not Ueda.

There are many other miscellaneous real Shimoda and Yamada. It's just that with the development of water conservancy projects, the so-called Xiatian is not at all possible to go to the field, and the Xiatian with a yield of three stones per mu is embarrassing, which makes the people of Qianzhong embarrassed?

"Mingyue, don't think that this is my own business, within the Jiangdong clan, how can there be less fighting? For more than 100 years in the Southern Dynasties, hundreds of vendettas have been killed one after another. In this situation, even if it doesn't hurt the muscles and bones, there will be people who will add fuel to the fire and make them hurt their muscles and bones. ”

With a sigh of emotion, Zhang De said again, "Moreover, Jiangdong's 'changing rice to mulberry' is not a year or two, and a stubble of sugarcane will be harvested in the summer." At present, Jiangdong's rations are thanks to the new acres of land cultivated every year, and it is also thanks to Jiangdong County's attention to water conservancy, but there is arable land, and the output is rarely low, which is barely maintained. ”

The characteristics of the "land of fish and rice" are not about the quality of the local fish or the deliciousness of the rice. Rather, it means that no matter what the year, it can ensure a stable and not low output. Coupled with the characteristics of the Yangtze River estuary, as long as the water conservancy projects keep up, the output of newly reclaimed land is often comparable to that of Shangtian in central Guizhou.

This unique geographical environment is also the reason why the Jiangdong clan can let go of their joy.

It's just that one of the local dogs is playing a little insidious, intentionally or unintentionally, constantly increasing the import of foreign grain from Jiangdong, what is the flow of rice, Japanese rice, Korean rice, Jiaozhou rice, Guangzhou rice...... The ratio of imported grain to local grain was once as high as four to six in the comparison of food sources in the market.

Even if the share of Jingchu grain or Jianghuai grain is only 10 percent, some areas will begin to panic in a short period of time.

It is better for a person to die without money than to live, but if there is no food to eat, it is not a matter of dying or living.

For the family, it is definitely not okay to die your own people, "dead friends don't die poor", there are so many mud legs in the state and county, if you die, you will die, take care of Lao Tzu's bird affairs?

However, the reality cannot be so simple, and for the bureaucracy, the weight of the "common people" under the rule is not low. Then, a trade-off must be made, the "people" cannot die, and the useless slaves and maids of the family have someone to take over, which frees up the rations, right?

It means that the specific implementation is not a bargain, and time waits for no one.

"Now the Jiangdong clan, except for the Lu family and the Yu family, I am afraid that they will have to clean up a group of people. It's not like they're all killed, they can't be fed, they just throw them out. Of course, if the Jiangdong clan is ruthless, it is not impossible. As long as you can afford to have your reputation damaged, Mingyue, you know, the reputation of the clan is 'authoritarian', if the reputation of the clan is not feared, it will decay for two generations. The so-called 'centrifugal detachment' is here. Debt repayment is not something that anyone can rely on at any time. ”

"What Ah Lang saw, the Jiangdong clan will really obey? At this time, the situation has to be determined, and it is unknown whether the future counterattack will be calculated. ”

"Mei Niang's idea is right, but you have to understand that I am not just me, and to this day, there are not a few people in the Jiangdong clan who advance and retreat with Wuhan. As for the name of 'Earth Demon Capital', you also know how it is outside. To kill me is to kill Wuhan, and to kill Wuhan is to kill Lu, Yu, Xiao, and Cui...... As many people fall in, as many people as you kill. ”

Lao Zhang is not flaunting his importance, but as the "link" that maintains the entire group, he is indeed inseparable in this time. It is conceivable that once the entire interest group splits, it will be broken by the old forces.

The process can be long, but it can also be short-lived, just very intense, extremely harsh.

Cui Jue and Wu Meiniang used to be very simple, of course, they were not the kind of simplicity of young girls, and the environment they were in could not be as fond of fantasy as peasant girls.

But in the collision of different interest groups, the drama of the destruction of the family without personal will came and went, which still deeply shocked them.

Rao is proud of his wisdom and talent, and in this kind of group confrontation, he knows that his personal strategy and talent are powerless to change anything unless he surpasses the entire era.

"Moreover, there is still a gap between the north and the south for many years, and taking this opportunity can be regarded as making a small contribution to His Majesty the Emperor.

Zhang De said with a little bad taste, looking at the two girls who were still a little dazed.