It is not the first time that Chen Qinghan has been so embarrassed in front of Wu Mei, and as he gets along with Wu Mei more and more, and Wu Mei's temperament has become more and more easy-going over the years, Chen Qinghan is no longer like when he first entered the palace, and he can't let go of his hands and feet in front of Wu Mei at all.

So he hurriedly got up, took the feather duster handed over by Wu Mei, nodded heavily, and said resolutely: "Don't worry, the queen mother, the son will not disgrace his mission." ”

Chen Qinghan, who seemed to be generous and righteous, held the "Shang Fang Sword" in his hand, with a smug smile on his face, walked quickly to the outer hall, and then saw Li Hong, and threw the feather duster in his hand to Li Lingyue: "Your Royal Highness Princess, give you this, see if he dares to fight back." ”

Wu Mei couldn't help but smile knowing when she listened to Li Lingyue's screams outside and Li Hong's angry voice.

After a while, I saw Li Lingyue carrying a feather duster with her hair in a messy bun, and Li Hong with a lewd smile walked in, but Chen Qinghan and Li Mei were missing behind the two of them.

"What about Qinghan and Li Mei?" Wu Mei swayed from side to side, looked behind the two of them, and didn't see the figure of the little girl, so she couldn't help asking.

Li Mei is a little like her mother's gentleness, she has been eccentric since she was a child, and she has a fight with Li Lingyue when she was a child, and what makes Wu Mei like Li Mei the most is that this little guy doesn't cause trouble at all on weekdays, and he doesn't cry unreasonably, but he is a very sensible and lovely person.

Even several times, Wu Mei saw Xiao Li Mei in the back garden, alone leading the tiger that her mother gently brought back to the palace, playing alone in the garden, or with the palace maid, holding a small woven flower in her hand, wearing it on her head or on the head of the tiger and the tiger.

Of course, in Wu Mei's opinion, holding the tiger when there is nothing to do to scare the palace maids or eunuchs, especially the eunuchs and palace maids who are not on errands in the harem, is just a child's temperament, greedy for play, and it is not a matter of quality.

But what Wu Mei has been unable to figure out is that Gentle's pungent and hyperactive temperament is a master who only cares about giving birth and not raising it, how to give Li Hong's child, but it is so cute.

But what worries Wu Mei the most is that this Li Mei is the youngest of Li Hong's princes and princesses, will one day accidentally become the second Li Lingyue? After all, her mother and her aunt are so out of tune.

Li Mei was obviously sent back by Chen Qinghan, and standing at the door of Penglai Palace, Xiao Li Mei didn't recognize her life, after all, in the palace, she was now counted as the youngest, and now she was only four years old, and she was not as tall as the tiger girl next to her, so she stretched out two small arms and asked Chen Qinghan to carry her to the back of the tiger girl, and then accompanied by the two palace maids, she didn't know where to go around.

With the growth of age, Wu Mei's temper is too easy-going now, even Li Hong, who is smiling at the hippie, is not very fond of losing his temper now, and the feather duster in his hand is now just symbolic, or maybe he has been used to holding it in his hand for so many years, and he is reluctant to put it up for a while.

"Listen to Li Lingyue, you want to reform the slave class? How to change? How to change? What will they live on in the future? Wu Mei's left and right arms were supported by her children, and then she walked to the dining room.

Li Hong let go of Wu Mei's arm that was being supported, looked at Wu Mei who was being supported by Li Lingyue alone, thought for a while and said: "Officials first and then private, as long as the court or the royal family makes an attitude, then the next thing will be easy to do." ”

"Officials before private? In this big palace, everything has been changed? The families of those courtiers who have committed crimes have also been removed from the status of slaves and maids? Or are you and Bai Chun tinkering with something, and if you want to be Bai Chun's identity, you have to do it in a roundabout way? Wu Mei sat down in the middle position, and Chen Qinghan also walked over quickly, Xiao Li Mei waved at her, saying that there was no need to send it.

Slaves are the lowest and most enslaved class of people in the Tang Dynasty, without personal freedom and any rights, in this era, they are generally regarded as personal assets and owned, and their slave and maid status will be hereditary, compared with the people of the Tang Dynasty, there is no right and treatment at all.

However, it is not possible to generalize, like official slaves, like some slaves and maids who are served in the palace or other government offices, although they also have no personal freedom and rights, but relatively speaking, there are still some so-called personality independence, including food, clothing, medicine, etc., which can be guaranteed to a certain extent.

The official slaves are also divided into several types, according to different are different servants, such as: city slaves, household slaves, palace maids, dwarf slaves, servants, etc., there are different division of labor.

As for private slaves, they have become diverse, such as: servants, servants, servants, servants, domestic slaves, domestic servants, servants, servants, servants, and so on.

However, what has changed is that the identity and status of those who can own private slaves are obviously much more noble than ordinary people and beloved.

The nobles, the bureaucratic class, the wealthy merchants, and most importantly, the monasteries and Taoist temples were the places with the most private slaves.

And like Turkic slaves, Tubo slaves, Hui slaves, Silla slaves, Kunlun slaves and other exotic states, etc., private slaves or official slaves sold by merchants are often not a few in the Tang Dynasty, especially in Chang'an, noble and wealthy families, and families with status are proud of Silla maids, and naturally the price in the market is much higher, and not ordinary people can have it.

And the birth of slaves, in addition to the legacy of the previous generation, is generally the new birth of the present generation, but no matter which one it is, there are huge dirty interests in it.

Officials can abuse their power to forcibly force their beloved to sell their beloved people as slaves, and Haoqiang can also use various means to force their beloved people to sell their beloved people as slaves.

There can also be a conversion between official slaves and private slaves, as long as the official and Haoqiang reach a certain transaction value, then the official slave is sold to the Haoqiang noble, and then becomes a private slave in a blink of an eye.

For example, Red Sleeves and Tianxiang, no one knows where Pei Qing bought them, so the two of them can support the façade of Shengyun Building, relying on the oppression of the two of them and Wang Shishi, working hard for the weekday operation of Shengyun Building, doing all kinds of errands.

Moreover, such as the temple, at its peak, just the temple in Chang'an, there were no less than 100,000 private slaves, and these private slaves in the temple, in addition to being attached to the temple, is the best way to become local officials, nobles, heroes and other people with status, to choose private slaves.

The monastery is like a source of private slaves, and by virtue of its particularity, it is often easy to convert official slaves into private slaves and sell them to others.

"Whether it is an official slave or a private slave, it has already existed, which dynasty has not, why do you Li Hong have to ban it with a dead eye? The value of slaves is invisible to you, the emperor, but can't those wealthy nobles see it? If you do this, the risk is much greater than that of confronting the five wealthy families more than three years ago. Wu Mei wiped the red wine glass with her fingers, shouting every day that there were too many political affairs in the court, which made him have a lot of gray hair.

But he obviously has nothing to do, if he has a good existence, he has to be restructured, whether he is busy or idle!

"The former dynasty and the latter are the Han or Jin and so on, the role of slaves is to improve productivity and exist, attached to the powerful and wealthy, because of the rarity of the land, so they have to do so, but now my Tang Dynasty is in a peaceful and prosperous era, if you still let the slave this kind of human rights have no human rights...... Well, this kind of animal is equivalent to livestock, or in their words, it is the existence of a talking animal, which the retainer thinks is disrespectful to the benevolence of the Heavenly ....... ”

"Gotta got, stop, the way of heaven is not the way of heaven, have you Li Hongxin believed it? Now I still know that benevolence and disrespect, I think you Li Hong is, useless to abandon it, want to pick it up again, not all of you are like this when you are the emperor, it is not beneficial to yourself, it is a cow, a ghost, a snake and a god, and it is beneficial to yourself, I really can't think of a way, it is the ...... of heaven. ”

"But what Erchen said is right, my Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and I pay attention to the ...... of convincing people with virtue." Li Hong said that the words that the sages and great Confucians often put on their lips were not bad, and they came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Stop me, you can tell me directly, what is your ultimate goal, the state of etiquette, to convince people with virtue, these words came out of your Li Hong's mouth, if you don't blush, I will blush for you." Wu Mei glanced at Li Hong speechlessly.

And Li Lingyue, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, had already broken Wu Mei's shoulders at this time and whispered in her ear, and from time to time the mother and daughter would look at the Tang Emperor together.

"Two maids?" Wu Mei muttered, and then looked at Li Lingyue with a puzzled expression, blinking her eyes, nodding to her definitely, and then involuntarily looked at someone.

"That...... Li Lingyue is right, this matter has nothing to do with Bai Chun, eliminating slavery is something that Erchen wants to do a long time ago, and the total number of people in the entire Tang Dynasty, whether it is an official slave or a private slave, has caught up with the population of a Zhongzhou. Nowadays, there have been no major wars in Datang in recent years, and the population is also steadily increasing, followed by a lack of land resources, although most of the land is now ....... Li Hong took a sip of wine, and then prepared to talk, after all, he had done his homework today.

In addition to doing enough homework on Bai Chun, he has also basically read all the pieces that have been handed over by the Criminal Department and the Household Department in the past few days, so now he has an idea of the number of Tang slaves in his heart.

And if these people are exempted from household registration and land, then the reclamation of Datang wasteland is naturally enough to get twice the result with half the effort, and most importantly, in the process of reclamation of wasteland, it can also restrain local tyrants, merge and occupy land, so as to expand Datang's agricultural production, and liberate the concept of population hierarchy, the best of both worlds.

"Li Hong, this palace will ask you, are you sure that you are not going to make a big move for the identity of Bai Chun, and you will not hesitate to offend the people of the world, but also overthrow this slave class?" Wu Mei looked at Chen Qinghan, who was calm, and then looked at Li Hong seriously and asked.

"After returning to my mother, I have nothing to do with Bai Chun. Even if Bai Chun is no longer a slave in the future, there will still be no place for her in the harem. Li Hong's expression was equally serious, at this time, he had to convince everyone present that he had taken the risk of restructuring and not because of Bai Chun.