Huang Jie is a county guard, and he is a county guard far away in the east of the empire, not that his status is not high enough, but since he is the county guard of Julu County, he is not in the center, and his attention is basically focused on the place of governance, how can he know whether the slaves from Central Asia are brought to the empire more or less?

Wang Ben knew a little more because he was concerned about Meng Tian's relationship, and he said: "The imperial army has opened to the Western Regions, which means that our territory has expanded to the Western Regions. The Western Regions are separated from Central Asia by a Kangju country and a number of tribes, and as our armies march to the Western Regions, the Empire's contact with Central Asia has been increasing. ”

There is nothing wrong with that. In the past, there were usually merchants in the army, and there was no shortage of such traders in the imperial army.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were merchants in the army with a special background, which was nothing more than the strength of the merchants at that time, such as wealth, and silk, and followed the army to make money by transporting grain for the army when necessary, and secondly, to buy war spoils from the soldiers and resell them to make money, and third, to provide some commodities to the soldiers in the army to obtain wealth.

At that time, it was actually rare for various countries to attack the caravan, after all, everyone had a time when they needed to be rescued, once the caravan was attacked, the reputation was notorious, and when the caravan was needed to transfer the caravan, the caravan did not accept the business, which was likely to lead to the situation that could have been turned over into non-existent.

Because the empire has a huge logistics team, it naturally does not need caravans to transport grain, but once the soldiers in the war will be captured, some soldiers will use the army's post station system to send the spoils home, and there is no shortage of some soldiers who use more money will choose to sell the loot directly to the merchants who accompany the army, so that the traders naturally still have the need to exist.

Long before Meng Tian did not lead the army into the Western Regions, the Western Regions sent troops to the Western Regions, and there were not many caravans that went together, they mainly bought war horses from the Wusun people, and later developed to buy furs or special products, and then transferred them to the empire to obtain huge profits or poor prices.

In these years, as long as it is a caravan, there are guards. Naturally, the caravan can't do any side business at home, but when it comes to foreign countries, there are no such concerns. For example, many caravans in the Western Regions are merchants when they do business, but once they find their prey, they will turn into robbers, and they do not stop killing and robbing.

The Western Regions Dispatch Army has always been fighting against the Maudun Division, and as long as there is a war, there will be prisoners. Maudun accepted a lot of ethnic groups who fled from west to east, and he would use his own strength to compete with the troops sent from the Western Regions in the early stage, but later it may be that the losses are unacceptable, and the armed forces sent will become those who have fled.

“…… Nearly 40,000 people were captured, all of whom were cannon fodder launched by Maudun to contain the footsteps of the imperial army. Wang Ben could not hide his jealousy and said: "There are too many small city-states or kingdoms in the Western Regions. It only takes a few thousand armies to destroy a city and a country. Recently, there have been seven groups of slaves who have been transported to the Yangtze River valley from the jurisdiction of the last general. ”

The Yangtze River valley was the industrial center of the empire, arguably the most labor-scarce place in the empire, attracting people from all over the country who wanted to become working-class. A large number of domestic civilians flocked to the Yangtze River Valley, but they still could not meet the labor needs of many workshops or factories, and the high level of wages of the people in the empire, in addition to wages, there were new things such as labor insurance, and the cost was naturally the most cost-effective to use slaves who were not regarded as adults.

"If it weren't for the country's policy. Workshops and factories must employ no less than a certain amount of native workers, depending on the type, who are presumably eager to buy all slaves to become labourers. In recent years, the empire has developed industry on a large scale, and the Wang family has also built many workshops and factories. Naturally, it's about understanding what's going on.

To protect the interests of the people of their own country, as long as the ruler has not broken his brain, he will naturally do it, and the ruler who does not do it is lucky to be secretly scolded, but after a long time, it will inevitably become a kind of public resentment. When resentment accumulates to a certain extent, chaos will occur.

Now the empire is extremely powerful, and there is no threat around it. Even the powerful countries in the distance cannot threaten the empire because of transportation, and there will be no oppression of their own people abroad, but the state cannot find justice or the responsibility to protect. Without this, the responsibility of the rulers will be mainly focused on improving the living standards of the people, and how to ensure jobs will become the first priority.

Before the empire was founded...... In other words, before Lu Zhe proposed the relevant concept, the word employment did not appear. It's not that there is no working class, it's that the group is not huge, and there is no similar idea.

Lu Zhe took the lead in building workshops and factories on a large scale, and the Chinese ethnic group has always had the problem of "what is good at the top and what must be effective at the bottom", and then there is the problem that as long as the right industry is selected in the right place, the efficiency is indeed much higher than that of plowing the ground in the soil.

In just ten years, from Lu Zhe taking the lead in developing industry, to the gradual maturity of the use of water power in the Yangtze River Basin, Xungui was the second group of people to catch up, and then the people began to catch up, and the industrial base that a country should have was slowly formed.

For the people of this era, if the previous war was unfortunate, after Lu Zhe quelled the war, he first hired a large number of Qiantou, so that most people began to come into contact with the employment system, and then the rise of industry accepted a large number of workers, and the growth rate of a group was far beyond imagination, and it was increasing at a jaw-dropping speed.

Lu Zhe agrees with the statement that any capital smells of blood, but the "smell of blood" often does not have to be imposed on the people of his country.

The history has not changed, and now the wild men of Europa who are still burrowing in the woods will begin to rise in fourteen hundred years, but if you study the rise of those people, you will definitely find that it is full of plunder, captivity, and oppression. They first sucked blood from black people in Africa, and then as the HNA matured, they began to run around, sucking blood everywhere they went.

None of the countries that rise in Europa rely on sucking the blood of their own people to complete their rise, and only when they are really unable to plunder abroad will they turn their brains to their own people, but the monarchs who do so usually suffer unbearable costs, and many kings are guillotined because they are too oppressive.

White people rely on plundering the world for four or five hundred years to complete the accumulation, and then there are white people in almost every corner of the world, and replace the local culture with their own culture, not only in terms of plundering economic interests, but even the races that they have exterminated cannot be counted. At the end, the jump is the highest. sang the most happily, saying that they were the ones who protected this and that.

It's really a pretty good time, especially for Lu Zhe. He has survived the most difficult stage, and all sides of the empire are also developing steadily, and the most rare thing is that a series of early developments have laid a relatively solid foundation for the country.

Expansion is inseparable from population and food, and the empire has always encouraged more fertility, and at the same time, after conquering a large area of territory in the south, there are also a large number of cantonment troops in the construction of grain-producing areas.

In the past few years, the grain producing areas in the south have become large-scale, not only to supply the needs of the common people of the empire, but the military has only had no time to transport grain, and there has never been a situation where the country has no grain reserves.

"For us. Large deserts or swamps in the north, plateaus in the west, mountains and deserts in the northwest, and other natural conditions hinder the pace of expansion. Lu Zhe said with a smile: "So that's why the empire has never stopped drawing maps of mountains and rivers." ”

Indeed, for many dynasties, the successive rulers did not know what was going on in the outside world, the burden of the country was too heavy to open up, and the third was actually because of the obstacles of the natural environment. Every time the old ruler is overthrown, the new ruler takes two steps outward. But soon retracted his foot again.

The emperor has already walked to Suiyang in Dangjun. Suiyang is actually on the edge of the modern Shangqiu, which is very important for Chinese civilization, because as early as the Paleolithic Age, the Suiren clan, the head of the "Three Emperors", invented artificial fire here. Neolithic. Emperor Yan Zhu Xiang, Zhuan Xu, Emperor Yu and so on successively built the capital here. Since then, the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and other dynasties have established their capitals here.

Of course, except for a very small number of literati and artists, the vast majority of people are not actually interested in "looking for history", finding the tombs of the ancients and calling them "archaeology" in the name of beauty. In fact, no one dares to do the matter of digging people's ancestral graves, because in this way, not only the government wants to kill these guys, but the civilians will definitely kill one when they meet one.

The current administrative status of Suiyang in Dangjun...... Or should I say that the reputation is almost none. In comparison, Chen Liu, who had some celebrities during the Warring States Period, was relatively famous.

The patrol team came here only because Suiyang is the capital of Dang County, and there are some situations that need to be resolved.

Lu Zhe was originally going to stay for a period of time in his single father, and when he was about to settle down, someone reported that there was a slave rebellion in Suiyang, and the slaves of the rebellion were quickly suppressed by the county soldiers, but this was the first slave rebellion of more than 1,000 people in the history of the empire, and the leader was still a Thracian from the Mediterranean, so Lu Zhe could not help but have a strong curiosity.

Thrace, at present, is a relatively strong tribe in the Mediterranean near Central Asia, they did not establish a state, they are a semi-nomadic, semi-agrarian, semi-hunter ethnic group, influenced by both Greek and Persian culture, a very complex group.

Lu Zhe's curiosity was relatively simple, because he knew that there had been such an incident in Western history, a guy whose name no one remembered was originally given, and who was named Spartacus by a slave after becoming a slave.

This guy named Spartacus first became the arena star of the southern province of Rome, and then relied on his prestige to unite many slaves from the same gladiator base, and suddenly launched a riot when the slave owner was entertaining guests, killing the slave owner's family cleanly, killing many local celebrities and nobles, and even almost killing the wife of a Roman tribune, and embarked on the road of escape.

The guy who led the rebellion in Suiyang also had a Spartan beginning, but it was called Spartamis, he was originally a part of the flight from west to east, as for how a Thracian would need to flee east, it was because this guy was originally in Parthia to do a role similar to hiring ~ maid ~ beating ~ hand, and then accidentally killed a powerful man too hard, Parthia couldn't stay, Bactria also had a wanted warrant because of the Parthian allies, and he couldn't pass through such a large area of land if he wanted to go to the Seleucid Empire, It can only be with a large number of inexplicable ethnic groups to the east.

Many people in the Mediterranean will have a "Sparta" beginning when choosing a name, all because Sparta was once the easiest place to produce warriors in the Mediterranean region, and then there was a Spartan king named Leonidas who dared to take three hundred guards and hundreds of thousands of Persian troops, "Sparta" is synonymous with "fierce man" in the vocabulary of Mediterranean culture to some extent.

Since he dared to kill the magnates, whether he was careless or not, first of all, this guy named Spartamis had the courage to be fat, and he could survive the escape of a Thracian all the way, and it seems that there are many people who have been entangled in the future to build a tribe by themselves, so he must have a certain leadership ability.

"The riot took place in the mine, and because it was the first time it had happened, the mine was a little bit ...... A bit unresponsive. Pang Lin, the county guard of Dangjun, was in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to wipe it, enduring the discomfort of sweat in his eyes, and continued to report: "Six samurai guarding slaves died, and some facilities in the mine were smashed and burned......

Relevant data Lu Zhe has already seen on the way here, the samurai in the mine died six and injured twelve people, will they die or because the samurai guarding the slaves are slack and do not wear armor, and the total casualties end here, the county soldiers and public security forces stationed in Suiyang are dispatched, and the rioting slaves are still busy destroying everything they can see in the mine, and before they can step out of the mine, the county soldiers and public security forces who came then used dense arrows and used the most traditional wave shooting, It's a good job of teaching this bunch of guys who don't know what a bloody massacre is.

Because it is a kind of shooting and killing, and it is a kind of arrow shooting that almost does not stop, only a few of those slaves have weapons, and the one who wears armor does not have them, and the dense arrows in front make them hedgehogs with arrow shafts on their bodies, and they kill a batch when they are slowly searching, but Spartamis as the leader of the riot, this guy has been rushing to the front line and has not died?

"Heh, hehe......" Pang Lin was more entangled in the emperor's questions, and he was also grateful for the good luck of that guy, so he could only say: "I heard that Your Majesty is coming, so ...... So ......" (To be continued.) )