Slave labor, the word, has not appeared from the mouth of a man who is the Son of Heaven for N years.

After the Spring and Autumn Period, the landlord class replaced the slave owners as the ruling class in China.

Since then, the nations have ushered in an era of humanitarianism.

Slaves slowly faded out of the mainstream of society, and tenant farmers and yeoman farmers became the new ruled class.

Since then, benevolence, righteousness and morality have become the mantra of rulers.

In the Han Dynasty, the emperors of the past dynasties especially watched the survival and safety of yeoman farmers and the small and medium-sized landlord class, and severely restricted and suppressed slave ownership.

The Han law clearly stipulates that the poll tax of slaves and maids shall be levied at a starting rate of five, in an attempt to restrict and restrain the landlords and powerful nobles from the economic level of slavery through heavy taxes.

But it is not the case, the scholars and nobles, as long as they have the opportunity, they will desperately keep slaves.

The slaves and servants of some large families are counted in the unit of thousands.

'Rich as a thousand' has become a de facto criterion for judging whether a family is a big dog.

As for the princes?

Whose fiefdom doesn't have a few hundred slaves, dozens of singers, and thousands of tenants?

Liu Che was in Hejian Country in his previous life, and he had seen the miserable situation of slaves and maids in large aristocratic families.

In particular, the living conditions and treatment of those slaves who worked for the large nobles were even more miserable than those of the slave society hundreds of years ago.

They were treated as tools and animals, to be worked in shackles and shackles, and were not allowed to be removed even when they were resting.

The slaves and maids in the families of the princes were treated a little better.

At the very least, the princes want to be faced. Don't dare to be too harsh and abused, lest you be offended.

But it's not much better.

For example, Wei Qing's story. It was very vividly told to future generations, the slaves and maids of the nobility. What kind of life situation it is.

Wei Qing's mother and several of Wei Qing's sisters, they are all tools used by the Pingyang Hou family to entertain foreign guests.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the female slaves in the aristocratic family were the prostitutes and women raised by the nobles. Not to mention the guests, even the local errand and the widow or something, you can also come and go if you like whichever one you like.

Since Liu Che ascended the throne, he has been on such a situation. Extremely disgusted.

He deeply believed that enslavement of his compatriots was not only immoral, but also extremely shameful and pathetic.

If you have the ability, you should go and enslave the Yidi foreigners.

Just like the white men of Omi in later generations.

Bullying compatriots, what kind of hero is he?

Therefore, after ascending the throne, Liu Che legislated and announced: Han slaves and maids are counted five, and Yidi slaves and maids are counted once, hoping to guide people to raise Yidi slaves and maids economically. And no more enslavement of fellow siblings.

It's a pity, but it's not an egg.

The landlords of the world are strong and noble, and they still do their own thing.

This made Liu Che grit his teeth with hatred, but there was no way at all.

This time, taking this opportunity, Liu Che decided. Stand up yourself and teach these scucums a good lesson.

Slaves around China were very cheap.

Take the sky-high price that is now being fired in Chang'an. Let's talk about a slave who can easily cost 100,000 yuan or more.

Judging from what Liu Che learned from Xu Jiu, he was in the Southwest Yi Kingdom. A trained slave can be bought with just a few silk horses and some bronzes. The cost is only a few thousand dollars, and even if the price of slaves is high now, it will be at most 10,000 yuan.

If you place an order at one time, you will order more, such as hundreds, and there are discounts.

In addition, Liu Che's two fathers-in-law, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, have mainly purchased slave labor from the Southwest Yi countries in the past two years.

The cheapest slave of the Dian Kingdom, a horse of silk cloth can buy one......

It's not too cheap, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, after having Liu Che as their backer, desperately introduced slaves from Southwest Yi as consumables, and as a result, profits continued to rise......

In just three years, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying opened three new mines, all of which were mined by slave workers in the southwest, desperately squeezing - anyway, they didn't feel distressed if they died.

And Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, these two big capitalists, after having Liu Che's endorsement, fully showed the southwest Yi countries: what is the urine nature of capitalists.

They fanned the flames everywhere among the powerful countries of Southwest Yi, such as Yelang, Dian and the Servant States.

I will tell the king of Yelang - the army of the country is ready to deal with your country, we are really worried about your country, as international friends, we recommend the strongest war weapon to your country, the only choice for defense expansion, the **** big killer - the Han army's 'standard' crossbow machine and halberd, spear and chain mail, the price is fair, the amount is preferential.

I turned around and ran to tell the king of servants - Yelang Kingdom bought our crossbow machine and halberd, your country should be careful......

As a result, the Yu Kingdom and the Yelang Kingdom bleed profusely, bought a bunch of weapons eliminated by the Han army, and then killed them in the dark.

In the end, in order to repay the loan for military purchases, the prisoners of war and the population that they had worked so hard to capture had to be compensated to these two guys.

This kind of drama, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying played many times in Southwest Yi.

But the countries of the southwest seemed to be unaware, and they were still easily fooled by them and jumped into the pit.

It's not that the kings of the southwest are stupid, but they have fallen into a vicious circle - if they don't buy the weapons of the Han Dynasty, they will probably be wiped out by the enemy.

In the past three years, among the southwestern Yi countries, there have been seven kingdoms or tribes that have been inherited for a hundred years or more have disappeared permanently.

Their people, the nobles, the kings, the priests, all became the slaves of others.

The only pity is that the southwestern Yi countries, even if you add the primitive tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, may have a total population of one or two million at most.

This made Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying really worried.

These two guys, therefore, have been sponsoring and encouraging adventurers who go to the Dian Kingdom to explore the path of poison.

It is hoped that the road to the body poison can be opened, so that the cheap body poison slaves can be obtained.

Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun, two semi-official capitalists, can provoke the southwestern Yi countries into endless melee and vicious circles.

If the princes of the Han family end......

Liu Che has no doubt that the Southwest Yi countries are likely to become history in more than ten years.

When the time comes, Liu Che will probably be able to return these 'orphans' to the warm embrace of their Chinese mother without bloodshed—to be reasonable, the southwest region, in the heyday of the Chu State and the Qin Dynasty, was once part of China.

At the very least, the Qin Dynasty once set up officials and stationed troops in the area.

The king of the Dian kingdom is even a descendant of the conqueror from the Chu state.

Now, it depends on whether the princes and nobles are willing to listen to Liu Che, the 'advice' of the Son of Heaven.

Liu Che felt that they should obey......

Liu Che said to Zhao Yu: "Qing go and tell you my original words to the ministers, just ......" (to be continued.) )

PS: I'm sorry, there is only this one today~ I have to get up early tomorrow to go to the hospital to get a CT report, and after ruling out the dizziness because of a lung infection, I may have to do brain CT and cervical spine CT.

Well, my dizziness hasn't gotten better~

Even my nose seems to be a little uncomfortable today because of the intracranial pressure...... I can't tell you clearly~