The prohibition of human trafficking is a terrible thing in the eyes of the people of Jianchang, especially women, if there is no son, the ownership of the widow will fall into the hands of the clan, and then the clan will sell her to passing traders is completely legal; As for parents selling their children, and masters selling their slaves, it is even more justified. Therefore, after hearing He Daoning's words, Jianchang people showed suspicion on their faces, which not only violated customary law, but even violated morality.

"Of course, a person with merit and fame can't be sold, just like a scholar who has passed the examination, can his parents still sell him? Now the Sichuan people have the fame of being the same as Xiucai, like Xiucai or as good as Xiucai. He Daoning knew why Feng Shuangli didn't believe it. He would have thought the law was ridiculous before enforcing Deng's plan, but the ban on human trafficking was not much of a barrier around Chengdu. The ownership of all captives and immigrants belonged to Deng Ming according to traditional customs, and since the governor of Sichuan had firmly renounced his rights, there was no need for others to object.

As for the auxiliary soldiers obtained from Liu Yao, Yang Youcai and other Qingcheng factions, Deng Ming's consistent method was to redeem them, and it was the same when he traded with Jianchang later; Beginning two years ago, if Yuan Zongdi's soldiers or auxiliaries fled to Chengdu, the imperial government would no longer repatriate them, but would also compensate them - in this regard, He Daoning's method was a kind of ransom mixed with the "resistance policy": as long as a Wanxian person fled to the border of Xuzhou, the imperial government would compensate Yuan Zongdi with 30 stone of grain, buy their right to hunt this person from Wanxian, and then let the fugitive slave return the ransom fee in installments to gain the fame of Tong Xiucai; And as long as they did not flee into the territory of Xuzhou, even if they were only one step away, they would be caught and severely punished by the army of Wanxian County in front of the imperial sentinels, and the imperial soldiers would definitely not help. The area between Wanxian and Xuzhou was a gray area where Yuan Zongdi's subordinates could hunt down deserters without interference.

The ransom eased the conflict between the fugitives to Wanxian and the imperial government, and the imperial government and the Yuan Council recognized Yuan Zongdi's ownership of Wanxian's military tuntunding through this decree, and also helped Wanxian to establish a post on the border of Xuzhou. But if a military slave can hide on a boat to escape Yuan Zongdi's inspection, avoid the pursuit of his army, and successfully sneak into the territory of Xuzhou, it is obviously a dereliction of duty by Yuan Jun, and Xichuan does not bear the main responsibility.

Therefore, the biggest difficulty is still on the children, and this bill has been discussed many times in the House of Representatives, because most of the parliamentarians feel that this is a serious violation of the property rights of parents, which makes all the law-abiding citizens who have children and property very dissatisfied.

"A decree prohibiting the sale of children and infant drowning in the empire may be passed in two years, and this year it may begin to be implemented in the capital." He Daoning said to the people in Jianchang. Finally, the principle of the law was redemption, and the trial draft stipulated that every child born in Chengdu Province in the future, whether male or female, would be compensated by the imperial government to his parents, indicating a one-time purchase of partial ownership of the person, and military service was part of the repayment. Since the Imperial Government became a shareholder in the baby, of course all the sale of the person or the injury to the person infringed on the rights and interests of the Government and constituted a crime for breach of contract.

Although it sounds incredible, through He Daoning's explanation, Feng Shuangli also realized that the imperial government was trying to eliminate all personal dependency - even children were not tolerant of their parents' dependence, how could they tolerate the relationship between the lord and the family? It sounds like this is also a continuation of Deng Ming's ban on renting and tenant relations, where everyone's chain of loyalty is directly linked to the state, not to a person.

Since this is the case, Feng Shuangli also pondered selling the auxiliaries to the Imperial Diet and the government, so as to save the cost of toasting and not eating and drinking. It's just that the number of Feng Shuangli's private servants is very huge, for example, in the first agreement signed by Deng Ming and Feng Shuangli, 20,000 Jianchang Tunding were assigned to Feng Shuangli, although some of them were distributed by Feng Shuangli to his subordinates, but he also obtained some new military households, so he now has more than 13,000 men, plus their families, there are tens of thousands.

"Although it hasn't been counted yet, there will be no less than 20,000 men and strong women, right? If it is 5,000 yuan per person, 100 million yuan needs to be paid to King Qingyang. He Daoning is not responsible for the specific negotiation and compensation work, but he is very clear about the legal provisions, so he can give Feng Shuangli a consultation: "In addition, there are also the land, ponds, mines, and weapon workshops of the military tun, whether these land courts will mind the King of Qingyang to keep them, and those workshops, the King of Qingyang is willing to continue to operate or sell them at will." It's just that if you choose to run a business, then you must hire workers and not use slave labor, and it is illegal to enslave Tongxiu - of course, these laws are temporary because the emperor hunted in the south and the Ming law became invalid. ”

Although theoretically speaking, after Yongli returned to China, Feng Shuangli could legally own a house slave, but Feng Shuangli did not intend to press the treasure on it. First of all, he didn't think that Yongli's return to China would revive the Great Ming Law, and if the Great Ming Law was revived, then the legitimacy of the agreement between him and Deng Ming to divide the auxiliary troops would also become a problem.

"I'm afraid it's enough to let the courtyard come up with so much money at once, but the academy may be willing to use Jianchang's land to compensate the king." He Daoning also had the same problem, he also had a lot of military slaves, and he had to give up Jianchang's ruling power and judicial power this time, and these councils would have to compensate him - Feng Shuangli was theoretically the leader of the generals of the Xiying Qin and Shu systems who moved to Xiangyang, and if they transferred the ruling and judicial power of that territory to the imperial government in the future, if Feng Shuangli still had influence, they could also get a part of the compensation, just like He Zhen's subordinates could also get a part of the compensation, instead of letting He Daoning monopolize the entire governance of Jianchang.

In the negotiations between He Daoning and the Yuanhui, the two sides preliminarily agreed to privately own Jianchang's land and compensate He Daoning and He Zhen's subordinates.

"In addition to Juntun, there are many undeveloped uninhabited areas, and there may be gold and silver on the mountains, but no one is digging now, and there may not be any manpower to mine them in the future. The institute is willing to compensate us for the ownerless mountains and lakes in Xingdusi, Sichuan, at a low price, which is our private land. He Daoning replied. Of course, in these lands, he and his father's subordinates lost forever the right to enforce family law.

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At the end of July, Deng Ming arrived in Xuzhou.

"Guogong came back alive?" After seeing the admiral of the Fuqing Ming Army, Yuan Xiang, the prefect of Xuzhou, joked with a smile: "Did you not get up from a nap when you were passing by Fengjie?" ”

"Why didn't you get up?" Deng Ming replied with a wry smile: "The body of the Inspector is getting tougher and stronger, and the crutch placed on the side of the desk this time, how do I look like the court staff used by the Jinyi Guard, when it touches the blue bricks on the ground, it must be filled with mercury!" Fortunately, I had already prepared, wearing two layers of heavy armor to enter the Kuizhou capital city, and I also wore an iron mask, and only my eyes were exposed. The overseer walked around me twice while scolding with a cane, and finally reluctantly told me to do what I wanted. ”

"Did Guogong meet General Di and them?" Not long ago, Jianchang's Xiying passed through Xuzhou by boat, singing in the direction of Kuimen, preparing to go to the Hanshui Valley to earn glory and wealth for himself.

"Yes." Deng Ming nodded. He not only had a party with the generals of Jianchang, but also received a document from Chengdu about the redemption of the Sichuan Xingdu Division from the He Daoning Group. The more than 100,000 men and women owned by the Sichuan Xingdu Division will become ordinary people, and the He Daoning group will also give up all judicial and administrative powers in the Sichuan Xingdu Division, and the imperial government will need to pay billions of ransom fees.

"He Daoning, this kid, his money can't be spent in ten lifetimes." Deng Ming commented. Because it could not pay so much money, the institute would take out a large area of land to compensate the He Daoning group, among which He Daoning himself was given a large area of mountains and forests around Jianchang, which Deng Ming estimated would be rich in mineral resources - some of the mountains almost certainly had gold mines, that is, because Sichuan was now short of manpower, so there was no energy to explore and mine.

Yuan Xiang smiled slightly when he heard this, after hearing about the redemption agreement, he was actually quite envious of He Daoning. Yuan Zongdi has sons, although they are still very young, but the heir of the Wanxian Group will definitely not be able to take Yuan Xiang's turn, so even if the imperial government redeems Yuan Zongdi's political power in the future, Yuan Xiang will not be able to share much.

"It's just too expensive," this is the first time that the imperial government has redeemed all the political power of an allied warlord group, although Deng Ming feels that the payment is too amazing, but he also knows that everything is difficult at the beginning, and it will not be easy to get things done this time, so he didn't worry about the price but agreed happily: "I hope I can save some in the future." ”

"It's just a provincial province, I'm afraid it's ......" After hearing Deng Ming's emotion, Yuan Xiang frowned and didn't finish his words.

Now, if Yuan Zongdi is willing to give up his independence, Xuzhou can also eat the Wanxian Group one bite at a time with its own strength, and turn the Yuan Zongdi Group into a group of rich people in a few years. If you concentrate the forces of the whole Sichuan and spend ten years of work, you can probably use this model to digest all the warlords in Kuidong as part of the empire.

However, if Deng Ming planned to extend the laws of the empire to every corner of his ruling area, for example, Deng Ming planned to implement the exact same laws in the two lakes as in Sichuan after the occupation of Huguang, the price to be paid would be unimaginable. However, the benefits of clearing the feudal privileges in the territory are also obvious, and the mobilization power of Xuzhou may even be higher than that of the southeastern province. For example, a prefect under Zhao Guozuo would be anxious about how to mobilize thousands of green battalions, and once they were annihilated, it would be difficult to rebuild them for months - this level of military mobilization would be a piece of cake for Yuan Xiang.

"One day, the hospital will no longer need to spend money to redeem it, and before that, I will naturally do what I can." After hearing Yuan Xiang talk about his worries, Deng Ming comforted the other party.

Until the day when most intellectuals thought that human trafficking and clan law were unreasonable, there was no need to expect the abolition of all feudal power by a single order, it would be just a piece of waste paper. If you can get a huge amount of wealth from overseas, then you can use it to redeem the rights of your compatriots and speed up the process of modernization, otherwise you can only slowly popularize national education -- if you take the latter path, Deng Ming doubts that he will not see that day.

"Even if you can't cooperate with the British to rob the Spaniards of gold and silver, the day will come when you don't have to spend money. But then we have to think carefully about how to prevent a large-scale civil war from breaking out between the two factions of the country before that day finally comes. This worry flashed in Deng Ming's heart.