Forced labor, also known as forced labor in the Han Dynasty, was a form of exploitation in which the ruling class forced the ruled to labor without compensation.

In the Han Dynasty, there were many different types of conscription.

Moreover, there are quite perfect and systematic systems, regulations, and laws among the various types of conscription, which ensure the smooth operation of the entire system.

Generally speaking, almost all government-led construction projects and public welfare projects such as building bridges and roads, repairing city defenses, etc., are requisitioned and forced to perform high-intensity labor without compensation with whips and knives.

Unlike later generations, the common people of the Han Dynasty, even the landlord class, had to serve!

Under the policy of uniting all households, no one can escape the clutches of the government.

According to the Han law, even the son of the prime minister must serve the corresponding conscription!

So the question is, how did the landlords, wealthy merchants, and officials escape forced labor?

Since the crossing, Liu Che has been very interested in this problem, and in his previous life, when he was on the throne of the King of Hejian, he had already figured out this problem.

In the Han Dynasty, although the law stipulated that everyone except nobles and officials had to serve.

But, as a feudal dynasty, hierarchy is naturally the most important order.

In the Han law, people of different ranks are required to perform completely different types of servitude.

For example, according to the Han law, those below the doctor must serve heavy and arduous teleportation battles.

The so-called transportation is the transportation of food and materials, and usually, such conscription is a long distance, often hundreds or even thousands of miles away, and it is extremely difficult.

Even if you have the title of doctor or above, you still have to do some miscellaneous work in the local area to repair roads, bridges and channels.

Only three types of people are exempt from military service.

The first is the officials and eunuchs above the doctor's level.

The second is the aristocracy above the rank of public doctor.

The third is the person who meets the conditions for exemption from the elderly, and the underage men and women who have not registered.

Obviously. These three conditions are very difficult for the landlords and the wealthy merchant class to meet.

How, then, did the landlord class and the merchants escape?

The answer is simple. They have the money and can pay someone to serve on their behalf.

In the Han Dynasty, this type of service was called practice.

According to Liu Che's understanding, among the people, due to the different types of conscription, the price of practicing is also different, and it is relatively easy to conscription. The time is relatively short, generally 2,000 yuan a month.

And the heavy and arduous conscription such as garrisoning, building the Great Wall, and military service is 300 yuan a day.

But this money. Whether the people who serve in place can get it in their hands and how much they can get, then only God knows!

For example, the landlord class sent his tenant farmers to serve him. If you don't go, you won't rent the land to the other party. Is there room for opposition from his tenant farmers?

For example, if a big businessman buys a bankrupt peasant as a slave and asks him to serve in his place if he doesn't like him, does the peasant have the right to protest?

In fact, the landlords and merchants used various means to pass on their supposed servitude to the lower classes.

And these people are ignorant and have no right to resist at all.

Fortunately. Han Luzhong still gave these farmers a chance to breathe and recuperate.

That's just desperate to have children!

According to the provisions of the Chinese law, anyone. As long as five children have been born, and all of them have been registered as the first master or the woman has reached the age of 12 (the legal age for marriage stipulated by the Han family), then the owner of the household can enjoy a privilege called 'Wan Lao', and Wan Lao and his immediate family can enjoy the preferential treatment of half of all forced labor.

Even with such a regulation, the heavy burden on the people at the bottom often weighs them down.

Guanzhong is relatively good, the Han court is very attentive to the operation of Guanzhong, and it will not increase the burden on the people.

But as soon as the letter came out of Guguan, the vast Kanto counties and feudal states, and the people at the bottom really lived like cattle and sheep all year round.

Only those who are fortunate enough to survive to avoid old age can rest and catch their breath.

If he can live to be 80 years old, become an elder in the village, and serve as one of the three elders, he may be able to give his descendants a chance to rise and become a landlord.

In addition, the upward channel of the people at the bottom is almost cut off.

If you want to climb up, there are almost no other means than war.

And this is where Liu Che is worried.

As a traverser, Liu Che knows very well that when a ruling class is not replenished with fresh blood, then the ruling class will inevitably fall into corruption and degeneration, and if the upward channel at the bottom is blocked, then the anger at the bottom will become greater and greater, and when it accumulates to a certain amount, a revolution will inevitably break out, and it is also a peasant uprising in ancient China.

Now, although it is still very early to talk about the decline and demise of the Han Dynasty.

But the corruption and degeneration of the ruling class is already evident.

The two or three hundred Chehou who were sealed at the beginning of the Han Dynasty and the first emperor were deprived of the feudal state due to various reasons such as rebellion and extinction, and the vast majority of the descendants of the other Che Marquis have been corrupted.

Most aristocrats don't even have the ability to pass the minimum level.

This is what the ancients called 'meat eaters despised', and later generations said 'the noble are the most stupid'.

Liu Che knew very well that if the ruling class completely lost its vitality, the country, the regime, would have come to its end.

And this is unacceptable to Liu Che.

Therefore, Liu Che knew very well what he would do to change this qiē after becoming emperor.

The privileges of the landlord class and the wealthy, Liu Che certainly did not intend to ban and suppress them.

In fact, privilege is the source of motivation for progress within a country.

For example, the Qin Dynasty relied on the military merit lord name field house system to sweep the six countries, annex the world, and conquer almost all the known world.

The fundamental source and driving force of the Qin army is privilege.

Even if the earth in the future generations is the driving force that inspires the people to struggle and work hard, isn't it that if I have money and power, I can have as many beautiful women as I want, and eat whatever I want?

There is no fairness and justice in this world.

Liu Che felt that even in the era of GCZY, the legendary ideal society, privileges would not disappear, but they would exist in human society in a more subtle and subtle way.

What Liu Che wants to do is to try his best to create an environment for the people to counterattack.

Just like the Qin Dynasty, a nobody can climb to the top of the pyramid of the ruling class.

Just like Europa in the Age of Discovery, even if he was just a serf, as long as he was brave enough, he could climb to the upper class, sleep with the daughter of a nobleman, and marry a celebrity lady.

And this is the foundation of Qin's strength and the source of white domination of the world in later generations.

Therefore, when the Qin State lost such an environment, the Qin State quickly perished.

The reason why the white man who came after was able to dominate the earth for nearly 300 years was that it had been reforming itself and unleashing all kinds of policies that were beneficial to its own internal interests.

And Liu Che is a Westerner who wants to learn from future generations. (To be continued......)

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