sweeping the world

Chapter 711 Tyranny like a tiger, this is it!

There are not a lot of slaves in the Han Dynasty now. Some private slaves cannot be counted. It is roughly estimated to be around 30 million, but the official slaves are as many as 260 million.

The composition of these 260 million slaves is very complicated. Most of the people who have been slaves for several years are those prisoners of war who surrendered during the recovery of the Central Plains by the Han army. Most of them are Qiang, Di and Zahu, with a total number of about 60.The remaining more than 200 million are the appendages of the Han army that wiped out Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. From the king to the common people of the Three Kingdoms, except for some women who were married by the Han family, all became slaves.

To be honest, women of working age from Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla were a big help to Liu Yan. The war caused the death of too many non-young people. The elderly and children were the first groups to suffer in the war. Women were among the most vulnerable groups in the war. Survival is not easy. For a long time in the Han Dynasty, the number of marriage-age men and women was more than five to one.Although there are more than [-] women of the right age in the Three Kingdoms, although the gap between men and women cannot be completely solved, it can at least allow many meritorious soldiers (singles) in the military to have wives who can pass on their incense.

There is still a large gap in the ratio of men to women in the Han Dynasty, and some are bachelors who cannot find a wife.Because the Han State attaches great importance to the relationship between military merit and title, families with women of the right age can not only engage in marriage...for example, if a girl from a certain family marries to that family, but that family must also have suitable women who can marry the man of the same family, they will look for People with titles are next to those who are in the standing army.

In some respects, which group women value... For example, modern people give priority to marrying civil servants, or they must have cars, houses, and savings, so men will prepare for that, and a kind of society is formed. trend.In the Han Dynasty, the trend of women has made people's desire to join the army infinitely increase, but it is too difficult to squeeze in.

"Whether I can be recruited as a county soldier is related to my life."

"Who isn't like that?"

For most people, after the establishment of the military field corps is fixed, it is very difficult to become a soldier. Most of the soldiers are from the current kings who have followed the war before the founding of the country. The height of the supplementary soldiers needs to be at least seven Feet (1.7 meters), I and my family members have no criminal record.

Being seven feet tall is not a problem at all for many Han Chinese...especially the northern Han Chinese.The average height in the north has always been higher than seven feet, and there are many strong men who are eight feet tall.As for criminal records, the government only looks at the records after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it doesn't really matter what they did before.

The biggest reason why it is difficult to join the field corps is that the standing army does not recruit directly from the civilian population at all, but selects the best from the large number of county and county soldiers.Therefore, if you want to become a member of the standing army, you have to be conscripted to become a county soldier, and then perform well after becoming a county soldier.

The so-called good performance is really not easy to define. Devotion to duty is just a foundation. Being able to become an affiliated army in a certain battle and gain something in that battle will greatly increase the chances of being able to join the standing army.

There are only 5000 standing armies in the country. Each standing army has 20 people. The number of people who can serve as professional soldiers is not even [-]. So how many people are there?

Men of the right age in the Han Dynasty had the opportunity to serve as county soldiers during their corvée service. The difference was that they served locally or went to other places.If it was in the pre-Qin or Han, the people would be afraid of going to other places to perform corvee service, especially military service, but in the current Han state, it is completely reversed. Everyone hopes to go to places farther away from home. Subsidies are one aspect. , the most important thing is that it is possible to be temporarily transferred to a certain battlefield.

"My eldest brother served in the military, but he went to the land of Jingchu."

People who heard that said it was a tragedy for a certain dear brother. The land of Jingchu is not a frontier, especially when it is engaged in large-scale land reclamation. If you go there, you will be a farmer.

But they had to think about it again. Soldiers of the standing army usually do not return to their hometowns after they retire.

To put it bluntly, after becoming a county soldier, at least there is land distribution, and having land means that you are not a proletarian.And in terms of marriage, having property is the basis. No parent in the world is willing to watch their daughter suffer with others, right?It’s not even the reason for suffering or not. It’s not about being rich. A man must at least be able to support himself and his wife and children, and he must be able to take care of his parents and even his wife’s parents. Otherwise, where do we start with a family? ?

Taking care of both parents is not nonsense. The contemporary society is not a one-child society. Hasn’t it gone through wars?Most of the men and women of the right age for marriage are single seedlings, and even behind a single seedling there are more than one family waiting for retirement, not only the pressure on the man, but the pressure on both men and women is as heavy as Mount Tai. They cannot afford to marry (marry) or get sick , Can't afford to die... Thought you were joking?
"Difficult! Too difficult!"

The sighing man looked very old, but Sanshi was only 24 years old. Not only did he look old, he was also thin. His hair was tied up with a tree branch instead of a turban.

The Han State, which had just completed the expulsion of the Huru, had not paid much attention to domestic construction before. Generally speaking, its citizens were starving to death but not getting rich.

Ordinary people do not have their own land. They will rent it from the government. They can keep [-]% of the output and the rest will be owned by the government.If they are more diligent, they can still do some odd jobs in summer and winter, because they are illiterate and unskilled, and because they are part-time workers, the salary is really not that good.

The tax of 60.00% certainly seems high, but it is by no means the most excessive. For example, at the end of the Han Dynasty, various princes taxed three and two, and by the time the Hulu ruled the Central Plains, the Han people did not even have their own property, especially since then. Especially during the rule of the Jie nationality.During the period when the Jie people ruled the Central Plains, the law clearly stated that Hu people were not guilty of robbing Han people.

In the Qin Empire, the tax was one for ten, and in the Western Han Dynasty, after Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, the tax was one for thirty.

After the death of the first emperor of the Qin Empire, including the reign of the first emperor, not to mention the fact that the corvee system was in chaos. In addition to ten taxes and one tax, there were many exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, especially during the reign of Hu Hai.

From the Western Han Dynasty to the period of Emperor Xiaojing of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the thirty taxes, there were also exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, especially when Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty was in chaos.The so-called "Eternal Han Dynasty will always have thirty taxes and one tax" is just a general direction in which the motherland's policy remains unchanged.

In the state of Han, those who did not have their own land had to pay [-]% of the tax on renting official land, but there were no exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes.This is the most important point for ordinary people. Otherwise, what is the tax amount set by the state, and the "national tax" is changed to collect money, even if Liu Yan sets a hundred taxes, it will be useless.

"It's enough to have food and clothing, and clothes for the body."

Sanshi was not talking about how wonderful his life was. What he meant by "lu" was actually the coarse grains he exchanged for after farming yielded good results. He had enough clothes to wear. Compared with the misery under the rule of the Hulu before the establishment of the Han Dynasty, it was already better. Feel satisfied.

Nowadays, the main crops in the north are millet and wheat. Millet is the main refined grain, and wheat is the second-class grain.Millet is actually a type of millet, which appears yellow after shelling.Wheat is a kind of post-season replanting grain after the millet harvest, and is used as a secondary grain of various colors with bean sprouts.There was no idea of ​​processing and grinding wheat before, so wheat didn't taste very good. It existed as a coarse grain. The military simply mixed it with beans and fed it to war horses.

Many people who don't know why, when they heard that the troops of the Western Han and Eastern Han were feeding the horses with wheat, they instantly felt that it was a waste, but they didn't know that people at that time were really not used to eating wheat.Little did they know that wheat became the staple food only after the idea of ​​processing and milling came into being.Then came the emergence of wheat flour grinding, which is why northerners mainly eat pasta.

The Zhuxia civilization had the technology of grinding flour as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was used to grind all kinds of beans. Later in the Western Han Dynasty, tofu was made from grinding bean flour, but they really didn't want to grind anything else.

Naturally, the Han Dynasty now had the idea of ​​grinding wheat into flour, and it was Liu Yan who reminded him that wheat has long been no longer a coarse grain due to the emergence of flour milling. On the contrary, it became a staple food with the emergence of pasta and steamed buns, but it will be a while. The thinking of the people still cannot be changed. People in the north mainly grow wheat, but they still call it coarse grains.

Those who participated in the construction of Chang'an, whether they were from the corvee or employed, all had at least clothing to cover their bodies, and most of them wore uniforms issued by the government repeatedly.The reason why the government repeatedly distributes clothes is not because of the troubles left by the Hulu when they ruled the Central Plains. At that time, I will not mention what happened to the Hu people. The vast majority of Han people did not even have a piece of clothing. Crazy, after the productivity is completely destroyed, if you are not rich, you really can't afford cloth.

The clothing issued by the government is a kind of 襜褕 with a cross-collared right lapel and matching trousers.The so-called 襜褕 is actually a single upper body garment that is as long as a robe. The so-called 襜褕 is just a style, and there are many materials.

Liu Yan took the title of the country as "Han", and he also removed the color of Wei and Jin in terms of clothing, that is, he no longer had the loose and loose characteristics of Wei and Jin, and returned to the relatively tight system of the pre-Han period.Even if the folks are going to be "Jinhua", the army is even undergoing comprehensive reforms, so there are differences between combat uniforms, uniforms, and casual clothes. This is also considered to be an aspect of giving preferential treatment to the military.

The public has repeatedly found that the clothes put by the hair are all linen materials no matter what style they are in. They are definitely not beautiful, but they are of good quality.In addition to the 襜褕 style, there is also a deep clothing style, and then there is the Ru style. Naturally, different styles are worn in different seasons.

Sanshi got tired of swinging the shovel, straightened his waist and hammered again. He was stunned when he saw an oxen pulling a cart on the road in the distance, walking slowly on the road.

There was no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty. Nobles (referring to those with titles) could buy horses for a small amount of money, but horses were too expensive and difficult to buy. Horses were basically the first choice for pulling carts. It was hard to see anyone choosing oxen to pull carts.

New Chang'an is a large construction site, which is closer to the southeast than old Chang'an. If you enter from the Guandong, whether you go through Tongguan, Lantian Pass, or Gaoguan, you need to pass through the large construction site of New Chang'an.

Because it is a large construction site, it will look messy no matter what, and then the excavated soil needs to be transported out, and there are people coming and going. Too slow to block a string of cars behind.

The ox pulling the cart looked like a scalper. There was a strong middle-aged man holding a whip and sitting in the driving position. The back of the cart was ventilated on all sides, and two elders with white hair and beard could be seen.

"It consumes a lot of people's power, which is really rare!"

"The reappearance of Qin and Han!"

The two old men on the bullock cart looked and said, as if they had seen the greatest tragedy in the world, and their faces were full of unbearable expressions.

Zhang Gan is dressed in white clothes, matching his white hair and beard, and looks very dusty.

Li Mao was dressed in light green clothes. Although he maintained a posture of sitting upright, his demeanor looked lazy.

The two came from the deep mountains (Taihang Mountains) of Leping County.According to their claims, they are from the mountain sect and do not belong to the same lineage.One of them talked about wasting people's energy, and the other talked about the reappearance of Qin and Han Dynasties. They only had to make it clear that Liu Yan was also doing cruel things.

There have been quite a few so-called "mountain gates" in the past dynasties, which are nothing more than small groups hiding in a certain place and usually having their own system of doctrines.

The "mountain gate" is always accompanied by hermits, but the hermits are not "hidden" at all. After the Southern and Northern Dynasties, being a hermit became a means of pretending to be coercive, such as Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng. , Eternity is like a long night", it seems that the earth will explode if the two great powers are not born, and then their original intention of doing things is very good, but in the end they blow up the imperial court at that time.

"Born to be disobedient to nuns, the eternity is like a long night" comes from Volume 93 of Zhu Xi's "Zhu Zi Yu Lei". This brother is not actually awesome. Zhang Zai, who preceded Zhu Xi, said: "Establish a heart for the heaven and earth, and establish a destiny for the people. "Continue the unique knowledge for the past saints and create peace for all generations" is the real awesomeness, and it has become a famous saying that travelers who travel through time will definitely shout at the top of their lungs.

"parking!"

The driver quickly tightened the reins, jumped down first and then moved the pier, and helped the two elders get off the car one after another.

Although they were walking slowly before, at least they were still moving forward. When they stopped, the cars behind them had to stop, and the group of soldiers who were already frowning at them couldn't stand it at all.

"Who are you, who don't know that parking must give way?"

Li Mao looked at the shouting Han army like an ant. He didn't know how to distinguish official titles from titles by looking at the badges.

Zhang Gan smiled at the Han army with a friendly face, and said peacefully to the driver: "Let's get out of the way."

The driver saluted Zhang Gan respectfully, but he hummed coldly at the Han army before going to drive the cattle and pull the cart away from the road.

A soldier of the Han army was a little annoyed: "Who is this?"

The leader of the team saw that the old man was a bit aggressive, but after thinking about it, he didn't break the law. The Han Dynasty has always followed the law and had no choice but to do it. He said calmly: "These two are reasonable (sensible)."

In other words... Because of Liu Yan's recruitment order, intellectuals who came from all directions were brought to justice for pretending to be too much?

(End of this chapter)