sweeping the world

Chapter 988

"Your Majesty, the suggestion I made is serious." Ran Min looked embarrassed. It was difficult to see such an expression from him: "It's 300 million, not 130 million. Those are still slaves with records, but there are no records. How many slaves are there?"

Everyone is wondering whether Ran Min is sick. He just wants to provoke a group of people by himself. Recently, he even proposed to castrate all male slaves on the list.

From the moment the Han Empire was established, Liu Yanming secretly opposed castration many times. The reason he gave was not what the saints said, but because he lamented that the number of Han people was too small to artificially create children who could not be inherited. people with defects.

The current Han Empire is also the first dynasty in which the royal family does not use eunuchs since Zhuxia established a country.At this point, even those who were most hostile to the existence of the Han Empire would all praise Liu Yan for finally doing something humane.

Since Zhuxia entered the stage of kingship, eunuchs did not know when they began to exist, but they existed along with history.

The eunuchs appeared because the king was afraid that his head would turn green. But in fact, if someone was brave enough to make the king's head turn green, it was not just the ministers in the palace who could do it.

Miyagi always needs someone to guard it, right?Castrated eunuchs can serve the seclusion life, but are all the samurai who defend the palace also castrated?

There is a name called hormone in science.And male hormones are not just aphrodisiacs. In fact, men are naturally stronger than women. There are also some differences between men and women in terms of bones. One of the secrets lies in hormones.

How can anyone who is not brave and good at fighting be chosen to be a member of the king's last line of defense?Once there is a defect in the body, or the defect of missing a bird in the crotch, it really has nothing to do with bravery.

Defending Miyagi has always been the priority selection of warriors.In modern times, muscular men are called walking hormones and can better attract women.So in any era (except for the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty), women should prefer strong men.

The king is afraid that the top of his head is green, because the king has too many women alone, and he should understand that no matter what he can't satisfy them, he is naturally afraid.

Liu Yan comes from modern times, and he knows very well that if a woman wants to plant a piece of grass on her man's head, she will find an opportunity no matter what.

For ordinary couples, the only thing that can restrain the two parties from cheating is that they can satisfy each other, otherwise only feelings are left.

The feudal dynasty restrained the women in the harem from planting grass on the king's head because of the deterrence of the royal power.

Liu Yan didn't know if he gave Ran Min such confidence because he didn't use eunuchs.

There are currently more than 300 million recorded slaves in the Han Empire, of which more than 50 million are men, and most of the remaining women are beyond the appropriate childbearing age.In terms of age, less than 14 are male and female slaves under the age of 1, and more than two million are male and female slaves over 35 years old.

When plundering the population, the way the army calculates military merit based on the population of captives is not a simple one-size-fits-all method, but there are still standardized rules and regulations.

For example, young and beautiful women are the highest when calculating military merit, followed by ordinary-looking women who are suitable for childbearing, and then young and strong men.

When the civilian slave hunting team carried out plundering, although they could not gain military merit for catching slaves, the reason is actually the same when it comes to what kind of population is more valuable.

The Han Empire began to catch slaves in the sixth year of Yuanshuo. The first country to suffer was Baekje, and the three countries on the peninsula were flattened. Most of their population of more than 300 million became slaves, and nearly 20 school-age women It was rewarded to the meritorious soldiers in the army.

The sixth year of Yuanshuo was just a harvest period, and it was the 11th year of Yuanshuo that really entered the peak period of slave hunting.

At that time, the Han army opened up the Indochina Peninsula, and the army captured the wild tribes and continued to fight, and the civilian slave teams also poured in. In just three years, the Han people plundered nearly 380 million people from the Indochina Peninsula. Nearly 40 women of the right age were either taken as concubines by lieutenant officers and men, or entered the folk and became the wives of the common people.

From the 11th to the 12th year of Yuanshuo, another concentration of slave capture was on many islands in Southeast Asia, and about 18 slaves were captured successively.

In addition to the slaves of various ethnic groups captured during the restoration of the Central Plains, the number of slaves officially recorded by the Han Empire reached 12 million by the 900th year of Yuanshuo.

Beginning in the 13th year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire ushered in a peak period of sudden increase in slaves due to the destruction of the Gupta Empire. Only in the beginning of the 14th year of Yuanshuo did the number of slaves exceed 300 million.

If we count the interracial women who became the wives and concubines of Han men, the number can increase by about 200 million.

The ones that are officially recorded are those. No one doubts that private slaves will be hidden among the people. It should be said that there must be unregistered slaves, but no one is sure how many there are.

"There is one or two million." Seeing Liu Yan silently looking at the city in the distance, Ran Min said anxiously, "That's 200 million. At the beginning, the Jin room only accommodated more than 500, less than 20. The number of Zhuhu increased to more than 20 million in one year. It is impossible for ministers not to use slaves, but there are more than [-] million slaves now, how many will there be in [-] years?"

It's not that Liu Yan can't agree to the castration of slaves proposed by Ran Min, on the contrary, he is very interested in this.

There is a very critical issue. In addition to official slaves, slaves rewarded for military merit, including privately owned slaves, are already personal property.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Han Empire, Liu Yan put forward the rule of "private property is sacred and inviolable" very clearly, and it was written in the table when proclaiming the emperor and burning watches to sacrifice to heaven.

Written in the burning table to worship the sky, it has basically become part of a kind of "ancestral family law". Let alone burning the table to worship the sky when he proclaimed the emperor, it means that unless the old Liu family loses the country, no one would dare Revising the "private property sacred and inviolable" rule is not only disrespectful to the "Taizu", but also a major event that attempts to shake the foundation of the country.

Now Ran Min proposes to castrate the male slaves. Of course, the group of Liu Yan who belong to the official slaves can be the masters, but the private slaves can only be advocated.

Han people are not unfamiliar with holding slaves at all.

From ancient times until the Western Jin Dynasty moved to the south, or until the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished, Zhu Xia had always had the habit of raising slaves.

If there is any difference, it is that Liu Yan's order prohibits the keeping of Han people as slaves, but it is also forcibly promulgated and enforced by conquering the whole country while it is still conquering the world.

After Liu Yan emphasized that "private property is sacred and inviolable", even if some people still have Han Chinese slaves in their homes, the government can no longer use coercion, and can only choose other methods, such as persuasion.It is of course best if the persuasion is effective, and if it does not work, don't blame the government for being "stuck" or targeting some things.

The matter proposed by Ran Min is different. It is not related to the interests of a very small number of people, but will infringe on the interests of the vast majority of people.

What does a family without slaves look like in the Han Empire now?It is those whose families have no men who have served in the military, and who do not have titles as the basis for owning slaves, so they do not own slaves.

It is not excluded that some people do not have titles, but there are people who secretly raise slaves.This is because the local officials are indulgent, but they absolutely dare not go too far.

In the group of slaves in the Han Empire, the title of duke was only the most basic, and the higher the title, the more slaves they owned.They will understand the truth that their slaves are also slaves when they give birth to children. According to established customs, children born to slaves are naturally their own property.

Although it is said that only a very small number of slaves can obtain the right to mate, but there are always some, right?
Furthermore, there is no lack of smart people doing things that they think can be profitable. For example, women who are all black and not slipping away are not expensive. If you buy one or a few within the scope of your permission, will the rest of the male slaves be as black as black? Lost women to mate to produce offspring?
"Someone is already doing that." Ran Min just opened the map gun: "Those scum in the south, why don't they think about decades ago, for those petty profits, desperately indulging slaves to give birth."

Liu Yan knew that something like that would happen, but he really didn't expect it to come so early.

"Is it black?" Liu Yan almost couldn't help laughing out loud, but he really couldn't hold back later, he laughed for a while and said, "They bought black women specially as reproductive tools?"

"It's not just a simple reproductive tool." Ran Min said angrily: "They found that black women are very capable of work, and they can give birth, making the market extremely hungry for black women."

That means...the price of dark-skinned female slaves will rise?Maybe it will still rise exponentially.After all, Ran Min has already said that dark-skinned women are no worse than men at work, even five times better than Nanyang monkeys, three times better than Ah San, and twice as good as Zhu Hu.

Liu Yan suddenly understood one thing.He said how from last year to this year, the number of ships ordered by various parties to shipyards increased rapidly. It turned out that it was not only because of the prosperity of maritime trade, but also because they saw the new slave hunting interests and wanted to go to Africa to catch slaves.

Ninety percent of the shipyards that can build ocean-going ships are owned by the state. If the data has changed significantly, someone will definitely report to Liu Yan.

Shaofu is crazy about the surge in orders. The profit of building an ocean-going ship is basically more than eight times the cost, which is equivalent to selling one and rebuilding seven with the profit earned.

At the beginning, Zhang Shi asked for ten more docks, but within two months he asked for thirty more docks, which shows how hungry the market is for ocean-going ships.

At the same time, private applications for civil shipbuilding licenses have increased by a percentage, reaching [-]%.

Building a ship is not an easy task, especially building a large ship, even a large ship that can go to sea, is even more difficult. It cannot be built with money alone, but also with the technology.

Shaofu sells shipbuilding technology to the people, and the price varies according to the class of the ship.Taking the technical price of the smallest ocean-going ship as a conclusion, the buyout is [-] gold coins, and the share is a fee of [-] gold coins for each transaction.The selling price of the smallest ocean-going ship was two thousand gold coins before.So far, it has skyrocketed to [-] gold coins, and it may not be possible to buy it if you have money.

Applying for a shipbuilding license and buying out Shaofu at the same time, there were only three in Yuanshuo 13 years ago.From the 13th year of Yuanshuo to the 14th year of Yuanshuo, the number suddenly increased to seventeen.Not in the buyout mode, but in the rake mode, the number has also soared to 76 in two years.

These "homes" refer to the quantity, and more and more financing in the form of joint financing in the later stage, and even the phenomenon of hundreds of families financing together, is enough to show that it is a public opinion that shipbuilding and sales can make money.

Liu Yan thought of something and shivered, and said, "Castration, must be castrated."

This time Ran Min was overjoyed, but he heard Liu Yan continue talking.

"A black man, that's a black man!" Liu Yan said very seriously, "Except for that religion that hasn't yet appeared, anyone in the world who uses wombs to achieve the goal of war and fails to achieve the goal is a black man!"

"Ah?" Ran Min was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Your Majesty said that only black people are castrated?"

"The black slave trade has just begun. Even if there are black slaves in the country, the number is very small." Liu Yan said logically: "There are not many Han people who own black slaves, so it will not cause too much trouble."

"What about the rest of the slaves?" Ran Min said sadly: "No one else saw it, but His Majesty should have seen it. Indulging the slaves is a special life, and we fought bloody battles... If we don't keep them all, one day we will be fighting for them. "

Of course Liu Yan knew, he knew better than anyone else.

The number one power in modern times is not just hard work and hard work. I don’t know how many generations have climbed the mold, and how much thought has been spent on intrigues and tricks. As a result, all efforts must become efforts for black people.

"I know, but I know better..." Liu Yan patted Ran Min on the shoulder, and said sullenly, "Yong Zeng, have you ever thought about the price of being too direct?"

Ran Min's first reaction was to roar: "How dare they rebel!?"

"Rebellion? There may be some rebellions, but I believe that there are more people who want to live." Liu Yan looked at Ran Min quietly, and chose to be straightforward: "Of course the resolution can be passed, but Yong Zeng will also make enemies of the world. .”

"So that's what His Majesty said?" Ran Min said nonchalantly, "If I leave my name through the ages with this, I'm truly honored!"

Liu Yan knew that Ran Min would not be afraid.but!He has already changed Ran Min's fate. Although Ran Min's historical evaluation is still mixed, at least he was not finally killed by the Hulu in despair.

If possible, Liu Yan still very much hopes that Ran Min can have a good reputation and good results.

Ran Min said impassionedly again: "For the sake of future generations, I am willing to bear the hostility of those scum!"

(End of this chapter)