sweeping the world

Chapter 989 Is Already Gentle
No matter how the situation has been changed, some people seem to be doomed, and they will still be famous in history in various ways.

In the original history, Ran Min raised his army because Shi Hu promised to be the crown prince but then backed down. Many of Shi Hu's sons attacked and killed each other, which gave Ran Min a chance to stand on his own.Regardless of the reason why Ran Min embarked on the road of resistance, it was true that he sheltered a considerable number of his fellow clansmen in the chaotic north at that time, and finally ended his life with a tragic end.

In this history (face) changed by Liu Yan, Ran Min was also forced to embark on the road of confrontation with Zhuhu. If there is any difference, it is that Liu Yan brought Ran Min a more distinctive The thought of "Han and Hu cannot stand apart".

Everyone will have their own personality. Some people don’t like being a bad person so much. If they can choose, they would like to be a good person. The problem is that after taking a wrong step, too many people choose a path to blackness.

Those who chose to work for the Hulu in the turbulent era may have just wanted to protect themselves and their families at first. It was the first time they raised a sharp weapon against their own people and swung it down. They immediately understood that only in this way can they gain the trust of their masters. From now on, it will no longer be a matter of having to kill the same race, but treating the killing of the same race as a performance.

Once blacked out, it is not easy to clean up white. Some people seize the opportunity to clean themselves up. Even if they force themselves, they will force themselves to follow the new personality, and generally they will not change until death.

In fact, Liu Yan didn't really understand Ran Min.The Ran Min he knew had changed too much after he took refuge in himself and before he took refuge in him.

How can a person who can be reused and valued in the Hulu camp be a reckless person?Not to mention how deep the city is, the basic disguise must be passed.

After Ran Min became a member of Liu Yan's command, he repeatedly showed himself as a reckless man. Others would be afraid of being in trouble with his colleagues, but he repeatedly set himself up as an opponent.

Liu Yan could understand why Ran Min did that, it was all because Ran Min brought a large number of people to join him.

A person who used to be a king, he brought a huge number of people to join him, dared to be friends with everyone in the new circle, he definitely thought his life was too long.

Ran Min has successfully created an image of democracy for himself, so of course it is necessary to show hostility and hatred for foreigners.

According to Liu Yi, Ran Min's retainer, he was afraid that he would offend everyone, as long as he could stand on the same side as the emperor, it would be fine if he offended everyone.

Except for the fact that it was a bit of a deliberate performance due to the character design, Ran Min believed that he was doing something extremely right.

At the Xiaochao meeting the next day, Ran Min raised the issue of castration of male slaves again without waiting for the three provinces and six ministries to present.

The ministers who had been notified in advance fell into absolute silence for a while.

In fact, how could they not know that it was the right thing to do? No one hoped that the efforts of their own generation, or even the efforts of generations of Han people, would end up serving the people they not only killed and exploited. Wedding dress.

There is no joke. From Liu Yan's rebellion against Hu (14 A.D.) to the 200th year of Yuanshuo ([-] A.D.) after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were fewer and fewer aliens they wiped out on the battlefield. It is said that it is more than [-] million.

At least 200 million aliens were killed on the battlefield alone. So the number of aliens who died indirectly in the war could not be less than 1000 million, right?

Assuming that 17 million people were exterminated by war in 1000 years, other behaviors after the war, such as slave hunting and plundering, actually did more to reduce the population of alien races.

At present, there are 300 million slaves officially recorded in the Han Empire, and they are all still living slaves.

The Han Empire began to vigorously launch various projects from the eighth year of Yuan Shuo (AD [-]). Until the ninth year of Yuan Shuo, corvee labor was still the main labor force. However, from the tenth year of Yuan Shuo, slaves became the main labor force. .

Especially in terms of road construction, the Han Empire basically used slaves but would never use corvee.

In such an era where everything is dependent on hands, road construction is not an easy task, and it can even be said that the casualties caused by road construction will be very terrifying.

According to statistics, just to build the road from Ruyin County to Chen County with a total length of 230 miles, the consumption of slaves was as high as 14.

The road from Ruyin County to Chen County is still on a relatively flat plain, and there are not many mountains along the way. It can be considered that the whole road section is relatively easy to work.

From Chenjun to Luoyang, the road is 450 miles long, but as many as 47 slaves were consumed.The distance is twice the difference, but the number of slaves consumed is almost three times. The reason is of course that the environment for road construction is different.

So far, the two intersecting national highways centered on Chang'an can only be said to have begun to take shape, and are still far from being truly completed.The number of slaves already consumed in road construction is an astonishing 360 million!

There will be such an exaggerated consumption. On the one hand, it is due to the road construction environment, and on the other hand, it is because the Han people really do not cherish slaves too much.

According to relevant data, as many as 22 people died in the construction of the straight road from Guanzhong to Beidi in the pre-Qin period.Most of the dead were prisoners of war from the Six Nations.

The Northern Song Dynasty built a road less than a hundred miles in the south, only because the location was in the southwest, and more than [-] people died when building a road less than a hundred miles away, which indirectly gave Fang La more opportunities to buy people's hearts, so he rebelled .

If you read history, you will definitely find that no matter which dynasty built roads, being conscripted as corvees to build roads is definitely the most dangerous thing, more dangerous than being conscripted to build tombs.

Before the Han Empire carried out reforms in various departments, the Prime Minister's Office made special estimates. In order to complete the construction of the two national highways, it must be prepared to consume at least 800 million people.

The total length of the two national highways will not be less than 800 miles. They are not only built for hiking and bicycle riding, but also have highways built in some areas. According to Ji Chang's straightforward report, [-] million people died is already a very small number.

Liu Yan still understood why there was such an exaggerated consumption figure, and he thought of Yang Guang.

According to some records, more than 200 million people died before and after Yang Guang built the canal.

I don’t know if there is such an exaggerated number of deaths, or because of political correctness… For example, it was a deception in order to discredit the previous dynasty, but it must be true that the death toll is very high.

There seems to be such a one-sided record that Fei Ju suggested to Yang Guang that more time should be spent on building the canal, saying that the cost of money would be reduced several times, and casualties would not exceed 20 at most.

Then one thing is clearly mentioned. The same project will take different time, which will not only reduce the expenditure, but also the casualties will be completely different.

How could Liu Yan not know this? If under normal circumstances, in an era where manpower was used as the labor force, it would not be excessive to build thousands of miles of roads for 200 years. However, they planned to complete the construction within 20 years. Then It is necessary to bear the price that must be borne.

If the price is to fill holes with Han people's lives, Liu Yan will not do it no matter what he says, but if it is just to consume foreigners, there will be no psychological burden at all.

Until the intercommunication of countries on the earth in modern times, foreign life wasted on infrastructure projects, no matter how much you praise how civilized a country you are, you will not blush at all when you do it, and you even take it for granted.

There is a body of a Chinese laborer under every sleeper on the railway in North America. This is a shame to the Chinese, but it is something that the Caucasians can show off.

In fact, the Han Empire was able to plan so many huge projects, and even put them into action, because it didn't care about slaves at all.

If there were no slaves, not only Liu Yan, but any minister, they would not have thought about planning the project.

So far, more than 360 million slaves have died in road construction, no less than 200 million slaves have died in various mines, and about 30 to [-] slaves have been consumed on other occasions.

Is it too much to consume nearly 17 million slaves in 600 years?If it weren't for the value created by slaves, it can be said that the speed is very slow.

Liu Yan knew a figure who was also a ruler. From his rise to becoming the overlord, he killed more than [-] million people in just over [-] years.

More than [-] million people were killed when the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, and more than [-] million people were killed when Xixia was destroyed. Almost all of them were killed when Hualazimo was destroyed, waiting for his descendants to become the rulers of various regions. The population will never be less than [-] million. In the Southern Song Dynasty alone, more than [-] million died in the war.

So far, the number of aliens who died directly and indirectly in the flames of war ignited by the Han Empire would not exceed 2000 million at best.The territory of the Han Empire is actually about half less than the area under the rule of that family.

That's a ratio of almost ten to one killings, and the Han army did not carry out malicious massacres at all except for dealing with the Jie people. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Han people are already very benevolent.

"The number of foreign races under the rule of the Han Dynasty is about 3000 million." Ji Chang is no longer the prime minister, but he can still grasp the first-hand information as a Zhongshuling: "The number of the Tianzhu Protectorate is the largest, and there are only there. Nearly [-] million Ah San."

Before the fall of the Gupta Empire, according to their own census, there were more than [-] million people not counting untouchables, and more than [-] million people including untouchables.

The Han Empire destroyed the Gupta Empire, and several large-scale exhibitions wiped out nearly 40 troops of the Gupta Empire. There was no subjective killing of civilians.

If you want to say where the Han people consciously and planned to carry out massacres, it is definitely the islands in Southeast Asia.That's because the aborigines on those islands in the South Seas are savage enough that if they don't kill enough people, the aborigines don't know what it means to be afraid.

Huan Wen had directly governed Nanyang before, and he cleared seventeen islands after signing the report.The so-called emptiness means extermination, and the aborigines who were exterminated by the Han people are all cannibals.

"More and more are inevitable." Ji Chang glanced at Ran Min and said expressionlessly, "I think that the newly captured male slaves should indeed be castrated."

Liu Yan understands that the male slaves captured in the future are not private property of the people, so there will be no harm to anyone's current interests, but the castration of those who have become private property is what Ji Chang opposes .

"Don't forget one thing, Zhongshu ordered." Ran Min was messing around today and wanted to get the issue passed: "The Han Dynasty has registered slaves, not counting official slaves, there are more than three million slaves owned by the people."

"Chang knows." Ji Chang looked at Ran Min without any fear, and said slowly and methodically: "It is because of the large number that there are scruples."

"The big man has the unchanging national policy of 'private property is sacred and inviolable'." Sang Yu also opened his mouth, saying: "Those slaves are already private, how can they interfere? Besides, it is not the same to replace them with castrated new slaves. ?"

"In the final analysis, you are just looking at your own interests." Ran Min shouted: "Have you forgotten how the Western Jin Dynasty perished?"

No one has forgotten, but that matter is really too difficult. If it is to be carried out, it must be prepared to put out fires everywhere. For them, what they are worried about is not fighting riots or rebellions. Doing so is tantamount to overthrowing Liu Yan The law of "private property is sacred and inviolable" is so serious that the state is dishonest, and it must not be taken lightly.

That's the truth. Liu Yan can override a rule he made because of something. Anyone would think that one day he will ignore the rule he made again?Then what is the purpose of formulating those rules?

"In short, the bill to castrate slaves must be passed!" Ran Min stood up directly and sneered at his colleagues: "If you don't sign it, you will let the Hussar General establish the shogunate, with the Hussar General shogunate as the leader and executor. Let’s get this thing done!”

Ji Chang was so angry that he raised his finger and pointed at Ran Min, unable to say a word.

It's not as simple as whoever implements it means that the contract will not be broken. It means that the contract is broken if the thing is done. It's really not something that Ran Min can handle alone.

"Enforcement..." Lu Yizhen didn't want to wade into troubled waters, but he had noticed that Liu Yan's face was getting more and more ugly, so he said what he thought was a feasible method: "Enforcement is not advisable. If the people can implement it voluntarily, it can The best of both worlds.”

"Hehe, just talking about you makes my heart ache and jumps..." Ran Min continued to sneer, regardless of some people's angry faces: "You are all like this as important ministers of the country, how can you expect the rest of you to agree?"

"Yongzeng, just calm down." Xu Zheng pulled Ran Min back to his seat, but he couldn't do it after several times, so he said embarrassingly: "Everyone here, who has that little interest, and whose interest is those? slave."

Ran Min didn't care so much, he glanced at everyone angrily.

Liu Yan, who was sitting there and had been just listening, looked at Lu Yi and asked, "Does the Minister of Rites have any feasible suggestions?"

Ran Min was stunned for a moment, glanced at Liu Yan, then looked at Lu Yi, who seemed to have a plan in mind, and walked back to his seat after repeated hesitation.He wanted to hear if Lu Yi could name a flower.

(End of this chapter)