When he first met Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang, on the way over, because of the kindness of the farmers in the mountains, Hu Hai took off the waist jade pendant he carried with him and gave them to the farmers.

But how could this jade pendant appear in Shi Huang's hands?

"But someone murdered someone for money?"

Fusu's words turned cold, and his murderous intent filled the air.

"If it's just for money and life, I wouldn't be so hesitant. This jade pendant is a gift from an old man in Xianyang who offered a reward, so that someone can find his missing granddaughter."

113 Fusu's Wrath

Striding out from Shihuang's bedroom, Fusu's face was full of anger.

According to Shihuang's account, the farmer's son had married a few years ago and was doing a small business in Xianyang City.

As for the farmers, it is difficult to abandon a few acres of Susukida, and they are guarding the fields alone on the top of the hill.

Most of the people in Daqin depended on farming to make ends meet, and it is reasonable to have this situation.

Fortunately, the son of the farmer is filial, and will take his wife and daughter home to visit the farmer every month.

However, the son did not return home for the past two months, and the farmer Xinyou's son's family may have encountered some difficulties.

Remembering that he had hidden a piece of jade pendant given by the son of a rich family, the farmer hurriedly found the jade pendant and brought it to Xianyang City to support his son.

It was only when he arrived in Xianyang that he realized that it was not his son who had financial difficulties, but his six-year-old granddaughter who had disappeared.

In desperation, the farmer could only offer a jade pendant as a reward to seek information about his granddaughter.

It was only because the jade pendant belonged to the palace that the first emperor found out about it.

If it was just this, it would not be a difficult task. For the sake of the jade pendant, Shihuang casually asked his attendants to find the granddaughter for the farmer.

Unexpectedly, this search revealed a shocking case of human trafficking that has lasted for more than [-] years.

There are more than a hundred households in an entire mountain village, and almost [-]% of the men get married by buying and selling women.

There are old men whose sons have already grown up and remarried, and new men who come here to marry in order to buy and sell young girls, women and children for money.

After entering the prison in Xianyang City, Fusu's expression became colder.

Let the guarding soldiers open a prison, a group of farmers of different ages, with ten people as a room, occupying a full five cells.

"Only these people?"

"Reporting to my son, the other 30 people were killed on the spot by the soldiers because they resisted to the death."

"Then they died unjustly."

Walking into the prison, Fusu asked coldly, "Can you be convicted?"

The laws of the Great Qin Dynasty called the act of abducting and trafficking human beings Lue Ren, and those who bought and sold people were called Lue Sellers.

As long as there is an act of treachery, no matter whether it has been betrayed or not, it will be punished with punishment, which means execution and dismemberment of the body.

Those who know how to buy are guilty of the same crime, and those who don't know how to buy and resell are engaged in city building as prisoners after getting tattooed, while female prisoners are engaged in hard labor of pounding rice.Even if the buyer finds out about it later, he will be punished in the same way.

Human trafficking is a serious crime, and Fusu did not expect that under such punishment, there would still be people abducting and selling human beings.

"The grassroots are convicted."

Among dozens of people, a white-haired old man leaned on a cane, walked out from the crowd, and shouted to Fusu tremblingly.

Stopping the guards who wanted to speak, Fusu continued to ask: "Let me ask you, Daqin slaves of the Xiongnu and Yi tribes did not prohibit trading, why do you still buy and sell Daqin women?"

Fusu once abolished slavery in Daqin, but felt that Wang Mang was killed by a magician, so he only abolished the system of slavery in Daqin, and did not abolish slavery in its entirety.

People in Daqin cannot buy and sell, but the Xiongnu and Yi people can.

After years of bad development, now an ordinary family in Daqin saves more than ten and a half taels of money for a year; if you want to buy a Hun and Yi woman, you only need four or five years of savings.

"Women from the Huns are so expensive, who wants to buy them!"

"That's right, a woman who can be bought for ten and a half pennies, why should we spend fifty or sixty pennies to buy a foreign woman!"

Several relatively strong men shouted.

"Anyway, the mother-in-law at home has already written a letter of understanding. The big deal is going to the Great Wall to serve as corvee. There is nothing to be afraid of!"

It turned out that the First Emperor considered this.

The proposal of the letter of understanding itself was put forward by Fusu himself, and the original intention was to allow some minor crimes and mistakes to be pardoned.

It is not something that can be accomplished overnight to open up the wisdom of the people and build words and deeds. That is why Fusu is full of understanding and fully promotes the popularization of schools.

In addition to murder, treason and other crimes, as long as the victim is willing to forgive the prisoner, he can submit a letter of understanding to the government, so that the prisoner can reduce the crime and punish the prisoner with a small punishment.

The general idea is that with the victim's letter of understanding, the criminal's sentence can be reduced by one level.

Unexpectedly, this piece of advice ended up being cheap for such a person.

Shihuang didn't want to refute Fusu's intentions because of these trivial matters, so he waited for Fusu to come back to deal with the matter.

"After having children, few women will continue to fight."

"I think that except for a few of you, most of you already have children, so do you think that you can eat your own wife?"

Compared with men, women are more likely to soften their hearts; especially after having children, some sufferings will be endured silently.

So even if they didn't mean it, those women would submit a letter of understanding.

If people who are a few years older, get along with each other for many years, day and night, those women will stop thinking about running away; even when there are new women, they will help persuade a few words.

Marrying is not marrying, in this day and age.In the case of low labor force, it is a good thing for a woman to have a bite to eat.

Fusu can strive to keep every commoner from worrying about food and housing, but the time to achieve prosperity is far from enough.

With a cold snort, Fusu asked the soldiers, "Apart from these people, where are their wives and children?"

"Returning to my son, the laws of the Great Qin Dynasty only punish the guilty, and the rest of the innocent people are still at home, and there is no punishment."

"The order will be issued to detain all the people, except for those women who have been abducted, the rest will be beheaded for public display."

"You can't do this! This is the law enforced by His Royal Highness, and you are disobeying the will of His Royal Highness!"

Hearing Fusu's words, these people finally panicked, especially the old man just now, who didn't hesitate to use Fusu's name and shouted loudly.

"Heh, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince you mentioned is a fool who actually wants to relax the law."

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