The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2528 Abolition of Slavery

In Zuo Xiang's Pavilion, Fang Yun frowned as he looked at the draft in front of him.

Just like half-saints cannot solve the rise and fall of dynasties and economic crises, once Jingguo implements exchanges with all walks of life and all ethnic groups, it will inevitably produce all kinds of problems.

If this kind of communication is only held by the government, it will inevitably lead to death when caught and chaos when released, because it is the nature of bureaucrats to be conservative, passive and slow to respond. Even if Fang Yun personally urges it, the result will inevitably be one of two opposite results. one.

Either exchanges between all ethnic groups become a slogan, and Jingguo becomes closed again.

Either for the sake of political performance, to avoid making mistakes, or to avoid being blamed by superior officials and leading to loss of office, Jingguo officials catered to the foreigners to an unlimited extent, and did not feel ashamed but took pride in them. In the end, foreigners could ride on the heads of Jingguo people.

But if it is completely allowed to be driven by businessmen from aristocratic families, the result is already doomed. In order to maximize their own interests, they can even betray the entire country.

When Fang Yun was fighting against the local tyrants and evil gentry a few days ago, he once mocked those families and said: "If businessmen and major families are really trying to help Jingguo become stronger, it is also to sell them at a good price."

Once profits are high enough, profit-seeking businessmen will plunge Jingguo into disaster.

Therefore, Fang Yun can only choose to be led by the government and exerted by the private sector.

In the course of history, everything seems to be a coincidence, but everything has its inevitability.

No matter where it is in the world, Chinese civilization has indelible similarities in its culture, etiquette, political system, bureaucracy, etc.

Therefore, Fang Yun did not foolishly carry out subversive and comprehensive reforms according to the foreign system, but chose the most suitable path.

Some things are good, but they will never work for any group of people.

Fang Yun looked at the draft and knew exactly where his resistance came from.

Not the Li Palace, not the Miscellaneous Family, or even the Holy Court. Fang Yun has never regarded these forces as opponents because he has too many ways to deal with these forces.

The long-established bureaucratic system, the myriad of living beings, and the strong inertia of ethnic groups are the biggest obstacles to innovation.

After clearing his thoughts, Fang Yun showed strong confidence in his eyes.

As long as you can decide the direction of Jingguo, the bureaucrats of Jingguo will not deviate from the right path; as long as you truly care about the people, it is impossible for foreigners to dominate the people of Jingguo; as long as you do not want the foreigners to come to court Vanity can prevent the top beam from being crooked and the bottom beam from being crooked; as long as you are not arrogant enough to think that you can solve everything, you can prevent the slightest change and avoid the chaos of alien races.

Fang Yun lowered his head and read through the draft, suddenly showing a faint smile because he understood a truth.

As a former leftist prime minister, as long as you really want to do something, even if you don't do it well, it will never make things worse. Only when you don't want to do something or don't know how to do it, the country will have problems.

Fang Yun took out a new piece of paper, thought for a long time, and lowered his head to write.

Regarding the abolition of any form of human trafficking, slavery and unequal employment relations.

Driven by Fang Yun and Zuo Xiangge, the form of official documents in Panorama Kingdom has quietly changed. Simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese have become popular. Except for some official documents such as formal laws and regulations, which have both classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese, the vast majority of official documents use vernacular Chinese directly.

This allowed Jingguo's bureaucrats to deliver information faster and more accurately.

For this reason, Fang Yun even specially compiled a set of "Grammar of Human Vernacular Vernacular", which has been published in Jingguo. Except for Wuguo, who immediately copied it, other countries are waiting and watching.

Fang Yun wrote hard and fast. After a while, the new draft was completed. Then Fang Yun checked it word by word and made deletions, additions and changes.

Many innovations are linked one link to another, and no link can be missing.

While improving agricultural production efficiency and allowing farmers to work in cities as workers, we must ensure that the court has a firm grasp of punishment and law, because once lynchings become widespread and clan power becomes too heavy, there will be a situation where royal power does not go to the countryside, regardless of Fang Yunyun. No matter how hard the court exerts its efforts, it will achieve half the result with half the effort, or even fall short of the success.

With enough workers and the weakening of family rights, the employment relationship can be solved only after the completion of these two innovations.

In Shengyuan Continent, human trafficking is legal as long as it is voluntary and certified by the Yamen.

Countries and dynasties have never cracked down on human trafficking, only cracked down on illegal human trafficking.

When Fang Yun was in Ning'an City, he only cracked down on illegal human trafficking and was unable to solve legal human trafficking.

In today's Shengyuan Continent, many people with some financial resources keep slaves, either maids or servants, and those famous and wealthy families often keep thousands of slaves, and various families often have tens of thousands of domestic slaves.

Countries even have "Slave Laws" that are specifically designed to restrict slave owners and slaves. The status of slaves is extremely low. The law even stipulates that in some cases, slave owners are not guilty of beating slaves to death. Even if they are guilty, they only need to pay some silver coins. Exoneration.

This seems to be an ordinary thing, but it hinders the development of human race.

The reason is simple. Any technological progress made by human beings will come at a high cost in the short term.

From the perspective of slaveholders, slaves are a transaction. Once they are bought, they must be used all the time. If they are not used, it is a waste. As for spending more money to buy better farm tools, institutions, or cattle and horses, that is a big expense. If you buy it, it will be cheaper for the serfs, so it is better not to buy it.

Once all wealthy people do this, related technological innovation will slow down or even stagnate.

In fact, the human race had many advanced mechanisms early on, such as water-drawing mechanisms, but the major families did not pay attention to them at the beginning and still let slaves draw water manually. It was not until a long time later that the water-drawing mechanism gradually became popular. This was not because the major families had a change of heart, but because they found that with the water-drawing mechanism, serfs could free up their hands to do more things and at the same time show their financial strength.

Slavery led to a weakening of the driving force of technological innovation, which was only one aspect. On the other hand, slaves had no autonomy in many aspects and their disposable income was extremely meager. They had needs, but they had no money to exchange for what they needed.

In this way, the country's consumption was reduced, and domestic demand could not be stimulated, which naturally affected development. What's more, once slaves became free people, they would play a more important role.

Therefore, once slavery and unreasonable employment relationships were abolished, it would indeed seriously damage the interests of landlords or families, but it would have huge benefits for the country and the entire human race.

The power of the human race is actually very strong, but it has not been completely released.

The selfish desires of some people hindered the progress of the human race.

This is what Cao Gui meant when he said during the war that meat eaters are incapable of long-term planning, not that those in high positions and power are really stupid.

Fang Yun put down the draft in his hand and sighed softly.

For the sake of the human race, he could only whip them forward.