Xinfeng County, as the name suggests, means new Feng County.

The area and layout of the township pavilion are similar to Fengxian County in Pei County.

And the Duoyu Society is fifteen miles north of Xinfeng County.

It happens to be the same distance from Fengxian County, Peijun to Qidunyu Society.

As the imperial town, the area of ​​the Yuyu Society is naturally very large.

It is almost equivalent to the area of ​​two standard Han-level township administrative areas.

This day, the sun is still hot.

A team walked up the straight road outside the Yushe Club.

Zhang Yue rode on the horse, looking at the appearance of the Dixiang that he had seen for the first time in his eyes.

Countless data in my heart come to my heart.

The Duyu Society is more than twenty miles long from north to south and more than ten miles wide from east to west. It has ten pavilions and units under its jurisdiction, with a total household registration of nearly three thousand.

In this BC era, the population was sparse, and some small counties in Kanto region may not have as many people as those in Duyushe.

As such a large town, a densely populated place.

The natural economy is also developed.

On both sides of the road are rolling fields of millet. Now it is the season when corn is approaching maturity. From a distance, the whole world is occupied by the ocean of millet.

In the fields, there are countless busy slaves wearing shackles, wooden and stone farm tools.

There are men and women, there are old and young.

There are slaves from the barbarians and slaves from the Han people.

In the shade of some fields, several men wearing crimson clothes and looking dressed as supervisors sat lazily under the shade of trees, eating wine and snacks.

Zhang Yue and his group had dozens of people. Except for Liu Jin, the rest were all in one person and two horses, and they were all in a mighty manner.

Naturally, it immediately attracted the attention of these people.

However, they just got up a little, observed for a while, and then continued to sit down and drink and eat meat.

There are not many other things in this Yushe.

There are many good ministers and children as many as dogs.

They have long been accustomed to similar situations.

But Zhang Yue frowned slightly as he looked at the situation in front of him.

This was his first direct attack on the situation of the people at the bottom of feudal society in BC.

Looking around, just the hundreds of acres of land in front of me, I am afraid there are at least twenty men and women working in the fields wearing shackles and tattered clothes.

Although it is not yet noon, the temperature has begun to rise.

The vicious sunshine burns the earth, and even the water of the Wei River is a little hot.

But these servants work under such a sun and work in the sun.

Many people even wear iron rings around their necks.

This is the sign of having a child.

In Nanling County, there are relatively few slaves.

It is basically a social structure composed of self-cultivated farmers, tenants and landlords.

However, in this Yushe, there is another situation.

It seems like I have returned to the slave society of Zongzhou era.

The main object of labor has become a slave.

But Zhang Yue just frowned slightly and dared not say too much.

Because slave storage is a deeply rooted tradition in the Han Dynasty.

From the princes and princes to the common people, everyone rushed to seize any opportunity to accumulate slavery.

In history, one of the biggest reasons why Wang Mang collapsed was that he actually wanted to restrict slavery!

It's simply outrageous!

It aroused public outrage from the world, and not only the landlords, nobles, self-cultivated farmers, middle class, and merchants all became angry.

Then he killed Wang Mang.

Zhang Yue, who has traced back countless historical materials and read and solidified a large number of Shiqu Pavilion documents, is very clear.

How great is the power to support slavery?

So even Liu did not dare to touch on the topic of limiting slaves.

However, the emperor of the Liu family could kill powerful people and nobles, such as pigs and dogs.

From this you can see how powerful the power of slavery is!

This is a huge interest group that covers almost all the Han class.

Farmers, self-cultivated farmers, landlords, merchants, nobles, and officials, everyone will be slaves as long as they have the opportunity.

Archaeological discoveries in later generations also prove this fact with countless conclusive evidence.

Whether it is on both sides of the Yangtze River or the Yellow River Basin, whether it is in the distant Jiuquan and Zhangye, or in the snowy Liaodong and western Liaoning.

Archaeologists excavated countless Han bamboo slips from the ground, then cleaned and sorted them out. Finally, people found that no matter what area the bamboo slips found, they could always find evidence of local slavery.

Especially in the archives of the government, almost all records of "there are x big slaves in a certain town and y small slaves, and how much is the price."

Especially in northern counties and countries, the wind of slaughtering is extremely strong.

Even the self-cultivated farmers and the middle class in the city competed to accumulate slaves.

In the Han Dynasty, do you want to restrict slavery?

Not only will they offend the entire landlord, aristocratic and bureaucratic group, but even the middle class and self-cultivated farmers and merchants will also oppose it.

Even the benefiting slaves might be angry!

Because, slaves are also divided into levels.

Some powerful and powerful slaves actually live better than ordinary people.

Some slaves who are deeply trusted by their masters can even use their power to pretend to be powerful and behave in the neighbors.

Do you want to liberate them?

Maybe someone spits on your face!

The reason for this situation is both the historical tradition and the political structure since the Qin and Han dynasties.

The main reason is that it is profitable to acquire slaves.

Zhang Yue, who had already done his homework, knew this clearly.

The Han people were not just trying to drive the slaves to work for themselves.

The more important motivation comes from the desire for wealth and the expectation for family prosperity.

A well-known fact is that the Qin and Han dynasties advocated the economic and social economy of small farmers and retail investors who were narrow and had five people to cure hundreds of fields.

The country tried every means to dismantle and dismember any possible large family.

Today's son's younger brother, Liu Sheng, the King of Jing of Zhongshan, gave birth to more than a hundred sons in his life, and had countless illegitimate sons.

However, except for his crown prince Liu Zhong, who succeeded to the throne, only his thirteen sons were able to be granted the title of marquis with the order of reproaching the grace.

Everyone else has to make a living!

Liu Quqi, the prime minister after the witchcraft disaster in history, was Liu Sheng's son.

Even the sons of the princes and the emperor's nephews are like this.

Of course, others cannot be spared.

But this brings about a small and single family that is difficult to deal with various corvee labor.

And there were a lot of corvee labor in the Han Dynasty.

It is just stipulated by the central government that every male student of the first tutor needs to serve the country for three days free of charge every year and enlist in the army for two years in his lifetime.

One year, one year, one year, one year, one year, the border guards the border.

There are more corvee labor and errands, big and small, in the local area.

How can ordinary people get so much energy to deal with so many cumbersome corvee collections?

Especially the northern counties and states have large land and sparse populations, and the output is not large.

The generals based in their local hometowns, and they must not only train their children and nephews to learn martial arts, but also find ways to take care of the village party and protect their clans. They also have to win over tenant farmers and self-cultivated farmers and soldiers for their children and nephews.

In this way, they cannot be too powerful among their fellow villagers.
To be continued...