Zhang Yue rode his horse, came to Liu Jin, and asked, "Your Highness, what are your instructions?"

"Does Shizhong Zhang have a way to suppress slavery?" Liu Jin asked softly.

As a grandson who received orthodox Confucian education since childhood, Liu Jin was filled with the thought of benevolence and forgiveness.

In the past, he could not see the suffering of the people in the deep palace, and naturally he could not feel any seriousness or urgency. At most, when he heard about the situation of slavery in the local area, he sighed a few times and shed some cheap tears.

But now, the situation is intuitively present in front of him.

The slaves were wearing shackles and collars, and were forced to be enslaved and exploited like pigs and dogs.

Mencius said: When a gentleman sees his life and dies, he cannot bear to eat his flesh when he hears his voice.

This is even true for animals, let alone humans?

The miserable situation of the slaves in the fields in front of him deeply touched the fragile and sensitive heart of the Emperor Changsun of the Han Dynasty, making his sympathy and compassion flooded out of control.

He even had the impulse to liberate his servants in Xinfeng in the future!

Even if there are many obstacles and difficulties!

"Your Highness wants to suppress slavery?" Zhang Yue said respectfully: "Your Highness is kind, I congratulate the world! But... I don't know how much your Highness wants to do?" Zhang Yue looked up at Liu Jin and asked.

"The best thing is to completely abolition the slave!" Liu Jin looked at Zhang Yue and said, "At least, you must limit the acquisition of slavery..."

"For example, each family can only have a few slaves at most, and the state will legislate and make regulations!"

"Your Highness..." Zhang Yue looked at Liu Jin and had more understanding of the reshu of the emperor's eldest grandson, but he still couldn't help but pour cold water on him and said, "If this is the case, I think the world is right in front of me..."

Want Han people not to accumulate slavery? It’s like letting capitalists not exploit them in later generations, it’s a joke!

Not to mention others, even Zhang Yue's family, his sister-in-law is probably thinking about going there to buy some slaves and come back to raise them.

The Han people's slavery was not only a tradition, but also a habit.

When you have money and wealth, you will be slaves.

Slavery can not only increase wealth, but also stabilize family background.

Almost no one can suppress his impulse to be slave.

Even though Dong Zhongshu tried his best to acquire slavery and merge, his disciples all acquired slavery...

Liu Jin listened, his heart darkened, and he felt a little chilled, and he murmured: "Then we can only use the clan method to build a large clan to stop it!"

This is actually the original intention of Emperor Xuan to support the Guliang School after he ascended the throne.

Use clans to suppress the people's willingness to be slaves.

But it turns out that this is a naive idea.

Will the big family no longer hold slaves?

The families of the Eastern Han Dynasty laughed.

During the Western Han Dynasty, even the top nobles and powerful men would have to survive for about two thousand slaves.

Super Marquis like the Pingyang Marquis family had only more than a thousand slaves at their peak.

But in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the super clans were often tens of thousands or tens of thousands.

However, Zhang Yue has not yet proved this.

Therefore, he could only find a way to save the country on a curve.

"Your Highness, I think your thoughts are of no use, and it will even make things worse..." Zhang Yue lowered his head and said, "Your Highness, what happened after Taizong and the late emperor were punished with corporal punishment?"

"At that time, when there was a corporal punishment, the people broke the law, and at most they would stab the face, cut their ears and toes. However, since the corporal punishment was abandoned, local officials enjoyed whipping the people. They would often whip fifty whips and one hundred whips. The people who were punished were either dead or disabled..."

"Taizong and the late emperor intended to benefit the people with kindness, but instead made the people's situation worse!"

Of course, Zhang Yue did not dare to say this publicly anyway.

Apart from corporal punishment and the political achievements of Emperor Taizong and the late emperor, it is a merit. No matter how many disadvantages are, no minister dares to openly discuss it.

But it doesn't matter in private.

Zhang Yue is not the only one who talks about this matter.

In fact, even the previous Han Dynasty Tingweiqing had summoned his aides to discuss the matter.

However, everyone was afraid of the "holy virtue" of the late emperor and Emperor Taizong.

Liu Jin naturally knew about this situation. On these days, when he and Gong Yu and others sorted out Xinfeng documents, they often found that many people were beaten to death and crippled by committing minor crimes.

So much so that the people did not dare to go to the government office to sue easily from now on.

Local officials are happy to be idle.

"And, does Your Highness really think that the clans will not hold slaves? I'm afraid it may not be!" Zhang Yue said directly: "In my opinion, the clans' willingness to hold slaves will be stronger!"

"Because they have a large population, there are many Dingkou who need to serve..."

Liu Jin was stunned when he heard this.

He had never thought of this before. After hearing what Zhang Yue said, he finally woke up.

The larger the clan, the more people the more people served.

This will only enhance the people and strengthen their desire to acquire slavery, not the other way around!

"Then I can only sit back and see the people in the world become slaves of others and join pigs and dogs?" Liu Jin looked at the slaves who worked hard in the fields ahead of him. Some of these people were even children, at most twelve or thirteen years old.

"Otherwise!" Zhang Yue whispered: "Actually, there is no way..."

The corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he smiled like a devil: "The key is that your highness wants to be a gentleman from the Xia Dynasty or a gentleman from the barbarians..."

"What about the gentlemen of the Xia Dynasty? What about the gentlemen of the barbarians?" Liu Jin asked.

"The gentlemen of Xia took away the mouths of the barbarians to benefit the people of Xia..." Zhang Yue lowered his head and said, "Just like when General Zhao attacked Loulan, Gu Shi's country, captured his people, became officials and slaves, got his wife and daughter, and divided his soldiers..."

"The powerful crossbow general Li Xi led his army to pacify the rebellion of the Qiang people, and lost tens of thousands of Qiang slaves, and became slaves to the garrison. The people of Tianshui County still benefited... "

"I heard that there are thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, and there are also far-reaching Kangju, Daxia, and the people are poisonous. There are tens of millions of people. If the king attacks them, gets their people, gets their land, and enslaves them, and uses their people as slaves to China... Then the fewer Chinese people will be slaves every day..."

"Your Highness will then do the calculation limit. For anyone who takes Han people as slaves, he will be subject to heavy taxes. Then the people of the world will all use barbarians as slaves and release Chinese slaves..."

"In this way, the people in the world are born, no matter the noble and the low, they are grateful for the kindness of Your Highness. The people's hearts will be in charge and the world will be ruled..."

Listening to Zhang Yue's murderous words, Liu Jin had to be stunned.

"Zhang Shizhong is too strict with the barbarians..." Liu Jin sighed: "If you use this method, the barbarians may not be convinced, and they will cause chaos..."

"If they dare to rebel, I dare to kill me!"

"One person rebels, implicates the whole village! If one village rebels, one village will slaughter a town, one town rebels, and one county will slaughter a county, and you will eventually be able to subdue the people..."

"Besides, I think this may not be necessary. At that time, we can support the two countries in distant countries and fight each other. If one country is weak, it will help it, and if the other country is strong, it will be weak..."

"If the body poisonous family belongs to the country with hundreds of people and tens of millions of people, they will naturally attack each other, and our Han family will reap the benefits of the fisherman!"

This is the unique trick to become famous in the empire in the future!

The British Empire used this unique skill to make the entire continent uneasy.

If it weren't for the rise of Emperor Mi later, the British Empire would have been able to be the boss of the continent forever with this move.

Even so, although Niu Niu declined, he still relied on this move to act as an eternal messenger in Europe, making Europe unable to unite forever.

If Europe cannot unite, of course it is Niu Niu who will benefit!

"What about the king of the barbarians?" Liu Jin asked.

"The king of the barbarians?" Zhang Yue sneered: "We should confine Chinese thoughts, abolish the people's power to hold weapons, and use the name of 'equality' to share the barbarians to use privileges and small tribes to face the great power, use external control of the internal, slave the Chinese people, and win the favor of all nations..."

"In simple terms, it means to cut off the Xia to nourish the barbarians and use China to nourish all countries..."

"Enough!" When Liu Jin heard this, he raised his hand angrily and stopped Zhang Yue from continuing.

"I am guilty of death!" Zhang Yue hurriedly bowed.

But my heart was filled with joy.

After so many days of getting along, Zhang Yue has figured out the character of the eldest grandson of the imperial emperor.

Although he is kind and forgiving, he is not stupid and sweet.

After so many days of suggestion and advocacy by Zhang Yue, he had gradually become a nationalist in Xia.

In other words, it was impossible for him to choose the so-called "barbarian king".

"Gu lost his composure..." Liu Jin also reacted, helped Zhang Yue up, looked at him and said, "Gu knows that the Shizhong was deliberately provoking Yu Gu..."

Liu Jin was not stupid, so he certainly understood that Zhang Yue was trying to force him to choose one of two.

but……

If he was asked to choose between enslaving barbarians and enslaving the Xia.

Of course he would choose to enslave the barbarians!

However, this ultimately goes against the education and values ​​he has received for a long time.

Zhang Yue looked at it, but knew that one day he would have to walk on that road.
To be continued...