It has become a way for many bankrupt people to make a comeback.

At the beginning, King Liu Bi of Wu waved his hand and paid for the corvee service of the people in his country with his income from salt and iron.

It attracted all the wanderers from all over the world to join us and took their families to Wu to earn extra money.

But unfortunately, history has proved that the ruling class will not leave too much freedom and opportunity to turn things around.

The noble landlords and merchants only need to do a simple math problem to know what they should do?

Nowadays, the price of slaves in the Han Dynasty is about 20,000 yuan for men in the middle age.

Even if the master is particularly kind and sympathetic to his slaves, he is reluctant to bear to endure hunger and let him eat and wear warm clothes every time.

Taking self-cultivated farmers as an example,

An adult man’s monthly ration standard is two stones, and he needs twenty-four stones of corn a year, which is worth 2,400 to 3,000 coins.

The four seasons of clothing are given a new set of clothing each season, each set is worth two hundred yuan, which is only eight hundred yuan.

In addition, according to the Han laws, slaves and servants are calculated by five.

In other words, a slave needs to pay a captive tax of 600 yuan every year.

Therefore, after a slave is bought, the maximum annual expenditure is 4,400 yuan.

And the surplus value it can create, if you say it, it may scare people to death.

Even if these slaves are just allowed to farm, with the lowest efficiency, a person can only cultivate fifty acres of 50 mu, and the yield per mu is two stones, which is only 100 stones of corn, worth more than 10,000 yuan!

The surplus is 5,400 yuan!

But how could the landlords, powerful and powerful people just let their servants plow the land?

It is certain that they can engage in side business production during the busy farming period.

And the biggest side job is to serve others.

At first, this was just a privilege that only some powerful people could enjoy.

But soon, things became out of control.

Because when the Huang-Lao politician left the curtain on political arena, the Legalists and Confucian officials who came to power were not so warm.

Legalism likes one-size-fits-all approach, while Confucianism does not like to pay attention to trivial matters.

As a result, a terrible result was caused. During the reign of Emperor Taizong and the late emperor, the powerful and powerful took their slaves to serve and make money, and could only be provided that someone was willing to pay for money to serve.

Now, the Legalists and Confucianism have made a one-size-fits-all approach to all people who need to pay more taxes regardless of whether they go to serve or not.

The only difference is that in the counties and states in the north, officials use money to eliminate disasters, while in the southeast, officials are corrupt and officials without integrity must serve regardless of whether you pay taxes or not.

For Legalists and Confucians, this approach is understandable.

The Legalists hope that the people they rule will be obedient and obedient.

Although Confucianism calls out "benevolent government, good governance", if they are asked to do countless procedures and do a lot of things like the politicians of the Huang-Lao School, in order to maintain their rule, they will definitely not do it.

Besides, no matter how much philosophical it is, it is not as big as business.

So, a terrible thing happened, and the landlords and powerful people rushed to collect slaves.

What are you doing to accumulate slavery?

Make money!

Especially projects such as water conservancy projects that have high value and many requirements have become a feast for the powerful.

A slave with a profit of 1,200 yuan a month!

If you encounter state subsidies again, you will be rewarded with additional rewards to serve the civilians.

Then you will make more money.

It is also because of this that the trend of slavery in the Han Dynasty has become increasingly fierce.

As long as there is a chance, almost no one is willing to give up the possibility of buying a slave and going home!

This is also the reason why all kinds of water conservancy projects in the Han Dynasty can receive support from almost all classes.

For landlords and powerful people, building water conservancy can not only make their own land produce more, but also make a lot of money.

For ordinary people who are in charge of the water conservancy industry, building water conservancy can also help their own production. Besides, even if they don’t repair it, they have to pay money, so it’s better to repair it!

Now, Zhang Yue wants to launch a tunnel camp plan.

The first thing I face is the snipers of the landlords and powerful people!

If they all use the labor force of the tunnel camp to work, what are their servants doing?

The profit lost is not a small amount.

It's like digging these people's flesh!

How difficult is it to make a vested interest group willingly spit out the flesh in their mouths? Zhang Yue naturally knows.

That's almost the same as climbing the sky!

Fortunately, as a time traveler, Zhang Yue has seen countless success or failure reforms from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

It belongs to standing on the shoulders of giants, so we know how to convince powerful vested interest groups and are willing to cut their losses and give in: give them a greater benefit and benefit!

Almost all successful reforms and reforms, both in ancient and modern times, are based on this foundation.

If you fail to do this, all of them will fail.

Wang Anshi is like this, Zhang Juzheng is like this!

In Zhang Yue's view, the temptation that the Honggou 2.0 project has was enough to make them give in to the noble landlords in Sanhe area and the literati and powerful officials in Xuzhou.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yue chose this project as a breakthrough.

Of course, just this is far from enough!

The stubbornness and incompleteness of vested interest groups are even more difficult to deal with than imagined!

Therefore, they must be despaired first.

When they find out that if they don’t make concessions, they may lose everything, and they have to agree to concessions.

Therefore, Zhang Yue watched coldly and did not speak.

This made Shang Qiu Cheng, Liu Quqiu and others anxious.

Especially Shang Qiucheng, he almost scratched his head and was restless.

At this moment, he saw Zhang Yue standing in front of the sand table with a smile on his face, so he stepped forward and bowed and asked, "Shizhong, you have always been wise and have made strange plans many times to solve the dilemma of the government and the country. This is the first initiative of the Shizhong to lead Huai to Bian. I believe the Shizhong has also considered the problem of insufficient national funds?"

"I hope the minister can give me advice, how to solve the current dilemma!"

As he spoke, Shangqiu achievement was deeply worshipped.

Following closely behind, hundreds of court officials and officials from the scheming were praying together: "I would like to ask the minister for advice!"

They have no choice!

This gulf 2.0 project is like a carrot hanging from their mouths, extremely tempting!

For this reason, they were willing to put aside their face and ask Zhang Yue for advice.

Even Liu Quqi bowed for political achievements and said, "If the attendant has a plan, you might as well speak out and discuss with the ministers!"

In fact, Shangqiu Cheng and Liu Qumao probably guessed Zhang Yue's solution.

This is the so-called "tunnel camp" plan proposed during the negotiations before the meeting today.

If it were before this gulf 2.0, neither Shangqiu Cheng nor Liu Qumao would support this plan.

Because this plan attracts hatred!

But they will not object, and if they oppose, they may be revenge by the emperor and Zhang Yue.

This is not fun!
Chapter completed!