The hardest hit areas for human trafficking in the Song Dynasty were women and children. The former were easy to sell, while the latter were easy to kidnap.

Those who are poor and cannot marry a wife want to buy a wife; those who have money but their wives cannot give birth to sons want to buy a concubine; and some simply want to buy a son to inherit the incense, or buy children and then harvest and cut them.

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Bianjing City is better. After all, it is the most benign place under the emperor's feet. Many things are not disclosed openly. Even the beggar gang does not dare to be too arrogant. But outside Bianjing City, human trafficking is almost so rampant that it depends on the government.

Like a state of nothingness——

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, Zhou Zhan, the criminal officer of Guangdong Nanlu, cracked a major human trafficking case and rescued more than 2,600 abducted people!

You know, this is just Guangdong South Road, just a cracked human trafficking case! And the main road has a total of 14 administrative divisions! God knows how many similar cases have not been discovered!

From the perspective of a modern soul, Zhao Huan cannot accept the existence of human trafficking.

From the emperor's point of view, Zhao Huan could not tolerate anyone competing with him for the right to harvest leeks by buying and selling people.

Both parties to the transaction will never pay a penny of business tax for buying and selling people. The taxes that the sold Dingkou should have created will also disappear when the sold Dingkou disappears from the household registration book.

If women are abducted and trafficked, in addition to the taxes they should have paid, the children born will also be a new batch of leeks...

“In addition to those who plunder and sell human beings, they should also be killed!”

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. Zhao Huan simply put down the wine glass in his hand and said murderously: "Anyone who dares to be a buyer in the future will be executed by their parents, and the rest will be exiled for three thousand miles! Their family property will be confiscated, and half of it will be put into the national treasury, and the other half will be sent to the state treasury."

Charge it into the Salesian Bureau!”

"Officials think twice!"

As soon as Zhao Huan finished speaking, Wang Shiyong, Li Gang, Li Ruobing and others were startled. Even Empress Zhu couldn't help but persuade her: "Is such a harsh punishment too much?"

Zhao Huan said: "Is it too much? What if it was Chen'er who was abducted? I think it's too light! I remember that people can go to the Salesian Bureau to adopt children, and the government will give money. This is obvious

It’s a big road. If you don’t take this big road and go to a dead end, don’t blame me for being cruel.”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Huan snorted again and said: "As the saying goes, a strong youth will make the country strong. I will eventually grow old, and everyone sitting here will also slowly grow old. The future of the Song Dynasty is not about where it will be.

On these children?"

"And this Song Xingtong."

Zhao Huandao: "As the saying goes, things have changed with time. The Song Dynasty Xingtong was applicable to the beginning of the founding of the country, but it may not be applicable to the present. It is time to revise it."

Li Gang, Li Ruobing and others all felt that their brains were a bit insufficient——

The officials were just talking about harvesting and harvesting raw materials and selling human beings, right? Why did they suddenly get involved with Song Xingtong now?

However, Zhao Huan was determined to revise Song Xingtong.

Strictly speaking, the "Song Xingtong", which basically copied the "Tang Laws and Comments", is not applicable to the social environment of the Song Dynasty at all, because the Tang Dynasty was a dual-track system with the emperor and military commanders, while the Song Dynasty was a system of strong cadres and weak branches.

The small court system.

The so-called small court system, in addition to not having a land system and adopting a purchase and contract system in taxation and certain industries, is more similar to Taoism's governance by doing nothing, that is, it emphasizes that governance without prohibition means permission.

In the early days of the founding of the Song Dynasty, this small court system allowed the people to recuperate and recuperate. However, in the prosperous times, the shortcomings of this small court system became apparent——

The upper echelons of the imperial court were lazy and inactive, while the lower-level officials took advantage of the power in their hands to act recklessly. The credibility from the imperial court to the government was almost zero, and the common people did not take the law seriously.

To put it bluntly, all the problems in the entire Song Dynasty, no matter how round and round they are, there is only one point in the final analysis, which is the problem of the system and laws of the Song Dynasty court itself.

As for the problems that many time travelers in the time traveler training base have been studying over and over, such as not suppressing annexation, emphasizing culture and suppressing military force, unreasonable taxation, redundant officials and redundant troops, they are actually all based on the system and legal issues of the Song Dynasty itself.

And derived.

As the saying goes, to treat a disease, you must cure the root cause. If you don't solve this problem, no matter how you change it, it can only be treated as a temporary solution, and it will not cure the root cause at all. That's why there is a saying that when people die, government will stop.——

Countless people in the Song Dynasty had seen the disadvantages of this problem and even planned to change it, so there was the Xining Reform chaired by Wang Anshi and the Qingli New Deal chaired by Fan Zhongyan.

Even Cai Jing and Cai Yuanchang have been involved in the Chongning Reform. In addition to implementing welfare systems such as nursing homes, Anjifang and Luzeyuan, they also built a new Yong, developed Taixue, restored the establishment of medicine, and established arithmetic, calligraphy, and painting.

New policies such as the establishment of junior colleges, the suspension of imperial examinations, and the replacement of scholarships by schools.

However, the amazing thing is that the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty presided over reform after reform, but ultimately failed again and again. In the end, the unlucky people were the people who were supposed to benefit.

Regarding this situation, future generations can analyze countless reasons for the failure, and countless people at the time traveler training base are rushing forward to try to change this situation.

But after all, there is only one reason for failure in the end:

The emperor of the Song Dynasty had no military power in his hands!

To give a very simple example. All the dynasties in history that are worthy of mention and whose names can be remembered by people, except for Zhao Da, who was in the wrong position, the founding emperors were not afraid of chaos in the world——

Winning the fat man can easily lead to unification and unification. The old gangster used a Confucian scholar's hat as a urinal. Zhu Chongba made people work in shackles. He could easily uncover major cases involving tens of thousands of people. Even the Confucius Temple was destroyed.

Not to mention the eternal teacher.

Why? Because these emperors have military weapons in their hands and are not afraid of chaos!

And the Emperor of the Zhao family...

Zhao Da was not in the right position. After drinking wine to release his military power, he relied on the literati to suppress the military generals. The sound of Zhao Er's ax and the shadow of a candle, and the drift of a donkey on the Gaoliang River defeated the founding army. Emperor Wen Yao of the Zhao family shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, and military commanders relied on generals.

He went to suppress the rebellion, but he did not have a reliable army to fight.

Therefore, when the Emperor of the Zhao family wanted to change, the original vested interest groups in the Song Dynasty would fight back crazily. If they failed to fight back in the court, they would secretly incite rebellion among the people, and there were many people among the people who were happy to kill and set fire to suffer.

Recruiting killers...

And Zhao Huan's greatest confidence came from the forbidden army he formed after killing Wanyan Zonghan - if he had the ability, the entire Song Dynasty would be thrown into chaos, or at worst, he would conquer the world again!

When he thought of the Forbidden Army stationed and training outside Bianjing City, Zhao Huan couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth: "This time, I will not only revise the "Song Xingtong", but also stipulate that women in the world can also study and work.

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PS:
Chapter completed!