Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Ying Zichu and King Han said in unison: "Who is on the same boat as him?"

King Qi was speechless, shook his head, and didn't bother to continue speaking.

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became very dull.

After a while, King Zhao stood up and left.

Afterwards, Yingzi Chu and the king of Chu also left one after another.

After the three of them left, the atmosphere in the hall became active again.

King Qi sighed: "To tell you the truth, when the widow married my younger sister to the King of Han, I still felt that this was a marriage.

But now I didn't expect that if I didn't have this younger sister, I would be in Qi State, hehehe, it's really hard to say. "

King Wei, who seldom spoke, was also a little drunk, and said slowly: "To tell you the truth, although I am very unconvinced in my heart, I think about it late at night. In fact, with the power of the King of Han, if it weren't for him Unification, who can unify?"

King Yan smacked his lips and said, "Yes, yes, King Han, every time you think he is just a reckless man who knows how to fight, but in fact, this is his disguise! It's a pity, including We are included, and everyone in this world has misunderstood him."

King Han chuckled, and said, "If you are killed by other people, I will really feel sorry for you.

But now, since everyone has been annexed by the Han Dynasty, the widow seems to feel better in his heart. "

King Qi laughed and said: "Yes, even if it is a failure, losing in the hands of King Han is much better than losing in the hands of King Zhao!"

The four laughed in unison and raised their glasses at the same time.

"Drink wins!"

In the main hall, the aroma of wine was overflowing, and the four kings' cups and cups were intertwined, and they drank it to the point of indescribable.

What the four of them didn't know was that their conversation would appear on Zhao Kuo's desk the next day.

And Zhao Kuo naturally laughed it off for this conversation.

After all, these seven great kings must be under the surveillance of Zhao Kuo's Nightingale all the time from now on, and it is impossible for them to cause any more disturbances.

Back at the banquet, the seven kings in the side hall were miserable, but Zhao Kuo in the main hall was in a very happy mood.

Look at the main hall, Xu Li, Pang Nuan, Li Mu, Li Si, Han Fei, Xun Kuang, Guo Zong, etc., so many historical figures are now under Zhao Kuo's command and working for Zhao Kuo.

This grand scene must be something that historians and enthusiasts will talk about in the future, right?

Zhao Kuo laughed loudly and raised the wine glass in his hand.

"My loves, for our new Han Dynasty, let me drink this cup to the brim!"

When the ministers heard the words, they also raised their wine glasses one after another: "Respect Your Majesty, China, and the world!"

Amidst the laughter, fine wine was poured into their stomachs, and many people even drank too much and danced impromptuly during the banquet.

In normal times, this would naturally be a very rude behavior, but on this occasion today, Zhao Kuo not only didn't take any offense, but laughed, picked up the dagger in his hand, and tapped the rhythm to add to the fun.

Everyone sang in unison.

"Yangyang Huaxia, I am the only man, aspiring to the Central Plains! Great China, I am the only man, shining everywhere! Great China, I am the only man, conquering the world! Great China, I am the only man, unparalleled in the world!"

This is the winner's feast!This is the ocean of joy!This is the new birth of Chinese history!

Chapter 1115 Thoughts on the Expansion of Slavery in the Southwest

From this day on, the Great Han Kingdom is no longer the country it was before, but has become another dynasty in the true sense of China, and it is also a unified dynasty with an unprecedentedly large territory and population!Due to the grace of Zhao Kuo's amnesty and exemption from taxation, the common people in the world naturally have a new favor for the Han Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, we are all ordinary people, who would have trouble with freedom and money?

As for those loyal and brave men who cherished the old country, of course there were not none, but under the strong attack of the Han army ordered by Zhao Kuo, they had basically been wiped out in sevens and eighties.

Up to now, basically those so-called "anti-Han Fu X" guys have become outcasts of the times, and only a very small number of people are still persisting in their activities, but they are irrelevant to the overall situation.

In this way, several months passed in a flash.

During the past few months, the main thing Zhao Kuo led the ministers and officials of the Han Dynasty was to help the people everywhere to recuperate.

The war has been fought on the land of China for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is time for the people of this land to rest well.

But this kind of rest is only temporary. Zhao Kuo knows very well that if he, as the founder of the country, does not want to find a way to develop something, then the future successors will inevitably walk on the old road of comfort and complacency unconsciously. China's future is very unfavorable.

It is necessary to open up the road with Western time, so that everyone knows that there are so many territories worth occupying and plundering outside, so that the ambitions of the Chinese people will continue to burn and never stop!As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

So Zhao Kuo came to the brand new "Dahan Kingdom's No. [-] Weapon Technology Factory" on this day.

This place is now under the control of the newly established Weapons Department. Although the Weapons Department is a military supply department, it is not under the rule of the Taiwei, but reports directly to the emperor Zhao Kuo.

At present, Guo Zong is temporarily serving as the minister of the Ministry of Arms, which also makes Guo Zong the only important minister in the Han Dynasty who holds two ministerial positions. His status can be said to be almost equivalent to that of the three prime ministers.

Although Guo Zong seems to have no credit for being silent, in fact, all of Zhao Kuo's previous wealth was basically managed by Guo Zong, and the continuous surplus of the Han Dynasty was also under Guo Zong's rule.

If a country has no money, let alone a war, even the most basic people's livelihood cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, even if a money bag manager like Guo Zong does not have any military achievements, his importance is still not inferior to that of any general.

Standing on the Yujia, Guo Zong was reporting something to Zhao Kuo.

"Your Majesty, after our troops in the southwest kept going south, we discovered a country called Yelang."

When Zhao Kuo heard this, his eyes lit up immediately: "Yelang?

Is this country big? "

Guo Zong couldn't help laughing when he heard that, "To tell you the truth, Yelang Kingdom is at best as big as our smaller county in the Central Plains.

But even so, it is already the largest country among the Southwestern Yi, and it can compete with the Dian Kingdom. "

Southwestern Yi is the collective name of the Han Kingdom for the many alien races in the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains.

Because the mountains and forests here are densely covered, a mountain is often a tribe.

Some tribes also have a little contact with China. I heard that what is popular in China is the self-proclaimed vassal state, so the chiefs of these tribes also like to call themselves kings and regard their tribes as a country.

In fact, this so-called tribe is actually no more than a village, and it belongs to the nature of self-entertainment.

But in any case, after so many years, the Southwestern Yi and the Huaxia princes, especially the Chu State, had a lot of exchanges, so they gradually made some progress in the social system.

In addition, Zhuang Yu, the general of the Chu State, led a Chu army to the southwest after he failed to fight against the Qin State decades ago, and conquered the original territory of the Dian Kingdom, claiming to be the King of Dian, which directly promoted the Southwest Big changes here.

Numerous tribes began brutal annexation, among which the most outstanding one was the most powerful Yelang Kingdom, besides Dian King Zhuangyu who had the regular army of Chu Kingdom.

This is why the Yelang King in history actually asked Qin Shihuang's envoy: "Which one is bigger between my Yelang and Huaxia?"

The reason is that Yelang is indeed one of the most powerful countries among the Southwestern Yi. King Yelang thinks that we have not fought against the original King of Dian, and that is the same thing. Other Central Plains Chinese countries may be stronger, but It's not going anywhere.

Of course, later facts let the Yelang King know that his understanding was completely wrong.

Zhao Kuo was suddenly a little puzzled, and said to Guo Zong, "You are in charge of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Arms, why did you suddenly get involved with Yelang?"

Guo Zong smiled slightly, and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this time, it's really a financial matter.

The Southwest Legion said that the local Bo people have extremely fair skin, and although the women's appearance is not like my Huaxia, they can still be called beautiful.

Therefore, the Southwest Army hopes that His Majesty will allow them to capture Bo people as slaves and hand them over to our Ministry of Finance to offset part of the funds needed by the army. "

Zhao Kuo left a full 15 people in the southwest. The main goal is to let them fight in the southwest and adapt to the local climate. In the future, they can go south and completely control the entire southwest.

Like the Qin Dynasty, although there is also the Yunnan-Guizhou area on the territory, in fact the Qin Dynasty did not set up counties here. It is the officials of Daqin.

The existence of the Southwest Army will undoubtedly help Zhao Kuo make up for the regret of the Great Qin Dynasty.

After all, it has been a year since Zhao Kuo set up the Southwest Army Corps last year. During this year, the Southwest Army Corps has indeed followed Zhao Kuo's order and has been crossing the Yangtze River to attack many tribes in the Southwest Yi. Offensive.

Judging from the latest battle reports, a part of northern Guizhou in the land of Yunnan and Guizhou has been occupied by the Southwest Army, and the power of the Han Dynasty is spreading towards the south at a slow but resolute speed under the leadership of the Southwest Army.

It's just that Zhao Kuo was a little surprised that his Southwest Army actually started a slave trade.

"Bo Nu" Zhao Kuo stroked his beard and fell into deep thought.

Bo people slaves, this is actually a very famous slave in the Qin and Han Dynasties in history.

The Bo people are a kind of Southwestern Yi. According to legend, their ancestors were Aryans from Central Asia. After passing through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they entered the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and finally settled here.

Due to genetic reasons, the skin color of the Bo people is fairer than that of the Southwestern Yi people and even the Chinese people. At the same time, their Aryanized Western faces also have a characteristic of "rare things are more expensive" .

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Bo people slaves, especially Bo people slaves, were very popular among the upper-class nobles. If anyone’s family did not have one or two beautiful Bo people concubines, you would be ashamed to say that you were in the top class. From aristocratic families.

With this historical precedent, Zhao Kuo is not incomprehensible to the suggestion put forward by the Southwest Army. After all, people have aesthetic values ​​and love for beauty.

What Zhao Kuo considered was actually another question.

Should slavery be abolished?

Slavery sounds like a very inhuman and anti-human system. If it can be abolished, it will undoubtedly be a great merit.

But Zhao Kuo, as the emperor of the Great Han Kingdom, of course cannot do anything out of merit considerations. Zhao Kuo's consideration angle is actually very simple. Is this matter good for the Great Han Kingdom?

In history, the slavery system lasted until the modern times of China. Even in the later modern times, there are still many extremely backward countries on the earth that still retain the slavery system.

Like history, Ottoman Turkey has captured a large number of Slavs as slaves, so among English words, the word "Slav" and "slave" are almost the same.

As for the notorious "triangular trade" carried out by the European colonial countries in the Atlantic Ocean, it is not to mention that the black people in modern Midi are still using this matter to condemn the white people.

Slavery has existed for so long, of course, for a reason.

First of all, slaves can provide slave owners with sufficient and cheap labor, and can help slave owners expand production and obtain more materials.

Secondly, slaves can also act as retinues or guards for slave owners during wars, and they are generally loyal and can help slave owners win better on the battlefield.

Finally, the slave itself is a kind of wealth that is relatively stable and can be used for a long time. The cost of feeding slaves is very low.

All of these will lead to the fact that slavery has not completely disappeared from the earth until modern times.

So, does the current Han Dynasty need slavery?

Zhao Kuo thought for a while, and listed some considerations in his mind.

First, the Han Kingdom is now at a point in time when the land is vast and sparsely populated. There are only 600 million people in the 3000 million square kilometers of land, and more labor is needed to cultivate the land.

Second, it is not impossible to introduce a large-scale alien population and try to assimilate, but there is a very famous counterexample in history, that is, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, a large number of northern Hu people went south to the Central Plains, and finally led to the " Five random China" incident.

Third, from a management point of view, if it is to assimilate these alien races, the Han Kingdom will need to spend a lot of manpower and energy to teach these alien races the Chinese culture, so that they can gradually integrate.

However, if these alien races are directly treated as slaves, then on the one hand, the cost of management will be much lower, and on the other hand, it will also have the effect of gradually integrating these slaves into Huaxia.

Fourth, the Han Kingdom will definitely continue to expand in the future, so more and more frontier land will need to be reclaimed by Chinese immigrants.

But now that there is still plenty of land in China, who has the motivation to go to the frontier to reclaim land?

At this time, the value of slaves comes out. It only needs to mobilize one slave owner, and he can take dozens or even hundreds of slaves to the frontier to cultivate, which is equivalent to a dozen or even dozens of families, and the price is extremely high.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuo already had the answer in his heart.

From the perspective of human civilization, slavery must of course be abolished, and equality for all is the most basic principle.

But from the point of view of the Huaxia people and the Great Han Kingdom, Zhao Kuo thinks they are equal?

nonexistent.

As the emperor of the Great Han Kingdom, of course I want to make the life of the Chinese people of the Great Han better. If the price of doing this is to make those foreigners become slaves of China, I don't care!This is like the Western white countries in later generations. They will only exploit the yellow race and black people all over the world through various economic and political means. Will they care about the well-being of other races and the life and death of other races?

Will not.

That being the case, why do I want to be a saint at this time?

Let Huaxia become stronger first, let Huaxia occupy the entire earth first, then let's come back and slowly talk about equality for everyone, and then come back and consider the abolition of slaves.

Now, Zhao Kuo coughed, and said lightly: "Of course it is feasible to capture slaves, and it is also possible to sell them through channels in the hands of the Ministry of Finance.

But I want to be clear on two points. The first point is that no Chinese person can be reduced to a slave. This is my bottom line.

The second point is that not only female slaves, but also young and strong male slaves should also be targeted for arrest. "

Guo Zong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty knows that His Majesty is far-sighted and will definitely agree to this matter."

Guo Zong didn't think as much as Zhao Kuo did. The Minister of Finance was just a little worried that His Majesty was too kind and would be lenient to those Bo people.

Zhao Kuo said with a smile: "But, you have to pay close attention, the army is the army, and you must not have anything to do with money.

Go tell that guy Li Mu tomorrow that the Southwestern Army is only responsible for fighting and arresting people, and all other things are handled by the Ministry of Finance. This must be a clear process, understand? "

Li Mu, as the Taiwei of the Great Han Kingdom, also has many old stories in the Southwest Army Corps. You don't need to think about it. It must be that the Southwest Army Corps talked about Li Mu first, and then Li Mu went to Guo Zong. The two discussed it. Later, Zhao Kuo was approached by Guo Zong.

Guo Zonglian claimed it was, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I'm absolutely serious about money, and I'm sure I won't let those big soldiers get even a single copper coin!"

Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

While speaking, a rather imposing door appeared in front of Zhao Kuo, and there was a very eye-catching signboard on the door.

"The No. [-] Weapons Factory of the Han Kingdom".

Zhao Kuo looked at the signboard and nodded with satisfaction.