You are not afraid of thieves stealing, but you are afraid of thieves thinking about it.

Especially when this thief who is thinking about you is still a dignified Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

"Are you serious?" Li Shimin asked Li Chao, suspecting that he was changing the subject.

The lowly people are a long-standing one. Strictly speaking, the lowly people refer to people who are excluded from the four major classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. These people are lowly people, and have been unfamiliar people for generations, and have been unfamiliar people. They cannot change their careers. They cannot participate in the imperial examinations, nor can they become officials, and they are not even qualified to be a military officer.

Musicians, prostitutes, actors, etc.

People with low status and low status. People with low status can only engage in low status. Low status means happy households, prostitutes, actors, and even souvenirs.

This is similar to Ah San's caste system, and the untouchables cannot be changed.

To put it bluntly, merchants and craftsmen are also low-ranking, and craftsmen and merchants are all craftsmen and the other are businessmen, and they are not included in good citizenship. They and their descendants cannot take the imperial examinations and even become soldiers in the government.

In the Tang Dynasty, the first-class citizens were of course scholars and farmers. The second-class ones were craftsmen and merchants, and the third-class ones were those, such as prostitutes and actors.

Of course, if you want to talk about the most humble ones, they are still corpses and slaves.

They are not even considered human, they are just private property.

From the national perspective, slaves are not considered humans or people of the state. The state does not give them power, and they have no obligations to the state. These people do not serve or pay taxes. Anyway, even their lives are in the hands of slave owners, so they naturally have nothing to do with the state.

Li Chao proposed that the court openly formulate laws, allowing these slaves and untouchables to change their hometowns by paying money to the court and allow them to become good people.

For the court, this is not only about getting the money back, but also about the increase in the country's population. Good people are the country's population, and untouchables are not considered to be.

The court can place these people who have changed from untouchables to good people in the border areas to settle down. They reclaim wasteland for the court, pay taxes to the court, and even serve in military service and Yao service. For the court, these are all the growth of national strength.

This policy is actually just like the previous rectification of Buddhist temples. Monks are also not considered people of the country. Those are just parasites.

"The court can not only let the officials and slaves redeem themselves, but also set the standard for the redeem of private slaves. As long as they can spend so much money to the slave owner, the government will preside over the redeem for them."

Li Shimin also became interested.

"But, slaves are just the private property of slave owners. Where do they get the money? Even their lives belong to slave owners. Their children are all slaves born in the family. Where can they still have money?"

Li Shimin knew that Li Chao's family also had slaves, and there were many, many in the mansion and manor, from all over the place. However, the slaves of the Li family were said to be well treated. Even if they were slaves, the Li family also set work and vacation time for them and set work salary standards for them. Although the salary was low, they could still get wages if they worked hard, and they did a good job and rewards.

The highest reward is a certain amount of exemption per year.

It is precisely because of this that the Li family has always had a good reputation. But after all, there are a few people like the Li family. Other wealthy families may give some monthly money to the maids and slaves in the manor, but they will not be treated so well to the slaves in the outside manors, mines, and workshops.

Being able to fill your stomach is the best treatment. If you give some rest time occasionally or give some food, it will be good. Do you want to get a salary?

The slave system is actually beneficial to slave owners, but it is not very beneficial to the country. Because this is just like the feudal system in the Spring and Autumn Period, the retainers under the princes who were granted by the Zhou king only took their own family heads and princes as the main ones, and did not respect the monarch of the family heads.

The retainers of the princes only had the throne in their eyes, but did not have the Emperor of Zhou.

By the same token, in the eyes of the slaves, their heaven is the slave owner, not the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

On the other hand, the court could not collect taxes from these slaves, nor could it be levied to serve them.

"Your Majesty, the court may be able to come up with a law that stipulates that all slaves, regardless of their official position, enjoy the minimum salary guarantee. The court sets a minimum salary standard, and slave owners must ensure that they enjoy the minimum salary according to this standard."

Li Chao proposed to introduce a labor protection law. Originally, he wanted to call the slave protection law, but he still left it alone.

"Set a minimum salary standard for slaves?" The more Li Shimin heard it, the more interesting it became. No one had ever done this before.

Even Prince Chengqian was already sitting upright and listened to Li Chao's explanation carefully.

"Your Majesty, I am all for the benefit of the country. Now, those slaves are nothing to the Tang Dynasty, and there is no benefit to the country. Our system of labor security law ensures that slaves have basic wages and enjoy basic personal rights. To put it bluntly, it is benevolence and kindness. His Majesty is worried about these slaves and pity them. But if we consider it from a practical point of view, it is to cooperate with good laws so that these slaves can save money, pay money and redeem freedom, and become good people."

"A slave, he is not a citizen of the court, and it will not benefit the court. But once he becomes a good person, he is the population registered in the Tang Dynasty, the tax base of the court, and the source of the army. For the Tang Dynasty, if one population is added, the national strength will be enhanced by a little."

That's what it means.

The last time the Buddhist and Taoist rectification was carried out, the new population of the imperial court was quite scary, the registered population increased significantly, the den of the population increased greatly, and the national strength increased greatly.

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Li Shimin is not the prince, so he will not be able to laugh from ear to ear when he hears Li Chao's words like the prince. He thinks more and thinks more.

This regulation is indeed to protect national interests.

However, this is to dig meat from the nobles and local tribes.

Those slave owners could have paid a penny without paying the slaves, but now they have to pay a large amount of extra expenses with a minimum wage.

For many slave owners, buying slaves is like buying livestock, which is used for labor. Have you ever seen anyone paying wages to cattle and horses? Just keeping them in food and living, and being disobedient, repairing and training a whip, and still paying wages?

"If this is not done well, someone will rebel."

Li Chao shook his head.

It is not easy to rebel, but it is also rebellious, and the world is over. What is really easy to rebel is the people. When they have nothing and have nothing to eat, they will rebel.

Those who have a family property and a family property will not rebel so easily.

Whoever lives in peace but wants to rebel is easy to lose his head.
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