"Why should you be so good to slaves?"

On the official road by the Jishui River, the prince rode his horse and followed his father, and couldn't help asking.

"Because they are not beasts but humans, people have thoughts." Luo Cheng answered his son in this way.

"But the slave law is more than the animal property. Isn't this stipulated by the Kaiyuan Law of the Great Qin?"

"It is indeed Lubi's animal property, but slaves are not livestock. Although they work like livestock and do things to serve people, they will think that if they are oppressed and unbearable, they will rise up and resist." Luo Cheng pointed to the fields on both sides of the road, "Prince, you look at the fields in front of you and the villages in the distance. What are you thinking about?"

The straight and flat official road is more than three meters wide, with willow trees on the side of the road, and ditches under the road. Below the road is connected by the fields, and smoke is curling in the distance.

"Father, what I see is the peace and stability of the country under the rule of my father, and what I see is the people living and working in peace and contentment."

Luo Cheng just shook his head.

"I have walked this road many times. I remember that it was more than ten years ago when we first took it. At that time, we were sixteen years old. As soon as we became a middle-aged man, we were summoned by the government to dig a canal in Jijun on the north bank of the Yellow River. My third uncle from the same village and I came along the road with dry food and bedding. At that time, we were in panic. The road was full of civil servants who were serving in the service. Everyone had vegetables, and the road was bumpy. There were not so many trees on the roadside, and the canals were disrepaired. Many fields were even deserted because no one was farmed, and many villages were empty because of the escape."

"On the roadside, you can even see dead bodies smelling foul and maggots growing at any time."

"After more than a year, I passed this journey again. At that time, I was no longer a civil servant who dug the river, but a captain of the Zhangqiu Township Group. He brought the village braves to suppress the bandits. At that time, many of the bandits and bandits in Shandong and Henan were fugitives. They could not survive in their hometowns, so they took their families to flee to flee to famine, but the meal was not so easy to ask for. When they were hungry, they simply went up the mountain to settle the grass. But bandits were not so easy to be, and some people became bandits, so the court naturally wanted to suppress bandits and catch them."

When talking about that past, Luo Cheng was also very impressed.

"At that time, the Central Plains was in chaos and the people were living in poverty. The government recruited the people to do military service every day, and all kinds of taxes were added. The people broke their families and fled to flee. They either became refugees to beg for food or became bandits. So on this land, the taxes were as fierce as tigers, and the servants were as cruel as wolves. The good people turned into vicious bandits and bandits, and turned around and harmed the people. The government army was even more vicious than bandits. Once the troops crossed the border, they often led the bandits to suppress the people together, and the people were living in poverty."

Speaking of that time, there were no burial bones everywhere on the roadside.

There are abandoned fields and abandoned villages everywhere.

If you don't walk in a team, you won't dare to go out at all.

"The Emperor of Sui is cruel and stupid." The prince said.

Luo Cheng smiled.

"My father is telling you this now, not to evaluate the Emperor of Sui, but to tell you that the people are water, the king is a boat, and the water can carry a boat or cover the boat. The same people, Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, was quite generous to the people, so he had the prosperous era of Kaihuang. Yang Jian was very fond of merit and self-righteous, but the officials forced the people to rebel, and the world was boiling, limiting the people to water and fire, and he himself eventually lost his country."

"So, the most important thing in governing the world is to make the people live and work in peace and contentment, so that the people can have food and clothing. As long as the people can have food and clothing, everyone will live a peaceful life. If the people can't even solve the food and clothing, it is useless for you to talk about any great cause. The emperor lets the people not have enough food and food, and the court can't live a life, then even the weakest people will sacrifice their lives to rebel. There is a saying that as long as you are willing to sacrifice yourself, you dare to take down the emperor."

"Jiawen, the sages talk about the doctrine of the mean. Do you know what this doctrine of the mean means?"

"Father, the doctrine of the mean comes from the Analects of Confucius. The doctrine of the mean is the virtue. He Yan, a great scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, gathered and explained it, is the way to be practiced in harmony and can be practiced regularly."

Luo Cheng nodded, "That's right, to put it simply, mean is not mediocrity, but rather a steady and peaceful way to go without extremes. It should be adapted to the times, according to the conditions of the things, according to the situation, according to the situation, according to the conditions, according to the local conditions. Remember to not go to extremes."

"Yang Guang went to extremes and acted too quickly, and finally destroyed the world." Luo Cheng looked at the prince, "I know that you are so talented, so I never thought about how powerful you will become in the future. I also hope that you can face this point of your own. In the future, I will be very satisfied if you can be a king who is in charge of your achievements."

When the prince heard this, he lowered his head in disappointment.

"Jiawen, it's nothing wrong with being an ordinary person. Since ancient times, there have been so many emperors and how many truly remarkable kings, most of them are just ordinary people. You are still young now, and I will try to cut the thorns on the scepter for you. In the future, I will hand over a smooth scepter to you, and I will also choose more virtuous talents for you. With a good system and a good prime minister, then after you inherit the Qin Dynasty in the future, as long as you don't do anything wrong, the Qin Dynasty will continue to flourish smoothly."

Luo Cheng hopes to complete the expansion of the Qin Dynasty at the beginning of its founding in his own hands. After completing this round of expansion, Luo Chengru plans to start to gather his fists and concentrate on internal governance, so that the world will become more stable and that Jiawen can inherit a more peaceful world.

So now he is so concerned about slaves, just because he doesn't want to save such complicated issues until the future.

"We drive the donkey and horse to pull the mill, and we also know that we should hang the grass on the donkey's head. This is to give people hope. Slaves are humans and more complicated. Therefore, we need to be more cautious when formulating the system. We must not only see the present, but also see fifty and one hundred years later. If the court does not have a reasonable system, then tens of millions of slaves in the empire will sooner or later become a huge problem, and may even ruin the Qin world."

"Father, isn't it possible?"

"As long as you are a human, there is nothing impossible, everything is possible. Think about it, what is the total population of the Qin Dynasty now?"

The prince has also begun to study government affairs now, but he knows that "according to the memorial of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the beginning of the year, today there are more than 12 million households with a registered household registration and an 81 million household registration."

"Well, I remember it well, so how many slaves are there in these more than 80 million people?"

"More than 1,200 million slaves."

"In addition to these more than 2 million slaves, there are many newly-reborn barbarians, Hu Di, and there are no less than 10 million." Luo Cheng analyzed to the prince, "The population of 80 million is 12 million, and the newly-reborn barbarians are 10 million. This means that in fact, among the 80 million people in the Qin Dynasty, slaves account for half of the 80 million people, and the newly-reborn barbarians also account for more than 10%, which together accounts for nearly 30%."

"Of the ten people, three of them are either slaves or barbarians, which is very dangerous."

"But the court needs slaves, work, service, cultivate land, mining, etc.."

Luo Cheng nodded, "For this reason, the court did not prohibit slaves, but it could not ignore these hidden risks. Therefore, the court needs to ensure that these hidden dangers are digested from a system perspective. The way the father thought of now is to give these slaves some hope to slowly digest these problems, rather than letting the problems continue to ferment and become bigger."

Legislation protects slaves from abuse and killing, legislation protects their basic wages, and basic living conditions. It even promises that the third generation of slaves can be a free employee status, and that the third generation can be freely hired, and that the third generation can be directly naturalized by the good citizenship. These are all to clear and digest the hidden dangers brought by the slave system and avoid the final detonation of slave conflicts.

Three generations and three generations, Luo Cheng believes that after these slaves who lived in the Central Plains for several generations, they will be able to integrate into China after all. There is hope for the future and basic life guarantees, so that the possibility of slaves' resistance can be minimized.
Chapter completed!