Datang Library

Chapter 604
Bai Fan's face turned red, and he didn't know whether it was because of embarrassment or because he was angry at the proportion of [-]%. He murmured, "How, how? The court doesn't care? Don't you know what [-]% slaves means?"

Most of the people present may be of noble origin, and only Du Ruhui and Yu Chigong are considered grassroots. Although Du Ruhui's ancestors also served as officials, Lao Du had suffered and starved in Du's manor when he was young. of.

People of noble origin, not to mention whether they have the awareness to oppose slaves, their status alone makes them unable to stand up against them. At this time, Lao Du came out to speak out because of his friendship with Bai Fan, and explained it clearly to him. Under such circumstances, no one will publicize this matter in public, after all, it is not a glorious thing.

"In short, are the slaves you know still people like Xia, Shang and Zhou who are no different from livestock?
If it is that kind, then the current Datang basically does not have it, at least not daring to show it.

What I call a slave is called a slave in Datang! "

Bai Fan woke up suddenly, "Slave? Could it be the so-called slave of the servant girl?"

Yes!It must be this, I should have thought of it earlier, the seventh uncle suggested that he buy some servants and come back to look after the house, and told himself some things about the servants and slaves. It is nothing more than selling a son to sell a daughter to sell oneself. Now it seems that it is far from that simple.Bai Fan was secretly annoyed.

Du Ruhui said with a wry smile, "The maidservant's slave song, what a maidservant's servant's song."

"That's right, you might think that placing Nu in the same position as these three is to elevate the status of Nu.

Ha ha, actually it is not the case, this remark is very incisive, but it is secretly ironic, ironic that these four identities are all slaves.

The servant girl clearly refers to the maidservant, but how many maidservants enter the government as workers?How can a maid who works as a worker reassure the master?In fact, it refers to the maids who sell themselves into slavery.

Workers are not the master craftsmen enshrined in your academy, but the private craftsmen that every family has. They are called slave labor, even though most of these people were forced to sell themselves as slaves in the famine year.

And slave is a collective term for slaves and servants.

Qu refers to trilogy, implying private soldiers and dead soldiers and even retainers.

These four are all labeled as slaves, why?That is, no matter why these people have fallen to this point, now they no longer have personal freedom and all rights, and everything is firmly controlled by the master. Essentially, how is it different from slaves?It's just that the methods used by the nobles to enslave them are more subtle, or put on a layer of human nature, hey..."

Speaking of this, Du Ruhui sighed, could it be that society is progressing and human nature is falling?

Li Erqing coughed: "Keming, I'm going too far, let's talk about the origin of these people."

Du Ruhui raised his head, smiled slightly, and realized that he was indeed far away, but so what?Since you want to say it, it's better to say it thoroughly once.

And Bai Fan knew it well, and secretly snorted coldly, if the biggest nobleman and slave owner in the entire Tang Dynasty is probably the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how many maids and eunuchs are there in the palace?Roughly, there are [-], not to mention the serfs who farmed the land for the emperor outside.

Old Du is really funny, in order to clear up his own doubts, he dared to expose the scandal of the emperor. This is Lao Du, who is absolutely determined not to worry about His Majesty keeping a small notebook.

"You just said that the imperial court knew about this, why didn't they interfere?
That's because their source is probably the imperial court. "

"how is this possible?"

"Nothing is impossible, and it is completely in line with the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

You know, slaves are divided into official slaves and private slaves. The source of official slaves is battlefield captives, corrupt officials who committed crimes, ransacked their families, and exterminated their families. If they were caught, they would all serve as official slaves. For the countries that have been killed, it has a huge weight, because at the end of the Sui Dynasty, all the heroes rose together, known as the Eighteenth Route Rebels and the Thirty-sixth Route Yanchen, all of them are our enemies.

Therefore, most of the current sources of slaves in Datang are official slaves.

The hundreds of thousands of savages we brought back from the grasslands to work in mines are not counted. Those are official slaves that the Tang court does not sell down.

Normal official slaves can be bought and sold in the slave market. They have documents and are protected by the law of the Tang Dynasty. These official slaves can be bought not only by nobles, but also by wealthy commoners to be nurses or servants. See you You can tell from the way you look, you must have never been to the slave market.

Lantian Hou Renyi is famous all over the world, and there is not a single servant girl in the family. Everyone knows, even the eight hundred Wu Yingwei who protect the family, you have to give them their own homes. Going to watch the door for you is the same as we come to the court to work , if we say where the people most want to work as errands?

I'm afraid that half of the people will answer that they will go to the imperial court to be an official, and half of them will answer that they will go to the Lantian Hou's Mansion as an errand, which shows how generous the treatment you give.

In addition to the official slaves mentioned above, there are also private slaves. These are the ones who sold their sons and daughters in disasters or troubled times, or sold themselves, and there are also a small number of human traffickers. In order to survive, they can only sell As a slave, there is no freedom and human rights, and life and death are in the hands of the master from now on.

This is the slave!
What I said today does not mean contempt. As the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, I feel sad for the class of slaves in the Tang Dynasty. Don’t say that [-]% of the people are slaves. It means that there is a slave in the Tang Dynasty. All ashamed.

In my eyes, they are all a group of Tang people who are struggling to survive. It is my incompetence as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to be unable to save them from being reborn.

Back then, you alone protected all the women in brothels in the world. Your arrogance is admirable. What I envy, Lao Du, is your courage to stand up. Don't dare to stand up and shout a big word for the slaves who have no freedom in the world, a certain Du Ruhui is incompetent! "

Du Ruhui's words were full of anger, his face was full of remorse, and there were faint tears in his eyes. Bai Fan looked at it and found that Lao Du's temperament seemed to be different at this time. The difference between Confucian grandeur and righteousness is that Lao Du's righteousness is more vast, or more tolerant. This is not only a change in his mentality of compassion for the world, but also a responsibility of being the prime minister of a country to care for the people of the world.

Du Ruhui, with today's words, is worthy of the name of the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty!
"Well said, I'm not as good as Keming!

If you talk about responsibility, I am the Son of Heaven, and these people are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty. The first person who should be ashamed is not you, Keming, but me, the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, and the parents of the people.

I also promised Jian Zhi that we will build a peerless Tang Dynasty where everyone has clothes, food, and education, but if [-]% of the people are missing on the road to prosperity, it will be my dereliction of duty.

If Jane dares to stand up and be a talisman for the hard-working brothel girls, then I, the emperor, will be the amulet for the slave class of the Tang Dynasty. "

The people present were all convinced by Du Ruhui's righteousness, and they all nodded in praise, but everyone still had different opinions. Everyone has selfishness. Is there anyone who is completely impartial?Yes, but how many dynasties can there be?So Li Er, Bai Fan and others praised him virtuously, and even made up his mind to say that he would change, but these Li Er's confidantes, civil and military, still not many people came out to express their views, and no one was willing to be the leader.

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