Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 929

"Is there something on your mind, Your Majesty?"

A gentle voice rang in his ears, the emperor raised his head and found Mrs. Changsun asking with concern.

"How did you come?"

"It was His Majesty who sent the king's servant to pass the news, and ordered the ministers and concubines to sleep tonight. Has Your Majesty forgotten?"

Having said that, Luo Chengcai remembered that the Wang's servant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came over and asked him to turn over the signs of the concubines. Because the queen came, Concubine Li Gui was filial to her father, and Concubine Zheng and Concubine Cui were both She was pregnant, so the emperor flipped the sign of Changsun Zhaoyi.

Under normal circumstances, Luo Cheng lives in Xingyuan Hall.

Ziwei Palace is divided into court area and dormitory area. To the north of Qianyang, Wencheng and Wu'an halls is the first horizontal street in the palace.

The main hall of the dormitory area is the Kaiyuan Hall, with Kaiyuan Gate in the south. This is not only the emperor's bedroom, but also the place where the prime minister is usually summoned to listen to the government. The Chang Dynasty is in the Xuanzheng Hall to the west.

Further north is the second horizontal street in the palace, and north of the street is the bedroom where the concubines live.

The emperor lived in the Kaiyuan Hall, the main hall, and there were several halls on the left, right and rear of him, which were side halls such as the Imperial Study Room.

To the north is the Zhenyuan Hall, and there are several halls on the left, right and rear of him. The Zhenyuan Hall is the residence of the queen, and the surrounding halls are the residences of other concubines.

The Kaiyuan and Zhenyuan palaces are the same in front and back, and the surrounding halls are enclosed by walls to form a sleeping area.

In the palaces of Kaiyuan Hall, the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared 36 dragon beds for the emperor in dozens of rooms. The room where the emperor sleeps is different every night. Even before going to bed, Luo Cheng didn't know where he would sleep tonight.

When the emperor wants to visit his concubines, he will occasionally go to the concubine's palace, and more often he will directly turn over the card and be summoned by the internal servant to serve the bed. The four concubines and nine concubines usually stay after the bed, but the lower-level wives and The royal wife returns to her residence after serving the bed.

The third class of world wives includes Jieyu, Meiren, and Cairen, each with nine titles, and imperial wives include Baolin Yufu Cainu, each with 27 titles.

Of course, now the emperor's harem is full except for one empress and four concubines, not even nine concubines, and there are only a few wives in the 27th generation.

The emperor is busy with government affairs every day, and there are too many things to do, so there is less time for this aspect.Sometimes even the concubine will not be called to bed for many days.

In this busyness, he even forgot to call his eldest grandson today.

Luo Cheng pulled his eldest grandson to sit beside him, "I was just thinking about something, but my mind was distracted. Now that the north is pacified, I also declared amnesty to the world before. Those people who were coerced into thieves during the Daye years, as long as they are willing to return to their hometowns, then the past Don’t blame the past. After this amnesty was issued, the effect is still good. Many people who used to be thieves or escaped into the mountains and forests have mostly gone down the mountain. However, there are still some people who are desperate and reckless, gather in the mountains and forests, and run amok.”

For this reason, Luo Cheng ordered all the counties and counties, ordered the government soldiers, county soldiers, and village braves to dispatch together to severely crack down on and arrest those bandits who resisted to the end.

The effect is still very strong, especially now that the war in the north has been decided, and the imperial court has sufficient power to encircle and suppress these bandits. The number of captures reported by the county newspapers is astonishing, reaching hundreds of thousands.

For these bandits who resisted to the end, the prime ministers of the imperial court also had different opinions.

Some people think that they should be merciful, all of them should be pardoned and released, and let them return to their hometowns.

Some people also think that the north has just been pacified, and many places are still in great chaos. At this time, it is even more necessary to use heavy codes to deter the lawless, and they should be killed.

And those who advocate crackdowns, some think that only the bandit leaders and backbones should be held accountable, while others think that they should all be dealt with.

"Is Your Majesty worried about this?"

"Yes, after all, there are tens of thousands of people. Of course, there are many vicious desperadoes among them, and many of them are just coerced. There are also some who have committed crimes and want to repent now." Luo Cheng nodded.

"Then what is His Majesty's attitude?"

Luo Cheng's idea was to kill but also to pardon, and carefully interrogated and screened all the captured people to distinguish them.For those who have committed serious crimes, they must not be let go, and they must be upright and typical, or executed in a public trial to reassure the people, or demoted to slaves, or exiled to the frontier to colonize and expand.

And for the majority, those who have only committed minor crimes, or who are coerced accomplices, should be pardoned for their crimes.Even the family members of those thieves should not be implicated.

However, he also had to consider that these people really had a bad reputation in the local area, and even harmed many people.

So he planned to immigrate all these people to the frontier to enrich the frontier counties such as Daifang, Wuchuan, Wuyuan, Xiping, and Dunhuang.

"Since His Majesty has made up his mind, why is he still hesitating?" asked the eldest grandson.

"Several 10 people have immigrated to the frontier, and these people have some bad records. I am worried that sending all these people to the frontier will make the frontier more difficult to manage."

But Changsun said, "The concubine thinks that the borderlands are remote and barbarous, the conditions are harsh, and they have to guard against threats from the barbarians, so it is necessary for the border people to be more sturdy."

"Hahaha, what you said is reasonable. I just happened to be thinking about one thing, which is to move all the Han slaves in the hands of the government to the border areas, give them freedom, let them cultivate wasteland and guard the border, and enrich their lives. frontier."

The Sui Dynasty was the era when the government and private owned a large number of slaves. In today's Qin Dynasty, the number of slaves is still extremely large.Most of them came from wars, etc. For example, when Luo Cheng destroyed Goguryeo, he took more than 300 million captives from Goguryeo, and the war against Goguryeo was not over yet.

Several wars with the Turks also allowed Luo Cheng to get hundreds of thousands of Turkic prisoners.

Coupled with the civil strife in the Central Plains, many bandits and enemy soldiers were also reduced to prisoners, not to mention the large number of slaves that merchants plundered and sold from Liuqiu, Linyi, Silla and other places.

There are many foreign slaves, but there are also many Han Chinese slaves, many privately owned slaves, and a large share owned by the government.

Although Daqin has unified the north, it has twenty lands, but its total population is only about 3000 million, including slaves.

This number is far less than the nearly 900 million households with a population of 5000 million at the peak of the Sui Dynasty.But now the Great Qin pursues an external expansion strategy, so Liaoning, Andong, Yunnan, Central Guizhou, Jiannan, Longyou, and Annan have very small populations, especially the large number of barbarians, and the Han population is too small.

Luo Cheng hopes to quickly improve the situation by releasing the Han slaves in the hands of the government and relocating to the frontier.

However, releasing slaves as free citizens is also a big direct loss for the court. After all, every slave is very valuable. This matter will inevitably make many ministers object, not to mention that there are many Han slaves who are slaves. People are caused by felony crimes they have committed, and there are risks if they are released and rehabilitated.

"Your Majesty, from a short-term perspective, this will cause a lot of losses to the imperial court, but from a long-term perspective, it will be of great help to your Majesty's frontier national policy." Changsun's words were to the point.

Luo Cheng nodded.

"You are right. It is indeed beneficial in the long run. Thirty percent of the current population of Daqin is slaves, of which Hu Yifan slaves account for 600 percent, and Han slaves account for 240 percent. Among the approximately [-] million slaves, official slaves account for about [-] percent. This is There are about [-] million slaves, and if these slaves are transformed into self-cultivating farmers on the frontier, the imperial court will be able to increase a lot of taxation and increase a lot of fields and food in the border areas."

Thinking of this, Luo Cheng finally made up his mind to carry out this decision.

(End of this chapter)