Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 338 Untitled
Breakfast is not officially distributed until noon.

It’s still rough rice and black salt…

Qiao ate with gusto, but unfortunately, the portion that each person could eat was limited, otherwise Qiao would have had to eat a big bowl of dry rice.

After eating, the ecstasy continued in Qiao's chest. At this time, Qiao felt more and more uneasy for no reason.

Bewildered, he followed the crowd and obeyed the officials' arrangements.

Pack up the gifts, collect travel expenses and food rations for returning home.

Daqin's official roads and even the villages, there are post stations along the way, except for places that are inaccessible, basically there is no need to bury pots for cooking.

The inn will provide hot water service and food processing service. If you have a title, you will also be provided with free meals.

Yes, free of charge based on title level.

Of course, don’t worry about the official meal expenses unless there is an update, and don’t worry about private rooms when taking a break. Both are hot water services outside the Datong store.

Private rooms and official meals are provided, and the minimum title standards are for doctors.

Titles are just a grading system for people, but Qin State did this more thoroughly.

In the Qin Dynasty, the higher the title, the more preferential treatment. These are special treatments that are actually written in the law. Not only can the title be used to offset guilt, but also all aspects of life, including food, clothing, housing, transportation and daily life, have a set Standard correspondence.

The main focus is to artificially delineate detailed class classifications through laws, and it is precisely because the Qin State's classification system is thoroughly implemented that the gap between people with different titles becomes wider.

Again, there is no harm without comparison.

Everything is designed to inspire people's upward aspirations in all aspects of life.

Self-employed people without a title basically have to survive...

If a natural or man-made disaster occurs, it will go bankrupt in an instant. The Qin State is still a slave country. Even if self-employed people go bankrupt, their labor will not be wasted. Do officials and slaves understand?
Without enough slaves, how could we provide such a clear hierarchy of titles?

Therefore, families that have lost their strong labor force and have no title will naturally become official slaves within a few years.

Again, the Qin Dynasty never minded slaves redeeming themselves through the military merit system. They could not only redeem their own bodies, but also those of their family members. To redeem a person with a first-level title was a clear price tag, and redemption was achieved through meritorious service.

Moreover, the official slaves of the Qin Dynasty actually had certain human rights.

For example, for those who are already married, even if one of them becomes a slave, their marriage is still protected by the law. Even if they become a slave, the government or an individual is not qualified to rearrange their marriage, of course, except for special circumstances.

At the same time, it is still the same sentence, meritorious service and redemption.

No matter who this slave is assigned to, even if it is assigned to the current prince, if the family performs meritorious service and redeems his body immediately, no one can stop or interfere.

There are only two ways to achieve meritorious service: be good at farming, pay more taxes, or kill the enemy bravely on the battlefield.

In essence, it is to make people work hard for farming and war at all costs.

Especially for those families where some members of the family have become slaves, but the strong laborers have not yet become slaves. Their family members will usually be assigned lighter jobs, and even if they are rewarded, they will not be too far away. The purpose is to facilitate redemption.

In addition, money can only buy slaves and cannot be redeemed as common people.

As long as the slaves of the Qin Dynasty are recorded in the register, they can only exchange for the other party to become a free person through the title of title.

Another point is that the rewards for first-class titles in the Qin Dynasty were also clearly marked, with a concubine, a house, an annual salary of fifty dan, and a hectare of land (fifty acres).
Basically, every time you upgrade to a noble level, it will be superimposed on this basis.

Therefore, objectively speaking, using the merits of a first-class title to redeem a slave as a free man is a loss-making transaction, and the loss is a lot.Qiao was lucky. During the period of his departure, despite losing a strong laborer, the family worked hard and no one became a slave for the time being.

In short, with confusion and anxiety, Qiao looked back at the place where he had lived for a long time, and looked at the officials urging the servants to get out. After hesitating for a long time, he finally had the courage to lower his head and speak.

"Sir...when will the next expedition be?"

Qiao originally wanted to ask whether the recruitment would be stopped after returning this time, but when the words came to his lips, Qiao changed his words to one with high emotional intelligence.

"Do ghosts know?" The officials looked at each other and smiled.

Conscription is compulsory. If nothing happens, you may not be conscripted for decades. If you have been in war for years, you are the reincarnation of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, so you must do the conscription.

In the case of frequent wars and huge construction projects, it is not necessary to have a moral saint-like king to avoid wasting people and money.

Your home is gone, why are you still living in such a wretched way and living with the people?

As for when Qin will recruit officials, it is even less certain.

However, the officials' information channels were naturally wider. The servants regarded Zhao Si as a good official, and the officials even regarded Zhao Si as a god.

This matter is outrageous, Zhao Si felt that Daqin's corvee and taxes were too heavy, and the court persuaded him, but the result?

Although Zhao Si said that he was righteous and awe-inspiring, he seemed not afraid of life and death.

But it’s not like the First Emperor had never beheaded people before. The last person who mentioned this to the First Emperor was planning to remonstrate with death, and the grass on the tomb was already three feet high.

After all, Zhao Si is not the only one who is not afraid of death. The key is that the First Emperor really listens to Zhao Si.

Zhao Si is really close to the king. As long as Zhao Si does not lose his favor, I am afraid that this corvee will have to stop for a long time.

Even if construction starts, I'm afraid it won't be as big a deal as it is now, with hundreds of thousands of laborers in Guizhou being employed at every turn.

"It will take a while..." The official seemed to be in a good mood, but he reluctantly answered.

Qiao felt a little disappointed, but this was good news.

I hope I won’t be drafted next time.

The current taxation will not save anything at all throughout the year. Without a strong labor force, we can barely survive in one or two years.

If it had been five or six years, the family would have been reduced to slavery.

They are just trying to survive, let alone enlisting.On weekdays, Qiao doesn't even dare to get sick.

The throat is tightened all year round. If you relax a little, you will worry about the whole family becoming a slave...

There is no capital and means to resist risks.

"But you don't have to worry about conscription anymore. Zhao Shangqing reported that the tax has been reduced from fifteen to eleven, so you can work hard without encountering any disasters or famines, and you don't have to worry about becoming a slave." A small official said kindly. .

The official briefly answered the question about the bridge and then urged the other servants to get on the road.

Qiao was left standing there counting on his fingers.

There is no way, how much is fifteen, how much is eleven, and how much difference there is in between, for a person in a cultural desert like Qiao, it has to be counted for a while.

(Some people are talking about it, and some people hope to write more about this plot. I have also made an outline myself. It will probably be about six or seven chapters, and I will briefly analyze the death of Qin Dynasty II from several angles. The core of the problem, of course, is just a brief analysis. It does not come from policy, but from social customs and people's simple emotions. Express it with the most direct interests.)
(End of this chapter)