At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 632: Rome in Control of Interpretation and Division
The next day, Xu Aimin summoned Liu Heng and handed him Zhang Pijiang's letter. Liu Heng was furious when he saw the slave system of Datong. The Datong Rule was the ideal of all the Han people, but now they were degraded by the Ptolemaic State to become slave owners. They didn't even know what the slave system was like. How could the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period make the Han Dynasty as powerful and wealthy as it is now?

However, after his anger, Liu Heng calmly said: "Ptolemy is just a small country in Daqinzhou. There are a few notorious scholars and lunatics in the country. Your Majesty does not need to care."

This was also Liu Heng's truest thought. First, the Ptolemaic Kingdom was too far away and of no importance to the Han Dynasty. Second, judging from the news brought by Zhang Pijiang, the Ptolemaic Kingdom was already a dead end, with even sparks appearing. The Han Dynasty could just sit back and watch the Ptolemaic Kingdom perish.

Xu Aimin said: "My father once said to me that heretics are more evil than pagans. I never understood what he meant, but after seeing what the scholars of Ptolemy did, I finally understood it. If they continue to distort our rule of great harmony, I am afraid that people in the future will distort our Han Dynasty into a country with a slave system."

"There are many young people in Daqinzhou and the New World who have the ambition to achieve great harmony. Many great harmony associations have even been established. I plan to hold a global great harmony exchange conference this year. Kuaiji County is connected to the four seas, so this conference will be held in Kuaiji County."

"Global Datong Exchange Conference?" Liu Heng looked at the emperor in confusion.

Xu Aimin nodded and said, "Since the great voyages of discovery, the Great Harmony ideology has flourished around the world. We the Han people must have the right to interpret the Great Harmony ideology. We the Han people must have the final say on what the Great Harmony ideology is."

Then he looked at the memorial and said disgustedly, "Otherwise, all kinds of demons and monsters will pop up, and they will also wave the banner of Datong Thought. If it weren't for Pijiang's words, I wouldn't dare to imagine that Datong Thought can be combined with slavery. If this is also called Datong, what will the students of my Great Han think? Datong Thought is the banner of my Great Han, and these foreign countries cannot be tarnished."

Liu Heng nodded slowly. He agreed with this point. The right to interpret Datong Thought should indeed be in the hands of the Han people.

Xu Aimin continued, "Second, we, the Han people, will use the power of this organization to promote the abolition of slavery around the world. It's a different era now, and we are still using a decadent system like slavery."

Liu Heng hesitated and said, "This is not easy."

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, slavery in the Central Plains has been abolished one after another. It was not because the nobles were kind-hearted, but because the fierce wars for hegemony left the various vassal states extremely short of soldiers. Those countries that still retained the slave system were annexed by the army composed of new self-cultivating farmers. Daqinzhou did not have the fierce wars like those in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the local nobles would never give up their rights.

Xu Aimin sneered, "Then support the progressive forces and sweep them into the garbage dump of history. The slave owners in the Central Plains also wanted to maintain their rights, but in the end they were stabbed to death by the spears of the self-cultivating farmers. Moreover, it is too lonely for the Han Dynasty to lead the world's progress alone. The Han Dynasty needs more comrades. The Han Dynasty unites these progressive forces, allowing the global progressive forces to occupy the mainstream and transform the world together. Convening the Global Comrades Conference is left to you."

Liu Heng bowed and said, "I obey your command."

After Liu Heng left, Xu Aimin had not yet calmed down. First, he wrote an article condemning the slave system of Ptolemy scholars. He emphasized that Datong was to liberate people, not to treat people as slaves or tools. What you have is nothing but a naked slavery system. Then he wrote a condemnation article of more than a thousand words.

Maybe it was because he was in the right mood, even though he wrote thousands of words, Xu Aimin still felt that his ideas were flowing like a spring.

So he picked up his pen and wrote down what is universalism?

Why did the Han Dynasty choose universalism?
Why can the Han Dynasty define universalism?

As far as the current global civilization process is concerned, primitive society's ability to create wealth is not as good as feudal slave society, and slave society's ability to create wealth is not as good as industrial society (the Han Dynasty directly caused the feudal society to die in the womb). Among global civilizations, only the Han Dynasty has entered the industrial age. The Han Dynasty has the highest level of civilization and the strongest ability to create wealth. It is the beacon of known civilizations and the elder brother of global civilization. The Han Dynasty has the responsibility and obligation to lead other weak nations and civilizations into a harmonious society.

Xu Aimin then gave the text he had written to his attendants for polishing, and established these ideas as the core ideas of the Global Datong Association.

April 46, 4th year of the Han calendar, Yanzhou Governor's Office.

Zhang Pijiang was surprised when he saw the emperor's telegram, but he soon understood the emperor's intention. This was the emperor's desire to have the right to interpret the scriptures regarding the Great Harmony Governance.

One is to promote the ideas of the Han Dynasty throughout the world in order to rule the globe. Even Zhang Pijiang had to admit that the areas outside the Han Dynasty were too desolate, and many areas were not even qualified to be exploited. This backward world was not in the interests of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty had to transform the world in its own way.

The second is that ideological rule is cheaper and more effective than military rule. The Han Dynasty had a very good effect in the New World. The indigenous people of the Northern Yin Continent were considered Han people, which greatly reduced the conflicts between the indigenous people and the princes. The New World was rapidly developed, and tens of millions of local indigenous people became an important labor force for the development of the New World.

Although it was a stain that the retired emperor fabricated history, he had to admit that it brought great benefits to the Han Dynasty. Now the New World had surpassed India, and Nanyang had become the largest commodity market and raw material production base in the entire Han Dynasty.

Now that the Han Dynasty is leading all the Datong societies and promoting the Han Dynasty's big-screen ideology to the entire world, this will obviously strengthen the Han Dynasty's hegemony over the world more effectively.

Starting in May, an article written by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty caused a sensation in the entire Mediterranean region and attracted the attention and love of scholars from various countries.

Because this was the first time that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty mentioned and talked about the affairs of their Great Qin Continent, but unfortunately it was not a good evaluation.

The Ptolemaic people created a slave system called Datong, which was also praised by many nobles and scholars. But now the emperor of the Han Dynasty criticized it by name, saying that it was not Datong at all, but a slave system in the guise of Datong. It was a naked slander of the Datong ideology.

The prestige of the Emperor of Han in Daqinzhou was very high. All scholars in Daqinzhou admitted that the civilization of the Han Dynasty was one level higher than theirs, and the wealthy life of the Han Dynasty made them envious. The military officials of the Xiongnu were the most powerful among the ten thousand kings in Daqinzhou, so the Emperor of Han was the God King to them.

With the endorsement of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, scholars and nobles throughout the Mediterranean region began to mock those scholars and nobles who came up with the slave system of Datong. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty has approved that you are engaging in slavery and should stop wearing the cloak of Datong. Now the shame is brought upon the Han Dynasty.

Originally, this incident would have become an academic hotspot, but soon the "Global Gay and lesbian exchange conference" hosted by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty spread throughout the Mediterranean region, and even the Consulate General of Qinzhou told them that it could cover their travel tickets.

When the members of the Datong Society and the Holy Word Army heard the news, they were extremely excited and sent their representatives to the Yanzhou Governor's Mansion, waiting to go to the Han Dynasty together. Even many Mediterranean scholars quickly formed the Datong Brotherhood and the Datong Seminar, and then participated in the "Global Gay and Lesbian Exchange Conference" to see the Han Dynasty that was like the kingdom of God in the legend.

After all, in Daqinzhou, if you want to study the knowledge of the Han Dynasty, you can't do without the idea of ​​Datong. The "Record of the Holy Words" is a guide on how to implement Datong, so all schools in Daqinzhou know more or less about this idea. Now that there is an opportunity to travel at public expense, everyone's enthusiasm is naturally high.

Rome, Senate. Apatius said earnestly: "Given the current situation in the world, slavery is becoming less and less suitable for this era. The benefits we Rome gain from slaves are far less than the losses of the entire Roman Empire."

An elder whose family owned a slave industry was not convinced and said, "I can sell a slave for 30,000 coins and earn tens of millions a year. All of this is taxed. How can the empire suffer any loss?"

Most Roman senators were dismissive of this proposal, saying that slavery was no longer suitable for this era. Slavery was the foundation of Rome. Rome had slaves since its founding, and it had been like this for hundreds of years. If you say it is inappropriate, then it is inappropriate.

Apatius asked his servant to find a blackboard and said, "In the northern provinces, a citizen can grow about 3.6 tons of grain a year, of which 600 kilograms can feed himself, and three tons of grain can be sold for tens of thousands of coins. That is to say, the wealth created by a citizen in three years exceeds the price you sell them for. A citizen can live for decades, and I will assume that he can still farm for 50 years, which is 50 coins. You earn 50 coins for yourself, but make the whole of Rome lose coins. This is just farming. If you work, the citizen can earn more. It is possible that Rome lost millions of coins because of a slave."

Then Apatius changed the subject and said, "You just said that you can make tens of millions of dollars a year by selling a slave for 330 coins. I don't count the cost, but only do the simplest calculation. To make tens of millions of dollars, you need to sell 330 slaves, and these 3 slaves can create 3000 million wealth for Rome. For your family to make tens of millions of dollars, you made the whole of Rome lose 3 million. In the words of the Han Dynasty, you are the biggest borer in my country of Rome."

The senators at the scene were in an uproar. Although they did not feel sorry for Rome's loss of 3 million, they hated the fact that the Han people made more than 2000 million in business but only gave them million. It was like throwing a piece of scraps to them. When had they, the Roman senators, suffered such a great humiliation in the hundreds of years of wealth and prosperity? It was indeed not cost-effective to sell slaves directly to the Han people.

"We must drive the slaves into factories so that we can flow wealth to Rome and they can create more wealth for us." After the Han Dynasty's steam came to Rome, some slave owners turned their serfs into slave craftsmen and opened textile factories.

The current system in Rome is extremely complex. There are slave plantations, citizen self-cultivating farmers, and even slave factories. It is a fusion of advancement and backwardness, civilization and barbarism, slavery and steampunk. If Xu Fan came to the current city of Rome, he would feel that Rome at this time is a monster of three eras piled together.

Apatius said contemptuously: "Senator, you make a lot of money with slave workers, how come you haven't heard of it in Rome?"

The veteran of the slave factory fell silent. Logically, other factories had to pay wages, but his factory was full of slaves, so it would be enough to just give them some food. The cost would be lower than other factories, and his goods should be easier to sell.

But the reality was just the opposite. The machines in his factory were often damaged by slaves. Machines bought for hundreds of thousands of dollars broke down within a few days of use, and each repair cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Who could bear this? He brought supervisors to the factory to supervise the slaves in doing their work, and even hanged slaves who destroyed the machines to intimidate other slaves.

But the effect was not very obvious. The cloth produced in his factory was of poor quality and low price and was not very competitive at all.

The other elders also laughed at him. Everyone knew what happened in the slave factory and that they had not yet made back their investment. What was he saying was that killing slaves was just making money. He only killed one because he would lose 3 for each one he killed. The more he killed, the more he would lose. He didn't even dare to injure them too seriously because if they did, he would have to spend money to recover.

From this perspective, the slave owners who exploit people are no match for the capitalists, who really dare to use people to death. They use machine guns to shoot people, because they don't have to pay any cost.

Apatius continued, "With the world becoming one, and giants like the Han Dynasty constantly promoting the idea of ​​universal peace, slavery can no longer be maintained. Look at our neighbor, the Ptolemaic Empire. In order to eliminate the forty thieves led by Sobek, the entire Ptolemaic Empire is already full of war and death."

Sobek and his men had become a serious threat to the Ptolemaic Empire. They killed local tax farmers and nobles, freed slaves, and had several thousand men. The Ptolemaic Empire was now on high alert and sent 30,000 new troops to encircle and suppress Sobek. However, Sobek used bandit tactics, and with the support of the grassroots people, although the Ptolemaic army encircled and suppressed Sobek's army several times, he escaped every time. Now Sobek has become a serious threat to the Ptolemaic Empire.

"Slave uprisings in Parma, Pontus, Albania, Iberia, and Bithynia are becoming more and more frequent. Do you also want Rome to exhaust its energy suppressing slave uprisings?"

But some senators were not convinced and said, "You are talking about the situation outside Rome, but we don't have these rebels in Rome."

Apatius pointed to the north and said angrily, "This is because Claudius and his men recruited hundreds of thousands of Roman civilians who had lost their land to the three northern provinces. Otherwise, we in Rome would not be much stronger than Ptolemy."

However, some elders still angrily cursed: "Equal distribution of land is an evil path, and it will lead to hell."

"Slaves are my property. You have no right to dispose of my property. If you dare to force me, I will kill all the slaves and you will only get a corpse."

The system of equal distribution of land was also introduced to cooperate with the liberation of slaves, which was the end of the Roman senators. Freeing slaves would cost them money, and equal distribution of land would also cost them property. They were the senators of Rome, and they had always taken money from Rome. When did the state take their money?

"How can I govern the country with a bunch of bugs like you!" Apatius cursed inwardly.

Now the differences between the north and south of Rome were becoming more and more serious. The core contradictions were slaves and equal distribution of land. The Roman Mahasthamaprapta expanded its territory in the north, distributed the conquered territories to the citizens of Rome, and won the hearts of all the Roman citizens.

At this time, the senators were still acting as compradors of the Han Dynasty, destroying more Roman handicrafts, making more Roman citizens penniless, and then selling them as slaves.

With such a strong contrast, it is obvious who the citizens of Rome will choose. Now the Roman Maison has put forward three major proposals: abolishing slavery, equalizing land, and developing local industrialization. They did the same in the three provinces of Rome, and even persuaded the Spanish province to join them, abolishing slavery and equalizing land.

Judging from the current momentum, Northern Rome is more powerful. Although Southern Rome has the upper hand in terms of economy, population, and financial resources, the senators now dare not even form a citizen army to march north. Apatius does not want a civil war in Rome, so he has been trying to bridge the dispute between the two factions.

Apatius said loudly, "It's not confiscation. My opinion is a redemption policy. Rome will buy the slaves in your hands at a standard of 30,000 coins, and these slaves will repay the debt with 10% of their annual income. The land will also be redeemed according to this policy. No matter how much land you divide, Rome will buy it at the market price."

"You are so brave, Apatius, to use our money to buy our land and slaves." A senator said unconvinced.

Apatius stared at the senator and said word by word: "The beasts in Italy have a nest to live in, but those who fight and sacrifice for Italy can only enjoy the air and sunshine. They have no home and wander around with their wives and children. The generals deceived the soldiers to fight to protect the gods of their ancestors' tombs, but it was all a lie, because no soldier had his own altar or ancestral tomb. They were just fighting for the glory and wealth of others. Although they are called the masters of Rome, they don't have even a small piece of land. Is this fair?"

"This declaration of the Roman Council has been posted all over the city of Rome. Do you think the citizen army will turn against us when they see this?"

"When Claudius brings back these citizens whose lands you have taken, will your family still be able to survive? Rome is on the verge of division. If the senators are still unwilling to give in, then we can only use swords to prove right and wrong."

(End of this chapter)