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Chapter 56 Dilemma

After reading Yun Zhang’s document, Yun Zhao let out a long sigh, closed the document and said to Zhang Xiu: “File it.”

Zhang Xiu took the documents and put them on the top floor of the huge bookshelf without speaking.

In Yun Zhao’s large study room, there are sixteen rows of huge bookshelves. These shelves are full of books. Only the highest floor has a few books.

These documents are from Zhang Guozhu, from Han Lingshan, from Li Dingguo, from Lei Heng, from Han Xiufen, and from Yang Xiong, Xu Wu think of these people. Of course, there are more people, all of whom are important ministers of the Ming Dynasty… Now, there is one more cloud.

Here is the document that Zhang Guozhu killed Mongolian herdsmen in Lantian City…

Here is the document that Hanling Mountain ravaged Usi…

Xu Wu wants to clean up the documents in Hanzhong here…

Yang Xiong’s document to suppress the chaos in Changsha is here…

Now, there is another document that Yun Zhang drove the slaves to dig the road in Shuzhong and was placed here…

Daming has no slaves, or it is impossible for Daming people to become slaves, so it is worth thinking about where these slaves came from.

Yun Zhang said that there was no Daming among these slaves, which Yun Zhao still believed… The problem is that Daming did not allow slaves to appear in the country. This prohibition is not only for Daming people, but also basically applies to anyone.

This decision was made by Yun Zhang after he had inspected the railway route between Baoji and Chengdu.

It seems that the child has understood the difficulty of building this railway.

The difficulty is not in capital or technology. Nowadays, Daming’s domestic investment in railway construction is very enthusiastic. If Yun Zhang is willing to raise capital as his eldest son, there is almost no difficulty.

But what about the people who build the railway?

Not to mention anything else, just digging a railway on the 300-mile-long cliff, and wanting to build it safely in the past is purely a dream.

The road to Shuzhong was paved with human corpses.

This sentence is not guessed by Yun Zhao, but is recorded in history.

During the Warring States Period, in order to open up the road from Shaanxi to Sichuan, King Qin Zhaoxiang began to build Baoxian plank road in 267 BC.

This sloping water valley, 30 miles southwest of Mei County in the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, reaches Baoshui River Valley in Beishili, Baocheng County, the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains. The plank road is about four hundred miles long. It is made by drilling and laying wooden boards.

Gunpowder had not been invented at that time. Under the natural conditions of cliffs above and rapids below, the ancestors first used the method of “fire and water shock” to cut mountains and rocks, and then hewed them into a square and two feet deep on the rock wall. The holes are divided into upper, middle and lower rows, all of which are inserted with wooden stakes.

Then set up a shelter on the upper row of wooden piles, pave the road on the middle row of wooden piles, and support the wooden frame on the lower row of wooden piles. It was finally completed in 259 BC, which lasted eight years.

Historical books gave a high praise to this thrilling road construction process, and literati also wrote articles praising the achievements of road construction.

It is a pity that neither the official history nor the wild history mentions a word about the 16,000 slaves who died in the process of building the road. They are like a group of tools that were consumed in the process of building the road, if not on the cliffs. No one will know their life and death for some of the faintly left stone records.

Raising slaves will completely corrupt people’s hearts and disrupt the order of the country. Yun Zhao has told many people before that, no matter what he looks like abroad, he is absolutely not allowed in Ming Dynasty.

Today, it is possible to raise foreign slaves. When the raising of slaves becomes a habit, one day slave owners will treat their own people as slaves.

In the evening, Yun Zhao returned home, and Yun Yan had been sent to Yushan Academy. Therefore, only the husband and wife had their dinner quietly at home.

Yun Zhao’s dinner has always been not very rich. Two meat and two vegetarian dishes plus a soup noodle is the dinner for the three of them.

After Yun Zhao finished a bowl of noodles, he felt that he was not full, so Feng Ying added half a bowl to him. After Yun Zhao finished eating the noodles, he pushed his rice bowl aside and looked at Feng Ying and said, “My son brought back 20,000 yuan. Four thousand slaves.”

Feng Ying was taken aback for a moment and said, “Where did the slave come from?”

Yun Zhao said: “There are people from everywhere, Europeans, blacks, Cochin people, Nanyang people, Usi Tibetans, and Mongolians. It can be said that as long as they are of the race we can meet, he It’s all there.”

“No Daming?”

Yun Zhao sighed and said, “If there are Daming people, I won’t tell you about this.”

Feng Ying’s body trembled, and then whispered, “What does Zhang’er want such slaves to do?”

“Excavate into the Shu railway.”

Qian Duoduo hid behind the rice bowl with his rice bowl with two eyeballs, whistling around the faces of her husband and Feng Ying.

Feng Ying sighed and said, “That kid wants to do what you haven’t done.”

Yun Zhao said: “The motion to use slaves to build domestic railways is endless. It seems that this matter will be implemented after discussion at the Congress. This child should not take the lead at this time.

So, he was taken advantage of. “

Qian Duoduo saw that her husband’s tone had softened and said with a smile: “Just get rid of those who use A Chang.”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: “There are no such stupid people. Nowadays, Daming’s land is over-expanding, and these people in the country are obviously insufficient. One of the most important trends is that the value of manpower is constantly increasing.

So many people are staring at the slave.

This is not a matter of a single person, but a matter of a class.

Now that many people are richer, they feel that they don’t need to work, and can comfortably accept others’ services. The price of hiring a Da Ming is enough for them to buy five slaves.

This is why Zhanger used slaves to build roads. “

Feng Ying said slowly: “Husband, since the use of slaves is beneficial to our Ming, then why should the husband be so careful?”

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Yingdao with a smile but a smile: “There must be retribution for this kind of thing, do you believe it?”

Qian Duoduo said with a smile: “My husband doesn’t even believe in the gods and Buddhas, why do you believe in retribution at this time?”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: “I don’t believe in Gods and Buddhas, but I believe that God has eyes. Things in this world are so strange. When we feel that something is only good for us, the bad things will slow down. Breed out.

I have always believed that there is nothing wrong with building this path in our own country. Only by living in a country built by ourselves can we enjoy all the conveniences it brings us and know how to cherish it.

Over the years, with my connivance, Daming’s manpower prices have been rising continuously. This is the result I want.

In other words, I want to use this method to enrich the people who do not have much means of production, and at the same time limit the huge profits that commerce and industry bring to people, and then achieve the goal of common prosperity for all people.

The reason why my Chinese people have been able to stand for thousands of years in this world depends on diligence. This is our foundation. If we lose this housekeeping skill, we may really become robbers in the future.

Strength is temporary, just like we are now, can plunder all over the world as much as we want, and wait until we can’t continue plundering? When we regard exploitation as a normal means of earning a living, but do not have the ability to exploit others, what should we do?

The most important thing is that once slaves are introduced, the wealthy will always be part of the population, and it will not be possible to benefit all the people of Ming Dynasty.

At that time, with the help of slaves, the rich can quickly become richer, but what about the poor? How can those who make a living by betraying their labors survive when their wages are falling step by step?

Compete with those slaves?

In the end they will also become slaves, which is certain. “

Feng Ying shook her head and said, “No, we have a congress.”

Yun Zhao laughed for a while and said: “Do you think that a few thousand people can really represent the 160,000 and 60 million people of Quan Daming? If you look at the resumes of these representatives, you will find that-the introduction of slaves. This matter is beneficial to all of them!

Because they are the strongest among Daming’s population of 160,000!

Do you expect these vested interests to give too much consideration to the interests of the injured people?

Even if there are people with high morals and pity for the weak among these representatives, can you guarantee that they can have an absolute advantage in the congress?

Morality is vulnerable in the face of interests. “

There was a lot of money and said: “However, the Shuzhong Railway must be excavated. Even if it is not excavated now, it must be excavated in the future. If only Daming craftsmen are used, it will cost a lot of deaths and injuries.”

Yun Zhao sighed and said: “This is why I hesitate. I hope that the railway from Baoji to Chengdu will be opened sooner than anyone else. In this way, Shuzhong and Guanzhong will be completely connected.

Re-use Guanzhong, the wealth of Shuzhong drives the barren Central Plains and the western frontier. “

Feng Ying thought for a while and said, “My husband, why don’t you develop a place that is easy to develop first? For example, how about the prosperous southeast and the prosperous maritime trade Guangzhou?”

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Ying and smiled.

A sigh of relief said: “It is also a matter of the prosperity of the whole people. If the imperial court shifts a large amount of capital and policies to these places at this time, these already rich places will become even more prosperous.

The end result is inequality between the rich and the poor, which still runs counter to our common prosperity goal.

After our land reforms over the years, the people of Ming Dynasty have initially solved the problem of eating and dressing. Therefore, the pursuit of wealth is not so urgent.

There are not many resources in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and the Northwest, so we can only cultivate the shortcomings through policies first, and after the shortcomings are high enough, in the development of a wealthy foundation, so that we can Solve the problem of inequality between the rich and the poor.

Since ancient times, the cause of the turmoil of the dynasty was not due to the inequality of the rich and the poor. “

Qian Duoduo blinked his eyes and said, “Husband, how do you know that places in Southeast and Guangzhou will arrive first?”

Yun Zhao sighed again, took out a document from his sleeve and placed it in front of Feng Ying, saying, “This is Han Xiufen’s 800-mile rush, you know? The era of great voyage belonging to the Ming Dynasty is coming.”

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