Sweep the World

Chapter 996: Already very gentle

No matter how the situation is changed, some people will still be named in history in various ways as if they were destined.

In the original history, Ran Min raised his army because Shi Hu promised to be crown prince and repented. Shi Hu's many sons attacked and killed each other, giving Ran Min the opportunity to stand on his own. No matter what reason Ran Min embarked on the road of resistance, he indeed sheltered a considerable number of his clan in the chaotic north at that time, and finally closed the curtain of life with a tragic end.

In this history (face position) that was changed by Liu Yan, Ran Min was also forced to walk on the road of opposition to the Hu Hu. If there is any difference, it is that Liu Yan has brought to Ran Min a more distinctive The idea of ​​"Han and Hu do not stand."

Everyone has their own personal settings. Some people don't like to be bad people so much. If they can choose, they will want to be good people. The problem is that after taking a wrong step, too many people choose a path to the dark.

Those who chose to work for Hulu during the turbulent years might only be to protect themselves and the family at first. For the first time, they raised a sharp weapon to the same clan and hacked it down. They immediately understood that only in this way can they gain the trust of the owner. From now on, it will no longer be a last resort to mutilate the same clan, but treat the mutilation of the same clan as a performance.

Once dyed black and want to wash white is not easy, some people seize the opportunity to wash themselves white, they will force themselves to follow the new personality even if they are forced, and generally can do it to death.

Liu Yan actually doesn't really understand Ran Min. The Ran Min he knew had changed too much after taking refuge in himself and before taking refuge in himself.

How can a person who can be reused and valued in the Hulu camp be a reckless person? Not to mention how deep the city is, the basic disguise must be cleared.

After Ran Min became a member of Liu Yan's subordinate, he repeatedly showed that he was like a reckless man. Others would scrupulously be like his colleagues, but he repeatedly set up opponents for himself.

Liu Yan could understand why Ran Min was like that, all because Ran Min was attached with a large group of people.

A person who was once a king, he took a huge number of people to seek refuge, and he dared to be a good brother with everyone in the new circle. He definitely thought that his life was too long.

Ran Min has successfully portrayed himself an image of democracy, 1 dominance, 1 principle, and 1 righteousness, so of course he has to show hostility and hatred towards foreign races.

According to Ran Min's vassal Liu Yi, Nao was afraid of offending everyone, so long as he could stand on the same side with the emperor, it would offend everyone.

Except for some deliberate performance due to the relationship between the characters, Ran Min thinks that he is doing something extremely correct.

At the next day's dynasty meeting, Ran Min once again threw the issue of male slave castration without waiting for something to be played in the three provinces and six parts.

The ministers who had been notified in advance fell into absolute silence for a while.

In fact, how can they not know that it is the right thing, no one wants the efforts of their own generation, and even the efforts of the Han people, in the end, they have not only killed and squeezed themselves? Wedding dress.

There is no joke. From Liu Yan's fight against Hu (340 AD) to the 14th year of Yuanshuo after the founding of the People’s Republic of China (AD 357), the alien races they wiped out on the battlefield back and forth, fewer and fewer That said, more than two million.

At least two million aliens were killed on the battlefield alone, so how can the aliens who died indirectly in the war be counted as not less than 10 million?

Just in the 17-year period, 10 million people were wiped out in the form of war. Other actions after the war, such as slavery and plunder, were actually more about reducing the alien population.

At present, the official recorded slaves of the Han Empire are counted as 13 million, and they are still living slaves.

The Han Empire started various projects in the eighth year of Yuanshuo (AD 349). Until the ninth year of Yuanshuo, corvee was the main labor force, but after ten years of Yuanshuo, slaves became the main labor force. .

Especially in terms of road construction, the Han Empire basically used slaves and would never use conscription.

In such an age when everything depends on both hands, road construction is not an easy task. It can even be said that the casualties caused by road construction will be very terrifying.

Statistics show that just building a road with a total length of two hundred and thirty miles from Ruyin County to Chen County would cost as much as 140,000 slaves.

The road from Ruyin County to Chen County is still on a relatively flat plain, and there are not many mountains along the way, so the entire section of the road is relatively easy to work on.

From Chen Jun to Luoyang, the total length of the road was four hundred and fifty miles, but as many as 470,000 slaves were consumed. The distance is twice the difference, but the consumption of slaves is almost three times as much. The reason is of course the difference in the environment for building the road.

So far, the two intersecting national highways with Chang'an as the center can only be said to have begun to take shape, and they are still far from being completed. The number of slaves that have been consumed for road construction purposes is astonishing more than 3.6 million!

There will be such exaggerated consumption, on the one hand, it is related to the road construction environment, on the other hand, the Han people really don't cherish slaves too much.

Related data shows that as many as two hundred twenty thousand people died in the straight road from Guanzhong to Beidi in the pre-Qin Dynasty. Most of the dead were prisoners of war from the Six Nations.

The Northern Song Dynasty built a road less than a hundred miles away in the south, only because the location was in the southwest, and building a road less than a hundred miles away killed more than 60,000 people. This indirectly gave Fang La more opportunities to buy people’s hearts and rebelled. .

If you read history, you will definitely find that no matter which dynasty you are building roads, being conscripted to build roads is definitely the most dangerous thing, more dangerous than being conscripted to build tombs.

Before the Han Empire carried out the reform of various departments, the Prime Minister's Mansion had made a special estimation. To complete the construction of the two national highways, it must be prepared to consume at least 8 million people.

The total length of the two national highways will not be less than 10,000 miles. They are not only built for walking and bicycle frames, but also for roads in some areas. According to Ji Chang's straightforward report, eight million dead are already a very small number.

Liu Yan still understood why there were such exaggerated consumption figures, and he thought of Yang Guang.

According to some records, more than two million people died in Yang Guangxiu's passage through the canal.

I don’t know if there is such an exaggerated number of deaths, or it’s because of political correctness...If it was falsified to discredit the previous dynasty, it would be a fact that the number of deaths is definitely very high.

It seems that there is such a one-sided record. Fei Ju suggested to Yang Guang that more time be spent on building the canal. It was mentioned that the cost of money would be reduced by several times, and the casualties would not exceed 200,000 at most.

Well, one thing is clearly mentioned. The same project will not only reduce expenditure due to the different time consumption, but also the casualties will be completely different.

How can Liu Yan not know this truth, if according to normal conditions, in an era when only manpower is used as the labor force, it would not be too much to build thousands of miles of roads in one or two hundred years, but they planned to complete the construction within 20 years. Then we have to bear the price that must be borne.

If the price is to fill the holes with the lives of the Han people, Liu Yan would not do anything no matter what he said, but if it was to consume foreign races, there would be no psychological burden at all.

Until modern times, after the countries on the earth communicated with each other, they spent the lives of foreigners on infrastructure projects. No matter how much they praised how civilized a country they are, they wouldn’t blush at all, even taking it for granted.

Under each railroad tie in North America, there is the body of a Chinese laborer. That is a shame for the Chinese, but it is a deed that the white people can show off.

In fact, the Han Empire was able to plan so many huge projects, and even put them into action, because it did not care for slaves at all.

If there were no slaves, not only Liu Yan, but also any minister, they would not have the thought of planning projects.

So far, there are more than 3.6 million slaves who have died in road construction, and the number of slaves who died in various mines will not be less than two million. The number of slaves consumed on other occasions is about two or three million.

Is it too much to consume nearly six million slaves in seventeen years? If it weren't for the value created by slaves, it can be said that the speed is very slow.

Liu Yan knew a figure who was also a ruler. From rising to becoming the overlord, he killed more than 100 million people in just over 20 years.

More than 30 million were killed when the Kingdom of Jin was destroyed, and more than 2 million were killed when Xixia was destroyed. Almost all of Miehua Lazimo was killed, waiting for his descendants to become the rulers of various regions and die from this family. The population is definitely not less than 200 million. In the Southern Song Dynasty alone, more than 40 million died in the flames of war.

So far, the number of aliens who died directly and indirectly in the flames of war ignited by the Han Empire would not exceed 20 million. The territory of the Han Empire was actually about half less than the area under that family's rule.

That was almost ten to one of the number of murders, and the Han army did not carry out malicious massacres at all except against the Jie people. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Han people are already very benevolent.

"The number of foreign races under the rule of the Han Dynasty is about 40 million." Ji Chang quit the prime minister, but as a Chinese calligrapher, he can still grasp first-hand information: "Tianzhu has the largest number of guardians, and there are only there. Asan, who is close to thirty million."

Before the demise of the Gupta Empire, according to their own demographics, there were more than 6 million people not counting the untouchables, and more than 37 million people counting the untouchables.

The Han Empire destroyed the Gupta Empire. Several large-scale exhibitions wiped out nearly 400,000 troops in the Gupta Empire, but did not conduct subjective killings against the people.

As far as the place where the Han people consciously planned to carry out the massacre, it is definitely the islands in Southeast Asia. That is also the natives of those islands in Southeast Asia are savage enough. If they don’t kill enough people, the natives don’t know what it means to be afraid.

Huan Wen had directly governed Nanyang before, and he emptied 17 islands when he signed the report. The so-called emptying is to kill all the people, and the indigenous people who are all killed by the Han are all cannibals.

"More and more are inevitable." Ji Chang glanced at Ran Min, and said blankly: "The minister thought that the newly arrested male slaves should indeed be castrated."

Liu Yan understands that the male slaves captured in the future are not private property of the people, so there will be no damage to the existing interests of anyone, but the castration of those that have become private property is what Ji Chang opposes. .

"Don't forget one thing about the Zhongshu Order." Ran Min is messing around with everything today. He must let the issue pass: "The big man is a registered slave, not a government slave. There are more than three million slaves owned by the private sector."

"Chang knows." Ji Chang looked at Ran Min nonchalantly, and said slowly: "It is precisely because of the large number that there are scruples."

"The big man has the unchangeable national policy of'private property is sacred and inviolable'." Sang Yu also said, "Those slaves are already private, how can they intervene? Besides, it is not the same to replace them with new castrated slaves. ?"

"After all, you are just staring at your own interests." Ran Min roared: "Forgot how the Western Jin Dynasty perished?"

No one has forgotten, but that matter is really too difficult to do. If you want to implement it, you must have enough preparations to put out the fire everywhere. For them, they are not scrupulous about fighting the riots or rebellion, but doing so is tantamount to overthrowing Liu Yan. The law of "private property is sacred and inviolable" is so serious that the country has broken its trust, and it must not be taken lightly.

The reason is really like that. Liu Yan can overthrow a rule set by him because of something. Who would think that one day he would ignore the rule set by him again? So what are you going to do to make those rules.

"In short, the bill to castrate slaves must be passed!" Ran Min stood up and sneered at all his colleagues: "If you don't sign the issue, let General Hussar establish the shogunate, with the General Hussar shogunate as the leader and enforcer, go This is done!"

Ji Chang was so angry that he couldn't say a word while pointing at Ran Min.

It’s not as simple as that whoever executes it means not breaking the contract~lightnovelpub.net~ It means that the contract is broken when things are done. It is not something that Ran Min can carry alone.

"Enforcement..." Lu Yi really didn't want to wade in the muddy water, but he had found that Liu Yan's face was getting more and more ugly, so he said what he thought was a feasible method: "Enforcement is not advisable. Both ends."

"Hehe, just discussing you will make you feel distressed when you wait..." Ran Min continued to sneer, despite the anger of some people: "You are the most important ministers of the country, so you can expect the others to agree?"

"Yongzeng, just stop." Xu Zheng pulled Ran Min to go back to his seat. After pulling several times, he couldn't pull him. He said embarrassingly: "Everyone here, who has that benefit, and whose benefit are those? slave."

Ran Min didn't care about that much, and scanned the crowd angrily.

Sitting with you, Liu Yan, who has been listening but not talking, looked at Lu Yi and asked, "Does the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites have any feasible opinions?"

Ran Min was stunned for a moment, glanced at Liu Yan, then looked at Lu Yi who seemed to be confident, hesitated again and again before walking back to his seat. He wanted to hear if Lu Yi could name a flower.