After reading Yun Zhang's documents, Yun Zhao sighed, closed the documents and said to Zhang Xiu: "Create it."

Zhang Xiu took the document and did not speak, so he put the document on the highest floor of the huge bookshelf.

In Yunzhao's large study room, there are sixteen rows of huge bookshelf. These shelves are filled with documents, and only the highest floor is the smallest of documents.

These documents include Zhang Guozhu, Hanlingshan, Li Dingguo, Lei Heng, Han Xiufen, Yang Xiong, Xu Wu thought about these people, and of course, there are more people, all of them are important officials of the Ming Dynasty... Now, there is one more Yun Zhang.

The documents of Zhang Guozhu torture Mongolian herders in Lantian City are here...

Hanlingshan ravaged Uszang's documents here...

Xu Wu wants to clean up Hanzhong's documents here...

Yang Xiong’s documents to suppress the rioters in Changsha are here...

Now, Yun Zhang's documents that drove slaves to dig the road in Shuzhong were also placed here...

There were no slaves in the Ming Dynasty, or in other words, it was impossible for the Ming people to become slaves. So, it is worth pondering where these slaves came from.

Yun Zhang said that none of these slaves was the Ming Dynasty, and Yun Zhao still believed in this... The problem is that the Ming Dynasty did not allow slaves to appear in China. This ban is not only targeting the Ming Dynasty, but also basically applies to anyone.

This decision was made by Yun Zhang after inspecting the route to build a railway between Baoji and Chengdu.

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

The difficulty is not about funds or technology. Nowadays, the investment in railway construction in the Ming Dynasty is very enthusiastic. If Yun Zhang is willing to raise capital as his eldest son, it will be almost no difficulty.

But what about the personnel who built the railway?

Not to mention anything else, just digging a railway on a three hundred-mile-long cliff. It was a dream to build it safely in the past.

The road to Shuzhong is paved with human corpses.

This sentence was not speculated by Yun Zhao, but was recorded in history.

During the Warring States Period, in order to open up the road from Shaanxi to Sichuan, King Zhaoxiang of Qin began to build the Baoxie Plank Road in 267 BC.

This shady water valley, which starts from thirty miles southwest of Mei County on the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, reaches the Baoshui River Valley, which is ten miles north of Baocheng County on the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains. It is about 400 miles long. It is made by opening mountains and breaking stones on the steep cliffs, drilling holes and placing wood on it.

At that time, gunpowder had not been invented. Under the natural conditions of the upper part being a cliff and the lower part being a torrent, the ancestors first used the method of "fire burning water to stimulate water" to open mountains and break the rocks, and then chiseled holes one foot square and two foot deep on the rock wall, divided into three rows of upper, middle and lower parts, with wooden piles inserted.

Then a rain canopy was built on the upper row of wooden stakes, a middle row of wooden stakes were paved to form a road, and a lower row of wooden stakes were supported as a frame. It was finally completed in 259 BC, which took eight years.

Historical books have given great praise to this thrilling road construction process, and literati have also written articles to praise the achievements of road construction.

Unfortunately, whether it is official history or unofficial history, they do not mention the 16,000 slaves who died during the road construction process. They are like a group of tools that have been consumed during the road construction process. If it weren't for some stone carving records that were vaguely left on the cliff, no one would have known their life and death.

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

Today, you can raise slaves from other races. When raising slaves becomes a habit, one day the slave owners will take their own people as slaves.

In the evening, Yun Zhao returned home and Yun Feng had been sent to Yushan Academy, so there were only three couples at home who were quietly using dinner.

Yun Zhao's dinner has never been very rich. Two meat-based dishes and two vegetable dishes plus a soup noodles are the dinner for the three of them.

After Yun Zhao finished eating 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 the rice bowl aside and looked at Feng Ying and said, "My son brought back 24,000 slaves."

Feng Ying was stunned for a moment and said, "Where did the slaves come from?"

Yun Zhao said: "There are all from everywhere, including Europeans, blacks, Jiaozhi, Nanyang, Us Tibetans, Mongolians. It can be said that as long as we can see the race, they all have it."

"There are no people from the Ming Dynasty?"

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "If there were people from the Ming Dynasty, this would not be told to you."

Feng Ying's body shook for a moment, and then whispered: "What do Zhang'er wants such slaves to do?"

"Digging the railway into Shu."

Qian Duoduo held his rice bowl with his two eyes hiding behind the rice bowl, gurgling around her husband and Feng Ying's face.

Feng Ying sighed and said, "That child wants to do something you haven't done."

Yun Zhao said: "There are endless motions to use slaves to build domestic railways. This matter is about to be implemented after discussion at the Congress. This child should not take the lead in taking action at this time.

So, he was exploited."

Qian Duoduo saw that her husband's tone softened and said with a smile: "Just get rid of the people who use A Zhang."

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "There are not such stupid people. Nowadays, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is over-expanding, and these people in China are obviously insufficient. One of the most important trends is that the value of manpower is constantly growing.

So many people are staring at slaves.

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

Nowadays, many people are rich and feel that they don’t have to work anymore and can comfortably accept the service of others. The price of hiring a Ming people is enough for them to buy five slaves.

This is why Zhang'er used slaves to build roads."

Feng Ying said slowly: "Husband, since using slaves is beneficial to our Ming Dynasty, why should you be so cautious?"

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Ying with a smile and said, "This kind of thing will definitely be retribution, do you believe it?"

Qian Duoduo smiled and said, "My husband doesn't even believe in the gods and Buddhas in the sky. Why do you believe in the retribution at this time?"

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "I don't believe in gods and Buddhas all over the sky, but I believe that God has eyes. Things in this world are so strange. When we feel that something is only good but not bad for us, the disadvantages will gradually grow.

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

Over the years, under my indulgence, the price of manpower in the Ming Dynasty has been rising continuously, and this is the result I want.

In other words, I want to use this method to make the people who do not have many means of production rich, and at the same time limit the huge profits brought to people by commerce and industry, and then achieve the goal of common prosperity for the whole people.

The reason why the Chinese people can stand in this world for tens of millions of years is because of their hard work. This is our foundation. If we lose this special ability, we may really become robbers in the future.

Power is temporary, just like we can now plunder all over the world, and wait until we can't continue to plunder? When we regard exploitation as a normal means of making 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 people, and it will not benefit the entire Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the wealthy people can quickly become richer because of the help of slaves, and what about the poor? How should those who rely on selling their labor to make a living while their wages are gradually lowering?

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 a few thousand people can really represent 160 million people in the Ming Dynasty? You can look at the resumes of these representatives. After reading them, you will find that the introduction of slaves is beneficial to all of them!

Because they are the strongest among the 160 million people in the Ming Dynasty!

Do you expect these vested interests to consider too much the interests of those damaged people?

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

Morality is vulnerable to interests.”

Qian Duoduo said in confusion: "But, the Shuzhong Railway must be dug. Even if it is not dug now, it must be dug in the future. If only Ming craftsmen are used, the cost will be paid, and there will be no shortage of casualties."

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "This is why I hesitate. I hope to open the railway from Baoji to Chengdu as soon as possible. In this way, Shuzhong and Guanzhong will be completely connected into one.

Then use Guanzhong and Shuzhong’s wealth to drive the barren Central Plains and the western border.”

Feng Ying thought for a while and said, "Husband, why not develop first and easy to develop? For example, what about the prosperous Southeast and Guangzhou where maritime business is prosperous?"

Yun Zhao looked at Feng Ying and smiled.

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It is also a problem of the prosperity of the whole people. If the court tilted a large amount of capital and policies to these places at this time, these already rich places would be even richer.

The final result is that the unevenness of the rich and the poor is still contrary to our goal of common prosperity.

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

Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and the northwest have not much resources, so we can only cultivate the shortcomings through policies first, and wait until the shortcomings are high enough, and then develop a wealthy foundation in places where there is a prosperous foundation. In this way, we can solve the problem of unevenness between the rich and the poor.

Since ancient times, the cause of the dynasty's unrest has been due to the inequality between the rich and the poor."

Qian Duoduo blinked and said, "Husband, how do you know that the places in Southeast and Guangzhou will definitely come first?"
Chapter completed!