"Your Majesty, your proposal is serious." Ran min looked embarrassed. It was difficult to see such an expression from him: "it was 13 million, not 1.3 million. Those were still recorded slaves, and how many were not recorded slaves?"
Everyone said whether ran min was ill or not. It was OK to provoke a group of people alone. Recently, he even proposed to castrate all the male 1 slaves on the list.
Since the establishment of the Han Empire, Liu Yanming has secretly opposed castration for many times. The reason is not what the saints said, but to sigh that there are enough Han people to artificially create people with defects that cannot inherit their children.
Today's Han Empire is also the first dynasty in which the royal family did not use eunuchs since the establishment of the state in Zhuxia. At this point, even those who are most hostile to the existence of the Han Empire should praise that Liu Yan has finally done a job.
From Zhuxia to the stage of kingship, eunuchs did not know when they began, but they existed with history.
The eunuch appeared because the king was afraid that his head would become a green grassland, but in fact, if someone really had the courage to make the king's head green, it was not just the nearest officials in the palace.
Miyagi always needs someone to guard it? The eunuchs who are castrated can serve the seclusion life. Will all the warriors who defend the palace city be castrated?
There is a scientific name called hormone. Male hormones are not only aphrodisiac. In fact, men are naturally stronger than women. There are some male and female differences in bone. One of the secrets is hormones.
Who will be selected as a member of the king's last line of defense? Once there is a defect in the body, or the defect of a bird missing from the crotch, it really has nothing to do with bravery.
Guarding the palace city has always been a priority for warriors. In modern times, muscular men are called walking hormones, which can better attract women. Then in any era (except the northern and Southern Song dynasties), women should prefer strong men.
The king is afraid that his head is green. The king has too many women. How should we understand that they can't meet them anyway? Naturally, we will be afraid.
Liu Yan comes from modern times and knows very well that women want to plant a piece of grass on their men's head, so they can find opportunities no matter what.
Ordinary husband and wife can restrain both sides from cheating. Either they can meet each other, or they only have feelings.
The feudal dynasty restrained the women in the harem from planting grass on the king's head, which came from the deterrence of kingship.
Liu Yan didn't know whether he didn't use eunuchs, which gave ran min so much confidence.
At present, there are more than 13 million recorded slaves in the Han Empire, of which more than 11 million are men, and most of the remaining women are over the appropriate childbearing age. According to age, less than 500000 were male and female slaves under the age of 14, and more than 2 million were male and female slaves over the age of 35.
When plundering the population, the way the army calculates military merit based on the captured population is not a simple one size fits all, but there are standardized rules and regulations.
For example, young and beautiful women are the highest when calculating military merit, followed by women with ordinary appearance but suitable for childbearing age, and then young male 1 slaves.
When the folk slave teams carried out captivity, although they could not obtain military merit because of the capture of slaves, the reason to say what kind of population was more valuable was actually the same.
The Han Empire began to catch slaves wantonly since the sixth year of Yuanshuo. The first country to suffer was Baiji. The Three Kingdoms on the back peninsula were flattened. Most of their more than 3 million people became slaves, and nearly 200000 school-age women were rewarded to meritorious officers and soldiers in the army.
The sixth year of Yuanshuo was just a harvest period. It was the eleventh year of Yuanshuo that really entered the peak of slave hunting.
At that time, the Han army opened up the Indochina Peninsula. The army caught wild tribes and fought constantly, and the folk slave teams also poured in. In just three years, the Han people plundered nearly 3.8 million people from the Indochina Peninsula, of which nearly 400000 school-age women were either taken as concubines by military officers and soldiers, or became women in the people.
From the 11th year of Yuanshuo to the 12th year of Yuanshuo, another concentration of slaves was on many islands in Nanyang. About 180000 slaves were captured before and after.
In addition, the number of slaves captured in the recovery of the Central Plains reached 9 million by the 12th year of Yuanshuo.
At the beginning of the 13th year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire ushered in the peak of the sudden increase of slaves because of the destruction of the Gupta empire. Only then did there be the terrible number of more than 13 million slaves in the beginning of Yuanshuo 14.
If we count the number of foreign women who have become men, children, wives and concubines of the Han family, we can increase by about two million.
The official records are those. No one doubts that the people will hide private slaves. It should be said that there will be no registered slaves, but no one can be sure how many there are.
"How can there be one or two million." Ran min saw Liu Yan silently looking at the distant city and said anxiously, "that's 15 million. I think at the beginning of Jin Dynasty, it only accommodated more than 800000, and Zhu Hu increased to more than 4 million in less than 20 years. It's impossible for ministers not to use slaves, but there are more than 15 million slaves now. How many should there be in another 20 years?"
Liu Yan was not unable to agree to the castration of slaves proposed by ran min. on the contrary, he was very interested in it.
There is a very crucial issue. Apart from the official slaves, the slaves rewarded by military merit, including those owned by the people, are already personal property.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Han Empire, Liu Yan clearly put forward the rule of "inviolability of private property", and wrote it in the table when he called the emperor to burn the table and worship the heaven.
It has basically become a part of the "ancestral family law" to burn watches and worship the heaven. Let alone burn watches and worship the heaven when he became the emperor, it means that unless Lao Liu's family loses the country, who dares to modify the rule of "sacred and inviolable private property" belongs to a major event that not only disrespects "Taizu", but also tries to shake the foundation of the country.
Now ran min proposes to castrate male 1 slaves. Of course, Liu Yan, who belongs to the official slaves, can be the master, but private slaves can only be advocated.
Han people are actually no stranger to holding slaves.
From ancient times to the southern migration of the Western Jin Dynasty, or the demise of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhuxia always had the habit of raising slaves.
If there is any difference, Liu Yanming's order prohibits the raising of Han people as slaves, but it is also enforced and enforced in the next place while still fighting the world.
After Liu Yan stressed that "private property is sacred and inviolable", even if there are Han slaves in some families, the government can no longer force anything, but can only choose other ways, such as persuasion. Persuasion is of course the best. It has no effect. Don't blame the government for "sticking" or targeting at some things.
This matter proposed by ran min is different. It is not related to the interests of a few, but will infringe on the interests of the vast majority of people.
What is the family like without slaves in the Han Empire? It is those who have no men in their families who have served the Military Council and have no title as the basis for owning slaves.
It is not excluded that some people do not have titles, but secretly raise slaves. This is because the local authorities indulge, but they absolutely dare not go too far.
In the group with slaves in the Han Empire, the rank of Duke is only the most basic. The higher the rank, the more slaves. They will understand that children born to their slaves are also slaves. In terms of established customs, children born to slaves naturally belong to their own property.
Although it is said that only a very few slaves can get the right of mating, is there always one?
Then there is no lack of smart people to do things that they think can make a profit. For example, women who are black and don't slip away are not expensive. If they buy one or more within their own permission, can they let other male slaves mate with black and don't slip away women to produce offspring?
"Someone is already doing that." Ran min just opened a map gun: "those scum in the south, why don't they think about how they desperately indulged the birth of slaves for those petty profits decades ago."
Liu Yan knew that something like that would happen, but he didn't expect to come so early.
"Black does not slip away?" Liu Yan almost couldn't help laughing. In fact, he couldn't help laughing. He smiled for a while and said, "they specially bought black women as fertility tools?"
"It's not just a simple reproductive tool." Ran Min said angrily, "they found that black women can work very well. In addition, they can have children, which makes the market extremely hungry for black women."
So... The price of black skinned women slaves is going up? Maybe it's still going up exponentially. After all, ran Min said that women with dark skin work no worse than men. They are even five times better than Nanyang monkeys, three times better than a San, and twice better than Zhu Hu.
Liu Yan suddenly understood one thing. He said that from last year to this year, the number of ships ordered from shipyards increased rapidly. It turned out that it was not only because of the prosperity of sea trade, but also because he saw new slave hunting interests and wanted to go to Africa to catch slaves.
Now the shipyards that can build ocean going ships are owned by the state. The data have changed significantly. It is certain that someone will specially inform Liu Yan.
Shaofu is crazy about the surge in orders. The profit of building an ocean going ship is basically more than eight times the cost, which is equivalent to selling one ship and using the profit to rebuild seven ships.
Zhang Shi first asked for an increase of 10 docks, but did not ask for another 30 docks more than two months. It can be seen that the market is hungry for ocean going ships.
At the same time, private applications for civil shipbuilding licenses have increased by a percentage, reaching 400%.
Shipbuilding is not an easy task, especially to build a large ship, or a large ship that can go ocean. That is a more difficult thing. It can not be built with money alone, but also with that technology.
Shaofu sells shipbuilding technology to the people, with different prices according to the level of ships. Taking the smallest ocean going ship technology price as a conclusion, the buyout is 30000 gold coins, and the share is the cost of drawing 300 gold coins for each transaction. The selling price of the smallest ocean going ship was 2000 gold coins before. So far, it has soared to 3800 gold coins, which can't be bought with money.
He applied for a shipbuilding license and bought out from the Shaofu. There were three before Yuanshuo 13 years ago. From the 13th year of Yuanshuo to the 14th year of Yuanshuo, it suddenly increased to 17. In two years, the number of companies that did not use the buyout model but used the pumping model also soared to 76.
These "families" refer to the number. More and more financing in the form of joint financing is coming later. Even the phenomenon of hundreds of families financing together is enough to show that people have a public opinion that shipbuilding sales can make money.
Liu Yan thought of something and shivered and said, "castration, we must castrate."
This time, ran min was overjoyed, but he listened to Liu Yan go on.
"Black, that's black!" Liu Yan said very seriously, "except for the one religion that has not yet appeared, those who fail to achieve the goal of war with womb all over the world belong to blacks!"
"Ah?" Ran min was stunned and asked, "Your Majesty said, only castrate blacks?"
"The black slave trade has just begun. Even if there are black slaves in China, the number is very small." Liu Yan reasoned and said, "there are not many Han people with black slaves, which will not cause too much trouble."
"What about the rest of the slaves?" Ran Min said bitterly, "what others don't see, your majesty should see. Indulge slaves, give birth to special students, and our generation fight with blood... If we don't keep it together, we'll be fighting for them one day."
Of course Liu Yan knows. He knows better than anyone.
The most powerful country in modern times is not the result of painstaking efforts. I don't know how many generations have climbed the mold and rolled, and how many thoughts and tricks have been spent. As a result, all efforts must become efforts for blacks.
"I know, but I know better..." Liu Yan patted ran min on the shoulder and said stiffly, "Yongzeng, have you ever thought about the cost of being too direct?"
Ran min's first reaction was to roar: "do they dare to rebel!"
"Rebellion? There may be some rebellion, but I believe more people want to live." Liu Yan looked at ran min quietly and chose to be more straightforward: "although the resolution can be passed, he will make enemies all over the world."
"That's what your majesty said?" Ran Min said indifferently, "it's really an honor if I keep my name for thousands of years!"
Liu Yan knew that ran min would not be afraid. But! He has changed ran min's fate. Although ran min still has mixed reputation in historical evaluation, at least he was not finally killed by Hu Lu in despair.
If you can, Liu Yan still very much hopes that ran min can have a good reputation and good results.
Ran Min said again impassively: "for future generations, I am willing to bear the hostility of those dregs!"