The status of slaves in the Tang Dynasty has now been greatly improved.

In the past, slave law was compared to animal property, which was stipulated by law, and slaves were equivalent to livestock and were the property of their owners. Slave transactions were generally in the same place as cattle and horse market.

The master kills the slave, punishes him until he dies, or even uses it for exchange for livestock, which is as he wishes. The slave can also be used as collateral. When the master cannot repay the debt, the mortgaged slave must be permanently transferred to others.

In addition, good people do not marry, slaves can only marry slaves, and the children born are directly slaves, and they also belong to the master and are the master's property.

Even the master of the slave can even pay his own slave at any time, which is not considered a crime or something.

One sentence tells the status of slaves in the past, and the law is more than animal products.

The master can buy, sell, transfer and reward. Slaves are just tools that can speak and can be bought, sold and killed at will. Slaves belong to untouchables, and good people will not marry.

Although there were regulations in the past that slaves could become free people, they had to rely on the master's release and exemption, and generally they had to release and exemption several times before they could become free people.

The slaves of the past were indeed not humans.

Today, the Tang Dynasty still retains slaves, but the management of slaves is completely different, and even the status of slaves is completely different.

Slaves in the past were tools of speaking, but today’s slaves are clearly identified as human.

Slaves can be bought, sold, transferred, and rewarded, but slaves cannot be killed or harmed at will. Slaves can own private property and slaves can transfer their own freedom.

Slaves can still not intermarry with good people, but slaves can intermarry with good people after they are free. Even if the slaves intermarry with slaves and have children, the children they give birth to are no longer the owner's property, no longer the slave, but are born as free people.

Slaves enjoy minimum wage protection and basic human rights.

This is a great improvement.

Of course, the need for society still exists, and the number of slaves in the Tang Dynasty is extremely large, with as many as 15 million people.

There are many sources of slaves, including captured people from enemy countries, such as Goguryeo, the destroyed countries, such as Turks, Tuyuhun, Gaochang, Linyi, etc., and some were demoted to slaves because of crimes.

There are also those who are sold as slaves because of debt problems.

Some even sold directly from overseas, and many barbarian tribes around the Tang Dynasty were captured.

Various sources.

There are all kinds of different skin colors and languages, from different regions, and even Han people are slaves.

The slave transactions are still very prosperous today, because of the high demand for slaves.

Especially in mines, slaves like to use in workshops. Even though the imperial court stipulates that slaves must be given a minimum salary, their minimum salary is much worse than that of free people.

Even if you cannot be abused or killed, you can earn more money for the slave owner.

A slave wants to redeem himself with his salary. Unless he saves a penny without spending any money, even fails to get sick, and does not marry or have children, it will be difficult for him to save enough money for redeem.

It costs money to get sick, it costs money to get married, and it costs money to have children.

It is precisely because using slaves is very cost-effective that slave transactions also flourish.

A strong slave, but very valuable.

Now a cow is only four or five jin of money, and a horse is only five or six jin of money. A war horse is only about twenty jin of money. The extremely high-quality thousand-mile horse is only worth more than a hundred jins and hundreds of jins.

But a strong slave is worth ten cows.

If you can speak Chinese, it is more valuable.

There are also some young and beautiful female slaves who are more valuable than men. The imperial court protects slaves from abuse and abuse, but if the slaves are willing, it is a different matter.

A rain of arrows fell down more than a hundred strong Shanyi, and Zhang Jing felt very distressed to see it.

The most expensive thing about this bull head is not a cow or a horse, but a young and strong slave. These young and strong mountain barbarians were extremely popular when they were brought to the mines to mine, and each one could be sold at a good price.

But now it's gone.

Shanyi is still fighting.

Or they can't turn around and can only continue to rush.

Wow, a Shanyi rushed to the shield with a big stick. As soon as he raised the big stick, a long spear behind the shield stabbed out, piercing Shanyi's chest, blood splashed, and Shanyi fell down.

As soon as he fell down, his position was taken up by another Shanyi, and then another spear was stabbed out, stabbing him to death.

The shield wall was smashed and thumped, but no one could break through the shield wall.

The shield wall is half a person tall, and the shield soldiers stand sideways, spread their feet, and their shoulders are facing the shield.

The spearmen behind him repeated their movements again and again, stabbing, retracting, and stabbing them again.

The shield soldiers and snatchers in the second and third rows even kept their posture and listened to the sound in front, and they could not reach the front at all.

Shanyi couldn't even break the first shield wall, let alone the second and third layers.

Behind them.

Crossbowmen can shoot bows and arrows into the sky again and again without any pressure.

In front of the shield wall.

The corpse is piled up like a mountain.

Blood flows into a river.

The Shanyi people are still rushing, but there are fewer people rushing.

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"Stop shooting the archery!"

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On the battlefield, the smell of blood soared into the sky and permeated everywhere on the battlefield.

The archer's hands were a little soft when he shot, and the row of snatchers in front could not even lift up their hands.

"Duke, the Shanyi people retreated."

"They left at least a thousand bodies, but they didn't even rush away our shield."

Zhang Jing sighed.

"I lost at least 50,000 jin in such a short time."

He stretched out a slap and sighed.

Fifty thousand cents of coins, and in just a short while, they all became corpses.

"Swap the First Infantry Regiment and let Xie go from the brigade this time. Try to catch more prisoners. I have worked hard to sail from Liuqiu City, not for the purpose of massacre."

Zhang Jing was a little furious.

I feel sorry.

A thousand young and strong slaves are gone, worth at least 50,000 yuan. Although the Zhang family is not short of money, they are short of people. Even if these slaves are not sold, the Zhang family itself needs them.

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Yangzhou.

The Emperor's fleet arrived in Yangzhou.

When we arrived in Yangzhou, the fleet would wait for a group of immigrants to the Americas here.

Li Shimin was very interested in taking Wu, Zhang Chao, Xu Maogong, Yuchi Gong and Li Zhi to visit Yangzhou City and see Yang Guang's Jiangdu Palace back then.

"The prosperity of Yangzhou is dependent on Yang Guang's achievements. When Yang Guang was King of Jin, he was in charge of Yangzhou for more than ten years. It was with his efforts that Jiangnan was stable and developed rapidly, and Yangzhou became the center of Jiangnan at that time. It even became an important point of communication between the north and the south. Later, Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, moved the capital to Luoyang, and dug the Grand Canal. The city of Yangzhou also became an important city on the canal. At that time, the world was even prosperous and prosperous, and it was more prosperous than Chang'an and Luoyang."

Li Shimin sighed very much.

In fact, Li Shimin admired Yang Guang, his cousin, as he was an emperor full of talent.

Although he was not very upright in his position, he was very capable. Compared to his successful victory in the Xuanwu Sect, Yang Guang's victory over the throne was much easier.

In Li Shimin's view, Yang Guang could have become another Emperor Wu of Han.

Unfortunately, he was too impatient and was eventually overthrown by aristocratic families. The demise of the Sui Dynasty seemed to be a peasant uprising on the surface, and the peasant uprising seemed to be due to the conquest of Goguryeo. But in fact, the Sui Dynasty was a revolution and aristocratic family.

Li Shimin also reformed, and he was more successful than Yang Guang. He destroyed Goguryeo, destroyed Turks, destroyed Tuyuhun, destroyed Linyi, controlled the Western Regions, and expanded thousands of miles. In the past ten years of Zhenguan, the population increased greatly and the world's granaries were full. But as a result, he was still driven out of Taiwan.

Yang Guang lost his noble family and his reform. It was Yang Guang's reform that touched their interests. But he was the one who suppressed the Guanlong nobles and the Guandong gentry in his early years, but he created a stronger military aristocratic group. Although the reform was successful, he could not control the group in the end.

These people led by Zhang Chao joined forces to drive them away.

Although Yangzhou City is neither facing the sea nor the Yangtze River, it is close to the canal and is very close to the Yangtze River and the sea, which makes the city develop rapidly.

It is said that Yangzhou's population has exceeded one million now.

Walking in Yangzhou, Li Shimin became a little sad. Looking at the prosperous city, he thought of Yang Guang and the death of the Second Emperor of Sui Dynasty.

Now that he has been exiled to America, he may not be able to return to the Central Plains in his life. What he can't let go of is the Tang Dynasty. He doesn't know how long the country he has worked hard to conquer back then can last.

Zhang Chao told him that he would not rebel, but he did not believe it.

Li Tangruo lost the initiative and the ability to control the situation. How long can he last with Zhang Chao's alms?

Zhang Chao is not the emperor, where is his son?

The Northern Zhou and Northern Qi were not established by Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan. Cao Cao did not usurp the Han Dynasty and became emperor during his lifetime.

After dinner in the evening, Zhang Chao received a letter from Hanjing.
To be continued...