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"This Persian guy is so unkind. How can he sell his daughter? Can they use the money to sell his daughter with peace of mind?" Yuchi Gong said dissatisfied.

Zhang Chao just said very ordinary, "Isn't there too many things to sell children and daughters? In the years of the Tang Dynasty, people often had to sell children and daughters to survive? Selling children and daughters is not the worst. Eating children is the real tragedy of human ethics."

Zhang Chao told Yuchi Gong a story.

"A rebellion swept the world, with ruins everywhere, famines everywhere, and people were not allowed to eat. A couple entered the city to buy grain to raise young children in the family. But when they traveled all over the grain market, they could not afford a liter of food. In the end, the woman had no choice but to sell herself and asked her husband to buy grain with money, so that he would definitely take good care of the children."

"The husband took a handful of money from a vicious man and watched his wife be pulled away by the man with a straw rope tied to his neck. His wife staggered and turned around step by step."

When Zhang Chao told this story, his tone was very low.

Yuchi Gong was very upset when he listened, "What about?"

"What else can happen? For this man, either the three of them starved to death, or they sold their wife and children to buy food and went home, and maybe they could hold on for a few more days."

"The husband took the money back to buy grain, but he went to many grain stores but he didn't buy grain because the price of grain increased again. His wife could no longer afford the grain after selling the little money he had exchanged. Now the food, gold and other resale prices."

The helpless man was so sad that he wanted to find the traffickers and redeem his wife.

But after searching for a long time, he couldn't find it. Finally, he met someone selling human flesh. The price of human flesh is much cheaper than food. Thinking of the hungry child at home, this man who couldn't find his wife, finally had no choice but to buy a piece of human flesh and go home.

He walked back with the piece of human flesh. When he reached the city gate, he suddenly found a birthmark on the piece of flesh.

"That's his wife's birthmark."

The few people who listened to the story all opened their eyes widened.

"The man ran back like crazy, and he ran to the stall selling his meat. Sure enough, he found a head under the meat stall, which was his wife's."

silence.

There was still heavy breathing.

Yuchi Gong and Liu Dashang both gritted their teeth, and they were extremely angry.

"Then what?"

"Then the man snatched his wife's body and wanted to run home, but was slaughtered by the man. His flesh was cut down and placed on the table for sale. His head and his wife's were thrown under the table."

Manager Liu vomited.

"Actually, this is just a very ordinary story. Really, if you look through history books, there are stories of eating people everywhere. When the Five Barbarians invaded China, they killed people and ate people as military rations. Recently, Zhu Can, the pseudo-Chu emperor at the end of the Sui Dynasty, also liked to catch children and eat them the most. The Chu army he led did not farm or defend the city, robbed and killed people everywhere, marinated people with salt, and took them with the army, and ate wherever they went."

Yuchi Gong nodded.

Of course, Zhu Can knew that he was Wang Shichong's ally back then. He was rampant in Henan, and he didn't know how many people he killed and ate.

In fact, the story Zhang Chao just told was real, recorded in history. It was an incident in the late Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, the vassal states were divided, wars were frequent, and the people were in vain.

Many salt dealers such as Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao rebelled one after another.

Among these heroes of the late Tang Dynasty, many human-eating demons, such as Huang Chao, built many machines to crush people into meat sauce.

For example, Qin Zongquan used salt to cover people with killing people as military rations.

Even in the late Tang Dynasty, the most famous general Feihuzi Li Gong, once killed people and made military rations during wars.

Also, during the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang, fought with thousands of troops, more than 400 troops, annihilated 120,000 troops, and held Suiyang for ten months. In the end, he ate all the barks of the city, horses, rats and trees, and did not surrender. When the city was broken, there were only thirty-six people left in the city, and none of them surrendered.

The Battle of Suiyang was a bloody battle that relied on eating people to defend the city. Zhang Xun even distributed his concubines to the soldiers guarding the city to eat.

Eat people, when you open history books, you can eat people everywhere.

Why cannibalism? War, famine.

Since the Anshi Rebellion began, the prosperous era of Kaiyuan turned into ashes overnight, and the following was a chaotic war of more than a hundred years. The Tang Dynasty, when the Anshi Rebellion began, was no longer powerful. The capital was once again and again, and the world was divided by vassal states. With eunuchs' autocracy inside and vassal states outside, there was no peace in the world.

Even after the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were the Five Dynasties Rebellion, and there were the rise of Khitan, Dangxiang and others to inflict China.

"War is the most tragic. Look at these monks. They were nobles, but they had to leave their hometowns to come here. Although the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and rich, it was not their home. They became slaves and even had to sleep with them in order to dance and laugh."

"Look at this prosperous Yangzhou city, a capital of millions of people, but do you know how many slaves are under this prosperous? Some of them come from the mountains in the south of the Tang Dynasty, some from the grasslands around the Tang Dynasty, and some from the farther South Ocean and the West of Thailand. We enjoy peace and prosperity, but they can only work hard below, day after day."

"Even if the Tang Dynasty issued a law to give them the lowest guarantee, many slaves could not redeem their freedom for the rest of their lives, and they could not find a wife. They did not even have the qualification to marry and have children. The Tang Dynasty gave them this qualification, but they did not have the ability."

"Every year, the number of slaves in the Tang Dynasty is increasing continuously, increasing at least at a rate of two million every year, but a large number of slaves die every year."

"Some of these slaves were just mountain barbarians, some were tribal chiefs, and some were imperial nobles. But when they lost their country, they were just the most pitiful slaves. They had no support and no one to support them. No matter how good the laws of the Tang Dynasty were, they would not really protect them."

"Of the ten thousand slaves, it is difficult to truly integrate into the Tang Dynasty and become the people of the Tang Dynasty. They are the bones under the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty."

Zhang Chao’s words are very straightforward, but very real.

Why did the people of the Tang Dynasty live so well? The poorest people in the past can now become self-cultivated farmers and have land industries?

Why are these slaves so miserable, giving more than anyone else, but getting less than anyone else?

Even if you are looking for mines in the same mine and working in the same job, the rewards received by a Tang man and a slave are completely different.

"There are even many more miserable slaves than those in the sun. Those black slaves are not black slaves, but black slaves who are not registered and hidden. These people are even worse off. They do not even have basic personal power, have no private property, and are beaten or scolded, or even killed. They are just tools that can speak. Many black slaves enter the mine to explore the mine and have no chance to see the sun again."

Zhang Chao said so much to Yuchi Gong, but in fact he wanted to say that all this is hard-won in the Tang Dynasty.

He cherishes all this very much, and no one wants it to be changed.

No one wants to fight.

"Yuchi Gong, I know you have always been unable to understand why the Emperor of the Protector's War lost. This is not about loyalty or not, it is about people's hearts. No one wants to see this great situation and change back, no one wants to fight again. When the war is over, no one can live a good life."

Why did Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and others oppose the Supreme Emperor, and why did even Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji oppose the Supreme Emperor?

It has nothing to do with loyalty.

We are not the ones who betray.

It's the Emperor.

The Emperor betrayed everyone and the world. He wanted to change, but he wanted to change such a prosperous world back to the past.

Who will?

I, Zhang Chao, refused!

Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Shan Xiongxin, Luo Shixin, Niu Jinda and others refused.

Pingyang refused.

Fang Xuanling, Li Jing, Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou and others refused.

It is better to violate the laws of heaven than to offend the public.

When everyone refuses, the emperor wants to do whatever he wants. Do you think he can succeed?

"Go to America and develop there with peace of mind. The world is so vast, don't think about coming back. Make a comeback and make a comeback, but you're just a bubble. Even if you really have 100,000 soldiers and thousands of warships one day, don't come back, no one will welcome you."

Yuchi Gong lowered his head and refused to speak.

"Your Duke Yuchi's loyalty to the Emperor is admirable, but last time, your loyalty and Xu Maogong were just foolish loyalty. You are loyal to the Emperor, but you betray the people of the world."

"Don't say it, I don't want to listen." Yuchi Gong roared, with blue veins protruding on his neck. Persie next to him was trembling with fright.

Even the shopkeeper Liu didn't dare to move any longer. After hearing so many things that shouldn't have been heard, he wished there was a crack to escape.

"Okay, I'll say a few more words at once. Let's go, I guess you're not in the mood to continue staying there." Zhang Chao called Manager Liu, "These four Persian girls talked to the owner here and took them away."

When he left the door, Yuchi Gong didn't want to pay attention to Zhang Chao, so Zhang Chao said goodbye to him. He asked Manager Liu to arrange a carriage for Yuchi Gong, and even the four Persian girls gave it to her.

"King Zhao, where are you going next?" After the shopkeeper Liu made arrangements, he asked cautiously.

"Arranging a carriage, I want to go to the dock."

An ordinary carriage, Zhang Chao slowly watched along the dock.

On the dock, ships come in and out, and countless cargoes are loading and unloading. Most of the people who load and unload cargo are slaves, not only the black-skinned Kunlun slaves, but also many Persian slaves, even Germanic barbarian slaves in Europe, Goguryeo, Turkic slaves, etc.

No matter what color, country and race, they only have one identity here, a slave to the Tang Dynasty.

In order to earn the little salary they each day, they have to work hard. In order to make that slim opportunity for freedom, they have to grit their teeth and hold on.

But there are not many who can really last until that day.

"Go back." Zhang Chao knocked on the carriage, and the shopkeeper Liu, who was driving the carriage himself, immediately drove the carriage.
Chapter completed!