Chapter 711

There are not many slaves in the Han Dynasty. Some private slaves can not be counted. It is roughly estimated that they are about 200000 to 300000, but the number of slaves recorded in the official record is as high as 2.67 million.

The composition of these 2.67 million slaves is very complex. Most of the people who have been slaves for several years are those prisoners of war who surrendered during the recovery of the Central Plains by the Han army. Most of them are Qiang, Di and zahu, with a total number of about 600000. The remaining more than 2 million were the accessories of the Han Army to destroy Koguryo, Baiji and Xinluo. All the three countries, from the king to the civilians, became slaves except that some women were married by the Han family's son-in-law.

To be honest, school-age women from Koguryo, Baiji and Xinluo helped Liu Yan a lot. The war killed too many non young groups. The elderly and children were the first groups to suffer in the war. It was not easy for women to survive in the war. For example, the number of marriage age men and women in Han Dynasty was more than five to one for a long time. With more than 100000 school-age women in the three countries, although the gap between men and women has not been completely solved, at least many meritorious soldiers (singles) in the military can have daughters-in-law who inherit incense.

There is still a big gap between men and women in China today. Some are bachelors who can't find a daughter-in-law. Because the Han state attaches importance to the relationship between military merit and titles, families with school-age women not only change marriage... For example, when a girl of a family marries that family, it must also have an adaptive woman. If she can marry a man of her family, she will look for people with titles, followed by people in the standing army.

In some ways, which group do women value... For example, modern people give priority to marrying civil servants, or they must have a car, a house and a deposit, so men will prepare in that direction, which has formed a social trend. In the Han Dynasty, the trend of women is to increase people's desire to join the army, but it is too difficult to squeeze in.

"Whether I can be recruited as a county soldier is related to my life."

"Who isn't?"

For most people, after the establishment of the military field corps is fixed, it is a very difficult thing to become a war soldier. Most of the soldiers have followed the current kings before the founding of the people's Republic of China. The supplemented soldiers need to be at least seven feet (1.71 meters) tall. I and my family members have no criminal record.

Seven feet tall is not a problem for many Han people... Especially in the north. The average height in the North has always been higher than seven feet, and there are eight foot heroes everywhere. As for criminal records, the government looks at the records after the founding of the people's Republic of China. In fact, it doesn't matter what they did before.

The biggest reason why it is difficult to join the field corps is that the standing army does not recruit directly from the people, but selects the best from a large number of soldiers from counties and counties. Therefore, if you want to become a member of the standing army, you have to be drafted into corvee to become a county soldier, and perform well after becoming a county soldier.

The so-called good performance is really hard to define. Dedication is only a foundation. Being able to become an affiliated Corps in a war and gain something in that war will greatly increase the probability of joining the standing army.

There are only 13 standing armies in the country. There are 15000 standing armies. The number of people who can serve as professional soldiers is less than 200000. How much is one?

Men of the right age in the Han Dynasty had the opportunity to become soldiers in counties and counties when they were doing corvee service. The difference was whether they were doing military service locally or going to different places. If in the pre Qin or pre Han Dynasty, people would be afraid to perform corvee service in other places, especially military service. However, in the current Han Dynasty, it is completely the opposite. Everyone hopes to go farther away from home. Subsidies are on the one hand, and the most important thing is that they may be temporarily transferred to a battlefield.

"My eldest brother served in the military, but he went to the land of Jingchu."

Those who hear that are all sad for the elder brother of a man. The land of Jingchu is not a frontier, especially in the process of opening up wasteland. When they go, they will be soldiers.

However, they have to think about it. The retired soldiers of the standing army generally do not return to their hometown. Many are resettled locally. They become soldiers of counties and counties, and very few people are assigned to their hometown. Maybe it's good to settle in Jingchu.

To put it bluntly, after becoming a county soldier, at least there is land distribution. With land, it means that he is not a proletarian. In terms of marriage, having property is the basis. No parents in the world are willing to watch their daughter suffer with others, right? It's not even the reason why they don't suffer. It doesn't matter how rich they want. Men should at least be able to support themselves and their wives and children, and their parents and even their daughter-in-law's parents should be able to take care of them. Otherwise, where can we start a family?

Taking care of both parents is not nonsense. Contemporary society is not a one-child society. Isn't it going through war? Most of the men and women of marriageable age are single seedlings, even a single seedling. Behind it, there are more than one family waiting to provide for the elderly, not only the pressure of the man. In fact, the pressure of men and women is as heavy as Mount Tai. They can't afford to marry, get sick and die... Think they're joking?

"Hard! Too hard!"

The sighing man looked very old, but Sanshi was only 24 years old. He was not only old but also thin. His hair was fixed with a branch of a tree instead of a Lun towel.

The Han state, which had just completed the expulsion of Hu prisoners, did not pay much attention to domestic construction in the final analysis. In general, its citizens were just hungry but could not get rich.

Ordinary people don't have their own land. They will rent it from the government. They can keep 40% of their output, and the rest is owned by the government. If they work harder, they can still do odd jobs in summer and winter because they are illiterate and have no skills. In addition, they are short-time workers. In fact, their salary is not very good.

Of course, the tax of 60% seems very high, but it is by no means the most excessive. For example, the princes in the late Han Dynasty did three taxes and two taxes. In the period of Hu Lu's rule over the Central Plains, the Han people didn't even have their own property, especially in the period of Jie nationality's rule. During the rule of the Jie nationality in the Central Plains, the law clearly stated that the Hu people robbed the Han people of innocence.

The Qin Empire is ten taxes and one, and the Western Han Dynasty is thirty taxes and one after Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty.

After the death of the first emperor of the Qin Empire, including the reign of the first emperor, the corvee system has actually been chaotic. In addition to ten taxes and one, there are many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, especially during the reign of Hu Hai.

From the Western Han Dynasty to Emperor Xiaojing of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the thirty taxes, there were also exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, especially the emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty. The so-called "thirty taxes and one tax forever in the early Han Dynasty" is only the Taizu national policy unchanged in the general direction.

In the Han Dynasty, people who did not own land had 60% tax on renting official land, but there was no exorbitant taxes. This is the most important thing for civilians. Otherwise, what is the tax amount set by the state? In addition to the "national tax", it is useless for Liu Yan to set a hundred taxes.

"It's enough to have food and clothes."

Sanshi doesn't mean how beautiful his life is. What he said about "Lu" is actually coarse grain that can be changed after farming has been produced. He has clothes to wear. He is more satisfied than the misery under the rule of Hu Lu before the establishment of the Han state.

Nowadays, the main crops in the north are millet and wheat. Millet is the main refined grain, but wheat is the second-class grain. Millet is actually a kind of millet. It turns yellow after shelling. Wheat is a kind of post season supplementary grain after millet harvest, and beans are used as inferior grains of various colors. Before, there was no idea of milling wheat. As a result, wheat didn't taste very good. It existed as coarse grain. The military simply fed war horses mixed with beans.

Many people who didn't know why heard that the troops of the western and Eastern Han Dynasties were feeding wheat to their horses. They immediately felt it was a waste, but they didn't know that people at that time were really not used to eating wheat. As everyone knows, wheat became the staple food after the idea of processing and milling. Then there was the emergence of wheaten flour, which gave rise to the origin that northerners mainly eat pasta.

Zhuxia civilization had the technology of grinding flour as early as the spring and Autumn period, but it was used to grind all kinds of beans. Later, in the Western Han Dynasty, tofu was made from grinding soybean flour, but I really didn't want to grind anything else.

It is natural that the Han Dynasty now has the idea of grinding wheat. Liu Yan reminded us that wheat is not coarse grain because of the emergence of grinding flour. On the contrary, it has become staple grain with the emergence of pasta and steamed bread. However, the thinking of a moment and a half will still not be changed. The north of the people mainly grows wheat, but it will still be called coarse grain.

People involved in Chang'an construction, whether from corvee or employed, have at least covered clothes, most of them wearing uniform clothes issued by the government repeatedly. The reason why the government issued clothes again and again was not the trouble left by the Hu prisoners during their rule of the Central Plains. At that time, the Hu people didn't mention it first. The vast majority of Han people didn't even have a piece of clothes at all. They were not exposed crazy. After the productivity was completely destroyed, they really couldn't afford cloth if they were not rich.

The clothes distributed by the government are a kind of collar and right lapel, with bunches of trousers. The so-called Yi is actually an upper garment with a length comparable to that of a robe. It is only a style and can be made of many kinds of materials.

Liu Yan took the country name "Han". In terms of clothing, he was also removing the color of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, that is, he no longer had the loose characteristics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and returned to the relatively tight system in the pre Han period. The people are still going to "Jin Hua", and the army is making comprehensive reform, which makes the difference between combat clothes, dresses and casual clothes. This is also considered to give preferential treatment to the military.

The public has repeatedly looked for clothes put by hair. No matter what style they are, they all belong to linen materials. They are absolutely not beautiful, but they are superior in quality. In addition to the style of Xi, there is also a style of deep clothes, and the style of Ru. Different styles are naturally worn in different seasons.

The three stones were tired of waving the shovel. They straightened up and hammered again. They were stunned when they saw that there were cattle pulling cars on the road in the distance and walking slowly on the road.

There is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty. Nobles (referring to those with titles) can buy horses at a little cost. That is, fine horses are too expensive and difficult to buy. Pulling cars is basically the first choice. It is difficult to see candidates for cattle to pull cars.

The new Chang'an is a large construction site, which is closer to the southeast than the old Chang'an. If you enter from Kanto, you need to pass through the new Chang'an construction site whether you go through Tongguan, lantianguan or Yiguan.

Because it's a big construction site, it looks chaotic. The excavated soil needs to be transported out by car. There are people coming and going. The main road can't afford to walk slowly. Sanshi will be stunned to see that the ox cart is too slow to block a string of cars behind.

The cow pulling the cart looked like a yellow cow. A strong middle-aged man sat in the driving position with a whip. The rear body was ventilated on all sides. You could see two elders who looked white in hair and beard.

"It's rare to consume a lot of people's power!"

"The reappearance of Qin and Han!"

The two old men on the ox cart looked and said, as if they had seen the biggest tragedy in the world, and their faces were full of unbearable looks.

Zhang Gan is dressed in white and matches his hair and beard. He looks very dusty.

Li Mao was dressed in light green. Although he was sitting upright, his temperament looked lazy.

They came from the deep mountain (Taihang Mountain) of Leping County for a generation. According to their claims, they are people in the mountain gate and do not belong to the same vein. One of them said that it costs people's strength, the other said that the Qin and Han Dynasties reappeared, but it was only clear that Liu Yan was also doing tyranny.

There are many so-called "mountain gates" in all dynasties, which are nothing more than small groups hiding in a certain place, usually with their own theoretical system.

"Mountain Gate" is always accompanied by hermits, but hermits are not "hidden". After the northern and Southern Dynasties, being hermits became a means of coercion. For example, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng, a large group of people advocated that "nature is not Zhongni, and all ages are like a long night". It seems that the two great powers are not born, and the earth is about to explode. Then their original intention is very good, Finally, it blew up the imperial court at that time.

"Born not to be Zhongni, forever is like a long night" comes from volume 93 of Zhu Xi's Zhu Ziyu. In fact, this brother is not an ox force. Zhang Zai's sentence "stand up for heaven and earth, stand up for the living people, follow the unique knowledge, and open peace for the world" before Zhu Xi is the real ox force, which has become a famous saying that the passer-by must roar.

"Stop!"

The driver quickly tightened the reins, took the lead in jumping down, moved to the pier, and helped the two elders out of the car one after another.

Although they were slow before, at least they were still moving forward. When they stopped, the cars behind them had to stop. A group of soldiers who had already frowned couldn't see it at all.

"Who are you waiting for? I don't know if you have to give way to stop?"

Li Mao looked at the shouting Han army like a mole ant. He didn't know how to distinguish between official positions and titles from his badge. His eyes just stopped a little and then moved away, and walked towards the civilian men beside the avenue.

Zhang Gan and Yan Huan smiled at the Han Army and said to the driver calmly, "give way."

The driver respectfully saluted Zhang Gan, but he humed coldly to the Han army before driving the cattle and pulling the car away from the avenue.

A soldier of the Han army was a little angry: "who is this?"

The leader of the team looked at the old man and didn't break the law after thinking about it. The state of Han has always acted in accordance with the law, so he calmly said, "these two are reasonable (sensible)."

In other words... Because of Liu Yan's order to recruit talents, did intellectuals from all over the world get punished for pretending to be too much?