Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 387 Great Construction ([-])
Three years later

Summer of the 34th year of Marquis Yan (244)
"My lord, this is the fine wine you want." The Wang family caravan came to Yanbei Grassland and dumped fine wine to Yanbei Grassland year after year.

After the Southern Huns migrated back to the Hetao Plain, the Eastern Xianbei who originally lived in the Xianbei Mountains went south to occupy the Yanbei Grassland. Among them, they were divided into three Xianbei masters, Su Li, Mi Jia, and Que Ji. These three Xianbei masters divided Yanbei Grassland.

The closest to the Wang family is Suli.

Xianbei people used to refer to tribal leaders and nobles as adults, so after learning the Xianbei language, the children of the Wang family who were in charge of Yanbei Grassland trade respectfully called the Xianbei leaders and nobles as adults.

If you want to say what is the best seller in the past few years, it is undoubtedly fine wine.

The current era is in the Little Ice Age, and the climate is getting colder and colder. The north is becoming less and less suitable for living. On the contrary, the colder climate in the south has caused the miasma to be less serious than before, and the difficulty of development is lower than before, so more and more people are living in People who could not survive in the north migrated to the south.

This migration did not happen overnight, not to say that millions of people migrated suddenly, but tens of thousands of people spontaneously migrated to the south every year. This process lasted for hundreds of years. development in the South.

For example, on Sugarcane Island, the mortality rate in land reclamation was still 97% a few decades ago, then it was reduced to 90%, and now it is reduced to 88%.

The difficulty of land reclamation in the south is constantly decreasing, while the difficulty of land reclamation in the north, such as Pi Mao Island, is constantly increasing. The Wang family has now completely stopped land reclamation on Pi Mao Island, and only keeps the southern part of the island that has been reclaimed.

Therefore, a large number of ethnic groups continued to migrate south. The people in the forest migrated to Mobei, the nomads in Mobei migrated to Monan, the nomads in Monan migrated to the Central Plains, and the people in the Central Plains migrated to Jiangnan.

In this environment where the climate is getting colder and the climate is getting colder, grain production keeps decreasing, grain prices keep rising, and the prices of warm products such as woolen sweaters are also rising. Because of its heating effect, fine wine is also used as a warm product. Taxi in the Central Plains The people and the nobles of the grasslands like fine wine very much, and the supply of fine wine of the Wang family was once in short supply.

In the Central Plains, some scholars would take off their clothes and compose poems while drinking fine wine in the bamboo forest. They were disheveled and did not follow the traditional Confucian morals.

Wars, massacres, death, and plagues are destroying the traditional concepts of Confucianism that have been hard-built for hundreds of years. Many people at the bottom no longer believe in the sages of Confucius and Mencius, and instead believe in foreign Buddhism.

Although Buddhism was introduced in the period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, it has always been regarded as an official expression of cultural tolerance and has not been developed. It was not until the beginning of the past two years, as Confucianism was destroyed by wars, that some low-level people began to believe in it. Buddha.

It was also in the past two years that some scholars like to wear women's clothes to be unique, and they don't want to tie their hair and wear a crown. They walk barefoot like a savage with disheveled hair, and sometimes they don't wear clothes. Running wildly on the street, the performance is very strange, and the whole society is degraded because of the collapse of Confucianism.

Moreover, the diligence and thrift advocated by Confucianism is no longer liked by scholars. Instead, concepts that were originally disgusted by Confucianism, such as drinking today, enjoying yourself in time, and luxury enjoyment, have become a new consensus among everyone.

Fortunately, the Wang family is in Liaodong, far away from the Central Plains, so they have not been affected by the depraved atmosphere in the Central Plains.

Traditional Confucianism is gradually being ignored, and metaphysics is gaining popularity under the cloak of Confucianism.

While the traditional Confucian concepts were collapsing, another event related to the plan of thousands of years was also happening.

That is, the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wu, and Shu (Han) are frantically absorbing foreign populations into their ruled areas. Qin was destroyed by Sima Yi last year, and Sima Yi slaughtered 10,000+ Han people in the Guanzhong area. The reason is to deter them. The surrounding forces prevent them from invading the Central Plains.

Because the war at the end of the Han Dynasty killed more than half of the population, and the massacres caused by various princes and warlords were too many, so today's various regimes are short of population.

Large tracts of wasteland are uncultivated, and many gentry manors are in short supply of tenant farmers. Both the imperial power and the gentry are eager to increase the population (cattle and horses).

Because the population (cows and horses) is not enough, the imperial court is advocating more births for the people, but even so, the speed of the common people's births is still not enough for the imperial court and the gentry landlords, and there is a trend in society that there is a trend of drinking today, so everyone just I want to be at ease while I am alive, and I don't care about the succession of the family, let alone the survival of the country.

Against such a background, a large number of aliens were relocated to the Central Plains, where they became tenants of the imperial court or tenant farmers (cattle and horses) of the gentry.

Now you can see many Huns, Xianbei, Qiang, Di, Jie, Goguryeo, and Fuyu farming in the manors of the gentry in the Central Plains.

More than half of the Han people's cattle and horses died, so it is natural to bring in foreigners as cattle and horses. Otherwise, why not let the children of the gentry go to the fields to work in person?How is that possible?

During this period, except for a small number of people who opposed the migration of foreign races into the Central Plains and believed that it would cause social conflicts between Han and Hu in the future, the vast majority of people agreed with this policy.

The court lacks population (cattle and horses), and the gentry also lacks population (cattle and horses). This is a win-win situation for the court and the gentry.

The Wang family also seized this opportunity to buy slaves from Master Xianbei, and then sold these slaves to the Central Plains gentry, thereby earning the difference.

After Xianbei was broken up by Wang Jue, it split into dozens of Xianbei adults who acted independently, and there would be wars among them.

The Xianbei people captured the Xianbei people as slaves, and then the Xianbei people sold the Xianbei people to the Wang family, and then the Wang family selected the strongest Xianbei people to go overseas as slaves to reclaim wasteland, and resold the weaker Xianbei people to the Central Plains gentry as serfs, thereby earning price difference.

During this period, the Hu people were just serfs in the manors of the gentry, and were whipped by the children of the gentry to do farm work.

Who would have thought that a group of foreign serfs could stir up big waves? How could this be possible, unless the internal fighting in the Central Plains was too fierce and gave the foreign serfs a chance.

"A total of 560 people." The Xianbei nobleman who knew Chinese laughed.

These are other Xianbei people captured after they defeated other Xianbei tribes. They are now selling them to the Wang family, and then use the money to buy the Wang family's fine wine and woolen sweaters.

"Your benevolence is comparable to that of Yao, Shun and Yu, and your wisdom is comparable to that of Confucius and Mencius." Before leaving, the children of the Wang family flattered each other a few times.

Make money, it's not shabby!
Holding the sage books of Confucius and Mencius in the left hand to study benevolence, righteousness and morality, and killing people with the long knife in the right hand, and killing people while reading the sage books, the two do not conflict.

If so many Xianbei slaves were resold to the Central Plains, they could make a lot of money.

Being a slave trader is not easy at all!

(End of this chapter)