Chapter 3 Hu People
The Jin Dynasty set up a humiliating decree for merchants, which could not stop the overall depravity of the gentry family. These gentry families did not do it themselves, but instructed their servants to go out to do business.
Sima Ji could not even express sympathy for slave trading, and sympathy was useless. The crime of human trafficking is not a big deal for a family like the Lu family of Fanyang, and no one would be able to pay attention to Luoyang.
The most ideal state is just to hand over some copper coins. According to the miscellaneous crime, miscellaneous crime refers to the general term for robbing titles, eliminating names, and removing officials from the crime. Miscellaneous crime is the prototype of an official position. If an official is punished even harder, he will be sentenced to prison, or something like that, he can only expect the Ming Dynasty to go online. It is best if my Qing Dynasty can find some psychological comfort.
"Crown Prince, this is a sea fish sent from Beiping County. The mistress said that you will see it first."
"The prince just returned, and the mistress just bought some Shu brocade and wanted the prince to come and take a look."
"Okay..." Sima Ji kept responding with a smile along the way. Now it is obvious that Zhang Da's hope has basically failed. These maids who didn't know where they came from, seized every opportunity to say a few more words to the prince.
As a later generation, Sima Ji could not treat slaves and maids as a clan of the Jin Dynasty, so he tried to maintain a peaceful attitude towards everyone. At present, it seemed that the effect was good. There were only a few sequelae. With the example of King Sima Ji of Yan, Sima Ji, the attitude made these female relatives even more confident.
"Although the weather is getting warmer, you should also be careful about your clothes. Don't wear it like this. Be careful of the cold. By the way, give me that lamp..." Sima Ji walked through these bells with an embarrassing and polite smile.
"The prince, I have already asked clearly that the people sold by the Lu family are refugees and a pair of brothers and sisters, and the remaining six are from the Yuwen tribe of the Xianbei in Liaodong. They were looted by the Murong tribe in the west of the Central Plains." Zhang Da returned to the report and reported in detail the origin of the slaves and tenants who had just bought them.
"Lu's business is very small, and even outside the border can be made." Sima Ji stood with his hands behind his back and pondered for a moment, "No matter where he comes from, he will be treated equally under the ban. The weather is getting warmer and spring plowing is about to begin. Check the farm tools to see if there is any damage. It is not enough to call craftsmen to build it. If the plowing ox is insufficient, buy it from Hu people. Spring plowing is a major event and should not be neglected. You can report to the prince."
"Criminal, the prince may not care about such trivial matters." Zhang Da took two steps back and turned and left.
"This is, giving him a warm pot of fine wine is much more important than this." Sima Jishen felt the same way, and it would be better to match it with Wushi Powder.
The father-son relationship in the Yan Prince's Mansion was very simple. In the first thirteen or fourteen years, the King of Yan Sima Ji was very irritating. Apart from the war on the border, the King of Yan was everywhere in the fiefdom. No matter whether it was a slave or a tenant, the prince Sima Ji could not see him.
In the next three years, the King of Yan stopped moving and began to recuperate in the royal palace. He did not improve within three years. Although this did not delay the King of Yan, who had just begun to realize that he was a minor illness, as he stayed in bed for a longer period of time, the affairs of the royal palace naturally turned to him as the prince. It was not used to seize power that the Sima family was best at, especially the Sima family was good at. It was simply seamless and natural.
As for Hu people who were trafficked as slaves and tenants, this was the norm in the Jin Dynasty. Hu people had no foundation. Today, they were unhappy. They would kill them if they wanted to kill them, and abuse them if they wanted to abuse them. Who cares if they were trampled to death?
Soon Sima Ji came to a side room and entered with a lamp. The furnishings in the house were very simple. This was his own private space and no one could come in. Soon he took out a piece of silk from the box. The silk spread out and there were nine parts on it, which looked like a map, but there were no signs on it.
Sima Ji, holding a lamp, stood in front of the spread silk, observing like a sculpture. Chinese history is here. Although the silk is composed of lines and there are no signs, the signs have long existed in Sima Ji's mind. This is the confrontation between the nine dynasties in China. Compared with this, Youzhou is just a drop in the ocean.
The ancients said that those who do not plan for the whole world are not enough to plan for a while; those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a certain area. Sima Ji stared at the slow movement of these nine confrontation charts, and he had done this action countless times.
The gathering area controlled by the Central Plains dynasty has been south of the Great Wall since ancient times. In addition, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the southwest only had powerful powers during the Tubo period. The northwest region was said to be Wang Shangke, but it was not as strong as the confrontation with the Central Plains.
The two sectors that can compete with the Central Plains dynasty are the nomadic system of the Mongolian Plateau in the north and the Donghu system in the northeast. The development trends of the two sectors are also different. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the forces of the Mongolian Plateau often found ways to open up the Western Regions and control the Western Regions to compete with the Central Plains dynasty.
In order not to allow nomadic people to control the Western Regions and gain technology to compete with the Central Plains, the Central Plains dynasty also chose to open up the Western Regions and prevent nomadic people from obtaining advanced technology from West Asia to cause harm to themselves.
Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the forces of the Donghu clan had only occasional friction with the Central Plains dynasty, because there were Han residents in the place of residence and could be affected by the Central Plains, so the forces in the Northeast section understood the customs of the Central Plains from beginning to end.
Historically, if the Donghu clan and the Nomadic clan were hostile, the forces of the two systems would still capture each other's retreat, and the Xianbei clan cut the way for the rebellion of the Hu forces in fifty years after the Eight Kings Rebellion. However, if the Donghu clan is not careful, he will be counterattacked. For example, the Jin Dynasty was captured by the Mongolian.
Horses were very important to ancient military. Before the Mongolian formally attacked the Jin Dynasty, the first battle was to attack the Jin Dynasty's horse farm in the north, destroying all the Jin Dynasty horse farms. Then, the battle of Yehuling cut off the connection between the Central Plains and the Northeast.
The Jin Dynasty's return journey was cut off, and no matter how much it counterattacked in the later period, it was always a short time to stop and was eventually destroyed by Mongolia. As for the Song Dynasty, which confronted the Jin Dynasty, the fate of the Song Dynasty was destined when the Jin Dynasty was destroyed.
"The three places in the Western Regions, the North and the Northeast must not be controlled by one force. The strongest one is the Xianbei..." Sima Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and there are ways to deal with individual sectors, but once two of them are integrated, the Western Regions plus the North will be the prosperous Xiongnu and the Turks. The North and the Northeast will be the Khitan and the Jurchens. The three will be integrated into the Mongolian Empire.
Fortunately, the Xianbei was divided into six tribes during the Western Jin Dynasty, from Liaodong in the east to Hexi Corridor in the west, namely the Yuwen Xianbei, Murong Xianbei, Duan Xianbei, Tuoba Xianbei, Murong Tuyuhun, and Qifu Xianbei.
However, according to history, there were no Xianbei people who had collapsed and raised troops in the Jin Dynasty. The large-scale entry of the Xianbei into the Central Plains was at least fifty years after the Eight Kings Rebellion. At that time, the Central Plains had long been occupied. Before that, whether it was the Yuwen Xianbei, the Duan Xianbei or the Murong Xianbei, they all started to war with the Huns who occupied the Central Plains as allies of the Jin Dynasty.
Accepting the enthronement and sending troops to quell the rebellion, which means that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to gain a foothold at the beginning, but was not taken away by Liu Yuanshile directly. In addition to his own strength, the Xianbei behind him regarded the Jin Dynasty as orthodox, and cooperated with the Jin Dynasty to stab Liu Yuanshile in the back and made great contributions.
Chapter completed!