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Chapter 30: Awakening of the Remaining Stars and the Bright Moon
There was a violent snowstorm last night, and the grass and trees on the entire grassland were covered with hoarfrost.

The vultures are circling in the air and looking down, and the Duolun Haizi not far away is sparkling with light. If you look at it from the hills in the distance, the entire grassland and Haizi under the sun are like golden scales, and the golden scales make the frost fall. Melting quickly, ground squirrels and green squirrels began to jump in the grass, wild wolves with sharp eyes, looking for prey everywhere on the low hills.

Everything is alive again, and everything is frosty.

The people in the camp began to get busy, the distance here is already very close, they need to walk about [-] miles to reach Shangdu this morning.

Here, more and more slaves can be seen.

There are Slavs captured from the Golden Horde. They are tall and burly, with blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. They come from ancient Rus, so some people call them Rus.

There are also black Rakshasa women who pay tribute to the eight hundred daughter-in-law countries of Burma, Annan, and Siam, all of whom are black-faced and black-skinned.

Compared with them, the Han slaves are the most humble, with ragged clothes and tied hands and feet. They are bound on both sides of the road like animals, dragging their feet forward slowly. Vultures also like to hover over these Han slaves , because compared with the Slavic whites, Kunlun slaves and Raksha women, these Han slaves are weaker in physique, and there are many sick and dead corpses.

However, after the death of many Han slaves, they were not even eligible for celestial burial, and some of the corpses had to be taken to the fields around Shangdu for retting.

When they got here, the Mongolian warriors and Semu warriors who guarded the slaves also relaxed, and stopped beating the slaves with whips so that they could walk slowly.

Chen Sijiu was tall and burly, standing out like a flock of chickens, and he was very conspicuous among the groups of slaves. He held some food in his hand, distributed it to the weak Han slaves, and helped them see a doctor.

The air on the grassland is very thin, and the altitude of Shangdu is relatively high. Last night’s blizzard was bitterly cold, which made these thinly dressed Han slaves even weaker. Almost all the Han slaves’ faces were blue and gray. This is the face of a dead man. In fact, as long as there is a bowl of hot tea soup, or even a mouthful of hot water, these Han slaves can survive.

But here, burning wood and setting up a fire is a luxury.

Peng Yingyu and Zhu Zhongba followed Chen Sijiu to distribute food to these Han slaves. The food they ate was beans eaten by the best army horses, and some alfalfa grass, which could not be cooked but could only be chewed dry.

Even this kind of food was brought by Chen Sijiu from Long Jiao, and Ha Ma was very dissatisfied with it. Under the rule of Dayuan, the Mongols and Semu people killed the Han people, and they only needed to pay for a donkey. There is even no need for compensation, because the Mongol masters and the Semu masters will not bring justice to the Han people.

So for those Han slaves who were about to starve to death, or who were about to starve to death, it didn't make much difference whether they were given food or not.

What's more, the Mongols and Semu people deliberately didn't let the slaves eat enough, because the Han people who were full would rebel.

The soybeans that military horses eat are fine grains, and if you eat too much alfalfa, you will feel bloated, so you can't eat more. Chen Sijiu distributed the soybeans to a thin old man, told him not to eat too much, and went to the next person, and found that It was the fat woman who betrayed herself before.

Her face was covered with dirt, and her clothes were a little tattered. She seemed to be ravaged by the guard warriors last night, and she was panicking at the moment.

Chen Sijiu just grabbed her a handful of beans silently and walked away.

Jia Lu found out about Chen Sijiu's identity last night, and was very surprised that he could have a relationship with Long Jiao, so he also came to give alms, because Jia Lu is a devout Buddhist, and Buddhism has the kindness of giving alms.

"Chen Daochang, why don't you go to the big tent and walk with the dragon leader?"

Jia Lu's eyes flickered, he looked like a philistine, showing a bit of shrewdness unique to Han people in Shanxi, this caravan is quite powerful, Lord Ha Ma is the favorite of the Yuan Dynasty royal family, and Long Jiao is about to marry The great emperor's noble girl in Mobei River, Chen Sijiu's thigh, Jia Lu should give her a hug.

Chen Sijiu asked back: "How shrewd was Li Sanjian before he shot?"

"Warm, fragrant and nephrite jade will only make people lose their will to forge ahead. Seeing so many Han compatriots suffering and suffering, even if there are fine clothes and fine food, it is tasteless to eat."

But Jia Lu shook his head and said, "Chen Daochang, this statement is wrong."

"Swallowing slaves, are they human?"

Chen Sijiu was sullen and was about to get angry, but Jia Lu waved his hand again and said, "Don't be angry, just listen to me."

"These Han people who have been reduced to exorcising slaves either have broken families or are heavily in debt. Although our Dayuan is heavily exploited, the people at the bottom, even small landlords, can live a peaceful life. There is a song called 'Banshediao·Playing with children' is to describe the life of the common people, the weather is smooth and the people are happy, it is not like my crops are happy, the silkworms and grains are very harvested, and the lawsuits are not bad..."

"My Dayuan's tax is less than [-]%, only nine cents. There are many people's farms, and the government pays few taxes. Many people say that Dayuan is a violent Yuan. Most of these people are Confucian scholars. Why? When Confucianism fell to the country, Dayuan organized Confucian students as Confucian households, forced them to serve corvee, pay money and food, and serve in the army, so these scholars all criticized Dayuan."

"I'm not a filial son of Dayuan, but today's Dayuan governs the world with leniency and benevolence, and it only talks about punishment. Dayuan only has five punishments of exile and exile, and does not obey the law at will. The great emperor Kublai Khan once said that there is a death penalty. If he approved it at the beginning, he was not allowed to issue a decree, but he had to issue it the next day, why? His generosity is famous all over the world. Emperor Song Gong thanked the Queen Mother. The great emperor allowed them to live a life of riches and nobles, and they were not killed or given to death."

"As for culture, our court will never be convicted of crimes by words. Throughout the Yuan Dynasty, only Song Gongdi Zhao Xian's "Working in Yanjing" was punished, and he was not killed. His poem, light It's the phrase 'The guest of the golden stage is not coming back', what if this sentence was placed in the Song Dynasty?"

"The thesis is completed. I have Zhao Mengfu and Wu Cheng in the Yuan Dynasty. There are countless Yuan operas. Although the common people are illiterate, you only need to go to Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong. There are troupes singing big operas and setting up the stage everywhere. All kinds of arts are bursting out, the common people like to listen to operas and watch acrobatics, and they can come and go freely without guides, and they can go anywhere after paying the entry fee, such a scene has never been seen in the Han and Tang Dynasties.”

"You only see the misery of these Han slaves, but you have never seen the lives of other people. You can't generalize. The world is so big that some people will always be able to eat and some people will starve to death. Dayuan is now ruling the world with generosity and benevolence, which is excellent. If the strategy is strictly controlled, there will be great chaos in the world."

Chen Sijiu laughed out loud, and then looked at Jia Lu sadly: "Lord Jia, the happiness and peace and contentment of a small number of people, landlords and gentry, is based on the fact that most of the people are like pigs and dogs like cattle and sheep. In the words of our second master, the ass determines the head. Mr. Jia, you don’t do agriculture, and you don’t need to work hard at the bottom. Naturally, you don’t speak to the common people. Four out of ten Han people in this world are reduced to slaves. , there are three other monks in temples, tenants of Taoist temples, only three of them can be happy and free from cold and hunger, is this a peaceful and prosperous age?"

"Do you know why the White Lotus Sect, the Ming Sect, and the Maitreya Sect have prevailed in recent years? Isn't it because the mortal world is too bitter, and the common people can't get rid of it. Instead, they escape into Buddhism and seek solutions to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens."

Chen Sijiu looked at those Han Chinese slaves who were lifeless like dead corpses and walked dully. Not far away, he could gradually see Kaiping, the upper capital under the snow-capped mountains. It was like a giant dragon in the mountains with its mouth high, devouring the surrounding ants Even vultures and goshawks dare not approach it, so they can only hover around it.

Under the city are piles of corpses, once the generals are successful, all the bones will wither, and once the prosperity is prosperous, all the people will cry.

"If these Han people endure hardships, they can get a happy life for their children and grandchildren, that's all right. But after they have suffered so much, their children and grandchildren will have to suffer from generation to generation, becoming ordinary people and enslaved by others. It is the most terrible thing, Mr. Jia Lu, I am not a traitor. I only think that the world of Dayuan will end like this. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, slavery has been abolished, so that the slave households and other lowly people can have human rights. Da Yuan did the opposite, although a group of people benefited, but the vast majority of the people became oppressed, as Wei Zheng once said, water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.”

However, Jia Lu pursed his lips, gritted his teeth and said with flickering eyes: "The prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is suffering. As long as there is still an emperor sitting in this world, there will always be people who will suffer. These people who are now being slaves to drive their mouths to death."

Chen Sijiu recalled the teachings of his master, and said: "I know one method, which can at least make most people less miserable. Our master said that the world is inherently unfair, but if the emperor is a good person, at least he can choose to let the common people live. Be fair."

"any solution?"

"Be a good emperor, or be a good emperor."

Jia Lu didn't recognize Chen Sijiu's words, but smiled and said: "Yes, I heard that the new emperor Tuohuan Timur is well-educated in Confucianism, if he ascends the throne, he must be a good emperor."

But Zhu Chongba muttered on the side: "You guys are really ridiculous. You said earlier that the Song Dynasty subjugated the country with Confucianism, and the Jin Dynasty subjugated the country with Confucianism. In Dayuan, it will be ruled by Confucianism? Maybe Dayuan will die here. in Mu'er's hands."

　Little knowledge: The Yuan Dynasty was world-leading in mathematics and astronomy, and had a great influence on the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were many semu people in the Qin Tianjian

　　
　
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