Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "All right, stop talking nonsense. If this happens, she will probably burn my mansion. I can't bear to say that, either. He is my favorite woman."

Sun Quan said: "Gongjin, you said you loved the most, which means you have other women in your heart. You are not saying that you are the only one you love."

"My king, don't always catch my private affairs. You ran to my villa with Shi Yuan late, it was not just to deliver things to me, right?" Zhou Yu asked.

Pang Tongze said: "Sir Fu, why don't you guess?"

Zhou Yu said: "Is there something important military and national affairs to discuss?"

Sun Quan smiled and said, "Okay, today I am here to see you. Because of your special situation, I will send you something alone. I originally asked Xiao Fenghuang to come alone, but I happened to think that there is nothing wrong. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so let's see you first."

After dinner at Zhou Yu's house, Sun Quan returned to the palace. After the New Year, more slaves were transported back to China in vain. Only 20,000 or 30,000 male slaves left to do things there. The others were transported back to Wu. Except for the navy who stayed there to settle down, all the other slaves were transported back. Since many civilian merchant ships participated in the transportation, by February, the promise to the surrendered soldiers had been completed.

Next, there were nearly 200,000 female slaves left, and a total of 200,000 male slaves had been transported back, and nearly 300,000 were left untouched back. Sun Quan also knew that if so many people were all official slaves to the government, it would be too many, so he decided to set up a slave market.

Sun Quan summoned the Grand Secretary to discuss together. Sun Quan said first: "Everyone, the main thing we discussed this time is about slaves. This time there are 200,000 female slaves left, and there are 500,000 male servants in total. If all of them are managed and used by the government, we can't do anything 500,000 at once. Besides, this will make the major families and wealthy families not benefit, which is not a way to govern the country. Therefore, I decided that in addition to leaving some of these slaves as official slaves and specializing in the workplaces of the government, the rest will be sold. When conquering the northern grasslands and more alien races in the future, there will be more slaves, and we may have to sell them."

The cabinet represented by Zhang Zhao naturally agreed very much. They all belong to the aristocratic family, and now they have no privileges and can no longer be called a aristocratic family, but they still have this idea in their hearts.

Xu Shu opposed: "My king, if this is the case, the aristocratic family will be transformed back, and they can have their own slaves and accumulate a lot of wealth. Moreover, their slaves are too many to a certain extent, and they will be an armed force when organized. Moreover, this slave is different from our own people. I have learned about these slaves, and they are very honest and obedient. If they are trained to rebel, they will probably not be able to do anything."

After Xu Shu said this, Sun Quan realized this problem, but the others stopped talking because they hoped that their family could buy some slaves. They didn't want to have only hired a few people to do their jobs at home, and their lives were uncomfortable. Sun Quan's laws made them enjoy much less.

Zhang Zhao stood up and retorted: "Although what my king, Xu Cifu said has some truth, it is not reasonable. These slaves are short and have no power. The army of our Wu Kingdom is so powerful and the people are living such a good life now. How could anyone rebel?"

Xu Shu was about to retaliate and said, "Sir, even though I say so, I mean to prevent it. Like many systems of my king, we will be for generations. We know that no one will rebel now, and there is no way to guarantee it, and it will be even more difficult to talk about it in the future."

Sun Quan waved his hand and asked the two to stop first, and then asked: "Everyone, the one proposed by Yuan Zhi is very likely to be born. So everyone talks about how to prevent this disadvantage from occurring. The sale of this slave must be carried out, but we cannot let any private hands have too many slaves."

Yu Fan suggested: "My king, why not change the sale to rent. Anyone who needs slaves can rent them, but the management rights of these slaves are still in the government, and they just do things for them. Once the lease period reaches, the government will still be with the government. And if the slave dies when renting, we can ask the renter to compensate the government for some money."

Pang Tong said again: "In fact, it can be sold, but we have to limit the maximum number of people to buy for each household, so that we won't be afraid of any problems. Some people can buy some slaves and go back to be servants."

Sun Quan asked again: "What other ideas do you have?"

Zhu Zhi stood up and said, "My king, my colleagues, we are all male and female slaves separated. These female slaves will become women of our Han people. I won't say it anymore, but don't these male slaves marry and have children?"

Gu Yong was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and immediately said: "Slaves marry and have children, and they can only be slaves. Our Ministry of Revenue decided to register these slaves. If the household owner is a slave, his family is a slave. Where would anyone be willing to marry?"

Sun Quan said: "The Ministry of Revenue has a good idea, but the slaves have indeed missed before the matter of getting married. In addition to what the army needs, we, the remaining female slaves, can be allocated some for the time being. Any slave who is good-performing can be selected as the slave leader. Such a person can reward them with a female slave as a wife, and then others such as buying male slaves and female slaves from a private home. If the master agrees, the male slave can marry the female slave, but they can also register at the government office."

Originally, Sun Quan wanted to destroy all the men, but this idea could not be seen by anyone. He had really become a cruel person, and he had already conquered this Japan, so the next thing was not something he could control.

Of course, after some time of transformation, these married slaves gradually evolved into serfs, and a large number of farms and sugarcane and cotton plantings have many serfs, which has also led to a rapid economic development of the Wu Kingdom.
Chapter completed!