At the end of the 44th year of the Great Jin Dynasty, the ancestral land of the Zhu family in Chilong Prefecture, Chong'an State.

This is a giant private gentry castle surrounded by mountains and rivers. It covers a very wide area. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mountain city.

The wall of Wubao is three meters high, and it circled gently and circled several hills and lakes on a piece of land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile soil have been reclaimed outside Wubao.

As the ancestral land of a gentry, we naturally choose a good Feng Shui land. If the land is good, the land will naturally be fertile. Therefore, the ancestral land chosen by every gentry must be a land of fish and rice.

The people living in Wubao, the ancestral land of the Zhu family, mainly from the Zhu family, with a population of about 10,000 or 20,000. As children of the gentry, they do not need to work and enjoy their own privileges.

In addition, there are 40,000 or 50,000 household slaves who serve the Zhu clan. On average, there are basically three or four people serving one Zhu clan.

In addition to Wubao, there are thousands of natural villages of different sizes distributed scattered. The common people in these villages are also private serfs who are dependent on the Zhu family. They have a population of at least 500,000 or 600,000.

This is also the family wealth that the Zhu family owned as the highest-ranking gentry family in Chong'an Country. It is precisely because of the hundreds of thousands of serfs producing food that can meet the needs of the 10,000 or 20,000 Zhu's children, so that they can live a free and easy life.

Of course, in addition to these domestic slaves and serfs, there are also unknown numbers of slaves working in places such as minerals, factories, etc. under the Zhu family. These slaves are not included in the population.

Under the rule of the Great Jin Dynasty in Xuanyuan, everything was divided into three or six or nine levels.

As the ruling class, there are three tribes that are distinguished from royal families, royal families and gentry families. For gentry families, a ninth-grade rank system is used to determine different gentry classes according to law and enjoy different rights and status.

As the ruled class, the common people are also divided into three different levels: national, private, lowly slave, and three different classes.

The people with relatively high status are the citizens, also known as the people, and are the basic population of the Great Jin Dynasty and even local vassal states. Most of them have their own private land, enjoy free human rights, and are also responsible for corvee and tax obligations.

The poor landlords in common people like Liu Ping belong to the wealthy families among the people. Even if they rely on the gentry to do things, they only have an interrelated interest relationship with the master family. As the gentry's guests, the master family also has a certain respect for them.

But under the national people, there is another class of common people called private people, also called private people. They directly depend on the family of the gentry and are half-selling and half-free.

Private citizens are considered to be slaves of the gentry, but they can own their own private property, so after they have enough money, they can redeem freedom from the master's family and become a free citizen again.

However, most private citizens sell themselves to the gentry's family because of poverty, so naturally they are unlikely to accumulate too much money. Only a very small number of people can redeem their freedom again.

Of course, some private citizens would rather give up their free national status and sell themselves to the gentry as slaves. This is not because they are humble, but because they have to sell themselves to the gentry to avoid tax burdens in order to evade heavy taxes in the country.

Because according to the current laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, if you cannot pay the tax burden, you may be convicted or even sold to the government as a lowly slave. This is what is called harsh policies are more powerful than tigers, forcing people to give up their freedom and become slaves to the gentry.

According to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, as long as private citizens sell themselves to the gentry, they naturally bear the obligations of corvee, tax and other obligations that they originally had to bear.

In this way, the private people have no affiliation with their country, and only have a slave relationship with their gentry masters.

Because the gentry often had the right to exempt corvee and taxes, the laws of the Jin Dynasty also stipulated that the number of private populations that gentry of different ranks could have was also a proportion of.

Otherwise, if the people of a country become private citizens of the gentry, the country will lose its tax revenue, and the country may also perish.

Only by precluding the population ratio can the royal family and royal family rule over the gentry. Everything is ruled and well-founded, and the world can be peaceful forever.

In this regard, the royal family and royal family are just gentry with high status, and the citizens are only private citizens under the names of the royal family.

Of course, whether the life of private people is good depends on whether the family of the gentry who sells their bodies treats the private people well. Therefore, many private people will also choose the family of the gentry before selling themselves. After all, they sell themselves as slaves, and from then on they cannot control themselves, and their life and death are controlled by the owner.

The little-legged talent beside Zhu Lingwu, as well as the personal maids like Chuyang, Xiayang and Qiuyang, belong to this kind of private family. In addition, the private military departments of Zhu's family were also recruited and trained from private people.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the private territory of the gentry is an independent kingdom, because on the territory of the gentry, the life and death of those private people are controlled by the master's family.

The last type is the lowest slave, also known as the untouchables. They do not even have a household registration and cannot have their own private wealth. In other words, they will never be able to get rid of their slave status unless the master releases them.

A lowly slave is not even regarded as a human being, but only as a livestock, and is even less valuable than the owner's belongings.

The vulgar slaves were initially mainly from the soldiers and people of enemy countries captured in the war. After the Great Jin Dynasty unified Xuanyuan, local wars were basically quelled, so the source of vulgar slaves was mainly criminals.

Just like those citizens who cannot afford taxes and are sold by the government, but more of them are the clans involved in the clan because of serious crimes such as rebellion. Many gentry members may also become lowly slaves because of this.

So in the world, even if you were once a royal family member, you might become an unrestrained slave overnight.

Zhu Lingwu looked out from the window of the carriage he was riding, and saw the temperament of the Zhu family's ancestral land. Zhu Lingwu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what will the current wealth and honor become in hundreds of years?

Although the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty has been firmly in the throne of Xuanyuzhou for thousands of years, which emperor can live forever?

Although the Great Jin Dynasty is guarded by the outer sects, the imperial empires before the Great Jin Dynasty were not guarded by the outer sects. Until now, these empires of the previous sects have also perished.

Wealth is like passing clouds!

Maybe you can enjoy luxury and enjoy yourself as a gentry in this life, but in the next life, you may become a slave you ignore.

Since he got the memories left by Meng Yaoshi, Zhu Lingwu's heart has become more determined in his heart to refine Qi and cultivate immortality. Meng Yaoshi, who came from a sect in the world, has been filled with contempt for this so-called powerful people in the world.

During the escape, the Mongolian Medicine Master traveled through various countries in the Great Jin Dynasty, and naturally saw all kinds of children of the gentry.

Although the Xuanming Sect where Meng Yaoshi was once located was an evil sect that was rejected by the righteous path, for Meng Yaoshi, the qi refining technique he practiced was also a very profound qi refining technique of Xuanmen.

In his opinion, these gentry children were originally from outer disciples of outer sects in the secular world. Because they had no hope of cultivating immortals, they were placed in the secular world and helped the sects do some trivial matters.

Therefore, the Qi Refining Techniques possessed by these gentry are just low-level Qi Refining Techniques. With this low-level Qi Refining Technique, if you want to refine qi and build a foundation, you will naturally achieve half the effort with twice the effort.

In addition, how can those children of the gentry, who are in wealthy families in the world, be served and enjoyed since childhood, have the perseverance to refine qi and cultivate immortality? If they do not have that kind of perseverance, how can they break through the hurdle of refining qi?

Even if there are a few talented people who can pass the foundation-building realm, the road to cultivation is long, and these flowers from the greenhouse have reached the real world of immortal cultivators. I am afraid that before they can slap a few times, they will become dead bones on the roadside.

Building the foundation is just the beginning of the path to immortal cultivation, and the path to immortal cultivation is not completely risk-free. Especially when you are at the end, you have to attract thunder and disasters. Without the belief of fighting against the will of heaven, how can you overcome the disaster and become an immortal?

Therefore, when Meng Yaoshi was in Xuanming Sect, although his parents were taken care of by the elders, they were only taken care of by the resources of cultivation. Everything else was obtained by Meng Yaoshi's own hard practice.

For Zhu Lingwu, he felt that the greatest wealth he had obtained from the Meng Medicine Master was not the high number of spirit stones, various weapon refining materials and other things in the Qiankun storage bag, but the belief of refining qi and cultivating immortals and changing fate against heaven and change of fate is the most precious.

Now that he is about to enter the Zhu family's ancestral land, Zhu Lingwu will really start his own path of refining qi and cultivating immortals, but his greatest gain is that he can obtain the experience of refining qi and cultivating immortals from outside sects.

Since the attack by the Mongolian pharmacist that night in Yeliuyi, the journey has been smooth sailing all the way. From Tongshan County to the Zhu family's ancestral land of Chilong Prefecture, we slept in the open for more than ten days.

Although Liu Ping originally wanted to give up, Zhu Lingwu's insistence still gave up this idea.

The business travelers who had originally boarded the road with the Zhu family convoy also dispersed after leaving Yongling Mansion. Even the last business travelers naturally dispersed when they arrived at Qinglong Mansion.

Now that the Zhu family's territory is the only one left behind.

In recent years, on the official roads of the Zhu family territory, there were more than just a convoy like Zhu Lingwu. Soon someone came to ask where the convoy on Zhu Lingwu came from.
Chapter completed!