The Qin Dynasty was not a slave society. The Qin Dynasty was a feudal society.

In 221 BC, King Qin proclaimed himself emperor and was known as "Qin Shihuang" in history. The Qin Dynasty established three ministers and nine ministers in the central government to manage national affairs; it abolished the feudal system at the local level and replaced it with the system of counties and counties; it implemented the same writing system, the same track as the carts, and unified weights and measures. They attacked the Xiongnu in the north, conquered Baiyue in the south, built the Great Wall to repel foreign enemies, and dug the Ling Canal to connect the water system.

The establishment of a centralized system established the basic pattern of China's political system for more than 2,000 years and laid the foundation for the rule of China's unified dynasty. Therefore, it is called "Qin's political law has been administered for a hundred generations." The Qin Dynasty ended the five hundred years of division and separatism among princes since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and became the first centralized feudal country with multi-ethnic integration in Chinese history. Extended information

China’s Slavery System

The Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods were all slave eras. Slaves were mostly produced in wars and became civilians captured by the enemy. Slaves were also demoted as slaves due to crimes, and they were divided into official slaves and private servants. In the middle of the Warring States Period, Qin Xiaogong of the Qin Dynasty appointed the Legalist Shang Yang's Reform to end this system, allowing citizens (freedmen) and slaves to obtain equal civil rights status.

In the Han Dynasty, the generation of slaves mainly came from private ownership formed by land annexation. In addition, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, people sought refuge with the owners of large estates to avoid war, and they also became private ownership. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was a clear distinction between good and bad in law. For example, Buqu (a type of slave) who assaulted a good citizen would be executed, and a good citizen who beat his own Buqu to death would be sentenced to prison terms regardless of whether he was guilty or innocent. And it can be redeemed with money.

Those who commit the crime of treason will have their whole family and even the whole clan to be made official slaves. Before the Song Dynasty, those who had been employed by others for a long time had a lower status than good citizens and were also considered slaves. Starting from the Song Dynasty, the master-servant relationship formed by the employment relationship was no longer regarded as the relationship between good and humble. But in fact, the phenomenon of private slaves existed in large numbers, but private slaves were prohibited by law, and good people were not allowed to be sold as slaves.

In the Yuan Dynasty, because the Mongols themselves practiced slavery, official slaves were prevalent. Slavery was also practiced on the Han people in the early Qing Dynasty, and slavery was not abolished until the Yongzheng period. The economy was prosperous in the early Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Kangxi adopted low taxes. Like the Ming Dynasty, the number of people sold into slavery has actually decreased significantly.

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