Delong

Chapter 65

As the weather gets colder and colder, more and more civilians live on both sides of the Luohe River. In addition, the open area between Chengfufang and Chengfumen is originally a large wharf in the Luoshui Transit Palace, but it is It has become the largest distribution center for factories and folk husbands at present, and then the surrounding area of ​​Jing'an Terrace in Chengfufang is also full of folk husbands.

The folks who came first were mainly demolished. The Qianyuan Hall, the main hall of the Ziwei Palace, was completely demolished. A large amount of wood, decorations, bricks and stones were re-evaluated, and those that could be used were transferred to the open space on the west side of the Qianyuan Hall. It is considered unqualified... The masonry is really useless, but a large amount of wood and decorations flow into the private market in the eastern capital.

Wealthy households scramble for a piece of wood to make beams, lintels, and coffins. Decorations can be slightly modified. Whoever can get one is also the best choice for gifting and showing off wealth.

In addition, metal products were also picked out and sent to the south of the city for re-smelting. For a time, the south of the city continued to have fireworks, day and night.But this alone has caused the gangs in the southern cities of the city to revive and thrive.

The poor there are willing to exchange any price for an iron ingot or a piece of scrap copper, and then the gang will take most of them away easily.

But only half a month later, as the main body of the Qianyuan Hall was demolished, while the smelting workshop in the south of the city was still smoking, the camps and kilns in the east of the city were also built one after another, and more folks began to appear around Luoshui. , and more tributes under the banner of the royal family, which in turn made the banks of the Luoshui River in the north of the entire Eastern Capital a soup pot for carnivores.

Don't ask Zhang Xing how he knows, he is a white ribbon, sitting on the island of Jing'an, dealing with some criminal and prison documents, discussing crimes, guarantors, and releasing people, nothing has changed, even nothing has been moved, but the so-called The income from transactions has increased seven or eight times.

It seems that any gangster can take out some money and distribute it to these systematic meat eaters who sit on the ground.

"Third Brother, Twelve Lang, the fugitives are being caught outside."

It was another ordinary day at work, Qin Bao came to the small courtyard to make tea and fish, and made a report by the way. "The Jinwu Guard, the newly recruited Fifth Army, and the Jingjie Tiger have all received military orders to carefully outline the fugitives..."

"Why run away?" Zhang Xing, who was filling out the form by the fire in the room, hesitated for a moment, and asked a question, which he knew in his heart would be very ridiculous, but he was really curious. "Didn't the Ministry of Industry distribute tents and winter clothes?"

"Ministry of Industry... how can there be tents and winter clothes?" Qin Bao smiled wryly while holding hot tea. "Afraid...Leaving things and going outside, they are basically still farmers. They have never left home for half their lives. They only know that their neighbors were conscripted into the corvee of Dongyi for the second time, and only half of them came back; they know that the two uncles conscripted Xiu The hard labor in the Eastern Capital did not come back, and it was cold for a few days when I came here, not to mention the winter clothes came, even if I was paid again, rumors arose, and I just wanted to escape home."

"It's really stupid." Li Qingchen, who had come over earlier, frowned, somewhat resenting that iron can't be made into steel. "No matter how tired, how hard and how cold, it's only half a month's construction period, and it's just on the edge of the imperial city. Even if it's to deal with the discussions in the court, it's impossible for you to freeze to death and starve to death. As a result, this escape, instead If you become a sinner, if you are caught, you will be punished as an official slave if you are caught, and you will be punished as an official slave. There is no fear of life and death, and how can you escape home safely? Most of them will be frozen to death on the way back! Flee to the house If not, it will only hurt the family!"

"If you really escape back home, you won't hurt your family." Someone outside the door suddenly spoke, but it turned out to be Hu Yan with a black ribbon, which made everyone warming up in the wing room stand up one after another.

"Let's all sit down..." Hu Yan entered the room, someone had already offered hot tea, took two sips after taking it, and shook his head. "You are still young and don't understand the truth. The thing is like this. Since ancient times, the court has been used to looking at the top, because the top can take off your hat and take your head... So, put this matter on the ground, they I only care about whether I can catch a certain number of servants to hand over to the superiors, as for whether the servants died or ran away or came back, I don’t bother to care about them.”

Everyone nodded their heads one after another, which made sense.

Not only that, Hu Heishou's words extend to engineering, and everyone can think of what it means.

It is nothing more than that the saints at the top only need the construction period and results, regardless of other things, and then people like Bai Shangshu in the middle must collect enough servants and ask for enough tribute materials for the construction period and results in order to explain to the saints , and when they get to the bottom, they gradually become unseemly, and they will naturally oppress them too much in order to complete the project... In the end, these servants will eventually bear everything.

Money gains go up, and suffering goes down, which has been the case since ancient times.

Of course, everyone probably knows that this top saint is not to be discussed, and Bai Shangshu is also the father of his immediate boss, and it is his own group of people. In fact, it is also a blood-sucking Jinyi dog, so they just nodded, not easy to answer.

Fishing and gossip, we must also talk about the basic law.

"But if that's the case."

Zhang Xing, who had filled out the form, responded curiously. "Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the construction of the Eastern Capital, the first conquest of the Dongyi, and the second conquest of the Dongyi, including the relocation of the capital, have all involved tens of millions, or even accumulated nearly tens of millions of people/month/times. This kind of tens of thousands of people, accumulative millions of corvees will lose a lot, how much has it been lost in the previous few times? Will there be so many people, will it not cause harm to the population? Then why is there no problem with tax collection? "

"Isn't it because the Great Wei almost unified the world and the population is too large?" Li Qingchen was thoughtful. "Big Wei must have a population of tens of millions, right?"

"Yes." Someone beside him responded. "more than."

Zhang Xing also nodded immediately.

Indeed, more than that, he has paid special attention to similar things, not to mention anything else, but can easily draw conclusions from the geographical alienation of this world.Among other things, the Fifty States of Dongyi and the Seven Towns and Seven Guards of Beihuang are obviously relatively beyond the concept.Moreover, similar geographical changes also existed in Nanling, and the area further south of Nanling, plus the Mobei area and the second southeast island where the survivors of the two Liches were entrenched.

In addition, because of the existence of the vitality of heaven and earth, the development and fertility of many lands are not comparable to the feudal era of another world.

And these changes seem to be inseparable from those supreme, holy, and true dragons.

For example, the reason why the Red Emperor Empress of the South was able to prove her position back then was that she had the ability to dredge the mountains, rivers, and seas of southern Xinjiang, which was in stark contrast to the Black Emperor who made a fortune by killing and killing.As for the latest one who started from Bashu Baidi City, in order to become the master of the Central Plains Baidi, although most of them were killing and killing, hacking and hacking, but he didn't just kill people. On the other side of the land, the mountains and rivers were simply pulled out, the Han River was opened up, and the Han River was used as a channel for troops to be cut all the way to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Breaking the true energy of the river, breaking the true energy of the river, do you really think that the old man has never broken the river?

Zhang Xing read "The Spring and Autumn Annals of the White Emperor", just from the records in it, the White Emperor cut down fourteen rivers, big and small.

"Look, there are too many people... The loss of these servants is certainly not a good thing, but it can't shake the overall situation." After drinking tea, Li Qingchen spread his hands, as a matter of course.

Hu Yan next to him seemed to want to say something more, but he suddenly looked outside and shut up instead.

Zhang Xing also always felt that there was something logically wrong, but he quickly shut up because he also noticed the movement outside.

"Zhang Xing, Zhang Sanlang... come out for a while."

Following Bai Yousi's greeting, it was not only Zhang Xing, except for the black-striped Hu Yan who had just entered, almost everyone in the room ran out, but Zhang Xing fell behind.

"Forget it, you guys." Bai Yousi got off his horse with his sword in his hand, and seeing so many people was unexpected, and there seemed to be some obstacles, so he didn't bother to worry about it. "Zhang Xing, on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, my family sent someone to invite you?"

"Yes."

Everyone around looked at him, but Zhang Xing was still calm.

"You didn't go?" Xiao Gu and other officials and servants were about to step forward to take the horse away, but Bai Yousi waved his hand to push him away. "Lead a horse."

"No." Zhang Xing blurted out as he watched Xiao Gu go to lead the horse.

"Why?" Bai Yousi asked seriously.

"The original words of the day were 'Although Zhang is poor, he has some poor ambitions. He is grateful for the kindness he took in before the Marquis of Ji'an. If there is a errand, he will repay it with a word, but he will never be a guest of the Marquis'." Zhang Xingruo thoughtfully . "Why, did you offend any elder in the patrol, thinking that I don't know how to flatter you?"

"Not at all." Bai Yousi shook his head. "Big Qian was also invited, but he didn't go...I also think you were right not to go."

Qian Tangchao and Zhang Xing, who followed Bai Yousi, nodded, and regained a bit of demeanor.It can be seen that Zhang Xing's choice of not going out to work has indeed avoided many conflicts, otherwise Qian Tang would not have been so relaxed.

However, Zhang Xing still looked at Bai Yousi, he knew that the other party would not bring up this topic for no reason, especially since it had been more than a month... and Xiao Gu had to lead the horse.

"Father wants to see you and Daqian, tonight." Bai Yousi hesitated for a while, and finally said it out in public. "This time he came to ask me first. I thought about it, but it doesn't matter... After all, he is also a member of the Nanya now, and has the right to select officials. I don't think it will do any harm to you two if you meet him." .”

The election of Cao Si belongs to the Ministry of Officials, but in fact the right to select officials belongs to the Nan Yamen. This is the political tradition after the former emperor abolished the tradition of enlisting assistants and assistant officials from the county monarchs and changed it to the central government. It looks different from the previous ones.

And the value of the Nanya princes also lies in this.

You know, this is an era when imperial examinations are like a joke. Few people will look at your diploma. If you go to Nanya, you may become a prefect of a state, a county magistrate, what else do you want?It was because he was listed on the list of talents of heaven, earth and people before, and the reason why people's hearts were fluctuated was because he finally attracted the attention of the officials and generals of the Nanya government.

In fact, when everyone heard this, they all showed envy. Even Li Qingchen felt a little uneasy when he touched the white ribbon that he had just acquired a few months ago, and Hu Yan and Qin Bao were also a little emotional.

Qian Tang's face flushed even more.

Only Zhang Xing frowned obviously, but quickly put it away, and just bowed his hands in salute: "Since it is the good intention of the inspection, there is absolutely no reason to refuse this time, Zhang Xing is willing to go."

Bai Yousi glanced at the other party and nodded: "Then get on the horse, you know the place, let's ride there, we'll be there in a quarter of an hour."

Xiao Gu, who had already brought an official horse to the side, hurried forward.

The three got on their horses again, without saying much, they rode out of Jing'an Terrace, turned to Jinde Square next to the city wall in the north, and came to the Ji'anhou Mansion, which occupied half a street.

As soon as Bai Yousi arrived, seventeen or eighteen people flocked to the door, took the horses early, pushed open a door, and someone kept reporting inside.

And just as Zhang Xing and Qian Tang entered the door together, Bai Yousi looked back at each other, as if nothing had happened: "By the way, if my father asks me about my usual behavior, remember to tell the truth."

Qian Tang was still in a daze, but Zhang Xing had already nodded his head: "I know, we have never been to Ruanroufang, nor have we raced horses with others, nor have we ever had a problem with alcoholism, nor have we scolded anyone..."

Bai Yousi remained motionless.

Zhang Xing came to his senses and immediately raised his forehead: "There is no such thing as flying around in the Eastern Capital City at night and eavesdropping on people's corners."

Qian Tang nodded quickly.

PS: Thank you TELL Xiao Guo for the second alliance, and thank you Cai Ye for your cuteness... Happy working day everyone.

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