Datang first village

No one speaks, either in support or not.

In short, not a single person spoke in the entire Tianying Pavilion.

Originally, there were two young members of the admonition court who were eager to try, and they were going to express their opinions after the big man spoke, but this quiet Tianying Pavilion really frightened them.

There are quarrels every day in Tianying Pavilion, and there are even two old men pulling each other's beards, but they have never seen tranquility.

The arrangements inside the Tianying Pavilion were so great that even the sergeant guards outside were a little uneasy.

"Repeat, a special topic has been added, which is to discuss His Royal Highness King Qin's inspection of Liaodong!" Li Jing read the topic again.

The Tianying Pavilion is still quiet.

"Speak up!" Li Jing slapped the table hard.

It was still quiet, and no one responded. When Li Jing slapped the table, everyone sat upright, staring straight ahead, expressionless.

Young people may not understand the truth, but they will never interrupt at this time, just learn.

Li Jing gently put the dossier aside: "This topic seems to be a bit controversial. You can write a motion after you go back. Three days later, it will be handed in before the Tianying Pavilion meeting again. Now change to another topic, the Ministry of Commerce It is a proposal for different taxes on different goods, and it is also accompanied by a letter of intent from 37 different chambers of commerce."

"Frost sugar collects too little tax, at least the frost sugar should be sold at five times the price of ordinary sugar, and that maltose, the raw sugar is only 22 cents a catty, this is going to kill several sugar guilds. It must be added Tax, increase tax!" A servant from the household department jumped out immediately.

An official from the Ministry of Commerce stood directly on the table: "Fart, the industry is improving, and the price of sugar is naturally beneficial to the people. I heard that if the maltose item can reach the industrial mass production that His Highness Qin Wang said, a catty It can be less than ten Wen, do you think the common people should not eat candy?"

"At least we can't let the original sugar merchants go bankrupt!"

"business competition……

It's a quarrel, this is the atmosphere that Tianying Pavilion should have.

After the meeting was closed that afternoon, a young employee of the Ministry of Industry asked his superior for advice: "Why did the sound be silenced at that time? Shouldn't our Ministry of Industry support His Highness to go to Liaodong? A new steel workshop, although it is said to be invested by a family, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry!"

"You don't understand, keep silent about this matter!"

"Please, Shangguan, teach me!"

"If you don't spread the word, I will tell you that if we support it. With the surname of His Royal Highness King Qin, even if he goes alone, there is a [-]% chance that it will trigger a war. There are three reasons."

The two whispered, deliberately avoiding other people, and quickly got into their carriage.

The Tianying Pavilion closes at around [-]:[-] p.m., which is to give the attendees time to go back to their respective yamen gates to deal with the official affairs of the day, especially urgent matters.

Sitting in the carriage, the minister of the Ministry of Industry continued: "Once there is a chance, His Royal Highness King Qin will not mind setting aside an extra territory for Datang. Second, if there is an excuse, if someone really did something to Datang, seize it." Evidence, there are [-] soldiers in Liaodong, which is enough for His Highness King Qin. Third, His Highness King Qin is here to fight, otherwise he would not have gone to Liaodong without incident!"

The young entourage still couldn't understand.

"I support it. Once there is a war in Liaodong, the Ministry of Industry is supporting the war. This will face the entire court's criticism. Conversely, if you dare to say that you don't support it, once there is huge profit in Liaodong, you will be the Ministry of Industry." To divide or not to divide, regardless of the division of labor, the whole department is not willing, and the other five departments are not willing."

"Could it be that they think so too!"

"The heads of the six departments are not careless. The two ministers from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs are in a hurry to avoid it. I'm afraid they have known about His Royal Highness King Qin's plan to go to Liaodong earlier."

They are all foxes now, and they are all thieves' foxes.

Li Jing was sitting in the main hall of Tianying Pavilion, there was no one else here except him.

How could Li Jing not know what these people were thinking.

After much deliberation, Li Jing still decided to tell Emperor Li Er of the Tang Dynasty about the discussion in Tianying Pavilion, so that His Majesty the Emperor could make up his mind.

On the other side, in Yaozhou.

Wang Jishan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, with a few administrators of the Ministry of Rites and dozens of unqualified officials, is pulling away the red cloth and setting up the table here in Yaozhou, letting the slaves line up to receive their own contracts. After they had destroyed it, they received a copy of the paper scroll of the lowly civilians of the Tang Dynasty.

"Really move in together?" A slave asked anxiously after getting his ID card.

The official waved his hand: "Get out of the way, don't get in the way. If you have any questions, ask over there!"

The slave still wanted to ask, but when the guards pulled him aside, he shouted at the top of his voice: "You bastard, you have the ability to talk, you don't need to go over there and spend a couple of pennies to check your slave status. If you don’t want to spend money, you can help with the work and look through the files yourself.”

This slave does not know how to read or how to look it up, but he understands two pennies.

Quickly asked one more question: "Then, where? Check?"

The guard pointed to a flag two miles away: "Below that flag, don't get in the way here!"

Very rude sergeant, but many slaves support this sergeant, because if some people talk nonsense here, it will seriously affect the time for them to receive documents. You must know that there are thousands of people in this line.

Some slaves even helped to shout: "Run fast, your woman might be bought if it's too late."

The slave's face turned purple, and when he stopped to argue for a few words, a whip handle lightly tapped him on the head, and then the owner of the whip laughed and scolded: "Hurry up, don't he who doesn't know what a woman is?" What kind of nonsense." After finishing speaking, the owner of the whip kicked from behind again: "Hurry up!"

The slaves burst into laughter.

"Everyone is lined up, and those who perform the best will have a chance to be invited. The first batch, the number is 500 people." The captain shouted.

What is a reference?

It first appeared in the Han Dynasty, and later became a formal official regulation during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty.

In today's terms, it is external passports, and internal passports and other things.

Internally, Datang has two kinds of vouchers and quotations. One is vouchers. For example, if you have to go out for activities after the curfew in Chang’an, you have a formal reason, and you have an official certificate.

Yin refers to those who can leave their own state and county and go to another place.This guide indicates the approximate route of your action, your starting point, destination and so on.With this, it's legal to move around.

Rangers who don't have these things will be arrested by the government.

So the ranger ran around, and sometimes made some fake leads to go up.

Of course, there are also some very special people.For example, the internal guards of Tiance, they have special references on them, which can prove their identity and their legal surname.

Five hundred certificates are equivalent to five hundred return certificates.

However, the 20 citations will be issued after one month, and the application will be submitted after [-] days.

Most of Goguryeo's slaves lived here with their families. If they died, they would die, and if they returned home alive, they would never be found.

Moreover, those who are eligible to receive the certificate must be those who already have the qualifications of civilians.

Wang Jishan stood on the roof of a workshop, with Cui Junsu and Lu Chengqing beside him.Li Chang stood behind him.

"There are quite a few people who exchange civilian documents. Are those suspected people among them?" Wang Jishan asked softly.

Li Chang took half a step forward: "There are six of them, and one of them must be the spy."

Cui Junsu didn't care about the minions, but instead asked: "These slaves became civilians, how did the workshop respond? Is it as originally expected, with higher output and higher quality?"

"Cui Shangshu, it's better to say that the whole Yaozhou is worse than them. The slave workshops that used to be dead are now booming, and their efficiency and production capacity have increased significantly. Those slaves either want to be promoted, or want to Save more. There are two good candidates for that plan."

Lu Chengqing took out two bamboo tubes and handed them to Li Chang.

Li Chang is a member of the Security Department of the Tang Empire, so he naturally has to ask about such matters.

After he took it, he opened it and held it in front of Wang Jishan with both hands.After Wang Jishan took it, Lu Chengqing said: "One of them was originally a slave. He was bought when he was a slave. He was originally a mason. He was put in prison because he couldn't pay taxes. His wife He fled back to his mother's house with his children."

Wang Jishan shook his head: "This is unreasonable. According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, those who owe taxes can be exempted if they are poor. If it is unavoidable, they will be punished with servitude in lieu of taxes, and the evil ones will be punished with corporal punishment. But they will not degrade civilians into slaves!" "

"Wang Shangshu, he is from Goguryeo!" Li Chang whispered next to him.

"Ah, haha!" Wang Jishan laughed dryly.

Lu Chengqing hurriedly changed the topic: "He has the documents of the three craftsmen, and the Ministry of Industry has approved the three assessments. His level of building houses and bricks is very poor, but he can make casting sand. The level of casting sand he makes is here in Yaozhou. , the top ten must have his name, he is the leader of the balance wheel of the stamping machine in the Ninth Iron and Steel Workshop."

"My son, are you rich?"

"A man has money, what should he do after he is rich?" Cui Junsu asked with a smile.

Three pairs of eyes looked at Li Chang, and Li Chang was a little embarrassed: "Of course I want to go to this brothel for drinking and gambling. But brother Lang is just to get a piece of brocade from His Highness, and he won't stick to a drop of alcohol for a whole month!"

Cui Junsu nodded in satisfaction: "That's right, he's a third-class craftsman, let alone five guan in a month. He will miss his wife and children, and he himself was framed by Goguryeo officials. So Chengqing is a good candidate. After he returns to Goguryeo, he must not dare to give birth to Zhang, but everyone wants to return to his homeland.”

"It's just a follow-up, whether he came back alive or was killed by the Goguryeo government, I'm afraid it's up to us!"

Li Chang is telling the truth.These people are in Goguryeo, they are beyond reach!

But Cui Junsu said: "His Royal Highness King Qin said something really good. King Qin reminded someone that this person is already a citizen of Datang!" (To be continued.)