Datang romantic little landlord

After explaining to Su Changqing, Li Wangyou looked at Lao Cunzheng again: "Old Cunzheng, didn't Yang Mingfu promise to halve the rent adjustment for the village this year? Why did they suddenly want to recruit corvee again?"

Laocunzheng took a breath: "This time it's not the Hu County government that wants to recruit us, but the Chang'an county government."

Li Wangyou immediately thought of the Magistrate Cui of Chang'an County yesterday, could it be that he was playing tricks?

Before he could ask, Lao Cunzheng told Li Wangyou and Su Changqing the terrible news again.

After Li Wangyou was expelled from the Li clan, he is now a white man who also needs to serve corvee. He is one of the white men who have been transferred to the spring in the village this time.

Li Wangyou was dumbfounded: "But I'm not a middle-aged man yet!"

In the early Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that males over 16 years old were middle-aged men, and men over 21 years old were Cheng Dings. Li Wangyou had just turned sixteen, so he was not considered middle-aged men and should not serve corvee.

Lao Cunzheng shook his head: "Old man, I don't know why, but your name, Xiaolang, is included in the roster of those who need to serve corvee this spring."

Li Wangyou was stunned for a while, then shook his head helplessly: "Then I'll take the silk as a substitute."

Paying silk as a substitute service means paying money, and every Ding can pay three feet of silk every day, and the amount paid for 20 days can be used as a substitute service.Li Wangyou is not short of this amount of money now, and it would be less than the same amount of money when converted into copper coins.

But Lao Cunzheng shook his head again: "When Sihu from the county was notified to join the army, he said that everyone in our village will be required to serve in regular service this time, and they cannot take silk as a substitute."

These words made Su Changqing's face turn pale, Li Wangyou is only 16 years old, how can he serve corvee?

In the mind of the beautiful boss, corvee service is done as a coolie, similar to how Qin Shihuang repaired the Great Wall back then.

In fact, what she thought was not wrong. The contents of corvee work included local civil engineering, bridge and road construction, river and canal management, and transportation of grain and other labor.

"Wangyou, what should I do? How can you go to serve in corvee? Why don't you go to County Magistrate Yang, or Cheng Yaojin to intercede for help." Su Changqing was so anxious that he almost cried.

Li Wangyou also thought that something was wrong, no matter how you looked at it, it seemed that there was something tricky about it.

"Changqing, don't be in a hurry, I'll go to the county government right away, and ask Yang Ming's mansion first, what's going on."

Su Changqing nodded quickly and asked him to inquire quickly.

Before Li Wangyou could lead the horse out, Yang Zuan came to the door with an angry expression on his face.

"Mingfu, you came just in time. Why is it that I have a share in this spring transfer? And you are not allowed to take silk as a substitute?" Li Wangyou hurriedly asked when he saw Yang Zuan.

Yang Zuan said angrily: "Ziyou, I had a big fight with that Chang'an County Sihu Jianjun over this matter, he did it on purpose! You bastard!"

"Why is this? I have never known Sihu in Chang'an County to join the army. Why is he like this?" Li Wangyou asked puzzled.

Yang Zuan said: "This Chang'an County Sihu Canjun is also surnamed Li, do you understand?"

Li Wangyou slapped his forehead: "Could it be that he is from the Li family in Hu County?"

"That's right! I don't know which bastard came up with such a wicked idea for the Li family in Hu County, and included you in the middle-aged male category. You must be forced to serve in corvée."

Li Wangyou was puzzled: "Don't middle-aged men have to be over 16 years old?"

Yang Zuan shook his head: "The Li family's Sihu joined the army and said that you are already seventeen years old, so you are considered a middle-aged man."

nominal age?Li Wangyou was speechless, can this age be calculated in this way?Sure enough, the official characters have two mouths, upper and lower, so he can say whatever he wants.

Lao Cun was asking cautiously at the side: "Mingfu, I heard that this spring adjustment is for us to transport grain?"

To transport grain is to transfer grain.

It was good that Lao Cun didn't mention this, but Yang Zuan became even more angry when he mentioned it.

"That's right, that bastard assigned you a 20-day corvée task, which is to transport grain from Chang'an City to Yinzhou."

Li Wangyou didn't know where Yinzhou was, so he inquired with Yang Zuan, and calculated in his heart that it should be in the Mizhi area of ​​Yulin City, Shaanxi Province in later generations. It's not too far away, more than 400 kilometers away. That's about four hours.

Although Lao Cunzheng had never been to Yinzhou, he knew the approximate distance. After a rough calculation, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's eight or nine hundred miles away, and the bullock cart can get there in about ten days, and 20 days is enough to go back and forth. .”

Yang Zuan snorted coldly: "Do you know how much food will be transported to your village this time?"

What he said made Lao Cunzheng slightly taken aback, and quickly asked: "Mingfu? Isn't the grain transportation mission in the past all about [-] shi? Has there been a change this time?"

Yang Zui directly raised a finger.

"Another hundred stones?"

"A thousand stones!"

After Yang Zuan finished speaking, Lao Cunzheng sat down on the ground, and he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.

"How, how is this possible? One thousand shi of grain? Our Dingzhou village has only 60 households in the spring. How can we transport this thousand shi of grain? Now is the time for spring plowing and farming. It really needs to be transported like this." If there is more food, the strong labor force of the whole village must be mobilized, is this going to kill us?" The old village was lost in thought.

Li Wangyou was also stunned. For long-distance transportation, the bullock cart can hold up to 800 catties, which is about 80 shi.More than 100 ox carts are needed to transport a thousand shi of grain. Isn't this a joke?

If all the strong laborers in the village were sent to serve in corvee in the spring, wouldn't the spring plowing be over?

The Li family of Hu County, what a vicious conspiracy!

Is this because the villagers of Dingzhou Village helped him yesterday, so they came up with such vicious means of revenge?

Li Wangyou's anger also rose suddenly, wishing someone could go to the hillside now and dig up all Li's ancestral graves in Hu County!

Yang Zuan glanced at Li Wangyou: "Ziyou, it seems that the only way to solve this matter is to invite Lu Guogong to come forward. This Li family lost face yesterday and is absolutely unwilling to let it go."

"Mingfu, even you can't help it?"

Yang Zuan shook his head: "I had a big fight with Sihu joining the army, but it was useless. This is his duty, and I can't stop it."

"But he's avenging his own private revenge!"

"This county knows about it, but there is nothing we can do about it." Yang Zuan sighed.

The boss of the beauty finally figured out what was going on, and quickly persuaded: "Wangyou, you should go to Uncle Cheng to intercede, you can only leave this matter to him."

Li Wangyou waved his hand: "Wait, let me think about it first."

115 Wagon

Li Wangyou was unwilling to beg Cheng Yaojin unless it was absolutely necessary.

After all, although Cheng Yaojin got close to him for some reason, Li Wangyou didn't feel that he should rush to ask for help.

Moreover, the black-bellied man was still a little stubborn in his bones, and felt that it was really embarrassing to come to ask Cheng Yaojin for help.Even if Cheng Yaojin stepped forward to stop Li's plot this time, what about next time?Does he go to beg Cheng Yaojin every time?

Li Wangyou paced back and forth in the main room, thinking about how he should face this matter.

According to Yang Zuan, although the Chang'an County Sihu joined the army, although his rank was not high, it was his duty to recruit civilian husbands to transport food, and once the matter was decided, Dingzhou Village had to complete it.

If you fail to complete the corvee, the punishment is very severe.It is possible to go to jail or even a prisoner. Li Wangyou doesn't think he can fight against the government.