Jia Yu's Detective Case

When Jia Yu came to the office, she saw that everyone else had arrived, except the magistrate Mr. Li. Mr. Li had already handed over to him, and he was going to pack up and go to Jinling today.

"Morning adults!"

Seeing Jia Yu, several people hurriedly got up to say hello.

"Good morning everyone! I don't want everyone to be so diligent and come here so early."

"It's nothing compared to my lord. I usually have a lot of things to do every day, and I have to get up early in the morning to go to the office. I still have to learn from my lord!"

"Yes!"

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Jia Yu laughed. He found that the officials in Myanmar were very eloquent, flattering, and capable.

Look, how smooth this account is, there is nothing wrong with it, if he is really a novice in the officialdom, it will be fine, he will definitely think that the whole state of Myanmar is peaceful, and Jia Yu, who has personally set things right after the chaos in Yunzhou , naturally would not believe it.

Jia Yu was also stable, and since the yamen was free, he took Boss Cang and Di Lang out on horseback to enjoy the scenery of Myanmar.

"Speaking of the terrain here, it's really strange. Yunzhou and Myanmar are very close, but Yunzhou is mountainous, and there are obviously fewer mountains in Myanmar than in Yunzhou, and there are more hills."

"Yeah, that's what makes people hate people even more. The mountains are high and rich, and they can be rich in medicinal materials, wood, and wild animals. These hills are mostly barren rocks, which are not suitable for farming, and the vegetation is sparse. Fortunately, they are rich in minerals. Otherwise, the people of Maine may not be able to Survive!" Di Lang was obviously clearer.

Jia Yu sighed and looked at a mine in the distance. The supervisor stood aside and yelled. The miners walked hard with their backs on their backs.

Walking a few steps closer, there are actually old people with white beard and hair and children in their teens inside.

Jia Yu got off his horse and approached. The supervisor saw that he was riding a tall horse and was wearing brocade, so he knew that he should have some identity. It seemed that the foreign businessman had never seen the mine and was curious, so he didn't stop him from approaching.

The miners looked at him numbly and kept walking. Only a ten-year-old boy was very courageous, and he went to the mine with an empty basket and looked at Jia Yu several times curiously.

Jia Yu smiled at him and waved.

The child's eyes lit up, and he sneaked over to the supervisor without looking at him.

"What's the matter, sir?"

Jia Yu took a kidney bean roll from the bag and handed it to him: "I have a few questions I want to ask you."

The child's eyes lit up immediately, staring at the kidney bean rolls and swallowing saliva, clenched his fists but dared not answer:

"If you have anything to ask, you don't need to give me food!"

Jia Yu didn't think his hands were dirty, so she pulled his rough hand and put the kidney bean roll on his hand:

"I'll take it for you. What's your name? Where do you live?"

"Xiaoshan! I live in Wujia Village on the other side of the mountain." Xiaoshan pointed to the east.

"Xiaoshan, you are all old and young working here, what's the matter?"

"Mature men over the age of 15 have all gone to serve in the military, and there are only men, women and children over the age of 50 and under the age of 15 in the family."

Jia Yu: ...

"All men over the age of 15 and under the age of 50 have all served in the military?"

Koyama nodded.

Jia Yu took a deep breath:

"Is it just your village, or is it also the case in other villages?"

"All the men in the nearby villages have been arrested for military service. I don't know about other places."

"Then how many copper coins can you earn in a day at the mine?"

"It doesn't need to be settled with copper coins. You can't buy grain with copper coins. There are grains in the mine. It depends on how many baskets you carry. At my age, carrying fifty baskets a day is a catty of miscellaneous grains."

Jia Yu looked at the two-fifths of his basket behind him, and then looked at the delivery point and the mine pit in the distance to measure the distance silently.

"That one catty of grain is not enough for a family!" A family needs at least two or three people, right?

"Aniang can also earn some, barely enough to make ends meet." After speaking, his stomach rumbled, and Xiao Shan held the dim sum in his hand tightly and looked away with difficulty.

"Why not eat it?"

"I want to take it home and give it to my younger brothers and sisters. They have never eaten such a delicate thing!"

Jia Yu: ...

The children of the poor have already been in charge of the family, and Jia Yu has also lived a hard life. It is not surprising that he is sensible, but surprised that there are even women in this mine.

But thinking about the fact that men are not at home, women should not be at the mercy of men.

"Do you know where you go to serve your military service here?"

Xiao Shan shook his head first, then nodded.

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Jia Yu looked at him suspiciously, whether he knew or not.

Xiaoshan looked around:

"I heard from a person who sneaked back from our village that they are in Maine, but they are not serving as soldiers, but digging tunnels!"

Jia Yu was very surprised:

"Dig a tunnel?"

Xiao Shan nodded seriously:

"I heard that's the case, but the man was caught by the government later, saying that he was a deserter on the battlefield, so he beheaded directly."

"Don't be lazy, be quick!" The supervisor saw that Xiao Shan was still talking, and shouted from the other end.

Xiao Shan hurriedly said:

"The supervisor is urging, do you have anything else to ask?"

"Oh, it's gone, thank you Xiaoshan!" He took out a bun from the bag and handed it to him, and then got up and left with Boss Cang and Di Lang.

After getting far away, Di Lang, whose face was flushed from the suffocation, just let out a sigh:

"It turns out that the life of the people in Myanmar is so poor! The whole family works as coolies, and their daily income is barely enough to survive starvation. It is even worse than the disaster-prone areas in Yunzhou."

Back then, Zhoujiazhuang had no harvest for ten consecutive years when there were monsters. The villagers still had food from the mountains to satisfy their hunger. They didn't need to work too hard, and they also had hope in their hearts.

And here in Maine?

The villagers have no land to grow, and the men who work hard are not at home. The old and the weak can only go to the mines to make a living. Day after day, it is not without hope.

Jia Yu nodded sullenly:

"Yeah, this is the life of wealthy people in Maine."

During the conversation, I happened to pass by a village on horseback, and everyone went in to ask for a bowl of water.

"The houses in this village are really... crude!"

They are all simply built with stones and covered with a thin layer of mud. It seems that the safety index is not very high.

"You should think so because you are used to thatched cottages and brick houses. This should be a local characteristic building."

Jia Yu sized it up.

"Uncle is right!"

"Old man, the businessman we passed by, the weather is hot, can you come in and ask for a bowl of water when you run out of water?" Jia Yu happened to see an old man chopping wood in the yard through the low wall, so Jia Yu hurried over.

The old man's eyes were not very good, he bowed his waist and looked at it for a long time before saying:

"Country people don't pay much attention to it, so come in if you don't mind!"

The old man took out three cups from bamboo roots, washed them several times, and poured a bucket of cool well water for Jia Yu and the others from the well.

Jia Yu subconsciously looked at the well, and then at the yard.

After drinking water to quench his thirst, Di Lang began to talk to the old man. There was no other way. Boss Cang acted like an outsider. He is a layman.

"How old is the old man?"

"Little old man is sixty-five this year."

"Oh? I can still chop firewood at such an old age, the old man is in good health!"

"Hey! The little old man is so strong, there is really nothing he can do. There is only a 12-year-old grandson and daughter-in-law in the family. They go to the mine to earn food during the day, and I, a useless person, will have to come to the family. Do."

"What about your son?" Jia Yu thought it was because he didn't know about military service.

"He went to serve in the military. He caught up with the good season. He left a queen for our family. Over the years, the family has lost a man. It is unprecedented. I only hope that the war with Wu will end soon, otherwise it will be three years later. In [-], my grandson will have to serve in the military when he is old enough, so our family will be in suspense too!" the old man lamented.

Jia Yu was puzzled:

"Didn't the imperial court have a rule that three out of ten drafts and three military service quotas for ten strong men, so there should be quite a few strong men in your village?"

"What the guests are talking about is the old soldier system. It was changed more than ten years ago. It is not counted by village or clan, but by household. Each household must produce a strong man. Later, there were still insufficient soldiers, so it became 15 years old. All of the above require military service!"

"Sigh~"

"How many years has it been since military service has been implemented for people over the age of 15?"

"Let's think about it, it will take seven or eight years or ten years to say this."

"Did all the strong men who went to join the army go to the battlefield?"

"Who would know? Anyway, in the past ten years or so, no one who has served in the military has returned, and no one knows what's going on."

Looking at the sky, Jia Yu got up:

"It's getting late, thank you, old man, for your hospitality!"

"Hey, a few bowls of well water, there is no need to be so polite."

On the way back, Di Lang was puzzled and said:

"More than ten years ago, it was the king of Xining County who was guarding the state of Myanmar. He increased his troops without authorization. This is tantamount to rebellion. It is because the state of Myanmar is far away from the emperor's capital. After all these years, the emperor and the emperor at that time really didn't hear any news?"

Jia Yu looked at the sunset in the sky and said softly:

"Being an emperor, sometimes you have good eyes and ears, and sometimes you are really like a deaf or blind man. Since the king of Xining County dared to hide it for many years, it proves that Manzhou has always been in his hands, or he will work together, or he will be wise. , no one reported."

Di Lang took a deep breath, feeling both ridiculous and sad.

"From the government office to the general army's mansion, there are about thirty officials, all of whom disregard the country and the people under their rule for their own petty gains. Are they still good people? The emperor on the throne! Sitting high on it, what are those capable people under his command used for? Can’t they be distributed to inspectors in various places? They are capable only for fighting in the nest!”

"Cough cough!"

Jia Yu suppressed her laughter and didn't express her opinion.

I thought to myself, when you know the relationship between the person sitting on the throne and you, see if you can still say these words.

As he was talking and walking back, suddenly a living creature ran out in front of him. Jia Yu and the three of them quickly reined in their horses and narrowly stopped in front of the creature.

Before Di Lang opened his mouth to reprimand, the creature was dressed in human clothes and stood upright on its hind legs to salute Jia Yu and the others:

"I'm bothering you gentlemen! What do you think I look like?" After speaking, he fell to the ground.

Jia Yu silently glanced at the weasel who kept saluting him, and then at the sunset glow in the sky. There was a row of barrage in his heart, did he meet a beggar?

Looking at his pitiful little eyes, he finally couldn't bear it:

"Let's say it first, I won't offer you to be a Baojiaxian! If you don't want to, go and wait for the next destined person."

The weasel did not leave, but kept bowing to him:

"What do you think I look like?"

"Like a person!"

Jia Yu fell alive, a puff of smoke rose from the weasel, and a young man appeared on the spot.