"Your Highness..."The leading guard showed a bitter face, "It doesn't matter if the lowly people are credulous or not, the important thing is whether the right minister, the imperial court, and the holy queen mother believe it or not, and the people of the world believe it or not!"

Besides, even according to what the prince said? White... Princess... His Highness was not taken captive! But the military situation in front of the army was urgent, and leaving the barracks and leaving the army without permission was a felony of fifty-four beheadings! This is not in vain... Princess... Woman... Deceiving the court and the saints, which one is a big crime of stealing the house and cutting off the head! ...”

Xia Zongxiao smiled, shook his head lightly and did not answer directly, stretched out his hand and leaned down to untie the waist card he hung on the chain mail belt, the waist card was not the size of half a palm.

This kind of waist card in the three guards of the king each Zhengjun has a such brand called the household card, similar to the imperial court's household card, is used for the identity of the licensee.

As Xia Zongxiao's personal army guard, Weiwang Sanwei is actually Xia Zongxiao's private army. Like the servants of wealthy families, there is no formal household registration certificate in the government, they are like moss attached to the towering tree to survive, and they will have nothing to rely on without this big tree.

The Great Qin Law clearly stipulates that the people are not allowed to buy and sell slaves, but only the people who are not in the Great Qin, such as the barbarians of the Liao Kingdom of Western Xia, and the overseas barbarians can be bought and sold privately as slaves, and they only need to report the changes in the population of their families to the government.

Every year, a large number of Kunlun slaves and Semu slaves from far away countries are sold to Bianjing and sold in the slave market.

In particular, the orchids of the Western Regions, who are good at dancing with long sleeves and a beautiful demeanor, are even more frightening, often 100,000 yuan, and the money spent by a slave is enough for an ordinary peasant household to live several lifetimes.

For example, Jingxing sold a Western Regions orchid in a slave market outside the gate of the State Bridge not far from the palace city of Bianjing in the tenth year, and according to legend, she was also a princess of a small country in the Western Regions.

Orchid standing on the elaborate platform, the clothes are fluttering, the light gauze hides the face hazy and hazy and beautiful like a fairy, the waist is like a willow branch, the temperament is outstanding, the sound is like a crisp swallow, charming and moving, how many wealthy businessmen and giants, the dignitaries of the family come when they hear the wind, the sound of bidding in Bianjing City for a while, the sound of bidding is loud and loud, and the children of several wealthy families even instruct the servants at home to draw their swords against each other.

Jingzhao Mansion had to discharge a large number of servants and soldiers to maintain order, and in the end, even Emperor Jingxing, who was sitting in the palace to approve the recital, was alarmed and sent Bijie to inquire about the reason.

In the end, this orchid was won by an old clan Changshan King with a huge sum of 300,000 yuan, this matter was crazy in Bianjing at that time, and there were even jokes among the people, the old county king talked about the youth madness, threw thousands of gold, and a pear flower pressed the begonia......

The imperial court could not help the people of other countries being sold into slavery.

As for the people of Great Qin, it is forbidden to sell good people into slaves according to the law, and the only official channel is that every year in Bianjing Guanshi, many prisoners who have been reduced to slavery for their crimes and their families are distributed and sold, but the price is mostly expensive, more than three or four times that of slaves in other countries.

But privately, the situation of buying and selling good people as slaves is still repeatedly prohibited, some things are bought and sold by wealthy families, and some are ordinary people who can't live willingly cling, after all, although the wealthy family has lost the identity of good people, and future generations have lived in the shadows for generations as slaves, but they can live without worry, and everything in the face of survival, backbone and dignity are an unattainable luxury.

Although the Great Qin Taizu vigorously promoted the imperial examination system after he established the world, the wealthy families in various places were flourishing, deep-rooted and intertwined, and they still had to rely on them for the stability of the country.

This is also one of the reasons why Taizu sealed the prince and the local government and guarded the royal family, in order to weaken the power of the wealthy family in the local area.

After a hundred years of the imperial examination system of the Great Qin, even though the officials from the imperial examination accounted for most of the officials in the Great Qin Dynasty, more than half of them were the children of wealthy families, because they had better gentlemen and books than the children of the Han family...... You don't have to worry about your livelihood, you just need to study hard.

Most of the parents and officials of the local state government are the children of clans with family backgrounds, and they also raise many slaves in their own families, so as long as they don't make trouble in the open, the court mostly turns a blind eye.

The three guards of the Wei Wang and the servants privately raised by these wealthy families are essentially the same, and they have all been out of the control of the imperial court. But the difference is that the prince's guards are in accordance with the laws of the imperial court, and they can see the light, and their masters are noble, and the status of the prince is more noble.

But in the final analysis, they are just the prince's family soldiers, and the household department in charge of the household registration of the world does not even have a household registration book, and the military department and military selection department in charge of the world's soldiers and horses in the imperial court also only keep a simple household name book.

Only those who are in the position of commander like Sun Shilu and Zeng Yi and Wan Sanguang can leave a name and position on a volume of documents in the case library of Prince Wei and Prince Wei's army.

Xia Zongxiao was crowned king at the age of five, and soon after there were three guards in the army, which was unprecedented in the Great Qin dynasties, and the Great Qin was generally crowned after the age of sixteen, that is, the Taizu Dynasty, and there was never a direct prince at a young age.

If the emperor intends to appoint a prince as a prince, he will first crown the prince of the county, and then let the prince enter the various ministries of the court to learn political affairs, and only after the crown ceremony will he discuss with the important secretary of the court and confer the title of prince, which has become an unwritten practice.

As long as a prince is a prince who is a county king, the ministers of the court will know that the emperor intends to let this prince establish a country and tear up the soil and seal the king.

However, the princes of the Great Qin dynasties were all crowned princes after the crown ceremony, and they were all knighted within half a year after the knighthood. Their pro-army guards were recruited in their own vassal kingdoms after they had been inaugurated.

Like Xia Zongxiao, who was named a prince at a young age and had a personal guard after being knighted, he stayed in Bianjing for more than ten years, there is no precedent for this kind of thing, and Bianjing is the best area in the world, a place where businessmen gather and disperse, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes come and go frequently.

Wei Wang Sanwei whether it is the army or the rest of the army are extremely strong and well-trained, walking can see that there are two hands under the hand, going out alone, often encounter the Jingzhao Mansion and the inspection of the academy of the messengers come forward to check, in order to avoid trouble and misunderstanding, Sun Shilu reported to Xia Zongxiao to make this piece of waist card for the guards to become their external credentials.

And that's not all.

Weiwangfu is rich, Bianjing is well known, Weiwangfu has many industries in Bianjing, such as cloth shops, grain shops, tea shops, miscellaneous shops and so on.

All the palace's own industrial shops have their own regulations for the guards of the three guards. With the small number of people in the family, on the occasion of New Year's Day every year, you can get an equal share of the reward at the grain distribution shop under the palace with the household card.

Roughly speaking, each person can pull five feet of cloth per year, a slant of fine rice, and can also buy coal at a low price for burning in the carbon line under the jurisdiction of the palace in the cold winter, that is, the daily trading expenses are much cheaper than ordinary people in the industry under the palace...

There is a circle of convex complex and exquisite carvings along the edge of the household brand fine iron casting, and the front is engraved with the name of the licensee in the official book, and the physical characteristics are composed of family members and addresses. There is a big Wei character engraved in the middle of the back, and there is a line of flowing small characters in the upper left corner, "Prince Qin Wei's Military Command Division", and the lower right corner is engraved with the year and month of the casting plate and the name of the craftsman.

Now it is also covered with plaster, but the pattern and text on it are still clearly visible.

Xia Zongxiao took the household sign that was covered by the plaster and looked at it carefully: Wu Qiu, born in the second year of Taishun, has a square face with a beard, and a starry black mole under his left eye... Parents Gao Tanggu is here, and his wife Wu Liu is ..... He has three sons and a daughter... Eight people... Address: Sanweifang, Caihebian, the third household on the left side of the bridge...

Seeing that when he had three sons and one daughter, there was a piece of dry mud that was not big or small that happened to stick to it, Xia Zongxiao frowned and carefully deducted it, revealing the words below.

It's clear and detailed, it's really a big family, there are eight people, and the high hall is happy with the children...

The leader of the guard named Wu Qiu looked at the prince in confusion why he suddenly looked at his household card, and stared at it for a long time, with a complicated expression.

Just when Wu Qiu was about to open his mouth to say something, Xia Zongxiao spoke, his eyes moved away from the household card, looked at the dusty guards in front of him, and slowly looked at the brothers behind him who were also tired but standing like pine.

"Right phase? Court? Emperor? The people of the world? Xia Zongxiao held Wu Qiu's household card in his left hand, stretched out the sleeve of his right hand and gently and patiently wiped it.

Little by little, word by word, the sleeves were full of plaster, but Wu Qiu's household card was shining with fine iron in the sun, which was extremely bright compared to the chain mail on his body that was also cast of fine iron.

Xia Zongxiao looked at it carefully... Parents Gao Tanggu in... He has three sons and a daughter... After confirming that there was no plaster to cover it, the eight people nodded with satisfaction and smiled, and looked at Wu Qiu again, his voice was steady and indifferent: "Whether they believe it or not!" What does it have to do with me? ”

"But..." Wu Qiu was anxious, his round face was flushed with urgency, and the black mole under his left eye seemed to have turned red.

"But the right minister has already turned white... The princess is in prison, if he doesn't believe it, report it to the court! The court and the emperor will not believe His Highness's words, not to mention... The princess disguised herself as a man to join the army and deceived the emperor, this is a felony of killing the head, and you still want to marry the princess, this... This... Court.. Emperor.. I won't recognize it! ”

"Yes... Will recognize... The Queen Mother confessed... And they confessed..."

"The court, whether the emperor believes it or not, whether he recognizes it or not, it doesn't matter to me, do you believe it or not? Do you recognize it" Xia Zongxiao suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at Wu Qiu, "Do you believe it or not?" Do you recognize it," he said, pointing at the rest of his guards.

"And them, believe it or not! Do they admit it! The voice suddenly rose high, facing the mottled slanting sun that fell from the sky through the bare branches of the old locust tree, holding high Wu Qiu's household sign in the air and swaying lightly, and the slanting sun shone on the top to reveal a dazzling light.

Retracting the hand holding the household card aloft, "Find you a mastermother... It's not my business alone. The voice was also lowered, but it revealed incomparable sincerity and calmness: "The sick bed is on the left, the decoction is on the right, the illness has been suffering for more than ten years, and I have already seen through the calmness of the world, so why be afraid of others?" To believe or not to believe?

But... I will always give you an account, to your high halls... To your brothers... To your wives and children... Explain to all the brethren in the guard.

For you are not only my guards, but also my brothers...

When I was in Bianjing, I was a useless gentleman, and I was disgusted with gods and ghosts everywhere, I knew it in my heart, but fortunately, the Queen Mother took care of me... Waiting out of Bianjing... Later... The only one I can count on is you. I'm going to need your guards for the rest of my life!"

"And... My son? Xia Zongxiao turned his head, his eyes were opposite the white night who was looking at him in a trance, and a smile appeared on his face.

Then he turned to the guards, "My son also needs your son to guard, and my children need your sons to guard him."

From generation to generation, we share honor and disgrace! ”

"So... Believe it or not! Admit it or not! That's what's important to me.

... As for the truth of the matter... I don't know where to start, but after all, I have to explain to you, Ah Ye, I must marry, for myself, and for you... You're just... That's all I said. ”