Forty-seven families, nearly half of them went abroad to Datang, this number is so shocking, and the smart Hu Erjia immediately figured out why. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He secretly wondered: "No wonder the soldiers of Qingzhou Mansion can't be recruited, half of the people in the village below have gone abroad, who else will be a soldier?" ”

Hu Erjia is actually not surprised, he is the son of a nobleman, his family background is not bad, and he has knowledge. He has also been to Shanghai and seen the prosperous scene there, although he has not been to Datang itself, but he generally knows what the situation is. The Tang realm is rich, not to mention hungry people, even the lives of ordinary people are comparable to those landlords and outsiders in the Qing Dynasty. And Hu Erjia knew that Datang's demagogic set was that everyone was equal, which gave those small people a lot of excitement. Although the bowing ceremony of the Qing Dynasty has become less fashionable in recent years, and after the abolition of the Eight Banners system, the title of master and slave has slowly disappeared, but the hierarchy of superiority and inferiority is still clear. Xiaomin has been a small citizen all his life, and even if he takes the road of the imperial examination, it is not so easy to get ahead. But in Datang, no matter what industry it is, if it is done well, it has the prospect of getting ahead, which is naturally more attractive.

At this time, Zhang Shun asked the old man: "Then why didn't the old man go abroad?" ”

The old man smoked a cigarette and said: "Although my old man didn't go abroad, my two sons left my old man and went to the Tang Dynasty and Luanzhou to herd sheep." The two stinky boys went out early, and they also have a bit of brains, and now they have a ranch in Luanzhou, which feeds hundreds of cattle and sheep, and also has a lot of fields, which can be regarded as a profit. It's just that he is not filial, although he can send back a lot of money every year, but people can't see it. My old man is taken care of by his daughter and son-in-law. The two stinky boys want to take my old man to Datang to enjoy happiness. My old man doesn't want to. How can this Datang be tens of thousands of miles away from Shandong, and it takes a long time to sit on a boat, and the old man can't move anymore with his old bones, and our family has lived in this Qingzhou Mansion for hundreds of years, so how can we just leave. Okay, the children and grandchildren here have their own children and grandchildren, as long as they live well. ”

Hu Erjia didn't have the temperament to chat with this old man, and then asked, "What about this old man." Didn't the government in the village come to recruit this year? ”

The old man made a disdainful expression and said: "Being a big-headed soldier, spinning like a spinning top, you can't get a few dollars all year round, maybe you will let the people in the army die, who wants their children to be soldiers." It's not that the people in this government don't know, so every year they just go through the motions and come to the village to shout a few times to the village chief, which one really takes it seriously? If you really order someone's house, it is something that offends people. In the end, it was unhappy. In the end, the person who was ordered went abroad directly wrapped in a burden and did not serve you. Haven't you heard about the past few years? There was a village chief who wanted his son to be a soldier in order to prevent him. I ordered a man from the village to go, but the man was annoyed and slaughtered the whole family of the village chief, saying that he was going to the south and pretending to be a homeless person to go abroad, but the government couldn't catch it if he wanted to. The village chief's family died in vain. And they are all villagers, who wants to embarrass each other? ”

The Qing army was not welcomed with recruitment, and Hu Erjia knew about it, but he never thought that the common people were so reluctant to recruit soldiers, which made him a little worried. However, at this time, Hu Erjia was no longer interested in continuing to idle with this old man, he pulled his subordinates, and then moved to several other villages, the situation is basically the same, and the proportion of foreigners in some villages is between one-third and one-half, which is very amazing. However, there are also one or two villages where there are not many foreigners, and even one or two people look like one or two people in one place.

Hu Erjia said to Zhang Shun: "I remember that we brought the household registration register of Qingzhou Mansion to facilitate conscription statistics." ”

Zhang Shun nodded hurriedly: "Yes, there is a booklet." ”

This is actually a specific state capital and how many population statistics are book, in fact, every year there will be similar statistics in the household department, before the Tang model entered the Qing Dynasty, but now it is more accurate, including how many people are in a state capital, how many villages and towns are subordinate, how many people are in each village and town, and some more detailed will also divide age and gender, etc.

Hu Erjia roughly flipped through the booklet, found a few villages they had been to just now, compared them, and said: "This number is not right at all, the Xiaozhaozhuang just now, there are actually only 27 households, more than 90 people in Dingkou, but there are 47 households in this booklet, 200 and 3 people in Dingkou, and the rest such as Lijia Village, Wangjiahezi and so on are the same, and the Dingkou recorded in the booklet is far more than the actual one." ”

Zhang Shundao: "The statistics of this Dingkou are all made by Qingzhou Mansion itself, and they are updated every year, and there must be something greasy in them." ”

Hu Erjia had a strange expression and said: "In the villages and towns around this Qingzhou Mansion, the loss of Dingkou abroad is serious, but this Qingzhou Mansion has reported the growth of Dingkou year after year, and it does not show much loss of Dingkou, which is deceiving the court and the saint." ”

Zhang Shun sighed and said, "Isn't that the crime of bullying the king?" ”

Hu Erjia said: "It is the crime of deceiving the king!" The question is, what are the people of Qingzhou Mansion doing this for? Could it be that they were afraid that the imperial court would blame them for their unfavorable pastoral care and serious loss of people, so the roster was changed in this way? ”

Hu Erjia was now full of suspicions, but he couldn't verify it for a while. At this time, he already had a clue and knew how to investigate next, after all, this involved the case of the Qing army, so Hu Erjia investigated this matter on behalf of the Qing army, and it was not an arrogance.

The group had visited several villages, and it was already afternoon, and it happened that at a country market, Hu Erjia saw a villager selling hares, wild birds, and other game. ”

Zhang Shun was a little confused and asked, "Do you want to eat wild meat?" The game in the inn is better than these. ”

Hu Erjia's face was slightly proud, a little resourceful, and said: "We came out for a day, the people of Qingzhou Mansion must be like ants on a hot pot, we took these prey back, and said that we went out of the city to hunt, so as not to be too suspicious, and then we will investigate the case difficult." ”

Zhang Shun slapped his face and praised: "The adult is really wise!" ”

It was indeed as Hu Erjia thought, Liang Chunxing and others found that Hu Erjia had disappeared in the post station, and went all over the city to look for him, and after making sure that he was out of the city, they sent people out of the city to find him, until it was almost evening in the afternoon, Hu Erjia and others hung their prey on their horses, and came back like a group of second ancestors who played with eagles, and Liang Chunxing was a little relieved.

(To be continued.) )