"Hehe, Lord Bookkeeper, eat vegetables, eat vegetables!" The chief laughed with him, and he persuaded him to drink, and Liang An's face was a little pale.

"Hey, this official is a newcomer, and I need everyone's help." Liang An took a sip of turbid wine and let out a long breath, "But your request is too much......

Or can your village afford the money? It is also possible to rent cattle and horses from the imperial court. Liang Anneng said this, it was already a step back, what the City Lord's Mansion lacked was labor, not silver.

"This, this ......" The village naturally couldn't get any money, and the chief and the clan elders were hesitant again.

Liang An sighed, "If you want me to say, the policies formulated by the commander-in-chief and the city lord are already very good, and we can't be too demanding." ”

"Demanding?" A clan elder couldn't help it, and knocked the ground with the wooden stick in his hand, banging loudly, "Lord Bookkeeper, serving hard labor is worse than paying more grain tax, how can you say such a thing?" ”

"More ruthless?" Liang An frowned, "Why is this?" It's just some work, and even if an accident does happen, the number of casualties is limited. ”

"Limited?" The clan elder knocked on the wooden stick in his hand again, "Not to mention the food and service for labor, it would be good if ten people could come back half of it, isn't it demanding?" ”

"Huh?" Liang An was stunned, "Who persuaded the laborers to bring their own food?" There is so much grain in the golden scale granary, and the commander-in-chief said that as long as you go, you will be full. ”

"Full?" The old man stopped knocking on the stick, and turned his eyes to shine, "Really? ”

"The commander-in-chief is also the master of the county, do you think you take it seriously?" Speaking of this, Liang An looked proud, hey, we are the people of the county horse, and we have this confidence.

"Master Junma?" The old man didn't understand it for a while, and the lieutenant quickly explained, "It's the king's son-in-law." ”

"O king? Can you believe it? The patriarch asked this, which made the chief very embarrassed, and under Liang An's gaze, he said stubbornly, "I can believe it, I can believe it!" ”

"That's really good." The patriarch calculated, and muttered in his mouth, "You don't need to bring your own food, the food saved is enough for the children to eat, and you can survive a few more." ”

The children who died of starvation, the children who died of malnutrition and illness were added together, and the people who died of labor were so accountable to each other, and the patriarch with a wooden stick in his hand nodded, he could still bear it.

Li Chang's face was full of joy, and he was about to agree, but Liang An only then did he notice the words of the clan elder, "Ten people can only come back half of them?" How is that possible? ”

"What?" Li Chang's face changed, "If there are more deaths, the child will not be able to make up for it." ”

"What are you talking about?" Liang An waved his hand vigorously, his mind was chaotic, "You let me take a look, do you mean that half of the people who go to serve in labor will die?" ”

"Well, who's to say it's not." The clan elder glared, "The year before last, there were fifteen in the village and six came back, and Da Zhuang was still dragging a stump leg, and there was military service, and the one who died more." ”

Liang An pondered this, and felt that what the clan elder said was probably about the rebellion in the Five Cities, and it was normal for there to be many deaths in the war.

So he told him about it, and explained that it was all instigated by the Jin family, and the people were deceived, and those who didn't know it were not to blame.

"Huh~~~" Li Chang breathed a sigh of relief, the clan elder who spoke didn't understand, he was scared enough, and then he didn't dare to let the clan elders speak anymore, so he quickly took over the conversation.

"Even if you usually serve hard labor, there are not many men in the village." The chief stretched out his hands and pleaded here.

Liang An smiled, the feelings are chicken and duck, and what he said is not the same thing at all, "Where will there be so many deaths?" If one out of ten people dies, it's bad luck. ”

The lieutenant chief looked at him frantically, and the clan elder with the wooden stick might have a bad look in his eyes, so he didn't see it, "One?" How can it be? ”

"Why is it impossible?" Liang An took out the sappers under Lu Zhi to reason, we are not talking nonsense, we are all doing the same job, why do you die so much?

The clan elders still have doubts, the imperial court has always used human lives to fill in the mountains and bridges, how can there be so few casualties?

Liang An pondered, well, they feel that their understanding of the word "labor" is fundamentally different.

"Old man, let me tell you, the master of the county is a craftsman, and what he has in his hands is a powerful tool, and labor is not as dangerous as you think."

After struggling to explain, Liang An's mouth was about to wear out, so he could barely explain.

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As soon as he left the small mountain village, Liang An hurried back to the city lord's mansion, he thought that the benefits given by the imperial court were not good, and it did not meet the psychological expectations of the people.

Now that I look at it, the feelings are not clear about the policy explanation, and there is a big deviation in the cognition of the two sides.

It's just that he traveled under the stars, and when he rushed back to the City Lord's Mansion, Lu Ren had already gone home from work, and Liang An didn't care about anything else, so he was busy coming to the door overnight.

At this time, it was already very late, and Liang An was slamming the door and shouting again, disturbing many people's dreams.

That's not all, the main owner Lu Ren was woken up as soon as he fell asleep, and his mental state was extremely poor, "Who?" ”

A little guy replied, "Eldest son, it's Lord Liang Anliang, the chief bookkeeper, who came, saying that there was something important to report." ”

"Liang An? Didn't he go down to visit? Lu Ren was a spirit, he didn't wash his face or change his clothes, so he ran out in a panic with his shoes in his hands.

"Husband, slow down!" Wei Jing's face was distressed, but there was nothing to be done, the current Golden Scale City really needed many people to do their best.

"Hey, it's going to take a lot of time to discuss." Wei Jing got up and got dressed, and prepared to go to the kitchen to make some sweet porridge, and when Lu Ren came back after a while, he drank to warm his stomach, and it was easier to fall asleep.

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Putting aside the political affairs of Lu Ren's side for the time being, he said that Wei Jing beckoned the maid to help cook porridge, but when he went to the firewood room to get firewood, he was startled.

"Madam, there is someone in the firewood room!" The maid exclaimed, not only waking up Jiang Xiaobai, who was sleeping in the firewood room, but also calling a group of nurses.

Wei Jing entered the firewood room under the support of the nursing home, and at this time the lamp was also on the palm, and the big guy looked at it, and it turned out to be a small house in the family.

The Lu family's small servants all have special clothing, which is not difficult to identify.

Jiang Xiaobai got up and hurriedly arched his hand, "Big lady." ”

"Well, how do you sleep here?" Seeing that it was a family member, Wei Jing completely relaxed, speaking of which, the security work of the Lu Mansion has always been in place, and it is still very safe.

"The little one helped to collect the firewood, and it worked more slowly, and then he fell asleep tired." After all, Jiang Xiaobai is a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, and it is almost interesting to do these miscellaneous jobs.

Wei Jing didn't speak again, and the maidservant said, "The eldest prince is busy with government affairs, and the lady is about to cook herself, so you can bring some firewood to the kitchen." ”

"Hey, okay!" Jiang Xiaobai agreed again and again, and sighed in his heart, "It's so late, are you still busy?" ”