Chapter 193: Conscription
Tang Wang's current suspicion should only be guessing the purpose of such a desperate life, if she guessed correctly, Tang Wang had already investigated her. But judging from the current situation, Tang Wang's investigation should not be very clear, so he will test her.
What Tang Wang wanted to know was nothing more than to know what her purpose was. It is impossible for a person to have no desires, if there is no desire, then he must have other plans, otherwise how can he be so desperate to make suggestions?
Tang Wang wants her weakness, so she will find a weakness for him. In this life, in addition to power, it is wealth.
Seeking power will threaten the interests of many officials, if it is Dan seeking wealth, then it is easy to say, I believe that Tang Wang will also be relieved.
"If you go back to the king, is it possible for the little girl to do whatever she wants?" Qi Kexue repeated it to express her excitement.
"Absolutely." Tang Wang looked at Qi Kexue and wondered what kind of request she would make.
"Back to the king, if the king wants to reward the little woman when he goes into battle, then the little woman is brave and hopes that the king will reward the little woman with ten thousand taels of gold." Qi Kexue tried her best to make herself look like a person who loves money when she speaks, and only people who love people very much will feel that they can control you.
After Tang Wang heard this, he laughed, and the laughter was so loud that Qi Kexue could feel the vibration of his eardrums. "Fourth, fourth, you have picked up a living treasure! It's the first time I've heard someone talk about greed for money so openly and justifiably, not bad! ”
Hearing King Tang's laughter, Qi Kexue breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. For the time being, King Tang believes her, what's wrong with being greedy for money? If she admits that she is greedy for money, she can save a lot of trouble, not to mention, and she can also get a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, so why shouldn't she do it?
"Okay, since you have made such a great contribution this time, I will reward you with 20,000 taels of gold and a few pieces of jewelry, how about it, can you be satisfied with such a reward?" Tang Wang looked at Qi Kexue happily, this little girl is a little interesting, she has such a smart mind, she can make such a fortune.
"Little girl, thank Wang Shang Longen." Qi Kexue glanced at Tang Qingyi with her spare eyes, and found that Tang Qingyi was also looking at her beautifully, what happened to her? Are you looking at her with this expression? I don't understand!
"Fourth, it seems that you, a little strategist, are still a little money fan! Be careful, if your wealth doesn't attract her, then she will probably be robbed! Although Tang Wang's words sounded like ridicule, anyone could feel that Tang Wang was also interested in Qi Kexue.
It's a pity that now Qi Kexue is by Tang Qingyi's side, and there is also this ambiguous relationship, if it is possible, taking Qi Kexue to his side can definitely make a lot of contributions to him.
But if you think about it, you can only think about it now. It is not the choice of a wise man to grab a woman with Tang Qingyi at this time, and this person is still his son. He's not in a hurry, there's always time.
The rest of the time, Tang Wang and Tang Qing also gossiped for a while. Qi Kexue just listened quietly beside her, and didn't mean to interject at all.
Their conversation was simply hypocritical to the extreme, Qi Kexue's ears automatically turned on the shielding function, immersed in their own little world.
By the time Tang Wang and Tang Qingyi finished talking, it had been a long time.
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In the territory of the Tang Kingdom, because of the holy decree of the Tang King, there was a conscription boom for a while, but it was not very popular with the people.
The king of Tang decreed that as long as they were at least 15 years old and those who were not more than 50 years old, they should participate in the training of new soldiers.
When the people found out, they were very resistant. No one wants their children to go out to serve as soldiers so early, all the adults and children in the family go to serve as soldiers, and there is no even the most basic labor force in the family, who can send people to serve as soldiers?
So for a while, families of all sizes in the capital were secretly thinking about countermeasures.
A few days later, the prime and teenagers in the city began to escape from the city in various ways. Although many people have signed up, it is still not satisfactory.
In desperation, King Tang made another will. In this year's conscription, each person will be given an extra five taels of silver, and if a family recruits two people, then each family will be given fifteen taels of silver.
In other words, even if the family is poor and can't even afford to eat, as long as a man comes out to serve as a soldier and saves money, he will not need to work for many years.
Under such a strong material temptation, not only did many people in the capital actively sign up, but what was even more surprising was that even many young people who had escaped from the capital ran back.
It is not difficult to understand what these people think, many of them are poor families, and they may not be able to earn the subsidy money given by two soldiers for a lifetime. More people, like beggars on the streets, also have the right to join the army. Outside, these beggars begged everywhere, unclothed, and slept on the streets every night.
Before the crown prince rebelled, they could more or less beg for food every day, or at least starve to death.
But now, as soon as the prince rebelled, there were robbers everywhere on the streets, and ordinary people didn't dare to go out at all, where could anyone give them alms?
Although some righteous people consciously poured out and consciously arrested the thieves in the later period, after this incident, every family shrank down and dieted and struggled to survive.
For so many days, they had barely survived by grabbing food with wild dogs, and some of the frail people had already starved to death.
Now that the imperial court is recruiting troops, and they have offered such generous conditions, not only do they have no worries about food and clothing, but they also have a place to live, and what they like the most is that they still have money to get.
You know, how many years have they been beggars, and how long have they not seen silver.
That's five taels of silver for a person, they may not be able to get one tael of silver after begging for a lifetime, let alone five taels of silver? It's exciting to think about.
Therefore, after King Tang issued his decree, everyone enthusiastically signed up.
This time, the officers and soldiers who were responsible for managing the conscription blossomed this time, and it turned out that conscription was a chore, and he was the one who was least looked down upon, so he was squeezed out here to manage the conscription registration.
But who would have thought that strange things happen every year, especially this year.
This year, because of a holy decree of the Tang King, after changing the compensation for the conscription in previous years, everyone rushed to become a soldier.
It turned out that it was all officers and soldiers who rushed to drag people from every house, but now? It's actually everyone who comes to bribe him, hoping to get his children and husband to be soldiers so that he can get money, what year is this, it's already popular?
I saw that the crowd was surging at the recruitment site, and it was completely a picture of a crowd of people.
"Brother Bing, you see, this is the only little money in the small family, you can do it well, let my family go
The child also goes in, my family is counting on him, it's all up to you, don't you think? ”
On the conscription desk, a soldier in a soldier's uniform kept recording, and there was another person in front of the soldier who recorded the roster, and this person was the one who was excluded and then came here to recruit soldiers.
At this time, he was not as sloppy as he used to be. I saw that he was now arrogant, his legs were indecently resting on the table, and he was shaking and shaking, holding some melon seeds in his hands, and the skin of the melon seeds he was playing with fell to the ground in a twisted arc.
Standing beside him was a middle-aged woman in a shabby cloth robe. She didn't know how many patches there were on her clothes, but they were still clean. The wrinkles on her face betrayed the hardships of her life, and she looked like she was already forty or fifty years old, but her son was just fourteen years old, and according to the phenomenon of early marriage in ancient times, this was impossible, so she should have been only about thirty years old.
She was the middle-aged woman who had just spoken, dragging this black, thin and small child to the army.
The criterion for conscription is to be at least fifteen years old to meet the conditions for conscription, so the child received by a middle-aged woman does not meet the requirements, which is why this scene has appeared.
"No, no, no, this child is not old enough to accept it." Give such a little money, and you want to come in and exchange it for five taels of silver? This card count is very loud!
"Big brother, look at this child, his body is very strong, he has been working in the field with me since he was a child, he has little to eat, and he doesn't pick and choose, so he is very easy to feed. Don't look at him thin, he has a lot of strength, and he is definitely a good material for being a soldier. ”