After she gave away all the New Year's gifts here, Li Bokang also started to act over there.

These days, he has basically read the files of Miyang about conscription in recent years.

Because it was a peaceful period in these years, military service was basically not levied, and there were a few ordinary conscriptions.

Judging from those files, he also probably knew that in addition to military service, ordinary conscription was almost once a year.

Moreover, it is only one month a year, and as for the life during this period, it depends on what kind of person is the prefectural commander.

If you encounter a good prefectural order, maybe the food during the conscription period will be covered, and if the prefectural order is not good, the food during the conscription period will be prepared by the people who come to serve themselves.

In addition, there are almost no regulations on the selection of people for conscription, one person per family, and it must be an adult male.

Of course, there are also reluctant family members who come out to serve as conscripts, so they can also pay for someone, or pay money directly to the yamen, at least their family used to be like that, and he doesn't stop others from doing this.

After the files had been searched, he decided to start the forced labor in November this year.

As for the food during the period of conscription, he is not a person who does not eat the fireworks of the world, he knows the suffering of the common people, so the food during the period is Yamen grass.

After deciding, he went to the county magistrate in the county yali to discuss with the county lieutenant.

Yang Xiancheng and Zhao Xianwei didn't have any opinions on knowing that he was going to carry out conscription this year, which was normal before.

As for the matter of taking food during the conscription, Yang Xiancheng mentioned it to him, and finally agreed, anyway, if the people above blame it, and there are also county magistrates above, he won't have to worry about it.

Speaking of this, Li Bokang is actually quite lucky, because in addition to sending him here, the bosses above have not troubled him until now.

Of course, it is also possible that he has not done anything to make the people above grasp the handle, so he is so calm.

Because the food he used during the contract was the official food used during the contract this time, that is, the tax grain collected every year, so Yang Xiancheng would mention this to him.

However, because there is a precedent for this, and it is now a time of peace, Li Bokang is not very worried.

However, he was still ready to report to his top boss, the prefect, so that there would be no real trouble.

Of course, he also informed him, maybe by the time the prefect knew, they would be almost halfway or even finished.

After that, if something really happens, he will take it on his own and will not implicate others.

In the end, the matter of conscription was booked, and the time was in the whole month of November.

At this time, Li Bokang felt that it was just right, and the autumn harvest had already passed, and he could rest for more than half a month, or even a month.

Moreover, after the conscription, they can rest at home for a month, and then they can prepare for the New Year.

Also, the most important point is that they pack meals, so that those people can save a month's rations for one person in their families, and they can also make their families more relaxed.

After the decision is made, it is time to issue notices and other things, and there is also to ask the county officials to notify each village and town.

As soon as the matter of conscription came out, the people in the county had some discussions, but fortunately, because they made it clear on the notice, so those discussions were on the good side.

Of course, there are also scolding people, but there are not many such people, and those people dare not scold directly.

On the whole, the matter went well, and perhaps this is why he took care of the meals during his conscription.

After the news was sent to every village and town, Li Bokang invited the heads of some large families in the county to dinner.

The main purpose of this meal is to donate, and he didn't say that he had to donate or how much he would donate, but he just showed that he had no idea.

Of course, during this period, he also told them by the way that their family was going to donate thirty taels of silver.

Yang Xue mentioned this matter to him.

At that time, when she knew that he was going to be conscripted, a lot of bad pictures appeared in her mind.

There is no way, mainly because the conscription she knew before was very bitter, and there was no good image.

Now that I heard that he was going to levy forced labor, I naturally thought of that.

Although she believes in Li Bokang's character, her image of forced labor is still very bad.

Therefore, she said to him: "Although your yamen has packed food, it will definitely not eat very well, and road construction is hard work, and if you can't keep up with nutrition, the speed of road construction will be slow." ”

Anyway, I told him a lot, and finally told him that she decided to donate some money, not to say anything else, but to add food to those people.

Li Bokang listened to her words at that time, and he didn't speak for a long time, and finally he invited the big families in the county to dinner, revealing the intention of asking them to donate.

Those heads of the family are not stupid people, so they naturally know what he means, although they are a little unhappy in their hearts, but in the end, each family donated something or money.

There are not many, and the largest family is only fifteen taels of silver.

However, because he invited a lot of people this time, he finally counted dozens of taels of silver, plus their own donations, it also cost a hundred taels.

That's enough, maybe there's still some left in the end.

Soon, November arrived, and the time for conscription began.

Although there are still many people who pay others to help or directly work for the yamen, when Li Bokang arrives at the place, there are still many people.

Later, he looked on the roster, and there were about 500 households in Miyang County, and in the end, in addition to paying for work, there were almost 400 households, so there were more than 400 people who came this time.

With so many people's food, one or two people couldn't make it, so he asked a few women to cook in advance.

In addition, with so many people's meals, it will definitely not be enough to eat all of them at that time, but it is still okay to eat most of them.

In addition, it is almost the same to add some vegetables.

As for the donations he had received before, he would indeed use them.

He didn't worry about handing over all the money to the people below, so he asked Shumo to decide what they would be used for with the county magistrates in the county.

The main thing is to buy vegetables and meat, and he also calculated, and made meat dishes for them every two days, so that there are more than ten meals a month, which is more than what they eat at home.

Another thing is that when he asked Shumo to prepare meat and vegetables for them for the first time, he told those people who came to serve in the conscription that they could eat meat and vegetables because the county people donated money to buy them.

He is not a person who does not know his kindness, plus what Yang Xue told her, he can't hide it when people do good things.

That's why he told them the source of the meat and vegetables, and at the same time, he also asked Shumo to tell them which families in the county donated to them.

It also lets them know who they are, let them know their gratitude, and let those who donate money also get some good reputation, so that they can feel a little more comfortable, and prove that they are not in vain.

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