"Okay!"

"Then look at how much we can get paid by the dozen or so people you have been caught in and worked as coolies for so many days."

In the eyes of the jailer disguised by the agent,

This Lord Guo, who had already been identified as a member of the imperial court, just glanced at his wife, and he said this without humility or arrogance, and then walked out of the door first.

Immediately afterward, his wife and his personal bodyguard followed.

Looking at these people who were not angry at all, the agent in charge of them was also a little unresponsive for a while.

On the way here, he thought about many of their reactions when they heard the news.

Not to mention the imperial court, even if it is an ordinary foreign businessman, he has to jump up and get angry.

People have tempers!

has been wronged for so long, and has worked as a coolie for so long, not to mention jumping up and scolding, asking for justice and compensation, it is also a normal thing.

As long as they dare to ask for compensation, he will proceed to the next step, but the performance of the people is completely beyond his expectations, which is a bit difficult!

There is no way, only to hand it over to the comrades at the wage settlement office to deal with it!

soon

These dozen or so people who were identified by their Lord Ye as the imperial court messengers changed back into the clothes they had when they came, and obtained their various personal belongings according to the process.

The careful Queen Ma checked her baggage, not to mention the treasure money and silver and copper coins, and she didn't even lose a silk scarf.

Looking at this scene, Queen Ma couldn't help but secretly praise Ye Qinglai again.

Although she had never been to Ying Tianfu's Heavenly Prison and Imperial Prison, she also knew that it must be a miasma of smoke inside.

As the saying goes, if you do a line and eat a line, the oil and water in it can be big!

Not to mention anything else, it still happens from time to time that rich people go to jail for committing crimes, and they can remove the shackles by giving money.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is determined to crack down on corruption, she knows that this cannot be eradicated at all.

The heavenly prison at the foot of the Son of Heaven is full of black smoke and miasma, not to mention the border city prison far away from the Emperor of the Mountain, it must be even more smoky and miasma.

But it's different here, I haven't seen anything like this, even the jailers' hands and feet are so clean!

"Sir,"

"Is this prison under the rule of a corrupt official cleaner than the prison under the poor emperor?"

After Queen Ma put her belongings back on her shoulders, she looked at her and asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang just glared at his sister-in-law: "This is a good day to be released from prison, don't make us unhappy." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Yuanzhang just tidied up his brocade clothes, and then took his people and followed the jailer to the labor camp wage settlement office.

It's just that along the way, he is also thinking about this problem.

Looking at this prison where prisoners are treated as human beings, and at the jailers who act impartially, although Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't want to admit his sister-in-law's words, he also has to admit that he, the prison and edict under the rule of the poor emperor, is not as good as the prison under the rule of this big corrupt official.

He can learn from the layout of these prisons that can be seen with the naked eye, as well as the system that allows prisoners to create value.

In his opinion, this is something that can be completely copied without seeing Ye Qing at all!

But so many prison managers are as honest as water, even if you don't see Ye Qing, you will never be able to learn!

He couldn't figure out that under his Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife, the prison and the edict were still not clean, but this big corrupt official made these prison managers as clean as water.

Thinking of this, he also strengthened his belief that he had to see Ye Qing first!

soon

So they came to the Wage Settlement.

Not far from the prison, there was a small separate house with a counter about the height of a pawnshop.

The people queuing outside were all smiling, because everyone was an ordinary person who had been released from prison and no longer wore prison uniforms.

The key is that before you get out of prison, you can still get a lot of income, which is the capital to start all over again.

"I have to be comfortable in prison under Lord Ye!"

"There was green smoke coming out of my ancestral grave, which made me be sent to Yanmen County to be imprisoned!"

"Brother, are you going back to your hometown? My family died in troubled times, and I won't go back, so I'll make a home here. ”

"Can I settle down here and not go back to my hometown?"

"Of course you can, the rules of Yanmen County are that those who are willing to go back will return, and those who are not willing to go back will settle down here, don't worry about anything else, Lord Ye has his own way."

“.”

The people in line in front of Zhu Yuanzhang were talking excitedly, but their words made Zhu Yuanzhang frown again.

Finally, Queen Ma heard the sound of Zhu Yuanzhang clenching his fists.

Zhu Yuanzhang whispered: "How dare he? ”

"Not to mention the local prisoners, he actually dares to let the assigned prisoners settle here?"

"These people are all soldiers who can be developed!"

Queen Ma hurriedly held Zhu Yuanzhang's fist-clenched hand and whispered: "Calm down, everything will be said after we meet!" ”

Under the persuasion of Queen Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang barely suppressed the anger in his heart.

But even Queen Ma felt that Ye Qing's approach was really excessive.

I have to say that Ye Qing's wanton expansion of the population has indeed touched the emperor's bottom line.

In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to cooperate with the local government to conduct a 'point comparison' of the national population, that is, a comprehensive census.

At the same time, they also fabricated 'household registers' as a basis for verifying household registration, levying taxes, and servitude.

Immediately after these things were done, the 'road guide' policy was promulgated in order to facilitate management and balance the number of people everywhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang hopes that there will be more people in each place, so that he can recruit as many soldiers as he wants, and fight the Northern Yuan as much as he wants.

But he will never allow the proportion of the population in various places to be seriously unbalanced!

Once an unscrupulous official controls a province with a large population, the Ming dynasty will be unstable!

Thinking of this, Queen Ma, who had never been to the county office, only recognized the direction of the county government according to the red five-pointed star marked on the "Yanmen Business Travel Guide".

She just looked in that direction, her eyes full of worry, and at the same time, she also secretly said in her heart: "Lord Ye, after meeting, it is best for you to give a reason for your majesty to forgive you for doing this." ”

"If not, I, the queen, won't be able to protect you!"

“.”

Just when Queen Ma was thinking about it, the jailer at the counter immediately shouted, "What's your name?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Guo Rui! ”

The jailer looked at the group of them, nodded, and then took out a shiny abacus and began to fight rapidly:

Guo Rui, Ma Ying, Mao Qiang. Your wages are two hundred and fifty yuan. ”

As he spoke, another jailer also thoughtfully strung him with a red thread, and said with a smile: "Take the money, go straight out of the prison, don't look back, don't say goodbye." ”

"It's the rule!"

Zhu Yuanzhang weighed the string of copper coins in his hand, and then looked at the dozen or so people in his hand.

On average, each person is less than 20 cents, or is it a few days' wages, and a few cents a day?

If he hadn't heard these remarks, he Zhu Yuanzhang could still ignore it, and wait until he saw Ye Qing.

But when he thought of his Ye Qing's blatant absorption of the population, and the potential of the army, coupled with the salary that represented 'the emperor was too cheap', he couldn't help it anymore.

Without waiting for Queen Ma to react, he grabbed the two hundred and fifty yuan and smashed it on the counter: "Who the hell wants your salary?" ”

"You guys are indiscriminate, you arrest people indiscriminately, you can catch them if you want, and you can release them if you want, right?"

"Take us to see you Lord Ye, he has to give Lao Tzu an explanation!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to endure it anymore, he wanted to see Ye Qing immediately, and he wanted to ask him face to face, why did he Ye Qing know the law and break the law, and why he illegally absorbed the population.

If you don't make this matter clear, you won't need to talk about other things!

The two jailers at the counter, pretended to be agents, were also overjoyed when they saw that this Lord Qincha was angry.

That's what they want, and they're afraid he won't get angry!

One of the jailers, disguised as an agent, just crossed his hands and said, "If you want to say it, right! ”

"You don't need to see Lord Ye, I can give you an explanation, before you enter the city, look around, thief eyebrows, don't know that this is a border city, don't know that the border city is trying their best to catch the Northern Yuan spies?"

"After entering the city, you did everything possible to find out the news of our Lord Ye, and even racked your brains to inquire about the situation of my Yanmen garrison, you have such behavior, no one believes you if you are not a Northern Yuan spy!"

"A rich businessman who comes to do business would do such a thing?"

"It was your performance at the time of the labor camp that relieved the suspicion of our agent brigade!"

"Returning your freedom and settling your wages, it is already our Lord Ye who has the virtue of a good life, if you change to other places, I will kill you and feed the dogs a long time ago!"

Soon, other ex-convicts who lined up to get money also pointed at Zhu Yuanzhang and scolded him, scolding him for being cheap and selling well.

In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang directly became the target of everyone here.

"We"

The sentence 'We are speechless' came to his lips, and he was stunned and couldn't speak.

And at this very moment,

The jailer, who was pretending to be an agent, saw that he was speechless, and immediately took out his abacus and quickly calculated:

"Because of your abnormal behavior, so many of our agents have circled around you, and we have also sent out law and order troops to arrest you."

"It's not too much for you, a thousand soldiers will take your appearance fee, so many agents will revolve around you for the past few days, just settle it."

"A thousand taels in total!"

"Give you two choices, if you lose this money, you can stay and do business!"

"If you don't lose this money, get out of the city immediately!"

After saying this, the jailer, who was disguised as an agent, thought of the order he had to tell him, 'Find a way to get these people out of the city'.

Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth immediately had a faint smile like victory.

In his opinion, no one will accept this condition, they will definitely walk out of this open door in a huff!

(End of chapter)