Chapter 103: Bandit Suppression Recruitment Order, Crazy Thirteenth Prince! (Subscribe)

A few days later!

When a conscription order was issued from the Governor's Office of Haizhou.

The whole of Haizhou was in an uproar.

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Haizhou, Tianshui County, Lin County Government Office!

"Crazy!"

"Is the Thirteenth Prince crazy?"

"How dare he?"

"It's nothing to recruit the wealthy families and martial artists of the sects in the county to help suppress pirates. After all, the court occasionally recruits them to help suppress bandits."

"But how can we be specific about people?"

"If we really recruit according to this list, it is estimated that half of the people in all the wealthy families in Lin County will be forcibly recruited."

"The craziest thing is that many of the recruited people on this list are not martial artists at all, but gentry and civilians who are powerless. Recruiting them to suppress pirates is like sending them to their deaths, isn't it?"

"Also, why are my three sons also on this recruitment list? Is there any justice or law?"

"How dare the Thirteenth Prince?"

"No, I will write to the court and ask the Thirteenth Prince to withdraw this recruitment order!"

County Magistrate Shan Wencheng looked at the thick recruitment list in his hand, and the whole person looked like he had seen a ghost, and said angrily.

What a joke.

Since when did they recruit men to suppress bandits, and recruit officials' families and gentry families?

Isn't this nonsense?

Do you still understand the unspoken rule of 30% and 70%?

You must submit a petition.

This thirteenth prince is just making a fool of himself, and he doesn't understand the ways of the world. If he really becomes the King of Haizhou, how can we live in the future?

Zhao Rulong was extremely angry and felt that the thirteenth prince was just making a fool of himself, and issuing a conscription order was like a child's play.

"Sir, wait a minute!"

The master on the side hurriedly stopped Zhao Rulong after hearing his angry words: "Sir, wait a minute, there must be a reason why the thirteenth prince issued such a conscription order."

"I just looked at the conscription list carefully and found that this conscription list seems to be extremely absurd, but in fact it hides certain rules."

"If you rashly submit a petition, not only will you not be able to exempt the three young masters from conscription, but you yourself may not be able to protect yourself."

As a master.

Although Shan Wencheng looked down on Zhao Rulong, a fool, he had to give him advice and analyze the pros and cons.

There was no other way.

Who made this fool county magistrate in front of him his benefactor and come from a great family in the state?

In this world without imperial examinations, becoming an official depends on recommendation.

Seven or eight out of ten officials in the world come from aristocratic families, and the remaining two or three out of ten come from martial arts sects.

The reason for this situation is nothing more than that the standard for selecting officials is set by them.

According to virtue, reputation, family background...selecting scholars and talents.

Under such a recommendation system, the poor peasants have no way to enter the official career. Even if the people at the bottom have talents and talents, they can only rely on aristocratic families or martial arts sects.

Either sell yourself as a slave and work like a cow or a horse for the aristocratic family.

Or join a martial arts sect or gang and tie your head to your belt to fight for your future.

Like the official career.

In the eyes of the real nobles, they simply disdain it, and they value the improvement of their own martial arts more.

In other words, most of the court officials in this world are those who lack the qualifications for martial arts practice in the noble families and martial arts sects.

Especially the low-level officials like the county magistrate are basically those who are not valued in the noble families, or even slaves.

The truly valued nobles.

They all disdain the court official positions.

Even gold, silver, wealth, etc., are also considered vulgar and looked down upon.

However, even these things that the nobles look down upon are still things that Shan Wencheng can hardly obtain in his dreams.

In order to make progress.

He can only sell himself to the Tianshui Zhao family, give advice to a idiot as a staff member, and be humiliated and scolded by this idiot's family from time to time like a clown.

This makes Shan Wencheng feel aggrieved and helpless at the same time.

Now seeing this idiot's angry look.

Shan Wencheng actually feels an indescribable joy in his heart.

Of course, what shocked him the most was the temporary conscription list in his hand for the suppression of the South Sea pirates.

Unlike Zhao Rulong, the fool.

Shan Wencheng noticed something wrong the moment he saw the list.

He didn't think that the list drawn up by the Thirteenth Prince was drawn up casually. If he really drew up the list casually, he wouldn't have written down all the wealthy families, gentry, and even the three sons of the county magistrate Zhao Rulong in Lin County.

The most important thing is that Shan Wencheng has discovered.

The people recruited by the Thirteenth Prince this time are basically all local tyrants, landlords, gentry, and martial arts sects in Lin County. None of them are ordinary people.

What does this mean?

It means that the Thirteenth Prince's goal is very clear, and it has always been the local tyrants, gentry, and martial arts sects in Lin County.

Shan Wencheng even thought of more.

The conscription list of Lin County alone has recruited most of the powerful forces in Lin County.

What about other counties in Haizhou?

What about the county governments in Haizhou and Tiannanzhou City?

Shan Wencheng felt his scalp tingling when he thought of this.

He didn't dare to think about it any further.

"What do you mean by that?"

Linxian County Magistrate Zhao Rulong didn't think so much. After hearing Shan Wencheng's dissuasion, he immediately said displeased: "Does the Thirteenth Prince still dare to attack my Tianshui Zhao family?"

"My Tianshui Zhao family is a branch of the Zhao family in Jinzhou. Not to mention a prince who has not yet been crowned king, even the emperor of Daqian, what can he do to my Zhao family?"

Zhao Rulong said with a proud look on his face, directly mentioning the name of Jinzhou Zhao family.

The Zhao family in Jinzhou is one of the twelve top aristocratic families in the world. The family has inherited the ancient immortal weapon Coiled Dragon Stick, and even controlled the Sheji of China ten thousand years ago. It is a truly royal family with unfathomable heritage.

In addition, the Zhao family is also the mother clan of the current eighth prince, Prince Jin. They have deep roots in the Daqian court and are extremely powerful.

Although the Tianshui Zhao family is only a small branch of the Jinzhou Zhao family, they also borrow the name of the Jinzhou Zhao family. No one in Haizhou dares to provoke them, and they become the overlord of Jinzhou Tianshui County.

Therefore, Zhao Rulong did not think that the Thirteenth Prince Yang An dared to attack the Tianshui Zhao family. Instead, he felt that the names of his three sons appeared on the recruitment list because of some villain.

Shan Wencheng was speechless.

How could he not know the origin of the Zhao family in Tianshui?

If he really didn't know better, he wouldn't be so conceited as Zhao Rulong's assistant.

The problem is that the Zhao family in Jinzhou is the Zhao family in Jinzhou, and the Zhao family in Tianshui is the Zhao family in Tianshui.

The Tianshui Zhao family has been separated from the Jinzhou Zhao family for hundreds of years. At most, it belongs to a distant branch of the Jinzhou Zhao family. Normally, it is good enough to allow the Tianshui Zhao family to use their name to lord it over others. .

Could it be possible that the idiot in front of him really thought that the Jinzhou Zhao family would make an enemy of a future Prince Daqian for him, or for the Tianshui Zhao family?

Where does this confidence come from?

The most important thing is, where did the idiot in front of him get his confidence? He was so arrogant that he didn't even pay attention to a Daqian prince?

Shan Wencheng was speechless to the extreme, but he had to patiently persuade him: "Sir, the Zhao family in Jinzhou is naturally powerful and no one dares to provoke them. However, this matter is too strange. We need to discuss it in the long term."

"In my student's opinion, it would be best for you to write a handwritten letter, inform your family about the matter, and ask for the inside story."

"After all, the recruitment of the Thirteenth Prince is too contrary to common sense. It is most likely that he is deliberately targeting the various aristocratic families and martial arts sects in Haizhou. This matter is definitely not something that small people like us can participate in. We have to wait for the big people above. It’s better for us to come up with a result from our game.”

"In addition, the students carefully watched the recruitment roster and suspected that this recruitment roster was most likely related to the concealment of Dingkou and Tiandi."

"Because the students had previously sent people to learn about the situation of Dingkou and fields in Linxian County, and found that the entire clan, and even most of the Dingkou in the clan, were all greedy and had hidden too much Dingkou and fertile land. ”

"The Thirteenth Prince did this because he most likely knew the situation of Dingkou and the fields of various aristocratic families and martial arts sects in Haizhou, and based on how much was concealed, he formulated this recruitment order."

Shan Wencheng was able to successfully sell himself to the Tianshui Zhao family among many competitors and become Zhao Rulong's master's staff. Naturally, he had certain talents and was well aware of various situations in Linxian County.

So he only took a cursory look at the recruitment roster, compared the recruitment status of various large households in Linxian County, and made some guesses about the recruitment rules. He speculated on the basis for Yang An's recruitment roster, and thought of Zhao Rulong's three The reason why my son is on the list.

Because Zhao Rulong, the county magistrate of Linxian County, also bought a lot of fertile land in Linxian County and secretly recruited many slaves to cultivate the fields.

As for whether these fertile lands and tenants are officially registered?

Definitely not.

Because once registered, you need to pay land tax and head tax.

Land tax and poll tax are free.

When an official buys some land and slaves, does he still have to pay money?

So it stands to reason that the properties and slaves in Zhao Rulong's hands are all hidden properties and slaves.

However, considering Zhao Rulong's status as the county magistrate, even Yang An could not forcefully recruit them to be cannon fodder to suppress pirates, so he had to settle for the next best thing and recruit his three sons.

After Shan Wencheng figured it out, he couldn't help but take a breath and acknowledged Zhao Rulong's previous words.

"madman!"

"This Thirteenth Prince is simply a lunatic!"

"This is to use my own strength to fight against all the aristocratic families and martial arts sects in Haizhou!"

"No, this is to make enemies of all the forces in Haizhou."

"If such a lunatic really becomes the King of Haizhou, I am afraid that the entire aristocratic families and martial arts sects in Haizhou will not be able to sleep."

Shan Wencheng felt his scalp numb when he thought of this.

He seemed to have seen a picture of Haizhou flowing into a river of blood.

It's really crazy.