Chapter 104 Daqian Has Nurtured Scholars for 900 Years, and Now Is the Time to Serve the Court! (Subscribe)

"Your Highness, is this recruitment order too... too strong and difficult?"

In the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, Gu Yunfeng raised great objections to Yang An's recruitment order to suppress bandits.

Because Yang An issued such a recruitment order, the Gu family was under great pressure.

no way.

Who told them that the Gu family was the mother clan of Yang An, the thirteenth prince.

Yang An's edict made almost all the local forces in Haizhou an enemy.

These forces dare not express dissatisfaction with Yang An.

They were not so polite to the Haizhou Gu family, the mother clan of the Thirteenth Prince.

After all, the Gu family is also a local power in Haizhou and one of the leaders of the local aristocratic families in Haizhou. Now that the prince born to the daughter of the Gu family is targeting the local power in Haizhou, do you think they can have no objection?

The Gu family must give an explanation for this matter.

So after Yang An's recruitment order was issued, the threshold of the Gu family was almost leveled. They all asked the Gu family for explanations and explanations, which made everyone in the Gu family feel dizzy.

However, this is not what depresses the Gu family the most.

The most unacceptable thing for them was that many members of their Gu family were also on the list. Nearly one-third of the adult males in the entire family were drafted.

Isn't this a joke?

His own prince, in turn, dealt with his own family.

Is this still justified?

If I had known this, even if I beat them to death, I would not have sent Concubine Gu Yun to the palace.

Now it's too late to regret it!

Although Yang An didn't know what everyone in the Gu family was thinking, he felt extremely strong anger and dissatisfaction from Gu Yunfeng, and he obviously had great opinions against him.

"is it hard?"

Yang An glanced at his cheap second uncle and said expressionlessly: "I have been raising scholars for nine hundred years. Is it difficult to serve the imperial court in this day and age?"

"Is it not difficult for me to lead the soldiers on the front lines to fight, while you wait in the rear to feast and dance?"

Gu Yunfeng was sweating profusely, and said with a panicked expression: "Your Highness, calm down, this is not what I mean."

Yang An sneered: "That's not what you mean, what does that mean?"

"On weekdays, when there is plenty of fish and meat, I don't find it difficult."

"I didn't find it difficult when I concealed my property, concealed my property, and stole minerals."

"When it comes to exercising power, oppressing the people, and taking advantage of others, I don't even find it difficult."

"It's hard now. What did you do earlier?"

"Only 30 million of the 65 million households are registered, and only 36 million acres of the 90 million acres of fertile land are registered. Commercial taxes cannot be raised, mining taxes cannot be raised, salt and iron taxes cannot be raised, and ship taxes cannot be raised. We can’t collect it either. The tax for one Daozhou is less than 10 million taels of silver, which is not enough money to pay salaries to the soldiers of Haizhou.”

"Uncle, tell me, who's pockets are these pockets, farmland, and tax money going into?"

When Yang An said this, his expression suddenly softened, and he said softly: "I am a reasonable man. Since I have taken money from the court and the people, I must shoulder my due responsibilities."

"You can't just think about getting benefits and don't want to contribute, right?"

"How can there be such a good thing in this world?"

"Uncle, do you think what I said is right?"

After all, he is his biological uncle.

Therefore, Yang An did not hide it and directly told the reasons behind the recruitment order.

He was not afraid that Gu Yundeng would spread the matter everywhere.

On the contrary, he wished that Gu Yunfeng would spread his words so that all the aristocratic families, landlords, squires, and martial arts sects in Haizhou would know what he meant.

Just like he said himself.

He is a reasonable person and must convince people with reason.

If anyone is dissatisfied and feels that he has been wronged, then he should stand up and argue with him.

He promised that he would definitely leave a whole corpse for the other party.

Of course, Yang An dared to do this because Haizhou was just a southern border island of the Daqian Dynasty. There were no Nine Sects, Six Paths, Twelve Aristocratic Families and other forces within the territory, and there was not even a Grand Master of Heaven and Man.

Three thousand Jinwu guards are enough to sweep across the entire Haizhou and clean up all the aristocratic families and martial arts sects in Haizhou.

Not to mention that he still has the Emperor's Token in his hand, and can completely mobilize the three government offices of Haizhou, the Lihuo Corps, the Tianhai Corps, and the city guards of various states and counties.

Therefore, Yang An is not afraid of resistance from Haizhou's aristocratic families and martial arts sects at all, but is eager for them to be disobedient and disrespectful.

In this case, Yang An would have enough reason to confiscate his house and exterminate his family.

As the saying goes: The magistrate who ruins the family, the governor who destroys the family!

Since these aristocratic families, martial arts sects, etc. looked down upon the Daqian imperial court, they acted in every possible way and deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates.

Then let them have a taste of the iron fist sanctions from the imperial court.

Gu Yunfeng was speechless. He opened his mouth to explain something, but nothing came out.

Because he knew that what Yang An said was true.

Whether it is concealing one's birthplace, concealing fertile land, stealing mines, evading taxes, bullying the people, plundering, etc., these are the basic practices of aristocratic families, and almost no big family can avoid them.

Even their Gu family is no exception.

Moreover, Gu Yunfeng didn't think it was anything.

After all, taxes belong to the court, but the farmland and Dingkou belong to the family.

If the family's fields, slaves, shops, etc. are truthfully registered, how much more tax will be paid to the court every year?

Isn't this fattening the court and harming one's own interests?

Only a fool would do this.

But these things are all forbidden by the court. Once discovered, they will be severely punished. If they are really sentenced according to the laws of the Daqian court, they will be confiscated and exiled.

Now Yang An only recruited them to assist the court navy in suppressing pirates, which is already a lenient sentence.

Of course, Gu Yunfeng also knows that things cannot be judged by appearances.

On the surface, Yang An's recruitment of people to assist the court navy in suppressing the white devil pirates seems to be no big deal, just a little dangerous.

However, once on the battlefield, the life and death of these people may all depend on Yang An's thoughts.

As long as Yang An is willing, he can use these recruited Haizhou family members and Haizhou sects as cannon fodder and let them all sleep in the South China Sea.

Even if Yang An is more ruthless, he can take this opportunity to bury all the aristocratic families and martial arts sects in the South China Sea, and finally control the entire Haizhou in his own hands without any effort.

"No!"

"I'm afraid this is the real purpose of the young man in front of me."

"He did this to clear the obstacles for himself to control Haizhou."

Gu Yunfeng's scalp tingled when he thought of this, and his eyes looking at Yang An became shocked.

It's too scary!

How can there be such a scary person in the world.

In order to control Haizhou, he was so cruel that he wanted to eliminate all the noble families, martial arts sects, and even the gentry and powerful people in Haizhou, and set off bloody storms again and again in Haizhou.

Is this young man in front of me really my nephew?

How could my gentle and kind little sister give birth to such a cruel and ruthless son?

What Gu Yunfeng couldn't accept the most was that this young man in front of him was not only cruel and ruthless to others, but also to his own people, and even his own mother's family was not spared. He was simply an ungrateful wolf who could not be fed, ruthless and righteous, and did not understand gratitude and respect for elders at all.

If I had known this, I shouldn't have sent my little sister to the palace.

Gu Yunfeng was indignant and regretful.

This nephew is simply an ungrateful person.

Whoever wants it can have it, he doesn't want it anymore.