After all, not all of the 300,000 people in the border town were affected by the famine. There were still some people who had enough purchasing power and did not need to receive relief.

Just after the order was issued, there were still some sneaky people who took the opportunity to increase the price of food. What's more, there were also people who blatantly made loan sharks, and some businessmen and landowners took this opportunity to accept many people as domestic slaves.

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Facing Gao Yeyun's repeated orders, there are still people who dare to openly challenge those in authority. Gao Yeyun will naturally not be merciful.

Gao Yeyun has many eyes and ears. Not only are the soldiers in the city patrolling everywhere every day, but Liu Yunchuan and his group of personal guards also act together. Whenever there is any trouble among the people, Gao Yeyun will immediately take control of everything.

On the first day of the disaster relief, the deputy general led groups of soldiers to patrol throughout the city.

Based on the information obtained by the deputy general, more than a dozen shops, a dozen landlords, and five or six loan sharks were arrested for openly disobeying Gao Yeyun's orders.

With the intention of killing chickens to scare monkeys, Gao Yeyun naturally would not treat these people lightly. He directly set up a high platform in the city to publicly judge these people.

The people in the city, bustling with each other, all came here to watch.

Gao Yeyun imposed severe punishments on those who disobeyed orders. According to regulations, they were all fined extremely high, and their food was confiscated. They were all assigned to a work-for-relief project to work as coolies for half a year.

Work.

One of the perpetrators was a relative of the local magistrate in a border town, so he asked someone to find the magistrate, hoping to intercede with him.

But Gao Yeyun not only did not give any face to the interceding county magistrate, but instead reprimanded him.

The county magistrate didn't have much hope at first, but now he was disappointed and knew that Gao Yeyun's attitude was very tough, so he put the matter aside and did not dare to mention it again.

The perpetrator saw that even the county magistrate could not help, so he had no choice but to give up and accept such punishment.

When people around him saw this, even those with relatives from the imperial court did not dare to touch this nail.

A few days later, King Yun's residence.

"Second brother, wouldn't it be inappropriate for you to do this?" Gao Yejing stood beside Gao Yeyun and said to Gao Yeyun with a frown.

Gao Yeyun glanced at Gao Yejing, then continued to look at the book in his hand, and gave some instructions.

Although the labor cost of the current work-for-relief program is not high, the material cost is still required after all.

It's thanks to the income from Qian Yang and the Li brothers, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to get even a little bit of money out now.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Gao Yeyun continued to look at the book in his hand.

"Hey, second brother, I heard that you even fined the Su family. Will this have a bad impact on Su Tao?"

Gao Yejing looked at Gao Yeyun. He really didn't understand. He could just turn a blind eye to such a thing. He didn't expect Gao Yeyun to be so serious that he even fined Su Tao.

Gao Yeyun was still giving instructions on what he was doing and did not reply to Gao Yejing's words.

"Second brother, you are talking! No matter what, Su Tao has good intentions and is helping you. How bad is it that you are now punishing others!" Seeing that Gao Yeyun ignored him, Gao Yejing stepped forward and said,

He closed the fold in Gao Yeyun's hand and looked at Gao Yeyun seriously, with a rare serious look on his face.

Gao Yeyun raised his eyes and took a deep sigh. His seventh brother

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, it’s really a bit silly.

Gao Yeyun issued an order to encourage merchants to recruit disaster victims to work, and explained that as long as they recruit disaster victims to work, they will be able to reduce or reduce certain taxes.

Sure enough, after this order was issued, many merchants who were still hesitant now began to recruit disaster victims in large numbers.

Although Su Tao was not in the border town for the time being, he still arranged for a housekeeper to handle these matters.

Therefore, the Su family's cloth shop also recruited a lot of disaster victims, and the number of people recruited was quite large. After all, the Su family's business was huge, so it naturally needed more manpower.

The Su family knew how to do business, and with Gao Yeyun's support in the border town, business was naturally booming.

Therefore, this time Su Tao responded to Gao Yeyun's policy and recruited nearly a thousand female workers.

Since they are newly recruited female workers, they are not very familiar with things like dyeing cloth, and it will take a month to teach them how to do it, so the salary is lower than the minimum standard mentioned by Gao Yeyun.

Originally, such things were normal, and the Su family's housekeeper had made arrangements with the female workers before recruiting them.

However, among the group of people Gao Yeyun punished this time, there were some who were punished because they were lower than the minimum wage stipulated by Gao Yeyun. After they were punished, they felt unconvinced and reported to their superiors that the same was true for the Su family.

Workers are also below this standard.

The people below reported this matter to Gao Yeyun and wanted Gao Yeyun to make a decision.

How could Gao Yeyun not know what this group of people meant? They just wanted to see if Gao Yeyun would protect their shortcomings.

Everyone in the border town knew that Gao Yeyun's relationship with the Su family was extraordinary, and even his relationship with Su Tao was extraordinary.

Gao Yeyun knew that in fact, the Su family's actions in this matter were not wrong, but they were indeed inconsistent with his own rules.

After careful consideration, Gao Yeyun asked the deputy general to take people to the Su family's cloth workshop and forced the Su family to increase the salary of the newly recruited female workers to 60 yuan per day.

In addition, the Su family was also fined 500 yuan.

The purpose of this is not to let others feel that there are loopholes in the regulations that they have promulgated.

Anyway, Su Tao was a sensible person and one of his own. When outsiders saw that Gao Yeyun had punished everyone in the Su family, this rule was naturally established.

"Seventh brother, I have already told Su Tao about this matter. She doesn't mind, and she also agrees with my approach." Gao Yeyun said lightly.

"Su Tao is not dissatisfied?" Gao Yejing didn't believe it.

"Why are you dissatisfied?" Gao Yeyun looked at Gao Yejing and then said, "Do you think Su Tao is you?"

Gao Yejing scratched his head and said in disbelief: "If it were anyone else, why would they still have trouble with you? Su Tao is really grand!"

Gao Yeyun smiled and thought to himself, Su Tao is naturally different from other women.

After counting the days, is it time for Su Tao to come back?

Thinking of this, Gao Yeyun smiled slightly and continued to read the book.

Nowadays, there are a lot of comments circulating in the city, but they all praise Gao Yeyun, almost making Gao Yeyun a myth.

In the border town, most people think that Gao Yeyun's behavior is quite imperial. Even if Gao Yeyun is just a prince now, he may still inherit the throne in the future.

Gao Yeyun heard such rumors, but

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No explanation was given. Sometimes, the more you try to explain, the darker the picture becomes. It would be better not to explain at all.

Besides, now is not the time to explain rumors. After all, there are still so many things to do in the city.

Now that the problem of feeding the victims has been solved, the next step is to recruit soldiers.

The deputy general has been asked to post notices in the border town to recruit soldiers from these victims, but the progress is not going very smoothly.

In fact, the reason for the recruitment failure is very simple. In order to create elite soldiers, Gao Yeyun has stricter requirements for recruiting soldiers.

First of all, there is the age limit. Generally, the age limit for recruiting soldiers is not very strict, because during a war, it is a good thing as long as someone can fight on the front line, and there is no age limit.

However, this will cause many disadvantages. If teenagers and old men in their fifties and sixties join the war, it will definitely reduce the combat effectiveness of the army.

Therefore, Gao Yeyun believes that it is still necessary to recruit soldiers in their prime. Men are middle-aged when they are eighteen years old, and they are mature men when they are twenty-two years old. The soldiers who enlist in the army should still be mainly young men.

Secondly, in addition to age, physical fitness is also a major issue. If there are people who are suitable for their age, many people are not physically suitable.

If you are of the right age and in good health, you must also consider the family's livelihood. Many people are the main labor force in the family and are often responsible for the family's livelihood. The salary for joining the army is low. If they leave, the family's livelihood will become a problem.

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There are also some people who are only sons in the family and are unwilling to join the army. If someone is killed on the battlefield, there will be no hope for their families.

Therefore, we would rather let the elderly at home go to the battlefield than let the middle-aged men enlist in the army.

As a result, there will be even fewer people willing to join the army.

Gao Yeyun stipulates that the age for joining the army is between eighteen and forty years old. When recruiting soldiers according to this standard, the results can be imagined.

The original number of soldiers in his city was only five thousand, and after a fierce battle, the number was reduced to only a handful. Although Gao Yejing's 100,000 troops came to help, the recruitment of soldiers must still be put on the agenda.

"King Huiyun, although the notice has been posted, almost no one has enlisted. What should we do?" The deputy general had a headache. Originally, he should not have asked Gao Yeyun about recruiting soldiers, but now he really had no choice.

After listening to the deputy general's words, Gao Yeyun pondered for a moment and said, "Go and ask Mr. Ma to come over."

After a while, Ma Teng came. "King Yun, Ma has already heard the deputy general tell him the reason. Is King Yun worried about recruiting troops now?"

"That's it. I wonder if Mr. Ma has any good ideas?" Gao Yeyun asked Ma Teng to sit down and started discussing with him.

"Right now, getting people to join the army voluntarily is the key to the problem. The problem of scarce soldiers is not difficult to solve." Ma Teng pondered for a moment and said.

"Why did Mr. Ma say this?" Gao Yeyun asked.

Ma Teng smiled and said: "King Yun, you think the population in the border towns is sparse, why not spread the recruitment news to neighboring cities? If the conditions are right, it would be a good way to attract people from other cities to join the army!"

"Mr. Ma really woke up the dreamer with his words!" Gao Yeyun smiled, Ma Teng's idea was good, there were not many people in the border town, and there were neighboring cities, but he had not thought of going up to this level for a while.
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