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Chapter 110 Five hundred corvée

After returning from Jixian Palace Academy, Wei Renshi broke up not to mention the past two days of running around, let alone the matter of credit and the Lord.

Wei Renshi, who was almost middle-aged in later generations, had long known that even if it was a foregone conclusion, he might change his mind temporarily, not to mention that this was just a guess from Xue Shi Zhang.

If you don’t really hold it in your hands, it’s all about castles in the sky. It’s okay to keep a thought, but since it’s still a castle in the sky, it can only be kept in your heart.

The Chief of the Luozhou Prefecture was determined to cheat Wei Renshi. Before Wei Renshi started work, he sent someone to urge him to pick him up.

"I'm just passing a message. If you have anything to say, go and explain to the Chief Secretary." The servant who came over to urge Wei Renshi to quickly go to take the people and said with a good look, "There are already 500 people, and there are no more people. You must pick up the people immediately."

Wei Renshi looked back at Sun Peng. Sun Peng had already understood. He had already gone over and received some money, handed it over, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, please take this guy to take it to drink a little."

"Why are you so embarrassed?" The officer reached out to block the clinker's wrist and turned, and the half-small money slid into his clothes from Sun Peng's hand.

After taking over the money, the officer's face immediately improved a lot. He even smiled and was a little polite to Wei Renshi, saying, "Shopkeeper Wei, you should take the people away quickly, otherwise another batch will have to be taken in a few days, and there will be few left for you. The repair of the river bank requires the most manpower, and five hundred people are probably not enough. The Chief Secretary urged me to call you to take the people quickly, and you should take them away quickly, so I can handle the job, right?"

"Thank you for your reminder." Wei Renshi nodded and thanked, "I will definitely not make this mess difficult for you. We will go to get people tomorrow. I just dare to ask you, what are the five hundred people coming from?"

"Don't be afraid of the shopkeeper Wei. He couldn't pay the tax and evaded the tax and fines to do corvee." The servant naturally knew why Wei Renshi asked this, so he replied, "There are only a few people in five hundred, and there will be a few bad ones in it."

Wei Renshi looked at Sun Peng for a moment, and Sun Peng immediately understood. He raised his hand and took action with half a piece of copper coins. He asked with a smile, "Oh, my coward, we are all settled against bad things, but I don't know what to do."

The officer was surprised to see that the two of them were so generous that they actually gave them a thousand guan to him.

After receiving half a piece of copper coins, the serviceman's attitude was better, and he was completely different from what he had just now.

He immediately slapped his chest and said, "Shopkeeper Wei, Storekeeper Sun, don't be afraid of both of you. There are a few criminals in it. Tomorrow, I will send them all over with shackles. No one is so fucking. The two shopkeepers look down on us so much, so we won't let the two shopkeepers do the trick. Whoever is disobedient in the future? Just go to find me Wu Shun and see if I don't beat him to death!"

"Thank you, the servant! There will be no need to worry about the future." Sun Peng immediately smiled and said, "Of course, I won't let you work hard."

The officer was even happier when he heard this, and said something more. Seeing that Wei Renshi had agreed, there was nothing to stay. He then left Yimeng Tower.

As soon as the servant left, Sun Peng was a little worried and asked, "Five hundred people, Mr. Lang, we have not started construction on the river bank and we have not built a shed. Where can we place it? This is five hundred mouths! How to eat and drink? This Changshi is forcing us to force us."

Wei Renshi nodded and said, "Either the Ninth Pavilion gave him enough money, or he was eager to curry favor with the eunuch behind Huachun Tower. He was determined to help them force us. But he was not afraid. He would take people tomorrow and leave two hundred sheds on the leeing place in the river bank. The rest would be taken back to Fuchang and asked Zheng Lizheng to go to find Jiao Haiqing, and he said I would let him place it at the bottom of Pingshan, and he would know what to do."

"Get Fuchang away?" Sun Peng looked at Wei Renshi in surprise. "This... I'm afraid this is not allowed?"

"Repairing the river bank requires stones. I asked some people to go to quarry. Is there anything that doesn't make sense?" Wei Renshi asked back.

"Caishi..." Sun Peng thought, this was reasonable, and asked again, "But, do you have to go to Fuchangcai?"

Wei Renshi nodded, "There are good stones in Pingshan, Fuchang, which are more suitable for repair than the stones in other places around us. Well, this is something we asked someone to find out from the river embankment of Dushuijian. The river embankment is related to the entire Luoyang City and the countless people around us. If we don't go ahead, we have to do our best next, so we go to Fuchang to quarry."

Sun Peng nodded, "I understand. If anyone asks, the young man will answer like this."

Wei Renshi smiled with satisfaction. This guy is getting more and more insightful now.

Then he smiled and asked, "If you ask how you can transport it to Fuchang to collect quarries?"

Sun Peng thought for a while and said, "Go down the Yi River and go straight into Luoyang, and then go along the canal to the river embankment."

"Not bad, not bad!" Wei Renshi laughed and said, "If you have free time these days, go find a few carpenters and blacksmiths with good reputation and good skills. You would rather spend some big money to invite them over. Just say that I paid for the workshop, which is much better than their current workshop. Invite them to work in my workshop. I give them wages, and I will not stop them from using this workshop to make money outside. But you must make sure that I will arrange things first."

"Build a workshop by yourself?" Sun Peng was stunned, not understanding why Wei Renshi wanted to do this.

Wei Renshi smiled and said, "We have to take care of the ready-made personnel, so we have to take care of food and accommodation, and we don't need to do it in vain. After building a workshop, I want to make some equipment so that the two hundred people who stayed can do the work of five hundred people."

Sun Peng was shocked again, "Is there such an instrument?"

"Yes." Wei Renshi nodded, "It's too complicated to do, but it can still be found with simpler principles."

Sun Peng felt that his boss was no longer an ordinary person. I heard that some boys from heaven would be beaten to the earth if they made mistakes. Perhaps they were like the husband.

If so, then everything will be easy to explain.

Sun Peng felt even more that his guess was correct.

In itself, there are places where there are people in the official family to determine the corvee service, and they are all determined by the official family. They are used wherever they refer to, and they cannot be assigned casually.

But the prefecture leveraged the repair of the river embankment, which was already a violation of the law. And it was the reason for the business to be sent to the rightful act. In addition, money can make the devil push the mill, and after spending some money, no one took it too much.

Therefore, even if Wei Ren really wanted to split 300 people away from the river bank and go to Fuchang, no one would ask about it after giving some gifts.

It seems that these 300 people are just goods, and they no longer care about them after they are sold. As for where the buyer takes them, whether they use them or throw them away, no one will care at all.

The government will not care about the life and death of corvee service, nor will it work in the places where it works.

Three hundred people arrived in Fuchang like a sheep, driven by several officers and fire sticks.
Chapter completed!
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