Besides, I'm old, and my parents have long passed away. As for me, my whole family is in Xiangyun, so where else can I go? Could I sneak out of Xiangyun with my whole family in the middle of the night, beg for food all the way back to Zhongdu, and end up being tortured to death by my whole family?"
"The whole family?" As an immature ruler, Bai Ang skipped over the countless military and political information contained in these words, but he was very interested in the word "the whole family".
"So, it's true that you married that widow who sells salted fish?"
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Bai Ang was speechless.
Faced with this new ruler who has an eccentric mindset and pays attention to gossip, Bai Ang even worried for a moment whether he had made a wrong bet.
"Yes." Bai Ang admitted it very straightforwardly. After all, everyone knew about it. In order to marry this widow, Bai Ang even took her to the Qinghe Government Affairs Office to register.
"Oh, if you like it and she likes it, I have no objection." Lin Hai said: "By the way, this widow is not Wang Zuo's person, you can rest assured."
Seeing Lin Hai say in person that he had no objection, Bai Ang knew that at least his life was saved. This was an alternative guarantee given by Lin Hai.
"The criminal has never doubted her." Bai Ang's words were somewhat unexpected to Lin Hai: "Around the criminal, there are many subordinates of Lord Wang Zuo, including the criminal's advisor, cook, groom, housekeeper, maid, and the officials who insisted on working with the criminal in the Xiangyun prefectural government. They should all be Lord Wang Zuo's people.
Even if the criminal officer brought some people with him, after seeing Lord Wang Zuo's methods over the years, these people have become his people. Lord Wang really doesn't need to force a wife into the criminal officer's place. This is not to monitor the criminal officer, but to reward him. "
"Hahahahahaha!" Lin Hai laughed. "Bai Ang, I didn't expect you to become so interesting now. Speaking of which, don't you have many relatives in Zhongdu City? You've clearly followed me, so what about your relatives?"
Speaking of this, Bai Ang said directly:
"They are nothing more than a bunch of parasites living on the bodies of the guilty officials. If His Majesty Xia Junao can't stand it, just chop them off. This guilty official doesn't feel sorry at all.
They spread the word that the criminal official was the head of the Bai family and that they were members of the Bai family, simply hoping to gain some benefits through this status. And with the close family protecting each other, the criminal official was not very good at controlling them. Now, after eating so much back then, there must be a price to pay.
If I behead them all, it would make the emperor feel better for a while, and it would make our long-term relationship as emperor and subject worthwhile. It could be considered my last act of loyalty to the empire. As for my family, my wife has given me a son and a daughter. I never thought I could have children at my age, and I am very satisfied.
"Hmm..." To be honest, it's hard to say anything else about Lin Hai's officials in this world, but his fertility is indeed worthy of admiration.
Bai Ang was able to give birth to a son and a daughter at an old age, Gao Bin had more than a hundred children, and even if Yang Yizhen's entire family died, he could still reproduce a lot again in a short time.
How should I put it? If you give them a group of girls, they can really create a race.
From this perspective, the requirement for forced population clearance in the information disturbance mechanism does not seem unreasonable from the perspective of sustainable development. Of course, Lin Hai only dared to think about it.
However, considering the rapid increase in birth rate in Qinghe in recent years, Lin Hai knew very well that even without a population cleansing mechanism, in this cramped world, as long as the population expanded to a certain limit, a large-scale war would inevitably break out, leading to a decrease in population.
Thinking of this, Lin Hai said to Bai Ang:
"Since you've decided to stay, and I've accepted your congratulatory letter, let's write off the past. I'll have a new appointment for you later, and I hope you can do a good job.
Bai Ang, I hope you know that as long as you abide by the laws of Qinghe, you and your family will be able to live here. And I'm giving you this new appointment because I saw that despite being completely sidelined, you still managed to manage government affairs in Xiangyun and even made many efforts for Xiangyun's reconstruction and revitalization.
All I can say is that everything is predestined, and Qinghe will not mistreat anyone who works hard. I hope you'll go to Jinguan City in a few days and explain this to Gao Bin. In the future, if he still wants to be a corrupt official or a bureaucrat, the best outcome I can offer him is to let him take a portion of his wealth and become a commoner.
Of course, if he wants to return to Zhongdu, I have no objection at all."
Bai Ang kowtowed again in thanks, thinking to himself, "As long as Gao Bin isn't a complete idiot, he definitely won't go to Zhongdu to die. But it's hard to say whether Gao Bin will choose to be an official in Qinghe or a commoner. After all, Qinghe doesn't allow corruption, which would be very difficult for Gao Bin. No country salary could support more than fifty concubines and over a hundred and twenty children..."
Bai Ang was about to speak when he heard Lin Hai change the subject and ask directly:
"There's one thing I don't understand. Do you know why they all like palace maids so much?"
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