"Okay, stop talking. Go and bring all the former businessmen in the county to me, and also go and publicize that the county magistrate's office is now preparing to recruit soldiers." Xu Xiaoyi shook Old Man Xi excitedly.
"Sir! You can find merchants, but you can't conscript soldiers! Only military officers can conscript soldiers, and you are a civil servant! At most, you can only find night watchmen." Old Man Xi said in panic.
"What is a night watchman?"
"Corvée."
"No, I don't want corvée labor, I want soldiers. Just tell me I want soldiers. I will bear any consequences. Okay, go quickly." Xu Xiaoyi directly pushed the old man Xi out of the county magistrate's mansion.
"Sir, the conscription of civilians by the Dagan Dynasty can be regarded as rebellion. What are you going to do?" Xu Jia bowed and asked Xu Xiaoyi. He wanted to understand why.
"You'll know when the time comes." Xu Xiaoyi kept it a secret.
.......And at this time in the palace.
"Why did you take the prince consort to such a far place?" A fat, white-faced eunuch, holding a white whisk in his hand, interrogated a bruised and swollen man kneeling in the hall in a sharp and piercing voice. This man was the groom who took Xu Xiaoyi to Xiqing County that day.
Behind the golden mosquito net in front of the lobby were Xu Cangguo, Princess Yaohua and Emperor Dagan.
"I...I really didn't know that he was the imperial consort! Even if I had ten guts, I wouldn't dare to send the imperial consort to such a far place!" The groom cried bitterly while kneeling on the ground.
The white-faced eunuch picked up the whip beside him and whipped the groom on the ground hard.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
"What we want to ask you is, why did you take your husband to such a far place?" the big-bellied eunuch said coldly.
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I'll tell you what I'm saying."
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