Yinreng recalled the scene where Zhaojia Fuluguochong tried his best to pull him into the house, and the sarcasm on his lips grew stronger.
Although it was only a very short time, Yinreng could see that the group of people were performing hard just to deal with him. However, they had never done heavy work for many years, and they found the work very strenuous, so their progress in a day was extremely limited.
In this case, the dock has already taken shape, but the specific progress remains to be considered.
Yinreng sent someone to spend two and a half days to ask the village chief to buy some corvee collection orders from a yamen runner at a high price.
It's funny.
In the past, when the imperial court levied corvée labor, the people had to pay money to beg the yamen runners to cross out the names of the able-bodied men in their families.
This time, you have to pay to get a place in the corvée service.
It was still dark the next day.
Yinreng called Yinzhen and asked him to take more than 30 people, change into rags bought from the village, and rush to the dock.
Yinreng himself stayed at the dock.
That is to say, Tianjin is relatively close to the capital, and most Han people have shaved their heads, otherwise Yinreng would not have sent people to the construction site to investigate the situation.
Before leaving, Yinreng repeatedly warned Yinzhen to hide in the inn and wait for the guards to report, and never to put himself in danger.
Yinzhen agreed very readily.
But when they really arrived at the place, Yinzhen directly grabbed the leader of the guards, Dachun, took off his clothes and put them on himself.
Dachun looked bitter.
"Fourth Master, if the Crown Prince knew that you went there on my behalf, I would lose my head."
A hint of hesitation flashed across Yinzhen's young face, but after a moment, the hesitation turned into determination. He said in a deep voice,
"You guys stay here. If I don't hear from you for three consecutive days, you'll have to hurry up and tell my second brother!"
"Master..."
"You don't need to persuade me anymore, I know what's going on!"
Dachun had no choice but to shut his mouth.
The team of thirty people was divided into seven small teams by Yinreng, and they rushed to the conscription place at the dock in waves.
In order to ensure Yinzhen's safety, Dachun placed him in the last team.
On the first day, only four teams out of the thirty-person team entered, with a total of no more than sixteen people.
Any more will not be accepted.
After hearing the news, Yinzhen's face turned ugly.
Except for him, their team of thirty people were all able-bodied soldiers. The physical fitness of the farmers recruited from the docks was far inferior to that of the guards who had been trained for many years and had no shortage of nutrition.
Even so, only half of the thirty people got in.
What is Forgo Chong trying to do? !
Yinzhen's face turned stern and he sat at the table, so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.
Dachun breathed a sigh of relief.
Without knowing what was going on inside, he was unwilling to let the Fourth Prince go in and take the risk.
If anything happens to him, not to mention him, none of these thirty guards will be able to escape and will all be buried with this gentleman.
Yinzhen stayed in the inn for a whole day, but the people who went in did not come out.
The next morning, Yinzhen hid in the first team and walked towards the collection office.
The collection office was a temporary shed with two charcoal braziers inside. Although it was drafty, it was still warm.
The person sitting at the table registering was a young man with a pair of inverted triangle eyes.
His face looked extremely ferocious.
A group of seven people walked into the shed. The young man said in a hoarse voice without even looking up,
"Name, household registration, corvée collection order..."
The seven people took turns placing the required proof in front of the young man. When they saw that Yinzhen was only sixteen years old, they looked up at Yinzhen.
Although Yinzhen was covered in dust and had messy hair, the skin on his hands was delicate and he didn't look like a farmer's son who had ever worked.
The young man's face suddenly darkened, and he pointed at Yinzhen.
"You! Didn't the village head explain this clearly to you when they issued the corvée collection order? We don't want the young, the old, or the weak. Look at you, you're as skinny as a chick. How do you meet the collection criteria?"
Yinzhen was stunned when he heard this.
Wasn't this corvée order issued by the county government? How did it become the village head?
And what about these collection standards?
Sixteen years old already meets the tax standard, why does this person in front of me say that he does not meet the standard?
There was a smart guard among the guards. Seeing Yinzhen's face change from confusion to anger, he knew that something bad was going to happen, so he leaned over to the young man's ear and said,
"Sir, the village head has some connections with my cousin's family. As you know, the weather is cold now, and the young man in the family has been bedridden for the past two days. We have no choice but to ask my younger brother to take over. What do you think..."
Deng Yunlin said this and quietly slipped a dime over.
The young man pinched it, and his expression became better.
"Our Lord Qingtian said that corvée labor can only be performed when one is at least twenty years old..."
Deng Yunlin pretended to grit his teeth, turned around and whispered a few words to the others, and then everyone except Yinzhen began to feel around.
After a moment, Deng Yunlin stuffed two pieces of silver into the young man's hand.
"Master, this is all the belongings we brothers have..."
The young man frowned, knowing that he could not squeeze out any more money, so he lowered his head and recorded Yinzhen's household registration information, then waved his hand impatiently.
"Okay, get out of here!"
"put……"
Yinzhen had never suffered such an injustice before, and his anger was suddenly aroused. He opened his mouth and wanted to scold the young man.
Deng Yunlin put his arm around Yinzhen's shoulders and said loudly,
"Cousin, we spent a lot of money to bring you in..."
Yinzhen was pushed inside by Deng Yunlin. Yinzhen took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.
The young man lazily raised his head and glanced at a few people, then laughed sarcastically.
In fact, if Yinzhen's noble aura had not been concealed by his purple skin from the cold, the young man would never have let him in, no matter how stupid he was.
When he actually entered the port, Yinzhen didn't think there was anything wrong at first.
He had previously accompanied Yinreng on an inspection tour, and he had carefully observed the farmers and workers working here. The situation today was no different from that day.
But when he actually started working, he realized the tricks involved -
"You! What are you doing?! Hurry up and move!"
Some officers and soldiers held whips and stared at Yinzhen and the guards around him.
Deng Yunlin bent down, smiled flatteringly twice, and then quickly pulled Yinzhen to move the bricks and stones.
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