allonlinenovel Chapter 200 Special Group of People
Chapter 200 Special Group of People
After taking the pulse, Shen Zhiqiu didn't even bother to make porridge, and ran to the queue of scholars, where there were the least people in line.
Watching those officials sitting on chairs, dealing out red cards, white cards, and black cards, these cards determine the fate of the refugees.
Black cards represent military households, white cards represent frontier farmers, and red cards represent discretionary households.
As for corvée labor, there is no badge. If you can't show your household registration to prove where you are from, you don't need to be issued a badge.
The soldier standing behind the official would directly pull you aside, and the official who was carving the words would stay. In an instant, there was a scream.
That person became a forced laborer, and had an indelible mark on his face.
If a woman or child was given a black card or was a military household and dared to cry, the officials would whip them without mercy.
As for Bai Paizi, he was relatively calm, although there was not much joy on his face, and he even looked worried.
But at least people are less rebellious.
Shen Youyou was chilled and whispered to Shen Zhiqiu: "Dad, do you understand? The butt determines the head. Those who play politics are all evil-minded."
Shen Zhiqiu remained silent, but he had a different opinion. The dynasty here was already divided into pieces, and they, the refugees, were not the original subjects of the King of Yan.
As mentioned before, it must have taken a lot of courage and risk for the King of Yan to accept so many refugees. As a person in a high position, it is impossible for him to just do nothing because he loves his people like his own children.
What's more, you used to be a subject of their opponent, but you are no longer their real subject.
If they are willing to accept you, give you food and land, and let you become a military household, it is just like being too poor to make ends meet at home and selling yourself to someone else as a servant. At least you can still survive.
But he didn't tell his daughter about this, because even though she was smart, she traveled through time right after graduation and had never had a job, let alone been exposed to the harshness of society.
We still see things too black and white.
Even if I tell my daughter about it, she may not agree with me. She needs to go through more things and slowly understand it.
Shen Zhiqiu left to line up, and Shen Youyou and Li Jingshu could not follow him.
Because there were soldiers guarding the place, only one person could queue up here, and that person had to be the scholar himself, holding the certificate and queuing up.
Li Jingshu leaned close to Shen Youyou's ear and said, "If it doesn't work, we can just take as many people as we can. Let's take out all the money and add more. We'll line them up from youngest to oldest.
If we have a baby, we should take the girl with us. Later, we don’t know whether to take the older boy or the older one. It’s really worrying. Since we paid a lot of money, can the official allow us to take two more?”
Shen Youyou shook her head and said, "That's unlikely. I guess these officials know how many people to assign to different places.
Also, mother, don't forget the family that went with us before. They said that their daughter-in-law's family is in the northern border and is an official. This means they are related families, and they probably don't even need to pay money to be treated appropriately.
It doesn’t say that bribery will be strictly investigated. There will be no leniency at all. Officials know this.”
In fact, what Shen Youyou thought was not wrong. The King of Yan governed so many cities. Not to mention the officials from all over the country, even some people with other connections would use their connections to get their relatives or in-laws who were fleeing famine safely into the city.
Especially since the relatives who fled famine are relatively wealthy, it is even more beneficial to the city under the jurisdiction of King Yan. After all, if you have money at home and settle down, it will boost the economy.
Not to mention the aristocratic families, there might be a relative or a relative of the relative from anywhere in the world.
If there are more such special groups, they will occupy most of the discretionary places, and the places left for ordinary families will be very limited.
The officials must find a way to reduce the number of officials, so that in the end, it is estimated that even two hundred taels of silver cannot buy a spot.
What he didn't say was that if there were really a lot of special people like that, it would be bad if he became a scholar in the future and might not be able to bring all his family members with him.
In this short while, Shen Youyou thought about a lot of things. She was reluctant to part with everyone, but she didn't know if she would be able to give them time to stay in the city.
If they were allowed to stay in Jeju City, she would go with his father to sell modern food recipes. Isn't that what is written in novels?
The first pot of gold she earned after traveling through time to ancient times was from selling vegetable recipes. If she couldn’t sell the recipes, she could make up a hair dye recipe and sell it.
Hair dye must have been a rare commodity in ancient times. Maybe we can collect enough silver to pay for everyone to use.
But no matter how much she thought about it, she never expected that they would become the special group that she had just mentioned to her mother.
In front of the city gate, Shen Zhiqiu was also very surprised, it was such an unexpected thing.
When he gave his name, the highest-ranking official at the city gate came over to ask him in person: "Shen Zhiqiu, courtesy name Huaizhi? Have you ever won the top three places in the imperial examinations?"
Shen Zhiqiu suppressed his excitement and said, "Your Excellency, it is the student."
I thought to myself: Oh my goodness, how come this official knows about a small scholar from a small place like mine?
The official casually handed him a big red card. It was not the rose-red card in Ma Wenbo's hand, but a bright red one.
The official called him aside and whispered in his ear: "Master Chi came here two days ago and mentioned you specifically."
Shen Zhiqiu looked up and saw that person's eyes were full of inquiry, but he really didn't react to the words "Master Chi".
Of course, the daze was only for a moment. It seemed that the servant beside General Fu was called A Chi!
I sighed in my heart: Wow, the most powerful official here is in charge of Fu Huaian's servant and calls him: Master Chi?
This is also the reason why he was stunned.
But this was not the time to sigh at him, so he immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment and clasped his fists and said:
"I just separated from the general a few days ago. I can't afford to worry about these trivial matters when he is busy with all sorts of things."
These were definitely what Shen Zhiqiu was thinking. He believed that although the tokens were taken back by the government and they were not directly taken away to serve as military households, they were also given some food and money.
He even sent Achi to tell them the exact route, which was considered as taking special care of them.
Moreover, before General Fu left, he also heard A Chi say that they would continue to suppress the bandits and wipe out all the bandit camps in that area.
Since there were so many bandits to fight, he really didn't expect that Ah Chi would be sent here specifically to take care of them.
The gatekeeper was shocked: It wasn't Master Chi? It was General Fu?
Who exactly is the person in front of him that could make the general send his most useful man, Master Chi, to take special care of him?
The look he gave Shen Zhiqiu was more thoughtful, and he asked, "Then the general..."
Shen Zhiqiu had come to his senses by now, and was no longer shocked by the news he had just heard. He had become the shrewd businessman Shen Zhiqiu again.
He had a good grasp of the ways of the world. He signaled the official to look nearby with his eyes, then shook his head slightly, his eyes full of seriousness.