As for the third prince, Situ Xing, Pei Mingche never wanted to have anything to do with him in this life. In his previous life, he had suffered the death of cunning rabbits, cooked by lackeys, all the flying birds, and the hiding of good men. It was all the result of his misunderstanding of others and the blame he brought upon himself.
There is a saying that goes like this: As for taking sides, you think you are on the right side, but no one treats you as a teammate. In the eyes of others, you are just a suitable stepping stone.
Even so, in this life he, Pei Mingche, will not be Situ Xing's stepping stone, but he does not want this person to rise to power. Regardless of public or private matters, he still hopes that the Daji Dynasty can develop stably under the leadership of Ming Jun, instead of continuing civil strife like in his previous life. , the constant invasion of foreign enemies has made the people live in water and fire.
He is a military general, and military generals almost always gain promotion through military service, but in his heart he still wants to live a peaceful life.
In this life, he only wishes that his family and country are safe and sound, that the mountains and rivers are safe, that the moon is full in the world, and that he can grow old with his beloved woman.
Pei Mingche was not afraid of muddying the waters in the capital's struggle to win the heir in advance. What he was afraid of was that the prince would be too concerned about brotherhood and give up the throne again. He only hoped that the prince would do something after receiving his secret letter, so he would not He took the risk of offending the third prince in advance to send the evidence.
After finishing what needed to be done in Qingtian Mansion, Pei Mingche told his soldiers to prepare some dry food and prepare to leave the city to catch up with the large army. When he saw the newly posted notice at the gate of the city, he didn't know why he asked the soldiers to do so. Went to read the content.
The soldiers left as quickly as they came back. I also repeated the content on the notice. In recent years, the Daji Dynasty has been fighting every year. In order to replenish the supply of soldiers, the court has reduced the age of the soldiers from the original fifteen to ten. At the age of two, all the death row inmates in the cell were organized into death squads.
The war has accelerated the sharp decline in the population of Daji Dynasty in recent years. The imperial court issued a decree a year ago to encourage widows to remarry. Remarried widows can receive a compensation of two taels of silver as long as the government confirms that the situation is true.
Two taels of silver is nothing in the eyes of the rich, but for ordinary farmers, a few taels of silver can last a family of five for several months.
Unexpectedly, in such a short period of time, the court not only encouraged widows to remarry, but also mandated that all men and women aged fifteen or above must get married within three months, and those who were about to reach the age must also get married within one month after reaching the age of 15. If they get married, they will have to pay a poll tax, which has been changed from the original twenty taels to one hundred taels per person. The notice also specifically stated that the poll tax is only collected from men. Women who have not yet married when they reach the specified age will be uniformly married to those on the front line by the government. Soldier.
The contents of the notice are of little significance to officials and people with high status, but to the common people, it undoubtedly stirs up waves with one stone.
When Pei Mingche heard the news, he didn't take it seriously. In the past few years, not only was the imperial treasury empty, but the old emperor was fatuous and obsessed with cultivating immortals. Government orders were also changed day by day. If it weren't for the prince supervising the country, Daji Dynasty would not know what chaos it would be. So done.
Pei Mingche walked out of the city gate and glanced in the direction of Qinghe Town, and said silently in his heart: Yao'er, wait for me to come back.
No longer nostalgic, the group of people rode away.
Xiaoxi Village
Ji Qingyao was still a little confused when she was woken up by her biological clock in the morning. Last night, she accidentally got a golden finger that could see ten miles away. She was a little too excited and didn't fall asleep until late at night.
She originally wanted to take a nap, but when she lay down, she remembered that the village chief would take people to help her open up wasteland this morning. She got up, quickly packed herself up, and headed up the mountain with her bow and arrows on her back.
She had almost sold all the prey she had hunted yesterday. It would be impossible to build a house for people to eat without meat. She would hunt more today and bring it back.
Ji Qingyao felt that she and Xiaoxi Village's horoscopes were very compatible. When she was in Dahe Village, she had never hunted big prey, most times in a month. But after coming to Xiaoxi Village, she always had the illusion that the prey would come to her door automatically. .
It had only been more than an hour since she had been in the mountains, and she already had two wild boars, a roe deer, an elk, more than a dozen pheasants and hares each, and nearly twenty pheasant eggs in her space.
Seeing that they were full of prey, she had no interest in going further into the mountains. When she went back, she actually picked two ginseng plants that were of good quality. She guessed that they were at least hundreds of years old.
She would pick up all the other herbs she knew, no matter whether they were valuable or not. Grasshoppers were also meat.
When Ji Qingyao arrived at the hillside he bought, the village chief was telling a few men which wastelands to open. Hearing the sound of walking behind them, several people turned around and saw that Ji Qingyao was holding prey in his left and right hands. Several people present had green eyes.
The village chief and his two sons were calm, after all, their family's flesh had not been cut off in the past few days.
