Straight man of steel

Chapter 136 Deviation from original intention

"Marquis Yelang should discuss these matters with Lieutenant General Huang Changshi."

Zhang Yuan's attitude was completely beyond Duotong's expectations, and he couldn't figure out why Zhang Yuan had such an attitude.

"Emissary, you came to my Yelang because of this matter. Now I want to discuss with you. Why do you have such an attitude?"

Tang Meng is not here now, and Zhang Yuan, an official in the mission, does not think that he will be biased towards Tang Meng. Even if he tells Tang Meng everything that happened today, Zhang Yuan feels that it is difficult for him to say anything.

"Yelang Hou, we will postpone this matter for later. I would like to ask how your son's studies are progressing now?"

Duotong was suddenly stunned by Zhang Yuan's inexplicable question.

Speaking at full speed, he spoke slowly.

"My son has already served as Jiangyang Commander, why should he study?"

Mom sells batches, this f*ck Tang Meng didn't even make a good statement in advance, so he just came up and fooled me.

Zhang Yuan cursed in his heart.

Unexpectedly, even though I am in my 20s, some people still bully me for not being mature enough.

"It's nothing, just a casual question. If Marquis Yelang has any other sons, he can send them to me to study in a big man. In the future, when he returns from school, it will be a good thing for everyone."

Fortunately, yesterday I didn't believe what Tang Meng said at all. If someone could ask, "How old was the Han Dynasty compared to Yelang?", Zhang Yuan had no hope that he could voluntarily send his son to study in the Han Dynasty.

"The envoy doesn't have to worry about my son anymore, it's better to turn the topic back to the matter of recruiting civilian husbands."

"It is imperative to conscript civilian husbands, but it is not the first thing we have to do.

I don't know if Marquis Yelang counted all the people in the territory and transferred them to naturalization. "

Although Liu Che changed Yelang Kingdom to Qianwei County, although he only wanted to expand the country symbolically, he never thought about actually bringing Yelang Kingdom into the territory of the Han Dynasty, but if he wanted to recruit people here in accordance with the laws of the Han Dynasty, let these Yelang people The people of Lang Kingdom pay taxes and collect corvee, so they must count the number of people.

The people of Yelang Kingdom are not nomads, and they all have their own fixed living settlements. Although it takes a long time to count the number of people, it can be completed quickly just by counting the household registration.

Before asking this question, Zhang Yuan thought that Duotong must have never done such a thing, and he probably didn't know how many people there were in Fu County.

Why an arrogant person has blind self-confidence is definitely because he does not understand himself thoroughly enough.

"It has never been counted, what does the messenger want to do?"

Although Duotong is blindly self-confident, he is still an honest middle-aged man.

"The collection of corvee is the first thing to count the household registration and the number of adult men in each household, so as to be able to calculate the severity of the corvee that each household has to bear.

Moreover, once they are naturalized, their family members can be quickly found if any tax evasion or evasion of corvee occurs in the future. In this way, as long as they are concerned about the safety of their families, they will be able to work honestly. "

Zhang Yuan said lightly, after Duotong accepted this matter, he even wanted to implement Lianzao in Qianwei County, so that everyone would feel insecure.

Duotong is not stupid, he understood Zhang Yuan's words, and then recalled everything Tang Meng said to him yesterday, and felt that this was not a good thing.

"Messenger, this matter will be postponed for a while. Let me think about it again."

Zhang Yuan clasped his fists at Duotong, then withdrew from the palace and returned to the post house with the officials of the mission.

As soon as Zhang Yuan left, a palace guard came out of the palace and headed for the Han army camp at the entrance of the valley.

When the palace guard took Tang Meng out of the camp, he happened to be seen by Er Dan who was collecting information in the camp.

Er Dan quickly weighed it in his heart, then rushed back to the post house.

Zhang Yuan was reminiscing about everything that happened in the palace today, and by the way connecting yesterday's events in his mind to see if there were any omissions, Erdan knocked on his door.

At this moment, Li Jian was also in the room.

"Master, I'm back."

"come in."

After Er Dan came in, he looked at Li Jian, and then at Zhang Yuan.

"It's okay, just tell me if you have any news."

"Patriarch, I didn't find any useful information in the barracks. Those soldiers only said that they had gone to some villages to arrest adult men to build roads. I think this matter is also within our expectations.

In addition, I just saw the palace guards in Yelang Palace going to the military camp to find Tang Meng, and then Tang Meng left with him, heading towards the palace in the center of the city. "

Zhang Yuan nodded thoughtfully, and waved his hand to let Erdan go down first.

Li Jian didn't know what Zhang Yuan was investigating, so he didn't open his mouth to ask.

The collection of corvee has been agreed, why can't the statistics of household registration be agreed, the relationship between the two is almost inevitable, what exactly do Tong and Tang Meng want to do?
Zhang Yuan didn't care whether the roads in Southwest Yi could be repaired or not. Everyone knew about it, so Duotong shouldn't have tried to hide the population of Yelang Kingdom.

Not allowing household registration to be counted must be to conceal the population. No one in the Han Dynasty knew how many people there were in Yelang, not even Duotong himself. It seemed pointless to hide this matter now.

"What exactly are they going to do?"

Zhang Yuan lowered his head and thought for a long time without coming to a conclusion that could convince him.

After lunch, Li Jian pulled Zhang Yuan straight out of the post house.

"Brother Li, if you want to go out for fun, just take some guards with you. Why do you need me to follow you?"

Zhang Yuan was still thinking about the relationship between Duotong and Tang Meng, and didn't really want to go out for a stroll.

"Ayuan, I see that you have been thinking about it in the room for a long time without making any progress. Why don't you go out for a walk, relax and maybe you can get some unexpected results."

"Brother Li said the same thing. It just so happens that I haven't been around the county town, so I just want to take a look at the exotic style."

What Li Jian said was not wrong at all, Zhang Yuan also felt that he was a little too delusional, and even deviated from his original intention.

I just want to keep the people of the big man from going to die in a foreign country, but now I am thinking about Duotong Tang Meng.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan suddenly decided that if he still couldn't find a result in the end, he would just give up and return to Chang'an to settle the matter earlier.

In the city of Fu County, there are also some people from the Yelang Kingdom who are running some small businesses, selling all kinds of strange things from the southwest.

Not only dyes from Dian Kingdom, but also Shu brocade can be seen.

The locals did not trade metals such as gold and copper coins, but used barter.

Food is hard currency here.

As for silk, it is a high-grade currency.

(End of this chapter)