Through the palace of the king of subjugation

Just now, I walked around the camp for a long time, and counting the scene outside the tent, Bai Gu hadn't seen many people in the camp; now, as soon as the curtain was lifted, several people were kneeling neatly in front of them. The people in the row were all guarded by the imperial guards, and they didn't dare to move. Judging by the number, it was no less than what I had seen all the way before.

Just outside the few rows of people kneeling, more and more people gathered. If those people were said to be civilians, they were wearing military uniforms of garrison troops, and if they were said to be garrison troops, their armor was incomplete.

Bai Gu glanced at Chen Bang who was running towards him, "What's going on?"

"Back to the general, these people—" Chen An pointed to the rows of people kneeling in front of him, "the brothers of the imperial guards arrested them according to the general's order."

When he had just quit the command post, almost everyone had been arrested. He was leading people to investigate, when Chen An came out, helping to record, occasionally checking for omissions and filling in vacancies.

But when they were busy, sporadic people began to come out to watch. Some of the people watching were with damaged armor, and they were not sure if they were the garrison waiting in the city. After all, the armor they grabbed was bright.

There were a few sporadic people watching, but Chen Bang didn't pay attention to it. Later, the crowd got bigger and bigger, and Chen An felt strange. He wanted to teach Chen An how to get people, but the number of people was getting bigger and bigger, and he was a little overwhelmed.

"That's it?" Bai Ou frowned slightly, "Don't worry about it, stay away, wait for you to ask first, maybe you will have an answer."

Bai Ou said that he wanted to turn around and go back to the tent, he dragged Chen An, "write a letter."

"General, no—" Chen An winked at Bai Gu with some embarrassment, "Over there, look out of the crowd."

Bai Gu followed Chen An's gaze, and the girl named Yueqin he rescued before was still wrapped in his cloak, which could cover her back but not her neck, and her two snow-white arms were exposed like this Outside, among the hundred and ten men in the barracks, they attracted a lot of attention.

"Didn't I say that..." Bai Ou helped his forehead in embarrassment. He had no choice but to coax Li Yu, and he couldn't even coax a girl. Thinking about it gave him a headache, "It's not someone from the military camp. Where did he come from?" Where are you going to send it back..."

"She knelt there and refused to leave. I have exhausted all the reasons. This girl didn't say a word, but she just said she wanted to see you." Chen An also showed embarrassment, "She... she is dressed like this, and the guards don't want to see you." Dare to do it..."

"First... find some clothes and put them on..." Bai Gu glanced at the camp full of men, shook his head and walked towards the handsome tent, "As long as you can cover it tightly, then bring it into the handsome tent."

Not long after, Chen An brought Yueqin back to the handsome tent, and Baiou saw that the girl had changed into a man's clothes.

Chen An worked carefully, even though the men's clothes didn't fit her well, the girl was still well dressed, presumably she simply washed and washed her face, but she didn't see her disheveled and tear-stained face just now.

There were only three people in the huge handsome tent, and no one made a sound, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"you……"

Bai Ou was winking at Chen An, thinking about what to say, but he didn't want Yue Qin to kneel down suddenly, and kowtow several times in a row——

"I beg the general to let go of my concubine's elder brother, he is wronged!"

what happened?

Bai Ou raised a question mark on his forehead, and couldn't care less, he could only wink at Chen Ankuang.

"Girl, don't be in a hurry, get up and talk." Chen An helped him up, "If you want the general to be the master, you must first explain to the general what happened."

"The elder brother of the concubine is also the garrison waiting for the city. The elder brother didn't know that the concubine was tricked to come here last night. I got the letter this morning and came here to save me, but, I was beaten up by the captain's men and thrown away. out of the tent..."

Yueqin started to cry again as she spoke.

"Brother didn't give up, and wanted to go back to the tent, and it happened that the general brought people here; after you left, my brother was slandered by the lieutenant's subordinates as an accomplice, and was found to be involved in this matter, but my brother didn't participate at all, and he didn't He couldn't tell which girl he was in love with, so he was sentenced to exile on the frontier."

"You..." The white gull hesitated, the words on his lips were not easy to come out.

Calling a big girl a "prostitute" directly, he can't tell, but Yueqin is indeed the singer of Mingcuilou, but if his brother is really a garrison waiting to be registered in the city, he will be very nervous to see his sister, why? As for selling his own sister into a fire pit?

He hesitated for a long time before asking: "Brother?"

Yueqin nodded, "One mother and one compatriot."

"Then you..." Bai Gu scratched his head, some questions he couldn't ask.

"General, you don't have to hide, this concubine understands what you mean." Yueqin lowered her head, "It's true that this concubine sold herself in a brothel, and it's also true that this concubine's elder brother is the defender of the city."

Her parents died early, and she followed her elder brother to and from the border between Daicheng and Beiyin at a very young age, doing some small business to make ends meet. Although her life was peaceful, the siblings depended on each other for life, and their relationship was very close.

It's just bad luck. One day, his brother and sister encountered robbers on the way of selling goods, and all their money and goods were looted. I had no choice but to wander on the streets of Daicheng.

Forced to make ends meet, he soon sold himself into a wealthy family as a slave.

Yueqin was only 13 years old at the time, but a child from a poor background did not have too many requirements. She could eat enough to eat, had a tile to cover her head, and she could still work in the same courtyard with her brother. She always felt that her life was good.

But these days have not passed for a few years, Yueqin is getting older and more youthful, and the master at home likes to order him around, so the wife is not used to it.

The usual routine is to sell him to a blind old man as his wife.

"My brother loves me..." Yueqin sobbed, "Before getting married, he took me and escaped. But..."

"We had already signed the deed of selling ourselves, and we didn't have any proof of identity with us. We were quickly caught as refugees by the government. My brother was sent to the army, and I was sold into Mingcui Building, because I was not yet 15 years old at the time. I also learned two pieces of music from someone who used to work, so I have always been a singer."

Not yet fifteen?

Bai Gu was surprised and said, "Then you now..."

Yueqin nodded slightly, "The concubine just turned sixteen a month ago."

Just sixteen?

White Gull clenched his fist and slammed it heavily on the desk in front of him, squeezed out two words between his teeth, "Animal, life."

"General..." Chen An reminded in a low voice.

"Take him down." Bai Ou took a deep breath to calm down his anger, "Let Chen Bang take her to the prison to find his brother and let him go together."

"General!" Yueqin called out and knelt down again, "The concubine doesn't want to leave, she still has to go back to Mingcui Building, the concubine is sixteen, sooner or later she will come out to pick up the guests."

"Then don't go back." Seeing Yueqin was about to wipe away tears again, Baiou frowned helplessly, and said to Chen An: "Give me some more money."

"But the concubine and elder brother signed a contract of sale." Yue Qin said anxiously: "No matter where you go, sooner or later you will be caught and served as a prostitute."

"Is there such a rule?" Bai Ou looked at Chen An inexplicably, but Chen An showed embarrassment, noncommittal, so he could only sigh and said: "Then let someone take you to the government office to open a new household registration. No one will make things difficult for Yinzi to start your small business again..."

"Thank you, General, for your kindness." Yueqin kowtowed again and again as she spoke, "But..."

"Neither the concubine nor the older brother is from Shangning."

All men in the barracks are not allowed to stay with female relatives as a rule. Baioujiao Chen An sent someone to arrange for Yue Qin to go to the inn where he stayed before. When Chen An came back, he already had the record of Chen Bang's inquiry outside.

Seeing Chen An coming back with something, Bai Ou said in a deep voice: "You just...do you have something to say? What do you think about the truth of what Yueqin said?"

Chen An stepped forward with his things in his hands, "What does the general think?"

"I..." Bai Gu thought, "I can't find any reason for her to lie."

Chen An nodded, "I'm afraid it's true."

According to the laws of Shang Ning, whenever recruits are recruited, in addition to the normal military pay, a sum of sympathetic money will also be distributed to the relatives of each conscripted soldier.

Not to mention that swords have no eyes on the battlefield, even in peacetime, the recruited soldiers are all young and middle-aged men who are strictly selected, and they are the strong laborers of the family, so they are subsidized according to the law.

"According to the actual situation in each city and county, the silver taels of the subsidy fluctuate up and down, but at least a few tens of taels of silver per person." Chen An explained: "Whenever soldiers are recruited, there are as few as a thousand people and as many as tens of thousands. The crowd..."

Dozens of taels of silver may not seem like much, but it can be gathered into fur.

"It's not uncommon anywhere, and refugees are randomly captured to make up the number. These people have no relatives, no trouble, and don't need subsidies. Even normal military salaries may not be able to receive them. Some of them simply live on the border. Some of the Gentiles on the road are prostitutes who have escaped, and they dare not speak out."

When Chen An said this, he saw Bai Ou's face getting darker, and whispered: "The recruiting money and military pay distributed by the imperial court are naturally..."

Into the pockets of nobles from aristocratic families.

Bai Gu thought of the crowd of onlookers he saw outside just now, the military uniforms were torn and the armor was messy, they were different from the dog-like people captured before.

"The result of Chen Bang's questioning outside—" he said in a deep voice, "Can it be matched?"

"The ones captured are almost all from aristocratic families. They are of some rank in the barracks, at least they are halberd commanders from the ninth rank, and they are in charge of dozens of people." Chen An sighed softly: "This is Shang Ning's usual practice. It is a tradition, even in Jiangning's Habayashi Army Imperial Guard Battalion, it is no exception."

Aristocratic families, especially the lintels of military commanders, the children of the family, no matter whether they are successful or not, are sent to the barracks when they reach the age, and they are placed in an official position to mix their seniority, and they are slowly promoted when the age is up.

It doesn't necessarily mean that they are short of that bit of food and salary, but those who are of high quality and rank are eating the imperial food, so they don't make people laugh at the fact that there is a dude in the family.

The good face of the aristocrats is only one aspect. The chain of continuous inheritance cannot be broken. If the children sent in can be promising, once they reach a high position, holding military power is the most important real power.

As for those who are useless, they can still be regarded as finding an errand, worthy of the ancestral tablet.

"So—" Bai Gu rubbed his sore brows, "There are two kinds of people in this military camp?"

Young soldiers from aristocratic families, as well as refugees and even bandits of unknown origin.

For these strange reasons, the nobles and the lowest level untouchables actually got together.

"The elder brother of Yueqin." Bai Ou raised his head and asked, "Is he still in the barracks?"

"He is still a registered garrison anyway." Chen An replied: "He has been released, but he hasn't left yet."

"Yeah." White Gull nodded, "Go and pass."

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