Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 235 Conscript
"That's right! Your uncle is the only hardworking man in our family, and it's our turn to deal with anything.

Let's not be afraid, Zhongzi, just go to the village and see what the village chief is talking about when he summons the villagers. "Ms. Zhang also came back to her senses, and she told Zhongzi to go and see what happened.

"Fanyang, you are the eldest son and grandson of our house, and your parents are gone. It's time for you to go to this kind of occasion. You and uncle should go and have a look." Xie Fanxing signaled Fanyang to go to the village with Xie Zhong, Participate in this village meeting.

Xie Fanxing also knew what the village head was saying when he rang the copper bell at the head of the village and summoned the villagers to a meeting.

It seems that the notice that Fanchen proposed to the prefect of Zhou asking the prefect of Zhou to call up labor to build their village leading to the town has already come down.

The village head had received the order, and today he rang the copper bell at the head of the village to inform the villagers to go to the meeting and inform the villagers of this matter.

"Fanyang, what Fanxing said is right, you are the eldest son and grandson of your house, your parents are gone, you should be the one to come forward in such occasions in the future, and you have grown up, it's time to take up the burden. "Ms. Zhang is also satisfied with the arrangement of her eldest granddaughter, she doesn't take care of everything, and knows how to train her younger siblings.

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"I don't know what the village chief rang for us to come to the village tonight for a meeting. Do you know what it is?" At this time, many villagers had already arrived at the village head of Shangou Village. asked the villagers beside him.

"I don't know either. I remember the last time the village chief rang the gong to call the villagers to a meeting. It was two years ago when he talked about the conscription! This time, it's not just telling us that we will be conscripted again!" Some villagers were terrified. Thinking of this.

"You crow's mouth, now that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, you don't need to be drafted for military service."

"But..., but there is no conscription for military service. You can conscript forced labor and miscellaneous labor." The villager who first proposed to conscript said stubbornly.

"Come on, it's useless for us to speculate here now. After the meeting is full, the village head will naturally tell us what happened." Immediately, some villagers were also afraid that the village head called them to the village head for a meeting today to say that The faces of the villagers turned pale and they were not in the mood to talk. They waited quietly for the villagers to come together, and for the village chief to tell them what was going on.

In the past two quarters of an hour, the village chief had almost seen the people coming, and it was time for him to start talking about things. Anyway, in the future, he would go door to door to inform the people on the draft list.

Even if you don't hear anyone not coming now, it doesn't matter.

"Villagers, please be quiet and listen to me. Today I received a notice from the yamen that our Yuhua County has imposed corvee." The village head stood on the high platform at the head of the village, and he pressed his hands forward to let the villagers Listen to him quietly.

"What, corvee service? Village chief, did you read it wrong?" As soon as the villagers heard that they had to serve corvee, some villagers immediately questioned it.

"What a crime! It's hard to get better these days, and we have to serve corvee again. God doesn't care about our success." Some villagers panicked and said.

"Village chief, what kind of corvee is this time of conscripting? What are the specific conditions of service?" Some villagers saw that corvee was unavoidable, and immediately asked about the conditions of service.

"The corvee service this time is forced labor. One is to build a road from our Shangou village to the town.

The second is to build canals and dams for Yuhe Village.

The third is to open up a river for Wujia Village to use for rice irrigation in their paddy fields.

As for the conditions for the compulsory service this time, people over the age of eighteen and under the age of 50 are required to perform forced service.If there are two people in a household, one person will be taxed, and if there are four people, two people will be taxed, and so on.

Those with children in the family can exempt one person from serving in the military service, and those with scholar talents in the family can exempt three people from serving in the army.

This service is neither mandatory nor military service. If any of you have loose money, you can pay ten taels of silver to exempt from the quota of service.

Also, during the service period, family members are not allowed to separate.

The service list is based on the selection of people who meet the service requirements from each household. If any of you want to change people to serve, you should tell the person who will be replaced three days ago. Otherwise, it will not wait until the time comes. The list in hand is the main one.

The name list for this conscription has also fallen into my hands, and the person who reads the name is the one who will serve this time.

Huang Lei, Liu Shi, Zhong Zhixi, Cao Jin... "After Village Chief Liu told the villagers the conditions of this conquest, he began to read the list of this service.

However, before Village Chief Zhang finished reading the list of service members, many villagers cried out, "There are four people in my family who meet the conditions for service, so it's all right now, two people will go to serve in the service."

"My family has to send one person to serve in the military service. I also thought that before the autumn harvest, I would take my boy to the town to find some work and earn more money so that I can marry my boy a wife in the coming year. All right."

"My family also has three people to go to serve."

"It's unlucky, my family too."

Immediately, villagers complained from the whole village, saying that they were unlucky enough to be assigned to serve in the army.

There are also some families who do not have quotas for military service, and these families feel lucky.

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The head of Caojia Village also held the same meeting as the head of Shangou Village, and it was also a matter of notifying the villagers of the service list.

After Cao Tielin listened to what the village chief said about his military service and the number of places to serve, he followed his father, eldest brother, and second brother on the way home, thinking about it all the time.

Before, he was still thinking about how to separate the family, maybe this service is an opportunity.

When he was going to serve in the military two years ago, it was his grandfather who was a scholar who was still there and exempted his family from serving in the military.

Now that his grandfather is gone, naturally there is no exempt quota for military service. Cao Tielin is still thinking about how to persuade his father to agree to the separation of their family by taking this opportunity.

While dozing off, someone brought a pillow, which made Cao Tielin a little excited.

"Why did you come back so late? What did the village chief call the people in the village to say? Why do you have such a bad face?" After seeing the head of the family and his three sons come back, Mrs. Cao saw that the four of them had a bad complexion. asked immediately.

"The village chief called the people in the village to say that they want to serve in the military. Our family has a lot of laborers, and our father is gone. There is no quota for exempting from military service. This time, we have four people in our family to serve in the military." Old man Cao's expression was serious. Shen Dao.

At this time, the three daughters-in-law of the Cao family also noticed what was going on, and they all came out of the room, just in time to hear the old man Cao say that four of their family were going to serve in the army.

After Xie Yunxiu heard her father-in-law's words, she couldn't help but think of something, her face showed a slight joy, and then she looked at her head.

It happened that Cao Tielin looked at her.

Cao Tielin shook his head slightly at Xie Yunxiu, indicating that he had plans to hand it over to him.

(End of this chapter)