Chapter 56: Strange Transfer Order

Wang Yang returned to the Commandery Academy and saw the black man waiting for him.

As soon as the black man saw Wang Yang, he knelt on one knee, cupped his hands and shouted: "Young Master, save me!" His voice was earnest and carried a bit of anxiety.

Wang Yang said: "Get up quickly! What exactly happened, tell me slowly."

"Yes! This morning I received a transfer order to go to Tianmen Commandery to garrison. Tianmen is more than 400 li away from Jingzhou City. If I go, I might not be able to come home until the end of the year, and I won't be able to take care of A-Wu..."

Before the Tang dynasty, six feet made a pace, three hundred paces made a li, and one li was equal to 1,800 feet. One foot in the Southern Dynasties was 24.7 centimeters. This distance was not too far, and it could be reached within two days on foot.

But the monthly leave in the army was only three days, and the black man needed four days to go back and forth, which was not enough time. He didn't know if the team leader there was easy to talk to, and maybe he wouldn't allow him to save up leave for a long rest.

Moreover, Tianmen was close to the southern barbarians, and the garrison pressure was much greater than here. It was even possible that the ordinary monthly leave couldn't be guaranteed, so he wouldn't be able to come home often to look after A-Wu, and even sending food and money every month would become a problem.

Wang Yang listened to the black man's explanation and asked: "Tianmen is close to the southern barbarians, will there be danger?"

"I don't know where I will be assigned, but no matter where I am assigned, it will definitely be much more dangerous than the Aqu garrison.

The world is a bit chaotic now. A month ago, the Cao Gonglin outpost was slaughtered, and that was still within the territory of Jiangling County!

Tianmen Commandery is located among the barbarians, and the barbarians are probably even more rampant. But I am a soldier household, and I shouldn't be picky about danger, but this transfer order seems a bit... strange."

The black man showed a very puzzled expression.

Wang Yang's eyes narrowed: "How is it strange?"

"Garrison service is usually conscripted from the local commandery, and rarely involves other commanderies. Even if there is not enough manpower and it needs to be transferred from elsewhere, it is a transfer of the entire garrison. Even if it is a transfer, it is the garrison itself that chooses the people. But this transfer order was sent directly to me, and it has my name on it..."

"Did your team only transfer you alone?"

"Yes, even our team leader felt strange and asked me if I had walked any back door to be deliberately transferred to Tianmen Commandery. He even thought that I could get promoted when I got there! I thought it might be the Young Master's arrangement at first, but then I thought, the Young Master knows about A-Wu's situation and wouldn't transfer me to an outer commandery. Besides, even if it were a promotion, it would definitely be stated."

Wang Yang also felt a bit strange and asked: "Has anything similar happened before?"

The black man thought for a while and said: "Never. Two years ago, we were transferred to Yongning Commandery, but that was also a transfer of the entire team. There have been examples of military officers being named, but I am just a soldier, how could my name be called? Did the military government change the rules?"

Wang Yang was silent.

This matter was strange. If something is abnormal, there must be a demon, but he just didn't know where the demon was.

If there was a demon, was it aimed at the black man? Or was it a feint to attack someone else?

Taking a step back, even if there was no demon, Tianmen was a dangerous place, so it was best not to let the black man go.

He had to help with this favor. If it weren't for the black man's change of words at the Palace Attendant, he might have been dead by now. Although Wang Yang had paid back the money for the black man, which could be considered repaid, and the black man didn't seem to have much help to him now. But Wang Yang mostly talked about feelings rather than interests when making friends, which was also the reason why he could make many "true friends" before.

What is a true friend?

Not coming because of interests, and not leaving because of no interests, just making friends with sincerity, and never betraying because of interests, this is a true friend.

If you only associate closely with people who are helpful to you, and if you hate to stay away from friends who might trouble you, you may not be able to go very far.

Seeing Wang Yang not speaking, the black man was very anxious: "Young Master..."

Wang Yang said: "It's okay, I'll think of a way."

The black man looked at Wang Yang with incomparable gratitude.

He had specifically asked the team leader Xue for leave before coming, most afraid that Wang Yang would not be willing to help.

After all, Wang Yang had already helped him enough.

Wang Yang thought for a while and decided to take the black man to find Liu Zhao and ask Liu Zhao for help.

Liu Zhao had two great advantages: one was a pure heart, and the other was kindness to others. He wouldn't delve into how the black man changed from a garrison soldier to Wang Yang's temporary attendant.

He listened to Wang Yang and said embarrassedly: "I really can't speak in the army."

Wang Yang took the opportunity to say: "It would be even better if I could directly remove the soldier status."

The black man's lips trembled. He had had such extravagant hopes before and had specifically mentioned this matter in front of Wang Yang, and even his original purpose of pleasing Wang Yang was for this. But Wang Yang didn't show any indication at the time, so he gave up the idea.

But he didn't expect the Young Master to still remember!

Liu Zhao's brows were locked:

"Remove soldier status? This kind of thing is even more difficult!

Regular soldier household exemptions need to be reported to the Ministry of Personnel to remove the registration. Generally, it is either a strange merit, or the Son of Heaven issued an edict to reward the exemption.

As for issuing an edict, there were two times during the reign of Emperor Little Xiao Wu of the previous dynasty, both of which were special benefits. Since the founding of this dynasty, there has never been one.

There were many private requests before, but since the household audit, the management has become more and more strict..."

Liu Zhao mentioned "household audit" once when thinking of a solution for Wang Yang's household registration, and today was the second time. Wang Yang was not familiar with the history of the Southern Qi dynasty, but he knew that the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties had both conducted "household audits."

"Household audit" is the abbreviation for checking household registration, simply put, it is to clear up the household registration.

Since the chaos of the Five Barbarians and the fall of the north, a large number of northerners moved south, causing confusion in household registration.

On one hand, noble families hid the population and included the people as their private slaves and private soldiers.

On the other hand, many people, for survival or to seek a ladder for promotion, were also willing to take refuge in the gentry,

And many people, in order to avoid taxes and military service, either spent money to pretend to be gentry, or faked death to escape registration, or bought documents to change their age, all in all, each had their own tricks.

The longer the time, the worse the drawbacks, eventually leading to fewer and fewer people in the household registration, and the household registration books were full of errors.

In order to maintain national strength, both the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties had implemented household audits more than once.

The Southern Qi dynasty also followed the previous two dynasties, implementing the policy of household audit from the beginning of the founding. After the current Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he vigorously promoted the process of household audit, not only strictly enforcing laws and severely punishing those who pretended to be registered, but also establishing the Office of Household Audit to specifically supervise household registration, and even triggered a rebellion that shocked the whole country because of this policy.

Wang Yang didn't know the specific situation of the Southern Qi household audit at this time, and he didn't know that in the near future, he would be stirred into the aftermath of this rebellion that had ended four years ago.

"But I have an idea," Liu Zhao suddenly said.

"Six days later, the White Tiger Dojo debate, the Prince rewards the winner with 100,000 coins. If you win, decline the money and ask the Prince for a favor.

It is difficult to directly exempt the soldier household, but you can use the identity of the Langya Wang clan to ask the Prince to transfer his soldier status to your subordinate registration, that is, the subordinate troops, and the Prince should agree."

Subordinate troops in the Southern and Northern Dynasties referred to the household registration attached to the gentry, with a status higher than slaves, living in the mansion as guests and servants, and becoming family soldiers when armed.

Although they were private soldiers, they were still officially recognized national defense forces in name, and would also follow their masters to fight in wartime. Therefore, the conversion between subordinate troops and soldier households was occasionally seen, which was easier than converting soldier households into civilians. So local military governments would also give official soldier households to the gentry as subordinate troops in some special circumstances. For example, when officials of the town left office, there was a precedent of rewarding subordinate troops, which was called "sending the old" at that time.

The black man was terrified and hurriedly said: "How can I be worth 100,000 coins! It's okay! It's nothing to go to Tianmen Commandery!"

Wang Yang said: "Don't worry about anything else, just tell me if you want to be my subordinate troop?"

The black man lowered his head, holding back his tears, rubbing his clothes with his hands, paused and said in a hoarse voice: "Of course I want to, I dream of it!!"

"Good, then wait until six days later."

The black man was dejected: "But I can't wait until six days later. The transfer order says 'leave immediately upon receiving the order', and I begged the team leader for a long time to get one day to settle my family, and I have to leave tomorrow morning." ===== CHAPTER 57 =====