Chapter 44: The devil has entered the village (seventh more)
On the second day, all the escort personnel assigned by the imperial court to Prince Liang Li Min were in place and reported to Prince Liang's Mansion.
The food allowance for 800 households given to King Liang also came down, located in two villages north of Chang'an City.
Originally, as a prince, as long as he left the palace and moved into the prince's residence, these blessings would follow him.
But Li Min was too anxious. He just received the news, and he couldn't wait to move there.
Didn't those princes in the past still drag their feet and refuse to move after receiving the order?
Only Li Min, an unusual person, moved so quickly that the court was caught off guard.
It's been several days since we moved out, and it wasn't until today that the staff was in place.
Moreover, as a royal palace, Li Min could recruit officials in the palace on his own, which was called opening a palace.
The eight hundred households' food seals awarded to King Liang were precisely to ensure King Liang's luxurious life.
In the palace of Prince Liang, the guard Dian Jun saluted Prince Li Min and said: "General Gao Fan, please pay homage to His Royal Highness Prince Liang."
When Li Min looked at Gao Fan, he found that Gao Fan was seven feet seven tall, with eagle eyes and a high nose, and he exuded an unruly air.
But when facing Li Min, his attitude was quite respectful.
Li Min nodded and said to Gao Fan: "General Gao, from now on you will be under my account and protect my safety, and don't be so outspoken in the future. Okay, you go and place your subordinates first, and when they are settled,
Come see me again."
"Yes, His Highness Prince Liang."
Li Min looked at his thousand escort soldiers and found that all of them were new recruits and there was not a single veteran.
These new recruits look like they have just joined the army and are not even proficient in the basic movements between soldiers.
Seeing this scene, Li Min couldn't help but have a thoughtful look on his face.
Li Min believed that Li Tai's escort soldiers would definitely not be this kind of thing.
It seems that someone is deliberately causing trouble secretly.
And you can't complain about this kind of thing, so you can only suffer the loss of being dumb.
Fortunately, for Li Min, recruits are better than veterans.
Because many veterans have become oily. Without oil and salt, it is difficult to train them.
Although the recruits don't understand anything, their advantage is exactly that they don't understand anything and are highly malleable.
Li Min's food is located in two villages in the north of the city, Beiwucheng and Nanwucheng.
For the prince's food entitlement, during the Zhenguan period, a three-point system was adopted.
The tax is collected by the diners themselves, and the tax is divided into three parts, one part is handed over to the treasury, and the other two parts are enjoyed by themselves.
Of course, this was only the situation in the early Tang Dynasty.
By the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were more and more food feudal households, including one thousand households, one thousand five hundred households, two thousand households, and later four, five thousand or even six thousand households.
Later tax collection also relied on the assistance of local county magistrates and others.
But now, because Li Min's food allowance is only for 800 households, he collects it all by himself.
Therefore, when the food seal came down, Li Min decided to go to his food seal land to have a look.
An hour later, all the 1,000 bodyguards were in place, and Gao Fan, the Dianjun, came to see Li Min again.
"His Royal Highness Prince Liang, your subordinate Gao Pan has come as ordered."
Li Min nodded, and then said to Gao Fan: "General Gao, take fifty soldiers with me this afternoon and go to the two villages of Beiwucheng and Nanwucheng."
"Yes, Your Highness."
In the afternoon, Li Min rode a small white horse and headed straight to the north of the city with Shen Wei, Gao Pan and fifty guards.
After leaving the city, he walked more than ten miles and arrived at the villages where he lived, Beiwucheng and Nanwucheng.
The two villages are very close to each other, close to mountains and rivers, and the fields are mostly paddy fields.
Far away, Li Min saw a group of children rolling and making noise in the mud at the entrance of the village.
Li Min hadn't seen this scene for a long time in his previous life, but now that he saw it, he immediately felt extremely friendly.
However, something happened that shocked Li Min extremely.
The children were startled by the sound of horse hooves in the distance, discovered their team, and seemed to recognize the man riding a white horse in the middle as King Liang.
Then these little guys immediately dispersed, shouting as they ran: "Hurry, King Liang is bringing his people, close the door quickly!"
"Sister, sister, Prince Liang is here, hide now!"
"Aunt Qi, quickly go into the house and hide, Prince Liang is here!"
Next, there were faint sounds of panic coming from the village.
There were also scoldings from adults.
"Shut up, little bastard, why are you so loud?"
"You want to die for shouting so loudly? If King Liang hears it, he will have to skin you!"
Hearing these voices, Li Min couldn't help but take a breath.
Damn it, you seventh uncle and grandma! Is your Highness so miserable?
Why do you see my highness coming down, as if the Japanese have entered the village?
Damn it, not only the older sisters have to hide, but also the seventh aunt has to hide? How hungry is this, Your Highness?
Has the reputation of His Highness been so bad?
It seems that His Highness has not done anything harmful to nature, right?
While Li Min was depressed, the guards following Li Min wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh. It was very hard to hold it in.
Finally, when Li Min's team arrived at the entrance of the village, someone from the village came out to greet them.
A white-haired old man and a dozen villagers came forward quickly.
After Li Min and others dismounted, the old man immediately said: "Xiao Min Tian is the leader of Liushan in Wucheng Village and leads the villagers to pay homage to His Highness Prince Liang."
Li Min said in an amiable manner: "No need to be polite, old man. Your Highness is just here to see the situation in the village. You are just busy with your business. Don't worry about His Highness."
Seeing that His Highness Prince Liang was so easy to talk to, he immediately felt flattered when he stood in Liushan, and said quickly: "His Royal Highness Prince Liang can come to this village, which immediately makes this village shine! But this village just paid taxes a year ago.
Taxes, if His Royal Highness Prince Liang levies taxes now, I am afraid that the villagers will not be able to collect them all at once. This——"
Huo, I feel that your highness is here to collect taxes. Is your highness that kind of person?
The purpose of His Highness’s visit this time—eh? What are you here for?
In fact, Li Min came here this time without any purpose or motive. He came here just to see what his food land was like.
So, Li Min couldn't help but said: "Old man, His Highness is not here to collect taxes. He just wants to come to the village to see how the villagers are living."
Liu Shan immediately said with tears of gratitude: "Thank you so much for your concern, I would like to express my gratitude to His Highness on behalf of all the villagers!"
The village is not big, and there are many men working outside.
Everyone who saw Li Min greeted him respectfully.
But what made Li Min extremely speechless was that he almost walked around the entire village and didn't find even a single woman.
Not to mention young girls, there was not even a girl as young as three years old or an old lady as old as eighty years old.