"Don't take every little matter to Di Yelei, the third son of the Di family, who is busy with official duties at the governmental office and has his own house to take care of. How is it fair that you can stay comfortably at home with your wife and children, requiring him to come and go while suffering all the complaints on your behalf?"
"Keep your tricks to yourselves! Whoever dares to go to the Di family for help without my permission again, will have to deal with me first. Only if I can't resolve it, can you go to him!"
"If I find out anyone is saying one thing and doing another behind my back, we still have several vacancies for corvee laborers!"
These words instantly scared everyone into retracting their motives.
Corvee labor is a law established by the imperial court, requiring each male from the age of seventeen to fifty-six to serve. The policy in operation is to conscript one out of every three eligible males, two out of every five.
