Farming and Reclaiming Wasteland, I Pampered Hou Ye In Ancient Times

Chu Lixuan couldn't help laughing when she saw her daughter-in-law's remarks against her heart. She was a little old at this age, so she was embarrassed to say it.

Eighteen-year-old Chu Lixuan won the battle and returned from the battlefield triumphantly. When he returned to the capital, his eldest uncle said that he was twenty-eight years old and not married.

He is not angry! What does it matter!

Soon he arrived at Zhao Cheng'an's General's Mansion. The mansion covers an area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters and has more than 100 houses in total.

The order of the houses is built according to the scale of the front and the back. The front hall and the second hall are used for office work, and the third and fourth halls in the back are used for generals to rest.

In the courtyard, there are towering ancient trees, halls, terraces, winding paths, corridors, and the Drum Tower. Standing on the Drum Tower and overlooking the Yumen Pass, the scenery is unobstructed.

Zhao Chengan took Chu Lixuan and his wife to visit the General's Mansion, and tea was served by the maids and servants in the hall.

"Brother Chu came to Yumenguan this time, what advice do you have?" Zhao Chengan was really happy to see Chu Lixuan.

Chu Lixuan was still reluctant to talk too much. He glanced at Xiaojiao's wife and hoped that she would come forward. He thought what she said was particularly nice.

However, Jiang Xinyan didn't ignore him, she was thinking that Zhao Chengan's general's mansion was much more imposing than that of King Zhenbei.

"Our rice will be harvested soon, and there will be a lot of grain for sale, so I want to ask you if you need grain."

Chu Lixuan saw that Xiaojiao's wife was still wandering in the sky, he could only say that his eloquence was average, so Zhao Chengan was shocked by his words.

And Jiang Xinyan pondered, there are actually soldiers, guards, servants, maids, and wives in the general's mansion, doesn't it mean that there are many men in the military camp!

Chu Lixuan felt that he couldn't talk to Zhao Chengan anymore, so he took the initiative to ask his daughter-in-law what she was thinking.

Knowing Jiang Xinyan's question, Zhao Chengan was not surprised, so he and Chu Lixuan told Jiang Xinyan.

In fact, the palace of the King of Zhenbei originally had a maid and a woman waiting for many servants.

It was just because the Zhenbei Army had suffered a defeat and returned to Youzhou City. When the King of Zhenbei was defeated, the old servant girl and servant in the palace became a refugee and escaped.

His grand palace was also ruined by Beiyue soldiers, and finally became the shabby look Jiang Xinyan saw.

Zhao Cheng'an's general's mansion was also the mansion where the Dingxi Hou guarded the frontier for generations.

Dingxi Hou Zhao's army, guarding the Yumen Pass for several generations, has never been attacked by the Western Chu, so their general's residence has not been destroyed.

When the years are good, the imperial court will also allocate funds to the frontier generals to repair the mansion, so Zhao Chengan's general's mansion looks ten million times more imposing than that of the king of Zhenbei.

When the plague of locusts was experienced and the green and yellow were not connected, the king of Zhenbei had a problem with eating, and naturally he would not go to repair the palace.

Zhao Chengan is a very talkative person. He knew that Chu Lixuan cared about his daughter-in-law, so he told Jiang Xinyan all at once.

Their Dongchen frontier guards, the best conditions, even if their Yumen is closed, although Xichu will come to attack from time to time.

However, Western Chu itself was richer than Nanman and North Vietnam, and did not rely on plunder to survive.

The southern border of Dongchen Kingdom is extremely hot, and it is already poor, and the southern barbarians are even poorer. The so-called wicked and vicious means that the southern barbarians are savage, and they want to plunder the things of the people on the border.

In the bitter and cold places on the northern border, birds do not poop, and they are poor. North Vietnam is even poorer when it encounters ice and snow. It also wants to rob the food of the people on the border, so there are constant wars.

However, no matter which border it is, the most basic daily work of the defenders of the city is to stand in the small shed on the top of the beacon.

They watched the frontiers day and night, and once they discovered the enemy, they would set fire to different numbers of beacon piles according to the scale of the incoming enemy.

Flags or wolf smoke piles, so that the comrades in the rear can respond, and the soldiers standing guard are on duty in turn.

The soldiers and soldiers who can be on duty are all people who can fight the enemy on the battlefield, and those who are not on duty have to undertake many non-military tasks.

Such as applying red, white and blue stucco paint to the building to maintain the landmark function of the building.

Also collect reeds, firewood, charcoal and other daily fuel, livestock forage for daily use.

Take care of vegetable gardens and granaries, and provide common food such as grains and vegetables for the intense war life.

Among the 100,000 people in the barracks, there were only 40,000 soldiers and soldiers who could really fight the enemy.

There are also thousands of households who do odd jobs. Hundreds of households have the same position and treatment. The frontier is the border of the country, and most of them are located in remote locations.

It is very difficult for the frontier soldiers to go home once, especially since the wars in the Dongchen Kingdom are frequent, and the border guards are even more strict.

The imperial court sent troops to guard the border, and how many soldiers survived from youth to middle age or even old age, but never returned home.

People in Dongchen Country generally have a relatively low age for getting married, and most of the young men who join the army are family members.

Young teenagers should always maintain a high degree of vigilance when standing on duty, and welcome the invasion of foreign enemies at any time.

The armor on their bodies cannot be taken off even when they sleep, because this is the harshness of the border, and everyone can never know when the enemy will attack.

So always be on your toes and get into combat at any time if they slack off.

Then, the country behind them will fall into a dire dilemma.

Chu Lixuan had never mentioned these sufferings to Jiang Xinyan before, but hearing Zhao Chengan's words suddenly made Jiang Xinyan feel uncomfortable.

Chu Lixuan took her hand and comforted her silently. He wanted to interrupt Zhao Chengan's words, but Zhao Chengan said it very energetically.

And his daughter-in-law also likes to listen to it, that's all! Just let him speak!

Zhao Chengan also told Jiang Xinyan that at the very beginning of the Dongchen court, he was sympathetic to the soldiers who had been away from home all the year round.

The policy was relaxed, allowing soldiers to bring their wives and concubines with them, and the wives and concubines were stationed at the border with the army.

Since the soldiers cannot go home when they are outside, let the soldiers move their homes to their side.

You can continue to complete the affairs of stationing at the border, and you can enjoy the warmth of home, and you can have hot meals and hot dishes when you are on duty or after fighting the enemy.

However, the soldiers were keen on their wives and sons, but they had no intention of guarding the border, and there were groups of wives and concubines with bad character.

If the management is not good, the barracks will be filled with smog, and there are also senior officials who dislike the poor border conditions and are unwilling to follow them to the border.

So when the new emperor came to the throne, it was canceled that the soldiers brought their wives into the barracks, so that only the fourth-rank generals and above could bring wives and concubines.

There are indeed very few women in the current barracks, and even fewer in the Zhenbei Army, because they are poorer, and the wives of the generals are unwilling to follow!

Jiang Xinyan sneered in her heart, as if you had a lot of troops in the west, she pretended to be surprised.

"So, General Zhao's Zhenxi army is quite rich. We have been to Zhenbei military camp, which is really poor."

"Mrs. Chu, we are also very poor now, very poor."