Needless to say, it must be used to supplement the use of the army.

Lou Zheng smiled and hugged the small wooden box in his arms, "Since it was given to my daughter by my father, my daughter accepted it." ”

General Lou likes to see his daughter's carefree appearance the most, not to mention just some jewelry, even if he wants the stars in the sky, he will try his best to take them off and give them to Lou Zheng.

"Daddy, I went to the barracks today to see the situation of those soldiers, why don't you even have a cotton coat for the winter?"

General Lou sighed, there are very few people who can speak considerably on weekdays, and now that his daughter is by his side, of course he knows everything, anyway, his daughter is just a girl, what does it matter if she knows some military aircraft.

"Jiaojiao, don't you know, the imperial court's food and salary this quarter has been delayed for more than two months, and many soldiers are about to lose their food in the barracks, where is the surplus money to buy winter clothes for the soldiers?"

"Didn't Daddy report the situation to the Chinese book? Does the military department still care about the life and death of the border army? Lou Zheng frowned.

There is no food and no sound, it is extremely difficult for General Lou's 30,000 border troops to survive until now, and if there is no rebellion, it can be regarded as General Lou's strict management of the army, and it seems that the situation that Lou Zheng saw in the barracks today is already good.

A few years ago, General Lou often took his elite subordinates to the border of Liangzhou to exterminate the tribes of the small Tuhun people on the border, and most of the belongings around him were accumulated at that time.

In the past two years, the Tuhun people on the grassland and snow mountains have produced a capable Zambu, and in just one year, the Tuhun people have been unified, and all the large and small tribes have been fused together.

In this way, General Lou has no other people to hijack. The rest of the people who live on the grassland are some nomadic barbarians, they are poor and backward, and they live by raising some cattle, sheep and horses.

Liangzhou is far to the north, the weather is cold all year round, and the warm sun will not add up to more than four months, which is not suitable for growing crops at all, so that the self-sufficiency of soldiers in the fields has become a luxury.

Therefore, it can only rely on the timely supply of the imperial court every quarter, so that Liangzhou can be defended. The security of the border north of the Dawu Dynasty can be guaranteed.

Heard Lou Zheng ask. General Lou sighed again, "Jiaojiao, half a year ago, the Japanese began to invade the east coast of our Dawu Dynasty. General Chenghua and the East China Sea Division were fighting to the death with the Japanese at this time. Now half of the military budget of the military department is supporting the water war in the East China Sea. The review of the military department book to the father only has the word 'support'! ”

When Lou Zheng heard his father say this, he wanted to scold this military department Shangshu, so that he would lose the other. What if the northern border is invaded by the Tuhun people? Could it be that the sailors were sent to Liangzhou to rescue? That's bullshit!

Angry, the military department is still 108,000 miles away, even if she scolds, people can't hear it.

Lou Zheng filled his father's teacup with warm boiled water, "Daddy, I don't know how much you use in the army in a month?" How much grain did the imperial court distribute every month before? ”

Although General Lou was surprised that his daughter asked this kind of question, General Lou, who had been bored with military affairs for many days, finally found someone to confide in, and naturally answered Lou Zheng with any question.

"The cost of soldiers plus war preparedness needs 20,000 guan per month, and the imperial court only issues 15,000 guan per month."

Twenty thousand! And that's just the normal amount of the border army for a month...... Lou Zheng also gasped when he heard such a huge number.

General Lou just expressed his frustration, completely unaware that his daughter was helping him think of ways to make money.

"Daddy, I wonder if I can take a look at the house?"

General Lou laughed, "Our Jiaojiao will also be a housekeeper?" Tomorrow, I will instruct Steward Wu to hand over the account books of the Fuzhong to you, and by the way, I will hand over my father's property in Liangzhou to you to take care of, how about it? Can Jiaojiao dare to take over? ”

Lou Zheng glared at his father with disgust, "Isn't Daddy afraid that his daughter will mess all this?" ”

"What's this, these properties don't make much money a month, and most of them are purchased to accommodate Daddy's injured old subordinates and relatives of the army's guards. When the time comes, if there is anything you don't know, ask Lao Wu, these were all taken care of by him and his mother-in-law before. "General Lou boldly gave the right to govern the family to his daughter.

"Daddy, then didn't I become the mistress of the Great Marshal's Mansion?"

"That's not it, my Jiaojiao has always been the only hostess of Daddy's Shuai Mansion."

"Daddy can't talk and doesn't count." Lou Zheng said coquettishly.

Her delicate appearance made General Lou laugh heartily.

The older the daughter became, the more like a wife, General Lou smiled and smiled, and his eyes were red.

Now it is difficult for the border army to survive, and his daughter suddenly came to Liangzhou, and he has no time to accompany his daughter, so he has to do his best to meet all his daughter's requirements.

Fortunately, his daughter has been sensible since she was a child and has never been willful, and the more Lou Zheng has such a personality, the more he feels indebted to his daughter.

After getting the "financial power" of the Shuai Mansion, Lou Zheng found that his father yawned frequently, so he excused himself to leave and let his father have a good rest.

Early the next morning, Lou Zheng sent his father away, and Steward Wu handed over the account books of the Shuaifu and all the properties under his name to Lou Zheng for inspection.

Lu Hongxiu accompanied Lou Zheng to live in the Dashuai Mansion, but he lived in the outer courtyard, he brought some herbal seeds from the Western Regions to Liangzhou, and now it was early spring, so he reclaimed a small area in the courtyard and planted some herbs, ready to observe the growth of this kind of herbs from the Western Regions in Liangzhou.

Before Lou Zheng went out, he was happy to serve the medicinal herbs that had just been planted in his yard.

It took Lou Zheng half a day, and with the help of Steward Wu, he sorted out the personnel situation of the Marshal's Mansion and his father's property in Liangzhou.

stretched his waist greatly, Lou Zheng didn't expect his father to feed so many people in Liangzhou alone.

There are nearly fifty retired guards alone, and these people used to be soldiers of the Liangzhou border army. After many years in the border army, most of them married wives and had children in Liangzhou, and few returned to their hometowns.

Because it was General Lou's personal guard who retired, it was logical that he became General Lou's general.

Then this is not a family general of fifty people, but fifty old subordinates who rely on General Lou for survival.

Most of them moved out of the Marshal's Mansion and settled in various places in Liangzhou, living on the property arranged for them by General Lou.

There are now less than 10 households left in the house.

They all live in the back of the third house of the Great Marshal's Mansion.

When Lou Zheng followed Steward Wu to meet these people, what he saw was some shabby but clean women doing laundry and cooking, and bare-bottomed dolls running around.

"Chen Hu's family, as well as the monkey's family, all came to meet the little lady." Steward Wu beckoned to the women who were washing and cooking.

From time to time, seven or eight women gathered together, wiping their hands and smiling.

(To be continued.) )

PS: The promised monthly pass has not been returned until now, sorry! The next monthly pass will be updated by 80...... Don't call me shameless......