On this day, there was a light rain in the sky, and after a day of marching, everyone stayed, facing the cold wind that hung slightly, Yang Xuan shivered, and his body trembled slightly.

In order to understand the trend of the army, Yang Xuan took a few staff officers to inspect the battalions this day, and saw that the soldiers were very interested along the way, and vaguely felt that many generals boasted that they were officials who graduated from the Zhongyong Hall and were protégés of the Son of Heaven.

Everyone thinks that they are from the dragon, when did they join the Loyal Army, what merits they have made on the battlefield, and what rewards they have received, and they are even more happy when they see Yang Xuan and his party walking by.

Because the road was too slippery, the army stopped advancing, and the various departments were encamped, and everyone was too bored, and some of the brigade secretaries organized family letters.

Du Fu once said in a poem that family letters are worth 10,000 dollars, probably not only in terms of emotional value, but also in terms of economy.

In the past, many soldiers who were in a state of war were forcibly enlisted, and everyone was cut off from their homes, and they did not write letters to ordinary people, and many did not even know about life and death.

After the crossing, the protagonist of course knows the value of the post station, and in addition to providing services such as roads, accommodation, and horses, he gradually begins to function as a postal service.

A dozen copper plates can be used to mail letters, many soldiers are concerned about their parents and wives at home, literate and hyphenated to write by themselves, and those who are illiterate in large characters are entrusted to the chief of the military department to write on their behalf, so that the correspondence is becoming more and more frequent.

Especially since the Eastern Crusade, many people have gone out of the province and Sichuan, and everyone is even more so, every time they set up camp and camp, they can send a large number of letters from the rear, and the secretary general or the literate army has a job at this time, that is, to read letters to those who are illiterate.

The letters are often about family trivialities, such as the birth of a relative, how the family cultivates the land, and how much wasteland has been opened this year.

In order to reduce the pressure on the supply of military supplies on the front line, the Chungyi Bank has implemented a system of issuing military salaries in different places since its establishment.

As long as the soldiers agree, they can open a sub-account under their account, and receive their military salaries at the same time when they are paid each month.

In the past, money banks mostly used the gap between deposits and exchanges in different places to lend out the silver two to earn the difference, coupled with the huge risks, ordinary private money banks did not dare to carry out such business.

Just like in the 80s of the last century, although the people lived a very hard life, they were quite kind, although the son sent back the silver taels at the front, but most of them were saved or bought in addition to some necessary expenses.

Now I heard that there is a letter mailing business, which can be done for a dozen copper coins (cents of silver), and of course everyone will beg the old Xiucai in the village to help write a letter.

The loyal and righteous army fought successively, and the rear was quite stable, and in this era of war and chaos, they no longer levied labor to other counties.

Every time he entered a tent, he saw the captain organizing everyone to read aloud, and seeing that everyone's interest was very high, Yang Xuan seemed very excited, and sometimes asked if he talked about the harvest in his hometown?

Do you talk about taxes? Sometimes he patted everyone on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

But at this moment, a scolding sounded in his ears, and a clerk-like person was scolding a few of the Kong Youde prisoners who had just been captured.

It turned out that a few coated minions couldn't stand the torment of the southern winter, and even wanted to enjoy the treatment of the loyal army, so they ran to the big tent to roast the fire

Seeing this, Yang Wei, chief of staff, shouted: "These coated minions are really hateful, they used to follow their masters in front of them to oppress my Han people, and now they want to play privileges in the barracks of my loyal and righteous army, you are really thieves."

Send all these coated minions to the military cantonment place, let them be in the military cantonment, this group of pigs and dogs is better than selling the things of the ancestors"

When the surrounding soldiers heard that they were telling the truth, they were going to escort these dozen clothed minions to the military cantonment.

But to Yang Xuan's surprise, these clothed minions knelt there one by one, hoping that Yang Xuan would agree, even if they arrived at the military camp, they would be allowed to roast the fire.

Yang Xuan felt quite surprised, and said with an angry face: "You clothed minions, why can't you change your slave nature until you die, stand up and be a good man?" In this cold day and moon, everyone has no fire to roast, and you actually ask for a fire, it is really a child of the Eight Banners.

A person's eyes were full of tears and said: "Your Majesty, we are not stubborn, it is really too cold in this Jiangnan region, so cold that we shiver, Your Majesty, if there is no fire, I would rather the prince kill us."

Yang Xuan was shocked, and asked with wide eyes, "You clothed minion, how can you lie in front of me?" If you want to say cold, then the north is a hundred times colder, you don't shout cold in the north, how can you shout cold in this Jiangnan region? ”

The clothed servant said with tears on his face: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to do it."

Your Majesty, it is strange to say that although the north is freezing with snow and ice, every family burns a kang and roasts a fire, and it is quite warm at home. Even outside, as long as you dress thickly and exercise a little, you don't feel too cold.

And in this south, it is not a little cold, but a bone-eroding cold, the wind has been running down the collar to the body in the past two days, making people feel cold to the bones, this cold, and the cold in the north is not the same. ”

At first, I didn't believe it, and even asked a few people, everyone felt strange, and those captured clothed minions shouted that they couldn't stand the cold.

Listening to everyone's slightly ridiculous jokes, Yang Xuan suddenly realized that in his previous life, when he was working in Guangdong (East), some Northeast colleagues shouted that they couldn't stand it?

Jiangnan is humid and the north is dry, although the temperature in Jiangnan is much higher than in the north, but it feels particularly cold.

In this way, it seems that it is not only as simple as the Tartars going to the north to escape the heat, but also this humid winter weather is unbearable.