Several guards stepped forward and led a group of children surrounding Liu Wei towards the entrance of the village.

Looking at the backs of the children and the guards leaving together, Sun Shangxiang's mood was extremely complicated.

She couldn't understand why Liu Wei, as the current emperor, was so familiar with a group of commoner children?

These children are obviously not afraid of Liu Bian, as if in front of them, Liu Biao is not the emperor at all, just one of their relatives!

Looking at the backs of the children leaving, the smile on Liu Wei's face gradually narrowed.

"Miss Sun is thinking, as an emperor, why am I so affectionate with these children?" Turning her head to look at Sun Shangxiang, she didn't have a chance to ask questions at all, so Liu Wei asked the doubts in her heart.

Holding his fists and bowing to Liu Wei, Sun Shangxiang responded: "Exactly, the little girl is thinking, Your Majesty was born as the Ninth Five-Year Honor, why is she so kind to these children, it is really incomprehensible." ”

A strange smile pulled up at the corner of his mouth, but Liu Wei's eyes revealed a gloomy look.

Looking at the backs of those children leaving, Liu Wei said: "These children are all after the Han Zhongliang. Their father followed us in the early years of the war in the south and the north, and stayed on the battlefield forever. Some of the children's mothers later remarried, and the new family could not accept them, so I had to find a very nursing lady for them, take care of their daily life, and teach them to become adults! ”

What Liu Wei said made Sun Shangxiang stunned.

The Han army's soldiers are different from other heroes and soldiers, and she has heard of it for a long time.

Including the Jiangdong Army, the soldiers fought in the army, just to fill their stomachs, to eat free military rations in the army, and occasionally issued a small amount of copper coins, but not routinely distributed every month.

The soldiers of the Han army can receive a fixed amount of copper coins every month, and each soldier's family will be taken care of by the imperial court.

Now it seems that not only the soldiers who served in the army, but even the soldiers who died in battle, their families will be well taken care of by the imperial court, and there is no need to worry about the situation that after the death of the war, the children will face no one to raise them.

"The soldiers are not afraid to die for the imperial court, after they die in battle, if I don't raise children for them, even if the world is unified in the future, what face will I have to see the world?" Finally showing a knowing smile, Liu Wei said to Sun Shangxiang: "I'll wait and go into the village to have a look!" ”

Answered, followed behind Liu Wei, and when Sun Shangxiang walked forward, his eyes always stayed at the entrance of the village that was getting closer and closer.

There were more than a dozen women standing at the entrance of the village, and no man appeared, which shows that there are indeed no men in this village.

Since Liu Wei is the descendants of the Han army who died in battle, if the children and women are attacked by thieves, they are powerless to resist, there are no men in the village, and I don't know how these people can protect themselves!

Wondering in his heart, Sun Shangxiang saw a fast horse rushing over from the side of the road.

On horseback was a palace guard who had left the team earlier.

When the guard arrived at Liu Bian's approach, he reined in his war horse, hugged his fists and said to Liu Bian: "Your Majesty, the surrounding villages learned that Your Majesty was here, and they asked one after another, when will you come to see you?" ”

"Tell them that they are busy with their own livelihoods, and they don't need to see me!" Waving his hand at the guard, Liu Wei gave an order and went straight to the entrance of the village.

The matter reported by the guards and Liu Wei's response made Sun Shangxiang even more suspicious in his heart.

In the villages they passed through earlier, the villagers saw Liu Weiluan driving from a distance, and although they did not avoid it, no one came to inquire about it.

When they arrived at the shore of Luoshui, on the contrary, all the villages asked when they would meet Liu Wei, which was really abnormal.

"It's all women and children!" Glancing back at Sun Shangxiang, she saw doubts on her face, and Liu Wei said to her: "If there are thieves who attack them, they will be difficult to protect!" Around the village, there are other villages, most of which are veterans who have quit the army. First, they can take care of it, and second, they can live in one place, and if there is a sudden situation, even if I don't send troops, they can deal with it on their own! ”

Liu Wei seemed to be able to see through Sun Shangxiang's thoughts.

As soon as she had doubts about something, Liu Wei would immediately explain it to her.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, more than a dozen women waiting at the entrance of the village greeted Liu Bian, and after Liu Bian asked them to get up, they all stood aside and made way for him.

There were not many guards who followed Liu Wei into the village, except for Wang Zhen, only more than 20 guards accompanied him, and the rest of the guards stayed outside the village.

As a guest invited by Liu Wei, Sun Shangxiang of course followed him into the village.

More than a dozen women standing at the entrance of the village also followed into the village after Liu Wei and others entered the village.

Waving back, Liu Wei walked forward and asked a woman who had seen him and followed him, "How are the children doing these days?" ”

"Back to your majesty, it's okay to be tight!" Following behind Liu Wei, the woman said with sincere fear: "Every three days, the government will send people to come and give them some meat, vegetables and fruits. ”

Although she was sincerely afraid, the woman's expression was a little fluttering when she spoke, and she was obviously very pleased with the progress of the children.

Smiling slightly, looking back at the woman, Liu Wei said: "It's also hard for you to wait, they have no father, and some children have no mother, if you don't wait, I don't know how to take care of them!" ”

When Liu Wei said this, the woman hurriedly humbled a few words.

Following Liu Wei's side, Sun Shangxiang didn't speak, just looked around the village.

The houses outside Luoyang City are all made of stone and green tiles, and the houses in the village are the same.

When he arrived at the door of a private house, Liu Wei stopped, gently pushed open the door, and stood at the door to look inside.

There was no one in the room, but on the low table in the room, there were several pale yellow pieces of Caihou paper, and next to the paper, there was an inkstone and a brush with wet ink.

Striding into the room and walking to the low table, Liu Wei looked down at the handwriting on the few pieces of paper on the low table.

The crooked handwriting is not very good-looking, but each stroke is extremely laborious, which shows that the person who writes is using all his strength to write these words.

Although the handwriting is not very good-looking, it is enough to see the intentions of the person who wrote, and Liu Wei showed a knowing smile on his face.

Different from Liu Wei's focus, Sun Shangxiang entered the house, but what he paid attention to was the furnishings in the house.

The furniture is all available, and in the room, there is only a set of bedding, which shows that only one person lives in this room.

Glancing at the woman who followed the house, Sun Shangxiang asked her, "Dare to ask which sister is in the room?" ”

"Which sister?" Her question made Mrs. laugh out loud, perhaps because she felt that Liu Wei was in front of her, and it was a gaffe to laugh like this, she hurriedly smiled and said to Sun Shangxiang: "The person who lives in this room is a woman, but a woman who has not yet become an adult!" ”

As soon as the woman's words fell, a little girl broke in outside the door.

The little girl was six or seven years old at most, entered the house, ran to Liu Wei's side, looked up at him and asked, "Your Majesty, I still see people in this handwriting, right?" ”

With a smile on his face, he gently scraped the bridge of her little nose, and Liu Wei said to her: "Don't just see people, no matter how good you are for a few years, even if it is Zhaoji, I am afraid that your handwriting is not as good!" ”

"Can you really write as well as Princess Cai?" Tilting her little head, the little girl said with a look of disbelief: "Imperial Concubine Cai is a talented girl, and I am just a girl......"

"Imperial Concubine Cai was also a girl back then!" With his palm on the little girl's shoulder, Liu Wei said to her: "Some people say that it is useless for women to read and write, but I don't think so!" In the future, when you grow up and marry your husband's family, if you know how to read, you can also teach your husband and children, but it saves a lot of expenses for inviting Mr. ”

Liu Wei didn't say anything to the little girl to become an adult in the future, and the woman's family can also make a career.

If this kind of thing had been said in the early years, he might have said it, but now that he is an emperor, it is absolutely impossible to say it again.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, although women did not need to be widowed after the death of their husbands as they did after the Song Dynasty, they could marry other men at will, but their social status was still very low.

If Liu Wei made the decision to let women engage in the same important affairs as men, without the need for foreign enemies to commit them, even these ministers in the court would cause him a lot of trouble!

There are some improvements, Liu Wei doesn't think he has the ability to do it! At least the reform that allows women and men to be on an equal footing in this era, he categorically does not dare to do it!

Even the girls were taught to write, and they were only descendants of the Han army who died in battle, and Sun Shangxiang couldn't hide the consternation on his face.

Liu Wei must have spent a lot of money doing this.

After years of fighting, although the Han army was strong, it also killed countless soldiers.

Just the bereavement of these Han army family members, as invested as Liu Wei, is an extremely huge expense!

With her mouth slightly open, she looked at Liu Wei with a stunned face, although Sun Shangxiang didn't speak, the expression on her face completely revealed what she was going to say.

Glancing at Sun Shangxiang, Liu Wei asked her, "Miss Sun can see anything else besides seeing the huge cost?" ”

Shaking his head, Sun Shangxiang said: "Your Majesty has been fighting for many years, and the soldiers under his command have died countless battles, so devotion is really unexpected by the little girl!" I just don't know how to fill the deficit......"

"Deficit?" With a slight smile, Liu Wei interrupted Sun Shangxiang's words and said to her: "How can it be said that it is a deficit!" I have invested here so that my children will become pillars of the court in the future. But if there are a few available talents, what is the cost of a little cost? What I want to ask you is that you can see why the soldiers and horses of the imperial court work together every time they kill people, and the soldiers only know how to move forward but do not know how to escape! ”

With a puzzled face, Sun Shangxiang didn't say anything, just silently waited for Liu Wei to give her an answer!