"Hard drive, you have to persuade Bo Fu, obviously he and the Qiao girl of Nawan County get along very well, but he has to say anything about Chu Di Weijing, and he can't start a family...... He can afford to wait, can the Qiao family wait for him? Ahem......" Old Madam Sun said, still a little panting.

Last year, Mrs. Sun fell seriously ill, and if it weren't for the doctor's consultation from the medical school, she would probably have died.

In history, Mrs. Sun did pass away five years before Jian'an, and the "Wu Guotai" who later advised Sun Ce and Sun Quan was not their biological mother, but the second Mrs. Sun.

It is said that when Mrs. Sun died, Sun Jian had already died, and Wu Guotai theoretically did not have the status of a wife, but ...... Wu Guotai and their biological mother are sisters, so the two also serve each other like mothers.

"yes, my sister's body...... That kid is so ignorant! What else do you say about marrying a wife in battle, which is not conducive to the morale of the army...... Obviously, you are trying to encourage marriage to the officers and soldiers in the army. Second Mrs. Sun also said with some dissatisfaction with Sun Ce.

That's right, now there are more than 100,000 Jiangdong troops, and there are nearly 30,000 real human generals.

Bai Tu has always encouraged generals to get married, but if there is chaos today, the number of troops has increased greatly, the demand for generals has also increased greatly, and the treatment and safety of grassroots generals have been unable to be guaranteed, so the princes around the country need to forcibly recruit a group of generals.

And many of the generals who are forcibly recruited are still young - because they are too old and still from civilian backgrounds, they are likely to be unable to awaken the talisman due to manpower extraction.

Normally, 1 manpower per population and quarter is extracted, which is only the average, but in fact, young adults are more manpower, and children and the elderly are much less.

According to the rules of the Han Dynasty, it was from the age of twenty-three, which was the peak period of manpower extraction.

Most of the people of this age are married, have children, and have been concentrating on farming for several years, and have surplus food at home.

The extraction of manpower will also not affect the fertility rate and, at the most basic level, the efficiency of work.

At the same time, if you want to train generals among the civilians, you only need to choose under the age of twenty-three, but ...... Because the princes everywhere have overdrawn manpower, 22, 21...... The age of the draw is also declining, which makes many minors also lack vitality.

In the long run, it will even affect fertility.

And the age of compulsory conscription is constantly decreasing, which also makes some unmarried generals appear - this is also a common thing in troubled times.

This part of the generals is generally from poor backgrounds, is used as a consumable at the bottom, and usually has no chance to get married.

Yizhou should be the only prince who still maintains the rule of "serving at the age of twenty-three", as for Hanzhong...... Zhang Lu has the intention to cultivate people's strength, but most of the people in Hanzhong fled from Guanxi and Guanzhong, and before settling in Hanzhong, their manpower has been overdrawn!

Bai Tu is also facing the same dilemma, the manpower of Huainan and Danyang is still recovering, so Bai Tu also has a group of underage generals.

However, Bai Tu tried to raise the age of conscription as much as possible, and tried to promote the system of reserve and rotational military service to encourage generals to start families.

And not only for the sake of population growth......

This is also to improve the sense of belonging of the warriors!

A warrior with a family behind him will always be more likely to pay loyalty than a warrior who "eats enough for one person and the whole family is not hungry".

The General's Mansion also has a plan to help orphans, but it never dares to choose generals among orphans, but allows them to contribute in other ways.

really raised a group of orphans to be generals, but I am afraid that the people's hearts will be scattered if there is a slight headwind, even if it is an orphan who helps himself......

The only exception is the orphans of martyrs, for orphans whose father is a fallen general in the General's Mansion, whose mother chooses to remarry due to an accident or other reasons, and is unable to raise them, the General's Mansion not only includes room and board, but also studies in the subordinate school of the Privy Council since childhood.

The bones of their fathers were buried in Yangzhou, the spiritual seat was enshrined in the Jinling Protectorate Temple, and their names were engraved on the martyrs' monument in their hometown......

In the future, if they need to go to war, loyalty will be unquestionable.

"The two old ladies rest assured, the eldest brother is like a father...... Not only Bo Fu, but Gong Jin's marriage is also wrapped up in me, and after the army is collected in winter this year, let them come back to handle the marriage. Bai Tu directly promised.

"With your words of hard drive, our two wives will be relieved! That's right...... Dao Chief, I want you to show it then, Bo Fu, Gong Jin, and the eight characters of the two Qiao women. Old Madam Sun was also very enthusiastic about Yu Ji on the side.

As soon as Yu Ji Xueba heard about this, he naturally agreed again and again, and he didn't need to look at Yu Ji to know that the eight characters were particularly compatible.

This also solved Zhou Shang's headache, his nephew...... Gong Jin's child had always used the excuse that he would never ...... before his brother got married. Ahem, nothing. Second Mrs. Sun said, and suddenly reacted to something.

Does the "brother" mentioned by Zhou Yu only include Sun Ce, or does it also include Bai Tu?

Seem......

Bai Tu has never been married?

The marriage of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu is at most a two-family and two-family marriage, and Bai Tu's marriage is called a big difficulty!

Bai Tu was also stunned when he heard this, according to his understanding of Zhou Yu, when the other party thought about "brother", most of them did not include him Bai Tu.

It's just that......

When he mentioned this matter at first glance, Bai Tu also felt a sudden feeling in his heart, unconsciously...... I've reached the marriageable age to various degrees, right?

Thinking like this, Bai Tu still instinctively looked at Lu Lingqi.

However, as the head of the guard, Lu Lingqi only blushed at this time, turned her head and looked around, as if she intended to find an assassin out.

"This time, whether it is Bo Fu or Gong Jin, I can't find an excuse!" Bai Tu said matter-of-factly.

Lu Lingqi on the side snorted as if she had nothing.

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Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who didn't know that they had been "eldest brother like father", were still fighting with the Jingzhou naval army on the river between Wuchang and Yixian at this time.

After conquering Exian County last year, Baitu can be regarded as following the trend, and as in history, Exian County was renamed Wuchang, and Wuchang at that time was renamed Exian County.

And Yi County is also a county in the north of Jiangxia, which is the former station of Xiling.

At this time, Cai Mao lived in Xiling, and took advantage of the New Year's Festival to move the people of Yi County to Xiling, at this time the population of Yi County was less than two percent of the previous two, and the spring ploughing had basically been delayed......

It is precisely with the land of a county that is the strategy of clearing the wilderness, although the battle is fought in the waters near the county, but it does not skimp on the gains and losses of the county, and only aims to block the Yangzhou warships and fight for the control of the waterway.

With the abundance of the water system in the Xiling area at this time, it is easy to cut off the back road only by advancing with infantry, and it must be relied on by the naval army.

Moreover, Cai Mao's use of troops is very "cowardly", Zhou Yu has used tactics several times, but Cai Mao has no intention of expanding the results of the battle, but is focused on defense.

It is obviously on the defensive, but it is not sympathetic to oneself at all, it seems that the county is throwing it away, the people say that it will be accommodated, and the fields will be destroyed, this kind of destructive defense makes Sun Cejun also have a headache......