Chapter 527: Clearing the Wasteland
Yinglan's future father-in-law is the steward of the house, although Wei Fu woke up and cleaned up all the stewards in the house, but she is also well versed in the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, but she did not kill them all, so as long as the stewards who kept the errand in that purge, even if they returned most of the silver they had been greedy for ink for more than ten years in the past, they still had a surplus.
Moreover, during the period after that, Wei Fu didn't pay too much attention to the small actions of the stewards from time to time to take advantage of the convenience of errands to get some oil and water.
Yes, Yinglan's future husband's family actually has a solid foundation, and the family's savings are completely enough for them to have the rest to do a small business after redeeming their family's identity deed.
If it weren't for that, no matter how much Yinglan wanted to persuade her future husband to redeem the deed, it would be impossible.
After Wei Fu got such a reply, he naturally would not refuse.
Yingxue and Yinglan are both nineteen years old, and they are not young anymore, if they delay any longer, they will really become old girls, and the people who were in love with the two were worried that Wei Fu would not let these two go, but now Wei Fu is relieved here, and the two of them are overjoyed, so they are naturally in a hurry to get married.
Therefore, it didn't take half a month for Yingxue and Yinglan's marriage to be almost ready, and under the witness of Wei Fu and several children in the house, the two maids who had served Wei Fu for nearly a year got married in such a lively manner.
The reason why I say the scenery is because the marriage between the two was not only presided over by Wei Fu, the duchess of the country, but Wei Fu also prepared a hundred taels of silver for the two of them, as well as a pair of gold bracelets for each of them.
Coupled with the dowry that the two of them have saved for themselves over the years, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a beautiful marriage.
For this reason, I don't know how many maids in the Guogong Mansion are envious of Ying Xue and Ying Lan.
However, this is also unenviable.
Yingxue and Yinglan are Wei Fu's personal maids, so when they get married, Wei Fu will be so generous, and other maids naturally can't compare with them.
Yingxue and Yinglan will not return to the house to work on errands when they get married, so there will naturally be a shortage of manpower around Wei Fu.
However, Wei Fu did not mention two of the second-class maids to be first-class maids, their family did not stay in the capital for a long time, and the people around them may not be able to take them away, since this is the case, of course, there is no need to mention the two big maids.
And when the joy of the two maids getting married completely disappeared, the period of the rest of the month that Jiang Heng said had also arrived.
It's early March.
It is the season when everything recovers and the grass grows and the warbler flies.
Just when everyone was immersed in the land of spring return, and the entire Jing Dynasty would be thriving because there was no more war, a news from the border gate gave everyone a heavy blow.
Since the armistice between the Jing Dynasty and Xiyi, the border pass soon radiated a different kind of vitality.
Without the threat of war, the people will naturally think about other things, such as trade with Xiyi.
Xiyi and the Jing Dynasty have fought for so many years, and they have indeed formed a blood feud, after all, there are too many Jing Dynasty soldiers and civilians who have paid for their lives because of the war between the two countries.
But no matter what, people have to look forward.
The war is over, and the living people want to continue to live and want to live better, so it is normal to learn to be flexible.
Although Xiyi is not as rich as the Jing Dynasty, many of Xiyi's specialties, such as furs, some special medicinal materials, etc., are extremely popular in the Jing Dynasty.
And this kind of trade is also very beneficial to Xiyi, they can use these specialties in exchange for what Xiyi lacks, such as grain, tea, porcelain, and so on.
It can be said that it is mutually beneficial.
It is precisely because of this that there are really a lot of people who rush to the border gate now, and take a step from the border gate to transport these specialties back, and there are many people, and the border pass, which originally seemed depressed, naturally began to be lively.
These are the benefits of the armistice.
And under such a bustle, the soldiers at the border have also changed.
These changes come from the highest-ranking general at the border today, that is, Wei Changzheng.
The mission of the border soldiers is to protect the family and the country, and if you want to protect the family and defend the country, you naturally need to have strong strength and good skills, otherwise, even if you go to the battlefield, you can only be sent to death.
It is precisely because of this that in the past, even when there was no war, Jiang Heng would arrange for them to practice every day, and there was never a day of slacking off.
And Wei Changzheng, I don't know what he thinks, maybe it is to use new measures to eliminate the influence of Jiang Heng in the hearts of the border soldiers, or to accumulate credit for himself from a new entry point and invite credit from Emperor Jingwen.
In short, after the beginning of spring, Wei Changzheng did not arrange for the soldiers at the border pass to conduct daily drills, but found another way and sent these soldiers to reclaim the wasteland.
Originally, there were large tracts of fertile land at the border pass, but the war of the past 20 years has caused many people to flee from the border pass, so that the remaining large area of fertile land will naturally be abandoned.
This desolation is 20 years, and if you want to reclaim these lands and grow food, it will naturally require a great deal of manpower and material resources.
In Wei Changzheng's mind, now that there is no war at the border pass, it is natural that the soldiers can be temporarily transferred out to do something else, after reclaiming the wasteland, these wasted land can be turned into fertile land, as long as the grain is planted, then in the autumn of this year, the grain of the big finger can be harvested.
So......
The border will also be self-sufficient.
This, but it has saved a lot of military rations and a lot of military expenses for the Jing Dynasty, no matter what, it is definitely a great achievement.
It was precisely because he saw such a merit that Wei Changzheng gave such an order.
Now the commander of the border pass is still Jiang Heng, but Jiang Heng was left in Beijing by Emperor Jingwen and failed to return to the border pass, and Jiang Heng, the real boss, is not there.
Wei Changzheng obviously also knew why Emperor Jingwen left Jiang Heng in Beijing, and why he sent himself to the border, and it was precisely because he knew that he was so eager to make some achievements.
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