Chu Lixuan looked at his daughter-in-law's words against his will, and couldn't help but laugh, he was embarrassed to say it when he was a little older.

Chu Lixuan, who was eighteen years old at the time, won the battle, returned triumphantly from the battlefield, and when he returned to the capital, his uncle said that he was twenty-eight years old and still not married.

He wasn't angry! What does it matter!

Soon arrived at Zhao Chengan's general's mansion, which covers an area of about 20,000 square meters and has a total of more than 100 houses.

The house was built in the order of the front and back bedrooms, with the front lobby and the second hall used for offices, and the third and fourth halls in the back were used for the shogun's rest.

The ancient trees in the courtyard are towering to the sky, the hall, the pavilion, the winding path, the cloister, and the drum tower, standing in the drum tower and overlooking it, the scenery of Yumen Pass is in full view.

Zhao Chengan took Chu Lixuan and his wife to visit the General's Mansion, and the maids and servants had already served tea in the hall.

"Brother Chu came to Yumen Pass this time, what advice do you have?" Zhao Chengan was really happy to see Chu Lixuan.

Chu Lixuan still didn't like to talk much, he glanced at his little wife, hoping that she would come forward to say it, he thought what she said was particularly good.

However, Jiang Xinyan didn't bird him, she was thinking that Zhao Chengan's general's mansion was much more magnificent than the palace of King Zhenbei.

"Our rice harvest is about to be made, and there will be a lot of grain to sell, so I want to ask you if you need food."

Chu Lixuan saw that his little wife was still out of the world, he could only say to himself, he was eloquent, so Zhao Chengan was stunned when he exited.

And Jiang Xinyan pondered, there are still government soldiers, guards, maids, maids, and mothers-in-law in the general's mansion, doesn't it mean that there are many men in the military camp!

Chu Lixuan felt that he couldn't talk to Zhao Chengan anymore, so he took the initiative to ask his daughter-in-law what she was thinking.

Knowing Jiang Xinyan's question, Zhao Chengan was not surprised, so he told Jiang Xinyan with Chu Lixuan.

In fact, the palace of the king of Zhenbei also used to have maids and mothers-in-law, and many other subordinates.

It's just that the Zhenbei army suffered a defeat and retreated into Youzhou City, and when the king of Zhenbei was defeated and retreated, the original maid and wife of the palace became refugees fleeing from the famine.

His magnificent palace was also destroyed by the North Vietnamese soldiers, and in the end it became the shabby appearance that Jiang Xinyan saw.

And Zhao Cheng'an's general's mansion is also the mansion where the Marquis of Dingxi lived when he guarded the frontier for generations, and the maids and daughters in the mansion are also the sons of the family, and they have been servants of the general's mansion for generations.

Dingxi Hou Zhao Jiajun, several generations of guarding the Yumen Pass, has never been broken by Western Chu, so their general's mansion has not been destroyed.

When the year is good, the imperial court will also allocate funds to the frontier generals to repair their mansions, so Zhao Chengan's general's mansion looks ten million times more magnificent than the palace of King Zhenbei.

After experiencing a locust plague and a lack of greenery, it became a problem for the king of Zhenbei to eat, so he naturally did not go to repair the palace.

Zhao Chengan is a very good talker, he knows that Chu Lixuan cares about his daughter-in-law, so he told Jiang Xinyan in one go.

They are Dongchen border guards, even if they have the best conditions, even if their Yumen is closed, although Xichu also comes to attack from time to time.

However, Western Chu itself was richer than the Southern Barbarians and North Vietnamese, and it did not rely on plundering to survive.

The southern border of Dongchen Kingdom is extremely hot, it is already poor, and the Nanban is even poorer, the so-called poor and vicious means that the Nanban is bad, and they want to plunder the things of the border people.

In the bitter cold land of the northern border, birds don't poop and are poor, and North Vietnam is even poorer when it encounters ice and snow, and it also wants to rob the border people of food, so it is also constantly at war.

However, no matter which border it is, the most basic daily skill of the city guards is to stand in the small shed at the top of the beacon.

They kept an eye on the border fortress day and night, and once they found an enemy, they would set fire to different numbers of beacons depending on the size of the invading enemy.

flags or wolf smoke piles, so that the comrades in the rear can react, and the soldiers standing guard are on duty in turns.

The officers and men who can be on duty are all people who can go to the battlefield to face the enemy, and those who are not on duty also have to undertake a lot of non-military tasks.

For example, red, white and blue stucco paints are applied to the building to maintain the landmark function of the building.

It is also necessary to collect reeds, firewood, charcoal and other daily fuels, livestock forage, for daily life.

He took care of the vegetable garden and granary, and provided common foods such as grains and vegetables for the tense life of war.

Of the 100,000 people in the barracks, only 40,000 were soldiers and soldiers who could really fight the enemy, and the rest were miscellaneous soldiers.

There are also thousands of miscellaneous households, and hundreds of households have the same treatment for their positions, and the frontier is the border of the country, and most of them are located in remote locations.

It is not easy for the border soldiers to return home once, especially since the wars in the Dongchen Kingdom are frequent, and the border guards are even more strict.

The imperial court sent troops to guard the border passes, and how many soldiers survived from youth to middle age or even old age, but never returned home.

The people of Dongchen Kingdom are generally at a low age of marriage, and most of the young men who join the army are family members.

Young youths should always maintain a high degree of vigilance when standing on duty, and be ready to meet the invasion of foreign enemies at any time.

The armor on their bodies cannot be taken off even when they sleep, because this is the strictness of the border gates, and everyone can never know when the enemy will attack.

So always be vigilant and get into battle at any time if they let up.

Then, the country behind them will be in dire straits.

Chu Lixuan had never talked about these hardships to Jiang Xinyan before, and this rashly heard what Zhao Chengan said, which made Jiang Xinyan feel uncomfortable.

Chu Lixuan took her hand and comforted her silently, he wanted to interrupt Zhao Chengan's words, but Zhao Chengan said it very strongly.

And his daughter-in-law likes to listen to it too, that's it! Just let him say it!

Zhao Chengan also told Jiang Xinyan that at the beginning of the Dongchen court, he was sympathetic to the soldiers who left home all the year round.

The policy was relaxed, allowing soldiers to bring their wives and concubines with them, and their wives and concubines were stationed at the border with the army.

Since the soldiers were away and could not return home, they moved the soldiers' homes to the side.

Not only can you continue to complete the affairs of garrisoning the border gates, but you can also enjoy the warmth of home, and you can have hot meals and hot dishes when you go home after being on duty or facing the enemy.

However, the soldiers are keen on their daughters-in-law and sons to warm the kang, but they have no intention of guarding the border well, and some of them have bad character and return wives and concubines.

If the management is not good, it will cause a miasma in the barracks, and there are also main rooms that dislike the poor conditions at the border and are unwilling to follow them to the border.

Therefore, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he canceled the soldiers to bring their wives into the barracks, so that only the fourth-rank generals and above could bring wives and concubines.

There are indeed very few women in the current barracks, and even fewer in the Zhenbei army, because they are poorer, and the wives of the generals are not willing to follow!

Jiang Xinyan slandered in her heart, as if your Zhenxi Army was not poor, she pretended to be surprised and said.

"In this way, General Zhao's Zhenxi army is quite rich, we have been to the Zhenbei military camp, which is really poor."

"Mrs. Chu, we are also very poor now, very poor."

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