Chapter 512 Soldiers

Seeing this, Man Bao asked curiously, "Master Yang, didn't you say that civil and commercial businesses should be separated?"

Yang Heshu shook his head and laughed, sighed faintly and said, "How can things in this world be so divided? As long as Master Bai didn't set up a caravan to go business, no one can change his membership."

Yang Heshu looked at her and said with a smile: "For example, the shop you bought for your sister-in-law is not considered a business. Should the separation of civil and business also include those who occasionally enter the city to earn some pocket money?"

The three nodded in agreement, and Bai Shanbao looked at him, "Then why are you so worried?"

Yang Heshu touched his face, "Is it so obvious?"

The three nodded together.

Seeing Bai Erlang nodded, Yang Heshu sighed, "It seems that I have been relaxed for a long time. What I worry about is not Luojiang County, but Chaotang."

Yang Heshu got up, looked at some withered lotus leaves in the small pond outside the pavilion, and sighed quietly: "Luojiang County is poor, there are no great gentry, the people are the people, the business is the business, the definition between the people and the business seems to be It's blurry, but it's clear, but not elsewhere."

He sighed, and when he turned around, he saw that the three children were full, but he couldn't help reaching out to touch the dim sum to eat, and he was eating with relish.

Yang Heshu:  …

Forget it, what did he say to the three children?

Don't say they don't understand such a worry, they understand, what can they do at this time?

Yang Heshu changed the subject, "Shanbao, you've read quite a few books now, do you want to come to the county school?"

Bai Shanbao shook his head, "My grandmother and my husband both said that I can study with my husband now, and I will go directly to the school in Yizhou in the future."

Yang Heshu was slightly surprised, but at the thought of Mr. Zhuang, he was relieved, "Mr. Zhuang's knowledge is no worse than that in the county school."

His eyes fell on Bai Erlang again, and he asked with a smile, "What about you, are you coming to the county school?"

Bai Erlang shook his head repeatedly and said, "I won't come, I prefer to study with Mr. Zhuang."

Yang Heshu laughed and said, "You should work harder. You can go to the capital to seek an official in the future."

Bai Erlang is not very confident in himself, "Can I even ask for an official?"

"But whatever you can, the sage will use it."

Bai Erlang fell silent and took the matter to heart.

Yang Heshu looked at the quiet Man Bao, and for some reason, he felt very sorry.

Because of this regret, Yang Heshu got up and said with a smile, "Let's go, let me go to the county town with you?"

The three of them had just eaten, but they were a little sleepy, so it was good to go out for a walk to digest food.

Because New Year's Eve will be in two days, many people come to the county to prepare the New Year's goods.

It's not obvious in the morning, and it's not past noon now, which is the time when there are the most people in the county.

Man Bao was almost washed away, so frightened that Bai Shanbao grabbed her hand and pulled her to his side: "Be careful to be patted away by Paihuazi."

"Then Paihuazi is very courageous, dare to pat me in front of Lord Yang."

Bai Shanbao: "They don't know that he is the county magistrate."

He held her hand tightly, "Let's go."

The two caught up with Magistrate Yang and Erlang Bai who were a few steps ahead, and said with emotion: "Master Yang, the city is so lively now."

Yang Heshu also smiled and nodded, "It's very lively, much better than last year."

A few people were talking and walking forward, when they encountered a group of soldiers noisily crowding over, pushing them aside, Yang Heshu almost fell to the ground, and when he looked up, he saw a group of soldiers pushing them away and crowding into a small restaurant. .

Yang Heshu couldn't help frowning.

Man Bao looked at them with wide eyes, and then said, "They don't look like people from Luojiang County."

Yang Heshu looked at her in surprise, "How did you see it?"

"Listening to them doesn't look alike, and people don't look alike."

Yang Heshu glanced at the restaurant again, and led them into a teahouse, which was diagonally opposite to the restaurant. After calling for tea, he said, "They are actually from Luojiang County, but no, they are mostly from other counties in Mianzhou. ."

Yang Heshu took the tea, looked at Man Bao and said with a smile: "But it's true that they don't talk like that. These soldiers were sent back not long ago. They left the army when they were young, and now they're sent back to their hometown, where they are outside ten Years, or ten years, it is normal for the accent to change."

Bai Shanbao was very curious, "Why do you send soldiers back home?"

"This is a blessing policy of the imperial court. The sage is benevolent, and allows soldiers over fifty and disabled to return home. Except for some border towns, the rest of the country must reduce the number of soldiers, and the reduced soldiers can be sent back to their hometowns. Enter the army."

The garrison in the county town is generally collected from the local township. Unlike the yamen and the clerk, no one likes to be a soldier, even if it is a local garrison.

Therefore, it is difficult for the garrison to be full in each county, especially in places like them that are not border crossings and strategic locations, it is even more difficult to fill up the garrison.

Most of the empty places were eaten by local captains and county captains, so the soldiers were dispatched from above, and Yang Heshu accepted them without much worry.

Because the military salaries for these soldiers were originally eaten by the school captains and county captains. Now that there are more of these people, the county government's expenditure is not much, but the county captains and the school captains eat a little less.

But seeing these soldiers now, Yang Heshu was a little worried. He liked to share his thoughts with his three children, so he sighed: "If they bring their bad habits to the county, I'm afraid it will be difficult to discipline them."

Man Bao leaned against the window to look at the soldiers. One of them seemed to dislike the taste of tea, so he poured the tea out of his bowl.

When it was splashed on people, it was even more fierce than the person who was splashed. He stared at him and asked, "What are you looking at, and then I'll gouge out your eyeballs!"

Man Bao tutted: "So fierce, will you beat them?"

Yang Heshu stood behind her with his hands behind his back, shook his head slightly and said, "This kind of soldiers can't be beaten, and they are not under my direct control."

That's what worries him the most.

Although the county lieutenant and the school lieutenant must listen to him, under normal circumstances, the county magistrate does not directly control the garrison. of.

Man Bao looked puzzled and asked: "They eat a lot, both wine and meat, do they want to eat and drink like the bad yamen who came to my house?"

Yang Heshu: "...No, they have been in the city for more than two months. I've never heard of them not giving credit, but it's just that they speak and act domineeringly."

"Is the soldier so rich?" Man Bao was puzzled. "My father always said, don't be a soldier if you don't want to be a soldier. If you don't talk about poverty, you may lose your life."

Bai Shanbao glanced at it and said, "The yamen has just issued the soldiers' salaries. They will give out an extra month's salary for the new year."

Yang Heshu nodded, "Not bad."

Deeply influenced by the old Zhou family, Man Bao's eyes widened in disbelief, "They actually used so much salaries to eat and drink, don't they take it home?"

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