After Xu Yunyan came back from visiting the governor, he locked himself in the study, even though Yue'er and Mei Jingjing visited him without success.
While they were here worrying about what was going on, the soldiers in front were turning around excitedly.
Seeing their happy and unclear expressions, Yue'er was angrily ready to argue, but before she arrived, she heard them talking happily.
"Your Majesty the Captain is so kind that he begged the Jiangzhou officials for these things to change for us. If anyone dares to obey the Lord Lieutenant openly and secretly and not take his orders to be loyal to the Lord Lieutenant, I, Hao Laosan, will be the first to disagree. "
As soon as Hao Laosan finished speaking, a soldier surnamed Wei next to him said, "Yes, what Hao Tou said is true, and I, Wei Danian, don't agree with it either. If anyone dares to contradict Mr. Captain Duwei, I, Wei Danian, will fight with him to the death." ."
Just as these soldiers became more and more excited, they successfully aroused the curiosity of Yue'er and Mei Jingjing.
"You guys don't know why. My husband locked himself in the room when he came back and wouldn't let us in. Can you tell us what happened?"
Looking at Xu Yunyan's unmarried wife and sister, these soldiers immediately told them what Xu Yunyan was thinking.
Among them are many praises for Xu Yunyan and gratitude to Xu Yunyan.
After hearing this, Mei Jingjing and Yue'er finally felt relieved, as long as Xu Yunyan was fine, that would be fine. They don't know anything about politics. They only know that their boss is doing the right thing, and they support it from the bottom of their hearts. Seeing so many people supporting him, they felt happy from the bottom of their hearts.
After finally writing out his plan on a memorial, Xu Yunyan closed the memorial with a blush.
"It's been a year since I came here, and I can finally write an article in the same way as Zhihu. Although my calligraphy is not very neat, I can at least write down the cause and effect of the matter."
After Xu Yunyan muttered and finished writing the letter, he happily walked out of the room with the memorial and came to the front yard.
After looking at the front yard, where they spent all their efforts to comfort Er and Mei Jingjing, they watched the soldiers who were taking advantage of all the time to exercise their fists and feet to improve their combat power and clapped their hands to attract their attention. .
"Hao Laosan, this is a memorial. According to the procedures of Zhe Chong Mansion, go to Beijing as soon as possible and hand it over to the Ministry of War, and let the Ministry of War hand it over to Your Majesty."
This is the current process. They can only submit a letter to the court to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War
If you think it is useful, give it to Your Majesty. If the Ministry of War thinks it is useless, just throw it away casually.
Xu Yunyan felt that with such an identity and title, so what if the Minister of War was the Duke of the country? What's more, what I wrote is not a trivial matter. I should be able to meet His Majesty, right?
The matter of writing to His Majesty has been resolved, and Xu Yunyan looked at Wei Danian again.
"Old Wei, what's the statistics on the number of soldiers?"
Of course, this government soldier refers to those who were killed and disabled.
Wei Danian hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sir, there are a total of 1,800 households."
"Eighteen hundred households?"
Xu Yunyan murmured, although Jiangzhou Zhechong Prefecture has five thousand soldiers, there are only 1,500 standing soldiers on call 24 hours a day.
Although the number of 1,800 people is not large for the Jiangzhou Zhechong Mansion of 5,000, it is actually 1,800 families. It is impossible to say that there are tens of thousands of people.
Xu Yunyan nodded, "How many disabled soldiers are there among them?"
Wei Danian sighed, "Sir, there were originally half of them, but they were afraid of becoming a burden to their families, and there were hundreds of brothers who went on hunger strike, hanged themselves in rivers, and so on."
When he said this, Wei Danian's voice was trembling a little. If it weren't for the crowd, he would have cried.
Hearing this, Xu Yunyan yelled, "Bring the memorial back quickly. I want to change it. I want to revise it again and submit it to Your Majesty again so that His Majesty knows these things."
Xu Yunyan didn't know. He only knew that the wounded and wounded soldiers had no way to go to the battlefield. They couldn't get their salary and became a burden to their families.
I just didn't expect that so many soldiers would do such extreme things in order not to increase the burden on their families.
After taking back the letter from Hao Laosan, Xu Yunyan locked himself in the study again for a long time.
Another new memorial was taken out by Xu Yunyan and handed to Hao Laosan.
"Hurry! Hurry up and get us to the capital."
After arranging this matter, Xu Yunyan leaned against a pillar next to the front yard and looked at Wei Danian as if all the strength had been drained from his body.
"Tomorrow we will go on an inspection tour again. But during the last inspection, why didn't anyone say anything about this situation? We didn't go to visit the families of the soldiers who fought for the country and finally did such things to reduce the burden on their families."
Xu Yunyan was unable to lean against the pillar, which made these soldiers couldn't help but feel pain in their hearts.
A soldier stepped forward and said, "Lord Captain, is this strange?"
I love you, you have such a heart, we are already very happy, but this world has troubled us..."
The Fu Bing actually started crying while he was talking. When he cried, the other men who looked like iron towers also started crying here.
Although a group of big men were crying here, which made people panic, Xu Yunyan didn't feel there was anything wrong.
After these men finished crying, Xu Yunyan finally regained some strength. He raised his head and looked at the sky with blank eyes.
“Those of us live just so that those who have died can leave in peace, and we cannot leave their homes alone after they leave.
Before His Majesty's decree came down, I spent some money to buy some food and grass to send to them. No matter how much it lightened their burden, I also said I'm sorry for them, and Jiangzhou thanked them for such a situation. "
When Xu Yunyan said this, Wei Danian and Hao Laosan hurriedly took the lead and knelt down in front of Xu Yunyan again.
It's just that Xu Yunyan looked up at the sky and kept sighing with emotion, and didn't notice that the sound of kneeling seemed to be a bit too much.
After Xu Yunyan lowered his head again, he saw a large number of Zhechong Mansion soldiers kneeling in front of him, not only the twenty in front of him, but also a group of Zhechong Mansion officials headed by Ma Liang.
This shocked Xu Yunyan.
"When did you all come? How can I bear this? Please get up quickly."
Ma Liang was still kneeling there and had no dissatisfaction. "The captain is kind and we are here when we are preparing to supply them."
Ma Liang was so excited that he still knelt there after finishing speaking.
Xu Yunyan hurriedly stepped forward, "Everyone, please get up quickly, please get up quickly, how can I bear your great gift?"
Ma Liang shook his head, "Your Majesty, the Captain, was so kind to solve the major issue of Zhechong Mansion in Jiangzhou. If we hadn't been so strapped for money, we would have worked with the Captain to ensure that our deceased comrades would not have any worries."
Xu Yunyan nodded and asked Ma Liang, "I wonder why Captain Ma is here?"
"That's it, Lord Captain. At that time, you proposed to build a farm so that they could live together so that they could be taken care of. I leaked this plan to the following people, and they came up with different opinions. This I wasn’t sure, so that’s when they came.”
Xu Yunyan suddenly realized.
"So that's what happened. What's your suggestion? One person's shortcoming is the strength of everyone. This is just a whim. I want to improve it, but I don't want you to contribute."
