Su Ce chased for half an hour, and only after sunset did he find the team escorting the prince.
At this time, everyone was repairing at an official post.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief that He Tao's bodyguard has been damaged, and Zhou Wei's arms have been fractured. One is dead and the other is crippled!" Su Ce beat his chest and saluted.
Zhao Zaicheng frowned: "Su Weizu, are you injured?"
Su Ce looked a little downcast and shook his head: "He Tao's."
Zhao Zaicheng didn't ask any more questions, patted Su Ce on the shoulder and said: "He Tao, Zhou Wei, I remember it!" Then he followed the post soldiers to the post station to rest, and the twenty brigade Benjun soldiers put down their men.
, guarding outside the post house where the prince rests.
Su Ce saluted Zhao Zaicheng's back: "I would like to thank the Marshal for both of them!"
The remaining Brigade soldiers around were silent and just continued to check the condition of the horses, either holding bean cakes and feeding them to the horses, or taking off their iron helmets to bring water for the horses to drink.
After the horses had eaten and drank enough, the postmen of the official post carried several pots of ginger soup with a lot of ginger slices and caramel, and distributed it to the soldiers of the Luben Army and the surrounding Leopard, Tao, Yingyang and other armies.
It was Su Ce's turn. Su Ce took a spoonful in a wooden bowl, thanked him, took out a stack of gold leaves from his arms, and placed it in the hands of the gray-haired old postman.
Before the old postman could resist, Su Ce said: "Put a few kilograms of caramel in a pot of ginger soup. Don't put half a year's salary in it. Put it away. There will be other brothers behind you."
The old postman was a little embarrassed. Su Ce grabbed the stack of gold leaves from the old postman's hand and stuffed it into the old postman's pocket: "Don't shirk it. The postman's work is hard. You poured it into the pot."
The government won't give you any money for caramel, take it and prepare more caramel, there are others!"
At night, Su Ce was holding a Hengdao and a piece of felt wrapped around his body, leaning against the doorway of the prince's house to sleep. Other brigade soldiers who were on sentry duty a hundred meters away, all like Su Ce, gathered around the house where the prince was sleeping to hug him.
Wearing a horizontal knife and sleeping in a blanket.
At night, Su Ce was sleeping soundly when he was shaken up.
Su Ce handed his blanket to Lu Benjun who woke him up: "Thank you for your hard work. I'm still a little hot. Have a good sleep."
"Xie Weishu!"
Although Su Ce was the leader of the guard, he also assigned himself the task of keeping watch. In the second half of the night, most of the people keeping watch were the captains of the team.
It was extremely cold at night, and there were so many people coming to the inn that the room couldn't sleep.
Therefore, most of the people sleeping in the house were injured soldiers. Most of the people were crowded together and sleeping in the open air covered with blankets.
At night, the postmen carried poles with firewood hanging on them, and from time to time they added firewood to the fire among the crowd.
Su Ce came out of the felt and felt the coolness. He glanced around and saw that no one was sleeping in the shadows. He brought some hot water from the kettle on the fire to the water bag and sipped it in small sips.
At dawn the next day, the official post became bustling with people eating horse chews, and the day of hard marching began again.
On the third day in a row, Zhao Zaicheng felt a little embarrassed and asked Su Ce to go into the house with him at night.
Zhao Zaicheng grinned and hissed, while Su Ce applied wound medicine to Zhao Zaicheng's inner thigh.
In these three days, Zhao Zai suffered no less than Lu Ben's army.
It's not that Zhao Zaicheng doesn't know how to ride a horse, it's just that he has never ridden a horse for such a long time. Lu Benjun has already developed calluses on his inner thighs.
Over the past year or so, Zhao Zaicheng has experienced too many things, and he has not been out of the palace for a long time, let alone riding a horse.
"Let's chat with the orphan for a while and find a place to sit by yourself!" After taking the medicine, Zhao Zaicheng couldn't fall asleep for a while, so he simply let go.
Su Ce held up a low stool and sat beside the bed.
"Uncle Jingyang, how old are you this year?" In Zhao Zaicheng's impression, Su Ce was always stern, with a white face and no beard, and he was very curious at how young he was to become the uncle of the Kaiguo Kingdom.
"Come back to the Commander-in-Chief, I am twenty years old this year." Su Ce felt a little helpless when he said this. He was talking nonsense and not doing things well. I am afraid that the prince disliked his young age.
Seventeen years of guarding the border, eighteen years of imperial service, and at the age of nineteen, he was appointed as the crown prince Zuo to lead the army.
"Oh, you are a promising young man! Guxu is four years older than you, and I have something to ask you. Do you think there is true love between men and women?" Zhao Zaicheng left Chang'an City for the first time, thinking about the concubine in the East Palace.
For the position of the Crown Princess, she was jealous all day long.
Then thinking about the fact that the Zheng family who gave birth to a son for him was still in Yeting Palace, Mu'er always asked him about his mother. Thinking of this, Zhao Zaicheng felt that these were more difficult to deal with than the troublesome memorial.
Su Ce thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid there should be real feelings. I and I have grown up together since they were young. I gave birth to a daughter to you a few days ago, but the child hasn't grown yet, so I can't tell."
How pitiful."
Zhao Zaicheng was silent for a while and said, "I heard that your Su village has many children?"
Su Ce nodded: "At that time, I came to Chang'an late after the knighthood, and the food I was assigned were all small children. The oldest was no more than twelve years old, and the youngest had just turned three years old. They were all juniors in the same robe, so they simply didn't change.
, but I was ignorant at that time, so I made a scene and sold the Earl's Mansion, otherwise I wouldn't be able to support these dolls."
"Have you ever thought about changing a batch of food estates?" Zhao Zaicheng knew that if he was not satisfied with the food estates, he could choose not to accept it for the time being, or recruit farmers himself, but the land would have to be distributed according to the standards of the people.
"I want the Su family to be passed down!" Su Ce's answer was very direct and calm. After realizing the benefits of honor, no one would be stupid enough to give up.
The orphans of Fu soldiers are mostly the descendants of some Fu soldiers who died without making any achievements.
There is no such thing as widowhood in Daqian. If the mother remarries, then the children of these soldiers can still be raised by relying on the land given to the soldiers if their grandparents are still alive.
However, if there are no grandparents, the government will ask the mother for her opinion. If she does not remarry, the land will not be taken back and the land will be treated according to the standard of retired soldiers.
If they remarry, these Fu Bing orphans will be adopted by the Zhe Chong Mansion, and the land will be taken back to Zhe Chong Mansion. When the Fu Bing orphans are fifteen years old, the rent of the land over the years will be converted into money and the land will be distributed to the Fu Bing orphans.
It seems that he is not willing to become a soldier.
However, in addition to this road, Zhechong Mansion will also let these orphans of the soldiers become the food towns of the nobles. On the 15th, they will join Zhechong Mansion as candidates for the soldiers. If they get the selection order two years later, these food towns will have the palace.
Soldier status.
You can be transferred to the nobleman's service or go elsewhere according to your own wishes. However, if you are transferred elsewhere, the land of the orphans of the soldiers will be taken back from the nobleman, and the nobleman can choose a villager as his own settlement.
If the orphans of these soldiers die young, then the honorable nobles will lose their quota of food.
After all the hard work, if you want the orphans of the soldiers to choose the villagers, the results seem to be similar, but you must understand that the honor depends on the army. If there is no background in the army, then how can the descendants make meritorious deeds on the battlefield and turn the title into inheritance?
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Su Ce's answer was very calm, but Zhao Zaicheng couldn't help but take a high look.
Zhao Zaicheng seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and sighed: "It's cold at night, let the travelers put on some clothes, and let's go!"
"Here!" Su Ce saluted, put the low stool back to its original place, and then left.
Su Ce could feel that Zhao Zaicheng really wanted to find someone to chat with, but his identity did not allow him to get close to anyone, including his parents, wife and children.
The two stopped talking briefly, and Su Ce asked the travelers to put on more clothes and inspect the surrounding guards.
In the past few days, the Tiance Army has adapted to the life of long-distance raids. The number of horses and personnel lost is not as much as that of the first day, but the accumulated losses add up. Now the various ministries are scattered along the hundreds of miles of official roads, and the statistics of each ministry are inconsistent. Inconsistent.
However, no one was worried about deserters. Such people had already been singled out and eliminated in Zhechong Mansion.
There are over 20 million households in Daqian. At the end of the tenth year of the prosperity of the Ministry of Household Affairs, people will be selected to go to various prefectures and counties to collect household registration statistics. The census will be carried out before the beginning of this spring. The accurate figures are not expected to be available until next year.
Drawing two from a hundred miles, Daqianfu soldiers are all screened out layer by layer. Whether it is combat power or will, Daqianfu soldiers have already engraved the glory in their bones.
Even though the Tiance Army is filled with generals and royal family members, these people have all spent two years in Zhe Chong Mansion.
Although there is no explicit restriction on the children of the royal family not being allowed to serve as officials and engage in politics, basically after receiving the order to select the frontier, they will take turns in the military supervision department. After the garrison period is up, they will spend the rest of their lives as small and happy landowners.
The royal titles decrease from generation to generation, including prince, heir, king, duke, county duke, county uncle, county son, and county son.
Among them, when it reaches the level of Duke, only one of the many county princes' palaces can ascend the title of Duke, while the other princes' palaces are directly reduced to the rank of county prince.
These titles are different from those conferred for military merit. Their landholdings are discounted. Most of them are granted to tens of thousands or thousands of households, and how many households are actually granted. Unlike the titles awarded for military merit, which only have real titles, there is no such thing as virtual grant.
Zhao Zaicheng couldn't sleep at night. When he heard Su Ce scolding Lu Benjun who had fallen asleep while on guard duty outside, he just thought it was interesting. He was young and mature. If I didn't ask today, he really didn't know that Su Ce was as old as Zai Xiao.
There will be a march tomorrow, and if Zhao Zaicheng is extremely sleepy, he will blink and fall asleep.