Chu Qing was sitting in the main hall, feeling happy but feeling a little uncomfortable.
Everyone looked at him, and Chu Qing asked strangely: "Why are you all looking at me?"
Ma Rujing cleared his throat: "I always keep my word. There are only 271 people in the six battalions. There is no need to report to the Ministry of War. However, you, the wolf-catching army, are not leading the imperial court."
Food and wages…”
After a pause, Ma Rujing looked at Chu Qing and confirmed: "We don't need to pay food and wages to the border army anymore."
"Need not."
Chu Qing answered decisively.
If the border troops are responsible, aren't they always being owed their salaries?
However, he also knew that Ma Rujing could not be blamed for this matter, as he was the royal dog.
Ma Rujing asked again about deforestation. Chu Qing didn't have a specific plan. He hadn't discussed it with his friends yet. What kind of charter it was, he couldn't come up with it now.
This matter was passed so lightly, and no one had any objections, whether it was the reorganization of the wolf-catching army or the deforestation.
The most important thing is that it has nothing to do with them. There are only more than 200 veterans of the wolf-catching army left. They are in every camp and in several Zhechong mansions. Although they are all brave warriors, they can't catch wolves.
The army does not fight alone. Instead of wasting talents in their camp, it is better to let Chu Qing take over the banner of his father. Whether he can become famous in the future, he must give others a chance to try.
As for the matter of logging, everyone didn't understand it, but they were all happy to hear it. After all, Chu Qing was paid to do the work, and the soldiers were idle anyway. As long as nothing went wrong, no one had any objections.
Ma Rujing said with some emotion: "If the wolf-catching army forms an army again, goes deep into the grassland, and kills the Golden Wolf Khan and several princes, the border will be able to live in peace for many years."
Everyone was chatting away and waiting for dinner to be served.
Chu Qing was a little absent-minded, not feeling well, and was always accompanied by tinnitus. It was obvious that he had a low fever and had not rested well.
Tian Hailong, who was sitting next to Chu Qing, smiled bitterly and said: "Golden Wolf King Khan, this man is still restless in his seventies and eighties, but because of one..."
"A wife?" Chu Qing was slightly startled: "Where is a wife?"
Tian Hailong didn't know why: "The last general is talking about Liang Rong Khan, seven old and eighty years old."
"Oh." Chu Qing's face was full of disappointment and he hit the back of his head.
In fact, the number of times these generals get together is very rare, and there is usually no fighting. It is only after Chu Qing comes that they always go to the commander's mansion.
When we get together, it is inevitable to talk about business matters. Now that we see how "arrogant" Chu Qing is, he wants connections, money, and people. He knows that this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he starts to think about taking advantage.
"Chu Jianzheng."
Ma Rujing rarely had a good word to say: "I and the generals are closely following you regarding the capture of the wolf army and the felling of the forest. There is a problem at the border. I wonder if Supervisor Chu can help."
"What problem?"
"The matter of recruiting soldiers."
Tian Hailong interjected: "Yes, if the frontier army is fully staffed, it should be more than 120,000 people. Each pass has two battalions, 40,000 people. But now, although it is said that there are 100,000 frontier troops, there are only half of them."
"Have you been unable to recruit troops?"
"That's right, most of the major battalions are old soldiers. Even the troops who are forty and above, there are at least more than 20,000 people."
Chu Qing really didn't notice this problem. Is the aging population of the border army so serious?
Turning his head, Chu Qing looked at Fu San and said uncertainly: "I remember that Mr. Bao mentioned the border issue before, saying that all descendants of the border army can join the army, similar to military households, right?
"
"That was true seven or eight years ago. There was no government decree."
Fu San squatted next to the chair and said with a hint of helplessness: "Besides, most of the troops here are bachelors. Who knows how to marry? Where can I find the money to marry?"
"This is not possible. How can a person not have a family? Life is incomplete without a wife."
Xiao Yi said with a smile: "If you want a mother-in-law, you can have brothers. A mother-in-law talks a lot. How beautiful it would be to spend a lifetime in the army with my brothers."
"The traitor is right." Tian Hailong laughed and said: "During the winter, brothers all squeeze into the same bed. It's enough to have brothers. They eat and live together and are as close as brothers. In the same tent, who has the butt?"
Everyone knows how many moles there are on my body."
Chu Qing was speechless.
This is not an aging population. Why does this sound like an aging population?
Taking out a small notebook, Chu Qing lowered his head and wrote down the marriage issues of Bian Jun.
Tian Hailong said mysteriously: "Brothers, I have a way to help brothers marry their wives."
Everyone pricked up their ears: "Talk about it."
"To solve this problem..."
Chu Qing suddenly raised his head: "Where is Sister Yu?"
Tian Hailong blinked his eyes, confused.
Chu Qing tapped his temple hard again, and he started hearing hallucinations.
Tian Hailong continued: "If you ask me, brothers pool their money together and a few of them can marry one woman."
A group of people laughed and said yes.
Chu Qing sighed slightly.
The imperial court really owes a lot to the frontier army, and everyone in the world owes a lot to the frontier army.
Thinking of yesterday's battlefield littered with corpses, most of the brothers who died in the battle had never married a wife, let alone had any descendants. I wonder how many of these men were only sons.
As the generals chatted away, Chu Qing, who listened quietly, discovered that the border troops were experiencing too many heartbreaking sufferings.
Except for marriages, many people have even lost contact with their families. It is common for them to go without correspondence for four or five years.
A few days ago, the security guards of the Ping An Security Bureau had begun to transport the letters written by the ghostwriters back to the customs.
They all came from poor backgrounds and had no contact with each other for four or five years. During these four or five years, their families and elders, I don’t know if they are still there, suffered disasters every year, natural disasters, man-made disasters, disasters every year.
When we first rescued the victims in Beijing, many descendants of the refugees joined the army, and there were also frontier troops guarding the borders.
After a disaster, everyone is gone, and the place has been changed. Can the letter arrive?
There are also those soldiers of Guoyi Camp who died in the battle yesterday. What a sad scene it will be when their families learn this bad news.
The more he thought about it, the more upset Chu Qing felt.
Raising his head, Chu Qing said to Ma Rujing: "Can you add my signature to the military report reported to the imperial court and mention the kindness to the soldiers who died in the battle?"
"Okay, this is best."
Ma Rujing knew that if Chu Qing's signature was added, neither the Ministry of War nor the court would dare to fool him.
The food and wine outside were finally arranged and placed in the garden. The generals went out arm-in-arm, smiling and saying they wanted to have a good meal, but who was not suppressing grief and thinking about those who died in the battle yesterday?
Those robes.
Chu Qing did not leave immediately. Instead, he rubbed his tinnitus ears and softly uttered two words: "Wolf Catching Army, Cuttlefish."
"Master, what do you mean?"
"It's okay, I just suddenly thought of it. It would be great if, as Comrade Lao Ma said, the wolf-catching army could go to the grassland and kill the Golden Wolf King Khan. And the divine arm crossbow that Cuttlefish mentioned is really as magical as he said. From now on
The border troops would not have killed so many people in the battle."
Sighing, Chu Qing cursed: "Since the founding of the Chang Dynasty, it has never taken the initiative to provoke any country or invade the territory of neighboring countries. Why are the surrounding countries so mean? There are also Ying thieves and Ying thieves in the East China Sea."