After all, every soldier who survived the battlefield could never go back to the battlefield again, which largely meant that the soldier either had a broken arm or a broken leg, or had other injuries on his body.

In a nutshell, the retired veterans became disabled and could no longer fight on the battlefield, so they had to retire and return home.

Although Xie Ruiyuan was born into a royal family, was the empress's son and the emperor's legitimate son, he went to the military camp when he was very young.

After so many years of fighting in the military camp and making great military achievements, he also gained a deep understanding of the lives of the grassroots soldiers. He understood the hardships of people's livelihood and the suffering of the people. He could also understand that when a soldier with a disability returns home, he will not only be looked down upon by his fellow villagers, but also find it difficult to find a job to make a living.

In order to prevent these soldiers who had risked their lives to defend their country from returning home injured and unable to even survive, he took the initiative to assume this responsibility and used all his savings to support 500,000 veterans.

Li Mengyue did not think that Xie Ruiyuan's behavior was wrong. On the contrary, she felt that Xie Ruiyuan was a prince who cared about the world and was concerned about the country and the people.

But there is a big disadvantage to doing this, which is that Xie Ruiyuan has to support these people forever.

Although she also heard from Xie Ruiyuan that those retired veterans did not eat and drink for free, they also reclaimed wasteland and planted some crops, which gave them some subsidies.

After listening to Xie Ruiyuan's words, she knew that the situation was not very optimistic. She knew the grain production in this era, and it was so low that she was speechless.

A family of five cultivated five mu of land. After paying taxes, the grain they harvested each day was still not enough to feed the family. On weekdays, they had to dig wild vegetables, or the men in the family would go out to work to earn some pocket money to supplement the family income.

Life is difficult for ordinary families with the surname Xie, let alone these veterans with physical disabilities. They cannot do heavy physical work, and the harvest of crops from the fields may be poor. The food harvested from the fields each day is only enough to eat for two or three months. For the remaining eight or nine months, they have to rely on Xie Ruiyuan.

She had also asked why those veterans didn't go home. Was there no one left at home?

Xie Ruiyuan told her that those who were able to join the army had very poor family conditions, otherwise they would definitely pay five taels of silver to be exempted from military service.

The reason they had to serve in the army was, of course, that they were from a poor family and could not afford the money. Since they could not even afford five taels of silver, they naturally could not afford to support a disabled person.

At the beginning, it was okay with just one or two taels of silver. The disabled veterans had the silver given by the court and could still live a normal life.

But this is just the beginning. When the money is spent and there is no job, those with slightly better family conditions may be treated well by their families, otherwise they will have to listen to cold words.

This is nothing. The worst thing is being disliked by family and kicked out of the house.

Xie Ruiyuan said that the reason he had the idea of ​​rescuing veterans was that he once saw with his own eyes that a soldier who followed him once went to the battlefield and had bad luck and had his arm chopped off by the enemy.

Although he managed to survive, he could never go to the battlefield again.

After all, there is no mercy on the battlefield. Even people with healthy hands and feet have to be extremely careful, let alone if an arm is broken, they will never be able to fight on the battlefield again.

Even though he felt it was a pity, there was nothing he could do to change it. The military camp would never accept people with disabilities, so he had no choice but to let the soldier retire and go home.

Because the soldier followed him, in addition to the silver given by the court, he also gave him an extra fifty taels.

Logically speaking, this amount of silver is quite a lot, enough for the soldier to go home and live a good life.