Chapter 421: Face is not important
Qin Sheng pushed the door open and came in. "Lili, why are you back so early today?"
Lu Songli turned around and answered him, "Since the weather is bad and it might snow, I came back early. Did you go to pick me up?"
"Well, then they said you left early."
Lu Songli knew that Qin Sheng was busy recently, but he still went to pick her up every evening.
Ever since the brothers Qin Heng and Qin Sheng returned from Xuantu County, they have had no time to rest.
Pingzhou needs to form cavalry and navy, so it has to recruit soldiers. Qin Heng is busy with this.
Qin Sheng's plan to form a vanguard special forces team has also begun.
The soldiers were first selected from the best veterans, and the rest were chosen from the bandits.
Their Liaodong Army swept through so many bandits, and there was a small group of bandits who were very outstanding. These people even had their own unique skills and could be called arrogant and brave generals. Ordinary generals could not suppress them.
Qin Sheng simply included them all.
Qin Sheng's idea of forming a vanguard special forces team had been supported by Lu Songli before.
This wasn't just about providing support; it required a massive supply of supplies. A 2,000-man elite special forces corps might consume enough supplies to feed 20,000 ordinary soldiers for a month. Without sufficient support, it would be difficult for the corps to succeed.
For Lu Songli, supporting so many soldiers in the entire Pingzhou was also a huge pressure, especially after calculating the food they had.
When Shi Tao fell from power, it was after the autumn harvest, and all the grain taxes in Pingzhou had been handed over to him.
A portion of this grain tax was retained, and most of it was escorted to Chang'an and handed over to the national treasury. The retained portion of grain was used to supply the soldiers in Pingzhou.
In the past, this part of the intercepted grain was stored in the Changping Warehouse in Pingzhou, and then allocated to the military camps in the four counties of Pingzhou every month.
Lu Songli still remembers that when her father became the governor of Liaodong County, the soldiers in the Liaodong County military camp had four taels of rice for each meal, which was about one catty a day.
During Shi Tao's administration, the soldiers' daily rations were small during peacetime. In addition, when the food was allocated to the military camps in various counties, it was exploited at various levels, and the rations allocated to the soldiers were even smaller.
To be honest, the soldiers couldn't even eat enough of this amount. The food at that time was almost oily and the soldiers consumed a lot every day, so the amount of food they were given for a meal was not enough.
After her father became the governor of Liaodong County, they slowly infiltrated and took over the Liaodong military camp. Then they subsidized the camp from time to time, and the food for the soldiers in the Liaodong military camp became decent.
As soon as Shi Tao fell and her father came to power, they sent people to take over the Pingzhou granary.
However, because Shi Tao was drawing a salary without working for him, half of the grain that was withheld was embezzled by him and his confidants.
In the end, after Shi Tao's downfall, the money and grain that he had pocketed all went to Song Mo.
Now they were planning to recruit all the soldiers in Pingzhou, but they needed food. The little food in Pingzhou's granary was not enough to support so many soldiers.
Lu Songli was already prepared. There was no other way. He had to support his own soldiers. He could just think of the food in the Pingzhou granary as Song Mobai's gift to them. Thinking of this, he felt happy.
After Qin Sheng entered the house, he took off his cloak and hung it on the wall. He then rubbed his face, which was chapped by the cold wind. He had been in such a hurry to leave the barracks that he had forgotten to wear the mask his wife had prepared for him.
He walked in while rubbing his handsome face. When he got closer, he found that Lu Songli's eyes were on the table.
He moved closer, his whole body pressed against her back, his arms around her slender waist, and leaned forward to rest his head on her shoulder. "What are you looking at?"
"Huh?" Qin Sheng took a look and found that there were several familiar names of people with the surname Xie on the letter. His eyes finally fell on Xie Wei. "Have they found the Xie family's hidden forces in the Zhengnan Army?"
"Not necessarily." Lu Songli's eyes fell on the other names of the surname Xie, and he said meaningfully.
"Hmm? What does that mean?"
"The Xie family may have more than one hidden power, Xie Wei." A cunning rabbit has three burrows. If the ancestors of the Xie family had a backup plan, would they only have one?
Qin Sheng: ...These people are so cunning, just like a sieve.
"Xie Zhan is really cruel. He can destroy the reputation of his own family without any effort." Qin Sheng thought to himself, no matter what, now that he has the chance, he will spare no effort to discredit Xie Zhan.
"A man's face isn't important." Lu Songli smiled. "Even though his face was ruined, at least he saved his life and even moved up a level, right?"
Xie Zhan's way of handling the matter was to resolve it at the lowest cost.
Xie Wei's face was disfigured, and Lu Songli guessed that this person should look very similar to the Xie family.
Unfortunately, there were no photos or anything like that these days, and there probably weren't any portraits of Xie Wei in the past. Once his face was disfigured, he could publicly sever his ties with the Xie family. Others would no longer be able to accuse the Xie family of harboring rebellious intentions.
Qin Sheng secretly touched his face at an angle that Lu Songli couldn't see. His wife said one thing and meant another. She really liked his face.
Qin Sheng suddenly said, "Lili, I heard that Xie Zhan has a son?"
Lu Songli hummed, then raised an eyebrow and looked at him, "You have planted people in the Southland?"
Qin Sheng chuckled and pretended to be stupid. He also understood the principle of knowing yourself and your enemy, right?
Qin Sheng hugged his wife tightly in his arms, "Lili, Xie Zhan already has a son." His tone was resentful.
He didn't envy Xie Zhan for having a son, but envied him for eating meat.
Lu Songli received the news that Zhao Yutan's son was born prematurely. After a quick calculation, she realized that Xie Zhan had played a borderline game. "He did this by stepping on the line."
Although the two couples got married on the same day, she and Qin Sheng did not consummate their marriage because Qin Ming, Qin's fourth brother, and her father-in-law Qin Yue died before and after their wedding.
Unlike them, Xie Zhan and Zhao Yutan should have consummated their marriage immediately. The subsequent birth of their child could be pushed back to the conception during the bridal chamber. Simply having the child be born prematurely at seven months would have saved him and Zhao Yutan from the stigma of being unfilial.
Later, when Xie Zhan was forced to marry a daughter of the Chen family in the South, neither the Xie clan nor those who knew the inside story would criticize him for this, so there was no question of his moral failings.
Come to think of it, they will be able to consummate their marriage soon.
When mourning for one's parents, the mourning period is three years without changing the mourning clothes. This is the three-year mourning period, but not everyone needs to observe the three-year mourning period. Only the emperor, empress, and other royal nobles are eligible to do so.
For ordinary people, mourning for their parents involves one year of major merit, one year of minor merit, and one year of mourning for the deceased, for a total of three years. The first year is naturally the most important and the most demanding.
Recently, her mother-in-law secretly told her that she would hold a small wedding for them during the Chinese New Year to let them consummate their marriage.
They have been serving their sentence for more than a year. In the next two years, there is no need to be so harsh as to disregard humanity. Apart from legal principles, there is nothing more than human feelings.
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