Chapter 421: Face Is Not Important

Qin Sheng pushed the door open and came in, "Li Li, you came back so early today?"

Lv Songli turned around and answered him, "I came back early because the weather was bad and it might snow. Did you pick me up?"

"Yes, and then they said you left early."

Lv Songli knew that Qin Sheng was busy recently, but he still went to pick her up every evening.

Ever since Qin Heng and Qin Sheng came back from Xuantu County, they have not been idle.

Pingzhou wants to form cavalry and navy, so they have to recruit soldiers. Qin Heng is busy with this.

And Qin Sheng's plan to form a vanguard special forces team has already begun.

The soldiers are first selected from the veterans, and the others are selected from the bandits.

Their Liaodong Army has swept so many bandits before and after, and there is a small group of bandits who are very outstanding. These people even have their own unique skills. They can be called arrogant soldiers and brave generals. Ordinary generals can't suppress them.

Qin Sheng simply dragged them all in.

Qin Sheng's idea of ​​forming a vanguard special forces team had been supported by Lv Songli before.

This is not just a verbal support, it requires a large amount of supplies. Because a vanguard special forces team of 2,000 people consumes supplies for a month, which may be enough to supply 20,000 ordinary soldiers for a month. If the backup supply is not enough, it will be difficult for this team to stand out.

For Lv Songli, the whole Pingzhou is also under great pressure to support so many soldiers, especially after calculating the grain they have.

When Shi Tao fell, it was after the autumn harvest, and all the grain taxes in Pingzhou had been handed over to him.

A part of these grain taxes was intercepted, and most of them were escorted to Chang'an and handed over to the national treasury. The intercepted part of the grain was supplied to the soldiers of 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 of 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 food for each meal, which was one pound a day.

During Shi Tao's administration, the soldiers had less daily rations in non-wartime, and when the food was allocated to the military camps of various counties, they would encounter layers of exploitation, and the rations allocated to the soldiers were even less.

To be honest, the soldiers could not eat enough with this amount. At that time, the food was almost oily, and the soldiers consumed a lot every day, so the food allocated for one meal was not enough.

After her father became the governor of Liaodong County, they slowly infiltrated and took over the Liaodong military camp, and then subsidized the military camp from time to time, so that the food of 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.

But because Shi Tao ate empty salaries, a small half of the intercepted food was embezzled by him and his confidants.

Finally, after Shi Tao fell, the money and grain that he had pocketed were all given to Song Mo.

Now they were planning to recruit all the soldiers in Pingzhou, and food was a big gap. The little food in the Pingzhou granary alone could not support so many soldiers.

Lu Songli was ready. There was no other way. He had to support his own soldiers. The food in the Pingzhou granary was just like Song Mo gave them for free. Thinking of this, he felt happy.

After Qin Sheng entered the house, he took off his cloak and hung it on the wall beside him, and then rubbed his face that was chapped by the cold wind. He was in a hurry to leave the barracks and forgot to wear the mask prepared by his wife.

He walked in while rubbing his handsome face. When he got closer, he found that Lu Songli's eyes fell on the table.

He came up to her, his whole body pressed against her back, his hands around her willow waist, and his head leaning 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 you found the forces of the Xie family hidden in the Southern Expedition Army?"

"Not necessarily." Lu Songli's eyes fell on the other names with the surname Xie, and said meaningfully.

"Hmm? What does this mean?"

"The Xie family may have more than one hidden force in Xie Wei." A cunning rabbit has three burrows. If the ancestors of the Xie family prepared a backup plan, would they only prepare one?

Qin Sheng:... These people are so cunning, just like a sieve.

"Xie Zhan is really cruel. He ruined the face of his family members." Qin Sheng thought to himself, no matter what, now that he has the opportunity, he will spare no effort to discredit Xie Zhan.

"A man's face is not important." Lu Songli smiled, "His face was destroyed, but at least his life was saved, and he was promoted to a higher level, right?"

Xie Zhan's handling method was to settle the matter at the lowest cost.

Xie Wei's face was destroyed, and Lu Songli guessed that this person should look very similar to the Xie family.

Unfortunately, there are no photos these days, and there should be no portraits of Xie Wei in the past. Once his face was destroyed, he could cut off his relationship with the Xie family on the surface. Others could not accuse the Xie family of having a disloyal heart.

Qin Sheng secretly touched his face from an angle that Lu Songli could not see. His wife said one thing and meant another, and she liked his face.

Qin Sheng suddenly said, "Li Li, I heard that Xie Zhan has a son?"

Lu Songli hummed, then raised her eyebrows and looked at him, "You have planted people in the South?"

Qin Sheng smiled and pretended to be stupid. He also understood the principle of knowing yourself and knowing the enemy, right?

Qin Sheng hugged his wife tightly in his arms, "Li Li, Xie Zhan already has a son." His tone was resentful.

He was not envious of Xie Zhan for having a son, but he envied him for eating meat.

Lu Songli received the news and knew that Zhao Yutan's son was born prematurely. After doing some calculations, she knew that Xie Zhan had made a mistake. "He did this by stepping on the line."

Although they got married on the same day, she and Qin Sheng did not consummate their marriage because Qin's fourth brother Qin Ming and his father-in-law Qin Yue died before and after their marriage.

Xie Zhan and Zhao Yutan were not like them. They should have consummated their marriage directly at that time. When the child is born later, it can be pushed to the top of the body that was conceived during the wedding. As long as the child is born prematurely at seven months, he and Zhao Yutan will not be stigmatized as unfilial.

Later, Xie Zhan was forced to marry a daughter of the Chen family in the Southland as his equal wife. None of the Xie family members or those who knew the inside story would criticize him in this regard. There is no question of his lacking moral character.

After all, they can consummate their marriage soon.

After the death of one's parents, one should not change his obedience for three years. This is three years of mourning, but not everyone needs to observe three years of mourning. Only emperors, empresses and other nobles and nobles have this qualification.

For ordinary people, when their parents are bereaved, they need to pay for one year of great merit, one year of small merit, and one year of mourning, which is a total of three years. The most important year is naturally the first year, which is also the most demanding year.

Recently, her mother-in-law secretly told her that she would make arrangements for them to consummate their marriage during the Chinese New Year.

They have been serving the great merits for more than a year. In the next two years, there is no need to be so strict that they disregard human nature. There is nothing more than human feelings outside the legal principles.