Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Bai Yan was relieved to hear Xiao Zirong's words. In fact, she came here just to remind her, but as long as their highness said there was a way, then there must be a way.

After Bai Yan left, Xiao Zirong wrote a letter to Xiao Xuexing directly.

After finishing writing, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he would not plant flags for himself in the future, why didn't he write a letter to Xiao Xuexing before returning to Beijing for the New Year, he didn't even persist for half a month!

The only thing that can comfort him is that both times are very important things.

Xiao Xuexing was also a little surprised when he received the letter. After all, the interval between these two letters was shorter than before, which did not conform to Xiao Zirong's habits.

While opening the letter, Xiao Xuexing said to Ling Fu next to him, "Ru'er must be in trouble again."

Ling Fuhan smiled and said, "Your Highness will still kiss you."

Xiao Xuexing smiled slightly, he never felt that it was troublesome for Xiao Zirong to ask him for help, the last time Xiao Zirong did not look for him but went to Xiao Ji for the coal mine incident, which made him a little bit brooding.

He knew that Xiao Zirong might want to find something to do or get some money for Xiao Ji, so he could take care of his eldest cousin.

It's just that I know intellectually, and emotionally... If emotions can also be controlled, that gemstone chain will not appear.

After Xiao Xuexing opened the letter, her expression was surprised for a moment, and then became very gentle.

After looking carefully for a long while, he looked up at Ling Fu and said, "The disabled veterans who have been on the battlefield over the years are all registered?"

Ling Fu heard him ask this and immediately said: "Don't worry, general, these people are taken care of, and the annual pensions are also paid in place."

It wasn't all smooth sailing for Xiao Xuexing leading his troops on the battlefield these years. At the worst time, there were only about two hundred people left in the Xuezi Battalion.

It's just that even when he himself was in the most difficult time, he didn't forget the disabled veterans.

He knew very well that these disabled veterans were basically dead after returning home, and most of them committed suicide.

Just so as not to drag down the family, if the disability is mild, you can still do something within your ability, if your own life is difficult, it is easy to drag down a family.

These days, even one extra mouth in the poor people's family may cause a huge burden.

Others were thrown aside to fend for themselves after being defrauded of their pension by their relatives, unable to persevere psychologically or physically.

So Xiao Xuexing's Xueziying will give a sum of money to the disabled soldiers when they go home. The money will not be a lot, but it is enough to support a year's life, and there will be another sum of money every year thereafter.

I hope those veterans can continue to live for this money.

When this regulation was made before, it was not that no one was greedy for ink. After being discovered, Xiao Xuexing directly ruthlessly dealt with it and exiled the whole family. Since then, no one has dared to touch the money.

It's just that Xiao Xuexing only pays close attention to this money, as long as other places are not too much, he will not be too harsh.

On weekdays, Xiao Xuexing would only ask during the Chinese New Year, asking people to send some New Year's goods to those veterans. It may not be much, or it may be just a piece of meat, but it also reminds everyone that the Regent still thinks of them.

Ling Fu thought that Xiao Xuexing had heard some rumors that there was a problem with the pension, and he broke out in a sweat immediately, wishing he could go get the ledger and show it to their general immediately.

Xiao Xuexing nodded: "Send someone to visit and ask these veterans if anyone is willing to work in Jinling. The Jinling King's Liulichang is short of people and is recruiting workers."

Ling Fu was stunned after hearing this, and asked after a while: "Your Highness...Does Your Highness want to recruit these people?"

Xiao Xuexing's eyebrows and eyes were gentle: "Yes, he wrote to me just for this matter."

Ling Fu was very excited and said immediately: "I'll send someone to ask immediately, but..." He hesitated for a while: "If the disability is too serious, let it go?"

Xiao Xuexing said: "Ru'er said that anyone who still has the ability to move can go, and he will arrange for it."

Ling Fu's eyes turned red, he wiped his eyes and said, "Minister, I will go here."

It's no wonder he was so excited. Disabled soldiers who came off the battlefield are basically equivalent to disabled people. Even if they still have the ability to work, they are generally not regarded as normal labor because they are not as good as normal people.

If you want to go out to work, no one will accept it, and even some amount of land will be deducted, which is why veterans can't always survive.

Ling Fu didn't know what the King of Jinling could do to allow these people to work, but since the other party was willing to accept it, then there was no problem.

For Xiao Zirong, Ling Fu also had an inexplicable trust.

After Ling Fu left, Xiao Xuexing touched the letter paper on the desk, turned his head to look out of the window and sighed: "It will take a little longer to come back now."

Originally, he was already counting the days, thinking that Xiao Zirong would come back soon, but now that he had made such a move, he could only come back after he had settled those veterans.

Xiao Xuexing turned his head and said, "Go and find out why King Jinling suddenly expanded Liulichang."

In the originally empty study room, someone suddenly responded: "Yes." Then there was no more sound.

After Xiao Xuexing smoothed the letter, he put it into a lacquer box, which contained all the letters Xiao Zirong wrote to him.

After counting, Xiao Xue decided to educate Xiao Zirong when he came back. He wrote too little, and there was no fixed time, so he must be allowed to write letters within a fixed time in the future.

At this time, Xiao Zirong who was far away in the Jinling Mausoleum sneezed, and Liu Cainiang who was at the side asked, "Did your Highness catch a cold?"

Xiao Zirong rubbed her nose, thought for a while and said, "Someone thinks, um, someone probably misses me."

Bai Yan smiled lightly: "Then Jiankang must be talking about you."

Xiao Zirong counted the days and said: "There was news from Jiankang before, and there are many veterans who are willing to come. Xuancheng is not very far from Jinling. When the time comes, they will send people over collectively. I will send them here." You can go back when you're done."

Although he still has a lot of things in hand, he promised Xiao Xue that he would go back earlier.

And... It's been a long time since I saw him, and he really misses him a little bit.

Anyway, the next things are almost arranged. The work from the previous year only needs to be finished, and the rest of the important things will be done next year.

After hearing this, Bai Yan said: "I was thinking about where Your Highness would find people, but I didn't expect to find so many people. I think Ling Fu means that these people can't wait to start work immediately. I guess they can continue to produce colored glazes this year."

Xiao Zirong said: "Don't worry, when they come, we will train them together first to see if they are good at blowing glass or painting, and we can make some arrangements. Don't let them work during the Chinese New Year. We won't squeeze them out." People."

Bai Yan said with a smile: "I know, but if these people come here and you don't let them do something, they might not know what to do."

Bai Yan is also considered a disabled person. When she was brought to Taoyuan City, she felt very uneasy, so she can understand the psychology of those veterans.

Xiao Zirong thought about it, and said, "Then let them get used to it first. The working time is shortened a little. They are not allowed to work on Zhengdan day. You can arrange the rest and take care of them."

Bai Yan nodded earnestly: "Your Highness is doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, we will definitely not hinder His Highness."

Xiao Zirong laughed: "This is not doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, this is paying off debts."

Both Liu Cainiang and Bai Yan didn't quite understand why he said that, and Xiao Zirong didn't explain.

In his mind, a large part of the reason why Xiao Xuexing led people to fight there was because of him. If he hadn't been trapped in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xiao Xuexing might not have sent troops directly.

Of course, it might not make sense for him to think so, maybe Xiao Xuexing had already made a plan.

But anyway, it has something to do with him.

The war has already happened, and he can't turn back time, so he can only take care of these disabled veterans from other places.

This idea also came up suddenly. He had seen disabled beggars in Jingkou before, and at first he thought that those people were controlled by gangsters.

It turned out that many of those beggars were retired veterans.

As a strategically important area, Jingkou has always been given special attention. The Northern Wei Dynasty and the State of Qi have been fighting back and forth, and they will test each other from time to time.

From the national level, these small frictions are relatively indifferent, but for these ordinary soldiers, they are nothing more than a disaster.

Only then did Xiao Zirong pay attention to the disabled group.

This group has been hovering on the edge of the normal world since ancient times. There are not many of them, but no one pays attention to them.

They are not very likely to participate in the daily life of normal people, and over time, no one pays attention to them.

In later generations, it was better because of the advancement of medicine, but it is very difficult for people with acquired disabilities to survive these days.

Xiao Zirong sent someone to investigate before, and found that most of the disabled people who are still alive are soldiers.

They are physically stronger, and they have a higher chance of surviving severe injuries than ordinary people.

Since then, he has been thinking about how to arrange these people, and Liulichang gave him a chance this time.

And the naked eye can see that Wei and Qi will fight again in the future, and there will be new disabled people at that time. Now that a better security system has been established, more lives can be saved in the future.

However, Xiao Zirong intends to carry out this plan secretly, because he has no experience, so in order to avoid failure, he has to think it through carefully. This is not an amusement park. The livelihood of thousands of people.

However, he wanted to keep it secret, but Xiao Xuexing helped him spread it in Jiankang.

Xiao Xuexing felt that there was no need to hide it when he had done good deeds. Of course, it would be a bit bad to directly publicize it, so he was the one to help.

But if it was something else, there might be people who would disagree, but what Xiao Zirong did was full of praise.

Not for anything else, just because this behavior itself is very consistent with the Confucian thought of "benevolence".

You may not do it, but you still admire those who do.

Xiao Zirong's reputation in Jiankang was very good for a while, and there were many generals who wanted to wait for the King of Jinling to return to Beijing to ask him to explain-the regent had disabled soldiers, and they only had a lot of them. People don't have the skills and business ability of the regent, so it is not easy to take care of these veterans. Now I finally have a chance to see if the King of Jinling can think of a way.

Xiao Zirong, who was preparing to return to Jiankang, never expected that he would be targeted before he returned.

All he knew was that he was stuck again and couldn't go back—on the second day after he said he wanted to return to Beijing, someone reported that he had caught a rare big fish, and asked the King of Jinling to decide whether to put it in the pond.

Xiao Zirong went over curiously, but when he saw the pink fat man wrapped in a fishing net, he was stunned on the spot: Chinese white dolphin!