Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

Afterward, Li Yuan continued to check the system he had obtained.

[Virtuous Wife Assistance System]

Li Yuan understood as soon as he saw the name that this must be related to his other half.

Upon closer inspection, it was indeed the case.

The system introduction was simple and direct.

Every time the host marries a wife, or has conjugal relations with a woman,

the host will receive corresponding ability enhancement rewards.

The abilities that can be enhanced include the host's combat power, strategy, and luck.

The higher the wife's appearance, status, and social class, the stronger the enhancement given by the system.

Seeing this system, Li Yuan was thoughtful.

Is this system forcing me to be a kept man?

However, marrying a wife in the Great Liang Dynasty is not particularly difficult.

Due to wars and corvée labor in this era, the loss of male adults is very large.

In many places, there are more women than men.

It's just that the system requires that the higher the wife's appearance, status, and social class, the more generous the reward, which is what Li Yuan cares about.

With the system in hand, Li Yuan felt relaxed, and his pace became lighter.

These newly recruited men by Li Yuan would first be sent to the Military Governor's Office in Qingyuan County.

The Military Governor's Office would then conduct selections, and qualified men would be assigned to various military forts under the Military Governor's Office to serve as military households.

Qingyuan County is not far from Li's Village, only half a day's journey.

In the afternoon, they saw the city walls of Qingyuan County from afar.

These newly recruited men were first taken to the drill ground of the County Military Governor's Office.

Just as Li Yuan was about to continue looking, a burst of drumbeats suddenly sounded in his ears.

He and the others turned to look.

A government official walked onto the high platform of the training ground and shouted loudly to the crowd in the field.

"Military Governor's Office decree, the Qingyuan County military household selection now begins."

Then, the official loudly announced the selection criteria for military households.

The selection conditions are actually not complicated.

The selection criteria for the main male of a military household are:

Height above seven feet, keen hearing and eyesight, and strong limbs.

Those who can lift a two-hundred-jin stone lock can be selected as the main male of a military household.

Those who do not meet this standard, but are above six feet tall,

can lift a hundred-jin stone lock, and have no disabilities, can be selected as the auxiliary male of a military household.

This standard is not difficult for farmers who have been doing farm work in the fields all year round.

However, many people present are illiterate farmers, and they don't understand the terms 'main male' and 'auxiliary male'.

So some people asked around to inquire.

Li Yuan was also a little curious and wanted to hear about the inside story.

Fortunately, at this time, a kind-looking middle-aged man said to everyone.

"Everyone, I do know some things. If you want to listen, I will tell you about it."

"This main male is the so-called combat soldier. You can understand it as the main force in the military household."

"The selection conditions are naturally strict, and the treatment in the army is better."

"This auxiliary male actually means auxiliary soldier. The selection conditions are lower than those for the main male, but you must also have some strength."

"You are responsible for miscellaneous tasks in the army on weekdays, and you are responsible for covering the combat soldiers in wartime."

"What we people who come to join the military household are seeking is nothing more than the fields, houses, and women that the Military Governor's Office can distribute."

"The biggest difference between the main male and the auxiliary male lies here."

"Do you know where the fields, houses, and women that the Military Governor's Office will distribute to you come from?"

The surrounding people looked at each other, and some even shook their heads.

The middle-aged man sighed and said.

"Where else can they come from."

"These fields, houses, and women naturally belong to those military households who died in the Battle of the Chishui River."

"According to our Great Liang military law, the property, wives, and daughters of military households belong to the Military Governor's Office."

"If a military household dies in battle, the wives, daughters, and fields will be redistributed by the Military Governor's Office to newly recruited military households."

"Alas, when you become a military household, you must understand that this is the fate of a military household."

After listening to the words of this middle-aged man.

The men who were forcibly conscripted from various villages were all silent.

What is a military household?

In fact, it is a kind of hereditary military system.

The Great Liang Dynasty has been in constant wars for many years, and the source of soldiers is very scarce.

The imperial court could not recruit enough soldiers, so it had to come up with the military household system.

The so-called military household.

In fact, it means that when they are at peace, they are civilians, and when they are at war, they are soldiers.

They usually farm in military forts and villages, and in wartime, they must prepare their own weapons and rations to fight for the imperial court.

Of course, being a military household is not without benefits.

First of all, when you become a military household, the Military Governor's Office will allocate fields and houses to the men.

According to the regulations of the Great Liang military law.

The main male of a military household can be allocated two houses, half an acre of vegetable fields, and 20 acres of arable land.

In addition, there is also an officially assigned wife and a maid.

In other words, houses, wives, land, and even maids are all given to you.

This treatment is actually not bad.

Even if it is only an auxiliary soldier, you can also be allocated a house, two-tenths of an acre of vegetable fields, and 10 acres of arable land.

In addition, you can also be allocated an officially assigned inferior wife.

However, military households do not receive any military pay on weekdays.

You also have to rely on your own money to support the wives and maids allocated to you.

Therefore, when there is no war, the Military Governor's Office's control over military households is not very strict.

But it is very different in wartime.

Once the Military Governor's Office issues a military order, military households must prepare their own rations and weapons to fight for the imperial court.

Those who disobey the order will be directly punished by military law.

The bad thing about military households is that the battlefield is dangerous, and life and death are unpredictable.

For example, in the Battle of the Chishui River between Great Liang and the Tiele people half a year ago.

Hundreds of military households died in Qingyuan County alone.

It is said that several military forts in this county were almost all mourning and wearing filial piety.

In addition, there is one more thing, that is, the wives and daughters of military households are not free.

If a military household dies in battle or dies of illness.

The wives and daughters in the family are allowed to observe mourning for half a year.

But after that, the Military Governor's Office must arrange for a new husband to enter the household.

This is also called selecting a man to replace the household.

In layman's terms, it means that the man in this family died in battle.

The Military Governor's Office will reassign a man to this family to replace the dead person and bear military service.

At the same time, this man is also the new husband of the women in this household.

In this process, women must completely obey the assignment of the Military Governor's Office.

They have no right to resist.

Because in the military household system, women themselves do not have any land.

Women have to rely on men to cultivate and work to support themselves.

There are more women than men in long-term wars, especially in military forts.

If a woman does not have a man to want and no one to support her, then her fate is destined to be miserable.

The final result is that she will be sold by the Military Governor's Office to the Northern Wilderness to trade horses with the barbarians.

Because Great Liang is extremely short of war horses, the imperial court has repeatedly used women to exchange for war horses when trading in the Northern Wilderness.

An ordinary war horse is worth 2 women.

And a good Northern Wilderness war horse can even be exchanged for as many as 5 young women.

And the women who are bought by the Northern Wilderness barbarians can be said to have an extremely miserable fate.

Basically, they are slaves who are worse than dead.

Therefore, these military household women are not too resistant to being assigned a new husband.

Because it is much better than being sent to the Northern Wilderness to be a slave of the barbarians.

Just at this moment.

The sound of war drums rang again on the high platform of the drill ground.

The military household selection of the Military Governor's Office officially began.