Amid the eyes and smiles that everyone understood, Gu Yunniang's face was red, and she followed Huang Laifu and Yang Butler to leave the thousand-household house. Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu hurriedly led their horses out.

Gu Yunniang also had a little red horse. When she came to Wuzhai Fort with Gu Qianhu, she rode a horse like everyone else. During the Ming Dynasty, women were capable and used mostly vehicles such as chariots and bridges. In the cold weather, they usually used warm sedan chairs, even some women from military generals were no exception.

Gu Yunniang rode a horse with everyone, obviously among the women at this time, she looked quite unique. She looked like a good baby in front of the masters in the hall. After leaving the Qianhu House, she found her true form.

She looked at Huang Laifu with pretty eyes, with a smile on her face, and said to Huang Laifu in a delicate voice: "Hey, Huang Laifu, are you really going to go to the farm to check? You can't use this name to go where to play, right? I just remember you can play with guns and sticks, when did you do serious business? Tell me, wherever you want to play, I'm bored, so let's go together."

If it were normal for her to say this, Huang Laifu had already run to her dryly, and tried his best to please her and explain it, and would not care about the sarcasm in her tone. When the two were together in the past, Gu Yunniang always said that Huang Laifu was a rough man, vulgar and unknown, and was even more dissatisfied with Huang Laifu's frequent oppression of the military families in Wuzhai Fort. This is also the result of reading too much idle books.

But at this time, Huang Laifu just smiled slightly and said, "Of course I have to go to the military farm to check it out, otherwise do you think I have nothing to do, so you can go out of the fort to have a breath?"

He turned over the horse and said to Gu Yunniang: "In such weather, you should accompany my mother and sisters to talk in the house with fire and run around, what will happen?" As he said that, he was about to ride his horse and get up.

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so they quickly turned over. Both of them knew that the young lady of the Gu family was not a good person to meet. They annoyed her and they couldn't afford to take care of her, so they had to hold back their laughter and turn their eyes elsewhere. At the same time, they were surprised that the young master in front of the young lady of the Gu family was not like this. They felt uncomfortable when they looked trembling. Could it be that they had changed when they went out?

Butler Yang also rode on a horse. Looking at the two young children's appearance, he just smiled and said nothing. At the same time, he was a little surprised by Huang Laifu's changes in front of Gu Yunniang. After all, Huang Laifu grew up since he was a child. As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.

Gu Yunniang was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect that Huang Laifu was exactly the same as before and ignored her. She couldn't help but snorted angrily, and then felt that she was very shameless in front of several servants. She called out: "Huang Laifu, you... you are so heartless. I'll come to see you from all over the place, you are like this. I'm going to tell my aunt that you bullied me." Her eyes suddenly turned red, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Huang Laifu laughed and said softly: "I'm not watching you come from all over the place and can't bear to be blowing outside. Since you are coming, let's follow along." He has seen this little daughter for a long time before, so he can control her.

Gu Yunniang blushed and whispered, "Who wants you to bear it?" Seeing that Huang Laifu agreed to her request, she turned anger into joy. She quickly turned her back on her horse, but unknowingly, her control of her emotions had been transferred to Huang Laifu's hands.

Huang Laifu took the lead and rode his horse out of the fortress. Several people followed behind. When people on the street saw Huang Laifu and others riding horses, they hurriedly dodged and called their children for a while. The streets were full of chaos.

Gu Yunniang rode her horse and walked with Huang Laifu. She said, "Huang Laifu, look at you, as soon as you come out, the people on the street are afraid of you. I heard that your reputation in Wuzhaibao can stop children from crying at night. Isn't it true?"

Huang Laifu smiled and said nothing. Gu Yunniang hummed in an uninteresting voice, her mouth flattened and ignored Huang Laifu. However, she felt depressed. Huang Laifu used to be obedient to her, so how dare she ignore her like she is now? I don’t know what happened to this person. When I went out, it seemed like she had a changed personality. She suddenly didn’t know what to do.

Gu Yunniang and Huang Laifu got married since childhood and met each other since childhood. They often had sex with each other, so they were childhood sweethearts. However, Gu Yunniang loved to read legendary novels or dramas of talented men and beautiful women since she was a child, such as "Yu Jiao Li", "The Legend of Haoqiu", "The Heart of the Qin", "The Record of Luanlu", "The Record of the Condor Heroes", etc. This was the popular fashion of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Not to mention her, even the current Wanli Emperor is a fan of legends and dramas.

Girls' minds and nature, if you read too many such books, you will inevitably have fantasy. But fantasy is fantasy, reality always disappoints. Huang Laifu looked rude when he used to look like a rude scholar. He was not only not like the talented scholars in the book, but also like the people who resist foreign aggression, loyalty, filial piety, and the Great Sword. On the contrary, she was also like the rebellious angles like the playboys and evil young men in the book, which made her very disgusted.

It was just the order of her parents and the words of the matchmaker. In the Ming Dynasty at that time, there was no other ending. She was destined to be with Huang Laifu in this life. The gap between reality and fantasy, coupled with her deep spoiled by both families, was also a person with a temper, so she would never give him a good face in front of Huang Laifu.

However, she is a very scheming girl. She always looks like a good baby in front of the adults of the two families. When she is with Huang Laifu in front of others, she is shy, graceful, and well-behaved, and is very popular with the adults. Only in front of Huang Laifu will the true form be revealed. As for Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu who know her style, they dare not say anything to others.

I don’t know if Huang Laifu was ashamed of himself or something before. No matter how Gu Yunniang treats him, he is always tolerant and willing to accept it. This makes Gu Yunniang make Huang Laifu become more arrogant.

She was used to Huang Laifu's obedience to her in the past, but today she ignored her. This contrast made Gu Yunniang very uncomfortable, so she had to be angry and not speak. After all, she was just a 16-year-old girl and was not Huang Laifu's opponent in terms of emotional control.

Huang Laifu glanced at Gu Yunniang. He was not angry about this kind of young daughter's behavior and spent more time to pay attention to it. He was busy planning a big career, so how could he waste his energy on such entanglement?

In addition, he has always liked the kind of gentle and cute girl who is dependent on others. Although Gu Yunniang looks like a good baby in front of adults, he knows her stubborn temperament. No matter how unbearable Huang Laifu was before, Gu Yunniang was dissatisfied, he doesn't want to spend more time on the emotions of this little child.

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Soon, the group left Wuzhaibao City and headed northwest to the Qinglian River. There were some military farms of Wuzhaibao soldiers. For a hundred years, the military households and families here made a living by this, combining troops to farm, guarding the garrison, and looking at the entire border town, this is the case.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, military garrisons were implemented. Generally speaking, border garrisons were divided into three parts of garrisons and seven parts of military farming; mainland garrisons were divided into two parts of garrisons and eight parts of military farming.

Generally speaking, each hereditary military household in the garrison can be divided into 15-50 acres of land, and it is also distributed to oxen, farm tools, etc.

Generally speaking, every year, the grain harvested by the soldiers in the military farming year will be kept by themselves (one stone in Ming = 188.8 jin), and the grain will be paid by 12 stones, and the army will be kept in the warehouse for its own control. About 70% of the grain is the monthly grain and half salary of the soldiers, and the remaining 30% are the salaries of officers.

Among the monthly grains given by the military households, regardless of the number of mouth, the horse army gives 2 stones of rice, 1 stone of infantry flag, 1 stone of small flag, 2 stone of small flag, and 1 stone of sergeant. However, there is a difference here. For example, the monthly grain of sergeant guarding the city is given in full, and half of the people who farm farms are given in military farms. The civil craftsman who can be exiled for 8 dou, the horses are 1 stone of 1 stone, and the civil sergeant trainees are given in 1 stone. Those who have a family are given in 4 and 6 dou, and those who have no family are given in 4. As for the monthly salt, those who have a family are given in 2 kilograms per month and those who have no family are given in 1 kilograms per month.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the military farming achieved good results, and the army could basically be self-sufficient. However, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Xuande, the military farming system had begun to be destroyed, resulting in the abandonment of military farming fields. The Ming government had to reduce the amount of grain collected in the five towns in Yansui, Gansu, Ningxia, Xuanfu, and Datong. In the early Ming Dynasty, the original amount of grain in the middle was 1.54 million shi, and by the early Jiajing year, the grain had dropped to 570,000 shi, a decrease of 53%.

In the late Jiajing period, the grain collected in the garrison was becoming more and more limited, and the government had to return the military land to the warehouse and try to raise funds. Especially after the Little Ice Age, the military rations of the military towns and garrisons relied on the treasury allocated more.

There are 1,120 flag troops in the Thousand Houses of Wuzhai Fort, combined with sergeants and officers. The original military farming area is more than 60,000 acres and 72 acres of gardens. It is located near Wuzhai Fort, and a large part is located in the area of ​​Qinglian River.

According to the military garrison system, the military households in Wuzhai Fort need to pay about two dou of grain per mu of farmland. In this way, the total annual grain income of Wuzhai Fort is about 12,000 dou, which is calculated at 1 dou and 20 kilograms, which is approximately 240,000 kilograms and 120 tons of later generations.

However, this was all in the early Ming Dynasty. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, most of the Wuzhai Fortress that could be irrigated by water sources were already occupied by Huang Sihao, Qianhuo and some officers of Wuzhai Fortress. Most of the military households became tenants of the officers. In addition, the drought and cold disasters have continued in recent years, and the grain production of these Wuzhai Fortress has been getting worse every year.

Especially in recent years, there have been severe droughts and coldness. The annual grain production of Wuzhai Fort is only tens of thousands of kilograms, and most of it is from the fields of the officers. This is far from the annual demand of one million kilograms of grain in the entire Thousand Households of Wuzhai Fort, not to mention that the population of this military town and garrison station is not comparable to that in the early Ming Dynasty.

The food in the garrison was insufficient, so the monthly grain had to be allocated to the top, but according to the rules, they were deducted from each other. The monthly grain was in the hands of ordinary soldiers in Wuzhai Fort, and only one-third of the remaining ones were there. Each soldier had a few wives, children and children in his family. How could this meager monthly grain make a living? No wonder the entire Wuzhai Fort looked like a beggar's nest. (To be continued)
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