A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 399 The old soldier returns home, Lu Xiangsheng
The old pawn came to the government in their town.

"Name?"

"Fei Guandao...this is the certificate issued to me by the village..."

The old pawn said, and then asked nervously:
"Look, can this identity certificate be obtained?"

The Shun army was defeated by the Chinese army, and he was captured and finally sent back to his hometown.

It's just that the Hua Dynasty's identity certificate is not so easy to obtain. After all, they were once enemy soldiers. If they wanted to get it, they would need to inspect the area for a period of time, and the village or town where they were located would issue a certificate to confirm that they were safe and sound before they could go and handle it.

This is already considered broad. He heard that many Western barbarians also wanted to take it, and the conditions were even more stringent.

After all, only after you get this certificate can you be considered an official Dahua... citizen?
The old pawn didn't understand the term, but without proof, he was having a hard time here, but he felt it.

I can't even find a serious job, and I won't be able to buy a piece of land.

At this time, he was quite impatient.

Fortunately, the staff did not make things difficult for him. After confirming that everything was in compliance with the rules and regulations, they readily issued him an identity certificate.

Taking his ID card, he went to the department next door and applied to buy the land.

After seeing his identification, the staff who had resolutely rejected him in the past became surprisingly easy to talk to. They quickly handed over a field deed. After he signed it, a field in the west of the village was officially owned by him. .

After getting the small blue book with unique hard cover and holding the field deed, the old soldier actually had tears in his eyes.

The share equivalent to fifty acres of medium-sized fields, with the mixture of upper, middle and lower-grade fields in his hands, reached more than seventy acres.

Although most of them are low-level fields, for him, it is already a rare thing.

Before being expropriated, he didn't even have this third of the land in his hands.

"If I had known this, I should have surrendered during the Fangshan War. Why did I follow General Tiger..."

At that time, his parents had not passed away yet, so he still had time to honor them.

He smiled until he burst into tears.

There was a distortion in front of his eyes, and he seemed to be back to that day again.

"The intruders have arrived in Nanjing. I have been ordered to guard Nanjing by the Duke of Yue. I am now recruiting strong people to join the army!"

Shouts rang from the ears, and the commander came to the village with hundreds of soldiers. Without any explanation, he began to force the young men in the village to join the army.

Gao Yingxiang's troops arrived in Nanjing, and Yan Yinghui ordered nearby guard posts to enter the defense.

A guard station with thousands of people, but the commander only had a few hundred people left, but it was difficult to explain, so he came up with this strategy.

The old pawn has since left his hometown.

Defending Nanjing and suppressing the remnant bandits... He followed his generals and ran farther and farther, from the Ming army to the compliant army. It was not until Dashun was defeated that the Chinese army seemed unwilling to recruit them, the former compliant army, and he was released. Hometown.

It’s been eleven years.

Except for him, none of the young men who left their hometown with him came back.

All of them are buried in a foreign land.

Children ran past him, laughing at the man who was weeping freely on the street.

The old pawn calmed down his sadness.

Presumably, even his parents would feel relieved after seeing his current life.

Walking on the country road, he rolled his eyes and looked around, at the lush wheat seedlings in the fields and the smiling faces on the faces of the villagers.

After returning, he took a good look at this place for the first time.

The poor village eleven years ago has now become wealthy.

Although many of those former villagers died in troubled times, those who survived finally ushered in a better tomorrow after experiencing pain. God bless him... No, according to the soldiers of the First Army of the Chinese Army who captured him, it should be King Jingping.

Finally back.

I will never leave again in this life.

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Lu Xiangsheng glanced at the departing figure.

He didn't know that this was a soldier under his command, but he also knew that he was probably a repatriated prisoner of war.

The Chinese army is so powerful, which is inseparable from their almost harsh requirements for soldiers.

he thought to himself.

The old soldier is in his thirties, still in his prime, and has experienced battles. If he were transferred to any other army, he would never let him go. Even if he was a prisoner of war, he would only absorb him.

However, the Chinese army does not want people with unqualified education, and those in their thirties are even past the enlistment age.

This certainly qualifies as harsh.

"Should I say that I am worthy of being the chief assistant... With an army of 100,000 and 200,000, I can defeat all the heroes in the world. The strategy of elite soldiers is really more intimidating than the Shunxi Army, which can easily number hundreds of thousands."

He sighed softly.

However, these repatriation operations only apply to those soldiers who have no obvious bad deeds. Some extremely vicious soldiers will not receive the treatment of repatriation at all.

In this era, there is a shortage of people everywhere, whether it is mining or building railways.

According to the laws promulgated by Nanjing, those who committed numerous crimes during the war are not protected by the Labor Law.

The Ministry of Industry and the mine owners loved them.

People like Lao Piao were judged to be relatively innocent and had not done any bad things. They were reprimanded and then deported.

They were captured in North Zhili, but their hometown was in South Zhili, so even the personnel responsible for escorting them traveled a long way.

But this is not surprising. After years of war, the army was mobilized everywhere for fighting, and the king's flag changed on the city wall. In the end, each army was filled with people from all over the world.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but lament the cruelty of the war again. Fortunately, it has generally subsided now.

Turning around, the relevant person in charge had already bent over and stood in front of him with a smile on his face:
"Zhixian Lu, what are your orders?"

Lu Xiangsheng has made outstanding political achievements in recent years and has become a county magistrate from a low-level official.

"Is the land distribution going smoothly?"

This is probably what the current court is most concerned about.

"It went very smoothly...even now everyone has basically left...there are a lot of people here after all."

The old pawn probably didn't know that if he had arrived more than ten days later, he might not be able to buy land in this town.

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.

Of course, he himself was actually a gentry, but he didn't have much land. He was very satisfied with the compensation and being able to benefit the people.

He sighed at the courage of the chief minister and the emperor, and was influenced by their thoughts. At this time, he resolutely stood on the side of the court, planning to be more diligent in the future to benefit the people.

While several people were talking, another staff member ran over, panting:

"Sir, please take a look at the latest news from the capital."

He handed over a newspaper:
"Your Majesty is in Nanjing and has granted you a great seal of honor!"

(End of this chapter)