Chapter 17 Go to General Chen
And it was Luo Zhan's request that made Luo Jiaqi feel that visiting the general of his future fiefdom would be on the agenda.
Ever since, after agreeing to Luo Zhan's request, Luo Jiaqi ran to find Yi Chen and wanted to find Chen Hancheng.
Yi Chen did not object,
And the biggest obstacle, Grandma Zhang, may have discovered now that her words don't seem to have any effect.
So I didn't say much more and just followed Luo Jiaqi. Anyway, as long as my princess wouldn't get hurt, it would be fine.
So, after finishing their studies on the second day, a large group of people set off again and headed towards the training ground.
Although Luo Jiaqi doesn't know the way, she still needs to know the way when there are three people following her?
Well, Lu Chi’s stubbornness!
Soon, a few people arrived at the training ground and saw a crowd of people.
But after arriving here, Luo Jiaqi couldn't help but frown.
"Princess...what's wrong?"
Yi Chen lowered his head. He originally wanted to ask Luo Jiaqi whether he should visit first or go directly to General Chen.
However, he saw Luo Jiaqi's little brows were furrowed and his face was full of seriousness, so he asked with concern.
Hearing Yi Chen's words, the other three people also looked at Luo Jiaqi, wondering what happened to her.
Luo Jiaqi didn't speak, just looked at everything in front of him.
I saw that there were indeed many soldiers in the entire training ground. The training ground was also large enough for them to practice.
But every soldier Luo Jiaqi saw was lazy and without any discipline at all.
There were even some people gathered around, drinking wine and chatting about dirty jokes. Everyone was drunk and didn't look like a soldier at all.
Not only that, there is also obvious polarization here. Those who drank just now belong to the same category.
The other type is as skinny as a stick and has no energy at all, as if it could be blown away by a slightly stronger wind.
All of them were just skin and bones, leaning against the wall, no different from the beggars on the street.
Can soldiers like this really be sent out to fight?
Not to mention whether we can win the battle or not, even if such a group is dragged out, they will definitely inflate others' morale and destroy their own prestige.
Thinking of this, Luo Jiaqi's brows furrowed so much that he wished they could touch each other.
"Master, what's going on with the soldiers here? Why are they all so lax?"
At this time, although Luo Jiaqi's voice was still soft and waxy, his tone was full of seriousness.
This made Yi Chen feel like a child asking a random question.
Instead, it feels like an immediate superior is coming to inspect.
However, Yichen didn't think much about it. He just sighed after hearing Luo Jiaqi's question:
"Our Xixia army has almost always been like this,
Anyway, there is no big war now, and they are not needed at all in peacetime, and the generals above are too lazy to care.
So it gradually became like this. In fact, what the princess saw was already considered good.
Some of them are even more egregious and will even use their status as soldiers to go out and rob civilian girls, causing the people to complain endlessly."
Hearing this, Luo Jiaqi's breathing became a little heavier,
But he didn't say anything, but looked at the thin soldiers again, and raised his chin:
"What about these people? They are also soldiers. How can they be so thin and weak?"
Regarding this, Yichen did not hide anything:
“Actually, many of these people joined the army because their families could not afford food.
But now the imperial court has almost no need for soldiers, so the subsidies for the soldiers are very small.
The usual food is only acceptable, but how many people in this military camp are polite to each other?
They are all eager to let themselves have an extra piece of meat, and there are some who have relatives in the team and have some status in the team.
All those good meals and everything went into these people’s stomachs,
And those people, who were originally thin, still don’t have enough to eat, and sometimes even have no food to eat, so it’s not impossible for them to become like this.”
After Yi Chen finished speaking, Luo Jiaqi finally couldn't help but shook his head. Once a country like this encounters a major event, it can only prepare to be beaten.
What kind of decor does a military camp like this have?
But Luo Jiaqi is just a child now. Even if she wants the emperor to pay attention to the military camp,
How could she, a child who still knows a girl, attract others' attention?
So in the end Luo Jiaqi didn't say anything, but changed the topic to Chen Hancheng:
"Let's go directly to General Chen. By the way, Master, do you already have the soldiers I brought when I went to the fiefdom?"
Compared with worrying about the soldiers of the entire country, Luo Jiaqi felt that it was more cost-effective to have soldiers who did not care about his own fiefdom.
But Yi Chen shook his head:
"Those soldiers would only set aside part of the military camp a few months before the princess left for the fiefdom.
Until then, these soldiers still belong to the country."
Frowning, this puts Luo Jiaqi in a difficult position. If those soldiers had made the decision in advance,
Then Luo Jiaqi can take action now to rectify those soldiers and turn them into soldiers who can truly protect their homeland and country.
But the division will be done a few months before going to the fiefdom. Wouldn't picking it up mean taking a bunch of trash to the fiefdom?
Luo Jiaqi was very unhappy about this, and she even had an idea at that moment:
Don't use those soldiers and armies, wait until you get to the fiefdom to reorganize them yourself!
However, this idea was dismissed by Luo Jiaqi as soon as it appeared. If he formed his own force, wouldn't this be a shot in the arm? Let's forget it.
But...she really doesn't want to bring such a bunch of useless waste to the fiefdom!
But now, no matter how much she resists, she as a child cannot stir up any trouble.
So Luo Jiaqi could only curl his lips and stop thinking about this problem:
"Let's go find General Chen. By the way, is he a general now?"
After waving their hands and giving the big order, the group of people continued to set off. As they walked, Luo Jiaqi asked.
Yichen just shook his head:
"No, he is just a general under Liu Changru now."
However, Luo Jiaqi suddenly didn't react and asked directly:
"who?"
Yichen was stunned:
"Liu Changru."
Luo Jiaqi still didn't react:
"who?"
Yichen was even more confused. What happened to his princess? Did he feel that what he said was disrespectful? So he added a prefix:
"Secretary of the Ministry of War, Liu Changru."
Only then did Luo Jiaqi realize that, yes, his grandfather seemed to be the Minister of War, named Liu Changru.
But this was too embarrassing. He touched his nose and pretended not to care:
"Oh~ I just thought that my grandfather's name sounded like a scholar, but I didn't expect that he was actually a martial artist..."
"..."
Unable to bear to expose Luo Jiaqi's embarrassment, Yichen just looked at the sky,
Chapter completed!