Chapter 382

To retire and return to the land... Facing a result that held no surprises, the soldiers in the training grounds hung their heads in silence. They, too, longed to lay down their arms and return to farming. The problem, however, was that they had no land to till! Farmland near the Capital was in high demand. Even low-yield, poor-quality plots sold for four or five taels of silver per mu. For a family to have enough to eat, they needed at least ten mu of land. For these soldiers, forty or fifty taels was an astronomical sum.