Great Liang Dynasty, Jianxing Twenty-Fifth Year, Dingzhou Prefecture, Qingyuan County, Li Family Village.
This was an extremely poor rural village.
As far as the eye could see, the village was filled with low, dilapidated thatched huts.
At this moment, under the large locust tree at the village entrance, over a hundred gaunt villagers were anxiously looking around and discussing.
A Military Governor's Office official, dressed in armor, was loudly reading from a notice.
"By order of the Military Governor's Office, Qingyuan County, Li Family Village, ten male adults are to be conscripted and assigned to Soldier Families."
"Once selected, they are to depart immediately without delay."
Upon hearing this, the villagers sighed in sorrow, and the faint sound of women and children crying could be heard.
Being a Soldier Family in Great Liang was not a good job.
Last year, the Great Liang Dynasty fought a major battle against the Tiele of the Northern Wilderness at Chishui River.
According to the deserters who returned, the Great Liang army suffered extremely heavy casualties, with over a thousand soldiers from Dingzhou Prefecture's garrisons alone being lost.
The most numerous casualties were those from the lower-class Soldier Families.
Now, the various General Fortresses under the Military Governor's Office were urgently seeking soldiers due to severe population losses.
And Li Family Village was forcefully ordered to conscript ten male adults to replenish the Soldier Families.
Defying the Military Governor's Office's military order was courting death, so these unfortunate villagers could only send out their young men.
Fortunately, the male adults to be conscripted had already been selected yesterday.
Households with two brothers had to send one, and the rest were forcibly conscripted bachelors in the village who had no wives or children.
For Li Family Village, with over a hundred households, it was not too difficult to gather ten male adults.
At this time, the men selected to be Soldier Families all looked dull and dejected.
Those with families were tearfully bidding farewell to their loved ones.
Among these conscripted male adults,
A young, heroic boy was also bowing and bidding farewell to his older brother.
His name was Li Yuan, 19 years old this year, the second son of the old craftsman's family in the village.
His features were very handsome, and his build was tall and well-proportioned, much taller and stronger than ordinary farm boys.
At this moment, Li Yuan said softly to his brother,
"Brother, don't worry. Our Li family is poor. If I, your younger brother, want to marry and continue the family line, becoming a Soldier Family is the only way."
His older brother, Li Xiong, was an honest and simple middle-aged man.
He just kept rubbing his calloused hands, sighing mournfully.
"Little brother, if you only want to continue the family line, I, your elder brother, can gather some silver for you."
"It's not too difficult to find a fertile woman from an impoverished family in the village and get you a temporary wife to bear a male child."
"If you become a Soldier Family, swords and spears have no eyes on the battlefield. If you get injured or crippled, how can I face our deceased parents?"
At this point, Li Xiong's eyes were filled with tears and his face was full of sorrow.
"What's more, I heard that once you become a Soldier Family, you're registered as a soldier, and future generations will be soldiers. It will be difficult to get off the registry again."
"Little brother, you must think it through carefully."
Li Yuan, however, laughed heartily.
"Brother, rest assured. I, your younger brother, have trained my body since childhood and practiced saber and horse skills diligently."
"Going to be a Soldier Family is a great opportunity to achieve something."
"Moreover, brother, the official recruiting Soldier Families said so."
"As long as one can be selected as a main Soldier Family."
"The General Fortress will immediately issue land, property, and women."
"Why wouldn't I go for something like the government giving out wives for free?"
Seeing his younger brother, whose face was full of excitement and who had already made up his mind,
Li Xiong, as the older brother, could only shake his head and sigh deeply.
His sister-in-law, standing behind his brother, seemed somewhat happy.
Seeing her husband's worried face, she quickly advised him,
"Little brother wants to be a Soldier Family himself, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it."
"Rather than staying at home doing nothing all day, it's better to go to the army and strive for a future."
"My dear, don't worry too much."
"Little brother is a fortunate person, and heaven will surely protect him. He will definitely be safe and sound."
Li Yuan glanced at his sister-in-law.
His parents in the Li family had died young, and the wealth left behind was only enough for his older brother to start a family.
He had no land or property to inherit and could only live with his older brother's family.
His older brother inherited his father's craftsmanship and over ten mu of barren land, which barely allowed them to make a living year-round.
This year was even a famine year, with scarce grain and rice as expensive as pearls.
This sister-in-law was also stingy and harsh.
Li Yuan was young and strong, had a large appetite, and ate a lot, while his older brother took good care of him.
His sister-in-law naturally didn't have a good attitude towards him.
Now, the government was forcibly conscripting male adults from the village into the army to be Soldier Families.
Every household in the village tried to avoid it.
Li Yuan, however, went to the Village Chief himself and signed up to join the Soldier Families.
There was no other reason.
How could a man remain long in obscurity under others?
Rather than having to watch his sister-in-law's face for every meal and drink at his older brother's house,
It was better to actively join the army and strive for his own future.
It was already Si hour, which was around nine o'clock in the morning. The ten male adults from Li Family Village had all packed their bags and were waiting to depart.
Under the shouts of the Military Governor's Office official,
They tearfully bid farewell to their families and embarked on the road away from their hometown.
Walking on the dirt road outside the village,
Li Yuan was actually in a good mood.
It had been over ten days since he transmigrated to Great Liang.
Today, he finally activated his system.
That's right, Li Yuan was, as expected, also a transmigrator.
The original owner before the transmigration was also named Li Yuan.
He was a young man from a small town who had just graduated from university and made a living by delivering food.
As a result, while rushing a urgent order, he was directly sent off by an overspeeding truck.
When Li Yuan's consciousness awoke from the darkness again,
The university graduate, Li Yuan, had completely disappeared.
He had become Li Yuan, the second son of the craftsman's family in Li Family Village, Qingyuan County, Dingzhou Prefecture, Great Liang Dynasty.
In his previous life, as a generation constantly influenced by transmigration novels and TV dramas,
Li Yuan didn't take long to accept the fact that he had transmigrated.
However, even knowing he had transmigrated, he didn't feel panicked or scared.
His parents had died young in his previous life, and he had no relatives to interact with, usually living a solitary life.
Li Yuan had nothing to miss about his previous life.
After transmigrating, he even gained an older brother, which didn't seem like a loss to him.
As a transmigrator, the first step Li Yuan had to take was naturally to determine the historical background of his current location.
However, after some investigation, he was a bit confused.
Although the language and writing of this world shared the same origin as Great Xia in his previous life,
The geography and history seemed completely different.
The dynasty he was currently in also didn't correspond at all with the history of his previous life.
This meant that he had most likely transmigrated to a parallel world very similar to the history of his previous life.
However, for Li Yuan, this didn't matter.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Since I've transmigrated to this era, I will make a good go of it.
Not to waste the opportunity given to me by some god of time and space.
And just now, the long-awaited transmigration benefit.
Li Yuan's golden finger system was finally activated.
【Congratulations, Host, for surviving over ten days after transmigration】
【Reward Host with the ability, Huiyan识珠 【Eyes of Discernment】】
【And gain the Virtuous Wife Assistance System】
Li Yuan was startled.
My transmigration golden finger is actually an ability plus a system.
Thank you for the generosity of the God of Transmigration.
Let me first see what these so-called abilities and systems are for.
With a thought, Li Yuan first opened his ability introduction.
【Huiyan识珠 【Eyes of Discernment】】.
The Host can see any valuable things and people for himself.
It is also possible to detect strong danger and hostility.
The higher the value, the stronger the light displayed around the target.
However, it will only display once, and the light will disappear once the Host obtains the item or person.
Li Yuan nodded with satisfaction; this ability was good.
It could timely discover opportunities and people beneficial to him.
It should be of great help to him now.
Once again, he thanked the God of Transmigration for his favor.
