"What was going on?"
On the dock, Yang Zhengshan pulled Luo Jinsong aside and asked.
Luo Jinsong looked somewhat helpless and said, "Master Yu said youngsters were good—youngsters listened and were easy to manage."
"What the hell?" Yang Zhengshan was a little stunned. "These couldn't be children he abducted, could they?"
"No, no. They're all the children of Tenglong Guard soldiers!" Luo Jinsong said.
"Then why did they all send their children here?" Yang Zhengshan asked.
Luo Jinsong thought about it and said, "Probably because there are too many children in Tenglong Guard!"
Yang Zhengshan blinked, still not quite understanding.
Luo Jinsong explained, "Many soldiers in Tenglong Guard all have six or seven children!"
Yang Zhengshan seemed to understand a little, yet also seemed not to have understood at all.
In truth, this had a great deal to do with him.
He had become Commander of Tenglong Guard in the twenty-ninth year of Chengping. Now it was the Seventh Year of Yanping; thirteen years and several months had already passed.
When he was in Tenglong Guard, he had let the military households eat their fill, and they had grown prosperous as well.
Once the problem of food and clothing was solved, what came next?
Naturally, having children!
Yang Zhengshan had invested a large amount of Spirit Spring Water into Tenglong Guard. Nourished by it were not only Tenglong Guard's soldiers and troops; women and children could also receive the nourishment of Spirit Spring Water.
With the constitutions of women and children improved, women were less likely to miscarry, and children were less likely to die young. This would greatly raise the fertility of Tenglong Guard's military households.
Economic conditions allowed it, physical conditions allowed it, and so in Tenglong Guard these years, little children rolling all over the ground could