Throughout Great Chu, there were many people like the Prison Head. Although the Court provided a certain amount of Silver Coin as compensation to the disabled veterans from the battlefield and allowed them to retire early and return home, the vast majority of these discharged soldiers did not wish to burden their families with their incapacitated bodies, so they chose to stay at the border or in Jing City, supporting each other as they struggled to get by.
Compared to other disabled comrades, the Prison Head's situation was the best. There were quite a few who, like the Prison Head, were arranged jobs by Xiao Ruiyuan whenever suitable opportunities arose.
Even though these jobs were far less desirable than the Prison Head's, they were what every disabled soldier longed for. Although injured and handicapped, they did not want to live as true invalids dependent on others' support; only by working did they feel alive and that their lives had meaning.
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