When the guard took the note and was about to leave, he was called back by the marshal: "Wait, give me the note!" The marshal, who took the note, picked up the pen and added a few words to it, and then waved his hand to let the guards retreat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the guards left, the marshal said to himself with a smile: "In order not to be too prominent, I can only suddenly increase the work of the military department, but I believe that the imaginary officers who are staying in the imperial capital at this moment will be very welcome." ”

Speaking of this, the marshal suddenly frowned: "Well, Zhao Hu is also in the imperial capital......

After thinking about it for a while, the marshal shook his head and said to himself with a smile: "Forget it, it's not good to be too pretentious, anyway, it's just a major rank, it's not a big deal." ”

After Zhao Hu reported to the military headquarters, Dio started the gift-giving operation in a hurry, but unfortunately, due to Zhao Hu's low position, those high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the porter, as soon as they saw the title of the major on the defeat post, they didn't look at what the gift was, and sneered and threw it back.

What's even more outrageous is that after the porter received the red envelope, not only did he not help, but said that if they dared to introduce such a low-level officer into the mansion, they would definitely die, so they couldn't help.

One or two like this Dio will not be discouraged, but all the high-ranking officials and dignitaries they know are like this, Dio is really depressed to the extreme, why is it so difficult to even give gifts these days!

Seeing the depressed expressions of Dior, Sun Jie, and Zhou Wen, Zhao Hu couldn't help but smile and said: "Look at you like this, as if you have lost a battle, forget it, don't send it, the rest of the thousands of horses will be our mounts." ”

Sun Jie, who had long coveted Maxima, immediately jumped up with joy, but before he could cheer, he was knocked down by Dio, who panicked and dissuaded Zhao Hu: "My lord, these Maxima must not stay for their own use!" ”

Sun Jie immediately stopped: "Why? We can't send it out and use it ourselves? Who's in the way? ”

Before Dio could explain, Zhou Wen knocked Sun Jie's head: "Stupid! Now the vast majority of generals don't have a mount of a thousand horses, and if you let the adults who are only majors have a thousand horses, don't you let those generals find trouble with the adults? ”

Sun Jie was deflated when he heard this, so he could only touch his head aggrievedly and said: "I can't send it again, and I can't use it, so what should I do?" Sell it, those high-ranking officials and dignitaries are so noble that we don't give them Maxima but sell them, and they will make trouble for us! ”

Diou, who was depressed because he couldn't go out for Zhao Hu, sighed: "Don't worry about this, the auctions in the imperial capital are all anonymous, my lord, what do you say now?" ”

Zhao Hu could only shake his head with a wry smile: "What else can I do?" Sell it anonymously. "It's so unfree that I don't bother to pay attention to these things.

"Well, maybe it's more useful to exchange Maxima for gold coins, after all, we don't know when the adults will be able to get the fief, and people can't eat horses and chew horses, and they can't have less gold coins." With this thought, Dio perked up a little.

Zhao Hu and the others did not choose to give all the remaining horses to the marshal, one was to send two, and then to send them, wouldn't it be said that they were not sincere? Why didn't you send it together?

The second is to give these thousands of horses that cannot be sent out to the marshal, which is equivalent to pointing at the marshal's nose and saying that he is collecting rags, which is simply a slap in the face to the marshal, and no one with a little common sense will do this.

After failing to walk the way, Zhao Hu took five guards to find a hotel to live in, reported to the military headquarters in the morning, and then went to the military camp where the servants were settled to exercise, and the black wolf who was left in the military camp could also take the opportunity to run to the wilderness to roll around.

During this period, the eighteen horses were quickly swept away by the magnates of the imperial capital, and due to the jealousy of the magnates of the imperial capital, the eighteen horses were exchanged for nearly 200,000 gold coins.

In other words, Zhao Hu easily owned more than 900,000 gold coins!

The income of a large number of gold coins made Zhao Hu and the others wait for the canonization of the territory with peace of mind, and just as Zhao Hu was running back and forth inside and outside the city, the Military Command Department suddenly issued hundreds of promotion orders inexplicably.

It is inexplicable, but it is because among the hundreds of promotion orders, none of them says that the promoter has made any meritorious deeds to be promoted.

Originally, Zhao Hu would not have paid attention to these promotion orders, but the appointment of supervisors at all levels of the Twentieth Legion made Zhao Hu, a person from the Twentieth Legion, feel a little wrong.

Seeing Zhao Hu's doubts, Dio reminded: "My lord, I don't know if you have noticed?" We have been in the imperial capital for such a period of time, and we have not heard the people or other soldiers talk about the invasion of Wenbei Province by the Feimu Banner Alliance, and now we have suddenly entered the army in a big way, and the officers who have been promoted have become the chief officers of the garrison near Wenbei Province, which shows that the empire has quietly recovered Wenbei Province, so to speak, this promotion is a reward. ”

"It's strange, since Wenbei Province has been recovered, why don't you make a lot of publicity? There is no merit in those promotion orders. Zhou Wen was puzzled.

Dio smiled bitterly: "Thinking about the fact that not long ago, the Imperial Army easily wiped out the five ace legions of the Freedom Alliance, you can know why the military department not only did not publicize the recovery of Wenbei Province, but also concealed the fact that Wenbei Province had fallen. ”

"I understand, the military department wants to save face! After all, they had just defeated the five trump cards of the Freedom Alliance, and as a result, one of their provinces was invaded by nomads, which made people know that it was definitely a particularly humiliating thing. Sun Jie said immediately.

"Face, hum, can face be eaten as a meal? Only those high-ranking officials will be concerned about this. Zhou Wen said dissatisfiedly.

"This is human nature, and there is no way to do it, if the news spreads, the light of the Empire's victory over the Freedom Alliance will immediately dim a lot." Dio sighed.

Hearing these words, Zhao Hu shook his head slightly with an indifferent face and said nothing.

On this day, Zhao Hu went to report to the military headquarters as usual, but instead of showing up and leaving in the past, he was told that all the fictitious officers in Beijing would be awarded real titles within two or three days, and Zhao Hu was asked not to leave the city to accept statistics during this time.

After receiving this notice, all the people who did not know opened their mouths, because according to the speed of the work of the military department, if it is not a particularly huge meritorious service, only officers who have been promoted to the rank of general will receive the actual title in the shortest possible time, and other officers who want to obtain the actual title will have to wait for the big distribution at the end of the year.

Now he is actually awarding real titles to all the fictitious officers in Beijing at once? Is the sun coming out of the west?

Thinking of the hundreds of promotion orders issued by the military department a few days ago, everyone wondered if the military department had been reorganized, and why did it change so quickly?

Just after looking carefully, the military department still has so many people, but all of them focus on how to count the number of false-rank officers in Beijing.

Zhao Hu didn't care about these things, but and his five relatives all stared at Zhao Hu's brand-new military certificate.

Although there is an order in addition to the military status certificate, which requires Zhao Hu to accept the territory before taking office, this order will not make Zhao Hu and them in a daze, what makes them dumbfounded is the information on the military status certificate card.

Major Zhao Hu, staff officer of the 5th Brigade of the Haibin Provincial Garrison Division.

"How so? Actually a local troop? ”

Sun Jie was the first to call out, although it is stipulated that the local troops are the reserves of the regular army, but in the eyes of the world, only the regular soldiers of the twenty legions of the empire can be regarded as real soldiers, and other local troops are not soldiers at all, but can only be regarded as city guards.

In general, only those who offended their superiors in the regular army were sent to the local troops.

"Alas, it seems that my worries have arisen, this is definitely because the powerful man wants to refrigerate the lord, otherwise how can the lord who has already visited His Excellency the Marshal be transferred to the local army?" Dio sighed.

Zhou Wen immediately proposed: "My lord, do you want to talk to the marshal?" You must know that after entering the local army, it is equivalent to entering the reserve, and you will definitely not be able to get any meritorious service! ”

Zhao Hu shook his head and smiled: "It doesn't matter what troops are, where is this coastal province?" ”

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, everyone only sighed, they didn't care if they were adults, so what else could they do.

Dio said with a low expression: "As the name suggests, the coastal province is a province near the sea, and it is a province by the sea in the empire. ”

Dior, who was still a little high-spirited when he arrived, suddenly said in frustration: "Alas, the port of Haibin Province is not good, it is definitely not a place to fight, and it is still close to the Shanyue tribe, which is considered a poor and backward province." Of the thirty-two provinces of the entire Augustian Empire, only five were close to the sea, and only a dozen or so of these five provinces were suitable for serving as deep-water ports.

Compared to the state of the thirty-one provinces of the Freedom Alliance, twenty-three provinces are close to the sea and hundreds of deep-water ports, so it is no wonder that the empire wants to compete with the Freedom Alliance for ports.

Although the coastal province is also a province close to the sea, there is only one port on the coastline of the entire province that is suitable for medium-sized merchant ships, and the rest can only moor small fishing boats, and if a port is not a deep-water port, it is of no value at all.

With the loss of a good port, and the fact that the coastal province is not only adjacent to the country of Shanyue, but also the entire province is mountainous, it is conceivable how rich it will be.

"Such a place, even the Shanyue Kingdom has no interest in annexation, so it is equivalent to being hidden by the snow." Dio said helplessly, "Your lord's territory won't be distributed to the Coastal Province, right?" Zhou Wen said worriedly.

"This ...... It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right? Although the Imperial Council is dedicated to finding the poorest and most remote places to serve as officers' territories. Dio said hesitantly.