Xi Zhicai's appearance is very ordinary, and it is easy to be ignored when he walks into the crowd. Yang Xiu, who had followed him, had the best understanding of this. However, Tang Xiaomi's strange thing is that Xi Zhicai's eyes do not have the sharpness and coldness of ordinary high-ranking characters in Jing'an Cao. And deep in Tang Xiaomi's heart, she has an indescribable dislike for Xi Zhicai - she has been in the Cao camp for more than a year, and there are two people she hates the most: one is Pang Tong, and the other is the Xi Zhicai in front of her.

The reason for hating Pang Tong is very simple and obvious, Pang Tong is an impenetrable and arrogant person, of course, he is very ugly, which undoubtedly gives Tang Xiaomi a more sufficient reason to hate him - however, for this drama talent, Tang Xiaomi only hates it from the bottom of his heart, and there is no reason to talk about it.

Although the handsome guy in the Ma family has cultivated a very high taste, I have to say that Xi Zhicai's appearance is absolutely annoying at first sight. As a result, Tang Xiaomi told herself in her heart that she hated Xi Zhicai because Xi Zhicai's face was unhealthy and pale, which made people feel as if he had always been a snake that had just woken up from hibernation, and when he stared at anyone, he was wet and sticky......

Women's intuition tends to be accurate, and they tend to find reasons behind their intuition. And this time, the drama that Xi Zhicai suddenly made this time really confirmed Tang Xiaomi's intuition: "Xigong Cao, you can't help but believe in Cao Gongzi's words too much, do you really think you, I suddenly repented and turned around and threw myself into the Cao family?" ”

Hearing Tang Xiaomi's words, Cao Ang was a little embarrassed, he didn't know why Tang Xiaomi was still stubborn at this time. Does she think that she, a weak woman, can withstand the methods of interrogating felons in Jing'an Caoli? Although her father agreed to her stay, he never agreed to guarantee her personal safety, even if Xi Zhicai made any terrible torture to her, his father would not stop her in any way!

But Xi Zhicai didn't seem to hear Tang Xiaomi's words, and he seemed to be more interested in Cao Ang's obviously embarrassed expression that Tang Xiaomi didn't accept his kindness at this time. However, before Cao Ang's embarrassment had turned into anger, he spoke: "Young master, you haven't said anything about what you have seen in this secret report. ”

Tang Xiaomi was ignored, which gave her more reasons to hate Xi Zhicai. But fortunately, Cao Ang finally came back to his senses, and he thought that his achievements could be displayed in front of Xi Zhicai, and he couldn't help but regain a little excitement just now. He put the secret report in front of Xi Zhicai, pointed to the words on it and said: "Xi Gong Cao, please see, this award ceremony is too flashy. But here ......" Cao Ang pointed his finger to a word that almost anyone would ignore, and continued: "You see, in addition to the pure face project of awarding military ranks, Ma Chao also specially awarded military flags to all armies!" ”

"Flags?" Xi Zhicai was a little puzzled, and vaguely felt as if he had caught something, but when he thought about it, he didn't seem to have caught anything.

"Xi Gong Cao, you see that Ma Chao then specially ordered his personal guards to go out in a big way under the guidance of the cavalry, carrying a large number of new officer uniforms and ranks to the Quartet to confer titles and change clothes for other officers stationed outside. At the same time, without exception, they all brought brand-new military flags - this kind of means of hiding from the world has always been Ma Chao's favorite! ”

Xi Zhicai finally understood what Cao Ang meant at this time, he looked at Cao Ang with a look of disbelief, and in that look, there was obviously a kind of fear and shock that penetrated into his bones: "Ma Mengqi's treachery and far-reaching vision are really unmatched in the world!" ”

However, both of them seem to have seen some clues in this 'face project', but to be honest, Tang Xiaomi knows nothing about these political methods. Seeing the two of them look like this, I want to know but I'm embarrassed to speak. was speechless for a while, so she could only stare at Cao Ang fiercely - as for why she subconsciously stared at that guy, Tang Xiaomi defended herself afterwards, because there was only an ordinary Cao Ang and the annoying Xi Zhicai in the hall, so she had no choice.....

Seeing this, or male vanity, Cao Ang carefully explained to Tang Xiaomi: "Miss Tang, you think that at this grand award ceremony, all the famous generals of the Ma family have been deeply branded. This kind of practice, which can extremely satisfy the vanity of the generals, will only think that in the future, they will order their subordinates with the supreme prestige of the Ma family. But I couldn't imagine why Ma Chao suddenly moved the people so much. ”

"The meaning behind it?" Tang Xiaomi's eyes blinked, obviously she really couldn't see the meaning behind this.

Cao Ang was privately designated by Cao Cao as the helmsman of the next generation of the Cao clan, and naturally learned these methods more or less from Cao Cao. He continued to explain: "Naturally, Miss Tang can imagine it. Why did Ma Chao deliberately distribute the unified customized Ma family military flags? This means that in the future, all warbands of the Ma family army can no longer use the surname of the main general as the military flag symbol, but begin to use the battle flag awarded by the Ma family. In this way, all the soldiers of the Ma family army on the front lines in various places will independently consider that they are part of the Ma family war group, and they will subtly put the status of the Ma family military system above the generals of the army......"

Cao Ang is right, this move is indeed one of the reforms that Ma Chao has implemented in the external performance of Ma Jiajun's standardization. And when it comes to this, even Tang Xiaomi, who is not interested in politics and military, also showed a look of sudden realization: the Ma family now dominates the vast expanse and the army is overpowered, and this time it has formed a front-line war group on a large scale, if the state pastoral system and the army command system inherited from the Han Dynasty are still implemented, then the main general will have 100% power over the troops under his command. Although all the officers serving in the Ma family army are now Ma Chao's trusted henchmen. But purely theoretically, if a certain general suddenly becomes dissatisfied with Ma Chao one day, then he can definitely take away the troops under his command very easily.

In terms of Ma Chao's prestige and talent alone, as long as he reigns for one day, Ma Jiajun can definitely only be monolithic. However, it is obvious that he has a more long-term vision, directly seeing the rule of law from the rule of man, taking precautions, and nagging the root cause of the hidden danger in the bud before any signs of the problem appear. And this is exactly what made Xi Zhicai admire and fear inexplicably just now......

"After all, Ma Chao was a hundred secrets, and he awarded the military flag in public, so that we could get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg. Presumably, along with the issuance of this military flag, he also has a lot of other safeguards that can ensure that all front-line regiments are loyal to the Ma family, and can also make the generals of the army willing to die for it. Cao Ang took his eyes off Tang Xiaomi's slightly shy and embarrassed face, involuntarily faced the east, and said with a deep sigh: "If the Ma family is rectified this time, at most two years later, five fronts and more than 200,000 troops will be directed to Yanzhou, how should my Cao family deal with it?" ”

This topic is really a bit heavy, Cao Ang and Xi Zhicai glanced at each other, and they both felt as if they had been choked by a boulder. Even Tang Xiaomi, who had always hoped that Cao's would be unlucky, was infected by the sad look on Cao Ang's face that was deeply worried to the bone, and did not show a gloating expression anymore.

The three of them were immersed in this emotion, and there was nothing to say for a while. Cao Ang was the first to come back to his senses, as the future successor of the Cao family, he couldn't be so ambitious to destroy his prestige, and then asked Xi Zhicai: "Xigong Cao, didn't you just say that you also deduced a few points from it, I don't know if you can say it this time?" ”

When Xi Zhi heard this, he took a deep breath directly, and then stared at Tang Xiaomi, until Tang Xiaomi's face showed obvious disgust, and then said heavily: "Young master, maybe this is just a random guess by Wei Chen." However, I think Ma Chao's move will kill at least two birds with one stone. He took so much pains, of course, he had the intention of sincerely implementing the reform of the Ma family's military system. But at the same time, he has succeeded in bringing our attention to this level, and at this moment, if he sneaks into the shadows and does something we don't know about, then ......"

Cao Ang's face was immediately filled with gloom and fear as before the rainstorm, and he was a little clear but said with a hint of luck: "Is this news true? There is really a shadow of the Ma family coming to Xuchang....... so why are they here? ”

"I don't know," Xi Zhicai shook his head, and after Cao Ang slowly set his eyes on Tang Xiaomi in a painful and tangled manner, he immediately nodded and said, "Yes, someone knows this news." And this time I came to ask Miss Tang about this......"