Chapter 497: When It's Dark and When You Set Fire
The people who came also came in pairs, although the military rank was not high, but perhaps because of their special status, the other people who were about to get up just raised their glasses to these two people, and then tacitly let these two people go to comfort this generous kind-hearted person instead of the big guy.
These two positions are only the rank of major, but the years of joining the army are relatively short, and in less than a year, it can be said that there are two people who can make meritorious contributions.
Ye Ming and Qi Chen naturally discovered these two, after all, the eyes of the visitors had been staring in the direction of the two of them.
Of course, after shaking a glance at Ye Ming, he looked at Qi Chen.
Joke, how can a second lieutenant be that generous brother? It must be this colonel.
When the two approached, they first stood up and saluted, and then sat down and raised their glasses at Qi Chen if there was no one else.
Qi Chen is relatively single, and he is not very good at dealing with this kind of person, so he just smiled and pointed at Ye Ming and said,
"I don't have any money, don't look at me, the Lord is here."
Ye Ming didn't feel embarrassed, he nodded from the two of them with a smile, and his expression seemed to be expressing, "That's right, Lao Tzu is the old man." ”
The visitors glanced at each other, and one of the men with gold-rimmed glasses reached out and put a hand on his eye, and said with a wry smile,
"I didn't expect to look away, brother, how good it is to buy a position directly with such financial resources, why bother with the rank of a lieutenant?"
The buying and selling of officials mentioned by this person is not a big deal in the empire, but this kind of behavior has a good name, it is called donating officials.
The empire spends so much on military expenses every year, but it is really unable to make ends meet by relying on national taxes, so there is such a rule.
Encourage those noble children and the children of big businessmen to spend money to buy military ranks, of course, the highest can only be donated to colonels, and they are all the kind of casual positions without actual positions, although the military rank is real, but in the eyes of these real soldiers, it is a joke.
Ye Ming smiled when he heard this, raised his wine glass and took a sip lightly, and said,
"It's better to be promoted with real combat exploits, otherwise the rank on my shoulders will not be steady."
"That's right for our taste, spending money to buy a false job is a fool's business, hahahaha."
It was another rough man who spoke, with a muscular body that almost broke through his military uniform, and he looked like a guy who could drink.
Ye Ming smiled, and then couldn't help but glance at the two of them curiously.
"I wonder which part of the two majors are? Seeing that the two of them don't look like they're hiding behind, why don't they apply to go forward? ”
As soon as the words fell, the two on the other side looked at each other and smiled, and the man with the eyes shook his head with a smile.
"Brother must have just come to the front, right? Our top boss, Lieutenant General Bai, said that the battle is to be fought, and people are also to die, so now the front line is full of slave soldiers.
Let them go dog-eat-dog with the people in the neutral zone, as for the first-line main forces, they will all retreat to the second-line repairs, and wait for the main forces to be consumed in front of them before they are almost gone, so we can only come here to drink. ”
Ye Ming chuckled twice when he heard this, and then said disdainfully,
"Hey, those slaves are dead when they die, and it's a waste of food to live one more day."
The rough man laughed and slapped his legs when he heard this, as if the words had reached his heart.
"No, not to mention anything else, I heard that those slave soldiers don't have military pay, and those guys can rush up with a roar as long as they have enough to eat.
If it weren't for the fact that the equipment in hand was all obsolete goods, and they were really replaced with the equipment of the regular army, I think the combat effectiveness of these guys is not much worse than that of the regular army. ”
The eyed man sneered, shook his head and said,
"After all, a slave is just a slave, even if he changes his skin, he is still a slave, if I want to say that I have the money to raise slaves, it is better to raise a few more dogs, if I change to the same number of military dogs and rush up, I think this battle will have already been fought in the stomach of the neutral zone."
The speaker has no intention of listening, although Ye Ming has a mouth and a slave with these two guys, but he has written down all this attitude in his heart.
Yes, the disadvantage of imperialism is that slaves are equated with the private property of their masters, and their status is equated with that of animals.
This is also because the education of the imperial people cannot be popularized by slaves, just because they don't want these guys to learn knowledge, it is good to be a fool who only recognizes the master for the rest of his life, which perfectly explains what ignorance is blessing.
Of course, there are also those slaves who are extremely intelligent, and I heard that there are emperor's domestic slaves who will also serve as heavyweight ministers of the empire.
However, because of their background, these guys are not very looked down upon by their colleagues, and they can't even appear on formal occasions.
Seeing that several people in the audience were chatting more and more, the drinks and food on the table were also rapidly decreasing, and later, even Qi Chen, who only occasionally accompanied the wine, couldn't help but shake his body.
And Ye Ming's drunken state has been superimposed to ten hours.
The so-called wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants, Ye Ming also talked about the right taste, coupled with the mysterious background, quickly got the approval of the two imperial officers, and when the four of them came out of the bar together, they had changed into a shoulder-to-shoulder appearance, singing loudly all the way through the red light district, and the smell of alcohol made those young ladies couldn't help but roll their eyes.
Because Ye Ming revealed some information in his words, indicating that the two of them were from the imperial military department, and they came to the front line on a secret mission, and the rough man had an intentional friendship, so he came back and forth and finally came to the camp that the rough man was responsible for.
The visitor was a guest, and the rough man's bold temperament was even more invisible, and he directly moved two more beds in the command tent, intending to sleep here with four people.
I have to say that even the conditions of the imperial officers in the barracks are not very good, it is nothing more than that they do not have to lay on the floor and have the qualifications to sleep on iron frame beds.
Ye Ming and the others were not polite, they covered their heads and slept, and after everyone in the room snored one after another, Ye Ming quietly opened his eyes a gap.
casually took out a bottle of mineral water and drank it, although the picture in front of him was still a little ghostly, but his consciousness was still sober.
He walked up to the two Imperial officers and nudged them gently, reassuring to see that there seemed to be no response.
He stumbled to the map sand table in the middle of the command tent, took several photos with his watch, and then scanned all the documents on the table, and then climbed back into bed and began to wait for the drunken state to pass.
Now that the map of the camp is available, you can do things in a low-key manner after you recover.
(End of chapter)