Early the next morning, Ambition, as a newly appointed general, was officially inducted. He was riding majestically on a tall white horse, which was given to him by his father with peace of mind, and was called Lingma.

The purpose of his trip to the army was to make a transfer of military power with the former general. Although disgusting seemed very reluctant to this, he still had to bend to the arrangement of peace of mind and obediently retire and hand over power. After a simple handover ceremony, Disgust handed the Talisman Token, a symbol of military power, to Ambition, and led him through the army. Since then, Ambition has truly become the general who commands the entire army.

However, it was this brief inspection just now that made Ambition realize that this army may be loose and lazy in normal times, and the soldiers can't even stand in a normal military posture, and if they really want to fight, the soldiers will probably not be able to support it for long before they will have to scatter and flee, so he decided to find a way to find out what the training of these soldiers is like in peacetime.

Another day passed, and this time the ambition did not come to the barracks as early as yesterday to guide the soldiers' training, he wanted to test the soldiers' self-consciousness, so he deliberately arrived late, and then took advantage of their unpreparedness to conduct a surprise inspection. Sure enough, the leaders who took the lead waited for most of the day and did not see any trace of their ambitions, so they took it upon themselves to disband the soldiers who were training, and then instructed the men in the canteen to fry a few small dishes for them, and then took out several jars of old wine and drank them.

I saw them pour the wine into two large basins of the same capacity, and then one of the referees counted down: "Three, two, one, start." Then the two drunkards poured a large basin into their stomachs in unison, and the onlookers cheered for the object of their bet and said, "Come on! Come on! The atmosphere was high and forgetful, and they were completely unaware of the ambitious generals who had quietly appeared around them. Then, as soon as the game ended, they still only cared about their own losses and losses, and talked and laughed. Look at the drunkard who couldn't drink the other party, and he lifted the table in front of everyone, and immediately played drunk, full of ugliness.

In this situation, ambition is all in the eyes. At this time, he couldn't bear it anymore, waved his hand and slapped it the table next to him, and scolded angrily: "You group of wine bags, rice bags, and hip meat have been resurrected, and you know how to eat and drink all day long, and you have no combat effectiveness at all. Come on left and right, put them all in the prison and lock them up, and when they are sober, I will interrogate them properly. ”

However, this matter soon reached the ears of disgusting, you know, although disgusting has retired and abdicated, he has many eyes and ears in the army, and the entanglement of interests in it is naturally intertwined. As soon as I heard that several soldiers had been trained by myself, they had been arrested by Ambition for drinking and gambling, and Ambition also said that he would interrogate them personally. Disgusted, he immediately jumped to his feet in anger, and he secretly thought in his heart: The new official has three fires in office, and his ambition is to kill chickens and monkeys, and give the officers and men of the whole army a dismount, so as to consolidate and establish his leading position in the army! However, if those arrested soldiers accidentally confessed all the shameful crimes of accepting and accepting bribes in order to save their lives during the interrogation, then he himself would not be finished. Just thinking about it scared the nausea to the point of shivering. "No, we have to find a way." He finally came out coldly with this sentence.

So, he immediately found ambition, and after his own processing of the rumors he heard, he fabricated a terrible rumor at will, and he said to ambition like this: "Patriarch, you may not know that ambition is warlike by nature, and we are now in a peaceful and prosperous era, and it is impossible to fight at all, but ambition is in the army to advocate that those soldiers should be ready to fight, can you understand what he means?" ”

Ambition listened, shook his head and said, "I don't understand very well. ”

Disgusting pretended to be nervous and pitiful and replied: "You have not been the patriarch for a long time, and your experience is still shallow, so it is impossible to guess the ill-intentioned intentions of ambition. However, I think you know one thing better than anyone else, the only thing that can compete with you for the position of patriarch in the first place is ambition. Now, although he is not the patriarch, he has always coveted your position as the patriarch. It is not difficult to see from his advocacy of war that he has the tendency to dominate the throne, and intends to empty the leadership position of the patriarch! With all due respect, if there is a war in Lingxin Village, it will be nothing more than a civil war with ambition to seize the position of your patriarch, and at that time, he will definitely launch a military coup d'état to oust you from power by any means, which is terrifying just thinking about it now! ”

Ambition didn't think much about it, but being disgusted and adding branches and leaves made him have to be suspicious of ambition. However, ambition knew that he had no military power, so his words naturally had no weight, so he could only ask helplessly: "Cousin, do you have any good coping strategies?" ”

Disgusting to see that the ambition has been set, he supported it: "I recently heard that a few soldiers who oppose him have this idea of war have been imprisoned by him without authorization, if these soldiers with soldiers can be protected, then it will be difficult for ambition to do anything in the army in the future, which also just relieves your worries, what do you think of this trick?." ”

When Ambition heard this, he felt that what Disgusting had said was reasonable, so he obeyed him and gave him an instruction to Ambition to hand over all the soldiers he held to Disgusting to deal with himself.

After Ambition received instructions from Ambition, he was a little resistant and embarrassed at first. In fact, he had long expected that there must be some kind of interest between these soldiers and disgusting, but this time, he had to make concessions due to disgusting and eccentric cousin nepotism, and for the sake of the patriarch's ambition to call him his cousin, he knew that even if he delved deeper, he might not be able to achieve any good results. However, if these soldiers are let go for no reason and let them go, won't it make you look very incompetent in the army, and what prestige will you have to command the whole army in the future? Ambition is a dilemma. "Somebody's going to have to pay for it, right?" Ambition thought to himself, "That's right, military heart." He replied to himself. So, he suddenly thought of taking the deputy general Xinlie as the full responsibility for this incident, but Junxin is the godson of a loyal old general with high morality!

As soon as he took office, he encountered such a thorny problem, and he really didn't know how to handle his ambition that was not deep in the world, and since he wanted to "open the knife" with his loyal godson, he naturally had to ask for his loyal consent. So, he took the initiative to visit the loyal old general.

As soon as they met, after a polite greeting, Zhongxin took the initiative to ask: "Ambition, I'm glad that you can take the time to come and see, but you should have nothing to do without going to the Three Treasures Palace, right?" Isn't there a problem? Faithfulness discerns the anxieties of ambition.

When Ambition heard him say this, he did not shy away from explaining his intentions directly to Zhongxin: "Loyal old general, the problem I am facing now, on the one hand, the disgusting cousin of ambition, and on the other hand, the military heart of your godson, it seems that you can't offend anyone, this really makes me in a dilemma!" But if no one deals with it, I won't have the prestige to command the whole army in the future, so I have come to ask you for advice today, hoping that you will always give me an idea. ”

Zhongxin understood the meaning of ambition, so he asked tentatively, "Ambition, you should have your own ideas about how to deal with this matter, right?" Now, just tell me what you really think and see how I can help you. ”

When Ambition heard Loyal Soul say this, he secretly felt happy, and knew that the loyal old general had always been knowledgeable and reasonable, and he would not embarrass himself, so he said his thoughts out of his mind: "I have instructions from the ambitious patriarch over there to support him, so I can only offend you and take the military heart, but I will just demote him and will not let him leave the army." ”

Loyal nodded his head while listening, and said in agreement: "Okay, that's a good idea, so let's do it!" On Junxin's side, I'll make it clear to him. However, I have recently heard that your "war theory" has caused a lot of trouble in the city, so I think it is necessary for you to further explain your views to everyone, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstanding and panic! ”

"yes, I see!" Ambition didn't expect the loyal old general to agree so readily, and personally pointed out the maze for him, which also made the worries that haunted his heart disappear immediately, for this, Ambition was so grateful that he immediately knelt down and thanked him: "Thank you loyal old general, you are not only magnanimous, but also guide me, and the general will never forget it for the rest of his life!" ”

Faithfulness immediately helped him up, looked at him with kind eyes and affection, and said with emotion: "Son, get up." Alas, if I had children, he would have been as old as you. ”

Ambition was very puzzled by this, and asked tentatively: "You don't even have a wife, where is the child?" ”

Zhongxin was asked so casually by him, and replied helplessly: "This matter is a long story, if there is a chance in the future, I will slowly tell you about it." ”

Ambition knew that he had no intention of mentioning the sad past of the loyal old general, and he was too embarrassed to ask any more questions, so he could only say with a little apology: "That's okay, I won't bother too much, and I'll retire first." ”

"Hmm." Loyal didn't want to say more, just waved his hand and motioned for him to leave.

After getting the approval of the loyal old general, the ambition can naturally be unleashed and made a big difference. I saw that he passed on the hearts of those soldiers and soldiers to the military court, and then directly pronounced the verdict in front of them: "You guys with wine bags and rice bags, who have openly violated military regulations and drunk and caused trouble, are now all expelled from the military gate and handed over to the old general for disgusting disposal; As for the morale of the army, as a deputy general, you did not strictly supervise and restrain the soldiers in the army, which made the whole army disheartened and scattered. You are now found guilty of dereliction of duty, and you are now found guilty of dereliction of duty, and you are demoted to an ordinary soldier with a command, and you are promoted to the rank of deputy general. As a member of Lingxin Village, no one can control the village discipline and national law of Lingxin Village. I hope you and the officers and soldiers of the whole army will take this as a warning! Don't do it again, otherwise, you will be killed next time. ”

At the same time, Zhi Zhi also heeded the advice of the loyalty, and published his interpretation of the "theory of war" in the form of a proclamation in the army, so as to dispel the erroneous understanding of his original meaning by those with ulterior motives. Otherwise, once the guard is relaxed, the invaders will be ready to move, and it will be too late for us to practice the battle when their iron cavalry army is in front of us. Therefore, forgetting the war will be dangerous, and only when we always tighten the strings of war preparedness can we be invincible in wartime. As soon as these remarks came out, they immediately smashed the rumor-mongering conspiracy of those people with ulterior motives, stopped the spread and spread of unhealthy tendencies in the army, and reshaped the military prestige of the army.

Let's take a look back at the reaction and performance of the public after the verdict. Of course, the few soldiers who were drunk and troublesome were overjoyed, and handed themselves over to disgusting treatment, which was equivalent to being safe; On the contrary, it was the military heart, and after hearing such a verdict, he was immediately blindsided. You may not know that because the power of disgusting in the army is too strong, the power of the military heart as a deputy general in the army is basically hollowed out, so the soldiers will never obey his command, and everything big and small is basically reported directly to disgusting. In fact, Junxin also knows that the corruption in the army has reached the point of hopelessness, but he is powerless about it.

For this decision, even Junxin did not expect that he usually guarded himself and was conscientious, and in order to prevent disgusting and misdeeds, he was entrusted by his loyalty to go into danger and undercover in the army, but he did not expect such a result. In the face of his innocent lying gun, he couldn't figure it out in his heart, so he was often indignant about it, but at the same time he was helpless, and later, he figured it out under the loyal guidance of his father-in-law, but he held a grudge against his ambition.

Since Confidence was promoted to deputy general, as Confidence's playmate who was very good when he was young, greed immediately moved by the wind. Seeing that his friends of the same age were more promising than the other, he was very unwilling to be greedy, so he found the confidence of his childhood friends and wanted to directly enter the army through his connections, or just take a half-official position. I only heard him say to Confidence: "Confidence, you are now a deputy general, how to say that you are also a powerful master, you see that I have nothing to achieve now, so help me, put me in the army casually, and make an official and a half-position to be a good person, so that I can also be majestic." ”

Confidence listened to the tone of greedy talk, and really didn't take the military regulations of the army seriously, thinking that they were all doing whatever they wanted. So, he could only politely refuse: "Greedy, it's not that I don't help you, you may not know, the army has strict military rules and discipline, not you can enter if you want to, and you can leave if you want." Besides, now is the time when ambition is on the fire of strict rectification of military discipline, so we still don't think it's good to have this muzzle. ”

Although the faith was reasonable, greed still decided that he was looking for an excuse to shirk his request, so he threw his hand away very unhappily, and from then on, the beam of greed and faith was also concluded.