The so-called household department was set up in the south of Jingzhou City.

Under the guidance of Mao Mao, when Wang Yao came to the household department, there were only a few small soldiers at the office site of Nuoda.

"The other soldiers in the legion have already finished their salaries and left, so only you, a big lazy worm, dare to sleep until noon before coming to the camp to report." Mao Mao explained in disgust.

"So, the world is so intriguing, in the army, I can deduct your salary if you are late, but if I am late, you can only stare dryly." Wang Yaotian smiled shamelessly.

When he was in the camp, in order to prevent Shi Liang and Ono from taking advantage of the opportunity to pay his salary, Wang Yao had the foresight to let them get out of the way, leaving Mao Mao alone to take him to the household department.

"You just sneer, if you are caught by the discipline inspector in charge of the internal attendance of the legion one day, see how much money you can deduct." Mao Mao rolled her eyes.

"Cut, I'm going to quit it, what other line of work is harder than licking blood on the knife every day?" Wang Yao was indifferent while looking at his surroundings.

The household in front of me is a retro-style ancient office site, covering a huge area, and what is more interesting is that there are hundreds of passages opened with a wooden fence in the middle, which is obviously used to maintain order, otherwise let tens of thousands of soldiers in the legion rush up, then no one will want to get a salary.

"At the end of the passage, there are soldiers who are specially responsible for distributing salaries, have you brought the talismans here?" Mao asked.

"What do you want a talisman for?" Wang Yao flipped through his waist and took out the fourth-level inscription 'Thorn', which represented his identity.

"Of course it's an identity mark, otherwise who can tell if you're a commander or an ordinary soldier?" As he spoke, Mao Mao took out his level 3 inscription and walked into one of the passages.

Looking at Mao Mao's back, Wang Yao was stunned, and he realized at this time that Mao Mao had not yet received his salary.

Has this girl been waiting for him in the camp?

Shaking his head silently, Wang Yao also picked a passage and walked in.

The passage was long, a hundred meters away, and at the end of it was a large desk, in which a small soldier with a rickety figure was sitting, holding a brush and looking down to mark something on a book.

"Excuse me, I'll get the money." Wang Yao stepped forward and said.

The creep looked up, but it was an old man with a sheep's beard, who was close to the age of a sixtieth armor, and he was wearing a cloak of a magical creep, and through the gap in the front of the cloak, he could see that he was dressed in clothes similar to that of an ancient civil official.

Wang Yao suddenly felt as if he had seen this veteran somewhere.

"I haven't seen my little brother for a long time, why did you come so late?" The old man asked with a smile as he put down the brush in his hand.

Wang Yao was stunned, this old man still knew him?

Seeing Wang Yao's confused face, the old man smiled faintly and said, "Old man Li Ping, little brother doesn't remember the old man so soon?" ”

Li ping?

Hearing this name, Wang Yao thought for a while, and finally remembered.

Wait, isn't this the weird old man he met outside Zhuge Liang's military tent camp before he was promoted to commander of a thousand?

It's been three months in a blink of an eye, but I didn't expect this veteran to remember himself, which made Wang Yao a little embarrassed: "Old man, it turns out that you work here?" ”

Li Ping smiled, with a look of vicissitudes on his face: "Hey, I'm old, I can't personally carry a knife to the battlefield in the canyon to serve the Shu Kingdom, so I can only do my best for the Shu Kingdom behind the scenes with a crippled body." ”

Hearing this, Wang Yao was in awe, which showed that he was a veteran who had fought the battlefield in the canyon for most of his life, and finally miraculously retired alive.

It's just that there is one point, Wang Yao feels that this veteran named Li Ping always looks at him a little weirdly, as if he is looking at a particularly familiar acquaintance, but they have only met twice before and after, how can they be familiar?

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With the salary in a small bag, after Wang Yao came out of the passage, he found that Mao Mao was already waiting outside.

"Why is it so long?" Mao asked.

"I've met an acquaintance." Wang Yao said absentmindedly.

"It's so powerful, you have acquaintances in a place like Hubu? Who is it? ”

"Li Ping. In fact, we have met twice, but he is very enthusiastic, don't you think it's strange? ”

After speaking, Wang Yao turned around and stopped, because Mao Mao was stunned behind him.

"Li Ping? Lord Li Ping is inside? Wait a minute...... You actually know Master Li Ping?! The monster screamed, a look of hell.

"What's wrong? Looking at your expression, it seems like you have found your long-lost father? Wang Yao couldn't help but quip.

"You still don't know who Lord Li Ping is, do you?" Mao Mao was not in the mood to joke at all.

"Not impressed." Wang Yao flipped through the memories in his mind, but he never remembered that there was a name of this person in the history of the Three Kingdoms.

And just as Wang Yao was about to open the money bag in his hand to see how much his salary was, Mao Mao came over with a serious face.

"Tell you, Lord Li Ping is not an ordinary soldier, he is one of the elders who followed His Majesty Zhaolie to fight the world in the early days, and was the commander of our army on the road, and he is the great hero and founder of the Shu Kingdom! Although he has retired from the army for many years and does not have the rank of military attaché, he is in a high position as a civil official and is in charge of the finances of the entire Shu Kingdom! For example, repairing the damaged defense towers on the battlefield in the canyon, allocating the budget to the Three Route Corps, mobilizing funds for water conservancy projects, etc., etc., in short, as long as it involves the national affairs in terms of funds, he is responsible for everything! If it is calculated according to the rank, then he must at least be at the same level as our military master! ”

"Damn, isn't it?!" Wang Yao was stupid when he heard it, this information came too suddenly, so he didn't slow down all of a sudden.

Feelings for that unattractive veteran, is actually still a high-level person in Shu? !

On the same level as Zhuge Liang? A mere creep?

Thinking of this, Wang Yao's eyes suddenly widened.

Although it is impossible for the history of this other world to be completely connected with the ancient history of the earth, there are still some similarities, such as this Li Ping, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, there is really a person who is very similar to him......

"Mao Mao, this Li Ping, shouldn't he change his name?" Wang Yao asked tentatively.

"Doesn't it look like you're completely closed?" Mao Mao looked at Wang Yao and said, "That's right, Lord Li Ping changed his name a few years ago, and at that time he was not called Li Pinglai, but Li Yan." ”

Li Yan!

Hearing this name, Wang Yao suddenly opened his mouth.

Li Yan! One of the powerful ministers in the late Shu Kingdom, simply put, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Li Yan was in charge of logistics and finance, Zhuge Liang was in charge of military power, they were all Liu Bei's ministers on his deathbed in the White Emperor City, and at the same time, Li Yan was also in Hou Shu, the only political force that could compete with Zhuge Liang!

(Popular science: Historically, Li Yan once changed his name to Li Ping.) ）

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Tobe, quiet and gloomy.

The old man named Li Ping still sat alone in the large desk, tirelessly reading the account books with a brush.

He was hunched up, as if he was pressed by an invisible pressure and could not straighten his waist.

"Hey, the funds of the Third Route Legion have risen a lot this month, even if it is a big business, it can't withstand such consumption."

The old man, who was close to the sixtieth birthday, sighed helplessly.

Every time the funds are calculated, Li Ping always has a sense of powerlessness that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Over the years, he has been stumbling left and right, painstakingly maintaining the economic situation of this huge Shu Kingdom, but he still can't keep up with the huge consumption of the army, especially after Zhuge Liang came to Shu Kingdom, the funds even exceeded the budget for a time......

"Although Zhuge Liang is a genius who is rare in a century, it's a pity that it's too idealistic, you think so too, right? Friends. ”

Suddenly, a joking voice sounded out of thin air.

Li Ping's hand holding the pen trembled suddenly, not because he didn't realize that there was suddenly another person around him, but because this 'person' said what he wanted.

Li Ping got up and looked into the darkness in the corner, where there was a blurred silhouette.

"Shiyuan." Although he called him by his name, Li Ping bowed his head respectfully to show respect, and at the same time said: "I have just come to Jingzhou for two days, and the journey is tiring, why don't you rest more?" ”

"I can't rest, I don't dare to neglect the things that the master personally explained." The silhouette smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said, "That little soldier just now, is that Wang Yao you reported a month ago?" ”

"Yes, he's right."

"Well, it's really the same as it was written in the report, it's very special, I can feel that he has an aura very similar to our hero."

"Are there really heroes outside the rules? Could it be someone from the Land of Origin? Li Ping raised his head as if he felt something, and a pair of cloudy old eyes flashed with a sharp edge no less than that of any commander.

"The remnants of the Land of Origin are now afraid that their whereabouts will be exposed, and they can't hide, how can they let a stinky boy run rampant in the canyon unscrupulously?"

In the dark, the silhouette smiled coldly.

"Actually, when I first met him, my feelings told me that the aura on his body did not come from him, but from the things he was wearing."

Li Ping pondered for a moment and said: "The equipment on this Wang Yao is indeed very suspicious, it is not the standard configuration of our Shu Legion, we have also thoroughly investigated it in private, and there is no place for these equipment to be produced in the entire continent." ”

After a pause, Li Ping added meaningfully: "Also, Zhang Shao, the second son of General Zhang Fei, told me when he came back from the canyon the day before yesterday that this Wang Yao probably killed the two super soldiers under his command, and also hid an energy crystal, and Zhuge Liang himself seems to know about this matter, but he kept it a secret......