A week later, the Empire sent an envoy to the four minor states to negotiate peace talks returned from the east, and Ferdinand urgently summoned Situ Jin to the palace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as he entered Ferdinand's palace, Situ Jin saw that Ferdinand's face was not very good-looking.

"Wechen see Your Majesty!" Situ bowed and saluted Ferdinand.

Seeing Situ Jin, Ferdinand's eyes lit up, and he immediately got up from the chair and walked in front of Situ Jin: "Situ, you are here!"

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" asked Situ Jin.

As soon as he heard Situ Jin's question, Ferdinand, who had a smile on his face, suddenly turned cold: "Situ, the envoy sent out to make peace with the four small countries has returned this morning, saying that the four small countries have unanimously decided that it is okay for them to withdraw their troops, but the Yarrow Empire must cede to each country five cities respectively!

Hearing Ferdinand's words, Situ Jin spoke: "Your Majesty, didn't we already anticipate this result in advance?

Ferdinand's expression was still not very clear: "That's what I said, but I didn't expect these four small countries to make such excessive demands, it's just too inconsiderate of people, it's unbearable!"

After speaking, Ferdinand said: "Situ, you said earlier that you were going to ask the people of the Magic Guild to meet with me, how about it, have you contacted their leader?"

Situ Jin nodded and said: "I have received accurate information, the head of the Magic Guild, Askar, will return to the imperial capital Hualin tomorrow, and when he returns, I will personally invite him!"

Ferdinand nodded: "By you, the Grand Duke of Sakura of the Empire, we have already given their magic guild enough face!"

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After leaving the Imperial Palace, Situ Jin came to the Imperial Capital Military Headquarters for the first time since he was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Military Department.

Before coming, he had already learned about the basic situation of the military department, since the accident of his father Situ Nan, the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the imperial military department has been concurrently held by Robert himself, don't look at Robert's tiger and tiger power, quite a general's demeanor, but he doesn't know anything about leading the army to fight, for more than a year, the imperial military department under his leadership can not be said to be a chaos, but there are also a lot of situations.

When Situ Nan was in power, although he did not make any outstanding achievements, at least he could ensure the smooth operation of the entire military system of the empire, and after Robert alone served as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the imperial military department, due to the inability to make reasonable decisions on many key military issues, many military organs of the empire were paralyzed, coupled with the unclear employment of personnel, which caused great contradictions between the military department and seriously increased the internal friction of the imperial military system!

The reason why Situ Jin has been delayed from inspecting the military headquarters after being appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the imperial military department is because he knows that the current situation in the military headquarters is complicated, and if he does not find out the situation, he will come to the military headquarters rashly, at most it is just a formality!

Because he did not inform the military headquarters in advance that he would come over today, when Situ Jin arrived at the military headquarters, no one from the military headquarters came out to greet him. Jumping out of the carriage on the road opposite the entrance of the military department, Situ Jin walked alone to the main gate of the barracks.

There was a line of people standing guard at the door, and when they saw that he was about to enter the door, they immediately raised their hands to signal him to stop advancing.

Situ Jin unhurriedly took out his identity token from his clothes, and when he saw this white jade token, the soldiers standing guard at the door were instantly dumbfounded!

"Refers to ...... The commander ......, "Everyone hurriedly saluted Situ Jin.

Although Situ Jin is the deputy commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief is the emperor Ferdinand, no one will call the emperor the commander, and the emperor is only the nominal commander, and most things are handled by the deputy commander-in-chief, so everyone generally calls the deputy commander-in-chief the commander.

Seeing that a soldier wanted to run into the barracks to report the news, Situ Jin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You don't have to go in to report the news, I'll just go in myself!"

After speaking, in everyone's surprised eyes, he raised his feet and walked into the gate of the barracks.

After entering the barracks, Situ Jin walked and looked alone, and found that there were few soldiers in the barracks, although he had expected this situation before, but seeing such a deserted barracks, Situ Jin was also a little surprised in his heart.

He wandered alone in the barracks for a long time, and walked in front of a row of large camps, and before he could get closer, he heard a few voices from a large tent.

"Colleagues, we are all military staff officers of the highest military headquarters of the empire, is it a bit irresponsible for you to say that we sit here all day long and talk and sleep!"

"Heh! We are irresponsible? We are just irresponsible, is it irresponsible to have the newly appointed deputy commander-in-chief? He has been in office for more than half a month, and he has not even shown his face, what is the use of saying that even if we work harder? Do we have the power to make decisions?" A woman's dissatisfied voice came from inside the barracks.

"Hey, Mu Li'er, can you be careful when you speak? You are really bold enough, even the only duke in our empire now dares to say it!"

The female voice sounded again: "What dare I not say, if he is just a duke, I don't bother to talk about him, but he still has the commander's hat on his head now, even if he doesn't want to work, after so many days in office, why should he come to the military headquarters to show his face?"

"I don't know what Your Majesty thinks, to let such a young boy who doesn't understand the rules take such an important position, if this is in normal times, I wouldn't say anything, but when is it now? Our war with the four small countries around us is still going on! How will this battle be fought next? How should the troops be deployed, whether to change generals, and so on, all of which require orders from our Supreme Military Headquarters, and the situation is so urgent, can't Your Majesty send someone more reliable to lead us?"

"Hey, a few days ago, those division commanders and brigade commanders were still running to us every day, but now people know that we are not doing anything, so they don't come!"

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After standing at the door and listening for a while, Situ Jin deliberately coughed twice, and then raised his foot and walked into the big tent where the sound of speech came from.

As soon as he entered, a man in his thirties who was sitting on the table in the middle of the big tent with a document in his hand immediately pointed at him and said, "Hey, who are you, is this a place where you can come in casually? Hurry up and let me out!"

Situ Jin swept his eyes in the big tent, and saw that there were five men and one woman in the tent, all of whom looked to be around thirty years old, and they were sitting around with a lazy look, looking like they were working at all?