Meritorious service, seek capital!

In a word!

Jiang Xiao revealed the little leopard's thoughts with a single sentence.

He came to the Jiangcheng Navy Camp for this, as for the complicated interpersonal relationships in Jiangcheng, and the various shady scenes intertwined by various factions, he had no intention of caring about it.

He came here to exterminate the water bandits and to make meritorious contributions.

That's all.

So as soon as he entered the city, he showed an aggressive driving posture, and without hesitation, he beat the three sons of the Jiangcheng garrison half to death, tied them up, and escorted them to the county office, and set up a charge of rebellion, although this crime was not established in the end, but he told all the forces in Jiangcheng with practical actions, Lao Tzu is here, Lao Tzu has a bad temper, don't come to mess with me, otherwise, be careful Lao Tzu let go of the dog!

As Jiang Xiao said, the little leopard does not take the county lord and garrison of Jiangcheng in his eyes now, although his official position is one and a half levels lower than the two, but he does not have the consciousness of being a subordinate.

After beating someone's son half to death, Shi Shiran went to the garrison mansion to report to him, and viciously sued the unlucky third son.

Ding Shoubei is a smart person, how dare he provoke such a bad star as the little leopard at will, and he was afraid that something would happen to his baby son, so in desperation, he took the line of the head of the Wu family in Jiangcheng, and invited the little leopard and the county master to set up a table in the most expensive restaurant in Jiangcheng that night, to make amends for his son, and the little leopard let him go.

The little leopard is also an informed and knowledgeable person, thinking that he has just arrived, and nominally this Ding garrison is also his superior, so he can't make the relationship too stiff, right?

Full of wine and food, the little leopard drank a few more glasses, and then rested at the Wujia branch, until the second day woke up, and then led Xiaodu, under the guidance of several family members of the Wu family, to the naval camp.

"His subordinate Wang Cheng has led the Jiangcheng Navy to see the commander!"

To the little leopard's surprise, when he arrived at the naval camp, the deputy commander Wang Cheng had already led the officers and soldiers of the naval army to wait outside the camp for a long time.

Carefully looking at the officers led by the leader, seeing that they all lowered their eyebrows and looked very respectful, which made the little leopard a little puzzled, he had long heard that this Jiangcheng water camp was full of unruly people, and colluded with the water bandits in the river, secretly doing unspeakable deals, when did this become so obedient? Could it be that the sun came out of the west?

Surprised, it is not a matter for hundreds of people of all sizes to kneel there, and hurriedly said, "You brothers don't have to be polite, Zhou Bao is new to the city, young and knowledgeable, and there are many places to rely on your brothers in the future, so many courtesy, it makes Zhou Bao ashamed!"

As he spoke, he took a step forward and helped up several officers kneeling in front of him one by one.

In this way, the process of taking over the naval battalion was unexpectedly smooth, at the beginning, the little leopard was still a little suspicious, these veteran oil sons were not setting up some kind of trap waiting for him to drill into, but when the deputy commander Wang Cheng introduced him into the camp, with three captains and a quartermaster, he detailed the situation of the entire Jiangcheng naval army to him, and the little leopard concluded that this group of people did not seem to have any resistance to him, on the contrary, they were very cooperative.

This was completely unexpected, but at the same time, it also put him at ease.

Although Jiangcheng is small, and the rank of the commander of the naval army is not high, but after all, he is the sole leader of the army, and the power in the battalion is quite large, and being the commander's personal guard are completely two different concepts, if you want to make achievements here and complete Li Yuan's task, it is very difficult without the help of these local snakes.

Originally, he was afraid that this gang of veterans would be unconvinced, and the local snake would not be convinced, so he would stumble him, and thought of several ways to suppress them, so when he was in the city for a while, he would not hesitate to find trouble with the third prince of Ding Garrison, which can be regarded as an act of prestige, and express his determination to all the forces in Jiangcheng?

This is an unexpected hand, but also his first-hand performance, now to the naval army camp, when he was about to use the second hand, but he couldn't laugh and found that everything he had prepared seemed to be useless, and the entire naval army camp was extremely obedient, putting on a look waiting for him to receive.

At the same time, it also made him feel a little regretful in his heart that he did not show his means in front of these subordinates, of course, the shock that Xiao Du brought to this group of soldiers was not counted.

"Lord Commander, this is the income and expenditure of the navy this month, please check!" Just as he was thinking nonsense in his mind, the quartermaster Wang Datong sent the thick account book to the little leopard's table.

Looking at the thick notebook, the little leopard frowned, "Lord Wang, since this kind of thing has always been in charge of you, then you can take care of it, I see these big heads!" "That's not good!" Listening to the little leopard's words, Wang Datong's face flashed with joy, "You are the commander of the navy, you must be clear about the expenses of our battalion, otherwise, if something goes wrong in the future, I can't tell you clearly!"

"If there's a problem, what's going to go wrong?!" the little leopard was a little strange, and said with a sincere face, "Lord Wang, you see, the reason why I came here is completely because of the order of the Admiral, and I really don't know anything about leading the army to fight, money, food, and army, even if you show it to me, I can't understand it, why do you bother to make it difficult?......!" Wang Datong didn't expect the little leopard to be so refreshing, and directly said that he didn't understand anything, looking like you were looking at it, and the words he had originally thought of couldn't use a word, and for a while, he stood there, a little stunned.

"My lord, you are the commander of the navy, there are some things you always have to know, even if you don't look at this account book, but you should also know the income and expenditure of my navy battalion, and you must have a number in your heart!" Wang Cheng opened his mouth at this time, and said to Wang Datong, "Datong, you can take these account books back, and report the big number directly to the adult." ”

"Yes!" Wang Datong nodded. My lord, there are 496 sailors in this camp, three captains, 30 squad leaders, 100 men in a large group, 10 people in a small team, 400 ordinary soldiers, the commander and deputy commander each lead a team of men and horses, 50 people in each team, and 93 quartermasters, men, grooms, and laborers, 500 yuan per month for each soldier, 800 yuan per month for each squad leader, 1,000 yuan per month for the captain and quartermaster, a total of 51,000 yuan per month, plus the money of the two commanders, a total of 55,000 yuan per month, that is, 55 taels of silver！”

"55 taels of silver?!" the little leopard said softly, "55 taels a month, then 660 taels a year?"

"Uh, yes, the military department of our naval battalion allocates once a year, and it was originally allocated according to the standard of 800 people......!"

"800 people?!" The little leopard was stunned for a moment, then understood, and nodded, "Well, since it is the standard of eight hundred people, then, there should be no shortage, right?!"

"According to reason, the standard of 800 people will allocate at least 100 taels of silver every year, but in the past few years, the silver allocated by the Ministry of War every year has reached our hands, and the maximum is only 500 taels, so some people can't make ends meet!" Wang Datong said with some embarrassment.

"Why so little?!"

"Well, this subordinate doesn't know, although this silver was allocated by the Ministry of War, but it is deducted layer by layer, God knows which bastards have been greedy for these silver!"

"You just told me that you were short of money, why bother talking so much nonsense?!" The little leopard laughed, "Since there is a shortage of silver every year, what do you do?!"

"It's just a matter of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, but it's just a few years of making up for it, and my subordinates are really a little powerless!"

"It's a coincidence, it's been fine for a few years, but when I take office, you can't do it!"

"This is also a helpless thing, a few years ago, although the silver is insufficient, but we can still make some extra money on the Luojiang River, collect some protection fees from the past merchants or something, and the son is still passable, but during this time, the water bandits on the river are becoming more and more powerful, the brothers are not opponents at all, after going a few times, not only did not catch the outer block, but also damaged the goods of those merchants, after a long time, naturally no one paid the protection fee, the high commander for this matter, and even personally led the army to suppress the bandits, and as a result, he also put himself in, alasSpeaking of this, Wang Datong let out a long sigh, and the atmosphere in the camp suddenly became heavy.

"So that's what happened?!" The little leopard began to understand a little, I really don't know, this is too weird, this gang of water army did not collude with the water bandits, but was beaten to hide in the water army camp and did not dare to go out.

This is very different from what he imagined before, but then again, this is just Wang Datong's words, although it sounds very credible, but if these guys unite to play him, wouldn't it be a shame to believe it?

Thinking of this, the little leopard turned his gaze to Wang Cheng, "Commander Wang, you are the old man of this water camp, look at it, how to deal with this matter?!"

Wang Cheng smiled bitterly when he heard this, "What else can I do now, either suppress the arrogance of the water bandits on the Luojiang River, or everyone will go hungry together, there is no other way!"

"That's it!" the little leopard nodded and said, "Since the king commander said so, I want to come, it can only be like this, I don't like to use my brain, and I don't want to do such troublesome things, although I am a commander, but I have always done the business of charging, everyone here is my senior, if you have any ideas, just put it forward, when the time comes, I will only be responsible for the charge!"

"How can this be, you are the commander of the navy, and you ......!"

"Of course you can, I'm the commander of the navy, but it was sealed by the Admiral, I have to respond, but if I really let me lead the troops to fight, it's, I'm not afraid, but it's a fatal thing for the brothers in the army, this kind of thing is better to be cautious!" The little leopard smiled bitterly, "Okay, it's decided, you have a plan to deal with the water bandits, I listen to you, a few of you are here, just take your time, and notify me when there is a result, I won't make trouble for you!" At that moment, the little leopard arched his hand and left the barracks, making several people in the camp wide-eyed and smiling bitterly.

Where had they ever encountered such a commander with a surname?

One by one, they all sighed in private, and when they met such a guy, they didn't know whether it was a curse or a blessing!

(To be continued)