In the evening, Zhao Hu was taken to the most luxurious restaurant in the county to drink.

Here, Zhao Hu met all the chief officials of the corps headquarters, but what made Zhao Hu feel strange was that few of these chief officials were not fat, especially the corps leader and the corps logistics chief, who were more like nouveau riche than soldiers.

What surprised Zhao Hu was that all five team leaders attended the welcome meeting. Could it be that the brigade headquarters was stationed in the county town?

After a while the welcome party began, Zhao Hu found that several chief officials began to inquire about his situation. Of course, Zhao Hu answered truthfully.

After getting the truth, the enthusiasm of the chief officials dropped significantly. In just a while, the chief officials threw Zhao Hu aside and drank it happily, and then left the table, transferring the position to the brothel next to him.

Of course, there is no share of the protagonist Zhao Hu.

The next morning, a team leader with the order of the logistics commander of the corps appeared in front of Zhao Hu, threw several carriages and several horses full of supplies to Zhao Hu, and ordered Zhao Hu to set off immediately to rush to the brigade station, and then he turned around and left without even waiting for a reply.

Zhao Hu, who knew that he was not familiar with the place, searched for a while before finding his immediate boss, the fifth team leader who stayed overnight in the brothel.

"What? Didn't you ask you to escort supplies back to your base? Why haven't you set off yet?" The fifth captain, who was not dressed, sleepy and drunk, looked unhappy.

When Zhao Hu asked him to send guards to accompany him, he was interrupted by the captain's rough wave: "Tell you this rookie! Under the wise leadership of our regiment leader, the public security in Sishi County is very good! Absolutely, well, it is definitely the one who never closes the door at night, does not pick up the leftovers on the road, is calm and there is no danger, so there is no need to send guards to guard! Our guard department is working hard enough, and they still need to sleep in the open air, and they should also be a little conscience?

"Besides, don't you have five personal guards? There is enough manpower, so you can get on the road as soon as possible. But you have to remember that if there is anything wrong on the road, as long as something happens, this team leader will cause trouble for you. Don't blame me for not giving you a favor and deal with your military law! Okay, go quickly, this team leader will have to rest."

As he said that, he muttered and didn't know what to curse, he slammed the door and closed it.

Zhao Hu, who felt that those guys were too realistic, had to order his five subordinates to string the carriage and horses together and drive them himself.

This is also impossible. These five subordinates can’t ride horses at all, let alone ride horse carriages.

However, when leaving the city gate, I still got the specific direction of Kulong Town from the guards.

The convoy left the county town and walked west not far, the road completely disappeared, and there was a wilderness around him, so he could only move in the general direction.

Zhao Hu's five subordinates, Dio had long dragged Sun Jie and Zhou Wen to count the supplies in the car, while Locke and Luo Fei were bored and napping in the car.

When night fell and rested, Dio reported to Zhao Hu: "Changgong, our batch of goods contains 100 kilograms of grain and fifty bags."

Zhao Hu immediately asked in shock: "Fifty bags? Such a small amount of food is not enough for a brigade to eat for three days! Why is it so little?"

Deo smiled and said, "These fifty bags are fine grains, which should be specially supplied to the officers. And you don't know? Most of the grains in the garrison are purchased on-site."

Zhao Hu shook his head and said, "This big northwest is not suitable for producing grain, so I'm afraid I can't buy much grain."

Zhou Wen smiled and said, "Sir, this should be no problem. If there is any problem, the troops scattered below will be in an uproar, and the empire has long caused a stir. After all, the Imperial Army has never had any food shortage."

After hearing this, Zhao Hu temporarily put his heart down, nodded, and then signaled Dio to continue reporting.

"There are 100 sets of military uniforms and boots, but now there are five sets of them." Speaking of this, Deo felt embarrassed to touch the military uniforms on his body. When they found that the goods had military uniforms, they automatically changed them: "Twenty sabers, ten bows, twenty bowstrings, one thousand arrows, ten saddles, twenty pairs of horseshoes and iron chewed irons, two sets of civil and wooden tools, and finally eight thousand gold coins, five thousand silver coins, and thirty thousand copper coins."

"This is the monthly salary of the Fifth Team? Why are there so many?" Zhao Hu asked strangely.

Deo said uncertainly: "The extra money is probably the brigade's funds... it's impossible, because according to the imperial convention, a brigade's funds can be at most about a thousand gold coins per month. The average monthly salary of a brigade is about three or two hundred and fifty gold coins. Now it's more than twice as much. Isn't it because the salary I didn't pay last month, right?"

He was immediately startled by the inference.

The Imperial Army’s salary is paid on time and will never be delayed. As long as those troops that are besieged and cannot be transported in battle, they will delay their salary. That is, troops that are located in a remote place and only once every six months will not have such a thing. Such troops transport supplies for half a year at one time.

The Fifth Brigade's transportation and replenishment route is at most two days away, and such things are not allowed at all. This shows that someone above temporarily transfers these salary for other purposes. He has seen many accounts in charge of these turnover matters. His superiors will not be implicated, right?

As soon as Dio expressed his concerns, Zhou Wen took the lead and said, "Uncle Deo, you think too much. Our superiors are newcomers who have just reported. Even if there is anything, they will not be able to rely on the superiors."

Zhao Hu didn't say anything, just frowned and pondered.

It seems that the lower class of the Imperial Army is not as shown on the outside. Look at the delayed salary payment now, look at the officers who look like merchants. The lower class of the Imperial Army is already corrupt.

I don’t know if this phenomenon is more or less in the Imperial Army? If it is a minority, it’s nothing, if most of them are like this...

The next day they started at dawn. In the evening, Zhao Hu and his party saw a blurry black shadow in the wilderness plain in the distance. Several cavalry-like people were already rushing towards them. It seemed that they should have arrived.

However, Zhao Huxin was confused.

On the road for two consecutive days, I have never encountered a herder in this vast wilderness. Even if it is vast and sparsely populated, it will not be so rare, right? What is most outrageous is that I didn’t even see an animal, which gives people a feeling of silence. If I hadn’t finally seen a person now, I would have thought I had entered the dead place.

"Who?" Five archers surrounded Zhao Hu and others. Although they saw Zhao Hu's military rank, because Deo, the five people who did not have military ranks and were wearing military uniforms, were inquiring with caution.

"I am the new logistics chief of the Fifth Battalion, this is my identity certificate." Zhao Hu handed over the certificate of military ownership and the major corps staff reopened.

The five archers and cavalrymen showed obvious expressions when they heard Zhao Hu's military position, but they were cautious and asked only one person to come and take the documents, while the other four were still on guard.

The first-class archer who received the certificate looked at Zhao Hu suspiciously, then returned to his teammate and handed the certificate to the archer with the rank of corporal: "Boss, that military post certificate does have the seal of the regiment, but why is this military post certificate a little different from ours?"

The corporal archer looked at the ID and smiled on his face: "This is issued by the Imperial Capital Military Department, and the workmanship is relatively fine." As he said that, he closed his bow and turned over and dismounted, and stood attentively saluting: "The first commander of the first team of the first squadron, and the corporal Kelar, say hello to Changgong!" The four subordinates around him were also hurriedly following him.

After some politeness, Zhao Hu continued to move forward under the escort of this army. Within this short distance, Zhao Hu heard what made him stupid.

The first-class private who received the certificate looked at the carriage with excitement on his face. After a while, he asked Deo: "Uncle, these are the supplies of our brigade?" Seeing Deo nodding, he asked again: "How much salary have you brought? We haven't paid for two months."

Deo, who had originally nodded with a smile, was immediately stunned when he heard this.

My guess is actually true! The Imperial Army actually had an incredible thing like owing wages.

The other first-class private looked at Zhao Hu's arm's rank a little strangely, and then muttered: "A military officer finally came. I hope he would not leave again after staying for two days, otherwise the entire brigade would not have any officers to guard it all year round, so it would be no problem."

Zhao Hu, who had a quick ear, was shocked when he heard this.

He knew that only lieutenants or above could be called officers, so he couldn't help but ask, "What did you say? Is it the only officer in the entire brigade? What about the captains of each squadron?"

Kailar originally wanted to stop this subordinate, but the lieutenant curled his lips first and said, "Squadron Captain? They have already followed the captain and the others back to the county town."

"Kelal, what's going on?" Zhao Hu asked.

Kailar said bitterly: "Now the entire brigade only has the grassroots system, the small team, which still exists. The squadron and brigade have long been in name only, and all officers above the lieutenant stay in the county."

"Leaving your post without permission? How could this happen? This is the border!" Zhao Hu said in shock.

Keral sighed: "This is the border, but unfortunately the people above think that it is safe and ignoring the place we are now stationed is close to the Feimuqi Allied Powers. Moreover, the borders of the two countries are very blurred. Flymuqi Allied Powers often go deep into our territory to graz and live, and drive away local herders without restraint."

"It looks a bit like a war is about to break out?" Zhao Hu asked seriously.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hu's five subordinates, except for Locke and Luo Fei, all the other three changed their expressions.
Chapter completed!