When the guard took the note and was about to leave, he was called back by the marshal: "Wait, give me the note!" The marshal, who took the note, picked up a few words on it and waved his hand to let the guard retreat.

After the personal guard left, the marshal smiled and said to himself: "In order not to be prominent, he can only suddenly increase the work of the military headquarters. However, I believe that the officers who are in the imperial capital at this moment will be very welcome."

At this point, the marshal suddenly frowned: "Well, Zhao Hu is also in the imperial capital..."

After thinking for a while, the marshal shook his head and smiled and said, "Forget it, it's not good to be too artificial. Anyway, it's just a major rank, and it's no big deal."

After Zhao Hu reported to the military headquarters, Deo excitedly began giving gifts. Unfortunately, because Zhao Hu was low in position, the gatekeepers of high-ranking officials and nobles didn't even look at the gifts when they saw the title of major on the defeated letter, and threw them back sarcastically.

What's even more outrageous is that after the gatekeeper received the red envelope, he not only did not help, but would definitely die if they dared to introduce such a low-level officer into the mansion, so they would be unable to help.

Deo would not be discouraged if one or two families did this, but all the high-ranking officials and nobles they knew were like this. Deo was so frustrated. Why is it so difficult to even give gifts these days!

Seeing Dio, Sun Jie and Zhou Wen with a frustrated expression, Zhao Hu couldn't help but smile and said, "Look at you like you are defeated, forget it, don't send it, let's just treat the remaining thousand-mile horses as our mounts."

Sun Jie, who had already coveted the Thousand-Mile Horse, immediately jumped up happily, but before he could cheer, he was knocked down by Deo. Deo panickedly dissuaded Zhao Hu and said, "Sir, these Thousand-Mile Horses must not be kept for themselves!"

Sun Jie immediately stopped doing it: "Why? Can't we use it yourself if we can't send it out? Who is it going to be hindered?"

Before Dio could explain, Zhou Wen knocked Sun Jie on the head: "Idiot! Now most generals do not have a mount of a thousand-mile horse. You let the master who is just a major have a thousand-mile horse. Wouldn't you let those generals cause trouble for the master?"

When Sun Jie heard this, he was discouraged and could only touch his head aggrievedly: "It's not possible to give it to you, but it's not possible to use it. What should I do? Sell it. Those high-ranking officials are so noble that we don't give it to them but instead sell it, which will cause us even more trouble!"

Dio, who looked down because he could not walk the way for Zhao Hu, sighed: "Don't worry, the auctions in the imperial capital are all anonymous. Sir, what should you do now?"

Zhao Hu could only smile bitterly and shook his head: "What else can I do? Sell it anonymously." It's because he is so unfree that he doesn't bother to pay attention to these things.

"Well, maybe it's more useful to replace the Qianli Horse with gold coins. After all, we don't know when we will have to wait until the adults can obtain the fief. People eat horses and chew them, and there are not enough gold coins." With this idea, Deo cheered up a little.

Zhao Hu and the others did not choose to give all the remaining thousand-mile horses to the marshal. One was to give two horses, wouldn’t they be sincere in sending them? Why didn’t they deliver them together at the beginning?

Second, giving these thousand-mile horses that cannot be sent to the marshal is equivalent to pointing at the marshal's nose and collecting rags. It's simply a slap from the marshal. No one with common sense will do this.

After failing to walk, Zhao Hu took five personal guards to find a hotel to stay in. In the morning, he went to the military headquarters to report to the military headquarters. Then he ran to the military camp where the servants settled in the military camp to exercise. The black wolf who was left in the military camp could take the opportunity to go to the wilderness to have fun.

During this period, the eighteen thousand-mile horses were quickly swept away by the powerful people in the imperial capital. Due to the jealousy of the powerful people in the imperial capital, the eighteen thousand-mile horses actually received nearly 200,000 gold coins.

In other words, Zhao Hu easily owned more than 900,000 gold coins!

The large amount of gold coins made Zhao Hu and others wait for the enthronement of their territory with peace of mind. Just as they were running back and forth outside the inner city of Zhao Hu City, the military command suddenly issued hundreds of promotion orders for no reason.

It's inexplicable, because among these hundreds of promotion orders, none of them explains what kind of merits the promoted person made to be promoted.

Originally, Zhao Hu would not pay attention to these promotion orders, but the appointment of supervisors at all levels of the 20th Legion made Zhao Hu, a person from the 20th Legion, feel something was wrong.

Seeing Zhao Hu's doubts, Dio reminded: "Sir, I wonder if you have noticed it? We have been in the imperial capital for so long, and we have never heard people or other soldiers discussing the invasion of the Feimuqi League of Feiming Alliance. Now we have suddenly launched a large-scale military officer, and the promoted officers have become the chief officers of the troops stationed near Wenbei Province. The Ming Empire has quietly recovered Wenbei Province. Yes, this promotion is a reward."

"Strange, since Wenbei Province has been recovered, why don't you make a big fuss? Those promotion orders have no achievements." Zhou Wen was very puzzled.

Deo smiled bitterly and said, "Thinking about the fact that the Emperor ** easily wiped out the five ace legions of the Free Alliance not long ago, I know why the military headquarters not only did not publicize the recapture of Wenbei Province, but also had to conceal the fall of Wenbei Province."

"I understand, the military wants face! After all, they defeated the five trump cards of the Free Alliance, but one of their own provinces was invaded by nomadic peoples. This is definitely a shameful thing to know." Sun Jie said immediately.

"Face, hum, can face be used as a food? Only those high-ranking officials will worry about these things." Zhou Wen was dissatisfied.

"This is human nature, and there is no way to do so. If the news spreads, the light of the Empire's victory over the Free Alliance will immediately dim." Deo sighed.

Hearing these words, Zhao Hu shook his head slightly with a calm expression, and there was nothing.

On this day, Zhao Hu went to the military headquarters to report as usual, but unlike in the past, he was told that all the officers in Beijing would be awarded real rank within two or three days, and Zhao Hu was asked not to leave the city for statistics during this period.

After receiving this notice, all the uninformed people opened their mouths because according to the speed of the military headquarters, if they are not particularly great merits, only officers who are promoted to the level of general will receive real titles in the shortest time. If other officers want to obtain real titles, they can only wait for the big distribution at the end of the year.

Now, all the officers in Beijing who are in real rank are awarded the real rank? Is the sun coming out from the west?

Thinking of the hundreds of promotion orders issued by the Military Affairs Department a few days ago, everyone wondered if the Military Affairs Department had been reorganized, why did it become so fast?

Just a closer look, the military headquarters is still so crowded, but they all put their work on how to count the number of officers with virtual ranks in Beijing.

Zhao Hu did not care about these things, but looked at Zhao Hu's brand new military certificate with his five relatives.

Although there is also an order in addition to the military proof, which is an order that requires Zhao Hu to take office only after accepting the territory, this order will not make Zhao Hu and the others dazed. What made them stunned was the information on the military proof card.

Major Zhao Hu, the staff officer of the Fifth Regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the Haibin Provincial Garrison Division.

"How could this happen? It's actually a local army?"

Sun Jie was the first to shout. Although the local troops were stipulated to be reserves for regular troops, in the eyes of the world, only regular troops from the twenty legions of the Empire were considered real soldiers, and other local troops were not considered soldiers at all, but only city guards.

Generally speaking, only those in the regular army who offended Shangguan would be sent to local troops.

"Oh, it seems that my concern has emerged. This is definitely because the powerful man wants to refrigerate the Lord. Otherwise, how could he be transferred to the local army who has visited His Excellency the Marshal?" Deo sighed.

Zhou Wen immediately suggested: "Sir, should you find a relationship with the marshal? You must know that after entering the local army, you are entering the reserve service, and you will definitely not be able to obtain any merits!"

Zhao Hu shook his head and smiled, "It doesn't matter which unit, where is this coastal province?"

When everyone heard Zhao Hu's words, they only breathed a sigh of relief. It didn't matter to me, so what else could I do?

Deo said with a depressed expression: "As the name suggests, the coastal province is a province near the sea. It is a province near the sea. According to the custom of the Empire and the Free Alliance to compete for ports, maybe even the adults can make contributions even in the local troops."

Originally, Deo was still energetic, and suddenly felt frustrated: "Alas, the port of the coastal province is not good, it is definitely not a place to compete for, and it is close to the Shanyue people, which is considered a poor and backward province. Among the 32 provinces of the August Empire, only five provinces are by the sea, and among these five provinces, only ten places are suitable for deep-water ports.

Compared with the state of the thirty-one provinces of the Free Alliance, twenty-three provinces are near the sea and hundreds of deep-water ports, it is no wonder that the Empire is competing for ports with the Free Alliance.

Although the coastal province is also a province near the sea, there is only one port on the coastline of the entire province that is suitable for the mooring of medium-sized merchant ships, and other places can only be moored fishing boats. If a port is not a deep-water port, it will have no value at all.

It has lost its excellent port, and Shanghai Bin Province is not only adjacent to the Shanyue Kingdom, but also has mountain mausoleum terrain. From this, it can be imagined how rich it can be.

"A place like this is not even Shanyue Kingdom, so the adults are hiding it." Deo said helplessly, "The adults' territory will not be distributed to the Haibin Province, right?" Zhou Wen was worried.

"This... shouldn't be such a coincidence, right? Although the imperial meetings are all dedicated to finding the poorest and most remote places to be the military territories." Deo said hesitantly.
Chapter completed!