customs clearance base

Chapter 1310 Registration (2)

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

Here, Zhao Hu got acquainted with all the chief officers of the alliance team headquarters, but what made Zhao Hu feel weird was that none of these chief officers were fat-headed and brainy, especially the alliance captain and the logistics officer of the alliance. More like an upstart merchant than a soldier.

And what surprised Zhao Hu was that all five brigade captains attended the welcome meeting. Could it be that the brigade headquarters were stationed in the county seat?
Not long after the welcome meeting started, Zhao Hu discovered that several chief officials began to inquire about his situation in a roundabout way. Of course, Zhao Hu answered truthfully.

But after getting the truth, the enthusiasm of the chief officials dropped significantly. After a while, these chief officials threw Zhao Hu aside and started drinking happily, and they left the table in no time, and moved their positions to the nearby brothel .

Of course, there is no role for the protagonist Zhao Hu.

In the early morning of the next day, a small team leader with orders from the logistics chief of the regiment appeared in front of Zhao Hu, threw several carriages and horses full of supplies to Zhao Hu, and ordered Zhao Hu to set off immediately to the brigade Station, and then without waiting for an answer, turned around and left.

Knowing that he was not familiar with the place where he was born, Zhao Hu searched for a long time before finding his immediate boss, the captain of the fifth team who stayed overnight in the brothel.

"Why? Didn't you have an order to escort the supplies back to the garrison? Why haven't you set off yet?" The captain of the fifth team, disheveled, sleepy, and reeking of alcohol, looked displeased.

When Zhao Hu asked him to send guards to accompany him, he was interrupted by the captain with a rough wave: "Tell you a rookie! Under the wise leadership of our captain, the law and order in the entire Sishi County is very good! Absolutely Yes, um, it’s definitely the door that is closed at night, the roads are not picked up, the wind is calm, and there is no danger, so there is no need to send guards to protect it! Our guards work hard enough, and they have to sleep in the open, and they have to show some conscience?
"Besides, don't you have five personal guards? There are enough people, so you can go on the road as soon as possible. But you have to remember that if there is something wrong on the road, as long as something goes wrong, the captain of the brigade will find For your trouble, don’t blame me for not being sympathetic at that time, and I will deal with you with military law! Okay, let’s go, the captain of this brigade has to rest.”

While talking, he murmured something and slammed the door shut.

Feeling that those guys were too realistic, Zhao Hu had no choice but to order five subordinates to string up the carriage and horses and let him drive it himself.

There was no other way. These five subordinates could not ride a horse at all, let alone drive a carriage.

But when he left the city gate, he still got the specific direction of Kulong Town from the mouth of the guard.

The convoy left the county town and walked west not far, the road disappeared completely, and the surroundings were surrounded by the same wilderness, and they could only move in a general direction.

Among Zhao Hu's five subordinates, Diou had been dragging Sun Jie and Zhou Wen to count the supplies in the car, while the two brothers Locke and Luo Fei were dozing bored in the car.

When night fell and Anne was resting, Diou reported to Zhao Hu: "Changgong, our shipment contains fifty bags of grain per [-] jin."

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

Dio laughed and said, "These fifty bags are refined grain, which should be specially supplied to officers, and don't you know, sir? Most of the grain for the garrison is purchased locally."

Zhao Hu shook his head and said, "The Northwest is not suitable for grain production. I'm afraid we won't be able to buy much grain."

Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Sir, there shouldn't be any problem. If there was a problem, the troops scattered below would have been in an uproar, and the empire would have been uproarious. After all, the imperial army has never been short of food."

After Zhao Hu heard it, he put his heart down temporarily, nodded, and then signaled Dio to continue the report.

"One hundred sets of military uniforms and military boots each, but now there are five sets missing." Speaking of this, Diou touched the military uniforms on his body in embarrassment. Ten bows, twenty bowstrings, one thousand arrows, ten saddles, twenty pairs of horseshoes and bits, two sets of civil engineering tools, eight thousand gold coins, five thousand silver coins, and There are thirty thousand copper coins."

"This is the monthly salary of the Fifth Brigade? Why so much?" Zhao Hu asked strangely.

Dio said uncertainly: "The extra is probably the brigade funds...impossible, because according to the practice of the empire, a brigade's funds are at most about a thousand gold coins a month. And the average monthly salary of a brigade is about three thousand gold coins." 250 gold coins, more than twice as much now, can't it be that last month's salary was not paid?"

He was immediately taken aback by the inference.

The salaries of the Imperial Army are paid on time without any delay. Only those troops that are besieged during the battle and whose supplies cannot be delivered will delay the payment of their salaries, even those troops that are located in remote areas and are only replenished once every six months. This kind of thing happened, this kind of troops transported half a year's supplies at one time.

And the replenishment route of the Fifth Brigade is a two-day journey at most, and such a thing is not allowed at all. This shows that someone above temporarily misappropriated these salaries for other purposes, and I, the accountant, can see many of these turnover matters. up.Your officer won't be implicated, right?

After Diou expressed his concerns, Zhou Wen said first: "Uncle Diou, you are thinking too much. Our officer is a newcomer who has just reported. Even if there is anything, we can't rely on him."

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

It seems that the lower ranks of the Imperial Army are not what they appear on the outside. Look at the delay in salary payment, and look at the officers who look like businessmen. The lower ranks of the Imperial Army have become corrupt.

I don't know if this phenomenon is more or less in the imperial army?If it's a minority it's okay, if it's the majority...

The next day they set off at dawn, and in the evening, Zhao Hu and his party saw a blurred shadow in the wilderness plain in the distance, and several people who looked like cavalry had already rushed towards them, and it seemed that they should have arrived.

But Zhao Hu was suspicious.

On the road for two consecutive days, in this wilderness with a wide field of vision, I have never encountered a herdsman. Even if the land is sparsely populated, it will not be so rare, right?The most outrageous thing is that I didn't even see an animal, giving people a feeling of death. If I didn't finally see people now, I'm afraid I thought I had entered a dead place.

"Who?" Five cavalrymen surrounded Zhao Hu and others. Although they saw Zhao Hu's military rank, they asked cautiously because of the presence of five people like Dio who did not have military rank but wore military uniforms.

"I'm the new logistics chief of the Fifth Brigade. Here's my identity certificate." Zhao Hu handed over his military registration certificate and the certificate of re-opening of the major's regiment staff officer.

When the five horse archers heard Zhao Hu's military position, their expressions obviously changed, but they still cautiously let only one of them come forward to receive the certificate, while the other four still held their bows on guard.

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

The corporal cavalry archer looked at the certificate and smiled on his face: "This is issued by the Imperial Capital Military Department, and the workmanship is relatively fine." Then he retracted his bow and got off his horse, standing at attention and saluting: "The first squadron of the first squadron and the first squadron of the first squadron Commander, Corporal Kailar, send your greetings to Changgong!" The four subordinates around him also hurriedly saluted.

After some courtesies, Zhao Hu continued to move forward under the escort of this army.Within this short distance, Zhao Hu heard words that made him feel stupid.

The first-class soldier who received the documents looked at the carriage excitedly, and asked Dio after a while: "Uncle, are these the supplies of our brigade?" Seeing Dio nodded, he asked again: " How much salary did you bring? We haven’t paid any money for two full months.”

Dio, who was nodding with a smile, was immediately dumbfounded when he heard this.

My guess turned out to be true!There was such an incredible thing as arrears of payment in the Imperial Army.

The other private first-class looked at the military rank on Zhao Hu's arm a little strangely, and then muttered: "An officer finally came, I hope I don't leave after staying for two days, otherwise there will be no officers stationed in the whole brigade all year round, Nothing at all."

Zhao Hu, who had a keen ear, couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

He knew that only a lieutenant or above can be called an officer, so he couldn't help asking: "What are you talking about? Am I the only officer in the entire brigade? Where are the squadron leaders?"

Kailar originally wanted to stop this subordinate, but the first-class soldier curled his lips first and said: "Squadron leader? They have already returned to the county with the captain."

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

Kailar said bitterly: "Now in the entire brigade, only the small-scale organizational system of the squadron still exists. The organizational system of the squadron and the brigade has long since existed in name only. All officers above the lieutenant officer stay in the county seat."

"Abandoning duty without authorization? How could this happen? This is the border!" Zhao Hu said in shock.

Kailar sighed: "This is the border, but unfortunately the people above think that there is nothing wrong with it, and they simply ignore that the place we are stationed is next to the allied country of Feimu Banner, and the border between the two countries is very blurred. We graze and live in our territory, and we wantonly drive out the local herdsmen."

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

Hearing this, Zhao Hu's five subordinates, except the two brothers Locke and Luo Fei, the expressions of the other three changed.

(End of this chapter)