The pretty widow is addicted to money, and the little wolfdog asks for a hug

Chang Ziyan said contemptuously: "So what if he is a good citizen? He is still a peasant! It is his honor to be my follower!"

"Don't mention this matter again! What will happen if it gets out?" General Chang glared at her.

Zhao Xiaoshi bravely went to the northern barbarians alone and brought back so many fine horses. He has become a hero in the eyes of the soldiers and can no longer be humiliated at will.

Chang Ziyan snorted, then walked behind Chang Heng and rubbed his shoulders flatteringly: "Father, what reward are you going to give Zhao Xiaoshi?"

General Chang pinched his brows and said, "I still need to think carefully about this matter, so please don't interfere."

"Father, don't promote him. Let him be an insignificant and lowly soldier forever! See if he dares to disrespect this young lady again!" Chang Ziyan pouted and said angrily.

General Chang took a deep breath and said, "I have my own opinion on this matter!"

On the same day, General Chang's proposal was conveyed.

He promoted Zhao Xiaoshi to the position of centurion and gave him a month's annual leave.

Captain Fu was very puzzled when he heard this.

Zhao Xiaoshi had made such a great contribution, but he was only given the rank of decurion? He should have been at least a centurion, and he didn't even get a copper coin as a reward!

I remember that last time, General Chang’s son, General Zuo Mufeng, one of the four army generals, was rewarded with a thousand taels of silver just for repelling more than a hundred northern barbarian soldiers who were disturbing the border.

Captain Fu was very upset, but he couldn't show it in front of his subordinates. He was about to go to the general's tent to argue with the general, but was stopped by Qi Yuanshuo.

Qi Yuanshuo said sincerely: "Thank you Captain Fu for your protection. I will be the captain of the 10th platoon. Maybe my contribution is not great enough. If it is so great that it cannot be ignored, I will naturally get the due treatment."

Captain Fu looked at him, sighed deeply, raised his hand and patted his shoulder, saying: "Fortunately, you are open-minded. As long as you work hard, this captain will never bury you! I will do my best to give you the opportunity to make meritorious service!"

Captain Fu was very familiar with this kind of exclusion and suppression from his superiors; it was deeply engraved in his mind.

Once upon a time, this northern border belonged to their Fu family. His grandfather and father were both great generals guarding the border who made the enemy tremble in fear. They were fair, upright, brave and good at fighting, and devoted to the country. Unfortunately, there were too many people who suppressed and excluded his father, and the one in the palace was afraid of the Fu family. In order to preserve the bloodline of the Fu family, his father handed over his military power and retired to his hometown.

He also started out as a small soldier and made numerous contributions over the past decade. He has now been promoted to the position of Captain of the Yue Cavalry.

His life is probably over.

Maybe you have been caught in the rain yourself, so you will feel sad when you see others getting caught in the rain.

No matter what, he will cultivate Zhao Xiaoshi to the best of his ability.

Real talents should become the country's most important assets, instead of being suppressed and excluded by overly selfish people, leaving them with no chance to succeed.

Qi Yuanshuo was very grateful and smiled sincerely, "Thank you, Captain Fu. I now have at least ten subordinates and am now a minor official."

Captain Fu patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "You are optimistic enough! You can choose your own subordinates! I have 800 subordinates in total, you can choose whatever you want!"

"Thank you, Captain! Does my vacation start today?" Qi Yuanshuo's eyes were full of anticipation.

If it were today, he could still catch up with Sister Xiaohuai and the others.

He wanted to take advantage of this long vacation to get familiar with Xiao Huhu as quickly as possible and continue to teach her to call him daddy.

Captain Fu said gently: "You can go home today and have a good New Year at home."

"Yes!" Qi Yuanshuo responded immediately, his excitement hard to conceal in his voice.

After leaving Captain Fu's tent, Qi Yuanshuo's eyes gradually darkened.

He glanced in the direction of the general's tent and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Chang Heng is the Third Prince's man, and he and his brother have always known about the Chang family's corruption in military and political affairs.

Chang Heng is a man who is greedy for money, narrow-minded, scheming, not good at fighting, but very good at using tricks.

Therefore, Qi Yuanshuo was mentally prepared for Chang Heng's exclusion and suppression.

If he wants to gain a foothold in the Northern Foothills Border Army, he will climb up step by step, and finally replace Chang Heng, control the entire Northern Foothills Border Army, and make it his rear base.

Chang Heng could indeed suppress him in his military position, but there was one point that Chang Heng overlooked: to truly establish authority in the army, the most important thing is to win the hearts of the people.

The ancients said, "The poor value profit, so they approach people with profit; the weak only value respect, so they approach people with humility; the strong value results, so they approach people with deeds; the old value praise, so they approach people with courtesy."

The vast majority of soldiers in the army are of humble origins, and such people most desire respect from others. However, what General Chang and his daughter did was to not treat the soldiers as human beings. If this continues, they will surely lose the support of the people.

And since he was in the army, he had the opportunity to win over all the soldiers around him to his side.

Now he already has ten people, and in the future there will be twenty, thirty... until ten thousand, one hundred thousand.

He was like a ghost, lurking silently among the soldiers and establishing real authority in the hearts of the soldiers, rather than relying solely on power and status.

Before leaving the military camp, Qi Yuanshuo found Yu Zhou, took him to the woods behind the mountain, and had a long talk with him.

He trusted Yu Zhou because although Yu Zhou was a chatterbox, he had never betrayed him.

No matter who tried to get information from Yu Zhou, Yu Zhou refused to say a word.

He needs Yu Zhou to help him do something.

When Yu Zhou came back from the woods, his legs felt weak and his heart was pounding.

He didn't expect that the boss actually wanted to be the general and wanted to replace Chang Heng.

The boss is really ambitious!

However, he felt that the boss's ability was fully worthy of his ambition.

When the boss asked him if he wanted to join him, he joined without hesitation.

His aunt was forced to become a concubine and gave birth to him, a bastard. When he was at home, he suffered bullying everywhere and was often called a useless waste.

In fact, he turned himself into a waste because he didn't want his eldest son to think that he was too ambitious and wanted to fight for the family property.

But he is still not a human being.

In order to avoid being bullied again, he decided to find another way out and leave home to join the army.

From now on, his life or death, honor or disgrace are all earned by himself and have nothing to do with the legitimate son or the family.

When his legitimate sons heard that he was going to join the army, they were overjoyed, as if they had already seen him die on the battlefield.

Originally, he also felt that he was useless, but the boss actually said that his mouth was a hidden weapon that could hurt people and should be used well.

This was the first time in his life that he was praised.

Although the thing he was praised for was a little special, not his appearance, figure, personality, demeanor or ability, but his mouth, he was still very happy.

Well, he has a good mouth!

The boss asked him to quietly spread rumors in the army that the general was nepotism, suppressing soldiers of humble origins and excluding those with outstanding abilities.

The boss said that they should use a subtle and silent approach to gradually make General Chang lose his prestige in the soldiers' hearts.

This is a piece of cake for him.

In fact, this is not a rumor. General Chang has always been like this. There are even more outrageous things than this, but many people are intimidated by his power and dare not speak out.

He just pointed it out quietly.