Girl, there's something wrong with you

As soon as he returned to the bedroom, Cui Xiaoniang rushed towards him and grabbed him, sniffing him from left to right.

"You smell like Xing Yunzhi!" She said loudly and accusingly, as if to declare a crime.

"After eating, she and I took a walk for a while." Cheng Jinyang explained, "It should have been contaminated at that time."

"Okay, you still go to eat!" Cui Jinqi used her acting skills and pretended that she just knew that the two of them were out alone, so she puffed up her cheeks angrily like a puffer fish.

Then Cheng Jinyang pinched his face and forced the air out of his mouth.

"Don't make trouble, we are just going to the restaurant to visit. If it tastes good, we will take everyone to eat next time."

"So is it delicious?" Miss Qingqing asked with a smile next to her, "How does it compare to the food I cook?"

"This..." Cheng Jinyang suddenly felt a sense of crisis, and his desire to survive arose, and he said seriously, "The taste is acceptable, but in terms of knife skills and heat alone, it is far inferior to Qingqing's craftsmanship. It's just that some of the ingredients are rare and rare to eat at home. It’s fresh, but has a unique flavor.”

"That's it, then I'll go and see it next time." Chu Qingqing narrowed her eyes.

"Where's Yuan Zhi?" Cheng Jinyang looked at the bedroom, "She came back earlier than me, why didn't she see anyone?"

"She went to the bathroom as soon as she entered the door, and she hasn't come out yet." Qingqing replied, "We all had to run next door to use the bathroom."

"Really?" Cheng Jinyang nodded, thinking about what he should do next.

Ah Zhi has already asked her to propose marriage. First of all, she cannot let everyone know about it. Otherwise, Cui Xiaoniang and Qing Qing will definitely riot and rebel regardless of Miss Wang's reaction.

Of course, you can't hide it forever. If they don't know each other, then as long as they manage their time well, it's not impossible to create information gaps.

It’s a pity that with the existing team structure, everyone is so familiar with each other. You can see that Miss Wang always has an elegant fake smile outside, but she is too lazy to pretend in the team (probably because it will be very tiring). You can tell that there is basically no time management. room for maneuver.

Why don't you run away?

It takes everyone to fly overseas and then fakes a crash and lives on a desert island. All etiquette and morality are lost to it. Let's cook the raw rice first. If you encounter a fishing boat returning to the mainland in a few months, the deal will be done and everyone will probably accept it.

Thinking of this, he sent a text message to his cousin Cheng Yuexian and asked if there were any uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. It is best to have beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, abundant water resources, abundant food, and no fishermen around.

This time, it took several minutes for Cheng Yuexian to send back a message:

"Don't think about it, it's not a bad thing..."

Cheng Jinyang:?

After a while, another message popped up on the screen:

"Forget it, Huaiyan and I are coming to find you."

No, wait, what exactly did you misunderstand?

"Let's go to the patriarch's office to talk." He quickly typed a reply.

In the patriarch's office, Cheng Huaiyan silently took out the imperial edict and handed it to Cheng Jinyang, saying:

"You just arrived, the court wants you to be a Sima."

Cheng Jinyang was stunned when he heard this:

"What do you mean by asking me to be 'Sima'? Want to change my surname?"

"It's not about changing your surname to Sima." Cheng Yuexian quickly explained, "It's about granting you a military position. The full name is 'Sima of the Jingkou Branch of the Xiaoqi Army'."

"Oh." Cheng Jinyang thought that his cousin was really unreliable, so he said, "The imperial court wants you to be a Sima." I thought I was asked to marry the princess sister in law!

After roughly reading the imperial edict, Cheng Jinyang asked again:

"What kind of military position does this Sima from another department have?"

"Oh, this Sima of the other department allows you to command a unit alone." Cheng Yuexian explained, "The Xiaoqi Army is currently commanded by Xi Daohui. Each brigade under the army is in charge of the military school lieutenant. Each department under the brigade is in charge of the army Sima. But the Sima of the other department is in charge. There is no quota for the number of people. It is probably because we are considering recruiting troops in Jingkou, so..."

"Wait a minute." Cheng Jinyang began to try hard to understand, "Below the Cavalry Army is the regiment, and below the regiment is the department..."

"The military commander is in charge of 1,000 people." Cheng Huaiyan said, "The commander of other departments is calculated separately."

"Oh, I understand!" Cheng Jinyang understood immediately, thinking that this cousin's words were really unreliable. I just asked what military position she was in, and she directly started to educate me about the overall military system. Who can remember this!

"Xiaoqi, Shenwu, Feixiong, and Longxiang are the four largest field armies in the empire. They are responsible for the defense of military towns in the north, east, south, and west directions respectively." Cheng Yuexian didn't know what he was thinking, so he explained from the beginning, " The Xiaoqi Army is currently in charge of the Jianghuai defense line."

"Below the Cavalry Army, the largest operational unit is the brigade, which is under the command of the military academy lieutenant. A brigade has about 3,000 to 9,000 people, depending on the specific number, and its responsibilities are to independently undertake a certain aspect of military operations."

"Below the brigade is the department, which is under the control of the Army Sima. Each department has about 800-1,000 people, depending on the service. For example, a mechanized combat brigade may have an infantry department, a reconnaissance department, an artillery department, an engineering department, The support department, etc., and military headquarters are all highly modular and are responsible for collaboratively completing brigade missions."

"Of course, the Sima of the other departments is outside the scope. Its mission responsibilities are often more flexible, so it is not included in the establishment of any brigade-level unit, and there is no limit on the number of people."

"Previously, the Valiant Cavalry Army did not have a Jingkou branch. In other words, the central government actually asked you to go to Jingkou to recruit soldiers from northern refugees and form a small army on your own. Your Sima military position in another department is the central government granting you the legal recruitment success A 'holiday' for the military."

Cheng Jinyang, who generally understood, was silent for a while and asked:

"What do you mean, the imperial court doesn't provide people or money, so it just asks me to go to the northern refugee camp in Jingkou to recruit young men with the title of a certain commander?"

"Yes." Cheng Huaiyan added, "But the army raised by relying on our family's resources is essentially your private army."

"Like Su Zigao's refugee army?" Cheng Jinyang asked again.

"That's right." Cheng Yuexian nodded and said, "Nominally you are only responsible for the Xiaoqi Army, which means you must obey Xi Daohui's instructions."

"However, since the resources and finances of this army are independent of the Cavalry Army, you actually don't have to listen to him. We have the confidence."

"I understand." Cheng Jinyang thought to himself, good guy, to put it bluntly, Yu Zhongshu felt that he couldn't defeat the refugee army, so in order to force me, the steel giant, to take action, he gave me the power to recruit an army privately.

"Jinyang, what do you think?" Cheng Yuexian said seriously, "Strictly speaking, this imperial edict is not an order, but a request. If we don't intend to obey the edict, we can directly send a member of the clan to Jingkou to symbolically recruit a few hundred people. With a team of people, we can handle it. You really don’t need to consider running away and going overseas now..."

Cheng Jinyang:………………

"That was just a joke. I didn't want to run away now." He changed the subject hahahahaha, and then asked thoughtfully, "If we go to Jingkou to recruit soldiers, will we need to invest a lot of resources?"

"Many." Cheng Huaiyan said.

No, Brother Huaiyan, of course I know that it costs money to build an army. I'm asking how much it costs!

Cheng Jinyang ignored him and turned his attention to Cheng Yuexian.

"It depends on the scale. If we really want to raise an army, we will need to consume a lot of resources." Cheng Yuexian replied, "However, we are an old military family after all, and we can definitely use the resources to cultivate Tianluo in the future. , transfer to Jingkou."

"More importantly, this is the opening opened by the court for us." Her expression was extremely serious. "If you miss this time, you may not have such an opportunity in the future."