Chapter 101: Ways (Please collect! Please vote! Please invest!)

When he returned to his tent, Ye Tie and the others who stayed behind in the tent looked very curious about why he came back to sleep. Their expressions immediately hurt Ye Mingsheng very much...
There was no way to explain this kind of thing, and even if he did, it would only make things worse. Ye Mingsheng simply didn't bother to pay attention to them. He just asked Ye Kui to fetch some stream water with a wooden bucket. After washing up, he lay down on the straw mat, wanting to have a good sleep to accumulate energy for tomorrow's march.

Although it was a good idea, unfortunately things did not go as planned. Before, Ye Mingsheng could fall asleep quickly when lying on the straw mat in the mountains, but today, for some reason, he was extremely awake and did not feel tired at all.

Ye Mingsheng, who was tossing and turning and unable to sleep, felt extremely irritated. He simply gave up sleeping, walked out of the tent to relieve himself, then lay down on the straw mat and began to think.

The first thing he thought about was something related to Bae Ji-soo.

Just now in front of Pei Zhixiu, he made things sound so easy and told Pei Zhixiu not to worry that her background would bring him trouble...

But those were just words he used to comfort Bae Ji-soo, and things were far from that simple.

Previously, the imperial court was able to tolerate the development of the East Island Japanese, represented by the Black Dragon Society, in Gongdu, Silla and other places. In addition to the fact that their energy was mainly tied up by the Golden Horde in the north and the various internal vassal states, there was another reason. That is, Gongdu, Silla and other places were, after all, just vassal states, not the territory of the Great Zhou, so the imperial court could tolerate their existence.

However, as the power of the Japanese in East Island, represented by the Black Dragon Society, grows stronger and stronger, their tentacles begin to extend to Liaoyang. In addition, the palace is actually controlled by the Great Zhou. What can be foreseen next is that the court will definitely crack down on the Black Dragon Society because it will not allow others to sleep beside its bed.

By that time, if everything went well, he would have been successfully transferred to the Zhenwu Army, and would most likely be responsible for part of the task of clearing out the Black Dragon Society.

Therefore, if things develop to this point, once Pei Zhixiu's Japanese ancestry is known, she will have a lot of trouble in her life. Moreover, according to Pei Zhixiu, her mother is a Japanese spy, which is undoubtedly even more troublesome...

Although this hidden danger exists, Ye Mingsheng is not particularly worried. He has been stationed in Ruishan County for several months and has never heard of anything about Pei Zhixiu's mother.

If Pei Zhixiu hadn't told him in person, he wouldn't have known about this. This shows that Pei Zhixiu did a very good job of keeping his background secret. Unless something unexpected happened, outsiders would not know about it at all.

In addition, the current situation of the Great Zhou is a powder keg that is ready to explode. According to Ye Mingsheng's judgment, it will take three to five years. During this period, he will either take advantage of the Zhenwu Army's momentum to rise to the top and become a local lord, or he will become cannon fodder in the power struggle. The former is in a high position and no one dares to trouble him with Pei Zhixiu's affairs. If he unfortunately becomes the latter, there will be more bad things that he needs to worry about, and Pei Zhixiu's affairs are also nothing...
To be honest, compared to what happened later, Ye Mingsheng cared more about how to get promoted in the Zhenwu Army.

While traveling through the Huishan Mountains, Ye Mingsheng's mind was also busy. He had been thinking about how to find a way to transfer to the Zhenwu Army.

Although he still couldn't imagine who he could find to help him accomplish this, Ye Mingsheng roughly thought of two people who might be able to help him...
The first person, of course, is his fellow villager Fang Jing, who serves as the fourth-rank commander of the Hujie Imperial Guard.

As one of the few high-ranking military officers in the imperial guards who came from a humble family, Fang Jing was able to rise to the top not only because of his good abilities, but also because he was tall and handsome, and had a good tongue. As a result, he married a good wife - the concubine's daughter of Tang Di, Duke of Wei, who was from the noble faction. By taking advantage of the noble faction, he was able to rise to the position of fourth rank.

It's just that Fang Jing got his position through nepotism, and he was also very dependent on the care of the Duke of Wei, so his family status was not very high and he was a little afraid of his wife. As a result, although he was a fourth-rank commander and a senior military officer of the Imperial Guards, his status in the Imperial Guards was not very high, and he was not very firm in his words and deeds, and the friends he made were not high-ranking officials in the court.

Therefore, even if you ask him for help, he doesn't have the ability to do it for you even if he wants to. Otherwise, Ye Mingsheng would have taken advantage of Fang Jing's help to raise his official rank to the seventh rank. However, even so, he is the first person Ye Mingsheng can think of.

In addition to Fang Jing, the second person Ye Mingsheng thought of was Qian Buli.
According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the transfer and promotion of military officers must be approved by the Ministry of War. To this day, with the separatist regimes in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the legal provisions have long been in name only. Some military officers in a military region can take office by submitting an official document to the Ministry of War without your consent or not, while others simply appoint themselves without giving any attention to the Ministry of War.

Only the Imperial Guards and some other troops loyal to the Prime Minister Shangguan Hongyuan were still following the law.
Although Ye Mingsheng had not made the acquaintance of any big shots after spending so many years in Luoan, the power center of the Great Zhou, he was not completely acquainted with any big shots. However, in the Ministry of War, Ye Mingsheng did not know anyone at all. He actually had a few familiar drinking buddies. Among them, the one with the highest official position and the deepest background was Qian Buli, who served as the seventh-rank official in the Ministry of War.

This Qian Buli is Ye Mingsheng, whom he met through Kong Ruian's circle. Although the two are not in the same department, they get along well because of their similar age and official positions. They often drink together when they are in Luoan. Some of Ye Mingsheng's information about the situation in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty was also obtained from Qian Buli!

Although Qian Buli had never taken the initiative to talk about his background and had always kept his mouth shut, Ye Mingsheng had basically figured out Qian Buli's background through indirect questioning of Kong Ruian.

Qian Buli is from the Qian family, a powerful family in Luoan, and is also the biological son of a prominent figure in the Qian family. It was precisely because of this that Qian Buli was transferred to the Ministry of War and filled a vacant position as a seventh-rank official.

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