Chapter 13 Four Subordinates
"Hmph! Ye Mingsheng, don't push your luck. Which unit of our Great Zhou army in the palace has received pay? Others can fight, but you can't?"

"And the court is not unwilling to give you this silver. When we return to the capital, the court will transfer it from the national treasury to make up for it for you!" As soon as Ye Mingsheng finished speaking, Li Wanshun spoke first without waiting for Wang Kangxin to speak:
Ye Mingsheng knew that Li Wanshun had no say in the matter, so he ignored him and just looked at Wang Kangxin calmly. Seeing Ye Mingsheng ignoring him like this, Li Wanshun's face, which was already dark, became even darker like a piece of coal. However, with the lesson just now, he had learned a lesson and could only choose to swallow his anger and dared not yell at Ye Mingsheng anymore.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and Wang Kangxin was the first to speak: "Name a price!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Mingsheng did not say anything, but just raised three fingers.

Seeing this, Wang Kangxin's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he laughed in anger:
"Ye Mingsheng you have such a big appetite!"

"Brother Wang, you are wrong. I am willing to help you and your brothers without asking for anything. But my brothers have families to support, so each of us will only get three taels of silver, not much!" Ye Mingsheng said sincerely.
Seeing Ye Mingsheng say such shameless and disgusting words, Wang Kangxin wanted to give this shameless guy a slap in the face, but after all, he was under someone else's roof. Wang Kangxin tried his best to hold back the impulse in his heart and said viciously: "I'll give you at most one thousand taels!"

"Let's discuss it. How about two thousand taels?"

"If two thousand doesn't work, then fifteen hundred taels should be fine, right?"

Seeing that Ye Mingsheng still wanted to bargain, Wang Kangxin was so angry that he wanted to leave in anger.

Seeing that there was no way to gain more benefits, Ye Mingsheng could only nod helplessly and said:

"Okay, one thousand is one thousand taels. My poor brothers can only get one tael of silver each!"

After sighing under Wang Kangxin's murderous gaze, Ye Mingsheng continued to ask, "Brother Wang, when will you send the silver?"

"You should start preparing these days. Before the operation begins, I will send someone to inform you of the specific time of the operation, and I will bring the banknotes to you at that time!"

After saying that, Wang Kangxin got up and left, walking out of Liu's house with Li Wanshun. He didn't want to stay with Ye Mingsheng, such a shameless guy, for even a moment.

Watching the backs of the two people leaving, a faint smile emerged on Ye Mingsheng's angular face. His plan was going smoothly. Wang Kangxin and Li Wanshun were in his territory and could only admit defeat.

Having come this far, the danger on him has been temporarily lifted. As for what happens next, he has to take it one step at a time and cross the river by feeling the stones. ·························
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March is the beginning of spring in Ruishan County, but because it rained a few times some time ago, the weather is still a bit chilly.

According to Pei Zhixiu's instructions, Ye Mingsheng, who was taking medicine and recuperating in the mansion, did not dare to neglect the urgent military information sent by his subordinates. He did not even have lunch and immediately took Ye Tie and others, riding horses on the street and heading straight to the military camp in Ruishan County, where his battalion of more than a thousand soldiers was stationed.

The imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty were composed of five people in a squad with a squad leader, two squads formed a ten with a ten leader, four tenures formed a team with a team leader, four teams formed a city with a city leader, four cities formed a sentry with a regular eighth-rank sentry leader, four sentries formed a battalion with a regular seventh-rank commander, and above the battalion was the army, but there was no fixed number of battalions under an army. However, in the imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty, each "army" had at least 20,000 people.

Normally, a fully staffed battalion of the Great Zhou Imperial Guards, including cooks, laborers, military doctors, and personal soldiers of officers at all levels, would have about three thousand people.

However, the battalion commanded by Ye Mingsheng was a new battalion formed by the Xuanwu Army to suppress the Dangxiang uprising, so it only had three understaffed sentries. When it first entered Gongdu, there were only about 1,300 people in the entire battalion. After fighting in Gongdu for half a year, there were more than 200 casualties. Now there are only more than 1,000 people left in this military camp.

As soon as he entered the military camp, soldiers came up to him and led his horse. After getting off the horse, Ye Mingsheng, who was in a bad mood and had a gloomy face, did not delay at all and went straight to the central military camp with his personal soldiers. He never expected that he had just scared Wang Kangxin with the Black Mountain Wind, and this group of damn bandits came out to cause trouble.

At this time, there were more than a dozen people in the central army camp, waiting for Ye Mingsheng's arrival. Among them, the middle-aged warrior standing on the left, dressed in military uniform, with a resolute face and a burly figure, was Chen Yannian, an eighth-rank sentry under Ye Mingsheng. He was 41 years old this year. Although he was not young, Ye Mingsheng had personally killed several Luobi warriors with his goose-wing sword in the battle.

In addition to his personal strength and bravery, Chen Yannian has fought in the imperial guards for more than 20 years. Although he is only an eighth-rank sentry captain commanding hundreds of people, he is very good at actual combat command and has made many military achievements.

If this person did not have any connections in the imperial guards, and had a large family and lived on military pay, with no extra money to use for promotion, Chen Yannian would have long been the commander of a battalion of the seventh rank!

In fact, if Ye Mingsheng was not from Zhaowu Camp, but was Shangguan Hongyuan's personal guard, and was deliberately promoted by his superiors, and with the use of three hundred taels of silver, I'm afraid that the official positions of Ye Mingsheng and Chen Yannian would have been swapped at this time!

Standing next to Chen Yannian, the middle-aged warrior, who was also of sturdy build but had his left hand tucked into his sleeve, was named Wang Xian, 38 years old this year. Like Chen Yannian, he was also an eighth-rank sentry captain under Ye Mingsheng.

The reason why Wang Xian retracted his left hand into his sleeve was because he had three fingers of his left hand chopped off by the Cumans in the battle with them. So he retracted it into his sleeve because he didn't want people to see the disability on his hand. Although Wang Xian was not as capable as Chen Yannian, he was also an old soldier with rich experience.

Standing opposite Chen Yannian and Wang Xian were two young men in their twenties. The tall and strong one in military uniform was named Lin Huaiwu, while the one behind him in casual clothes, short and fat with a faint smile on his face was named Kong Ruian. These two were respectively a ninth-rank sentry captain and a ninth-rank grain officer.

(End of this chapter)