Su Cheng, who was having random thoughts in his mind, saw Master Cao walking in from the gate of the cottage, and there were a few strangers with him. It was certain that they were not from their cottage, otherwise he would not have seen them before.
"Master Cao is back, and there are a few people with him. Su Cheng, do you think they are here to join our village?"
Wang Dazhuang didn't know when he had put away the money in his hand. At this time, his eyes were looking at Cao Guang and the few people around him.
Not only the two of them, but also many people in the village saw Cao Guang bringing several strangers to the village.
"It's not like that." Su Cheng shook his head slightly.
Unlike Wang Dazhuang, he noticed that among the strangers around Cao Guang, one of them was walking in front. Even Cao Guang, the boss of the cottage, was half a step behind the other person.
It was very obvious that the status of that person must be higher than that of Cao Guang, the master of the cottage. He even guessed that the other person came from Lingqiu.
Soon, Cao Guang led several people into a room in the village.
Su Cheng bumped Wang Dazhuang with his elbow and said, "Do you want to know the identities of the people who entered the house with Mr. Cao?"
"Do you want to go inside and ask Mr. Cao?" Wang Dazhuang looked at Su Cheng.
Su Cheng said very speechlessly, "If you want to find out the identities of the people who are with Mr. Cao, you don't have to ask Mr. Cao."
"Who do you ask?" Wang Dazhuang looked confused.
"Follow me." Su Cheng waved.
Wang Dazhuang hesitated for a moment, touched the broken piece of silver on his chest, and then followed him.
The two people arrived in front of the cottage.
Su Cheng said to one of them, "Captain Chen, I want to ask you something."
"It's you two boys." Captain Chen glanced at the two of them and said, "Tell me, what's going on?"
Su Cheng turned around and glanced at the room that Cao Guang walked into, and said, "My subordinates just saw our headmaster and several people coming to our village. One of them looked very powerful. Even our headmaster was careful." Come with me, is there some big shot in the village?"
"I want to know" Captain Chen asked.
Su Cheng nodded and said, "My subordinates are also curious. They have been in the village for more than a month. This is the first time that we have seen someone bigger than our boss come to our village."
When Wang Dazhuang saw Su Cheng nodding, he nodded as well.
Captain Chen smiled and said, "The person who came is indeed a big shot, and he is a big shot in our Tiger Flag, Yang Tou, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau."
"What is the Foreign Intelligence Agency?" Wang Dazhuang looked confused.
Su Cheng on the side also looked puzzled. This was the first time he heard the name Foreign Intelligence Agency.
Captain Chen asked, "Do you know Jinyiwei?"
"I know." Wang Dazhuang nodded and said immediately, "The Jin Yiwei are very powerful. A thousand households in our area were kidnapped by several Jin Yiwei who came to the door. Later I heard that they were beheaded."
Captain Chen said, "The Foreign Intelligence Bureau belongs to the Jinyiwei of our Tiger Flag. The Director of the Foreign Intelligence Department is the largest official in the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. Do you think he is a big shot?"
"That's really a big shot." Wang Dazhuang nodded in agreement.
Su Cheng was moved when he heard Captain Chen use Jin Yiwei to explain the foreign intelligence agency of Tiger Character Flag. He asked curiously, "Captain, can you tell your subordinates how big an official this department director is in Tiger Character Flag?"
Captain Chen thought for a while and said, "Let's put it this way, there are more than a hundred people in our village. If we put it on the Lingqiu side, it is the size of a squadron. There is a brigade above the squadron. There is a thousand-man brigade above the brigade. There are only Only a few thousand-man team captains have the same status as the Yangtou who entered the room, so let’s make it clear.”
"My mother-in-law, these are the same high-ranking officials as our Qianhu." Wang Dazhuang said in surprise.
"Absolutely," Captain Chen said, "but Yangtou is our own official of Tiger Character Banner, unlike Qianhu of the imperial court, who is an official of Ming Dynasty."
Su Cheng said, "Since the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is the royal guard of our Tiger Flag, does it also have spies and the like? It also needs to send people to everywhere to find out information."
Captain Chen said, "I heard that there is a spy, but no one has seen it, and even if they have seen it, they don't know whether it is a spy from the Foreign Intelligence Service. I'm afraid only they themselves know."
"Is that so?" Su Cheng looked thoughtful.
Wang Dazhuang, who was standing next to him, suddenly said, "Do you think there will be any spies from the Foreign Intelligence Service in our village?"
"Probably not," Captain Chen said uncertainly.
He didn't know much about the affairs of the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Most of the things he heard from others.
Su Cheng looked at the room that Cao Guang entered and said, "Captain Chen, do you think if I join the Foreign Intelligence Agency, can I be sent to Liaodong as a spy?"
"Liaodong," Captain Chen frowned and said, "Liaodong is so far away, and our Tiger Flag has no business there, so there shouldn't be any spies sent there."
Su Cheng looked disappointed when he heard this.
Captain Chen asked, "Do you want to go back to Liaodong?"
Su Cheng nodded with a wry smile and said, "If I can go back, I still want to go back and have a look."
"Don't think about it." Captain Chen patted Su Cheng on the shoulder and said, "If Liaodong is in such chaos, if you can still survive, you will not flee to Datong. Since you have come to Datong, you will stay in Datong in the future. Living here, as long as Dongzhu Liu and Tiger Character Flag are here, they will not treat us badly."
"I also think it's pretty good here." Wang Dazhuang said, "I can eat well and wear warm clothes here. I can eat meat every day and I get paid every month. It's much more comfortable than what I lived in Liaodong."
Su Cheng smiled bitterly.
The life here is indeed good for the people of Liaodong who escaped from the disaster, but he is from Liaodong after all, and he wants to go back, after all, that is his home.
He knew that he could only think about it in his heart.
If the Jurchens in Liaodong are not solved for one day, he will not be able to survive even if he goes back. In the future, he will either be captured by the Jurchens as a Dingkou and become a slave, or he will die under the butcher's knife of the Jurchens.
In the room where Cao Guang was.
I saw Yang Yuan take out an official document and read "Commander of Military and Political Affairs"
Cao Guang and several others stood up straight at the same time, with their hands hanging down by their sides and their fingers together.
Yang Yuan continued to read, "Appoint Cao Guang as the captain of the first brigade of Daliangshan, Zhang Hongtu, the aide-de-camp, as the staff officer of the first brigade of Daliangshan, and Ma Lin as the deputy captain of the first brigade of Daliangshan."
"yes."
Several people agreed in unison.
At this time, Yang Yuan smiled and said, "Congratulations to Captain Cao."
There was no joy on Cao Guang's face when he heard this. Instead, he said with a grimace, "Yang Tou, please stop joking. As a captain, I have more than a hundred people under my command, which is the size of a squadron."
