Ze Tian Ji Chapter 555

"I've never met a perfect officer like him before. So strong, and he can even make every one of his troops show their full potential. Chen Chou, as their commander, you should know just how lazy and useless those members of that group of roaming cavalry were at the beginning."

"Anyone will admit to his usefulness in those battles, but to speak of perfection…guzzling wine and brawling every day, just how is that perfect? Do we still want military discipline or not? I agree to assigning him merit, but correspondingly, shouldn't we also give him punishment for violating the prohibition?"

"If he were my subordinate, if he brought back ten-odd wolf cavalry corpses every time he went on patrol, then let alone drinking and brawling, as long as it wasn't murder or arson, I would be willing to endure anything. Punishment? I only wish I could wash his feet every day!"

"Aren't you all forgetting one very important problem? He was sent to us by the military tribunal of the Northern Expedition Administration…I hear that only if you offend some very important figure there will you get sent to some remote region like this. If his name is placed on the register of military merits, might the military administration have some opinion?"

"Even if they do, does that mean we should suppress his military achievements? This will cause the soldiers to become disillusioned!"

"Who said we were going to suppress his military achievements? Aren't we just thinking of the most suitable method?"

"Everyone, stop talking! Military merit is military merit, and if we should punish, we should punish…with the military merit he has achieved in the past few days, there's even a chance that he will be conferred a noble title, but given how he has violated the military prohibitions in the past few days, beheading isn't out of the question either. I see that both sides are in conflict, so let's issue him a commendation, but as for the monetary reward, we will hold it for now."

The noisy tent was instantly silenced. Everyone turned to the general seated at the very front, subconsciously wanting to oppose this decision. However, upon careful thought, handling matters this way was the best method, and then they all couldn't but turn as one towards that deputy general called Chen Chou, their eyes filled with sympathy or schadenfreude.

Chen Chou was extremely angry. He picked up his helmet from the table and exited the tent.