The next day, Leng Ming arrived at the military camp early according to Leng Yu's arrangement.
According to his expectations, with his status, his fourth brother would at least find him a fourth or fifth rank general in the military camp.
But the reality was different from what he expected. When he arrived at the military camp in high spirits, Xiao Lingzi first saluted him respectfully.
"Prince Ming, our general asked me to wait for you here..."
"General Ling, has my fourth brother made all the arrangements?"
"It's all arranged. Please follow me..."
Leng Ming followed Xiao Lingzi with his hands behind his back and an arrogant look, waiting for his fourth brother to grant him an official title that would make him proud. When he became an official and had something to do, he would go to Luo Xue and let her see that she would no longer look down on him.
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't wait to know what kind of position his fourth brother would assign him.
After walking around the barracks for a while, the two of them came directly to the corner of the barracks. He asked puzzledly as he walked,
"General Ling, why did you bring me here? I see the training ground is over there."
"Our prince has arranged a very important position for you. Yes, here we are!"
As he was talking, Xiao Lingzi actually brought him to the military camp's supply warehouse. Standing at the warehouse door, he asked in surprise:
"Why... did you bring me here?"
Xiao Lingzi pointed at these warehouses and explained:
"The prince said that you've just arrived and don't know much about the barracks, so he's asking you to start by managing the warehouse. Don't underestimate this supply warehouse. It's the most important place in the entire barracks. Everything here is under your control, including the soldiers guarding the warehouse. Let me introduce it to you. This side is the armory, which is also the weapons warehouse. Over there is the granary, which is used to store grain and vegetables. There's also the supplementary warehouse, which stores some ready-made clothes and daily necessities for the soldiers. In the innermost part is the firewood warehouse, which is what the people call the firewood room. It's the most important place in the supply warehouse. Fire prevention is the primary task. If there is a fire there, it will endanger the safety of the entire barracks. By the way, the general asked you to find out the quantity of all the items here within three days, classify them, and record them for him..."
Leng Ming looked at Xiao Lingzi with a confused look, and asked in an incredulous voice:
"You said my fourth brother asked me to come here to check the inventory? Did you hear wrongly? Don't you have any data on the items in your warehouse? Why do you want me to check? Besides, I came to the barracks to become a general, not to do this kind of manual labor."
"Prince Ming, our general said that if you want to achieve great things, you must start with small things. If you manage the warehouse well, he will consider moving you to another place..."
"Manage it well? There are so many warehouses here? There's so much stuff, and new things come in every day. How am I supposed to manage it? How am I supposed to check it? Is he deliberately making things difficult for me?"
"Prince Ming, I think you've misunderstood the general's intentions. Why would he deliberately embarrass you? You're new to the barracks and don't understand the situation here. If you start with the basics, you'll learn more. The general has good intentions!"
"Good intentions? Haha, that's ridiculous. Where is he? I want to go ask him myself."
Obviously, Leng Ming was a little excited. He couldn't accept that Leng Yu only assigned him the job of guarding the warehouse.
"The general is not here right now. He is in the palace handling court affairs and will not be back until the afternoon."
It turned out that since he was named regent by the emperor, he would only come to the military camp to handle military affairs in the afternoon, and would handle state affairs in the court in the morning.
Leng Ming clasped his hands together and snorted disdainfully:
"Okay, then I'll wait for him."
"Prince Ming, you can't just sit there and wait. You should take up your post first. When the general arrives, it won't be too late to find him later."
"I can't do this job, and I don't want to do it. You should find another job!"
After leaving these words, Leng Ming left without looking back. Xiao Lingzi shook his head helplessly and muttered to himself,
"I told you before that Prince Ming would definitely not do this job. He also said he would study hard."
Leng Ming waited in the coach's camp the whole morning, quietly waiting for Leng Yu to come back. He was so angry that he didn't even eat lunch.
In the afternoon, Leng Yu hurried back. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the military camp, Xiao Lingzi told him about Leng Ming. Leng Yu listened while walking into the commander-in-chief's camp.
Seeing him come back, Leng Ming stood up from the coach's chair and looked at Leng Yu with a face full of grievance.
"Fourth brother, Xiao Lingzi said you asked me to guard the warehouse. Did he misunderstand you? Tell him quickly about the job you arranged for me..."
Leng Yu looked at him indifferently and said seriously:
"He didn't misunderstand me, and you didn't hear me wrong. The position I assigned to you is to guard the warehouse. If you can't even do a small job like guarding the warehouse, how are you going to achieve big things in the future?"
After receiving Leng Yu's affirmative answer, Leng Ming looked at him with an unbelievable look, then spread his hands and laughed at himself.
"Guarding the warehouse is something anyone can do, yet you're asking me to do it, yet you're making it sound so grandiose. Fourth brother, I can't do this job. You'd better assign me another position, or give me the title of a fifth-rank general, or let me train new soldiers when I have time. If that doesn't work..."
"alright."
Leng Yu raised her hand to interrupt him.
"Everything must start with small things. If you can't do the small things well, I won't give you a more important position. Go ahead and personally report to me the data of the items in the warehouse within three days."
Leng Ming wanted to argue again, but seeing that his fourth brother was busy with military affairs and ignored him, he could only angrily shake his sleeves and leave.
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