Chapter 3115

Chapter 3115

After seeing off a visitor, Shao Tianhu felt relieved and asked his colleagues: "Old Wang, would these officials come to our office before?"

Hearing this question from Shao Tianhu, Old Wang couldn't help showing a wry smile: "In our small courtyard, there are not many people who know about it, and even fewer people are willing to take the initiative to come to the door. Like the bustle of the past two days The scene, I have been in the office for so many years, this is actually the first time I have seen it.”

Lao Liao added next to him: "All year round, there are probably only three or five, and you can count them on your fingers. The Immigration Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Shipping Department of the Ministry of Communications, and the South China Sea Department of the Ministry of Commerce... basically all deal with affairs. There is a yamen where there are official business contacts, and people come here for official business, and they will not come to us to talk about friendship when they have nothing to do."

Lao Wang went on to say: "The Mr. Zheng from the Ministry of Culture and Education who came here just now, and the Mr. Qi from the Ministry of Finance who came to the door first in the morning, speaking of which, they have nothing to do with our place, and they will definitely not appear in our place. This yard."

Shao Tianhu was puzzled and said: "But that Lord Qi said that he is an old acquaintance with the Lord who just left office in the office, but we have less communication in recent years."

Lao Liao snorted and said, "Master Shao, you don't know that I go to the Ministry of Finance to do errands, and it's just a small matter of stamping. They can delay you for ten days and a half months. If you know someone in the Ministry , do I need to suffer all this?"

From his tone, it is obvious that the office does not have any contacts in the Ministry of Finance that can be used, and the Lord Qi and the former person in charge probably do not have the friendship he claimed, at most they just know each other.

Shao Tianhu smiled bitterly and said: "People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. I didn't expect that I would have such a day. The influence of this newspaper is too great!"

Old Wang said: "That's the front page article of the Haihan Times. I wrote a long paragraph for you by name. Most people don't even dare to think about it. What a blessing it must be!"

Shao Tianhu said: "But before I came to Sanya, Mr. Luo specifically asked me to keep a low profile here and not attract too much attention. Once this article was published, people from all over the world came here to seek friendship with me. How could I return it?" Very low-key."

The old king said: "Master Shao, don't be too annoying, this is a rare good thing! In the past, we hosted a banquet here, and the people who invited people were not as high as today's people. If you send the post, there will be seven or eight of them. Just turned it down, let alone came to the door."

Lao Liao also sighed: "Now these yamen people take the initiative to come to make friends with each other. This is really a big change! Master Shao, with these contacts, it will be much more convenient for us to do business outside in the future."

Shao Tianhu coughed dryly and said, "I'm not good at communication, maintaining these contacts is not my specialty."

Lao Wang waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, we understand the situation in Sanya to some extent, and we can serve as your military adviser!"

Lao Liao said with a smile: "Master Shao was the military officer who led the troops when he was in Xingdao. You can't be a military adviser, at most you can be a master!"

Lao Wang didn't take it seriously and said: "Three cobblers, Zhuge Liang is the best, if we gather together, we should still be able to help Master Shao."

While several people were chatting and laughing, Li Gui came in to report, another visitor came at the door, and Shao Tianhu needed to go out to greet him.

Shao Tianhu sighed, and said to himself: "Which yamen's master is here again?"

The identity of the visitor this time really has something to do with Shao Tianhu, it's not some yamen that has nothing to do with the Xingdao office, but the Haihan Ministry of Defense.

The visitor was dressed in military uniform, indicating that the visit should be of an official nature.Shao Tianhu looked at his epaulettes, he turned out to be a colonel, no wonder Li Gui asked himself to come out to greet him.

After the visitor saw Shao Tianhu, he raised his hand and saluted him as a military salute.Although Shao Tianhu had already retired from the army in name, he was still in the habit of immediately standing at attention when he saw this, and giving the opponent a military salute in return.

The visitor introduced himself straight to the point: "I am Gai Liangcai, and today I am appointed by Minister Yan Chujie to present the order of commendation and the military medal to Major Shao Tianhu."

The few people who were watching by the side couldn't help but gasp in amazement.The office received many visitors today, but this one came with the most special intentions, and was the only one who came with official duties.

Gai Liang is one of Yan Chujie's subordinates, but his strength is not leading troops to fight, but treating others.As early as 20 years ago, when Li Yi, who was still the son of the Joseon Dynasty, visited Hainan Island, Gai Liangcai served as an escort and was responsible for the security work during Li Yi's inspection around the island.

Due to his outstanding performance in this important reception task, Gai Liangcai was transferred to the Ministry of National Defense to be in charge of political affairs.

Shao Tianhu didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly invited Gai Liangcai and his entourage into the inner hall to take a seat.

After Gai Liangcai took his seat, he exchanged a few words of greeting, then stretched his hand to the side, and the attendant immediately handed over a box.

Before Gai Liang opened the box, he first took out a white envelope with a conspicuous red and blue flag printed on it.

Gai Liangcai showed Shao Tianhu the envelope in his hand, and said, "This is a commendation order from the Ministry of Defense for you."

After saying that, he stood up, and Shao Tianhu also stood up immediately when he saw this.Seeing that the two men had stood up, the people present couldn't sit still.

Gai Liangcai opened the envelope, took out the award order inside and read out: "The award order, No. [-] No. [-], is the combat staff officer of the [-]st Regiment of the Ninth Division of the Haihan Army and the commander of the [-]st Battalion of the Xingdao Foreign Mercenary Regiment. , Major Shao Tianhu."

"In view of Major Shao Tianhu's outstanding performance during the special military mission in [-], successfully completed the mission assigned by his superiors, and successfully ensured that our army achieved important strategic goals, we are now giving a special award, recording first-class military merit once, and awarding Haihan Loyalty The title of Guardian and a Medal of Loyalty."

"Minister of Defense, Yan Chujie, February [-]."

After Gai Liangcai finished reading, he put the award order back into the envelope and handed it to Shao Tianhu, then took out a shiny medal from the box, and pinned it carefully on Shao Tianhu's chest.

Shao Tianhu paid a military salute to Gai Liangcai again, lowered his head and stared at the loyalty medal on his chest, unaware that everyone in the office applauded.

When he left Xingdao, Roger told him that this mission would definitely receive a commendation order from the Ministry of Defense.But it turned out to be a first-class military merit plus a loyalty medal, so the reward was somewhat beyond his expectations.

According to Shao Tianhu's own estimate, although the task of leading the mercenary group to pretend to be pirates in the northern part of the Strait of Malacca is relatively difficult, in terms of combat intensity, it seems that a collective second-class merit is not bad.

According to the rules in the army, if you want to get first-class merit, you have to go through the gate of hell at least once to be eligible.Moreover, it is extremely difficult to get the Loyalty Medal. As far as he knows, among Xingdao's troops, there are only two or three soldiers who have received this medal before. For example, his old boss, the base commander of the mercenary regiment, Du Lu.

But the Loyalty Medal that Dulu got at the beginning was obtained by using his own leg in exchange for doing his best on the battlefield.