For more than ten days straight, Yang Zhengshan made the rounds of every pier tower and beacon, met every soldier and military household, and dealt with a batch of do-nothing low-level banner officers.
After all that rushing around, Yang Zhengshan felt as if his head was about to go bald.
His hair had fallen out by the handful. He felt that if this kept up, he would probably become an absolutely top-tier master.
And just as Yang Zhengshan was busy, Yang Family Village received the news that Yang Zhengshan had been promoted.
The Yang family.
"Ah~~"
Yang Mingcheng looked at the letter in hand and let out a cry of alarm, startling Wang, who was carrying dishes beside him, so badly that she shuddered.
"Head of the household, what are you shrieking like a ghost for?"
The plump Wang slapped Yang Mingcheng in irritation.
Yang Mingcheng suddenly came back to himself and said with a beaming smile, "Wife, Dad has been promoted! He's been promoted to Thousand-Man Commander!"
"What?" Wang suspected she had misheard.
"Dad has been promoted! Thousand-Man Commander of Jianning Guard!" Yang Mingcheng's face was nearly crooked with laughter.
Wang stared blankly at him. Only after a long while did she ask, "How big an official is a Thousand-Man Commander?"
She was only a village woman. The highest official she had ever seen was merely the village head of Yang Family Village, which was Yang Zhengxiang.
County Magistrate Luo Jin of Anning County had visited Yang Family Village before, but unfortunately, she was only a woman and had never met this County Magistrate in person.
"Thousand-Man Commander, Principal Fifth Rank!"
"Doesn't that make him higher than the county master?"
With Wang's meager experience, the county master was Principal Seventh Rank, while a Thousand-Man Commander was Principal Fifth Rank,