Qin Siyang remained unhurried despite Chu Xiaoang's urging.
"Commander Chu, you've laid out your terms. Even if I have to decide right now, I should at least understand them first, shouldn't I?"
Chu Xiaoang said, "If you want to understand, ask Principal Zhao beside you. Until you accept or reject my terms, you cannot leave this room, nor can you call anyone outside and tell them about this."
At that, Qin Siyang put away the phone he had just taken out.
He had intended to consult Li Tianming, but that was clearly impossible now.
Plans succeeded through secrecy and failed through loose lips.
Chu Xiaoang was taking a certain risk himself by offering these terms.
If Qin Siyang accepted, their interests would be aligned, and he would never tell anyone he did not trust.
If Qin Siyang refused, he would have to learn to keep his mouth shut and pretend this had never happened.
But while the two of them were still at the negotiating table, Chu Xiaoang had no control over whom Qin Siyang told or what he said.
That was why he could not let anyone outside this room learn of it.
As for those inside the room-
They were either Chu Xiaoang's trusted juniors or Zhao Longfei's trusted juniors, plus Qin Siyang, who was here to negotiate a deal. There would be no problems.
Qin Siyang asked, "A brigade has an authorized strength of six or seven thousand?"
"Not that many. Only three thousand."
"Only three thousand?"
"After the Apocalypse, the United Government reformed the military, setting the authorized strength at ten thousand for a division, one thousand for a regiment, and one hundred for a company. The ratio between successive levels-corps, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, and platoon-is one to three. In other words, a corps