"Company Captain!"
The moment he read out the rank, the veteran jolted and sprang to his feet.
In the Great Li military, the ranks, from the bottom up,
The ranks, in order, were ordinary soldiers, Squad Flags, Company Flags, Hundred-Captains, Thousand-Captains, commanders, generals, and marshals.
Unlike the company captains of Gu Chenfeng's previous life, who commanded roughly a hundred men,
a company captain in Great Li had a full complement of three hundred soldiers.
Though a company captain was not particularly high-ranking, he was still an officer.
This veteran was merely an ordinary soldier. Whenever he encountered a company captain,
he had to bow his head and salute from far away. The gulf between their positions was immense.
The young man before him had come from the Imperial Capital and was entering the army as a company captain. Even thinking with his toes, he could tell the man's background was no simple matter.
Then he recalled that he had just reprimanded him.
Cold sweat immediately poured down the veteran's back.
"Oh... Captain, sir, I had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai. Please forgive anything offensive I said just now."
"It's all right. Just process my enlistment as soon as possible."
Gu Chenfeng waved a hand. He had originally been somewhat surprised by his appointment as company captain, too.
Still, managing a unit of over a hundred men would not be particularly difficult for him.
Given his cultivation, serving as an ordinary soldier would indeed have been inappropriate.
The veteran hurriedly said, "Captain, sir, this is the recruit registration office.
As an officer, you need to go to the thousand-captain's headquarters to process your enlistment."
"That much trouble?"
Gu Chenfeng frowned slightly. Seeing this, the veteran hastily volunteered his services.
"If you don't mind, sir, I can show you the