At this time, after learning of the Tingxiao people's bold invasion and intention to assassinate the princess, from the nobles to the common people, they began to immerse themselves in the fanaticism of war. Of course, much of this frenzy came from the pursuit of wealth and fame, not because the princess had been politically assassinated. After all, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, war is the fastest way to make a fortune, which is the so-called gold belt of murder and arson.

The conscription order was a way for the Yafei Empire to borrow troops from the people, and the military expenses of the mercenary group were borne by the commander of the regiment, and the state did not need to pay for it. However, the spoils of war do not need to be handed over, and the regimental commander can distribute them himself. However, each mercenary group needs to obey the military arrangements of the Ministry of Military Affairs and cannot act on its own.

Mercenary regiments that fought valiantly in the war may be reorganized into the Royal Legion of the Empire, in which case the main members of the mercenary regiment will also be assigned to military positions.

Young nobles such as Laiwu and Erwin, who are used to being lazy, still tend to form mercenary groups on their own. The reason, the main thing is freedom, these second ancestors are usually used to hanging children, although they have the ambition to make contributions, but what they are most afraid of is that someone will make a fortune on their heads. If these people were to be allowed to serve in the regular legions of the Empire, it would be worse than killing them. Several of their fathers had backgrounds in the army, and it was not a problem to arrange a position, but they were all rejected by the "blind stream and four young people". Based on the principle of "freedom first", these four people set up their own mercenary group.

In normal times, as long as you send someone to report to the military affairs office, you will not be controlled by others, which is what Laiwu and the others value the most. These people all have a small and opportunistic mind, and they really think that following the actions of the large army will hinder the display of their talents.

As soon as the conscription order came out, several people discussed it and took out all the money they could use, and discussed the formation of a mercenary group in a box in "Yanle".

"Kaiba 10,000, I 8,000, Laiwu 5,000, and Alvin 5,000, that is, a total of 28,000 military expenses. Chen Zhu calculated, "This is everyone's net worth." ”

Alwin's money was taken from the old earl, but to his surprise, his father did not scold him this time, but supported him quite strongly, knowing that five thousand Luni is not a small amount.

"According to one looney a day, one hundred people need three thousand looney a month, so how many people do you say is appropriate?" asked Lai Wu.

"Does that mean that if you recruit a thousand people, this money is not enough for even a month's military expenses?" Alvin said helplessly, "I knew that I had been to the mansion a few times before." ”

"yes, think about saving that money," Keba laughed, "and the army of a thousand men can last at least half a year." ”

"What are you talking about those useless things," Chen Zhu said angrily, "Now it's better to think about how many people are appropriate, if this battle starts, it won't be over in a month." ”

"Why don't you recruit a thousand people, and the rest will be robbed?" said Keba with a wry smile.

"Can you also think about how much gold can the Tingxiao people carry out to fight in their pockets? Or are you going to go to Maine to rob the common people, and you are not afraid that the Ministry of Military Affairs will bring you and me to justice. Lai Wu scolded with a smile.

"Then there are too few people to recruit, so go to the military department for a meeting, isn't there even a place to stand?"

"Then recruit five hundred men and support him for a month?" asked Keba.

"You must know that in addition to military expenses, you also have to pay for food and grass," Alvin reminded, "and once this army is mobilized, it will cost money for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation." ”

"Clothes?" said Lai Wuqi, "To be reasonable, we don't need to prepare the equipment of these people." That's a lot of money. ”

"Then reasonable, if you don't wear any equipment, do you dare to pull it to fight?" Chen Zhu said with a smile.

"If that's the case, then these hundreds of people have to be assessed one by one. Keba grimaced.

"Then it must be assessed, otherwise do you think?" Lai Wu asked rhetorically.

"By the way, where does that one Looney a day seem to be the price?" Alwyn suddenly asked, "The regular army of the Empire is not so high, I remember that the most ordinary soldiers are only ten Looney a month. That's three times as expensive. ”

"I see that the announcements posted by the big mercenary groups are all at this price. Chen Zhu replied, "Don't be too expensive, the mercenary regiment can't be compared with the regular regiment of the empire." The empire pays a sum of compensation to the families of regular soldiers who die in battle, how can we say this, if they die, they will die. People are sacrificing their lives to accompany the gentleman, why don't you have to do more?"

"Besides, if you think about it, you can climb up by working hard all the way in the regular corps of the empire, and if you have the ability, you will be crowned a military officer after a few battles. Or do you think how many mercenary groups can really be absorbed by the Empire? Lai Wu added, "Besides, the equipment of the regular army of the empire is uniformly distributed, and our mercenary groups all require mercenaries to bring their own, and this alone cannot be compared." ”

Alvin nodded and sighed.

"Then how do we assess?" asked Kaiba with a wry smile, "Can you beat Lai Wu in a martial arts competition, and can you beat Alvin in a magic competition?"

"Then according to you, we can only find the princess and the princess and the princess. Lai Wu quipped.

Except for Alwin, several people burst into laughter. Alvin also pulled the corners of his mouth, his heart was gloomy, he naturally learned the news of Lan's marriage back to Maine, the princess has been recuperating in the deep palace, there is no news, and now he is being mentioned sadly by his friends, and he can't help but sigh lonely and lonely.

"Then what do you say, post the notice first?" Chen Zhu then asked, "Wait until there are enough people to start the review?"

"Five hundred, then?" asked Lai Wu.

"I'm okay with that, so let's do it. Alvin nodded.

Kaiba also said he had no opinion.

"Okay, then I'll have the servants at home put up the notice today. Chen Zhu said.

"Wait a minute, we haven't chosen the name of this mercenary group yet, what are you posting?" Alwyn reminded.

At this time, the four of them fell silent and began to entangle the names of the mercenary group.

A series of names such as "Tiger Roar", "Dragon Yin" and "Sky Wolf" were either used, or they were disgusted and too vulgar, and several people argued and argued, in order to avoid the disbandment before it was formed, and finally several people decided to call it the "Quartet" mercenary group.

Whether it is to pacify the Quartet, or to occupy one side of each of the four, at least the implication is still good.

After discussing the name of the mercenary group, Alvin went to Shefford's Academy to arrest Xia Ye, who was still working hard during the holidays. Xia Ye was also quite happy to hear that he could go to the front line with Alvin.

The recruitment notice of the "Quartet" mercenary group was posted, and many people came to sign up in the afternoon. Chen Zhu set the meeting place at his family's horse farm outside the city, and after eating, hundreds of people poured at the gate of the horse farm.

The notice posted by Chen Zhu was very clever, the head of the mercenary group wrote Laiwu, and the deputy head of the regiment wrote Elwin, and he wrote these two companions who had made a name for themselves at the pillow sword meeting in the front, while he and Kaiba contributed the most, but they held two idle positions. His purpose is to use the popularity of these two people (especially Elwin's popularity, which can be said to be in full swing), to attract some powerful personnel to join the mercenary group.

As for why he wrote Laiwu, who was far less popular than Alvin, as the leader of the mercenary group, because in Chenzhu's heart, Laiwu was much more cunning than Alwin, and he was more suitable to lead this army.

In the afternoon, Alvin and Xia Ye received Chen Zhu's notice, and when they arrived at the racecourse, they were quite surprised to see these hundreds of people.

As Chen Zhu expected, many people came for Alwin. Alvin himself didn't know that his original fame still had such a usage, and he still admired Chen Zhu's mind and mind very much. In fact, compared to his three bad friends, Alvin sometimes behaves like a blank slate.

Alwyn didn't really know why these people came here to make his name - he Alwyn was a coveted dark horse in the Pillow Sword Society. For the white bodies present, Alwyn was much more approachable than the unattainable people such as the princess and the children of Prince Ressa's family. In the eyes of these people, Alvin is simply a "civilian" hero.

Alvin saw a familiar face in the crowd, one of his opponents in the Pillow Sword Society, Langyun.

"Yo, you're not that middle-aged man, why are you here?" Alvin snapped out of the crowd.

Langyun didn't expect Alvin to remember himself, and he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, he probably didn't expect his middle-aged image to be so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Hearing Alvin blurt out the title "middle-aged", the circle of people around Langyun burst into laughter, and it seemed that they also thought that Alwin's description was appropriate.

Alvin still had an impression of Langyun's strength, and the battle at the Pillow Sword Meeting at that time was still vivid. Of course, he was more impressed by this name, because according to his logic, the person who would generally take this kind of name should be a commotion/wave man, but he didn't expect it to be such a simple or even a little honest middle-aged man.

Langyun is actually very innocent, in fact, he is not very old, twenty-five or sixteen, and he is not middle-aged at all, but he is in a hurry. Now that Alvin shouted like this, he has completely confirmed the title of "middle-aged man".

"Your Highness Alwin, we've all come with you. Lang Yunlang laughed, obviously not taking Alwin's joke to heart. The few people behind Langyun also suppressed Fang Cai's smile and saluted towards Elwin.

Alvin chatted with Langyun for a while, and after learning the real age of the other party, he couldn't help but sigh that the years were really cruel, just urging Langyun to grow old alone.

During the conversation, Alwin learned that Langyun and his party were all from Zhulu College in Fuz Province, and he was stunned at the time, obviously he had never heard of this academy, and he couldn't help but secretly think that such a little-known academy could also recommend students to go to the Pillow Sword Club?

Lang Yun explained to him that the Zhulu College was a college set up by the Governor of Yuankang for the descendants of the miners who died, and that food, housing, and tuition were paid for by the Ministry of Finance in Fuz Province. Only then did Alwin learn that hundreds of miners were dying every year to develop ore in Futz. If these miners' families don't have a father, they have no income, and they can't afford to send their children to school. Erwin listened to it with affection, and secretly thought that it was no wonder that the governor of Yuankang had been sitting steadily all these years, it seemed that in Fuz Province, the governor of Yuankang was quite popular with the people.

Langyun also told Alvin that although the students of their academy were from poor backgrounds, they were all able to endure hardships, and they usually studied much harder than ordinary aristocratic students, whether it was martial arts or magic, they would not be inferior to those of Salyushi.

Alvin nodded yes, but still said that he wanted to join the mercenary group and pass the review.

Langyun didn't think about letting Alvin cover up anything, and smiled and said that these people he brought would pass the assessment.

After some conversation, Alvin found that Langyun did have a calm and capable person beyond his years, and he thought that it might be tempered by his suffering background. There must be something special about him if there are so many people to follow, Alwin speculated.

"Xia Ye has refined his martial arts, and when he goes to the battlefield in the future, he will definitely rush to the front row when he fights. In this case, these magicians in the back row will have to arrange some personnel who will be specially dispatched by me. Since this person is also very happy and convinced of me, I just take him as my deputy. Elwin, the mage captain of the Quartet Mercenary Regiment, thought.

Then Alvin met with a familiar person, the killer who played against Princess Onian in the first round.

Of course, Alwyn couldn't remember the man's name, but he still remembered his appearance, especially the two ink-colored moon daggers he used in that game, which impressed Alvin quite impressively.

At this time, Lai Wu also leaned in and looked at the killer jokingly.

Looking at the immaturity of this killer's face, he thought that he should be younger than Elwin. Obviously, he hadn't been stared at by two men, a little timid and shy, and couldn't help but lower his head.

"Your name is Qiao Zhi?" asked Lai Wu as he looked at him with the registration list in his hand.

"Hmm. "The voice of the immature killer is very crisp.

Lai Wu glanced at Alwin, and Alvin walked over to look at the list in confusion, and the two looked at each other and immediately couldn't hold back their laughter.

"Qiao Zhi?" Alvin said curiously, laughing, "You are such a strong body, your name is Qiao Zhi?"

Lai Wu took the list book in his hand and slapped Qiao Zhi's chest twice, "Good girl, you pectoral muscles, your name is Qiao Zhi? haha... ”

Qiao Zhi's face turned red from the ridicule of these two people.

At this time, the mount beside Qiao Zhi, a rare unicorn, seemed to sense the master's predicament, raised its hooves and hissed twice, which really startled Alvin and Lai Wu.

"It's okay, Yumema, it's okay. Seeing this, Qiao Zhi immediately stepped forward and stroked the unicorn's horsehair along the way.

Only then did the unicorn settle down, and before he forgot to turn his head in warning, he snorted at Alvin and Lywood.

Alvin and Lai Wu's smiles froze on their faces, they didn't expect the unicorn to be so short-tempered.

"Wow, you dream horse, you're pretty scary. Lai Wu sighed.

"I'm sorry to scare you. Qiao Zhi apologized repeatedly.

Lai Wu and Alvin are not that stingy people, they make a color to each other, and are ready to recruit Qiao Zhi in, so that he can wear small shoes in the future. Of course it's a joke.

"Which academy are you from?" asked Laiwu.

"Portsley. Qiao Zhi replied.

Potsley and Ted were the two most valued colleges in the city of Salyuch.

The two thought to themselves that it was no wonder that there was such a rare mount as a unicorn, and it was quite good to think that Qiao Zhi's family background was also quite good. But what puzzled them was, then this person didn't follow the arrangement of his family, what did he do with their mercenary group?

Qiao Zhi also saw Lai Wu and Alwin's doubts and explained.

It turned out that Qiao Zhi's family was in the middle of the road. Although his father had the title of viscount, he was addicted to gambling, and his family property had already been lost, and later he contracted a cold disease in his lungs and had no money for treatment, so he died, leaving Qiao Zhi and his mother to live a difficult life.

This kind of declining aristocracy, and want to entrust those relationships that are no longer in business, to arrange people into the royal legion, that is basically impossible.

Alvin and Lai Wu thought that Qiao Zhi's life experience was also miserable, and it seemed that they would not give him small shoes to wear in the future. However, the aristocracy has declined in all kinds, and the two have heard a lot since they were children. Perhaps in the eyes of many ordinary people, Qiao Zhi's family is doing well, which is in response to Alvin's words, looking glamorous is someone else's life.

However, looking at Qiao Zhi's eloquent expression, he was very light-hearted, and he didn't care about the hardships of life at all.

Lai Wu patted Qiao Zhi's shoulder and said, "Prepare well, after passing the audit, we will go to Tingxiao to scrape gold together." ”

Qiao Zhi nodded.

Alvin thought to himself that Lai Wu should not have watched Qiao Zhi's game, according to him, Qiao Zhi's martial arts cultivation should not be under Lai Wu, this is still a euphemism.

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Chen Zhu nodded carefully, there were more than 800 people present, and there were about 600 people in the martial arts, and a few of them came to review it, and Xia Ye was also pulled to be the auditor. The remaining two hundred or so mages were chosen by Alvin alone.

Alvin discussed it with Lai Wu and decided that the number of magicians would be about one hundred and fifty. Then Erwin's job here is much easier, as long as he eliminates more than fifty of them.

He divided the two hundred or so people into several groups, and the group fought against each other, as long as the worst of each group was eliminated. By the evening, Alwin's side was basically completed, and although Laiwu's side was also divided into groups, because there were too many people, it might take half a day's work to get it done.

All afternoon, Alvin had been watching the top mages in each group, and he knew how many good players he had. The few people brought by Langyun do have some strength, and they basically have the top few levels in the group, but the equipment looks shabby.

After Elwin explained the meeting time for tomorrow to the one hundred and fifty people who had been left behind, he announced that he was disbanded, except for Langyun.

"You'll have dinner with us later, and let your companions go back to the city first." Alvin said as he looked at Langyun.

Langyun nodded, and he understood the implication of Elwin's move, so he asked his companions to go back first.

In addition to the large number of people, the slow progress on Laiwu's side is also due to the fact that several of the main personnel in charge of the assessment are not diligent people. In the afternoon, first Kaiba insisted on asking to lie down first, and then Chen Zhu also said that he wanted to rest, leaving Lai Wu and Xia Ye to hold on until the evening.

When Alwyn was done here, while waiting for Laiwu in boredom, he found the two slipping numbers lying comfortably on the haystack of the stable, chatting.

"Okay, don't torture Lai Wu and Xia Ye, let's go back to the city for dinner first. Alvin angrily pulled the two up.

Chen Zhu got up and saw that there were still one or two hundred people who were not on the wheel, and sighed.

After discussing with a few people, it was not really necessary to fight at night, and the head of the mercenary group, Lai Wu, reluctantly announced that the personnel who had not yet arrived would continue tomorrow.

That night, Chen Zhu squeezed out the last bit of money at hand and invited everyone to have a good meal. In addition to the four young people on the wine table, there are also Xia Ye, Langyun, Qiao Zhi, a group of people arrogantly predict the future through the wine, anyway, the youthful sprinkling can't be studied deeply.