Li Qing wore the uniform of a captain of the Imperial Navy, hung a war knife at his waist, rode a black war horse, and rode the horse slowly.

Su Su also rode a tall horse and rode alongside him. Behind him are Chu Lingfeng, Scarlett, Ni Yuanyuan, and Song Qiqi, who are also riding horses. The four of them also mixed a navy uniform, but it was only the lowest-level naval uniform. He was also wearing swords, muskets and other weapons, and he looked like Li Qing and Su Su's guards.

The little dragon girl didn't go with her.

She has now taken the place of Long Linghan. As Rear Admiral of the Imperial Navy and Commander of the Detachment Fleet, she still has a lot of things to deal with after the fleet returns to port. Ship maintenance, placement of officers and men, handling of booty and prisoners, etc., were too busy.

Therefore, she could only send an officer to take Li Qing and others to a town not far from the military port to settle down.

At this time, the young officer with silver-level strength named Han Yue rode beside Li Qing and introduced the situation of the town to Li Qing and the others.

"In addition to ordinary residents, the town is also home to many families of officers and soldiers who have served for a long time. Naturally, the officers and soldiers live in the barracks, but when they are on vacation, they also go home to reunite with their loved ones. There are also many officers and soldiers who have not started a family and have a career, and they will also go to the town for recreation when they are on vacation.

"Those officers and soldiers usually have no expenses, and the military pay and bounty are sufficient, and the war time is precarious, and no one knows whether they will be heroic in the next battle, and there is no restraint in spending money. Therefore, the town is very prosperous, shops, restaurants, casinos, green buildings, there is no shortage of anything......"

As he spoke, a walking team appeared in front of him.

There were about twenty or thirty people in that group, mostly women, and only two men among them.

The women are wearing clothes that look similar to the kimonos of Japanese on Earth. Both men also wore samurai robes. In the ranks, both men and women, everyone was armed with a sword. Both are two Amaterasu-style long knives, one long and one short.

After hearing the sound of Li Qing and the others' horses' hooves, the people in the team in front turned around one after another, and when they saw Li Qing and the others wearing imperial military uniforms, the team hurriedly avoided the roadside, lowered their heads one after another, and bowed in salute.

Li Qing swept his eyes and saw that the women in the team looked like they were all young girls over thirteen years old and under twenty-five years old, all of them looked good, and there were a few lovely beauties among them.

Their aura is not weak, most of them have the strength of seven or eight levels, the weakest ones also have the appearance of five or six levels, and there are even two sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, who have the strength of eleven and twelve respectively.

And the only two men in the team looked to be no more than thirty years old, but they had the strength of thirteen and fourteen respectively.

With such strength, it can already be regarded as an elite officer corps. The overall strength of the officer corps on the Little Dragon Girl Shenglong is not as good as this team.

"Who are they?" Li Qing asked with interest: "The strength doesn't seem to be weak!" ”

Although Han Yue was a naval cadet, he was very in awe of Li Qing, and he had to answer all questions: "That is a group of exiled clans of Amaterasu, all of whom are descendants of the three great gods of Amaterasu, or divine descendants who have awakened the bloodline of the ancestral gods, so they are all extremely talented." At a young age, you can have a good cultivation. If it weren't for the fact that the three major gods of Amaterasu had fallen, their strength would have been even stronger. ”

The fall of the ancestral god will have a certain impact on the divine descendants.

But the impact is not too great, it will only make the strength of the Divine Descendants temporarily drop by one or two levels.

However, this is not a bad thing, without the ancestral god, the bloodline of the divine descendant will not be restricted by the ancestral god from now on, and truly belong to the descendant itself. With time, it is also possible for the divine descendants to grow to the level of the original ancestral gods.

And if the ancestral gods are still there, then the divine descendants will not be able to grow to that point no matter what.

"It turned out to be a group of gods, I said how can young and strong people appear in a bunch!" Li Qing smiled and asked again, "Then what are they going to do here?" ”

"They're going to town to raise money for the military."

Han Yue's gaze swept over the Amaterasu Sect girls on the side of the road, a strange light flashed in her eyes, and a **** smile appeared on the corner of her mouth:

"Although the Imperial took them in and allowed them to recruit Amaterasu exiles and soldiers to form an army, the Imperial Military Budget was also tight. We can't take care of our own army, so how can we allocate extra military funds to them? At most, give them a start-up capital. The rest of the military expenses will have to be raised by themselves. ”

Li Qingqi said: "Self-raised military expenses? They're not going to the town to collect donations, are they? ”

"Who will donate money to them? We, the people of the Empire, even if we want to donate, will only donate to the army of the Empire. Han Yue smiled, lowered his voice and said, "They are going to work in the Qing/Lou!" ”

"Qing/Lou work? That's not to do it......" Li Qing was stunned: "Such a group of masters, even if they are mercenaries and take on tasks to earn hard-earned money, it is better than selling themselves to make money, right?" With their strength, it's not difficult to make money, right? ”

Han Yue's smile became more and more obscene: "Of course they are also mercenaries. It's just that the mercenary profession is very competitive. There are people who have destroyed the country in the four empires, and they have fled to the territory of the empire to do things for the empire. Even Xiyi from the Holy Light Alliance has hundreds of thousands!

"And in our empire itself, there are also many strong people who don't like military discipline and serve the country as relatively free mercenaries - with our empire's strong man training system, silver is strong and other strong people can be called a vehicle bucket. Where will there be a shortage of mercenaries?

"Therefore, it is not as easy as imagined to make money as a mercenary. Nor can they have a task every day. When there is no task to take, they have to go to the Qing/Lou to work. In this way, you can also make some extra money, and you can kill two birds with one stone without delaying time.

"But then again, Amaterasu's bed kung fu is quite famous in the Empire. These daughters are no exception. They have identity and strength, and they have more selling points than ordinary Asumasu women. So the asking price is very high, and there is a lot of money.

"For example, the sect girl with the strength of the silver high-level, Tianyu Sakura, asked for a hundred taels of gold to stay overnight, and ordinary people really can't afford to play. If you are interested in it...... Uh......"

As soon as he said this, Han Yue's words suddenly suffocated. But it was several Dawson Sen coldness, which came from the rear and locked firmly on him. Han Yue didn't need to look back, he knew what was going on, it must have been his own words, which annoyed several of Li Qing's celebrities.

So he hurriedly said hello and changed the subject: "My lord, the town is almost here." When the time comes, will you settle down first, or will you take a few adults around the town? ”

Li Qing smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry to go shopping, settle down first." ”

He also sensed the coldness emanating from Scarlett and Ni Yuanyuan behind him, and he didn't squint at the moment, didn't even look at the Amaterasu Sect girls on the side of the road, and passed by them directly.

And those Amaterasu sect daughters, until Li Qing and others passed by, they returned to the road and restarted on the road.

Ni Yuanyuan glanced back at those Amaterasu sect daughters, and sneered: "The dignified clan daughters, or the so-called divine descendants, actually came out to sell, it's shameless. In line with my old temper, I would have been arrested and locked up for a few days. ”

"That's it." Scarlett echoed: "Women want to be self-reliant, even if they want to raise military expenses, they don't need to belittle themselves like this, right?" It's really a shame for our women. Besides, are all the men in the Amaterasu clan dead? ”

When the two spoke, they did not deliberately lower their voices. With the strength of that group of Amaterasu sect daughters, they can hear the words of the two of them clearly.

The sect girl with the silver high rank, that is, the eleventh level strength, named Tianyu Sakura, bit her lip tightly, and her eyes were full of humiliation. Another sect girl with a twelfth-level strength also clenched her fists, and her nails pierced her palms.

In fact, the daughters of the Amaterasu Sect also showed shame and indignation on their faces. Several thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls wiped their tears aggrievedly.

The only two Amaterasu men in the team looked ashamed, and lowered their heads vigorously, their chins pressed against their chests.

However, no matter how humiliating and humiliating they are, the facts do not allow them to refute it. I could only watch in silence as Li Qing and the others talked and laughed and walked away.

"I'm sorry, Sakura." After Li Qing and the others disappeared, an Amaterasu man said astringently: "If it weren't for the incompetence of us clan men, how could you ......?"

"No need to say I'm sorry." Heavenly Sakura took a deep breath and said, "You've done your best. In the battle of the Shadow Blade attacking Kyoto, if it weren't for the desperate resistance of your clan men, how could we girls have a chance to escape? Men pay with their lives to survive for us. We women are just giving our bodies. And what's it? ”

"They don't know what to say, the men of our clan are indeed dying." The girl with the strength of the twelfth level said, "So, now it's the turn of us women to pay." ”

She looked at the girls who were humiliated and humiliated, sobbing in a low voice, and said slowly: "There is nothing to cry about, and there is nothing to humiliate." We are people who have lost our country, and we must be prepared to endure humiliation and bear the burden under the fence. We are paying for the restoration of the country, and our contribution is glorious and even great. It doesn't matter if others don't understand, it's enough for us to always remember this ourselves. ”

Hearing her words, the clan girls stopped crying and continued on their way. The momentum is completely different from before, and there is a faint sense of endurance and perseverance.

The chance encounter on the road was just an interesting episode for Li Qing and others. Under the guidance of Han Yue, several people soon arrived at the bustling town that was attached to the existence of the military port.

The town is called a small town, but it's actually quite large. The town has a permanent population of more than 100,000, and it is also the scale of an ordinary small county town in China.

After Li Qing and others rode into the town, they saw that the main road of the town was paved with bluestone, spacious and tidy, with shops and restaurants on both sides, and there were many green/building and casinos, and people came and went, and the traffic was busy, and it was very lively.

Seeing the lively scene in the town, Li Qing couldn't help but sigh: "It's just a peaceful scene, it doesn't look like a war season at all." ”

Han Yue said with a little pride: "That's because my East China Sea Fleet can fight, which makes it difficult for the Amaterasu Fleet to enter my coastal waters. This is not the case in the south, where the South China Sea Fleet has been defeated repeatedly, and the flames of war have already burned to Qiongzhou, the cape. ”

Speaking of this, his face became gloomy: "Some time ago, a port in Qiongzhou was even broken by the servants of the Holy Light Alliance...... If it were our East China Sea Fleet stationed at the cape, how would those dog-legged servants of the Holy Light Alliance have a chance to land ashore? ”

Li Qing is not from the empire, although he has a great affinity for the empire because of his high cultural similarity, it is difficult to empathize with Han Yue's indignation. Wen Yan just nodded sympathetically and sighed: "If you can't defend the people, it's a shame for the soldiers." I believe that the East China Sea Fleet will be able to protect the peace of this side. ”

Han Yue smiled: "Hehe, that's for sure." Our East China Sea Fleet is not as chaotic and weak as the South China Sea Fleet. ”

While talking all the way, Han Yue took Li Qing and his party to a courtyard in the north of the town.

"This is General Long's annex in the town, which was allocated to her by the Admiralty. However, she usually lives in the barracks, and almost never lives here, and it has been vacant. Now the courtyard belongs to you. ”