"Hmm." As she spoke, the fire girl slowly opened the letter.

"Congratulations on getting my life's wealth, you may wonder why as a cultivator, I am so keen on money, there is only one reason, that is, I have discovered that if you want true peace, you must have a baptism on the mainland, and you need an army, and what you need to form an army is money."

"After spending all my life, I finally gained a little and finally collected so much wealth, but due to age and age, I didn't have the ability to use this wealth to form an army and baptize the continent, so I left him to future generations, that is, you, I hope you can inherit my will and use this wealth to change the continent. Good luck for you. The Fire Maiden slowly read all the contents of the letter.

"I really didn't expect that this senior would talk about such a day long ago, and we must not live up to the last wish of our predecessor." Li Hao said solemnly, "Peace, we will definitely let you appear." ”

"There are ten boxes of gold coins here, which is almost ten million, and these two boxes of jewelry are worth at least ten million gold coins, that is, a total of twenty million gold coins." Link secretly calculated: "If it is calculated according to fifty gold coins per soldier a year, it is enough for the expenses of 400,000 soldiers for a year, and if you include equipping the soldiers with weapons, armor, and war horses, it will be a big expense, but it is enough to provide 300,000 soldiers for a year." ”

Link went on to calculate, "If this war lasts for two years, it will be 150,000, and by the end of the war, it is estimated that the empire will not allow private individuals to have so many troops!" "It is only natural that if there is any king in a peaceful and prosperous world, he will have an army of 150,000 individuals. In that way, the king will be subject to others, and the current Ubaka is the best example. Even if an army of 150,000 is now formed out of thin air, it is estimated that the empire will not allow it.

"One hundred and fifty thousand!" Murong Lian naively opened his mouth wide, and he couldn't believe that they would command an army of 150,000 if he was killed. You must know that Ubaka's army of only 150,000 poses such a great threat to the empire.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple!" Li Hao finally expressed his suspicions: "Even if we have more gold coins, we can't continue to expand our troops, after all, human resources are effective, and it is impossible for the empire to let us have such a huge army." ”

"The official seal of the empire stipulates that a person without a military rank shall not have an army, and the number of private subordinates shall not exceed 1,000, and in special circumstances, a private person may form an army to assist the empire, but the upper limit of the number is only 10,000. In addition, after observing along the way, I found that in Longtai City, at most, an army of 10,000 people could be formed. So we will only have an army of 10,000 people at most. Link slowly finished introducing his calculations, and he was a little helpless, but this was the case, and they couldn't help it.

"Ten thousand is ten thousand." Li Hao said confidently: "He, Ubaka, will dare to come up with 10,000 troops at most, and we will not suffer in terms of numbers." We'll go to the city lord tomorrow. If you want to form an army under the eyes of others, you must let people know about it. ”

"Who? Don't you know that this is the City Lord's Mansion? Several family members stopped Li Hao and them.

"Hurry up and inform you, the city lord will say that the people of the Beichen clan want to see you." Li Hao said loudly, not everyone who wants to see the city lord can see it, so Li Hao can only report the name of the Beichen team. He believed that the city lord would definitely have heard of their Beichen clan as well.

"Team Beichen? Are you the ones who have defeated them? I had long heard that it was a few teenagers, and now I saw it, and it was really extraordinary. One of the housekeepers complimented, "I'll go and inform the lord of the city." ”

The family hurriedly ran in to inform the city lord, and then it didn't take long for a thin figure to appear in Li Hao's realization, this was a middle-aged man, but looking at the old face, it seemed that he had reached old age.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come in quickly, I am Ye Wen, the city lord of this Longtai City." Saying that, the city lord led Li Hao and them into the city lord's mansion.

As soon as they entered, Li Hao and the others were surprised again, and they finally understood why the family member just now invited the city lord out so quickly. The reason is simple, because it's so small. And the buildings are all very simple, and all the places are complete, and they can barely be regarded as the city lord's mansion.

It's no wonder that this is Longtai City, very close to Kang Nan City, Ubaka has long been ambitious, of course he will make a lot of money, and the so-called protection fee paid to Kang Nan City every year can account for half of Long Tai City's financial revenue. The empire also turns a blind eye to this kind of thing, as long as they can hand over enough gold coins to the empire, and the rest of the empire will not care. This also caused the financial emptiness of Longtai City, so this Ye Wen's mansion would be like this.

"A few young heroes made you laugh. This is the council chamber, so please come in and talk about it. Ye Wen said embarrassedly. He also knew that his mansion was really broken.

"Where is this, Lord Ye is an honest official, this is an example that people should learn." Li Hao said slowly, this is also Li Hao's heartfelt words.

"Young heroes, please take a seat." After entering the conference hall, Ye Wen said politely: "I don't know what happened to the young heroes coming this time?" Ye Wen went straight to the point.

"How is Lord Ye's recent situation?" Li Hao asked with interest, but did not directly say their intentions.

Who is Ye Wen? How could the city lord, who had been a city lord for so many years, not understand Li Hao's intentions? "Recently, Ubaka's army is about to rush over, because the empire's army is too small, there is no single soldier assigned to Longtai City, Longtai City only has five thousand remnants, even if it is now vigilant, if Ubaka attacks, it is impossible to resist it." Ye Wen shook his head helplessly and said.

"In that case, why is Lord Ye still here stubbornly guarding." Li Hao asked solemnly.

"Shaoxia can't say that, as an imperial person, he died as an imperial ghost, and the city died, as long as the old man still has a breath, he will never let the chaotic thieves succeed." Ye Wen said indignantly, from Ye Wen's words, it can be heard that Ye Wen is by no means the kind of person who is timid and afraid of things, but now the situation forces him to have no choice.

"If I say that our Beichen clan wants to form an army of 10,000 people to help Lord Ye defend the city, I don't know what your lordship wants." Li Hao said casually deliberately.

"Of course it couldn't be better." Ye Wen said excitedly. He had already guessed that Li Hao and they were here to help him, but he didn't expect that he would directly form an army of 10,000 people.

"But......" Ye Wen shook his head embarrassedly, "but Longtai City doesn't have the cost of forming an army at all, otherwise it wouldn't just have these five thousand troops." This is indeed Ye Wen's weakness.

"You don't have to worry about this matter, we have our own way, as long as Lord Ye supports us and doesn't let us borrow the training ground." Li Hao said slowly.

"Well, it's okay. The training ground here has been abandoned for a long time. As long as Shaoxia can help defend the city, I, Ye Wen, will definitely do my best. Hearing Li Hao's words, Ye Wen finally showed a smile, these days, because of this matter, Ye Wen has almost been worried, and now Li Hao can help, Ye Wen is of course very happy.

"Since that's the case, then we won't bother Lord Ye, let's go back and prepare for the formation of the army first, and there will be Lord Lao Ye in the future." Li Hao said politely, and then returned to the inn under Ye Wen's farewell and began to prepare for the army.

"Recruitment!" Murong Liantian shouted in the center of the city, and then put up a big sign with the word recruitment written on it.

"Recruitment, our Beichen team will start recruiting from today." This was Murong Liantian's opening remarks, and this was also what Link ordered. First of all, it is said that it is the Beichen clan recruitment, which can attract more people.

This effect is naturally not bad, and many people gathered when they heard the name of the Beichen team. "Everyone of the Beichen clan should come over and take a look, I heard that they are going to recruit troops." Jiang Haotian said in the crowd. It's more of a way to get people's attention. So after a while, Murong Liantian was surrounded by a heavy circle.

"Everyone knows Ubaka, who is in the name of suppressing the south, but in fact he is making a lot of money, and half of the harvest of the hard work of the common people will be handed over to him, and now he is even more excessive. He even wanted to take the city and rob everyone's land and money. I really don't want everyone to live. In Link's words, it's called irrigation first, first to get people interested.

"It's too hateful, we must not let them succeed and defend the city." The people next to him said indignantly.

"Hehe, it's working well, keep coming." Murong Liantian secretly laughed, and then continued, "What kind of place is Longtai City? It is the place where we were born and raised, it is our roots, it is the property left to us by our ancestors, if it can't even protect us, who are we right? I'm sorry for everyone. Murong Liantian said fluently.

"If Ubaka invades the city, do you know what we are? It's a slave to the country! They will rob us of our money. Take our women and burn our houses. Even if we survive in the future, we will always live under the feet of others, and no one will treat you as a human being. Do we see them succeeding? Of course not, so what should we do now? Murong Liantian said indignantly.

"Defend Longtai City! Defend Longtai City! Defend Longtai City! The people next to him shouted heroically.

"Everyone, be quiet." Murong Liantian adjusted the order and continued: "But we only have 5,000 remnants, while Ubaka has 150,000 elite soldiers, how can this battle be fought?" There is no need to fight, because it is impossible to beat them at all. Hearing Murong Liantian's words, everyone was unusually quiet, and they also understood the current situation, how could it be possible to fight five thousand to one hundred thousand?

"Don't be so desperate, since our Beichen team is here, we will definitely not let him do whatever he wants, we have a way to kill him with eight people, and if we have 10,000, we will be sure that 10,000 will destroy him 150,000." Murong Liantian then said proudly.

"Beichen is mighty! Beichen is mighty! Beichen is mighty! "It's as if people see hope.

"So we Beichen is now recruiting 10,000 troops, and this 10,000 is enough to resist him 150,000." Murong Liantian finally said his intention: "If you are a farmer, of course you must be a soldier because you want to protect your fertile land, if you are a businessman, you must be a soldier because you want to protect your own market, if you are a filial son, you must be a soldier because you want to protect your parents, if you are a husband, you must be a soldier because you want to protect your woman, and if you are a father, you must be a soldier, of course, to protect your children." Murong Liantian said for a long time in one breath, and he always said that men between the ages of sixteen and forty should be soldiers, but he could achieve better results by saying this.

"Of course." Murong Liantian's tone changed, "There are definitely many benefits to being a soldier, as long as you want to be a soldier, you will be given two gold coins immediately, and there will be a monthly salary of five gold coins in the future, I believe you will not have such a high income from farming." "If at the beginning it was called a threat, now it is absolutely a temptation, a naked temptation, and the broad masses of the people like this temptation the most.

"Five gold coins, then sixty gold coins a year, which is enough for my income for ten years." One of them said, "I'm going to be a soldier!" ”

"I'm going to be a soldier, I'm going to be a soldier." The people next to him kept talking.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share, even if the number of people is enough, as long as you participate, there will be two gold coins as a gift. But it's too small, our captain is waiting for you at the training ground, so if you want to go, go as soon as possible. Murong Liantian smiled, and the strategy was finally successful.

After listening to Murong Liantian's words, people quickly ran to the training ground without the slightest hesitation.

"Brother Li Hao, look at the people coming!" The fire girl looked at the people who were running quickly, and said excitedly, "I didn't expect Murong Liantian to be quite powerful, so many people came in such a short period of time. ”

"Well, it looks like Link's method really works." Li Hao nodded with satisfaction, and then began to get busy.

"We're all here to be soldiers." Everyone said together.

"Don't worry, register with me first, and then get the gold from Link. Then you can go back and report here in two days. Li Hao said slowly. The first. ”

A sturdy young man walked over. "What's your name?" Li Hao asked casually. "Erhuzi." The strong man's rude voice left a big impression on Li Hao. "Alright, let's go get the gold."

Seeing Erhuzi coming over, Link handed the gold coins that had been prepared a long time ago to Erhuzi's hand. Looking at the golden gold coins in his hand, Erhuzi couldn't believe that this was the truth, and he could get two gold coins without doing anything, knowing that this was his living expenses for a month.

"Next." Li Hao said slowly......

For a whole morning, Li Hao and they didn't have the slightest rest, they had been registering here, and Murong Liantian was recruiting people everywhere, and the news that the Beichen clan was going to recruit troops spread quickly, and the entire Longtai City of course also had the help of the Ye City Lord, and Li Hao's generous treatment even made the original troops moved, and the city lord gave them military salaries in time, and these military salaries were of course provided by Li Hao, otherwise how could the Ye City Lord pop up so much money.

In the morning, Li Hao's last count was 2,000 people, this was because there were too few people who knew about it at that time, and in the afternoon, it was even more crazy, looking at the momentum, there were 5,000 people. However, even if the queue was so long, there were no complaints to everyone, and due to the time, only 3,000 people were registered in one afternoon, so there were 5,000 people on the first day.

And the next day, the number of people not only did not decrease, but increased, Li Hao, they didn't go back to eat at noon, they have been registering here, and the next day there were 5,000 people who signed up, according to Li Hao's original plan of 10,000 people, which has reached the number of people, but there are still many Li Hao who want to sign up, of course, he can't help but give people a chance, so on the third day, Li Hao continued to recruit troops, but the salaries of these people were provided by Li Hao, but they were incorporated into the imperial army. Of course, City Lord Ye was overjoyed about this matter, and after a few polite words with Li Hao, he gladly accepted it, and there were more than 2,000 people in the end. The only 10,000 registrations in Longtai City that they had just calculated had been broken, and they really didn't expect that the people of Longtai City would have such a high level of enthusiasm, of course, this was inseparable from Murong Liantian's contributions. (To be continued......)