Text Chapter 22 The Four Masters of Lutai Deliberations
The news of Yang Su's recruitment of warriors out of the city to hunt wild beasts soon spread throughout the entire Heavenly Sword City, and when the young man who slayed the dragon in the mine was in his prime, he sent out such an earth-shattering list, which was completely striking while the iron was hot, and he was on fire.
The number of people who came to apply for the recruitment was beyond Yang Su's imagination, and most of them were young people, who liked to take risks and preferred to explore the unknown world with a young man who had a legendary experience. Yang Su looked at these people, some of them were richly dressed, they were the pride of big families, some were short-sleeved coarse cloths, they were civilians in the alleys, all kinds of faces, and their eyes were eager.
When Shen Pingzhang first heard this idea, he was stunned for a while, and he said: "It's crazy to do this, the Liu clan, which was once prosperous in history, has failed, how far can you go? The danger in the wilderness is far from being as simple as you think." ”
"If you don't make some attempts, the tragedy of Heavenly Sword City will never end, and when the spirit stone mine is exhausted, everyone will inevitably die. ”
Shen Pingzhang smiled: "I don't actually care about this, it doesn't matter if I destroy anything." However, I am willing to go with you only because I would love to witness how a miracle happens, or how a disaster comes. ”
Ye Lang was the second to join his team, and the kid found Yang Su with a sad face, trembling, and said, "My father said, no matter what you do, I have to follow you." If you lose it, break my leg. ”
Yang Su just laughed when he heard this, and said: "He is just scaring you, why are you afraid of being like this? Besides, the risk of going out of the city to hunt is very high, and you are not short of spirit stones, so why take this risk." ”
"He didn't just talk about it, I didn't go to the sentry yesterday, I spent a day in the city, and I broke my leg when I got back. With that, he lifted his left leg, and there was a plaster cast on his calf, which looked almost fine.
Yang Su was speechless, what was the purpose of this Ye Jun suddenly being so strict with his son? Could it really be that he just wanted this little genius to accept a little tempering? No matter what, Yang Su had to write Ye Lang's name on the roster.
In this recruitment, Yang Su handed over the responsibility of selecting people to Shen Pingzhang, who has rich experience and can better select qualified talents. Shen Pingzhang selected a hundred people from the crowd, none of these people were high in cultivation, there were few at the prefecture level, most of them were Xuan-level monks, and the truly talented masters were all swept up by the four major families.
Yang Su didn't expect so much, what he wanted to do at first was just to find a way to work hard for these abandoned people, how dangerous this road was, everyone knew in their hearts, but they still joined this team without hesitation, completely out of trust in Yang Su.
Yang Su didn't know if he was really worthy of the trust of others, and his heart trembled when he saw so many lives in his hands. He gave each of them three hundred spirit stones, told them to go back and make some preparations, and then come back in the morning three days later to gather and go out of the city together.
The two of them sat opposite each other in the restaurant and drank, Shen Pingzhang said: "These people's qualifications are actually excellent, as long as they can earn enough spirit stones when they go out of the city, developing them is a force to be reckoned with, you are playing with fire." ”
"How?"
Shen Pingzhang said with a smile: "When the fire is not enough, it will be extinguished by itself as soon as the wind blows." If the fire suddenly grows stronger, it will burn itself. Unless you're a piece of real gold that's not afraid of fire. ”
Under the leadership of Ye Changqing and Ye Meng, the Ye family broke into the main hall, and Ye Yi sat on the throne of the head of the family, and was forced by everyone to be aggressive. She knew what these people were thinking, what they would say next, and she could drink them back immediately, but she couldn't shut their mouths, let alone tie their hands and feet. So, she chose to listen.
Ye Changqing said angrily: "You are just fooling around, you actually went to fund a slave cub? I know the strength of that person very well, the matter of the mine is just a rumor, what can he do?"
Ye Jun stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Changqing, don't be impatient, we are all cultivators, we must maintain respect for the unknown forces in this world, Yang Su can survive that mining disaster, it is enough to show that he is very extraordinary." Besides, our Ye clan is just pulling out a drop in the bucket, he fails and loses little, if he succeeds, we will be the biggest beneficiary. ”
Ye Meng sneered and said: "Ye Jun, you really lived a few years in vain, the reason why our four major families can be as stable as Mount Tai in Heavenly Sword City is just because of their strong strength and restraining each other." If that slave and a group of untouchables really did something earth-shattering, where would the four great families be placed? What is the purpose of the accident that happened 500 years ago, when the four great families tacitly sealed that period of history? Don't you count it in your heart?"
Ye Changqing said: "This slave cub can't be kept. ”
Ye Jun shouted: "This person can't be killed, this world needs to change, we can lie on the spirit mine and enjoy it, but our future generations can't, the spirit mine mountain range will be exhausted sooner or later." ”
Ye Changqing said: "Ye Jun, you don't have to say these big words to save the future of mankind, let's look at the present." If the Ye clan funded this slave cub, and this slave happened to have some success, he became the fifth force in this Heavenly Sword City that should not be underestimated. What will the other three families do? They will exclude us from the family alliance and then wipe us out completely. ”
Ye Yi listened to the arguments of several people, stood up, and said sharply: "You don't have to fight anymore, if anyone dares to attack Yang Su privately, I will severely punish him." I will personally visit the heads of the other three families and make a new agreement with them. You all go back and do your own thing, and I'll take care of this matter myself. ”
Ye Meng said, "What if the other three families are unwilling to reach a new agreement with us?"
Ye Yi smiled coldly and said, "I promise with the position of the head of the family, they will agree." ”
Ye Yi retreated from everyone and walked out of the main hall of the Ye family, she came to the library building on the east side, climbed up to the highest shelf, took an ancient book from the shelf, gently patted off the dust on it, and showed the name of the book, which was "The Book of Wild Beasts", and the author was the ancestor of the Ye family.
The ancestor of the Ye family once followed the Liu family, the first person in the ancient era, to conquer the wasteland, and when he went on his last expedition, he left this book behind and passed it on to the present. Ye Yi opened the ancient book, in addition to the original text, there are many small characters on it, all of which are supplemented by later generations, Ye Yi can naturally see her father's handwriting from it, she flipped through it, and finally closed the scroll, put it in her arms, and walked out of Ye's palace.
Yang Su had already moved out of the Ye family, so that the slaves could live in the master's house, and now he could only be regarded as a guest attached to the Ye family, and like everyone else, he built an earthen house under the west courtyard wall of the Ye family and lived there. When Ye Yi came to him, he had collected a lot of books about the desolate beast and was flipping through them. Although he also knew about this knowledge before, when it came to actual combat, more information could improve the possibility of survival. What distressed him was that although these books were extensive, the information contained was really limited, and most of them were introductions to some low-level desolate beasts, and Yang Su had already been familiar with these contents. What he needed to know was information about the desolate beasts above the Heaven level, those that were really powerful enough to cause a major crisis to his hunting team.
Ye Yi took out the ancient book he brought with him, handed it to Yang Su, and said: "This "Book of Wild Beasts" is the brainchild of our Ye ancestors, and you will return it to me after you finish reading it." ”
After she finished speaking, she didn't linger long, and went straight out of the house, and came to the Baizhang building in the center of Heavenly Sword City, this building is called Lutai, and if there is a conflict between the families, the heads of the family will come here to discuss and solve it.
The heads of the three major clans had already arrived and waited for a long time, and when Ye Yi arrived, he obviously felt that these people were not good. However, this was all expected by her.
The head of the Feng family said with a smile: "On this matter, our three families basically have the same opinion, if you insist on this, then don't blame everyone for turning their faces and being ruthless, one against three, what are your chances of winning?"
Ye Yidao: "I invite you to come, naturally there is a solution, the new agreement is beneficial and harmless to all families, with your intelligence, you will naturally be able to discern." ”
The head of the Li family said: "Since we are still waiting for you here, we naturally want to listen to your high opinions, if things can have a perfect ending, no one wants to be the destroyer." ”
Ye Yi smiled slightly, she believed that these people could accept her plan, because she knew very well what the head of a big family would consider.
"The reason why Yip supports Yang Su is very simple, he just wants to explore another possibility in the world, and no matter whether he succeeds or fails, we will not lose a cent. Actually, I don't object to the three major families also funding this kind of exploration, if everyone is not willing to do it, then let an unrelated person do it, success or failure, the strength of the four major families will not be damaged. Of course, in fact, what everyone is most concerned about is the rise of the civilian class led by Yang Su and the competition for resources with the big family. This is indeed a difficult problem to solve, and from your point of view, it is natural to stifle this danger as early as possible in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, in fact, I also agree. ”
The head of the Feng family said curiously: "In that case, what are you looking for us to say?"
"The interests we want to protect are the same, but there are differences in methods, if we kill them directly, everything is normal in Heavenly Sword City, do you really feel at ease? ”
The head of the Li family wondered, "Have you thought of a better way?"
Ye Yi said with a smile: "If we not only don't strangle, but support it, let Yang Su grow into a climate, and fight with the wild beasts, it can be regarded as providing more possibilities for the future of this world, and the future crisis may be resolved." At the same time, the four major families of us have joined forces to conclude an agreement with him, and I think it is not difficult to force him to agree to this agreement with our strength, and the agreement is mainly to contain the threat he may pose to us. One is that he must give us forty percent of the harvest from hunting, so that he will be strengthened, and we will be strengthened, and we will not be afraid of him making trouble. The second is that his team can only camp outside the city and is not allowed to enter the city, so that the four major families can hold the city steadily, even if something happens, they will take the lead. ”
When the head of the Feng family and the Li family heard this, they smiled and said, "The head of the Ye family is young, and he is indeed thoughtful, and compared to your father, he is even better." If so, why should we worry about it?"
The head of the Liu family sat on the big seat and didn't make a sound, the three of them looked at him together, and the head of the Feng family said: "Old Liu, although the three of us have already agreed before, but now I and the head of the Li family think that the Ye family's proposal is very good, what do you think?"
The head of the Liu family suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice: "I think it's better to kill that person, what can I hope for such a young man if my ancestors failed to do it?"
Ye Yi's heart sank, the head of the Liu family would be so stubborn, she didn't expect it, if the four families couldn't reach an agreement, then Yang Su's danger could be imagined. This thing will definitely not be done.
"The ancestors also once said that failure is not terrible, what is terrible is to stop. The Ye family master's suggestion is not leaky, what reason do we have not to give that kid a chance?"