On the afternoon of February 9rì in the autumn of the 5th year of the magic calendar, two dusty young swordsmen came to a military camp outside the south gate of dìdū, and the two young swordsmen on duty outside the barracks were two young swordsmen, and the two captains were stunned for a moment, and immediately pounced enthusiastically: "Hey...... It's you two guys, why did you sneak back before it was your shift?, not afraid that the regimental commander would spank your ass?" said the young man as he stuck out his tongue.

The two teenagers obviously walked a considerable distance, wiped the dust on their faces tiredly, and while taking the water handed by the side, they said anxiously: "The deputy head of the express report, and Horns, we saw the head of the group, and he wrote a letter to the deputy head of the group, and he is here with us." ”

The ten young mercenaries on duty suddenly exploded, and several teenagers rushed over excitedly, some shouted the captain, some called Amy's brother, and some called idols, in short, they shouted everything, and two teenagers ran backwards, shouting as they ran: "Deputy regiment leader...... Deputy Commander, Brother Amy has news!"

The Great Swordsman Junior Mercenary who was training on the right hand side immediately lost his formation, and several instructors invited from the Colorful Dragon Knights watched hundreds of teenagers blow up the camp in front of him, and it was Ling Yun, the captain of the Great Swordsman Battalion, who rushed to the front.

There are a lot of people in the small mercenary council hall, except for the small mercenary group subordinate to the major cadres, Chi Hanfeng sneaked out of the redstone emperor at noon and came over, and Count Lin also came from the emperor's ** department to see his daughter, His Excellency the Magister recently moved to the small mercenary group under the pretext of guiding the young mercenaries in magic - anyway, there is still an empty house in Amy's absence, and the master lives in the apprentice's house, which should be regarded as a blessing for the apprentice.

In the past few months, the two core figures of the small mercenary group have been absent from home, and the atmosphere of the small mercenary group is a little wrong. When Lei Ge knew that Lu'er had been gone for several months and had not returned, and that it had greatly exceeded the Rìzi sent by the Dragon King, the old magician immediately went to the Dìdū Library to consult quite a lot of information, and when he returned, he explained to the other cadres of the little mercenary group with certainty: It will take at least a year for Lu'er to go. If nothing else, the time written on the dragon god letter is the time of the dragon realm, and the dragon realm is at least one order higher than the mortal realm of the creation god, so one month in the dragon realm is equal to one year in the creation god realm. If Lu'er goes to the Dragon Tower of the Dragon Realm, then I'm afraid that everyone will not have the opportunity to see Lu'er again in this life, and the day there is a year in the Creation God Realm.

Hearing the shout, except for Rege, the other people rushed out, the old mage sighed slightly, and shook his head helplessly, this is probably the so-called leadership style, and this style only exists among brave warriors, no matter how great a magician is, it is difficult to have such a great appeal.

Da Qingshan took Amy's letter from the hands of the two young swordsmen, and just as he was about to read it, he was snatched away by Chi Hanfeng, the letter was very short, and Chi Hanfeng's face became extremely difficult to look at almost instantly, and then he casually handed the letter to Da Qingshan and Horns, and returned to the small room with a black face. Horns grinned and snatched the letter, while snorting: "It's really not easy for the head of the regiment to write a letter to the family in the past half a day, but it is estimated that there is no danger, everyone can do whatever they should do, what are you doing here?" While leading everyone to the hall unchanged, the high-level cadres of the small mercenary group were not fools, except for a few deputy leaders, the others returned to their respective teams with a haha.

As soon as a few people arrived at the house, they heard two old-timers humbly pushing each other for credit.

The loudest voice was undoubtedly Earl Chi: "Look at it, look at it, Rege, what kind of apprentice are you teaching, and when you encounter such a thing, you become a deserter, and if this is on the battlefield, I will cut off his head with a click." ”

"Who are you talking about? Don't keep using small eyes to pinch me, and turn against the sky? What did the sage say: 'If the son is not filial, the father is at fault, and if the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy.' 'I ran away like this for the sake of feelings, you say, is it not strict or unfilial?" The old magician was not in a hurry at all, and slowly scolded the little characters by taking advantage of his age and seniority.

"Of course, this is not unfilial!" Chi Hanfeng tilted his neck and retorted to the Magister.

"Is this filial piety? From the big one, there is a war going on ahead, from your father to you to me, he is in danger of going to the battlefield at any time, and he is good, so he just shook his hand and left? Is this filial piety? From a young age, he said: 'There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great.'" I don't even want to take my wife, this is also called filial piety? Also, aren't you quite capable? I heard that if you go back 20 years, you are not known as the first gardener? Why didn't you bring Amy at all? If you want to say that this teacher is lazy, you can't run. "Your Excellency's mouth is sharper.

"What do you mean by this? What is the first florist dìdū, you see, not long ago, I also gave up my place to go to the Sie District to a captain of the Imperial Gyeonggi Theater. If I really ......" Chi Hanfeng saw the apprentice open the door curtain and come in, and a red cloud flashed on his face very quickly.

"Come on...... the old magician didn't save face for Count Chi at all: "There were fewer bad things you did in Siju back then......?

"Stop!" Marquis Chi jumped down from his chair: "I won't talk to you more about this question, whoever is the problem can know it in his own heart." ”

At this time, the other teenagers began to read the letter, and their faces became extremely embarrassed one by one. From the moment the little mercenary group was born, it never left Amy, Amy didn't feel anything when she was at home, and after leaving for three or four months this time, many cadres of the little mercenary deeply realized that different people have their own strengths.

It turned out that everyone basically managed their respective mercenary battalions, and Amy took the lead in the overall situation. In the past four months, all of this has been completely messed up, whether it is Daqingshan or Horns, they are almost helpless in the face of a small mercenary group that is twice the size of the previous heyday. According to Daqingshan's statement: "If the head of the regiment does not come back, the small mercenary group will definitely go out of business because of poor capital turnover." And Horns, who has been leaping to the throne of the head of the small mercenary group, faced the big hydrangea sincerely thrown by the acting head of the regiment, and threw down a sentence: "If you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents." Then he snatched the door and fled.

Old Legg read the letter, leisurely left a sentence, and left the seat with his big sleeves fluttering: "This...... There have always been sons and fathers, in fact, maybe the opposite is more appropriate. ”

The cadres of the little mercenary group cheered, the pain and suffering of the past few months made these little guys feel unbearable, I didn't expect Jiang to be old and spicy, Lei Ge woke everyone up with a word.

Looking at the expectant eyes of many juniors, especially Horns muttered: "The president of the small mercenary group has left, if the company's board of directors does not implement the chairman responsibility system, I estimate that the small mercenary group will definitely go bankrupt due to poor capital turnover." The wry smile on the corner of Chi Hanfeng's mouth became heavier.

In the end, at the unanimous request of many senior cadres of the mercenary group, Chi Hanfeng began to plan the overall situation within the small mercenary group, and agreed on three chapters: "First of all, let's not go to the mercenary guild to amend the name of the head of the group (maybe Amy will come back); ”

Daqingshan and Horns exchanged glances, how to listen, there seems to be a murderous motive hidden in the last one-let do whatever you want, isn't this a deed of sale?Alas...... I'm afraid I'm going to send it to the door to make fish this time.

"Daqingshan, how much money does the little mercenary group have now?" As soon as the question came out, many cadres of the small mercenary group were greatly relieved, and the Earl had the right pulse. The new leader of the small mercenary group really made an extraordinary move.

"Uncle Chi, it seems that there are still 150,000 gold coins on the account yesterday, although the emperor's ** department provides us with some food, but in fact, the mercenary group is more than 50% higher than the emperor's salary in the same army, and we also have to take care of a large number of livestock. At this rate, we will have nothing left in three months. "Daqingshan has been crying and sleeping with the account books every night recently, and he is a clear mess about the account books.

Feelings, it turns out that the simple person who is as simple as Daqingshan doesn't really miss Amy, but is going to be forced to go to the house.

"Huh...... Heh......" The middle-aged man laughed dryly twice: "I'm in charge, all 150,000 gold coins will be distributed to all mercenaries, starting from the day after tomorrow, if you don't go to cāo or gather within two weeks, all of them will be on vacation!"

Yes?

The people in the hut wondered if they had heard it wrong? The regiment was now so tight on funds that Count Chi still said such things.

Chi Hanfeng glared at Da Qingshan: "What are you doing with it, can you give birth to a little cub? Why did you promise me just now? Quickly, send it out now! If you don't agree, come, come, you can just sit in this position." ”

"Yes. Daqingshan agreed weakly, not in his position, not in his politics, as long as he doesn't have a heart, whatever.

Horns pulled him from behind, and whispered to Daqingshan as he walked out, "Don't worry, the monk can't run away from the temple." If we are too poor, we will go to the Duke's palace and eat him. You don't know how to get around the Duke's Palace, do you?"

Chi Hanfeng watched many teenagers muttering and walking out viciously, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

The teenagers of the small mercenary group were suddenly declared on vacation, and although most of the teenagers had lived outside the dìdū gate for a long time, the children never had a chance to leave the camp - Amy, Daqingshan, Chi Aotian, and Horns had always been worried about the security environment in dìdū. The four top officials were often invited to the dìdū banquet, and each time there were different women, especially some widows, who favored them so much that Amy and Horns often muttered, "The beautiful woman is a tiger, and such a tiger is the most powerful." "I don't even let the teenagers go out casually.

This time, especially when the new supreme leader showed great kindness, he gave each of them nearly 100 gold coins at once, and when had the children of poor families ever seen so much money? The long-planned plan to buy things for the family could finally be implemented. As soon as Earl Chi Hanfeng took over, he immediately received unanimous praise from the members of the mercenary group - oh, and by the way, among the high-ranking cadres of the mercenary group, it was unanimously bad.

The teenagers gang up to wear the best clothes, for the children of poor families, when are they willing to spend money to buy clothes, the so-called best clothes are actually the "Imperial Knight" aristocratic uniforms issued by the Red Stone Emperor to the teenagers, and they come out one after another.

Even though it was in dìdū, the common people had never seen a group of twenty or thirty young imperial nobles in their teens smiling and roaring, breaking into one shop after another and wantonly purchasing all kinds of items for their relatives in the Ice and Snow Continent. There was no shortage of curious people who inquired about it—of course, all of this fell into the steps or traps of His Excellency Count Chi Hanfeng to collect money.

Of course, such interesting news soon spread from the lower riba people to the circles of the imperial aristocracy, and became the most fashionable buzzword of the moment.

The Earl did not move his mind, so that everyone in the empire knew the two biggest benefits of becoming a member of the small mercenary group, the first is that any member of the group has great military exploits, and at worst he is also an imperial knight;

10 days later, Scambray suddenly broke a big news: "The First Mercenary Regiment of the Empire is recruiting new members in the Gyeonggi region!"

With power in your hands, it is not difficult to do things.

The first powerful figure in the Gyeonggi region of the empire used his power to post a recruitment announcement on the side of the eight giant gates of the empire; The mercenary guild not only used the guild system to send out the news, but also provided many mercenaries with recruitment rules at a preferential price of 1 silver coin; finally, the Earl personally intervened and convened the first meeting of toilet managers in Scambrai, and gave each administrator a brush, requiring them to paint the recruitment content in front of their toilet pits. If it is not done according to the rules, then the Earl will personally issue an order prohibiting all Praetorian Guards, Knights of the Colorful Dragons, and the swordsman battalion from going to the toilet to relieve them, or they will not pay for the dismissal, and will pull BB all over the place.

Four messaging systems carpet-bombarded with an ad at the same time, and the effect was amazing.

And the performance of the little mercenary group in the past few days is already obvious to all. As soon as the news of the recruitment spread, the first to get excited were the imperial nobles.

According to the imperial aristocratic system, even if it is a famous nobleman in the empire, the title can only be passed on to the eldest son, and it is already very good for other heirs to have the title of imperial nobility, so they don't have to want to be promoted to a title, let alone have a territory. Not long ago, many declining nobles wanted to send their children to the small mercenary group, but unfortunately, Amy and Chi Aotian, two elm pimples (the current CEO of the small mercenary group), were too strict, and most of them were brushed down without even passing the interview. There are undoubtedly more opportunities this time.

Equally excited are the ordinary citizens of the empire, it is really rare to be able to get a good job, and there are too few places like the small mercenary group that can get a noble title and make a lot of money.

Of course, there are also partners of the same profession, the news has just been released, all mercenary groups have to face a reshuffle, mercenaries and soldiers are still different, there is no clear time limit between individuals and groups, as long as it is not before or after the battle, the contract can be terminated at any time. In this way, the olive branch studded with precious stones floats through the air, and every open eye is firmly intrigued.

The original text of the message released by Lord Earl is as follows.

Dear young Junhiko: In order to better serve the Empire, provide better mercenary services for the citizens of the Empire. The small mercenary group has decided to hold the only large-scale recruitment of mercenaries since its establishment.

The content of this recruitment: Knight Force: Known as the "Night Rattlesnake's Fang", it has been invincible since its inception, and has given the enemy a fatal blow with lightning speed in all previous battles (God knows that this unit is the latest to be established by the small mercenary group).

Number of recruits: 100Test items: Mount lesson: discrimination, feeding, training, riding.

Weapons: one-handed sword, arm shield, two-handed sword, spear, spear, one-handed halberd, one-handed hammer, bow and arrow.

Basics: 100m sprint, standing long jump, sit-ups, push-ups, triathlon (calculated separately), drinking competition.

Requirements: Provide your own mounts (not considered below Maxima) and weapons.

Vulture Knight: Known as the "Wings of the Night Rattlesnake", since its inception, it has rarely been dispatched in battles, once the Vulture wings blackened the sky, it means that the war has entered the decisive stage - after several battles, as fast as lightning, attack like thunder.

Number of recruits: 100Test items: Mount lesson: discrimination, feeding, training, riding.

Weapons lessons: one-handed swords, two-handed swords, bows and arrows.

Basics: 100m sprint, standing long jump, sit-ups, push-ups, triathlon (calculated separately), drinking competition.

Special Subjects: Learn 24 types of bird calls (each counted separately).

Demon Swordsman: Known as the "Tongue of the Night Rattlesnake", ordinary soldiers can decide the outcome of war in an instant.

Number of recruits: 100Test items: Weapons class: one-handed sword, two-handed sword, bow and arrow.

Special category: You need to reach the level of a second-level magician, and for those who have no rank, please refer to the similar test of the Wizards Guild.

Sniper Fencer: The terrifying title "Rattlesnake Kiss of the Night", does it hurt to bite a rattlesnake? No, it never hurts. The same is true of the sniper fencer's attacks, and they are even more deadly.

Number of recruits: 150Test items: Weapons class: one-handed sword, arm shield, two-handed sword, spear, spear, one-handed halberd, one-handed flying hammer, bow and arrow.

Basics: 100m sprint, standing long jump, sit-ups, push-ups, triathlon (calculated separately).

Special: Simple Magic Use, Insidious, Rogue Test.

Swordsman Battalion: Known as the "body of a rattlesnake", this part is indispensable in any battle, once it is exerted, the world is shocked.

Number of recruits: 500Test items: Weapons class: one-handed sword, arm shield, two-handed sword, spear, spear, one-handed halberd, one-handed throwing hammer, bow and arrow.

Basics: 100m sprint, standing long jump, sit-ups, push-ups, triathlon (calculated separately), drinking competition.

Others: Small-scale recruitment is also planned: Priest, Rank 1 Mage, Archer, Dragon Knight, Berserker, Dwarf and other classes.

The number of people varies.

Test items: Specially formulated.

Examination fee: 1 gold coin for a single subject test for knights (including vulture knights) (the chief and deputy head of the small mercenary group are the examiners, and General Ji Hanfeng of the Gyeonggi Theater is the guest examiner)

Application age: 12~25 years old sniper fencer single subject test 2 gold coins (the deputy head of the small mercenary group is the examiner)

1 gold coin for the single subject test of the Demon Swordsman (His Excellency Reg Magister, the chief magician of the Empire, is the examiner)

Swordsman Camp single subject test 5 silver coins Other single subject test 8 silver coinsNote: You can apply for multiple classes at the same time, if you pass all of them, you can choose at will by the applicant.

Chi Hanfeng definitely didn't expect that the few names he casually uttered in order to make better money would become the special nouns of the various battalion headquarters of the small mercenary group a year later, and they quickly had their own bloody battle flags.

Like most empires, the Redstone Emperor and his predecessors were very particular about enriching their people, especially in the Dìdū and Gyeonggi regions, where taxes were extremely low and some industries were not taxed at all. The Imperial Ministry had a fixed amount of money and often contributed to the development of commercial industries such as handicrafts. Compared to other areas, the residents of the vicinity of Dìdū can be described as extremely wealthy.

For this open recruitment of the small mercenary group, the residents of dìdū were almost overwhelmed by it in half an hour. The age group of 12~25 years old accounts for more than 30% of dìdū residents, and many dìdū residents have 3~5 children in their families, many of whom have signed up with their families.

The ordinary members of the small mercenary group were obviously not mentally prepared for such a situation, and seeing the crowd rushing up in a sea of mountains, in the end, His Excellency Chi Aotian summoned the dragon to leave, and ordered the residents in mid-air to line up in order if they participated in the registration, otherwise they would be judged to be directly out of the game-unfortunately...... , Chi Aotian forgot a little, the water can be sparse and unstoppable. He swaggered to ride away from the dragon, how did the enthusiastic crowd know that he was coming to threaten, and thought that he was advertising for the recruitment of small mercenary groups, and the enthusiastic crowd kept cheering, setting off layers of human waves. The amorous girl shouted loudly below: "Handsome guy, handsome guy, I love you, like a mouse loves rice!" while throwing countless flying kisses to Chi Aotian, whose face was flushed, and frightened the heroic and unyielding second young master of the Chi family to hide back in the Duke's Mansion.

Three hours later, the outer wall of the ring was completely surrounded by a queue of people who had signed up – and there were three queues of applicants.

According to later statistics, during the five-day registration, at least 400,000 people in Dìdū and the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi signed up, and the small mercenary group collected more than 40,000 gold coins for the registration fee of 1 silver coin per person. In the 5 days, 18,987 pairs of glasses were picked up at the registration site (the small mercenary group does not accept myopia - except if you are willing to wear a pair of contact lenses recommended by the small mercenary group), 8,532 belts, 28,653 shoes, of which 9,752 can be made into a pair, providing free shoes for the small mercenary group for more than half a year, a sack of coins, equivalent to 3,874 gold coins, 741 kilograms of buttons, and 283 children......

In the following 10 days, all the members of the small mercenary group were given the titles of head and deputy head of the regiment to various assessment sites for assessment, and several older-looking members were also forced to wash their hair with lime water and wash with soot, and the only purpose was to make themselves older and look more like His Excellency the Chief Magician of the Empire.

Lei Ge looked at these members of the small mercenary group whose faces were scratched by sweat, and was suddenly fainted with anger - Chi Hanfeng scolded while scolding, "Cunning and cunning, don't work and don't work." On the other hand, he had to touch up the makeup of the small mercenary group members again.

On the night of the first day of recruitment, Horns whispered to Daqingshan to inquire about how much money he had entered, Daqingshan looked at the account book in his hand and whispered a number, Horns' eyes were about to widen out of his socket, and the dwarf could not have imagined that the cost of a day's assessment would exceed the average income of the Silver Snow Wolf Mercenary Group in a month.

Tsk, Horns kept smacking, now it seems that there are too many ways to make money, you must not think that as a mercenary group, you must deduct that little profit from the commission.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, just when several cadres of the small mercenary group were worried that there was no extra space for gold coins to pile up in the mercenary group's warehouse, a new trouble came in a new way.

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