Among the Ming Emperors and Emperors of the past dynasties, in terms of creating wealth for his subordinates, if the Red Stone Emperor is willing to rank second, then no emperor dares to say that he can be ranked first.

What just made people laugh was that the Redstone Emperor did not increase his wealth by harming the interests of the country and the people, and even a few years later, no matter what kind of character he played in this human comedy, even if it was an indirect or direct victim, he still talked about it.

--"Emperors of the Ages: Redstone the Great"

Chapter 20 Xilin Belonging

At the same time, the small mercenary group officially moved its headquarters to Scambrai, the capital of the empire, and set up a special redstone auction in the treehouse bar, which starts every Monday afternoon.

Many years later, some of Scambrae's wealthy merchants are nostalgic for the lively scene: the audience was crowded with powerful people and businessmen from all over the country, the mastiffs held high by the solemn auctioneers kept falling, and some special effects items related to their children and grandchildren were constantly sold.

At that time, the greetings between wealthy merchants had become:

1 "Did you shoot today?"

2. "What does today's dragon beard porridge taste like?"

3 "If you want to not lose your kidneys, you need a redstone ××. ”

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and although Count Chi single-handedly controls the entire military power of Gyeonggi, he still cannot achieve 100% secrecy. Until, half a year later, one day, a marquis was in the palace study and talked to Redstone about the development of the empire, and when he left, the lord carefully picked a few hairs from the ground and carefully wrapped them around his middle finger, and Redstone saw this scene.

After learning the reason for the incident, the Redstone Emperor could not help but fall into a deep self-reproach: why did he believe the count's smiling face? Why did he not further analyze the superficial phenomenon that the world has been peaceful recently, and no one has ever caused trouble? Even if you are an emperor, you cannot guarantee that you will not make any mistakes 100%. The Earl was immediately reported to the Earl.

In fact, Earl Chi, who had just returned to the Duke's Court from the auction site of the Treehouse Bar, had already prepared for this, and had already prepared a set of high-sounding reasons.

According to the only few chamberlains of the Red Stone Emperor at the scene at that time, it was vaguely revealed afterwards that this confrontation was initiated by Earl Chi, and the Red Stone Emperor, who was originally going to ask the teacher for his guilt, was exhausted and finally had to cut the land and beg for mercy.

In order to protect the emperor's face, the guards only talked about a few points. As soon as Earl Chi came up, he talked about how he was guarding the frontier, and many robes were killed on the battlefield. Then he brought up the matter of his own stake in the small mercenary group, and just as the Redstone Emperor was about to ask about the dragon's beard porridge, Count Chi turned the conversation to the difficult life of orphans and widows who were killed in battle outside the Ice Fortress.

If the Red Stone Emperor is not a sage and king, then he will not be moved by Count Chi's words of compassion for the heavens and people; but Red Stone is not only a sage, but also a bodhisattva heart, not only has a bodhisattva heart, but also willing to blame himself for not doing his own work as an emperor, and anyone who has made these mistakes in front of Count Chi can not blame Count Chi for falling into the ground.

The Earl righteously mentioned that the small mercenary group adopted a total of 374 families of dead warriors in the Ice Fortress, including 102 elderly people, 386 women, and 458 underage children (under 16 years old), a total of 946 people. According to the basic living expenses of 4 gold coins per person per month, then 4,000 gold coins are needed, and 40,000 are needed for a year.

To be honest, the Redstone Emperor, who has lived in the palace for a long time, doesn't know anything about the prices of the people, and regardless of whether it takes 4 gold coins per person to feed 1,000 people in the Ice Fortress in a wholesale mode, the Redstone Emperor will never know that the value of one of his hairs in the market is enough to feed 20 people.

The final result of the negotiation is that, according to the way the empire manages the mercenary group, if there are more than 200 formal mercenaries, a small village can be trusteeship; if the scale is more than 1,000 people, it can be entrusted to some towns, and 50% of the tax revenue of the managed towns is directly transferred to the small mercenary group, and the mercenary group has local operations, Trade and other rights, the Redstone Emperor was willing to exchange the trusteeship of a town for the right to shed his hair and replace his underwear. And Earl Chi chose Xilin Island.

In the subsequent communication with Amy, Chi Hanfeng revealed three reasons why Xilin Island was chosen:

1. Amy's grandfather once proposed that there is a kind of wild vulture that can become a swordsman's mount along the coast of the empire, and Chi Hanfeng has always been angry that Amy has no mount;

2. Xilin Island seems to be small, but due to the abundant fishing grounds, if the trade route is opened, it will undoubtedly become a pearl along the coast, with great appreciation potential;

3. The island still has the benefits of the island, and ordinary people are reluctant to disturb it, so that they can be a little emperor.

Although Amy regrets that she can no longer obtain greater benefits through auctions, the reason for not being able to fish with all her strength is still very clear, in addition, if you host Xilin, you can bring the orphans and widows of the Ice and Snow Fortress, and the air in Xilin is humid, which is much stronger than the cold weather of the frozen continent. So I happily agreed.

And at this time, Balbas led 20 young men who had just turned 16 years old with a small mercenary group to the Duke's Palace.

In the past year, the small mercenary group in the Ice Fortress has taken in a total of 458 teenagers under the age of 16 and 123 teenagers around the age of 16~18. At first, Balbas was the only one who took care of the orphans, but later, Takashi also left the military to take care of them, and used the huge amount of money left by Amy to invite two elders from the Holy See and a wandering magician to educate these orphans.

The method of education is still very simple, basically following the education model of Chi Hanfeng to Amy and Daqingshan, getting up early is running - it is the kind of running that wears few clothes, and after coming back, it is to chop wood, and in the afternoon it is divided into swordsmen, magicians, priests and other modes of training separately.

After a year, in addition to the direct subordinate unit of the chief and deputy head of the regiment who had been doing evil outside, the small mercenary group in the Ice Fortress branch finally had its first official mercenary team - composed of 170 young mercenaries over the age of 16. After this size, some of the smaller villages in the vicinity began to seek protection, willing to pay a small fee in exchange for the small mercenary group to be stationed and protect the village from wild beasts.

Balbas, who was worried about eating nothing, saw that there was a deal coming to the door, regardless of the price offered by the other party and the price of the A-class mercenary group, the gap was too big, and he accepted it in one bite. Subsequently, he handed over the matter to Long and personally led his 20 proud disciples to show the results to the head of the group.

At this time, the work of receiving Xilin fell to Amy, who originally thought that Amy meant to go with Daqingshan, Chi Aotian, and Horns, but was rejected by Earl Chi, who thought that this trip only needed Amy alone, and the others just used this time to practice hard, so there was no need to go so many people. In this way, Amy took several orphans who had fought with his father to Xilin.

The trip to Xilin was destined from the beginning. Not letting Chi Aotian and Daqingshan go has already explained a lot, no matter which dragon he takes, it will immediately attract the attention of others, if Chi Aotian says his surname again, then everything will be goofed up; according to the custom, a person from the emperor's ** department will be sent to accompany him, and this time it will be exempted; the seal is not the big seal of Duke Chi, but a private seal.

Of course, Amy didn't notice all this, for the mercenary king in his youth, he was an extremely easy-going person, and he could achieve his goals no matter what the circumstances. Even though some of the two people looked at his fading back, they secretly muttered some tricks.

"This time it's another challenge for him, the general of Lion River won't arrest him, will he?" said someone with a bearded weasel to the chicks.

"It's okay, hehe, do you believe he's going to lose?" said another young man, "It's nice to be young, to be able to fail countless attempts, and never have to worry about losing your goal." ”

"Yes, yes, they are like chicks when they were just about to come out of their shells, and they must not break the shells of their eggs, or they will die. ”

"Pole, pole, just like the winter wheat that sprouts in autumn, you must not let the wheat grow at will in the autumn, and even do not hesitate to pull the mill into the ground to press it, and crush the green shoots that emerge prematurely, so that the roots below can grow stronger. ”

The two men looked at each other, and both saw the fox's smile on each other's faces.

Amy is a person who has no concept of money, and it just so happens that he has been unusually rich recently, and he has taken eight little brothers to play while walking, and when he sees good things, he buys them for his brothers, and the 200 gold coins he carries on his body have spent more than 120 when he arrives in Xilin, and these young mercenaries who went out for the first time have lost their father's life is extremely hard, and this time they all let this brother compensate for it, and before he arrived in Xilin, he has changed into a new clothes, and even his sword has been replaced by a new two-handed sword. If it weren't for Amy's still pulling everyone up early every morning to practice and do basic fighting training in swordsmanship, he would be an impeccable big brother.

For Viscount Fan's refusal, Amy was unusually calm, almost like her brothers, she slowly returned to Scambrai in the mood of touring the mountains and rivers, and saw Count Chi who came to greet her, and just said a few words lightly: "This time it was a good game, the general said that we still have to discuss, Uncle Chi, let's continue to hold an auction, it is recommended to make a larger scale, and put forward the concept of the last time, so that there should be a good price." After speaking, he took a group of little brothers to find Chi Aotian and they went to compete.

The subsequent development was predictable to all, and after Count Zaichi tried to create momentum and held three consecutive "last out-of-print redstone auctions", the Redstone Emperor had to inquire about the matter again, and when he learned that it was a small general who had forced some of his extremely secret things to be exposed in broad daylight for a small Xilin, his hurt feelings can be imagined. Of course, with the wisdom of the Red Stone Emperor, he would not remove a general for these trivial matters, but he would force the military department to immediately issue an extremely serious supervision order through extremely normal methods and very normal means.

One night, when the Marquis Military Undersecretary was forced to arrive at the Lion River General's Mansion for 5 days and 5 nights in a row to deliver the order, it was not difficult to understand that he greeted all the family members of Viscount Fan in his heart, and greeted the gate of the General's Mansion and the sergeant who opened the door with leather boots that were already dirty under his feet.

Although it was not convenient to explain the ins and outs of the matter to Viscount Fan, the Marquis's iron-blue face had already indicated that the storm was coming, and the Marquis only said one sentence: "I take the order of His Majesty the King and the military department to ask the small mercenary group to take care of Xilin immediately, and from now on, calculate your efficiency in minutes!" After speaking, the Marquis went directly to the mansion prepared for the senior officials at the post station to rest.

And when Viscount Fan personally led the team to rush back to Dìdū, he obtained the first-hand information of the small mercenary group, whether it was the Holy Dragon Knight or the Necromantic Dragon Knight or the Red Stone Panty Incident, it made him feel cold in his heart, of course, when he learned that the Chi family, the three famous families of the empire, was the main shareholder and COO of the small mercenary group, he knew even more about the catastrophe he had committed, and now he remembered how lethal the scholar-like young man at that time was.

Later, how did Viscount Fan use to invite Amy's little mercenary group to return to Xilin, because both sides tried their best to cover up the process, the outside world did not know at all. It was only later, when the imperial nobles visited Viscount Fan's house, they just caught up with the Fan family's lunch, and were surprised to find that dozens of people in the family actually drank porridge, and even pickles were rationed according to the head. At that time, most of the imperial nobles thought that Viscount Fan's family boiled porridge in the morning, then let it cool, and then cut it into pieces with a knife, so that it was the most gluten to eat and could satisfy hunger as an after-dinner conversation, and when chatting, they all thought that Amy was a fox and a fake tiger, and took advantage of the Chi family to play a prestige. Later, there were more and more stories from the kingdom of the Hami people, and when I learned that the earls and marquises who were also noble dragon knights were also killed by Amy Tong and had to boil porridge, I had to start judging the power of this young man again.

In February of the 3rd year of the magic calendar, the small mercenary group finally invited Viscount Fan to Xilin Town in tears after all kinds of politeness, and Xilin gradually became the most famous city in the history of magic from this day.

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