She smiled bitterly and said, "On the surface, it is indeed us who take advantage. To be precise, it should be the three major families who take advantage. But do you think the royal family really won't do anything? They have never stopped trying to win us over and divide us. ”

"You mean, this celebration banquet is likely to be the beginning of another wooing?" After listening to Lan Qi's words, Li Yunyang quickly realized the crux of the problem.

Lan Qi nodded and said, "For the royal family, it is not difficult to recruit some ordinary soldiers. The key is that thousands of troops are easy to get, and one general is hard to find. What they care about is us generals who can fight outside the country all year round. For our wooing, it is also extraordinarily attentive, or rather, unscrupulous. If we're not careful, we risk not being human inside and out. ”

Lan Qi's words obviously revealed a trace of bitterness. It seems that all along, she has been questioned by all kinds of questions, and there will definitely be no less.

At this time, Li Yunyang's face was also unprecedentedly dignified.

The trip to the imperial capital will not seem to be very smooth. He sighed silently.

Without the trouble of Jack's matter, the crusade team quickly determined the candidate to go to the imperial capital this time. After all, following Lan Qi for so long, among so many team members, which ones are strong and can follow to receive rewards, as the head of the group, Lan Qi knows very well.

Early the next morning, Chief Shas had already occupied the outside of the tent of the raiding group.

The quota of fifteen people, because of Jack, was actually nearly half of the people who belonged to Shas. However, given that Jack's appearance is so disappointing, it has even caused condemnation from their own side. In the end, after agreement, in desperation, I could only give away a few places, which can be regarded as appeasing people's hearts. Otherwise, Shas has no doubts, it is estimated that he has not even seen the shadow of the imperial capital, and these teams are about to riot, right?

For those who lead the army to fight, as a person who is responsible for trivial matters such as eating and living, he naturally understands very well that in the eyes of his superiors, his status is more important. Therefore, for a long time, even if he is greedy for the generals who lead troops in various places, he has never been excessive. It was this caution that helped him to finally gain a foothold and not be expelled from Novi Sarsen.

I saw that several people were already ready to stop. Lanki looked at Shas, who was standing at the front of the line.

Shas's gaze briefly met with Lan Qi, nodded, and then announced in a loud voice, "Let's go!"

After speaking, he led the team and began to march in the direction of the imperial capital.

I have to say that the days of rushing are always the most depressing. At this time, the location of the team is in the northwest of the Izuyama Empire, and there is still a considerable distance from the location of the imperial capital in the center. Although the arrangements were made to stop various matters in the rear, Lan Qi was still reluctant, and could only follow the team forward with a dull face.

"What's the matter, Captain Lanqi? Li Yunyang slowly walked up to Lan Qi and said with a hippie smile.

Lan Qi glanced back at him, and said angrily: "Is it possible, in this case, I still have to happily follow?"

The complicated situation in the imperial capital, Lan Qi has never paid less attention.

"The situation is not as complicated as you say, is it?" Yi Wei had already followed, and she had been practicing the water attribute fighting qi for a long time, so that she, who was already noble and dusty, had long hair fluttering at this time, and she looked even more beautiful. frowned, and even had a fairy-like feeling.

Lan Qi looked at the two of them, sighed, and didn't say anything. For them, naturally they don't understand Lan Qi's helplessness and bitterness in it, right?

The day, in the blink of an eye, is over.

After seeing that the sun had gradually disappeared on the horizon, Shas finally raised his hand, and the whole team,

Stayed put.

After arranging for the soldiers to make a fire to cook, Li Yunyang and the three of them sat down there with their own thoughts.

"How far are we from the Imperial Capital?" asked Yi Wei as she played with the twigs, and asked one by one. After a day's journey, she was not allowed to use fighting skills, which caused her to waste a lot of fighting energy, and at this time she was inevitably a little tired, and if she listened carefully, she could hear the faint sense of exhaustion in her voice.

"About ten days. Lan Qi picked up a branch on the ground, threw it into the fire, and said without a trace of expression.

"Huh?" Although he knew that the territory of the Izuyama Empire was very vast, but at the thought of having to walk for ten days, a trace of pain suddenly flashed on Li Yunyang's face. He's always known for being lazy. In this case, it really hurts him to honestly take care of the strength of most people and choose this posture of pure walking.

"Isn't there a good way?" Itch listened to this answer, and her face was also solemn.

"Yes. A lot. Lan Qi looked at the two of them, and a hint of banter appeared on her face: "Fighting skills, fighting spirit, flying beasts, etc., you can do it." I don't know which one you want?"

Hearing her words, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, falling into silence. It was really not a wise move to show off his strength before Shas, the old fox. If that's all they have, they'd rather have to let their feet suffer a little more.

"Flying beasts, why don't we take the Imperial Flying Beasts?" Yi Wei looked at Lan Qi, and her eyes lit up.

She remembered that when she used to go out with her family, she would always sit on a flying beast. Now that I think about it, no wonder this time it was so painful, it turned out that I didn't ride a flying beast!

Yi Wei's words, it's okay not to say it, after saying it, the smile on Lan Qi's face became more bitter in an instant: "Miss, we don't have any money!"

"No money?!" Li Yunyang and Yi Wei called out almost at the same time. What are you doing? Lan Qi is the captain of the dignified crusade group, okay? He has been leading troops to fight outside all the year round, and all kinds of rewards from the empire are very rich, how can he have no money?

Lan Qi also blushed suddenly, obviously very embarrassed by this situation. sighed, and slowly explained the real situation to the two people.

It turns out that although the opinions of the two people cannot be wrong, they only see the superficial phenomenon. The empire has never stopped rewarding the troops who have been fighting abroad all year round, after all, the safety of the empire is tied to them. Take Lan Qi's team as an example, the number of perennial people remains at about 200 people, which can be regarded as an elite group.

For such a group, in addition to the normal military expenses, the total value of various rewards every year is about 200,000 gold coins. Almost the equivalent of a small city's tax revenue for almost a year.

It's just that this situation is not as absolute as it seems.

The rewards of the empire, after coming out of the royal family, will inevitably be deducted a lot after all links, and after several deductions, only about one-third of them can really reach Lan Qi's hands!

That's not all, you know, Lan Qi can't really take all the money. In addition to some distributed to the soldiers, the rest should be offered to the people above in various doorways!

As a result, what often seems like a great reward at the top is almost negligible in the end. It's no wonder that this profession seems to be very rewarding to outsiders, why Lan Qi has always felt that there is no spirit in doing it.

"No wonder, I say, why do you always look so poor? "Li Yunyang has always had a talent for splashing cold water that makes others look quite shocked.

After glancing at Li Yunyang with white eyes, Yi Wei could only accompany Lan Qi there and smile bitterly.

"So, what you mean is that we're just going to have to walk on our feet honestly. Li Yunyang spread his hands and said helplessly, but it could be heard in his words that he still didn't seem to like this ending very much.

Lan Qi nodded.

"Perhaps, we can do something else. After all, I guess Shas doesn't like to walk much, right?" Li Yunyang looked at Shas, who was sitting quietly by the campfire and closed his eyes to recuperate, and said with a mocking expression.

Hearing this, Lan Qi also frowned. It is indeed like this, at the end of the day, although Shas is sitting in a sedan chair specially made for him, it is just that the dissatisfaction on Shas's face, no matter who it is, can be seen very clearly. It's no wonder that Li Yunyang would use this issue to talk about Lan Qi.

"Then what are you going to do?" Lan Qi spread her hands, the problem was there, she was not blind. However, seeing it doesn't necessarily mean that you can solve it.

"Why don't I invite you to sit on the Flying Beast?" Li Yunyang looked at Lan Qi, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face, as if something bad was going on behind him.

"You invite us?" Lan Qi looked at Li Yunyang, and then at the people who were busy there, with an incredible look on her face.

The Empire's Flying Beast, the equivalent of the Empire's Flying Troops. During non-combat periods, between large cities, for civilian use. Anyone can sit as long as they pay. It's just that this is a lot of money.

Now, Shas and his party are in the northwest of the empire, but they have just left Sunset City, and they are still far away from the imperial capital. According to the usual pricing method, if you take a flying beast back to the imperial capital from here, each person will cost almost five hundred gold coins. And their group, plus the escort that Shas used to bringing when he went out, was almost a hundred.