Chapter five hundred and ninety-eight [shameless to the pinnacle]
Chapter 598 [Shameless to the extreme]
Lord Tulip Duke takes command and goes to war.
This news has spread throughout the streets and alleys of the imperial capital. Although the news of the defeat on the Eastern Front was carefully blocked by the upper echelons of the empire, after all, such a big matter cannot be covered by paper, and various gossips spread
Coming out also made people panic for a while.
But now, the talented and magical Duke Tulip is about to take command. This is really a highly anticipated appointment. This young Duke has repeatedly performed miracles, and with him going to the front line... Huh, those savage monster races have not been conquered yet.
Beat the shit out of you!
Naturally, there are many people who are worried about this.
The first one was Camisillo who recommended Du Wei to take command that day. Although this was a political consideration, Camisillo soon felt like he shot himself in the foot.
First of all, the conditions that Du Wei came to him and argued with him were written down in black and white. They were signed and stamped by both parties and had the seal of the Imperial Army Headquarters on them. It was a legal official document.
result……
Within two days, news came from Du Wei that his personal guards had been reorganized.
This was originally a good thing and Camisillo thought so at first. The situation on the front line was urgent and he quickly prepared to get to the front line without any delay. But as a result, when he saw the figures reported by Du Wei, the Minister of Military Affairs slammed the table on the spot.
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"Didn't you say that your personal bodyguards number one thousand people?!" Camisillo was dumbfounded: "Why did you sign up to receive military pay and equipment? It's five thousand sets!!!!" (It is imperial practice that generals can bring them with them when they go on an expedition.
A small number of private military guards. And military pay and equipment are officially provided by the empire.)
"That's right, it's a thousand." Du Wei sat down on the chair in front of Camisillo and crossed his legs. His legs and feet looked flexible, not at all like the patient who was in a wheelchair a few days ago.
Du Wei pointed at the document signed and sealed by both parties and said with a smile: "Look, it is clearly written here: I can bring a thousand family bodyguard knights. This is what we agreed on at the beginning."
"But what are you doing with the equipment of five thousand men?" Camisillo was unhappy.
"It's five thousand people." Du Wei looked innocent: "Camisillo, look carefully. It says one thousand 'knights'! They are not ordinary cavalry! According to imperial law, a knight with formal
A knight with the title can have up to four knight retinues, and knight retinues are not counted in the number of knights. As a majestic imperial duke, although I myself don’t like to make such a big show or make it so extravagant.
.But, after all, as a frontline general, I always pay attention to the dignity of the empire. How can a majestic duke and his bodyguards be served by ordinary cavalry? These days, which noble goes out without a group of knights by his side?
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Camisillo was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He didn't check for a moment. He got into Duwei's trap!
One thousand knights... plus four thousand legal "retinues", then Du Wei can openly bring five thousand private cavalry from his direct descendants of the Tulip family to the front line!
The regent just didn't want Du Wei to mobilize his private army, but this guy actually made a fuss about his words.
The cavalry of the Five Thousand Tulip family!
Camisillo thought secretly for a while. In fact, if Du Wei did this, he wouldn't be able to refute a thousand knights? Do you think the title of "knight" is a piece of cabbage? It's sold by the pound? I don't believe that your men
Thousands of people, each with a formal knight title!
But when he thought about it, Camisillo suddenly remembered that the relationship between the Tulip Duke in front of him and Delong, the badge of the Continental Knights Association, was so good that they could almost wear a pair of trousers! And in the last martial arts competition, Delong
Long relied on Du Wei. He made a huge fortune! Now Delong feels grateful to Du Wei... Du Wei wants the title of knight, can Delong not give it to him?
Who doesn’t know the virtues of that bastard Delong! He is the badge of the Knights Association. When the time comes, he will issue a thousand knight identity certificates. This guy can really do it! Besides, Du Wei is rich! The Knights Association has been short of money.
Even if Du Wei spends money to buy it, he can still afford it!
Thinking of this, Camisillo sighed and reluctantly nodded and signed.
He also knew that when Du Wei came to him to ask for military pay and ordnance supplies for five thousand men, he was actually coming to say hello to him in disguise. He was treating him well. Otherwise, with Du Wei's wealth, he would not care about five thousand men.
The salary and ordnance of the Thousand Cavalrymen? The salary of the private army of the Tulip family is higher than that of the regular army of the empire!
That's all, it's just five thousand people...I think it should be possible to come to the regent's place.
Camisillo signed.
The next day, another exciting new thing happened in the imperial capital.
Duke Tulip personally went to the Continental Magic Guild, the Imperial Academy of Magic, and the Imperial Magic Society to publicly post an announcement recruiting magicians.
Almost every wealthy family in the empire has been trying to recruit magicians to work for them. However, magicians are a rare profession. There are many magicians on the mainland. Officially, there have never been more than 1,000 magicians. In recent years, magicians in the mainland have been
There are only about five to six hundred people registered as magicians in the union.
Things are rare and valuable, and this principle also applies to talents. And magicians are an extremely noble group, so even those wealthy nobles find it extremely difficult to recruit magicians to work for them.
matter.
But...but...
But this guy Du Wei seems to really plan to buy the magician as a cabbage!
And the conditions he proposed spread out and fell into the ears of Yago Doug, the chairman of the Magic Union. Even this union chairman, who had always been a serious man, couldn't help but curse Du Wei secretly: What a prodigal!
That’s not how money is spent!!
Because of the conditions proposed by Du Wei... even those arctic magicians who are usually extremely arrogant and arrogant have to be moved and tempted!
Du Wei declared that any magician who is willing to accept recruitment and work for him, everyone...regardless of the level of magic, even if you are just a low-level magician, once recruited, you will immediately be given ten high-quality magic gems! Five high-quality walnut wands
Hands, two top quality magic power amplifying rings, and... a broomstick. Various magic crystals... a box!!
That’s right, it’s a box!!
Also, a pound of mithril!!
In addition, there is a secret treasure. Du Wei did not explain too carefully what this secret treasure is, but he did reveal that this secret treasure is a precious magic prop left by the mainland mage Master Gandolf. This is attractive enough.
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This condition can no longer be described as "sky-high price". Even if the magician is noble, he is not noble to this extent!
What is the concept of high-grade magic gems? For example, Yago Doug, the chairman of the Magic Union, the wand he uses is just a top-grade aquamarine magic gem, and his own private collection has collected earth energy in his lifetime.
There are only six of the top-grade magic gems.
As for mithril... that is a priceless treasure!
A pound of mithril? It's enough to trigger a duel between two magicians!
The conditions offered for this kind of recruitment are probably not as much as the entire net worth of a high-level magician!
At the beginning, some people in the Magic Guild only thought it was a joke, thinking that although Du Wei was rich... but worldly wealth, no matter how rich you were, those precious magic treasures could not be bought with money. Du Wei
How could Wei have so many good things?
However, those who saw the joke quickly shut up.
The first to be openly recruited in public were the two "shills" of the late Master Alec's two apprentices, both of whom were genuine mainland seventh-level magicians.
As a result, the two of them swore allegiance to Du Wei and received everything listed in the recruitment on the same day!
After the two guys received those top-grade magic gems, a large amount of magic crystals, mithril, etc., they also created several excellent quality magic power amplifying rings. Seeing them running back to the Magic Guild to pack their bags,
They were about to leave to hang out with Du Wei. Colleagues in the Magic Guild looked at these two guys. They had ten fingers on both hands. They were all covered with magic amplification rings, and the precious light was shining. They looked like nouveau riche.
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However, no one laughed at them...
I'm jealous!!
To create a magic amplification ring of this quality, you need a top-grade magic gem and some mithril! Ordinary magicians can't even get together the materials, let alone want to create one. Even a great magician can.
Two or three are already quite impressive.
But these two guys just showed off, wearing their ten fingers full, and swaggering around the Magic Guild.
A magician who had a good personal relationship with the two asked them privately, what was the "secret treasure" mentioned in the recruitment?
As a result, the two mysteriously took out a leather cloak. It was a magic cloak. The magicians in the magic union are naturally knowledgeable people. It was fine to look at the magic on the cloak, but
There are just some spells such as acceleration, agility, and magic defense, but the material of this cloak shocked everyone so much that they couldn't even close their mouths!!
Dragon skin!!
This, this is fucking dragon skin!!!!
It’s real dragon skin!!
On the mainland, it would be great if a necromancer could find the dragon bone. But after all, although the dragon bone is rare, it is not too shocking as long as you are willing to spend decades to search all over the continent.
In the ancient battlefield, go do the excavation work. If you are lucky, you can dig out a few dragon bones from the ground of the ancient battlefield. It won't be too outrageous.
But dragon skin... this is so shocking!! Dragon bones can be buried underground for thousands of years without decay, but the skin is different!!
The only recognized way to obtain dragon skin is to find a dragon, kill it, and then skin it for use!
Is it easy???
As a result, there was an uproar in the Magic Union, and the news reached the ears of Chairman Yago Doug, and the old man was silent for a long time. Then he smiled bitterly and said: "Dragon Skin! Damn it... Such generous conditions are even for me.
.If I were not the president of the Magic Union, I would have thought of becoming a magician's retinue under Du Wei."
For one day, no one in the Magic Guild was interested in working. Even many people with good abilities and who were obsessed with magic research all day became excited.
Moreover, Du Wei’s recruitment conditions also have an exciting clause: recruitment is not for life, but for five years!
In other words, as long as I spend five years working for the Tulip Duke, I can get these coveted treasures. After five years, I will still be free.
In this way, he also preserved his dignity as a magician. After all, a magician is not willing to spend his whole life selling himself to anyone as a subordinate.
So, people started to rush to sign up.
Although many magicians were still watching, on the second day, no one could sit still!
Why? Because Du Wei’s behavior is really outrageous!!
Several magicians came to accept recruitment. The strength of these magicians was really very low. Two of them were only at the first or second level. There were even two magic apprentices who shamelessly went to Du Wei to confront him.
Luck... As a result, this Tulip Duke is like a rich man. With one stroke of his pen, he takes it all!
And the conditions for the release are also complied with!
It’s really… it’s really unreasonable!
Many magicians are indignant, thinking that as a fifth-level (sixth-seventh-level) magician, I have been working for half my life, but I still haven’t been able to get a magic prop made of mithril and a first-grade magic gem! As for the dragon skin...
I've never even seen a dragon bone!
But now, those first- and second-level guys are openly wearing these treasures... Is there any justice?
No! I have to go!! Otherwise, it would be a huge loss!!
The next day, Du Wei recruited thirty-six magicians in one go, and by the afternoon, the number of people Du Wei had recruited had exceeded one hundred!
Don't be surprised. Although the number of one hundred people is a bit scary, only more than thirty of them are truly powerful magicians, while the other seventy or so, most of them are magic apprentices. There are even a dozen magicians.
Pharmacist (What! You look down on people! A magic pharmacist is also a magician!)
On the third day, the news spread to other places, and many magicians from other places quickly rushed to the imperial capital.
For a time, the news spread across the entire continent. Du Wei's sky-high price attracted countless shady guys.
Du Wei didn't feel bad either... Anyway, he had plenty of these things! The Dragon God's lifetime collection, the countless magic gems, all fell into his hands. If he didn't go out to recruit troops, would they be left in the warehouse to get moldy?
As for mithril... Hey, do you still remember the entrance to the Demonic Temple on the Snow Mountain? The entrance walls and floors there were all made of mithril. When Du Wei left, he had already pried more than a dozen pieces off the wall.
A wall panel was taken away.
Walnut? I have the Teardrop, but am I still afraid that I won’t be able to grow walnut?
On the fifth day, Lord Tulip Duke's magician retinue team had grown extremely strong!
This farce ended on the night of the fifth day. Du Wei announced that the recruitment was over and removed the recruitment notice. Then, Du Wei ran to the headquarters again. This time he reported the "magician" he had brought with him.
The number of "retinues".
Well, it was agreed at the beginning that Du Wei could recruit his own magician retinue to accompany him to fight on the front line, which was originally a good thing.
But when Camisillo saw the numbers on Duwei's newspaper, he didn't stand firm and almost fainted.
In the end, he still held on to the wall and stared at Du Wei: "How many people did you say! Did I hear wrongly?!"
"Three hundred and ninety-one people." Du Wei said with an innocent expression: "You heard me right. Could it be that my enunciation was not clear enough?"
Camisillo was really angry this time.
Bang! The Minister of Military Affairs slammed the table and glared at Du Wei: "Du Wei! Do you think I'm an idiot! Add up all the magicians on the mainland, there are hundreds of them! You said you recruited them by yourself?
Close to four hundred? How is that possible!! Could it be that all the magicians in the continent have gone to your Tulip family to be loyal!!"
"How is that possible?" Du Wei suddenly became humble and said with a good-tempered smile: "Among these people, there are only one hundred and fourteen magicians with formal grades, and the rest are all magic apprentices.
And the potion master."
This number is a little less outrageous. But... it's still amazing!
More than a hundred magicians?!
Hell! I’m afraid even the court magician team in the royal family may not be able to gather a hundred people! As for the wealthy nobles, even the first-class big families, it is already extremely powerful to have three or four magicians loyal to them.
It's a matter of face.
Recruiting more than a hundred magicians at once? This Du Wei...
"Actually, I'm quite embarrassed." Du Wei said with a sincere face and a sincere tone: "I thought about it afterwards and found that my recruitment announcement was too reckless... Sigh, these days.
There were even a few magic teachers from the Imperial Academy of Magic who came to accept recruitment and expressed their willingness to resign from the Academy of Magic and come to work with me as followers... I thought about it, after all, it is more important to cultivate future magic talents for the empire, so
I sent those people back. And... some magic students from the academy also came and shouted that they wanted to drop out of school. They thought of working under my command, so they were all sent back."
This...what is this?
Excuse me?
I think it’s just to show off!
Camisillo's fingers trembled and he took a few deep breaths. Then he managed to calm down. Well, it's up to you to recruit as many magicians as you can. I'm the Minister of Military Affairs, so magicians are not my business.
You can make as much trouble as you like.
Camisillo looked resigned to his fate, but then he took a roster from Du Wei, and the anger he had just suppressed began to stir up again.
"Four...four thousand people, the establishment, military pay, and rationing of food, grass, and equipment??" Camisillo growled: "Duwei! What is this!"
"Don't look at me. It's not my fault." Du Wei smiled and patted Camisillo on the shoulder: "Don't be angry, it's not good for your health. I just recovered from a serious illness, but I know that
,The body is the capital! Nothing is better than having a good body."
"You...tell me first, what is this!"
"Magician's retinue." Du Wei said calmly: "Those magicians I recruited are of noble status, as you know. Magicians are a rare and precious profession on the mainland now, and all those magicians are...
It's ridiculous. I recruited a magician. He has many servants, apprentices, and many of his own samurai followers. Well, as you know, magicians are good at long-distance combat but not good at close range.
Therefore, now on the mainland, magicians like to recruit some samurai to serve as their retinue. So that when fighting, there will be someone around them who can make up for their low melee strength... This is also popular. I recruited them.
These magicians, they are loyal to me, which means that even their subordinates have followed me."
Camisillo sighed sadly.
I’ve seen shameless people... but never seen such shameless people!!
What magician's retinue! Fart... fart!!
Even an idiot can see that it was clearly your idea, Du Wei, to mobilize thousands of private troops from your own family!!
It is true that it is popular among magicians to recruit samurai retinues nowadays... but that also depends on who they are! Those intermediate or high-level magicians may be able to recruit some samurai retinues. But most of the magicians you recruited, Du Wei, are
They are magic apprentices, magic pharmacists and low-level magicians! How could these people have a large number of samurai followers!
you you……
Camisillo also tried to argue with reason, but then he sighed in his heart that this was something he couldn't control!
Why?
Just one word "magician" and all roads are blocked!
The empire has a decree: magicians are not subject to the imperial code!
Let alone the Minister of Military Affairs, even if he is the Prime Minister, he has nothing to do with the magician.
What can I do? Capture all the magicians under Du Wei and interrogate them one by one? What a joke!!
There are more than a hundred magicians! If they cause trouble, they can tear down the entire imperial capital! I am a military minister and I cannot afford to offend them.
But... let's forget it.
The previous "knights and retinues" were already five thousand people. Now there are "magic retinues", and there are more than four thousand more.
In this way, it was like Du Wei cleverly made a name and found a legal excuse to get himself a staff of nearly 10,000 people! He could use this to openly draw 10,000 people from his family's private army and hang it
In the name of these "retinues", they went to the front line with him.
Sigh...I'm afraid the regent will have a headache.
Camisillo thought for a long time and finally said seriously: "Duwei, I can't control you anymore, but... when you do these things, you should also consider... the meaning of the person above."
After saying that, he raised his pen and signed the list, which was regarded as approval of the list.
Du Wei smiled, grabbed the thing and stuffed it back into his pocket, and said calmly: "Master Camisillo, don't worry, I know it well."
Ten thousand people... almost, this should be the psychological bottom line of the regent.
If you don't have enough people with you, you won't feel at ease.
The regent was worried about bringing too much.
Ten thousand people, say too much but not too much, say not too little, is just right.
Afterwards, Camisillo simply refused to do anything and signed the transfer order to mobilize 500 soldiers from the Public Security Bureau and 2,000 Royal Guards that he had promised Du Wei last time.
only……
Alas, the regent sent Du Wei to the front line just to separate the Tulip Duke from his direct army. Let him be far away on the eastern front, surrounded by 200,000 troops who are all officers and soldiers of the empire. No matter how hard he goes, there is no need to be afraid.
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But now, before the Duwei people go north, they have found 10,000 direct relatives for him to come over...
After leaving the headquarters gate, Du Wei jumped onto his horse, kicked the horse's belly, looked at the guard beside him, Elder Yan, and whispered: "Get out of the city!"
After a pause, Du Wei's face still had half of the smile he had when teasing Camisillo. His eyes were full of solemnity, and he added: "Go to Brokeback Mountain Villa!"