One year after 2002 in the Magical Calendar, the Hami Kingdom designated the day of the "Dragon War" as a day of national humiliation.
This specific festival was not abolished until Amy became the real mercenary king. Oh, to be precise, it was given a new title: "Festival of Joy".
Chapter 42 Temptation
"Amy, I really made a mistake." Yi Su III looked at Amy's smiling face and said with a very sincere attitude.
"Your Highness, you are too polite, what the hell."
"I beg you to forgive me for a mistake."
"How can a minister have such unreasonable thoughts? Your Highness makes me feel ashamed."
"Oh, you know? Seeing you reminds me of your father ten years ago. At that time, he was really prosperous and prosperous..." Yi Su III's words were rudely interrupted by Amy: "Your Highness
, just tell me if you have anything, I'm really busy now, you can see it." Amy said while showing the list in her hand to Yi Su III, looking at the names written in ink, the look on Yi Su III's face
All the muscles jumped nervously.
Amy is really busy now. On his left hand side is a thick stack of lists written in red pen, and on his right side is a list of the same thickness written in black pen. Every few minutes, someone will
He ran up from the audience and brought him new records.
"Can I see which lists?" Yi Su III tried to discuss.
"Your Highness, this is a business secret. It's not very good. If you can mention some things that have nothing to do with business, I'll satisfy you." Amy smiled.
"Well, I have a very good impression of your father. He is kind, upright, and has a typical knight style, and you look very much like him. You and Da Qingshan came to Xueyuan City, and Da Qingshan is Mr. Chi Hanfeng's younger brother.
I have always been worried that Daqingshan has the style of a master, so yesterday I specially sent people to keep an eye on Daqingshan." Although it was late summer and early autumn, the weather in Xueyuan City was still very cold, but Yi Su III's face continued to drip with sweat.
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"Oh, you say it, go on," Amy said politely.
"I couldn't sleep well last night until 4 o'clock in the morning. I called the general on duty. When I knew that Da Qingshan had been sleeping in the house and you disappeared, I felt... you... were going
Do something." Yi Su III's face showed fear and deep thought.
"Later I finally found out something. Can you explain it to me in detail?" Yi Su III wandered around for a long time and finally came to the topic.
"You misunderstood. Yesterday I just went to Snowfield City for a casual look." Amy smiled with a holy smile on her face.
"Really? From 4 o'clock yesterday to 6:00 today you visited the two largest underground gambling houses."
"Your Highness is indeed very wise."
"Actually, I didn't do anything. I went to chat with Old Locke last night. By the way, we divided the spoils from our fight against Yin Feng. Da Qingshan and I had a total of 20,000 gold coins." Amy said easily.
"Is that all??" Yi Su III squinted his eyes and refused to give in.
"Oh, I've been tight on money recently, so I borrowed another 10,000 gold coins from him."
"Then what?" Yi Su III pressed forward step by step.
"Then, I remembered that you held such a big military parade. What if no one watched it? I noticed that there were many beggars on the street. They were so pitiful. I gave them 10 gold coins each and gave them to the soldiers guarding the city.
For 200 gold coins, let them open the city gate and let the beggars go to the nearby villages to promote this celebration you are holding."
"Then where did these on-site newspapers come from?"
"Your Highness, do you hope that the direct disciples of the evil Chi Hanfeng will defeat the heroic dragon warriors who protect the country? Of course we can't just watch the tragedy happen, so I came up with a way - we have to overwhelm each other mentally first,
So I worked hard all night and wrote an exposé of tens of thousands of words."
"These revelations of yours were sold for a good price today." Yi Su III stared at Amy and said.
"Everyone is getting rich, everyone is getting rich. In fact, it is just average. I printed 25,000 copies of the 2 gold coin version, and now I have sold 17,000 copies. In order to make everyone feel that they are popular, I only printed 7,000 copies of the 10 gold coin version.
The sales of this book are good now, about 6,000 copies, but my investment is also huge, printing cost 1,000 gold coins." Amy said distressedly.
"Then you have made your money back now, right? If everything is sold out, your net profit will be 100,000 gold coins, right? Then why are you still looking for those two underground gambling houses?"
"Yes, why should I go? This is a difficult question to answer." Amy kept pressing her temples with her two thumbs, while Yi Su III stared at him.
"Actually...actually...I feel that my abilities are too poor and I really don't have the manpower to organize this large-scale financial activity, so I decided to ask professionals for help."
"Oh, what is this in front of you?" Yi Su III pointed curiously.
Amy was nervous and quickly suppressed it with her hand. "Hey, it's the bet placed by the bettor."
"Then why are there two piles?" Yi Su III broke the casserole and asked.
"Oh, this pile is for gambling. Buy 10 and lose 1. The minimum bet is 10 gold coins. Later, I considered that some guests may not have so much money with them. They are also human beings and they also have gambling.
The right to make money. Right? So I opened another casual handicap. In this handicap, I bet 5,000 gold coins. I can gamble in any way, and I can also buy the winner of Daqingshan. But the people of your country seem to
They are very confident in their own dragon knights. So far, no one has bought Daqingshan to win. Congratulations."
"If you win, how much will it be?"
"Well, Your Highness, there are always winners and losers in gambling." Amy sighed: "If I lose, even the money I paid to buy the newspaper today, I will lose 100,000 gold coins. I regret it a bit," Amy said with a face
There was an expression of remorse on the newspaper. Yi Su III thought he had repented, but he said: "You shouldn't have bet so big, you should have kept the money from selling the newspaper. At least give yourself a chance to make money. Of course, if you win
Okay, excluding the cost of recruiting people, it’s probably 9 times more. This depends on the new policies you announced. There’s no personal income tax, otherwise we’ll lose money again.”
"Is it just 900,000??" Yi Su III became anxious upon hearing this.
"Your Highness is indeed smart." Amy's mouth felt like honey.
"Do you know how much our annual treasury income is? It's only 1.5 million." Yi Su III was going crazy and easily leaked his core business secrets. "Amy, let's do this, you can announce this gambling
What if it doesn’t work? Otherwise the people will have no food for the winter.”
"No, I have to maintain good business ethics." Amy said in a righteous manner: "Well, I can return the money and the list from the scattered gamblers to you, and you can exchange it for them yourself later. Anyway, it won't matter.
More, probably only 100,000 gold coins."
After hearing these words, Yi Su III let out a sigh of relief: "By the way, Amy, let me ask you again, how can you confirm that Daqingshan will definitely win?"
"Business secrets, no comment." Amy looked at Yi Su III with a smile.
While the farce was going on on Amy and Yi Su III's side, there was new progress on Daqingshan's side.
Looking at the extremely angry Lin Yushang, Daqingshan suddenly smiled brightly: "I think these are all written by Amy, otherwise who would dare to measure Lu'er's measurements?"
Lin Yushang, who was in a rage, suddenly realized after being prompted: "Da Qingshan, why are you making careless friends?!" Obviously, he couldn't find Amy, so he used the honest Da Qingshan as a punching bag.
Da Qingshan raised his lips slightly - pay attention to this smiling expression. If Amy smiles lightly, the corners of her mouth are slightly raised, and her eyes are slightly narrowed with a smile, it is a kind of aristocratic temperament (although it only looks like it)
; Then the corners of Da Qingshan's mouth cracked slightly under the wings of his nose, which is an extremely unusual kind of tolerance. Of course, this kind of tolerance smile almost covered Da Qingshan's life, especially when he was taking the blame for the Mercenary King.
There was a sea of people in front of us, and it was at least 500 meters away from the parade platform, so it was impossible to squeeze in.
With no other choice, Da Qingshan found the nearest soldier's post, politely explained his purpose, and asked the soldiers to take him to the parade platform.
It seems that Amy's propaganda offensive is very fierce. When I heard that it was Daqingshan and the Amy Empire's envoys Lin Yushang and Sha Ruoshi, the faces of several soldiers at the soldier post showed at the same time: scum, scum, emotional liars and other complicated things.
However, due to his duties, he reluctantly led them through the official road to the parade platform.
Although Amy had been busy calculating the large amount of money fluttering in front of her eyes, she kept paying attention to the person coming below. When she saw Lin Yushang rushing up angrily, she immediately knew that something was wrong, and quickly rolled up the business secrets of the gift and put it in her arms.
, ran down from the stage, and shouted with surprise: "Something is going wrong, something is going wrong."
It was the first time she saw Amy so panicked. Lin Yushang was also startled, and her anger dissipated a lot: "What's wrong?" She was anxiously fooled.
"When I came in the morning, I found that there were many people selling our materials, and there were... there were..."
Seeing that Amy was hesitant to speak, Lin Yushang asked cooperatively: "What's there? Tell me, I'm so anxious."
"It said that you took the initiative to soak... in Da Qingshan, and competed with Sha Ruo..." Amy hesitated.
"Ah? Isn't that what you wrote?" Lin Yushang looked at Amy and then at Daqingshan very strangely.
"How could it be?? I... Hey, now the military parade has begun. Let's take a look at other things in the parade first and then talk about it later. Our seats are all next to His Royal Highness the King - His Highness the King wanted to chat with me, so he arranged for me to sit next to him.
Let’s talk about the position later.” After saying that, Amy immediately walked away: “Remember, Daqingshan, after the military parade is the competition! Only victory is allowed, no defeat is allowed.”
Lin Yushang was obviously deceived again, and was in a daze. Daqingshan and Sharuo looked at Amy's hurriedly running back, glanced at each other, and shook their heads helplessly. Daqingshan mentally cursed: He ran away again, damn.
A long horn sounded. This horn is made of a seal bone that is a specialty on the coastline of the frozen continent. It is light, brittle and loud. In actual use, seven small holes are often baked into the base of the horn.
, respectively representing the seven tones of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu, Bian Gong, and Bian Shang. This kind of horn is widely used among the Hami people, especially in the army. Most of them only burn out Yu, Bian Gong, and Bian Shang.
The sound produced by the Shang San Kong Sound is extremely majestic. Everyone who hears the sound of this horn will get excited - it is used to issue commands when charging into battle.
On the east side of the school military field, there was a loud bang and bang in an instant. Everyone held their breath and turned to look: in the distance, there was a sun that had just risen, emitting not very strong light. In the sun
Where the light emitted, a group of tall land dragon knights appeared in the darkness.
Unlike all the Hami knights, the traditional Hami knights wear white robes, while the Earth-walking Dragon Knight wears black dark iron armor, and the Earth-walking Dragon wears a dark blue vest. In the hands of the knight
Holding a 3.7-meter-long standard war gun, the black gun body and the silver tip cut through the scattered light of the sun, jumping and shining like a silver star.
Getting closer and closer, the entire knight team is a standard squadron of 500 people, with 10 knights in each row, and a total of 50 rows.
Suddenly, the sound of the horn suddenly accelerated, and the knights immediately adjusted their teams upon hearing the sound. The 10 knights at the front quickly spread out on both sides, and the four rows of knights at the back quickly filled up. In the shortest time, a team of 50 people was formed.
charge formation.
The column of 10 columns and 50 rows turned into a horizontal column of 50 columns and 10 rows in a very short period of time. All the knights pulled off the black masks of their helmets at the same time.
The sound of the horn became rhythmic, and the 50 dragon knights in the first row neatly rushed to the viewing platform, waved their war guns, and urged the sitting dragons to charge forward, simulating a charge formation in battle.
Undoubtedly, the Earth-walking dragon in front of me has been strictly trained. According to the frequency of the horn, the Earth-walking dragon's huge body is running, boom, boom, boom, dust is rising all over the sky, but every Earth-walking dragon still maintains its posture.