Among the wise kings and emperors of the past dynasties, in terms of creating wealth for their subjects, if Emperor Hongshi is willing to be ranked second, then no emperor dares to say that he can be ranked first.
What is just amazing is that the Red Stone Emperor did not harm the interests of the country and the people to increase the wealth of his subjects. Even a few years later, no matter what role he played in this human comedy, even if it was indirectly or directly
The victims are still talking about it.
--"Emperors of the Past. The Red Stone Emperor"
Chapter 20 Xilin’s Belonging
After all internal and external troubles were dealt with, the Earl began the operation plan for His Majesty the King. At the same time, the small mercenary group also officially moved its headquarters to the capital of the empire, Scambrai City, and set up a special red stone auction in the treehouse bar.
, the auction starts every Monday afternoon.
Many years later, some wealthy businessmen in Scambrae City were nostalgic for the lively scene at that time: the audience was crowded with dignitaries and businessmen from all over the country, and the solemn auctioneer’s hammer was constantly falling.
Related special effect items are constantly being sold.
In the imperial capital at that time, the greetings among wealthy businessmen had become:
1 "Have you taken any pictures today?"
2 "What does the dragon beard porridge taste like today?"
3 "If you want your kidneys to be healthy, you need red stone ××."
There is no airtight wall in the world. Although Earl Chi single-handedly controlled the entire military power of Gyeonggi, he still could not achieve 100% confidentiality. Until, half a year later, one day a marquis talked about the empire with Emperor Hongshi in the palace study.
Before leaving, Jue carefully picked up a few hairs from the ground and wrapped them around his middle finger. Hong Shi just saw this scene.
After being shocked to learn the cause of the matter, the Red Stone Emperor couldn't help but fell into deep self-blame: Why did you believe the count's smiling face? Why didn't you conduct further analysis on the superficial phenomenon that the world has been peaceful recently and no one has ever caused trouble? Even if you are expensive
As an emperor, there is no guarantee that no mistakes will be made 100%. Immediately send the earl to report.
In fact, Earl Chi, who had just returned to the Duke's Palace from the Tree House Bar auction, had already prepared for this and had already prepared a set of high-sounding reasons.
According to the few servants of the Red Stone Emperor who were present at the time, they vaguely revealed that this confrontation was initiated by Earl Chi. However, the Red Stone Emperor, who was originally preparing to attack the enemy, was exhausted and had to cede territory and beg for mercy.
In order to protect the emperor's face, the guard only talked about a few points. Earl Chi talked about how he was guarding the border and many robes died on the battlefield. Then he brought up the issue of buying a stake in a small mercenary group. Just before the Red Stone Emperor
When he was about to ask about Dragon Beard Porridge, Earl Chi changed the topic to the difficult life of orphans and widows who were descendants of those who died in battle outside the Ice Fortress.
It would be fine if Emperor Hongshi was not a sage king, then he would not be moved by Earl Chi's compassionate words. However, Hongshi is not only a sage, but also has a heart of Bodhisattva.
If you are willing to blame yourself, you have not done your job as an emperor well. Anyone who has made these mistakes in front of Earl Chi cannot blame Earl Chi for adding insult to injury.
The Earl mentioned righteously that the small mercenary group adopted a total of 374 families of deceased soldiers in the Ice Fortress, including 102 elderly people, 386 women, and 458 minor children (under 16 years old), a total of 946
According to the basic living expenses of 4 gold coins per person per month, 4,000 gold coins are needed, which is 40,000 per year.
To be honest, the Hongshi Emperor, who has lived in the palace for a long time, has no idea about the prices of goods among the people. Regardless of whether feeding 1,000 people in the Ice Fortress through wholesale means each person needs 4 gold coins every month, the Hongshi Emperor absolutely does not
You will know that the market value of one of your hairs is enough to feed 20 people.
There is no basis for negotiation in this situation where people are at the mercy of others. The final result of the negotiation is that according to the empire's management method for mercenary groups, as long as there are more than 200 official mercenaries, they can attack a certain person.
Small villages are under trusteeship; if the scale is more than 1,000 people, certain towns can be under trusteeship. 50% of the tax revenue of the towns under trusteeship is directly transferred to the small mercenary group, and the mercenary group has local business, trade and other rights.
, the Red Stone Emperor was willing to exchange the rights of his hair to fall off and change his underwear freely in exchange for the trusteeship of a town. And Earl Chi chose Xilin Island.
In the subsequent communication with Amy, Chi Hanfeng revealed three reasons why Xilin Island was chosen:
1. Grandpa Amy once proposed that there is a kind of wild vulture on the coast of the empire that can be used as a mount for swordsmen, but Chi Hanfeng has always been worried about Amy not having a mount;
2. Xilin Island may not seem big, but because it faces rich fishing grounds, if trade routes are opened up, it will undoubtedly become a pearl on the coast and has great potential for appreciation;
3. The island also has its own advantages. Most people don’t want to disturb it, so they can become little emperors.
Although Amy regrets that she can no longer obtain greater profits through auctions, she still understands the principle of not being able to catch all the benefits. In addition, if Xilin is entrusted, she can bring in the orphans and widows of the Ice and Snow Fortress. The air in Xilin is moist and far stronger than
The cold weather in the frozen continent. So I happily agreed.
It happened that at this time, Barbas led a small mercenary group of 20 teenagers who had just turned 16 to the Duke's Palace.
In the past year, the small mercenary group in the Ice Fortress took in a total of 458 teenagers under the age of 16, and 123 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18. At first, Barbas took care of it alone, and later
, Long Ye left his military post and came to take care of them, and used the huge sum of money left by Amy to hire two elders from the Holy Church and a wandering magician to educate these orphans.
The method of education is still very simple. It basically follows Chi Hanfeng’s education model for Amy and Daqingshan. Get up early and run - the kind of running with very little clothes on. After returning, you will chop wood. In the afternoon, you will be divided into swordsmen.
, magician, priest and other modes are trained separately.
After a year, the small mercenary group finally had its first official mercenary team in the Ice Fortress branch, in addition to the troops directly under the captain and deputy captain who had been doing evil outside. 170 people over the age of 16
It was composed of young mercenaries. After the scale became so large, some small nearby villages began to seek protection, and were willing to pay a certain amount of fees in exchange for the small mercenary group to be able to send people to stay permanently and protect the villages from wild beasts.
Barbas, who was worried about having nothing to do, saw a deal coming to him. Regardless of the huge gap between the price offered by the other party and the price of the A-level mercenary group, he accepted it without hesitation. Then, he handed the matter over to Long and personally
Lead 20 of his proud disciples to show the results to the leader.
At this time, the job of receiving Xilin fell to Amy. Originally, Amy wanted to go with Da Qingshan, Chi Aotian, and Horns, but she was rejected by Earl Chi. Earl Chi thought that this trip
Only Amy is needed, and the others just use this time to practice hard, so there is no need to go to so many people. In this way, Amy went to Xilin with several orphans who had fought with his father.
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The trip to Xilin was doomed from the beginning. Not letting Chi Aotian and Daqingshan go has already said a lot. No matter which dragon you take, it will immediately attract the attention of others. If Chi Aotian says anything else
If you give out your surname, everything will be revealed; according to the usual practice, a person from the Imperial Military Department will usually be sent to accompany you, but this time there is no need; the seal affixed is not Duke Chi's seal, but a private seal.
Of course, Amy did not notice all this. For the mercenary king in his youth, he was an extremely happy-go-lucky person who could achieve his goals no matter what the environment. Even if two people looked at him fading away
The figure behind him secretly muttered some conspiracies.
"This time is another challenge for him. The general of Lion River won't arrest him, right?" Someone said kindly, stroking his beard and saying New Year's greetings to the little chicken.
"It's okay, hey, do you believe he will suffer a loss?" Another young man said: "It's great to be young. You can try and fail countless times, and you never have to worry about losing your goal."
"Yes, yes, they are just like chickens just about to come out of the egg shell. You must not help them break the egg shell, otherwise they will definitely die."
"Opposite pole, opposite pole, just like the winter wheat that germinates in autumn, you must not let the wheat grow up at will in autumn, and even go to the ground to press it with a roller to crush the premature green sprouts.
, so that the roots below can grow stronger."
The two people looked at each other and saw the fox's smile on each other's faces.
Amy is a person who has absolutely no concept of money. She just happened to have a lot of money recently. She took her eight little brothers while walking. When she saw good things, she bought them for her brothers. With 200 gold coins on her, she arrived in Xilin.
More than 120 have been spent when we were there, and for these young mercenaries who were traveling for the first time, their life without their father was extremely difficult. This time, this brother compensated them all. Before they arrived in Xilin, they had already changed their lives.
He is wearing new clothes, and even his sword has been replaced with a brand new two-handed sword. If Amy hadn't still gotten everyone up early every morning for morning exercises and basic combat training in sword skills, he would have been a flawless big brother.
Regarding Viscount Fan's rejection, Amy was unusually calm. Almost like her brothers, she slowly returned to Scambrai in the same mood as her brothers. When she saw Earl Chi who came to greet him, she just said a few words: "This time
It was a good time. The general said that we still need to discuss it. Uncle Chi, let's go ahead and hold the auction. I suggest that we hold a larger one and put forward the last concept, so that we should get a good price." After that,
I took a group of little brothers to find Chi Aotian and others for a competition.
The subsequent development was something that everyone could predict. After Earl Zaichi tried to create momentum by holding the "Last Out-of-Print Red Stone Auction" three times in a row, the Red Stone Emperor had to ask about the matter again. When he learned that it was a
For a little Xilin, the little general forced some of his most secret things to be exposed in broad daylight and criticized by everyone. One can imagine his hurt feelings. Of course, with the wisdom of the Red Stone Emperor,
He would not go so far as to replace a general over such trivial matters, but he would use extremely normal means to force the military department to immediately issue an extremely serious supervision order.
One night, when, as the Marquis' Undersecretary for Military Affairs, he was forced to drive for five days and five nights to the General's Palace in Lion River to deliver the order in compliance with the king's order, it was not difficult to understand that he was greeting all the family members of Viscount Fan in his heart while using "
The dirty leather boots under his feet greeted the gate of the general's mansion and the sergeant who opened the door.
Although it was not convenient for him to explain the whole story to Fan Zijue, the livid face of the Marquis already indicated that a storm was coming. The Marquis only said one sentence: "I have ordered you to hire mercenaries immediately on the orders of His Majesty the King and the Military Department."
The delegation is entrusted with Xilin. From now on, the efficiency of your work will be measured in minutes!" After saying that, the Marquis went directly to the residence prepared for senior officials at the inn to rest.
And when Fan Zijue personally led his team to rush back to the imperial capital day and night, he obtained first-hand information about the small mercenary group. Whether it was the Holy Dragon Knight, the Undead Dragon Knight or the Red Stone Underpants incident, he felt deep in his heart.
Liang, of course, when he learned that the Chi family of the three most famous families in the empire was the main shareholder and COO of the small mercenary group, he knew even more about the catastrophic disaster he had committed. Now he thinks of the scholar-like young Wan Wan at that time.
A child's smile can be extremely destructive.
Later, the method used by Fan Zijue to invite Amy's small mercenary group to return to Xilin was unknown to the outside world because both parties tried their best to conceal the process. Only later, when the imperial nobles visited Fan Zijue's home, it happened that
I caught up with the Fan family for lunch and was surprised to find that dozens of people in the family were eating porridge, and even pickles were rationed per person. At that time, most of the imperial nobles had no idea how the family of Fan Zijue cooked porridge in the morning and then let it cool.
Then cut it into pieces with a knife so that it tastes the most glutenous and can satisfy your hunger. When chatting, they all thought that Amy was a fake and used the Chi family to show off her power. Later, the stories from the Hami Kingdom became more and more popular.
However, when he learned that the count and marquis who was also a dragon knight had also been killed by Amy Tong and had to make porridge to survive, he had to start to judge the power of this young man again.
In winter and February of the third year of the Magic Calendar, the small mercenary group finally invited Fan Zijue to Xilin Town after visiting the thatched cottage with tears streaming down his face. From this day on, Xilin gradually became the most popular town in the Magic Calendar.