Devouring Chaos

Chapter 114 A Dowry of a Mountain of Gold

"Haha, Prime Minister, it seems that you are the only one who understands my thoughts!"

Emperor Yan chuckled!

"But your majesty, what if Prince Pingnan doesn't come? You know, Li Wen is just one of his sons. What if he loses one?"

The prime minister frowned deeply and was not so optimistic!

After hearing this, Emperor Yan clapped his hands on the armrests and pondered for a moment!

"What you said makes sense, but even so, we can't back down this time!"

"The Pingnan Palace has been too rampant in recent years. We cannot allow this cancer to continue to exist!"

"Your Majesty is right. We will go down and prepare now. Let each city pay close attention to its movements and make corresponding countermeasures in time!"

"Okay, you must hurry up on this matter!"

"It's time to have a fight with Prince Pingnan's Palace. After all, we have been preparing for it for several years!"

The eyes of Emperor Yan shone brightly like the sun!

"Yes, we will withdraw!"

Then all the court officials retreated and prepared to deal with the Prince of Pingnan's Palace!

There are only four people left in the hall at this moment!

Yan Huang turned and looked at Guan Xiaobai!

"Xiao Bai, you are quite capable despite your young age. How about giving you a position in the army? You can't let your youth be wasted here!"

"Your Majesty, let me think about it!"

Guan Xiaobai is not good at management. I don’t think he would be able to get a job even if you give him one!

"What's there to think about?"

Yan Meili on the side said unhappily!

"How many people want to get a position in the army, but unfortunately they can't get it! And you are still making excuses!"

"Princess Jianning..."

Guan Xiaobai touched his nose and rolled his eyes!

"Okay, stop dithering like a woman. It's your blessing that the emperor wants to give you a position. Now is the time to hire people, so don't let me down!"

Emperor Yan looked at this scene with amusement.

"Xiao Bai, you are a talented person in this imperial examination, so it is only right that you get the position!"

"How about this, I'll give you some power, and you can build an army for me! We are facing internal and external troubles right now, the more troops we have, the better!"

Emperor Yan made the final decision!

"But where can I get so much money to set it up?"

Guan Xiaobai showed a bitter face!

"Humph, I can only give you a portion of the military funds, you have to figure out the rest yourself. According to Chen Geng's memorial, most of the hotels in Changyuan City are your property, and you are still crying poor to me. That's unacceptable!"

Guan Xiaobai was slightly stunned after hearing this. He didn't expect Chen Geng to be such a big mouth and say anything to harm him!

Now that Emperor Yan knows about it, he has no more excuses!

"Okay, Your Majesty, I promise, but other cities must open up their rights to me so that I can open a shop and earn military funds!"

"It's up to you. If you have the ability, just do it. The imperial court has no say over these matters!"

Yan Huang said lightly!

"Ok!"

"When you have formed your army, remember to report the number to the Military Horse Department!"

"understood!"

Then Guan Xiaobai and the other two left the hall!

Not long after, an edict came out!

Guan Xiaobai was appointed as the General of Suppressing Bandits! His army is temporarily called Guan Family Army!

The position of general is not small. Except for the great general and the Emperor of Flame, others can only look down upon them!

Of course, everyone knows that Guan Xiaobai’s ability to be appointed to such a high position and rise to such a high position is inseparable from the relationship between Princess Pingning and Princess Jianning!

Guan Xiaobai is Princess Pingning's boyfriend, and he also has an ambiguous relationship with Princess Jianning. From the outside, it seems that Guan Xiaobai relied on women to get to the top!

Since he was already a general, the next day, Yan Huang sent people to renovate Guan Xiaobai's mansion! It looked more magnificent and luxurious! The plaque was also changed! It was replaced with five gold-plated characters: General Ping Kou's Mansion!

In order to allow Guan Xiaobai to develop rapidly, military funds of 200,000 taels of silver were allocated to Guan Xiaobai on the third day. At the same time, a piece of open space was cordoned off for him outside the city for the garrison of troops!

After Guan Xiaobai was given the authority to recruit soldiers and horses, he started to do it!

On the fourth day, he and his team members Lao Yan, Li Shaodong and others went to the base!

He brought a hundred people to the base and took over the place!

The military camp has actually been set up, and all that remains is to recruit soldiers!

According to the military system of Emperor Yan, a general can have four lieutenants, and each lieutenant can manage four junior generals! A junior general can command a thousand people, and eight junior generals can command eight thousand people. In addition to the two thousand guards around the general, plus logistics personnel, medical staff, etc., a general can command more than ten thousand people!

However, this is only a peacetime system. Once a war breaks out, some generals have the authority to expand their troops to 50,000 after reporting to the court and obtaining approval! This is a wartime requirement!

The court gave him 200,000 taels of silver, which was a lot!

The monthly salary of a soldier is only two taels of silver. Two hundred thousand taels of silver can recruit 20,000 people. However, the soldiers' later salary will have to be considered by Guan Xiaobai!

However, Guan Xiaobai is not worried about the military pay!

There is a huge amount of wealth in his storage ring, which, converted into silver, would probably be several million taels of silver. And Changyuan City also has a large daily turnover of hotels. The profits are enough for him to feed an army of tens of thousands of people!

After discussing in the military camp, Guan Xiaobai temporarily appointed Lao Yan as the Vermillion Bird general, Li Shaodong as the Black Tortoise general, Li Qiang as the White Tiger general, and Gui Daoren as the Azure Dragon general!

The four of them led the army respectively!

Meng Lang, Gao Yan and others will serve as reserve generals!

As for the selection of the young generals below, just let them decide for themselves. Guan Xiaobai is too lazy to care about it!

"Yes, follow General Ping Kou's orders!"

The four of them performed a military salute in a very formal manner!

"Okay, you guys will be busy tomorrow, go down and have a rest early!"

Guan Xiaobai chuckled!

It is of course impossible for an army to have only a hundred of them, so they plan to recruit soldiers tomorrow!

After several days of publicity, the news of Guan's army recruiting soldiers spread, and some civilians in the surrounding areas came to the military camp to report!

Everyone was very busy, but Guan Xiaobai was lying leisurely in a chair beside them, basking in the beautiful sunshine! His eyes occasionally passed over the busy people!

Guan Xiaobai's recruitment conditions for soldiers are very strict. First, they must be young and strong, and their cultivation must be above the fifth level of physical training!

These conditions block those elderly people who are hoping to get lucky!

There is no way. For elderly people, their talent for cultivation has been solidified, and even more cultivation resources cannot be accumulated!

What he wants is young people who will follow in his footsteps! What he wants is an army full of youthful vitality!

Only 500 qualified young and middle-aged people will be recruited on the first day!

Old Yan and his friends all complained that the recruitment was too slow! The main reason was that the requirements were too high!

Even if Guan Xiaobai is slow in recruiting, it is better to have nothing than to have something of poor quality!

There is no way, everyone can only respect Guan Xiaobai’s will!

Next, it took a month to recruit a team of 10,000 people!