"Everyone, there is no need to be suspicious. I, Li Yu, am not crazy, and I didn't say anything stupid just now. This prince of mine has indeed made it to the top. It is difficult to explain the whole story clearly, but I don't want to harm everyone. Here, I

, I will make it clear first, whether you want to leave or stay and follow me to escape is up to you, Li Yu will never force you."

"We swear to follow the young master to the death..." This was the answer uttered by the more than fifty young men. Fan San, Zhu Junwu, and Wang Yong were also military men, but they felt that they were more powerful than themselves.

The iron-blooded spirit is definitely not just words, but the kind of loyalty from the heart.

For a time, several people were also inspired to fight, and their spirits began to rise. Didn't they speak out their own thoughts?

Li Yu knew that the people he selected from among the beggars at the beginning actually no longer cared about whether they could become princes or whether they could be prosperous and wealthy in the future. What they cared about was whether they could be together with Li Yu for the rest of their lives. This

That's the most important thing.

But will the remaining students do this?

Seeing many doubtful looks, Li Yu explained: "After tomorrow, it will be my wedding. After the wedding, I will ask my father to give up the title of His Royal Highness and go to Yuquan Villa, the holy place of martial arts in the Central Plains today.

Where do you plan to build a harmonious home where there is no killing, no ugliness, where generations can live in peace and happiness, this is my goal, Li Yu, and it is also your hope for the future."

After hearing what Li Yu said, no one whispered this time, because except for the fifty or so teenagers who had followed Li Yu before, everyone was deeply shocked by what Li Yu said.

What kind of world should that be? Moreover, we should go to the holy land of martial arts in the Central Plains. I heard that there is an ideal homeland without war or killing. Unfortunately, according to the Jianghu people, not just anyone can enter there.

"Of course, what we really want to go to is not necessarily the current Yuquan Villa, but to that place where we can build a home that truly belongs to us with our own hands. You..."

Speaking of this, Li Yu pointed at the three hundred new students who were neatly lined up and said: "It's you. You will be the first generation of heroes who built this place. Everyone is the creator and pioneer of the times.

They are all heroes who will be admired by all people in the future."

Immediately, Li Yu changed his tone and said sadly: "However, I, Li Yu, also know that everyone has their own ambitions, and not everyone has the same idea as me, Li Yu, so you can stay or go as you wish. Anyone who plans to follow me today

Li Yu, please stay. We will share blessings and hardships in the future. If you don’t want to, you can leave on your own. Just pretend you didn’t hear what you said today.”

At this time, Liu Gu understood what Li Yu meant. After Li Yu finished speaking, he ordered: "Now listen to my order. Anyone who leaves on his own can stand up and go to the accountant to collect a hundred taels of silver. Shan

If we don’t turn around, we will meet again in the future.”

Seeing that no one moved, Liu Kui said: "Let's start choosing... I'll give you half a cup of tea. If you regret it now and leave on your own, the young master will not treat you badly. A hundred taels of silver will be yours."

You can hold it in your hand. Your life will be worry-free for a few years. This is also the kindness of His Highness. Do you choose?"

Then, there was a period of dead silence. Everyone was struggling in their hearts. If they left, they could continue to stay in the Imperial College with the money. If they stayed, life or death would be uncertain, and misfortune and fortune could not be known. The key is His Highness the Crown Prince.

, has given up the right of inheritance, and will not be able to become the emperor of the Great Shen Dynasty in the future. This is the key point that makes many students difficult to make a choice.

Originally, many people came here because of Li Yu's good fortune and the possibility of inheriting the throne and becoming the head of a country in the future. Unexpectedly, His Highness would make it clear today that he would give up His Highness the Crown Prince after the wedding day tomorrow.

Name and inheritance, this is inherently an adventure.

And once you make your choice, there is no turning back.

The half-cup of tea time had just passed, and sure enough, someone started to choose.

Some people chose to stay, but some people still chose to leave. After all, when many people came, they came because Li Yu might become the emperor, so they came to participate in the training, just to perform well for themselves, so that they could

Winning the appreciation of Li Yu, if the prince ascends the throne, wouldn't he be close to the sky? Such further promotion will have great benefits.

But now everything they had hoped for was about to come to nothing, so some people still chose to leave silently.

There is also the family factor, because following Li Yu is a long journey. In other words, it is actually like abandoning family and children. Anyone who is bound by family cannot follow Li Yu and fulfill his wish.

After making the selection, Liu Kui took a look at the personnel distribution in front of him. About 200 people were chosen to stay, so another 100 people were about to leave. On the other side, no one from the women's college behind Wan Ling'er left.

What they saw was Su Zhuying's attitude, and Su Zhuying seemed to have reached a consensus with the old man Su. She stood in front of the team, motionless, with no expression on her face. It could be seen that she was following the decision.

Li Yu is gone.

"Mr. Chen, would you please go to the accounting room and give each of these people who are leaving a hundred taels of silver and let them go home."

"Old slave, I obey." Chen Gonghe, who had always been extremely stingy, agreed without any objection.

"We don't want money, and the reason for leaving is not that we don't want to follow His Highness, but that we have parents at home, and the other is that we are worried that our choices will affect our family members, so..."

Some people came out and expressed their thoughts. Except for a small number of people who wanted to start an official career through Li Yu, most of the others had family reasons.

Li Yu nodded with satisfaction and said to Liu Kui: "These people who are leaving must pay the money and leave their names. I will recommend the list to Mr. Su Yue and Su Fengchang of the Imperial College.

When recommending scholars to serve as officials in the court, we will give them priority."

Li Yu's actions can be said to be the most benevolent and righteous. Those who left began to cry silently. It was obvious that they were extremely reluctant to leave Li Yu. They had been together for a period of time and made them feel happy and fulfilled. Although they practiced hard every day,

But as the Imperial Academy, they were all talented people who were well versed in poetry and calligraphy. How could they not know Li Yu's intention?

These more than a hundred people, led by Zhao Yong, immediately left the martial arts training ground and said goodbye to Zhao Yong.

There was someone in the lead who did not go to the accounting office to collect the so-called severance money. There were a few others who had that intention, but gave up because of shame.

After hearing the report from Zhao Yong, Li Yu sighed: "This is one of the reasons why I recruited students from the Imperial College, because they have all received the basic knowledge of ritual, music, and mathematics. To a large extent, they are

To be superior to ordinary people, not only the imperial court needs such people, but we also need them."

After sighing, Li Yu stood on the platform again, happily smiled at the two hundred people who stayed and said: "Since you have stayed, I, Li Yu, don't have anything to say, so today you are just me."

After saying that, Li Yu bowed his hands to each other.

"It is our honor to follow His Highness to the death. In this world, it is difficult to find a close friend. It is our great honor to be able to follow Your Highness." Liang Qiubai, one of the four most marginalized people in the Imperial College, said with emotion.

"Brother, your highness, what are you going to do? Do you want us to go with you to Yuquan Villa?" Su Zhuying raised her head and asked.

Li Yu had a solemn look on his face and said dangerously: "It sounds good to follow me, Li Yu, to a strange place, but it sounds bad to say that I want to complete an extremely dangerous escape. During this period, we will meet

Do you still dare to follow me when my father's soldiers are intercepting me?"

"What are you afraid of? Zhu'er has long been tired of the boring life in the Imperial College, and she just wants to follow His Highness's brother to create a new world." Su Zhuying spoke with high spirits and the demeanor of a heroine.

"Okay, I, Li Yu, can't say much about other promises. After today, I, Li Yu, will change my name to Li Shangshi. This will be my name when I arrive at Yuquan Villa. In addition, our team also needs to correct its name."

After Li Yu finished speaking, the audience suddenly became bustling, and some began to say something excitedly.

"From today on, you will officially join our ancient martial arts task force. We have a captain, Liu Kui. All team members, except for daily training arrangements, must obey Liu Kui's orders during battles."

"Thank you, Young Master." Liu Kou also knelt down and accepted the order, thinking that his transformation from a wandering beggar with both parents to the present was all due to Li Yu's careful teachings. He had no other intention but to serve Young Master Li Yu with his life.

Liu Kui stood up, and Li Yu continued to order: "In addition to the captain, we have five other squad leaders, namely Su Zhuying, who will serve as the leader of the women's squad."

Before Li Yu finished speaking, the women's college over there jumped with cheers. It seemed that Li Yu's arrangement was well received by the students.

Pearl's face turned red, and she waved her hands excitedly and said, "Brother, Your Highness..."

Li Yu frowned and said, "Why do you still call your highness brother?"

"Oh!" Su Zhuying stuck out her tongue and quickly changed her words: "Young master, young master brother." After shouting this, Su Zhuying felt that it was a bit convoluted no matter how she shouted.

"Brother, Young Master, Zhu'er knows that she is not able to hold this position yet. There is sister Ling'er above her, and sister Liu Zhen below who has not returned from an outing. When it comes to martial arts and wit, Zhu'er is more than a little short of a star, so you still go around it.

Let me, I’ll just cooperate with Sister Ling’er.”

Wan Ling'er's cold face didn't change at all. She didn't care about anything about her arrangements. As long as the young master Li Yu needed it, she had no objection to what she asked her to do.

She knew that every arrangement made by Li Yu had his intentions, so she just accepted it calmly. She only had one thought now, that is, she hoped that Li Yu could safely escape from the pursuit of Emperor Li Zhi this time and go to Yuquan Villa.

Just fine.

"Zhu'er, do your best. After all, you were once the leader of the Imperial College. No matter how hard you play, you are scared. Your young master brother believes in you and will definitely make the team you lead gradually become stronger."

Li Yu's provocative method immediately gave Zhu'er a boost of confidence. She also imitated Liu Kui and bowed down and said, "Since it is the young master who thinks highly of Zhu'er, I will definitely not disappoint your expectations."

Later, Li Yu said: "The captain of the second team is Fan Hu, the original leader of the second team. Zhao Yong of the third team."

Zhao Yong, who had just recovered from his injury, had an indifferent look on his face. After he was injured, the young master did not hesitate to use the Holy Fruit of the Western Regions. With that thing, he was able to stop the wounds in his six internal organs, and he also had a faint tendency to improve.

So when Li Yu called Zhao Yong, he didn't have much fluctuation. Zhao Yong felt that he could not repay this life-saving kindness. He could only protect the safety of the young master in the future, even if he was broken into pieces.

After Li Yu glanced at Zhao Yong, he obviously knew what he was thinking.

"Four teams are talented people, and five teams are two fools." After Li Yu finished making arrangements, he pointed at the more than 200 people in the venue:

"You all have the opportunity to be the captain. Have you seen the ranking of heroes behind me? They earned the position of captain entirely on their own. Of course, if they didn't have certain talents, I guess even this young master would give it to me. Even though he holds the position of captain, he still can’t lead everyone to make less sacrifices and save more lives, so he might as well be inappropriate.”

"Now you can form your own groups into groups of ten. The group leaders will be selected by you. Each group of five people will be merged into the group except Zhu'er. From now on, your monthly salary will be a hundred taels. Cash in cash. Military merit will be calculated separately..."

After Li Yu said this, there was another burst of exclamations.

Then Fan San said: "Your Highness, you are still short of manpower. If it is suitable, how about letting Fan San be your vanguard? One hundred taels of snowflake silver a month, that is something that we, the general public, may not earn in ten years." Your salary is too generous, isn’t it?”

Li Yu knew that Fan San was joking, so he laughed back and said: "Senior Fan, you are laughing. If the generals release you and no longer let you command the Tiger and Wolf Camp, I will be waiting for you at any time. When you come, I will give you a thousand Two stipends of silver, what do you think?"

Fan San was the king of soldiers in the Da Shen Dynasty. He was worthy of his reputation, but Li Yu still paid too high a salary. In this era, ordinary soldiers who enlisted in the army, even if they had military merit, would be beaten to death. received such a generous reward.

"I don't care. Anyway, I want to join your team. I'm here to make money. I'm just robbing money..."

Fan San's playful words immediately caused everyone in the venue to burst into laughter.

Some other scholars who were undecided but still stayed felt lucky that they had chosen the right path. Not to mention anything else, with this generous salary, their parents would have no worries about food and clothing, and the elderly at home could live a prosperous life. , this can be regarded as their filial piety.

Some had their clothes wet with tears, feeling the unusualness of Prince Li Yu.

"Don't worry, we all have money to spend. In order to show my sincerity to you all, I, Li Yu, will give all the remaining students one thousand taels of silver notes each to solve your worries." After Li Yu finished speaking, he was startled again. A cry.

Seeing the generals and little monsters of these new students, one of the original old team members sneered and said: "What's the point? When we first joined this task force, the young master gave us ten thousand taels each!"

When this person opened his mouth, the new students in the room immediately roared and shouted. The excitement was beyond words.

After following the prince, overnight, one became rich or poor, from rich to wealthy. What is this? Some began to envy the students who left and received one hundred taels of silver. They did not expect that if they stayed, they would become wealthy.
To be continued...