Li Xiuyuan held the man's head in his hand. The broken neck was still dripping with blood. As the headless body fell to the ground, blood flowed all over the ground. Everyone who saw it was horrified.
The noble son of Mr. Li, the young master of Shunfeng Escort Agency, actually has such terrifying martial arts skills.
From the fight to the removal of the head, it only took a few breaths.
A burly and strong man tried to compete with his young master, but he couldn't make a single move.
A layman can watch the fun, and an expert can watch the door. The people here are all the bodyguards of the bodyguard bureau. Everyone has martial arts skills. Even if they have not joined the bodyguard bureau, they will learn some fists and weapons from the head of the bodyguard.
If you understand martial arts, you will naturally understand how powerful Li Xiuyuan is in taking off people's heads with this move.
"My son is so brave." Li Dafu was worried that his precious son would be injured before.
If he had not known that his son had been studying martial arts for more than ten years and had some confidence in his heart, how could he have allowed these rough men to compete with his son?
Seeing this scene, he was shocked but also a little happy. As for the man, he was dead. If he didn't die, would his son die?
There were so many bodyguards in the Li family, and someone would die almost every day. He didn't care about the life or death of a few bodyguards.
"This person is not good at academics and tried to challenge me. Now that I have taken off his head, I wonder who without eyes dares to stand up? He wants to make money but doesn't want to serve. This is what he ends up with."
Li Xiuyuan threw the head in his hand, dropped it in front of these thousands of people, and then shouted in a deep voice.
The entire audience, including several thousand people, was silent at this moment, not daring to say a word.
"You, weren't you eager to try before? Why, do you dare to stand up and earn these one thousand taels of silver?" Li Xiuyuan suddenly pointed at a man and said.
The man avoided his eyes and lowered his head, not daring to face her.
He is not stupid. With the young master's martial arts skills, if he dares to go out, he will probably have his head taken off.
Li Xiuyuan pointed at another person and said: "What about you? Aren't you following the booing? Don't you want to join the army? Now I give you two choices, either get out of my Li family's escort agency and hide under a woman's skirt to survive, or pick up a knife and follow me.
Li Xiuyuan is fighting for wealth. Of course, if you want money but don’t want to serve me, then stand up and compete with me. If you win, you will receive money, if you lose, your head will fall to the ground."
The man who was pointed at suppressed his blush, but he didn't know how to deal with such a situation. In the end, he had to kneel down and said, "Young man is willing to join the army and serve the young master's family."
"Very good. He is a man, and he dares to kill thieves with a knife." Li Xiuyuan nodded in appreciation.
"Isn't it just to join the army? The young master's family treats me well, and I am willing to follow the young master's family." A man shouted loudly and immediately knelt down.
"I'm willing too. Being a escort is risking your life, and joining the army is risking your life. It's better to be a wife." Someone else knelt down.
"I am also willing to join the army." One after another, people knelt down.
In just a few moments, one or two thousand people knelt down to show their loyalty. Once the number of people increased, many unsteady people knelt down. In one moment, a large area of thousands of good people in the audience knelt down.
Li Xiuyuan shouted: "Very good, you are willing to work hard for my Li family, and my Li family will not treat you badly. You will be my Li family's army, and you will be paid 2 taels a month during non-war periods, and 5 taels a month during wartime, and you will be rewarded for killing the enemy."
, if unfortunately he dies on the battlefield, my Li family will pay for the burial, twenty taels of support, and monthly food support. In addition, all the seized money will be my own."
The Li family is rich, and these people are also men who know martial arts, have been escorts, and have seen blood. If you want to recruit them to join the army, just intimidating the threats will not work, you also need to reward them heavily.
Only those who are seriously injured can be brave.
The monthly salary is so high, the pension after death in battle is so high, even if it is seized, it belongs to you, how can these poor men not be moved?
"You only get two taels of silver per month to join the army? Even the imperial army only gets five or six taels of silver a year, and you may not be able to pay it back."
"If there is a war, one month is worth the imperial court's salary for a year. This young master's family is very generous. We are escorts. We only have money when we are escorts. When we are not escorts, we can only take care of food, but we don't care about food.
Grandma, you can make more money by joining the army than by acting as a escort."
"Even if you die in battle, you can get twenty taels of compensation. This, this is too much."
Everyone has an account in their mind, and when they hear the price, they immediately become excited.
"My son's mouth is too loose. He just mentioned his monthly salary and said it was so high. How can this be done?" Li Dafu stomped his feet in heartache.
It's just a matter of paying out the monthly salary from the imperial court. Why should I be so generous and raise the monthly salary to such a high price all of a sudden? What kind of pension is there? The high price of twenty taels was actually quoted.
Well, if ten thousand people were killed or injured in a battle, wouldn't it mean that two hundred thousand taels of silver would be thrown away?
Even if the Li family is rich, they can't afford such trouble.
Li Xiuyuan felt that the price he quoted was not too high and could only be regarded as a more conscientious one.
Because the monthly salary of soldiers in the Song Dynasty was too low, and military pay was often withheld, many soldiers were so poor that they sold weapons, guarded homes, worked as thugs, and made money from side jobs. If they were officers and the like, even more
They are taking empty pay, selling military supplies, and so on.
And this didn't surprise Li Xiuyuan. What surprised him was that if the soldiers of the imperial court could get their real pay and their monthly money paid in full, they would be so happy that they couldn't sleep.
Can you be so happy that you can’t sleep with this little money?
It's too despicable to work for the court. You have to know that soldiers go to protect their homes and countries with their heads high. You can't expect all soldiers to have a heart of loyalty and patriotism. Even if they are loyal to the emperor and patriotic, they still have to eat and support their families, right?
If Li Xiuyuan wants to change this situation and increase his salary, military pay is the simplest and most effective way.
As long as word spreads about the treatment he received from the Li Jiajun, all the men in the world who dare to work hard will not be able to get here? In the future, even if others want to recruit troops, they will have to raise their monthly salary, otherwise no one will care about you.
In this way, the soldiers of the world will have some good days.
Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the men who were still hesitating all knelt down, and almost all of the more than 7,000 people knelt down to show their loyalty.
"The Young Master's family is so benevolent and righteous, and I am not a mother-in-law. From now on, my life belongs to the Young Master's family."
"The Li family treats me so well, how dare I not do my best?"
These people were all excited and wanted to eat this bowl of rice right away. As for joining the army or not, they didn't care. With this monthly money, there was nothing to complain about.
"Very good, you will kneel down and kowtow, and then you will work hard for me, Li Xiuyuan. From now on, you will no longer be bodyguards, farmers, thieves, robbers, and scoundrels. You will all be members of my Li family army. Don't think that I
I was just talking big words before, but I, Li Xiuyuan, do what I say. This man just lost the competition with me and died in my hands. I think he died in battle. Han Meng, find someone to buy a coffin, place his body, and send it to
I will go to his hometown and send him twenty taels of pension as well."
Li Xiuyuan pointed at the corpse on the ground and shouted.
Although this show-off method was very common in the previous life, here, it is the best way to contain people's hearts.
Sure enough, many people showed excitement and some envy in their eyes, and they seemed to be more determined to become Li Jiajun.
In fact, these people don't have much choice.
Now that the imperial court is in turmoil and natural disasters continue, it is difficult for ordinary people to have enough to eat. The Li family's escort agency feeds them and gives them a pretty good way out. Where can they go without the escort agency?
If there was a way out, these men would not join an escort agency and become escorts.
Therefore, it is the easiest thing to organize these people into an army.
Li Xiuyuan thought of this in his early arrangements. Otherwise, why would he open an escort agency? It would be better to open a farm, which can support more people.
After giving some more training, he asked these men to go back and rest first. If they wanted to leave now, just leave, and the Li family would not stop them.
He didn't want to keep some people with wavering minds. Those who didn't want to work hard would only cause chaos in the army, so it was better to let them go.
After riding back, Li Xiuyuan said: "Steward, please send dozens of accountants to register these people tomorrow. In addition, go to the warehouse to withdraw 20,000 taels of silver. First, give these people a month's monthly payment, and leave the rest. The money you bet will be left here as a reward. Later I will select leaders such as battalion commanders and commanders, and I will need the reward money."
"Yes, young master." Butler Li responded, but then looked at Li Dafu.
Li Dafu waved his fat hand and said: "My son's words are my words, just do them."
Butler Li responded and left quickly.
"My son, we haven't even started a war yet. If we throw away so much money, if a war breaks out, the Li family may not be able to sustain it even with this small amount of money."
Li Dafu said with some distress: "It's all the savings of several generations. If it's all spent, how can I explain it to my ancestors?"
"Father, the Li family's family property is here. They make a lot of money every year. They are already rich, many times better than their ancestors. I believe they are worthy of their ancestors. They don't waste the family property." It is ruined, but the remaining money is nothing more than stones piled up in the warehouse, and it is easy to attract people's attention. Now there are thieves everywhere. What if the Li family does not have the military force in their hands? Has his father forgotten County Magistrate Liu? Something about it?" Li Xiuyuan said.
Magistrate Liu?
Hearing this, Li Dafu's mouth twitched: "My son is right, it's not enough to be rich, you have to be strong. Otherwise, if we encounter another corrupt official, our family's money will not be ruined by those corrupt officials." , since my son has made up his mind to recruit local warriors to protect our family and country, how can my father stop me? Just go ahead and do it."
"With father's words, the child will have confidence." Li Xiuyuan said.
"My father depends on you for this matter, but there is one thing for which you must rely on your father."
Li Dafu said, "If you don't comply with this matter, my father will never let you lead troops to fight."
"Please let me know, father," Li Xiuyuan said.
Li Dafu said: "You must let someone around you get pregnant before you leave Guobei County."
Li Xiuyuan understood as soon as he heard it. His father was worried that he would never come back, so he saved the seeds in advance.
This was a common thing in ancient times.
Even when some death row prisoners are about to be beheaded, their families will bring girls to let the death row prisoners have a chance to have a good time and save seeds for the family so that they will not be extinct. Whether they can conceive depends on God's will.
"Here, please do your best on this matter." Li Xiuyuan said bravely. This matter is not something he can decide. 8)