Chapter 269: Borrowing troops (Part 1)
The next morning
Romon stepped out the door and took a deep breath of fresh air.
The fields outside are deserted, but they have lost their human cultivation. Even in September, there is no life. If you see them, you have seen the grass growing in the fields and some wild flowers blooming in autumn, giving people a sense of nature.
Lomon is waiting, Lulun is having a meal
The Lulun scholar came last night, and was enjoying the last bit of horse meat and bread.
Although these are not abundance, it is already good to have these in Ricca Town, which has just passed the catastrophe.
The scholar Lulun also understood this. After enjoying the breakfast, he went out. Sure enough, he saw Romon just outside Rika Town.
"Lord Lord!"
"Have you come back from the city? What's going on?" Romon asked.
The scholar Lulun thought a little bit about it and remembered this situation
In the square, the knight with a steadily dragon bloodline was steadily wearing a plate armor, a full helmet, a five-meter-long spear, a shield, and a long sword on his waist.
The Knights of the Holy Sword, the Knights of the Fearless Knights, the Knights of the Rock, the Knights of the Edel... The knights and attendants of the Thirteen Knights slowly passed through the streets and gathered in the square.
"Sir, Viscount Iger Edel of the City of Aps, as for mobilizing his own Knights, there were eleven religious Knights and a knights composed of nobles." Lu Lun thought of this and slowly said: "The Viscount has issued a nobility summoning order as the highest lord of this place."
Seeing Romon's eyebrows jump, the Lulun scholar smiled and said, "...Baron or above!"
As he said that, he introduced the specific situation one by one.
"Is the situation developing so fast?" Romon rubbed his eyebrows and breathed a sigh of relief.
Romon thought for a moment, but did not continue to talk about the topic. He pointed to a team not far away: "This is a small team of infantry that I have recently transferred, look at it."
The Lulun scholar watched, first of all, the soldiers.
The soldier was wearing a standard dress, with leather armor, and his weapon was a long sword hanging around his waist.
There was a team leader of the ten soldiers. The team leader was wearing a chain mail, tall and holding a long sword, which was daunting.
After reading it, scholar Lulun said, "Sir, do you want to turn this into a standard military system?"
"Yes, this is the infantry squadron, the spear squadron, and the crossbow squadron!" Romon said: "Look at that small team leader, he is just looking for it. The captain who was originally in the army can train standard infantry."
"Is this a little too high?" Lulun scholar asked with a frown. Everyone in the soldiers had leather armor, which was no less than the treatment of the Kingdom's standard army, let alone chain mail.
"In the future, soldiers will have twenty acres of soldiers, and the number will increase after accumulating merit. Therefore, soldiers must bring their own standard weapons and serve all year round, but there will be salary subsidies during the service period."
"I am not going to directly impart the feudal system. I will select outstanding people from the soldiers to serve as the team leader and give them three times the salary." Romon said. After a period of thinking, Romon understood the advantages and disadvantages of the feudal system and the Chinese centralized system.
The biggest problem with China's centralized system is that military preparations rely too much on civil servants, so over time, it will inevitably lead to slack.
Therefore, for soldiers, giving small fiefs and bringing their own weapons is the king, which is to avoid the slack of military preparations caused by deducting wages and food in the future.
However, the most important thing about the entourage system is that the lord lacks the necessary control and that he was originally an armed entourage, but gradually became a squire. This shortcoming has been exposed.
Therefore, the few entourage class, on the one hand, is a hereditary entourage who has accumulated merits of more than 50 acres, and on the other hand, selects soldiers with strong martial arts and level 4 from the soldiers, which can take care of loyalty and tradition at the same time, and promotes trustworthy and powerful warriors.
The scholar Lulun nodded, understood the meaning, and said, "Sir, if you do this, you will have a lot of weapons and equipment for the first time!"
Romon took a deep breath and said, "It doesn't matter, let's go back and I'll show you something."
As Romon now lives in Ricca town, of course it is the Lord's Villa, which was originally the Baron's residence.
After passing through, you will come to the small living room.
It's September now, and under the fireplace not far away, although there is a pile of chopped wood, it has not been lit. It is estimated that it will be lit in October.
This villa is no different from most ordinary villas. There are several sofas around the fireplace, covered with thick cashmere, and a table with a few tables and candlesticks on the table.
"Sit down, look at these!" Rearing on the sofa, Romon closed his eyes gently.
When Lu Lun sat down, he saw something on the table. First, there was a box full of yellow and bright gold coins. When Lu Lun looked at it, he estimated that there were about five thousand gold coins here.
The second box contains a batch of jewelry. After selecting these jewelry, they are all high-quality products. Lulun scholar took out one, checked it, and nodded.
Finally, there are brick-like things, and people who don’t know their value will indeed be disappointed by it.
But Lu Lun's eyes lit up.
First, I looked at the appearance and saw that the appearance was flat, with clear edges of the corners, uniform thickness and size, and the bricks were oily and black...
The scholar Lulun nodded. At this time, the fragrance was rising outside and a servant came in with a tea set.
The Lulun scholar took a look and said nothing. He cut a small piece on the tea brick with a knife, grind it, and then mixed it with boiled milk to soak it. Finally, add honey and dot a drop of mint.
After finishing, the milk tea was first red in color and fragrant. Lu Lun took a sip and felt the taste was rich.
"A good tea brick, even if it is not the best, can be rated as a top-notch!" The scholar Lulun breathed out and said, looking at the large tea bricks that were not moved on the table with a fiery look.
As the times develop, a large number of scholars, nobles, and wizards all like tea.
Not to mention the elegance, priests and mages, especially mages, cannot drink alcohol at will, because alcohol will affect the spirit, and the spirit directly affects the success and failure of spells. Even coffee is relatively more stimulating, and only mild refreshing tea is particularly popular.
Of course, there is no market for Chinese light tea, only tea bricks with strong aroma and rich flavor are popular.
Generally speaking, these large pieces of tea bricks are cut into small pieces and sold to priests and mages. The price is extremely expensive. Lu Lun did not expect that Romon had such many tea bricks, and at first glance, they actually had thirty pieces!
"Sir, what are your instructions?" Of course, I didn't take it out and see it. The scholar Lulun admired Romon very much.
Although gold coins depreciated a bit during wartime, they were still the most important currency and were the favorite of all middle- and lower-class people.
Although jewelry depreciated a little during the war, the finest products could still satisfy some nobles who love jewelry, especially their wives.
As for these top-quality tea bricks with rich aromas and rich flavors, they also connect the hard currency of priests and mages, as well as those with elegant tastes.
These tea bricks were originally produced in a small amount, but now they are in wartime, I am afraid they will be out of stock!
If you are prepared, you are doing things.
"Knight Sangerber told me that my current merits have reached the minimum standard for the canonization of the baron." Romon said, and as soon as this sentence was spoken, Lulun immediately understood the meaning.
If you meet the standards of merit, you have to do things. These wealth is for the sake of management.
"Sir, is it a little earlier now?" Lu Lun thought for a while and said.
Romon understood what he meant, and now he summoned the baron in the city to fight the devil's main force, which was not a good job.
"It's getting late, Mr. Lulun, you should understand that war and peace are completely different." Romon said: "If peace comes, then..."
Lu Lun understood this one.
The baron has hundreds of square kilometers in control, which means that the interests are too great. If it is in a peaceful era, no matter how hard it is, it will be difficult to achieve.
A miracle that scholars Lulun knew was the Xialeilu family.
The Xialeilu family made military achievements in a small-scale war and was promoted to lords. They were able to be hereditary. They served in the army for three generations in the future, but they were never promoted.
The fourth generation of Lord, who was combined with a viscount's daughter, became the de facto vassal of a viscount family and received help.
But it was also in the fifth generation that he obtained enough territory through an event and became a baron.
It took five generations to climb the baron, but it was still despised by the aristocratic class and regarded as an outbreaker.
Only when the old structure is broken, at least temporarily, and the gods directly intervene in the rewards and punishments of merits, can Romon reach the sky in one step.
If it is not sealed now, after the war, hehe, it is extremely fair to be able to barely win the title of baron and gain some poor countryside.
If you are not lucky, you block the road to a certain family and suddenly die suddenly or die in battle.
After all, once the peace era comes, connections and relationships become mainstream.
"Sir, I understand. I will quickly prepare for you and get the baron." Lu Lun said immediately.
"Well, and it doesn't matter. I see this situation. Eight out of ten, Aps City is going to fight against the higher demons." Romon said judgingly: "And the war will break out very quickly!"
"Sir, what judgment do you rely on?"
"It's very simple, it's just movement. The higher demon is a nobleman of the abyss. I don't believe it has no brains - the key is that the movement in Apps City is too big." Romon sighed and said.
Chapter completed!