The rooster crows and day comes.

Puluo is relatively close to Twilight City, and Lugo is a mercenary. He works vigorously and efficiently. He went out to do something yesterday and came back today.

Lugo knocked on the door and entered Chino's office and said: "It's done, Pesci and the 18 people accompanying him, all..."

He made a motion of cutting his throat.

Kino put down the document in his hand: "How many people are going with you?"

"I brought with me all the mercenaries who survived the battle in Xilin Town. I took all 12 of them with me. They are all veterans and no one was damaged."

"Can you guarantee that they can all trust it?"

Lugo sneered and said playfully: "Don't worry about what I do. It doesn't matter even if someone snitches, even the gods can't find the bodies of those people, because there are no corpses at all."

Kino then recalled that the dog trainer reported to him yesterday that Lugo had taken away all the nearly 100 hounds in the city.

Kino nodded, took out a bag containing 200 silver moons and put it on the table: "As your reward, you take 20, and the rest will be divided equally among the others."

"Hey, thanks." Lugo accepted the money.

At this time, Baisa knocked on the door and came in.

"Sir, Paladin has taken a leave of absence." He reported.

Chino frowned: "Injured? What's wrong with him?"

"He..." Baisa touched the bridge of his nose awkwardly, "He drank too much yesterday and was robbed by two thieves on the road. He was stabbed in the back."

Kino was a little confused. Although Paladin was not an extraordinary person, his martial arts skills were obvious to all.

Not to mention anything else, during the attack and defense of Xilin Town, he was ordered to release the plague beasts. He was able to escape from the lower plague area unscathed. How could he capsize in the sewer yesterday?

Kino asked: "Who is the prisoner? Where is he?"

Baisa answered truthfully: "The identity of the two children has been checked by the Public Security Bureau. They are both habitual pickpocket offenders. They were hacked by Paladin yesterday."

Lugo laughed out loud after hearing this: "This idiot was stabbed by two children? I hope his kidneys were not injured. If he was crippled because of this, he would be the most useless centurion in Doguland.

"

Saving a child on the street, the Trojan family questioned the crime, refused to accept it, was stabbed by a child, a habitual offender, and killed on the spot... The flow of information gathered in Kino's mind.

After a brief silence, Kino smiled slightly and said playfully: "If you ask me, he is smarter than both of you."

Both Lugo and Baisa were confused and didn't understand what it meant.

Kino acquiesced to Paladin's injury leave and stopped discussing the topic. He stood up and said, "Baisa, you have a mission, to recruit soldiers. Last night, the superior consul conveyed instructions to me. In the battle of Shirin Town, the horse bandits suffered heavy losses.

The desert forces may launch retaliatory actions, and the city defense strength of Dusk City will be expanded from 5,000 to 7,000."

Baisa asked: "How to choose the source of troops?"

Kino handed over a thick roster: "You can choose from the militia reserve. After the expansion is completed, you and Paladin will be promoted to captains. The rank of captain can be directly appointed. List the list for the position of centurion and I will make the decision.

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After receiving a promotion in the military, Baisa was naturally very excited and punched his chest hard: "Yes!"

After Baiza left, watching Chino continue to organize documents, Lugo asked tentatively: "What about me?"

Kino shook his head: "You have no other tasks, just take care of those mercenaries."

Lugo hurriedly said: "If you need it, I can also help you recruit soldiers! I am very familiar with the underground forces in Twilight City, those who kill, steal, rob, destroy public property, and urinate everywhere... I can

I'll help you gather hundreds of them! They will be happy to work for you!"

"I'm not setting up a den of thieves, so why do I need so many criminals?" Kino said helplessly, "Besides, theoretically, my current 'private soldiers' are already overstretched and cannot be added."

Kino was talking about the "Doguland Nobles Recruitment Order".

The ruling class of Doguland is composed of nobles, especially the five royal families, and only these nobles can have private soldiers.

In order to prevent the private armies of major families from becoming too large and threatening the royal power, the "Dogulland Nobles Recruitment Order" set a quantitative limit of "ten", that is, the private armies of nobles must not be greater than ten times the number of registered members of the family.

For example, if a noble family has 50 registered members, the number of its private soldiers cannot exceed 500.

In the face of this law, the situations of different families are also very different.

Since ancient times, the Trojan family has advocated force and valued reproduction, so they have been marrying foreigners, intermarrying, having children, and absorbing foreigners to change their surnames and become naturalized. The number of registered members is very large, and the upper limit of private soldiers is also very high.

According to incomplete statistics, the Troy family has more than 1,000 registered members and more than 10,000 private soldiers. The family's strength is extremely terrifying, and most of them are infected people who have received advanced blood therapy all year round and can freely transform into beasts.

Of course, this kind of expansion also has disadvantages. It is easy for family members to get mixed up, and the intricate relationships create internal chaos, and the management cost is extremely high.

Some families value bloodlines and never carry out such expansion. The most typical one is the "Regnome Family" with the dragon as its banner. The family only has more than 80 registered members and more than 600 private soldiers.

Because it is extremely difficult to become a dragon knight, the Regnom family only has 24 dragon knights, which are collectively known as the "Twenty-Four Dragon Knights of Cold Lie Valley" by the world today. The rest are extraordinary beings who are not dragon knights.

The "Helsing family" of Kino is pitiful to say the least. Their family is in decline, both parents are dead, and he is the only one with the surname Hirsing.

In other words, theoretically, he was only allowed to have 10 private soldiers, and the 13 mercenaries including Lugo were already over-staffed.

As for Paladin, Baixa and others, they used to belong to the Shirin Town Border Guards, but now they belong to the Twilight City City Defense Forces. They are actually the "public army" of the Kingdom of Doguland. They are not Kino's private soldiers. They are just because they usually get close to each other.

, he looks like a retainer.

Of course, rules are dead and people are alive. No one will talk too much just because the administrator hired three more people. Just don't bite the bullet and expand further.

Seeing Lugo complaining again and again, Kino handed over the pen and paper: "If you really want to recruit some good people, you can do this. You can write an application to join the Hircine family and become my retainer. You can even ask for a

Wife, ask her to change her surname to you and have a few more children, so that the number of people available for recruitment will increase."

"Hiss...means I have a last name now? Lugo Hircine...Hahaha! That sounds great!" Lugo just took the pen and paper, smiled awkwardly and said, "Sir,

Can you send me a book boy? I can't read."

"..." Kino sighed softly, "Okay, now you have a task, reading and literacy. I don't allow illiterate people among my subordinates."

Lugo's eyes widened in horror: "Reading and literacy? I get sleepy when I see books. You might as well kill me!"

Chino continued to organize the files and said calmly: "Yes, killing you is also an option."

Seeing Kino's expressionless face, Lugo knew that this was not a joke, and quickly said with a smile: "Okay, okay, read, can't I read..."

"I'll give you 6 months. After 6 months, you must be able to read a literary masterpiece without any problems." Kino's slender fingers ran across the bookshelf, and finally landed on a red book. He took it out and handed it over.

"I have finished reading "She is a Dragon". It is very well written, the words are concise and the vocabulary is not complicated. It is suitable for beginners."

Lugo took the book humbly, smiling worse than crying.
Chapter completed!