Bruno's main purpose in building the Idar Avenue was to make the city of Idar the only way for merchants traveling between the Norman Empire and the Kingdom of Basel.
However, although the cement road is easy to walk on, there will definitely be businessmen with no brains who will take the old mud path in order to save time.
This is not a good sign!
Therefore, this momentum must be curbed as soon as possible!
If the merchants don't come to Idar City to settle down, where should Bruno go to search for oil and water to recoup the cost of building roads?
Therefore, for today's Idar Territory, building a standardized and high-quality bandit team has become an urgent matter.
Only by building the bandit team of Idar into a first-class and domestically renowned bandit group can the merchants traveling between the two countries settle down in Idar City.
After all, Bruno felt that he was an upright and kind-hearted person, exuding beautiful qualities all over his body.
Therefore, as long as the merchants spend a lot of money in Idar City, it is considered that they have paid a protection fee for themselves, and Bruno will do his best to protect them from being attacked by bandits.
What a perfect solution!
But if there are still merchants who refuse to listen to dissuasion and insist on taking a shortcut with a sense of luck, it will be a shame. Idar's bandits will definitely steal all the goods of these merchants and then send them to the shops in the southern city of Idar for sale.
Even Bruno had already thought of the name of the store, it was called "Zhuanzhuan Second-hand Trading Center".
When Sam Layton heard about his Earl's plan to make a fortune, he was immediately shocked.
My master is really a talented seed player!
"I just don't know how to organize the bandits that the master needs..."
"For the time being, the manpower will be drawn from the standing army, and we will first organize it according to the scale of fifty people. However... this time we must draw the elite from the standing army, and we must pay special attention to the soldiers' ideological and political performance!"
Ideological and political courses, that is, ideological and political courses, have now become a required course for every Idar soldier, and Bruno places it as equally important as daily training.
Especially after the first batch of manufactured paper was officially produced, a large part of the paper was allocated to the standing army.
Therefore, today's Idar Standing Army usually conducts daily training in the morning and afternoon, and after dinner, they gather around the campfire to listen to the instructors of the Standing Army giving lectures on ideological and political courses.
The time before eating every morning is used by the soldiers to learn cultural lessons, that is, the simplest reading and writing.
Bruno did not expect these soldiers to be able to tell the truth, because they were just soldiers, and their most important task was to protect the Idar Territory.
But Bruno never wanted these standing army soldiers, on whom he had high hopes, to turn out to be a group of illiterate people.
At least, you still need to be able to understand the simplest written documents such as orders, specifications and notices!
The purpose of ideological and political courses is to let soldiers in the standing army understand why they are fighting and what they can gain through war.
In the past, Idar's soldiers really only wanted the high military salary of three gold coins per year, but now, under the premise of full military salary and the influence of ideological and political courses, they seem to have
Other things to pursue.
They seemed to understand that besides military pay, there were more important things worth waiting for.
For example...the family, friends, and comrades around them behind them.
Unlike other people in the Idar Territory, these soldiers of the standing army are able to experience all aspects of the changes that have taken place in the Idar Territory at the first time.
The increase in military pay and the improvement of living conditions, whether in terms of food or living environment, are something they can personally feel.
In addition, in ideological and political courses, teachers often explain the purpose of various construction projects in Idar. Therefore, they admire Count Idar even more.
I'm afraid...only under the rule of Bruno Stuart, Earl of Idar, can I live such a good life...
It is precisely because of this that the soldiers' sense of belonging to the Idar Territory has been qualitatively improved...
The reason why Bruno attaches great importance to the ideological and political performance of these "robbers" is because they cannot always be robbers.
As long as the name of the Idar bandits is known and the merchants along the way are made aware of the risks of taking remote roads, most of them can be transferred to other positions.
The experience of being a bandit will undoubtedly greatly improve the comprehensive quality of this group of Idar people in all aspects.
"Ideological and political course scores?" Sam Layton looked puzzled.
"You will inform us that tomorrow afternoon we will arrange an ideological and political examination for the soldiers of the Standing Army. All soldiers who rank in the top 100 in the ideological and political examination can voluntarily sign up and be admitted on a merit-based basis."
"But sir, if you recruit soldiers in the name of recruiting bandits...?"
"Are you a fool?" Bruno pretended to be angry: "Who would make a big noise in the world before becoming a robber and doing bad things? Do you think you are Kaitou Kidd?"
"Phantom Thief...Kid?" Sam Layton looked at his Earl with doubtful eyes.
There are some strange words popping out of my mouth lately...
"That's not the point! Anyway... can't you change your statement a little bit? For example, you want to select people to carry out secret missions or something like that..."
"I understand, villain..." Sam replied quickly.
Sam was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Bruno again.
"Wait a minute... Then when the soldiers are selected and learn that they are going to become bandits, how will you explain to them?"
"Ah this..."
Bruno said with a bit of hatred: "So, after completing the recruitment, you must explain clearly to the soldiers that although they have temporarily become bandits in name, this is just a way for them to protect the Idar territory.
Method. Because what they plundered were all black-hearted businessmen from the Kingdom of Basel, with selfish blood flowing in their bones. These businessmen were unwilling to enter the city of Idar, let alone contribute to the development of the Idar territory.
, This is extremely shameful! And the goods looted by the soldiers will become the property of Idar Territory and used to improve the living standards of Idar residents..."
"At the same time, in addition to the most basic military pay, these soldiers who act as bandits can also receive performance commissions based on the amount of property they rob, and receive more monetary rewards."
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