Law of the Devil Chapter 200: [“Conventional”]

Chapter 200 ["Conventional"]

Although everyone knows, when the Duke is hiding in the Governor's Mansion, he is better off not disturbing the Lord. Because everyone knows that the Duke is a magician! When a magician is obsessed with magic research, it is best not to disturb him.

Not to mention, even the Martian steward closest to Dewey also faintly feels that the young master seems to be getting worse recently.

Indeed, Dewey is irritable!

The construction of the new city is very smooth, and he does not need to worry about the specific administrative work. But he still feels bad every day.

Because he has been waiting for someone!

The green robe Gandorf, the old guy, said that he would find himself after three months! But it has been more than six months now, but he has not heard anything!

Seeing that autumn is over, it ’s almost winter ... Is that old green hat guy playing with himself? !!

Du Wei feels that his strength has reached a bottleneck. At his current level of magic, he has reached level six. And the magical control ability has absorbed so many research results of the magician's life in the Academy of Magic, plus the efforts of more than half a year, his strength is quite good. Mastered a lot of spells.

If Du Wei is now re-assessed, Du Wei is confident that he can obtain a badge of the magician of the sixth level.

Now, if you fight each other purely by magic, Gegewu is no longer Du Wei's opponent.

However, Dewey found that this was all he could do. After all, the research results of magicians collected in those magic societies are limited. Dewey needed a mentor, a mentor who could keep him on the magic path. At least an old magician with a complete study of magic theory.

Geg Witch should be able to play this role temporarily, but this mouse ... he is good at metamorphosis. Deformation was not needed by Dewey. And Vivienne ... Poor little Vivienne, although she has eight levels of strength. But ... she would stutter even when she was talking, not a qualified teacher.

Unfortunately, Du Wei devoted more time to magic research. Master Elric's formula that replaced Mithril made Dewey research over and over for a long time, but ultimately failed. But Set, this guy who was originally good at making magic wands, was very interested in Dewey's manufacturing method of the "flying broom". These days research. He will almost succeed.

But after two test flights, poor Sete broke a leg.

Du Wei knows that the establishment of a new city is just the beginning. He needs to urgently strengthen his strength. In this place in the northwest, you cannot stand without strength! Moreover, others will not watch the development of the wind and water in Du Wei, there will always be someone to trouble.

Durvey's idea is not wrong. Because soon. Here comes the troublemaker.

Although no one dares to bother with the duke and magician in the study, everyone knows that the duke has been in a bad mood recently.

But at noon that day, Mard had to walk into Dewey's study, interrupting Dewey who was carefully reading through a pile of recipes presented by Alleco.

"Master." Mad blinked, even though Dewey was already the duke's honor. However, unlike others who called Du Wei "adult", Mard always called Du Wei "master".

"Sir, someone wants to see you."

Du Wei frowned, raised his head: "Is there a problem with the immigration? Are there any weird conditions proposed by those guys?"

"... No." Mad shook her head: "Here is the Northwest Corps."

Du Wei gave a stun. Put down the things in your hand.

A man from the Northwest Corps?

It's been a few months since I came to the Northwest, but the Northwest Army has never actively sought out myself, and Du Wei will not take the initiative to deal with this group of warlords.

What happened today?

In the reception room, Du Wei met the people from the Northwest Army.

The comer is a middle-aged officer. From the costume's point of view, he should be a general.

Imperial military system. Once you enter the command level, you can touch the edge of senior officers. The commanding officer is the leader of a regiment. In the Imperial Army, an infantry regiment was 4,000 and a cavalry regiment was 3,000.

In general, four regiments can form a division, and the division commander is a general. For example, General Juncker of the Second Division of the Royal Guards during the Imperial Capital Coup.

There are four general levels of the empire. Junker is just a first-class general. Of course, like Junker, he is the defending general of the Imperial City, although it is only the lowest level of the general. But status is already high. For example, this is the same level of generals. Longbottom also commanded a cavalry of 20,000, but as a general far from the northwest. Although at the same level, the identity must not be compared with Junker in the capital.

The general is officially called "Major General" in the Roland Empire.

Durvey is no stranger to this name, especially after knowing that the founding emperor Aragon was also a person who traversed like himself. The empire was founded by Aragon, and the military system was also left by him. With the strong color of Dewey's previous life, it was normal.

On the other hand, it is the head of the legion. Generally, the head of the legion has the title of "Lieutenant General". There are also exceptions. For example, Dewey's father, Earl Raymond, was originally a lieutenant general. Although Raymond did not really command an army experience, he once commanded an expeditionary fleet, which is also considered a lieutenant general.

Going up, you are the general. Generals are generally not directly responsible for managing a certain army or legion. Basically, they are some veterans of the military who will not stay on the front line of the army when they are old. Instead, they will go to the commander's headquarters of the Imperial City, hang a rank of general, and then become a big man in the commander's office .

For example, Dewey ’s father, Earl Raymond, commanded the expeditionary fleet as a lieutenant general to conquer Nanyang. Then he rose to the rank of military commander with his merit and became a general.

The highest is naturally the Marshal. However, the marshal is generally only a "virtual title", and it is only a symbol of glory.

However, the Empire does not have a Marshal. Because of this supreme honor, it can only be given to those who have significant military achievements. But there is no war in the current environment of the empire, and it is in peace. Naturally there is no great military achievement.

The Northwest War was just a local war. As for the Nanyang Expedition ... how much credit can it take to take a huge fleet to bully a bunch of indigenous people?

There have been several real marshals in the history of the Empire. For example, the ancestor who created the Rollin family, such as the founding war of the Aragon era ...

Now ... the marshal's coveted position is still vacant for the time being.

"Dear Lord Duke." The Northwest Army general standing in front of Dewey introduced himself very kindly: "I'm Dodoro, the commander of the 13th Division of the Northwest Army."

First impact. Dewey didn't like this guy who called himself Dorado very much.

Because he is wearing a military uniform and a sword, but this guy doesn't have any military temperament. He looked about forty years old. Obviously he was already wearing the largest uniform, but his fat seemed to break his clothes at any time.

The horizontal meat on the cheek, the pale face with obvious over-drinking, and the puffy body ... can be said if he changed his clothes. More like a rich man.

Such a person can even be a general?

But Du Wei understood immediately after hearing his introduction.

Because this so-called "13th Division of the Northwest Corps" is not a regular army. Du Wei had some information about the Northwest Army. He knew about the 13th Division. In fact, it is a logistics department that is responsible for allocating and distributing military supplies. To put it simply, the Dodoro in front of him is a logistics officer of the entire Northwest Corps.

Du Wei was immediately impressed. He had been faintly guessing that this guy had come.

"General Doodor, please sit down." Du Wei pointed at a chair in the room.

Then the two waited for a while. This Dodoro was obviously a veteran in officialdom. Those official scenes were very skilled. He first praised Du Wei for a few words of "young and promising", and then praised a few. Sentence Du Wei's "boy genius", and finally marveled at the miracle that Du Wei built a new city so quickly, "The power of a magician is really not something that ordinary people can guess!"

And Du Wei smiled at him. After drinking two cups of tea, the Dodoro finally expressed his intentions.

"Master Duke, I ’m here today. In addition to bringing greetings from our legion general, General Lugo, there are some small things that you need to help."

Du Wei smiled: "General Doodor, please say it."

"This ..." The fat man groaned for a moment, then laughed: "Seeing that autumn has passed, according to the law. I want to ask. When can we Northwest Army come to extract military supplies this quarter?"

Come for money ...

Du Wei sneered.

"Master Duke, you should know. According to the laws of the Northwest, the supplies of our Northwest Army are directly allocated from the local fiscal revenue. According to the usual practice, after the quarterly fiscal revenue is reported, we The Northwest Army accepts a share belonging to us from the place ... Hehe, you also know that it is not easy to be a soldier. Our lads are for the empire. They always have to eat enough to guard the territory. You are also from the Wuxun family I do n’t need to say more, you must understand. "

Du Wei nodded calmly: "Oh, then, I don't know how much to extract by convention?"

In fact, Du Wei is already very familiar with that decree. He asked this question intentionally.

"40%." Dodoro smiled slightly and raised his four fingers: "According to conventional practice, our Northwest Army will withdraw 40% of its financial revenue."

Du Wei listened and raised an eyebrow: "40%? General Dodoro, are you kidding me. The interim decree in the Northwest only provides 20% of local fiscal revenue."

Totoro smiled. Almost all the fat on his face was squeezed: "Sir, you are new to the Northwest, maybe you do n’t know about this. If it is normal, it is naturally 20%. But the annual autumn fiscal income The Northwest Army takes 40%, which has been the practice for many years. "

Pause. This time, without waiting for Du Wei to ask questions, Dodoro himself explained: "After the fall, it is the end of the year. In the army, in order to torture the soldiers, the hard work of the year will be at the end of the year. At that time, each person will send an extra "legend" as a reward to the soldiers for a year of hard work. Therefore, the annual autumn finances will double the military expenditure. "

In fact, these Du Wei also knew, but he listened but pretended not to know, and then thought for a while, with a generous expression: "Since this is the case, I can't break the rules here. The young men in the army are empires Hebe, of course, you ca n’t treat them badly. Dodoro, please wait a moment, and I will ask my deputy to report the financial revenue in the fall.

Fuck, you give the year-end award, and I want to pay for it? No one at all!

Du Wei sneered, but immediately asked Philip to come.

During waiting for Philip, Dewey asked a few things about the Northwest Army.

Originally, there was only a quarter of military expenditure, and there was not much money. If it was the past, it would be enough for Dodo to send a commander under his command. But the new duke's new officer didn't take long, and for the first time to reach for money, it was better to run it himself. After all, the identity of the other party is not ordinary.

The new lord originally thought that he would probably reject himself like the few stupid idiots of the past. However, Dodoro was so relieved to see Du Wei promised, but he was relaxed.

Hum, after all, it's just a teenager. What about the Duke? This is the Northwest! Even if the emperor is here, he has to give the Northwest Army face!