Power and Empire Chapter 10: Benefits of Warriors
"Dear Dusta, it's great that you can be there in time. If it is later, my castle will be occupied by this despicable Marquis of Ketoka. You are truly a protector given to me by God. "
Seeing that all the stubborn knights had put down their weapons, Du Yu began to command his soldiers to clean up the battlefield. All the dozen or so valuable sheepskin tents were taken by Du Yu. Although this battle I don't know how to get it, but the dozens of tents and the full armor of the knights are a lot of income.
Although he did not capture the Marquis Kesto alive this time, he did not let him run away. The corpse was also a large sum of money. If the successor of the Kesto family wanted to succeed the Patriarch, he would have to spend a lot of money. The body of the old marquis was redeemed.
Just as Du Yu was happily commanding the soldiers to clean the battlefield, his cheap father-in-law, Lord Kestola, ran out of the castle with a dozen servants in embarrassment in a tattered chain armor. Holding Du Yu with an aggrieved face and crying bitterly, this made Du Yu who was still cleaning the battlefield yelling angrily
"I was fighting **** in front, but you are negotiating with the enemy here. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I will send someone to take back your territory!"
"Reclaim the territory? Okay, okay, I don’t want to stay in this ruined place a long time ago. Take my territory back. I’ll go to yours and be a knight than staying here to bear the Castor family’s Good revenge!"
Exceeding Du Yu's expectation, Lord Kestola did not have the slightest fear when he heard that the territory was about to be reclaimed. Instead, he showed a look of joy. Even the original embarrassment seemed to exude an uplifting look, and his gratitude was a mess. .
"My lord, to reclaim the territory of an independent lord, you must give title and land compensation!" Seeing his lord's face inexplicably sluggish, the adjutant Statunko approached with embarrassment and whispered in Du Yu. Explained in his ear.
"According to the decree of the kingdom, the annexation of an independent lord's territory must give the lord certain property and land compensation to continue the blood of the lord." It is this decree that guarantees that the nobles of the kingdom may sometimes fight continuously. As long as they are not rebelling against the king, the noble lineage can always last for a long time, and many knights themselves are descendants of previous lords.
This time Lord Kestola not only pretended to be robbers and robbed the caravan of the Kestow family, but also colluded with the Falcon family to ambush the Marquis of Kestow, leading to the death of the Marquis of Kestow. Lord Kestola had long been there The plan to run away, staying here is definitely a dead end,
The vengeance anger of a Marquis family is not something that this little lord can bear. Now that his intimate son-in-law is willing to take back his territory, of course Lord Kestola is ecstatic.
Take it back. Fortunately, my cheap father-in-law only has three villages. Du Yu sighed secretly. The original owner of this body seems to be really autistic, and there is no popular knowledge. know.
"If I can, I would like to meet my two fiancées!"
Du Yu sat down in the main hall of Lord Kestola’s castle. The two parties have just negotiated the reclaiming of the territory. Du Yu allocated two of them to Lord Kestola from a dozen villages near his castle. The village was exchanged for the three villages of Lord Kestola.
"Of course, but my two daughters are still learning aristocratic etiquette from Madam Ruwinna in Moline Castle. I’m afraid they won’t be able to return until next fall. I will definitely bring them to see the adults at that time. They will be 13 years old and they can hold the wedding." Lord Kestola took the title deed of the village from the table and handed it to Adjutant Statunko
"13 years old!" The age that Lord Kestola vomited surprised Du Yu who was sitting on the main seat of the hall. After a long time, his fiancée and sisters were still two 13-year-old girls. what.
"This is not in a hurry! No hurry! Now that it has been negotiated, I will lead the army back." Du Yu stood up from the main seat embarrassedly, no matter whether the sisters are beautiful or not, Du Yu is not evil yet To the point of destroying the little girl.
"My lord, in this battle, 138 ordinary soldiers were killed and 17 knights were captured. A total of 3,500 gold coins were received and 16 villages were allocated with a population of 3786."
Statunko respectfully handed over the thick data sheets and the village head list to Du Yu. Statunko knew that the battle in Lord Kestola not long ago made his lord the lord. Made a small fortune,
In order to redeem the corpse of the hapless Marquis of Ketoka and the captured family knight squadron, after the Ketoka family paid another 3000 gold coins, 13 nearby villages had to be cut off to redeem all the captives. Go,
Except for the knight with the red feathers on his head, because he is the captain of the guard of the Marquis of Ketoka, the Knight of the Iron Shield, the captain of the guard, Story, has been deprived of iron by the new patriarch due to the lord’s aggrieved death The title of Shield Knight was reduced to a squire guard without territory.
Du Yu appreciates the loyalty and commanding ability of this knight captain Storey. If it hadn’t been for Storey to organize the panicked knights to resist tenaciously, maybe these knights would have been defeated long ago.
Du Yu forced him to stay in the castle for no ransom.
Because the Marquis of Ketoka met with the Falcon family who was invited by Lord Kestora to help the bandit when he invaded the territory of Lord Kestola, and died in a heroic duel,
According to the tradition of the knights of the kingdom, this is a battle between two knights of noble character and incomparably bravery. It is a fair and sacred battle, and it is a thing worth reciting.
Therefore, the Kaitoka family cannot pursue the incident of the Falcon family’s attack, unless the Kaitoka family is willing to admit that their lord was thrown off the horse and fell to death when he was suddenly attacked. This will make the already embarrassed Ketoka family a laughingstock for the nobles.
"After doing so many things to earn 2000 gold coins, it seems that if you want to make a fortune, you still have to find a way from your own territory." Du Yu briefly looked through the report submitted by Statunko , Although this battle has been rewarding, the cost is also very high.
Because of the bounty marked before the war, these two battles consumed nearly 600 gold coins of their bounty, and these farmers who participated in the battle continued to escape after returning to the territory. With big money, whoever wants to stay in the castle stupidly and work hard, they tried their best to run to their homes. In the end, the 200 militia and peasant soldiers ran to only a few 70 people.
The hunters also retreated to the mountains under the leadership of the leader to spend the winter. Although the hunter leader promised that as long as he received his own levy order, the hunters would come back immediately, but these circumstances that have never been considered before make Du Yu treat himself" The idea of "ruling the army with money" has raised doubts. Is it necessary to have knights to truly form a standing army?
After three days of head covering, Du Yu promulgated his own new policy "Land Reward System" in his own territory
"All soldiers who have participated in ten battles with the lord will be automatically promoted to sharp soldiers and transferred to the castle to serve as the lord’s guard. The lord will allocate a piece of the richest land near his castle to give him a reward, all fighting Soldiers who have accumulated more than three heads of the enemy in the hunt will automatically become the first soldier and will serve as the three-man commander in the army. All soldiers who kill the opposing knight in battle will become combat soldiers and will serve as the ten-man commander in the army. Will have the right to get one percent of the spoils after the war..."
"Money is the driving force that drives people's hopes, and land is the foundation for retaining talents"
This is the conclusion that Du Yu came to after thinking hard for a few days. As his mind about the land reward system of the Qin Dynasty and the Manchu Eight Banners system gradually became clear,
Du Yu felt his doubts and difficulties suddenly became clear. It turned out that this difficult problem had been solved by his ancestors, and he had nothing else, that is, there is still a lot of barren land.
In this underdeveloped world, most farmers gather in villages, and there are often large tracts of wasteland left in other places, especially the "light-rod commander" who does not even have a knight under him. , It can be said that "the poor are left with land"
Du Yu specially set aside a piece of land beside the river outside his castle for the resident and production use of his castle’s garrison,
I am not rich, and it is impossible to always keep a large number of soldiers in the castle. It is better to set aside the land and let them farm by themselves, and only need to hand in a very small amount of food. They are soldiers in war and people in peacetime. Military training is conducted after dinner every day.
Such a system of farming in the morning and training in the afternoon not only allows the soldiers to support themselves, but also maintains a well-trained army for themselves~IndoMTL.com~ It can also drive business and trade around, no longer like As before, the peasants were led back to their territory by knights after returning from the battle.
The new policy issued by the lord shocked the farmers in the farms in the territory. Accepting the lord’s reward for land has always been the privilege of the knight master, but now as long as you join the lord’s army, you have the opportunity to receive the land reward from the lord master. Can share the spoils of battle,
Farming in the garrison camp outside the castle requires only a small amount of grain to be handed in. This makes many extremely poor farmers feel that they have seen heaven, and being able to eat is the lifelong dream of these extremely poor farmers.
With the free publicity of the peasant soldiers who fled back, the peasants in the territory knew that their lord was the most generous person in the kingdom, and now this good reputation has become so loud, everyone knows that their lord is a A generous and talkative person.
It’s only been a dozen days since I posted the list. The number of farmers who gathered outside the castle and asked to join the army reached 1,378.
This shocked Du Yu, who was not mentally prepared yet. It was only during the heyday of the Falcon family that 1,300 soldiers had a military strength of 800, including more than 100 knights.
The other leaders’ enlistment soldiers need to send knights to various villages for forced enlistment, but a random enlistment order came with more than a thousand people. It’s no wonder that all the powerful nations in history have closely focused their land on their battles. This is indeed the best way to allocate war resources.
Like the people all over the country who are going to the mountains and the countryside, they are enthusiastic about insurance sales. They link their benefits to their performance. They work more and earn more. Getting rich is the reason why they endure other people’s eyes and still persist.
The achievements of the fighters are the exploits, and the interests of the fighters are the land.