Power and Empire Chapter 3: Genius? moron?
Du Yu looked solemnly at the ledger in his hand, which recorded the grain that he had just received this month in his territory. Generally speaking, it is still very good, that is, the balance is seriously unbalanced. This year's rain is very abundant. The rare big harvest was 30% more than in previous years, but these did not make Du Yu’s heart happy,
"Is food useful?" Du Yu still remembered seeing the new grain warehouse a few days ago. The tax collector of the family opened the warehouse door, and a smell of mildew and mildew of grain came over his face. Yu Wei frowned, and in front of her eyes were piles of grain bags tied with hemp and piled there like a hill. It was obvious that three different shades of color divided the grain pile into three parts.
The granary guard pointed to the grain pile and said, "The top is last year's Chen Gu, the middle is the last two or three years, and the bottom is hard to say." The granary guard said with an embarrassed face. "Because it is always from Grain is taken at the top, and no one knows how long the grain at the bottom has been piled up. The grain in the granary of the castle is enough for the people in the castle now to eat for three years."
Du Yu looked at the bags of new grain superimposed on it again, feeling very helpless. The Falcon Territory is a traditional grain-producing area, which leads to the fact that the territory’s economy depends too much on agriculture and there is almost no commercial economy. The typical rural economic model, because the territory is divided into several pieces, and the taxes in a few small towns are very small, only more than 3,000 gold coins. If it were not for the knights under his command, they have already run out, and the money is not enough for the knights to open annuities. Yes, the account book shows that every year the food stored in the castle is shipped out and sold half to fill this big hole,
Think about the knights who spent a lot of money in the family, but escaped without a trace when the family was in the most distress. Du Yu couldn't help but dislike the sacred appearance of the knight and the dirty inside. Seeing the young master’s tight eyebrows, the tax collector Stanad’s speculation report
" I heard that there are bounty in various villages, and they have gathered 200 young adults, and many of them are hunters in the mountains. The Du Kaili Moore family has already agreed to exchange for the prosperous Ekali Town, which also allows We increase the income of 1,000 gold coins, or else..."The tax collector did not continue to say, but it was a crying face
"Mountain hunter?" Du Yu, who was looking through the ledger, stopped working. In fact, Du Yu couldn't understand what was written on the ledger, the complicated figures and hundreds of merchants and tenants. Du Yu’s name dazzled Du Yu, and looking through the account book pretendingly only meant that it was shown to the tax collector, so that the tax collector should be less involved.
Tax Collector Starnard saw Lord Lord take away his attention from the ledger, and he was secretly relieved. "Yes, there are 38 mountain hunters willing to participate in the collection. These like to run in the mountains. The barbarians who ran away always ran away as soon as they heard about the enlistment. This time they ran back because they saw the lord’s notice."
It is impossible to fully guarantee that the ledger is free. As a hereditary tax collector, Starnard believes that he is much more honest than many of his colleagues. He just concealed some smaller transactions. Although the money is not much, it is enough for my own expenses. I am already old. How to hand over this position to my son is my biggest concern. The tax collector is a hereditary fat man. .
Du Yu closed the ledger on the table, 3000 gold coins were used to eliminate daily expenses, and there were more than a thousand coins left. It was enough to calculate the bounty for this expedition, which made Du, who had been worried about not having enough gold coins. Yu let go of his heart.
Du Yu raised his head and moved a little sour neck. After reading the ledger, Du Yu had a certain understanding of a lord’s source of income. It was the checkpoint road tax and urban poll tax of his territory that determined the lord’s gold coin income. Others It’s like looting the enemy lord, redeeming the hostages, and the king’s rewards are uncertain.
The economic area of the Kingdom is in the central part near Kyoto, and the northern territory where border trade prevails. It is said that the lords there not only have their own caravans, but also established a huge smuggling network. They are the most loyal to launching wars. People, various special products of the barbarians and women are the source of their wealth. For remote areas in the south like the Falcon family, if you want to be rich, apart from a fixed tax, you can only rob the enemy and seize the land.
"What kind of ledger is that? It's just crying poor!" Du Yu put the ledger on the table in dissatisfaction, and the tax collector shivered in fear
Du Yu looked at the miserable tax collector and asked, "You just asked your son to take your place. Bring him. I need to see my future tax collector."
Soon, Starnard, the fat tax collector, led a heroic teenager into the hall. I didn’t expect that the fat tax collector would have such a heroic son. It’s a pity that this boy’s right The feet are obviously a bit lame, and it's a pity to look at the bumpy walk.
The fat man looked curiously at his new tax official and asked curiously, "Are you the son of the tax collector, Statunko? Listen to your father say that you have been a rebel knight with the Marquis of Scanner for a year How can I suddenly think of coming back to be a tax collector? Being a knight is more promising than being a tax collector"
The young man’s eyes turned skeletal, and he saw Du Yu sitting in the lord’s seat in the hall. He couldn’t help but feel abrupt. Du Yu’s sharp eyes seemed to see him thoroughly, and he couldn’t help feeling A kind of depression "Could this be the idiot lord who is circulating outside, how can a person with such a look be an idiot?"
The young man looked unnatural and said, "My lord, I used to be the captain of the archer under the Marquis of Scanner, but I was shot by the Kurgit in the battle last year and had to come back." Fighting hard, but not being appreciated by the lord, Statunko's heroic face dimmed, and the fingers on both sides were tightly pinched into a ball.
Du Yu looked at the grief and anger on the boy's face and waved to the tax collector and his son. "You go down first. Since you have been a knight rebel, please be my adjutant first. Tomorrow, all the 200 soldiers who have been recruited will be mobilized to the castle. I will personally conduct the training!"
Early in the morning, Du Yu came down from the mountain and saw a crowd of people gathered in the middle hall of his castle. On the horse’s back swing the knife left and right, the light of the knife flying up and down is like a chain of light across,
The scarecrow heads that were the target were cut off lightly by Statunko's magnificent knife-dragging technique, which attracted applause from the peasant soldiers standing around. "If the knight who rushed into the hall that day was riding on a war horse, I don't know if I still have a chance to stand here?" Du Yu saw that Statunko, who was merely a servant knight, possessed such a smooth knife-dragging technique. , And the ability to skillfully perform surgery right and left immediately, I can’t help but feel speculation
I don’t know what kind of power the regular knights with sharp spears, two-handed swords in close combat, and heavy armor all over the body will be. No wonder the kingdom’s main combat force is still knights, and cheap cannon fodder troops dominated by farmers. It simply can't compete with these war machines that have practiced killing since childhood.
"My lord, what do you think of these recruits" The well-informed old butler doesn't care about the show-offs of the young Statunko. As an old man who has served the orthodox knight family for a lifetime, these show-offs are just some earning Shouting fancy pediatrics, this time the task of recruiting soldiers is what the old housekeeper cares about.
Du Yu looked at the assembled peasant soldiers. Most of them were young and middle-aged. They had various weapons in their hands, ranging from farm tool rakes to pig butcher knives. He saw Lord Lord coming, although one All of them tried to pretend to be vigorous, but the long-term malnutrition still left marks on their faces and bodies,
The fluffy hair is like chicken coops, the face is yellow, and the whole formation looks messy. Seeing Du Yu frowns slightly, "Such troops can also fight? It is estimated that Statunko can defeat them alone. Up!"
"Hey! This day is really..." Du Yu sighed, there is no way, it is such a troop that can sell iron by himself. The dozens of people standing on the right side of the troop are dressed in various styles. The animal leather archer attracted the attention of the fat man,
Although these people are relatively thin, they have a thick and well-developed right arm and an astounding stare. These should be the mountain hunters in the villages of the tax collector. These people still look like an army. , But the animal skin suit made Du Yu first think of "Rambo"
Thirty-three Rambo! Very good, very powerful. Du Yu cheered himself up with a spiritual victory method. Du Yu waved at the guard who was pushing a car full of weapons behind him. "Move out all the weapons equipped this time. I can't let the ones in my territory." The people go to kill the enemy like this"
This time Du Yu moved out two hundred weapons from the castle’s arsenal to equip his first army. As a veteran knight family, there is nothing else, but the weapons and equipment are still full of warehouses. Many of the accumulated over the years were seized from the enemy. There are about a thousand pieces. It seems that the fat hen is a little bit chicken bones!
The peasants were curiously surrounding the carriage full of weapons. Several peasants curiously picked up a dagger and danced pretentiously. Their expressions of excitement were a little bleak. "My lord, isn't this a bit too short? It is a bodyguard sword for archers. We were killed before we could cut the enemy."
The entire carriage is stacked with such short swords with only half the length of the sword and high wooden shields for siege soldiers. These are armors for archers on the battlefield, and they can’t face the enemy at all. If you run into a shocking cavalry, the opponent's spear can stab you to the heart of three meters away.
As an adjutant, Statunko also picked up a dagger from the car curiously, waved it a few times, and then looked at the other things in the car, his face turned ugly green.
"Unload all the equipment on the carriage first." Du Yu waved to everyone in full view. The white and trembling fat on his face made Statunko more sure of his conjecture. "It's over , I have long heard that the current lord is an idiot, and I knew I would not be greedy for this money."
Du Yu looked at the silly soldiers around, took a wooden shield with a human height from the wooden frame with his left hand, held a wooden dagger in his right hand, and waved to Statunko who was still dazed." Come on, let's try it!" Statunko hesitated, took a wooden spear from the weapon rack behind, and put a crossbar in his hand
Du Yu rushed forward swiftly. With the big shield in his hand, Statunko, who was holding the spear in front, was pressed close to him, "Touch!" Statunko was three meters long in his hand. After the first blow was blocked by the shield, his spear had no chance to pierce it out.
Sweeping the spear is not very effective, but he keeps retreating helplessly, until he retreats to the wall, gritted his teeth and watched the close-fitting shield shaking in front of his nose, but there was nothing to do. Because Du Yu has already rushed within one meter with the shield of the big shield,
Everyone looked at all of this intently. Everyone could see that the short sword in Du Yu’s hand was absolutely deadly within this short distance. It only required an assassination with a small space for action. Statunko was easily killed.
The originally jogging farmers saw the majestic Statunko in front of ~IndoMTL.com~ after being knocked down by the idiot lord with such a shameless, but very effective action, they stopped laughing.
Everyone found that a short sword with a large shield is so dangerous! Even Statunko, the knight, was driven into a desperate situation by this tactic. With
The large shield quickly approached the enemy, shortening the distance and gave the enemy a fatal blow with a short sword. In a highly intensive melee, the Roman infantry phalanx with a large shield for self-defense, javelins, short swords and other close combat weapons The method of tactics is like raising and hiding the sharp hilt, and inadvertently hitting you with a fatal blow.
This once left a deep image on Du Yu, and it was also the purpose of Du Yu’s training. The javelin is being made by the blacksmith in the castle. 200 people can form a small phalanx. At that time, this special force must be Can give the enemy a surprise.
Du Yu threw the short sword and great shield in his hand to the ground. "In one month, you will be on the battlefield. If you want to come back alive, you also want to get a generous bounty. You are the only ones who practice these. When the peasant soldier looked at the weapons, his eyes replaced what he had just scorned was a kind of enthusiasm
"A knight rewards a gold coin, and a lord rewards a piece of land." Many peasants rushed to the head of that silver coin. Although the front one is very attractive, these peasants don’t think the heavy armored killing machines are I can think of it,
But Du Yu’s demonstration just now made these goals that farmers feel distant and unreachable suddenly become within reach, and the ambitions in my heart are beating, glory, gold coins, and land! Many peasants hurriedly jumped into the carriage to pick the weapon they called their own hands. The stunned Statunko, who was leaning on the wall, looked at the back of Du Yu, who turned to leave, and felt a panic, "This is a genius, or an idiot." !"