Lord Saren: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 24 Basic Reform of the Territory
  It is 3796 years in the new calendar, the first month of the new year, in the middle of the day, early in the morning.

On the newly opened large-scale training ground in front of Talon Fortress, a square formation of infantrymen and military slaves were running together in formation.

According to Lodi's request, they will start from the training ground and run two laps around the territory at a clockwise speed. He and Barron had a division of labor. Barron was responsible for training the existing twenty-four knights in the fortress, while Lodi was responsible for training these ordinary soldiers who had no combat foundation.

One lap is about eight kilometers. If you do two laps, you need to run 16 kilometers, and you will also pass through some obstacles such as hills and ice.

The difficulty was actually not that small, but under the personal leadership of Lodi, the soldiers and military slaves gritted their teeth and persisted without any complaints.

In fact, they, especially the military slaves, were very grateful to Lodi.

When Julius controlled the territory, these military slaves lived a miserable life. They were forced to do hard work and live in simple wooden houses. The daily rations were only about 2 kilograms of barley and potatoes. But even so, it is still possible to maintain barely enough food and clothing. The key is that Julius and his family basically did not regard the military slaves as human beings. If they were dissatisfied at all, they would beat them at every turn. They especially liked to dig out their eyes, cut their noses, and cut their legs to remove bones. Most people couldn't survive Julius' torture.

Now, under the leadership of Lodi, not only the accommodation conditions have been greatly improved, Lord Lodi even prepared a large canteen for these soldiers. Not only are meals provided centrally, but you can also eat a little bit of meat.

Moreover, there is no such inhumane torture as cutting off organs anymore.

The only problem is that after they've had enough to eat and drink, they're forced to do a lot of extremely intense training. But what moved them was that Lord Lodi actually participated in the training with his lowly servants. Moreover, the events he trained were more difficult.

‘Even the lord has to undergo these trainings, how can we not risk our lives and work hard? ’

So under the leadership of Lodi, everyone devoted themselves to arduous training.

After long-distance running, Lodi also developed physical training such as push-ups, sit-ups, and snake runs. He didn't know how soldiers were trained in this world, so he used some modern military training concepts from previous lives. However, his training intensity was more severe than ordinary military training, and the training volume even doubled.

Anyway, there is no concept of human rights or scientific training methods in this world. He needs to select those talented young people in a very short period of time, and then integrate them into the Cavaliers to learn more advanced combat skills.

Fortunately, the physique of this adult man is generally higher than that of his previous life, and a considerable number of people persist. For those who did not persevere, Lodi directly sent them to the civil service to work as farmers.

He wanted to build a professional army, and leave farming to these soldiers. The remaining soldiers became truly detached and focused on military training and military operations.

However, this kind of reform related to the system is generally not easy to operate. Because in this era, everyone regards fields as treasures. Retired soldiers have crops, but elite soldiers have no crops. This seems to be a very unreasonable decree.

This kind of exposure to their interests may not make them rebel for the time being, but it will also affect their enthusiasm.

Unless Lodi is willing to distribute these fields to the soldiers.

Of course, this is impossible. He had just basically eradicated the property owners in the territory, and the remaining Caton clan had honestly donated all their land. How could they return all their land at this initial stage? In order to solve this problem, Lodi specially issued a kind of commercial certificate that was only circulated within the territory, called Saren certificate. Then he ordered Little Flynn to set up a shop called Saren Trading Company in the territory.

The Salem coupons were based on the gold in Lodi's hands, made of sheepskin, and stamped with his own seal. 100 Saren coupons are equal to 1 silver coin; 10000 Saren coupons are equal to 1 gold coin. Very simple conversion method. Luo Di hopes that this conversion will continue to be maintained, and there will not be too much fluctuation even if he leaves the territory in the future.

In fact, there are many systems of currency in this world, but due to wars and political chaos, these currencies are not in circulation. The external transaction method is still mainly gold coins and silver coins, and then mixed with many coins minted by private forces.

Of course, Lodi has a dream of selling goods to the world, and hopes that the trading company can develop towards the outside world. But at this stage, the focus is still on serving soldiers.

After the establishment of a simple currency system, many of Lodi's decrees had room for implementation.

From his point of view, whether they are soldiers or farmers, they are all members of the territory, but they are just different types of work. Farmers who farmed the fields were allowed to keep 50% of the grain for their own use, and the rest was confiscated. Then, you will receive corresponding Saren coupons based on the field area you bear and the amount of grain you turn in. On average, a farmer can receive Saren coupons every month.

Ordinary soldiers eat and drink in the canteen every day for free. They can receive 100 Saren coupons every month to use for their families. The more than 500 surviving knights voluntarily donated their fields, and of course they wanted more, in the form of Saren coupons.

Women who have labor force in the territory can also participate in some farm work, and do manual work in exchange for Salem coupons, and their treatment is slightly lower than that of farmers.

All Salem Vouchers can be exchanged for various necessary daily necessities at trading companies. Basic supplies such as food, linen clothes, salt, fructose, and abyssal spirits are slowly becoming more abundant. The mill was also incorporated into a trading company to sell finished wheat flour for everyone.

After completing these changes, the basic operation method of the territory was slowly established.

The architecture at the beginning must be very rough, and it can only be continuously improved as various problems arise later.

With this organizational structure, soldiers will not have the uneasiness caused by not having farmland. After all, being a soldier can gain much more than being a farmer. Instead, they will train harder to avoid being eliminated as farmers.

Of course, those farmers will not just lie down. After all, the acquisition of Saren coupons is linked to their own harvests, and they can also keep 10% of the food.

After this period of time, the results of training are very significant. Probably more than a hundred infantry and military slave camps were eliminated. Some of them are disabled, and some are too weak to keep up with training.

There were nineteen outstanding performers, who successfully passed the training test set by Lodi and became reserve members of the Cavaliers. Lodi gathered these people together for the next intensive training, and finally filled the Cavaliers team that was seriously short of people.

At the end of the day's training, the soldiers were arranged into two square formations and stood on the training field. The nineteen people carefully selected by Lodi stood at the front of the team, waiting for Lodi's lecture.

(End of this chapter)