Lord of Plants

Chapter 109 Private Army System
The existence of private soldiers is actually to protect the interests of the nobles. Its relationship is that the king, nobles and knights constitute the ruling class of the country. Knights are the most basic class in the ruling class. Knights often support several to dozens or even hundreds of ordinary soldiers according to their own economic conditions.These soldiers are basically civilians or slaves who do not have the status of knights. They serve as servants and guards of knights in peacetime, and participate in battles as the knight's direct armed forces in wartime. The object of their allegiance is the knight and his family.

Correspondingly, the object of the knight's allegiance is his lord noble, and the noble is loyal to the monarch.There is generally no cross-level loyalty among different classes. For example, a king has three earls under his command, and these earls have dozens of knights under his command, and each knight has a number of followers.Kings must pass through earls to command knights loyal to these earls, and earls must pass through knights to command their retinues.If there is a dispute or even a war between the earl and the king, the knights who are loyal to the earl will fight the king with the earl, because their allegiance is to the earl rather than the king.

The private army system is also divided into levels. The nobles are divided into five levels of male uncles, and each level is divided into three levels. The lowest third-level baron can only have one hundred private soldiers, the second-level baron is two hundred, and the first-level baron The baron is three hundred.And the viscount is five hundred, seven hundred and nine hundred, the earl is the lowest one thousand, the highest is three thousand; the marquis is five thousand, seven thousand and nine thousand, and the duke can only have ten thousand private soldiers regardless of rank. After all, if the Duke can attract people, they are all masters, and [-] is already too much.

The number of private soldiers is clearly stipulated. After all, private soldiers are loyal to the nobles they want to serve, and do not need to be loyal to the king, so the king must strictly control the number of private soldiers.One or two nobles is nothing, but which country does not have hundreds of nobles? Once the private soldiers of these nobles are all united, it will be a force that cannot be underestimated. Of course, as a king, he would not want to see He realized that his rule would be overthrown by private soldiers.

But as the saying goes, there are policies and countermeasures. The king strictly controlled the number of private soldiers to prevent the nobles from having too many private soldiers. However, the nobles thought of another way, that is, the mercenary regiment.In addition to the number of private soldiers registered in the register, there are some hidden ones, known as reserves, and a large number of private soldiers exist in the form of mercenary regiments. They are nominally employed by this nobleman, But in fact it was the nobleman's private soldier.This is why Ellen, who is only an earl, has tens of thousands of private soldiers.

Earl Ellen calculated the time correctly, and he rushed to Sanmu City after three o'clock in the afternoon. According to the original plan, let the combat power of Sanmu City fight with the three thieves first, and both sides will suffer. He came out to clean up the mess after it was over, so that he could easily take over Sanmu City.Sanmu City will definitely not perish, and the three thieves will definitely be disabled. After all, there is still an existence in Sanmu City that cannot be provoked.Lin Mu must die, and Sanmu City must also be his own territory, but after seeing the desolation of Linyi Province these days, Ellen felt really uncomfortable about accepting this territory.

Desolate, desolate, nothing, this is the second half of Linyi Province!Although the territory was several times larger than his original one, Ellen was not used to living without the extravagant and luxurious life.There is not even a decent beauty in this kind of shabby place. If it wasn't for His Majesty's order, he wouldn't come to this kind of place!
The journey was very peaceful, not a single escaped bandit was encountered, which made Ellen feel a little strange.The three major thieves groups are all finished, and none of them escaped. This should be impossible!Or, the direction of their escape is not to one side, um, in this case, it will be a bit troublesome, without their heads as evidence, how can they prove that they have wiped out the three major bandits?It seems that when necessary, some disobedient civilians have to be hacked to death, and their heads are used to make up for it, Ellen thought so in his heart.

When Ellen approached Sanmu City and saw that it was built and started to look like a town, Ellen couldn't help being amazed.Along the way, he was deeply touched by the desolation of Linyi Province. If it became his territory, he probably would have thrown it away long ago and left it to fend for itself, or forcibly scraped it to squeeze it out. As much oil and water as there is, as for the life and death of other people, it's up to him, let's talk about fattening himself!
And Lin Mu, a little viscount with no family and no support from the king, actually relied on his own strength to develop the barren Red Earth Town, and now it has even developed into a town.Ellen had to admit that Lin Mu was indeed very strong and quite capable, but no matter how capable he was, all of this would be a wedding dress for him in vain, because all of this would be his, as long as he could put that If this miraculous food is firmly in his hands, then he can support an army.

With such ambitions, Ellen eagerly wanted to go to Sanmu City for the first time to take a look, but as soon as he arrived in Sanmu City, Ellen saw a very harmonious scene.Humans and alien races coexist in harmony, and they are all contributing to the construction of the town. They are enthusiastically investing in the construction, and they are very conscious that no one is lazy.Because they regard this place as their home, where they have the warmth of home and a sense of belonging, how can they slack off in building their own home!
Forget about the berserkers, after all, apart from the shortcoming of being mad, the berserkers are not much different from humans, but what about those winged humans and dwarves?The Winged Humans are fine. Ellen has known about the existence of the Winged Humans for a long time, and also knew that there was a tribe of Winged Humans who joined Lin Shu, but what he never imagined was that these Winged Humans would make peace with the humans here so quickly. They got along and seemed to get along pretty well.

What's the matter with those slaves? Why do they all have smiles full of happiness on their faces, and they are all so motivated that they don't need a supervisor to urge them to work.

And that group of dwarves, where did they come from, why there are so many dwarves, this huge number, it is estimated that there are millions of people!One hundred thousand goblins were directly ignored by Ellen. They were too scumbags. With the more than 1 private soldiers led by him, they could be easily wiped out. It is estimated that there would not even be three-digit casualties.

(End of this chapter)