At this moment, Yama Takamatsu, the head of the Yamatsu family in Tianshou Pavilion in Qingshui City, was pinching her eyebrows in distress, and his younger brother Yamatsu Takamatsu was also sitting below with a frown.

Seeing that the eldest brother had not made a decision, Yamaki Takahide couldn't help but say again: "Brother, now the Yamaki family can only recruit peasant soldiers to fight, as it was impossible to recruit wild samurai in the past."

"Oh, why is this happening?" Yamaki Takashi responded casually.

As soon as Yamaki Takahide knew that he had just wasted his saliva, he had to continue saying: "It's not because of the high salary of the Lei family army that Shimizu led all the wandering wild warriors to join the Lei family."

"Then let's hire mercenaries? It's better to invite the Rose Mercenary Group. With them, I see how arrogant those rebels can be!" Yamaki Takama suddenly shouted.

His distress and excitement are all caused by the wealthy families below. It would be fine if they divide the territory and dominate them. Anyway, they no longer have the ability to oppress them to obey orders, but they actually boldly reached out to their direct leaders under Qingshui City, which was unbearable! Without these direct leaders, where did the soldiers come from and where did the taxes come from?

"Brother, you haven't forgotten it, right? We only have tens of thousands of gold coins in the vault now, and we can't even afford to hire local mercenaries, let alone the rose mercenary group." Yamada Takahide said with a glaring eyes.

Speaking of this, Yamada Takahide sighed and continued, "Oh, fortunately those guys from the Lei family look down on food, otherwise we might not be able to even recruit peasant soldiers."

"It's all the bastards of the Lei family! What kind of standing army system is used, and the treatment is so high! Now everyone learns this trick in the entire Feidu Peninsula. Otherwise, everyone will rely on peasant soldiers to fight. Is there still a fear of those little tyrants in my family's two thousand standing army?" Yamada Takamasa said angrily.

"Brother, it's not the time to talk about these things. The rich are ready to move below, and the spies have also reported that Lei Jun, who has not moved for several months, has begun to mobilize. Seeing that they are actually gathering towards the surrounding borders, they are sure to be ready to take advantage of the great opportunity of the two major countries to relax their vigilance and remove our surrounding forces."

Yamada Takahide reminded.

"Oh, I know this. I didn't expect that the things that our neighboring Lei family had been worried about finally happened. In the past, there were two major powers to suppress, and whichever emerged would be over. But now the empire is in chaos and the alliance is busy taking advantage. After no one suppresses it, the princes here will quickly swallow the special swallowing.

"I don't know about other families, but how can we resist the attack of the Lei family in this way? Damn, the permanent army exceeds 50,000, which makes us little princes fart! So many people can afford to support them, the Lei family is so rich and perverted!" After speaking, Takamasa Yamada became anxious again.

"Brother, don't you notice it. The Lei family is blatantly mobilizing troops. Those rich people cannot not know about it. Moreover, they are also robbed by the Lei family and cannot not know about the strength of the Lei family's military strength.

"Since that's the case, why do they still occupy the land? I wonder if the Lei family comes in, all these lands belong to the Lei family?" Yamada Takahide carefully considered the sentence.

After pondering for a moment, Yamada Takamasa shook his head and said, "Those guys are not so idiots who do useless work. They must be sure to protect Shi Gao, so they recruit troops to fight with all their money."

"Are they going to surrender when they see the Lei family enter the country? To ensure their territory?" But after saying that, Takamasa Yamada rejected it himself: "The Lei family cannot allow them to divide the Shigaojiao in Qingshui City!"

You should know that those tyrants now occupy almost 80% of Shigao in Qingshui City, but after these tyrants surrender, the winner can only get 20% of Shigao? No one will agree.

"I think they will give half of Shigao to beg for the Lei family to recognize their territory. You must know that their Shigao is three or four times that of the past, and giving half of it is also twice as much as it was." Yamada Takahide said.

When Yamada Takamasa heard this, he immediately cursed: "Damn it! You actually sold my Yamada family's territory? Damn! It's better to sell it to you than to sell it! Longxiu, you go to Qingyue City immediately and ask the head of the Lei family to surrender!"

"Yes!" A hint of joy flashed in Yamada Takahide's eyes.

I had long wanted to make such a proposal, but I was just a subordinate, so how could I say it? Now that the Lord said it, there was no need to be so worried. He had long known that he could not compete with the Lei family, and that his territory would sooner or later be annexed by the Lei family. Since that's the case, just like what my elder brother said, it would be better to give his own family benefits instead of being cheaper for those betrayed subordinates.

"Brother, what conditions do we have to give?" Yamada Takahide hurriedly asked. This is related to the future interests of the Yamada family.

"We will offer the entire territory of Qiemizu City!" Yamada Takamasa's words made Yamada Takahide stunned and gave out all his territory? Then what should his family eat?

Seeing his younger brother's appearance, Yamada Takamasa smiled: "Why are you stunned? If we act quickly, our Yamada family will be the first prince to surrender to the Lei family. Then we will be role models and banners. In order to set an example, the Lei family will never treat us unfairly!"

"Yes, lord is wise!" Yamada Takashi Hiroshi was convinced and bowed to the ground.

With the issuance of military orders, the warriors living in Qingyue City immediately led their retainers to the streets to purchase equipment.

According to the custom of flying across the peninsula, whoever soldiers are responsible for money, grain and equipment, but they are warriors, not soldiers, so they must be responsible for the weapons they come to fight.

There is this strange custom because the warrior believes that the weapons given to him by the lord are reward items, and such weapons are symbols used by the lord to show off his deep favor and to be passed down to future generations.

Although it can be used to kill the enemy, it will be disrespectful if it is broken, so warriors prepare other weapons when they go to the battlefield.

The Lei family samurai, Saburo Ono, was stroking the machete in his hand carefully. Although he was not sure how to distinguish the quality of the weapon, he could still tell how different the weapon in his hand was from the knife he had before. It was simply a comparison between pearls and grass mustard!

"Lord, it's a waste to use such a good knife. Besides, such a powerful weapon must be valuable. I really don't need to equip me with such weapons!" A voice woke Saburo Ono. When he saw that the five retainers he had just recruited advised him with excitement.

These five retainers were recruited by Saburo Ono after he became a flag team, which was recruited ten days ago.

I am very satisfied with these five retainers, Saburo Ono, because they are all of them have good qualities and are definitely warriors who have fought hard.

No wonder how many outstanding people have defected to this small flag samurai. The Lei family's treatment is so high that it spreads all over the world. The wild samurai who has not been selected by the regular army can be everywhere. As long as you are willing to save money, even the smallest flag samurai can recruit one or two retainers.

These wild samurai were afraid of being poor or wanted to use this to climb the samurai class. Even if they could afford food and accommodation and not pay their salary, they would be willing to be retainers.

However, these low-level warriors below the flag head are all the grassroots combat power of the standing army and need to stay in the military camp for many years. Even if you want to recruit samurai, you don’t have the time or place to settle retainers. Only those who can leave the military samurai who live in the military camp can recruit retainers if you are above the flag team.

Speaking of which, I have recruited five retainers within my ability. Some of the more crazy guys can directly take their retainers to attack the townships. Of course, such guys must be at least at the attendant or above.

According to a certain department, there is no need to send regular soldiers to attack other princes, just send out direct retainers above the Lei family flag team. These hundreds of warriors above the banner team can form a retainer unit of 30,000 to 40,000 people.

Although this is a bit exaggerated, it is also not too exaggerated. As far as he knows, a certain general-level adult in his family recruited more than 500 retainers. I really don’t know how this adult usually spends money. So there is no retainer troops of 30,000 or 40,000, but more than 20,000 does exist.

At this time, there must be many warriors who have been promoted to flag teams recruiting retainers. There must be many warriors who are busy cultivating feelings with retainers like themselves. Is the tavern much more popular? Of course, I believe that they are more like me to bring retainers to the weapon shop to select weapons.

On the Flying Crossing the Peninsula, the relationship between the lord and the ministers also seems a bit strange compared to other places.

When the power of the lord is weak, the ministers will do their best to assist the lord loyally, and dying for the lord is the goal pursued by the ministers. However, if the lord is powerful and the ministers themselves have territory and retainers, the relationship between the lord and the ministers becomes guarded against each other. If the lord is not powerful enough or appears cowardly, the ministers will not only turn to others or even scheme for rebellion.

In fact, it is not surprising that the two extreme relationships between monarch and ministers appeared on Feidu Peninsula. Although the monarch and powerful ministers had such a relationship, under the covetous eyes of the two major countries, each of the retainers who owned the territory was the target of soliciting the two major countries. If they were coercive and tempted by the two major countries, they would become ambitious people if they had no ambitions.

Anyone who sees his subordinates considering it for him will be very pleased, but because of the relationship between building relationships and increasing combat effectiveness, Saburo Ono still shook his head and smiled: "It doesn't matter, a few weapons are nothing. I can afford your lord, and you have the weapon to make achievements for my Ono family."

Speaking of his family name, Saburo Ono couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. Who would have thought that more than a year ago, he was just a bandit who had no surname and was like a rat crossing the street?

Of course, Saburo Ono will not admit this origin, and now all the samurai who are from the Lei family bandits will not admit it.

Their external unification is: they are from a retainer of the Lei family tree, and the entire family has been loyal to the Lei family for hundreds of years. This statement is recognized by the people in the Lei family territory. As for what is happening outside the Lei family territory, it is not the Lei family warriors who care about it.

Thinking of this, Saburo Ono said generously: "Boss, give me fifteen such standard machetes."

Among the five retainers, a man with a shrewd face and a thin body but strong muscles hurriedly advised: "Lord, you can get captured on the battlefield to replace it. Just two moves per person, and you don't have to waste one."

Saburo Ono thought for a while and smiled, "Well, that's true, Shinda, since you are so careful, then I will leave my family's money and grain expenditure to you."

Ono Saburo doesn't care about appointing his retainers at will. He only has an annual salary and a monthly salary. His family is also a small courtyard, and he doesn't have a maid or a wife yet. He can do whatever he wants to take care of these troubles. Anyway, he can choose talents like the lord, so if he can't do it well, he will change the person.

And in this way, you can tell who has real materials. If you can find someone to recommend it, you will make great contributions and the generous rewards will immediately fall on yourself.

The retainer Shinda immediately knelt down with joy and thanked him, while the other four retainers looked annoyed, envious and jealous. In this way, Shinda was the chief retainer of the Ono family.

"This adult, every machete is always the same as every slash." The equipment store owner rubbed his hands with a smile on his face.

The five retainers immediately widened their eyes. Such a good machete is always worth it? How could it be so cheap? You must know that this is the standard sword of a warrior, and it is impossible to buy it without a ten-stop outside.

Of course, Saburo Ono knew why his subordinates were in this state. While handing the boss a golden thunder coin, he explained: "This is a discount that only the Lei family samurai has. Because these standard equipment and weapons are produced by the Lei family, they only charge materials. Of course, there is no such discount if you buy other types of weapons."

The five retainers were stunned again. This was equivalent to the master's family equiping the retainers of the warriors for free. Could it be that the Lei family is so rich?

When he went out with his weapons, Saburo Ono suddenly slapped his head and said, "I almost forgot, Shi Tian, ​​you five went to the granary on the East Street to transport my salary back this year. This is a book to receive food." He said that.

Doing more work and making more contributions is what Xinting desires most, so the five people in Citian immediately took the note and left excitedly.

Looking at the back of the retainers, Saburo Ono smiled proudly. This was a method learned from his superiors, allowing these retainers to intuitively understand how much the lord's salary is, which can make the retainers full of confidence in the lord. Thinking about the excitement when he brought back the big white rice as high as a hill, he could understand it.

Of course, this method is also agreed with it, because through the mouths of retainers from all directions, we can promote it to the whole world that the warriors of the Lei family have generous treatments that other vassal warriors cannot match, thereby attracting more talents to surrender.

Generally speaking, retainers under the princes who have no territory either have a salary of grain or a salary of money. Only a very small number of people can have two types of salary. Those who own territory are completely support themselves, and the master will not give any salary after the territory is enthroned.

It’s not like the Lei family, where all the direct retainers are from the grain and the money is from the same salary, and the money is still the monthly salary, not like the grain and the annual salary.

In other words, the samurai of the Lei family's flag team can get twenty stones of white rice and sixty stagnant coins a year, which is equivalent to the treatment of some middle-level samurai soldiers of the princes. However, although there is still a salary after enthroning the territory, it is not easy to get the stone high territory enthroned to the family.

Of course, for the ambitious people, the Lei family's system is not so suitable. Because they can still receive salary after obtaining the territory, the saying that once they have territory is equivalent to half of the princes was shattered in the Lei family. This made people who want to obtain territory and wait for an opportunity to be independent without the excuse of being open and upright.

In the inner city of Qingyue City, when the whole city was busy due to expansion, only the place was maintained a peaceful and quiet atmosphere. The head of the Lei family was leaning under a big tree in the courtyard, leaning half-resisting toward one head, lying on the ground, occasionally swaying its tail, reading books with a leisurely expression.

Xiang Wen, who has changed his career as the head of a personal guard, waved his fan gently to cool down Cons. However, Xiang Wen's attention is not on Cons at this moment, but instead he looks at the nearby situation from time to time.

In the corners of the corridor under the shade of trees, you can see dozens of fully armed and press the handle of the knife in hot weather. You can look at the guards around you with all kinds of guards.

Seeing his subordinates competing, Xiang Wen smiled with satisfaction. Seeing these sweaty subordinates, he was not without compassion, but the time for these guards was at a loss, and there would naturally be a next group of people who would change shifts. He didn't have to be responsible for these small matters, as the leader.

Not far from Cons, in a beautiful pavilion built in a lotus pond, more than a dozen pretty maids were waiting for the three women like butterflies. However, it was said that they were serving the three, but most of the maids were called around by a red-haired beauty, while the other two women were reading quietly on the side, and occasionally chatting softly.
Chapter completed!