Mo De glanced first and found that Zhou Wen was not there, and hurriedly said, "Lord, the cavalry team has been more than ten minutes long, and it is probably already fighting against the enemy. Lord, these people are the bandit leaders who have reported to you, who are willing to be loyal to the lord. Their subordinates are fighting bravely against the enemy at this moment. This time, the lord's plan will be successful and will be more help from them."

Of course, Mode dares not hide the credit of the leaders now. Are you not afraid of them clamoring to cause trouble for themselves?

"Oh, these are the bandit leaders?" Zhao Hu glanced at the leaders.

These leaders didn't know what to do, but they seemed to feel Zhao Hu's gaze and immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "See sir."

"Oh, get up. Well, with your help, I can lead the army of Mingyue City out. Do you have any requirements?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Sir, the villain begs you to include us as your retainers. You are willing to be loyal to you to your destiny!" The leaders hurriedly knelt down and requested.

Zhao Hu smiled and said, "Get up, I agree."

He couldn't refuse, after all, he was working hard with his subordinates.

The leaders immediately shouted happily: "Thank you lord for your love!" Then they jumped up, tidy up their clothes, and gave a big gift to worship: "See lord!"

Zhao Hu waved his hand while pinching his eyebrows.

He just couldn't understand why people always surrendered to him and wanted to be his own retainer? What did this guy work so hard, but he wanted to get? He was just a retainer? He didn't believe it if he said it!

Well, it seems that I have to ask about the retainers system on the Southeast Peninsula. Although I will not stay on the Southeast Peninsula for a long time, these retainers have to be arranged. I don’t know how to arrange the situation?

Zhao Hu waved to Mo De, and Mo De came forward happily and knelt on the ground, while the leaders took a few steps back obediently.

"Master, what are your instructions?" Mode asked respectfully, he was very proud of himself. How about it?

You new retainers should know how honorable I am, right?

"Tell me what's going on with this system of keepers? Why do bandits hope to become retainers so much? And with your people, you can rely on anyone, so why do you have to surrender to me?" Zhao Hu asked.

Mode was stunned immediately, and quickly turned his head and looked at it for a while before whispering: "Lord, this system of keepers is actually a political system with family as the bond. As for our bandits' desire to become retainers, it is because we are eager to obtain land."

He didn't dare let others hear that his lord didn't even know what his retainer was.

Zhao Hu was a little surprised: "It's just for the land? You are strong and powerful, won't you occupy a piece of land by yourself? Do you have to have a lord? Even if you can't occupy it, you can buy it."

"Lord, the land on the Southeast Peninsula is not sold, and every place has a symbol of sovereignty. For example, the symbol of this land is Mingyue City. Without the wizardry of the lord of Mingyue City, the land we obtain is illegal. Not only will the civilians not recognize our ownership, but other forces will not recognize it.

"After the lord seized Mingyue City, the land that was enfeoffed to us will be legal, so that the civilians will surrender to us. After our subordinates owned the land, they also changed from bandits to civilians. Ah, and, after the land was enfeoffed, if the subordinates did not pursue rebellion, the lord could not take back the land."

Mo De said that afterwards, he looked at Zhao Hu a little nervously. He was afraid that Zhao Hu would only give money to his retainers but not land. The first goal he pursued was land, and the second was money.

"How much land is usually divided into retainers? How many levels are retainers divided into?" Zhao Hu was determined and continued to ask.

Mode was a little dizzy, and the lord didn't even know the level of the retainer? However, it is normal for people who don't even know the system of retainers, so he explained carefully: "It is generally divided into six levels: the leader of the group, the captain, the deputy general, the general, the middle-aged and the elders of the family. The lowest level of retainers is the leader of the group, and the territory is about fifty stones.

"The lord's direct troops, that is, the flag bank, also have so many territories, and the captain is between 100 and 200 stones, the deputy general is usually about 500 stones, the general is about 1,000 stones, the senior elder is about 5,000 stones, and the family elders are usually tens of thousands of stones. If there is more, it depends on the merits made to increase the reward."

Mode said carefully that he was very smart and deliberately expressed the convention from many years ago. In fact, most of the retainers of the forces now only had the territories that symbolized their identity when they became retainers. In the future, the increase of retainers would increase their salary, that is, money, and a very small number of people who made great contributions would increase their territory.

This is mainly because the main brains of other forces are not stupid. Who would divide the land completely? You should know that if you divide it, you can't get it back, and it's better to give it money.

"Stone? Based on grain output? Not calculated based on land area?" Zhao Hu said in surprise.

Judging from the fertility of this land, fifty stones do not have many acres of land.

Mo De understood Zhao Hu's surprise and hurriedly explained: "In fact, the salary of fifty stones is not worth a lot of money. There are not many retainers on the Southeast Peninsula who rely on that little food to make a living, and most of them rely on other industries to make a living.

"But land is a symbol of identity. A private soldier can be recruited with a five-stone salary. Residents rely on private soldiers to achieve success. Without private soldiers, they cannot obtain merits and improve their status, because once the lord is summoned, retainers with territory need to send troops."

"Oh, so, as long as the land is divided, you don't have to worry about these retainers? But according to this kind of feudalization, the divided land is the heirloom of the retainers, but what should I do with the lord's taxes?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Well, the lord usually leaves a piece of land as a direct leader." Mo De said a little panickedly. He didn't dare to say how much this piece was.

It’s not good to say too much, but it’s really troublesome to say that the guild will get angry if it’s less.

"Haha, I don't know how many stone territory you want to obtain, Mode? Remember when you surrendered to me, I didn't give you any level. According to convention, I'm the lowest-level team leader, right?" Zhao Hu said with a smile.

"My subordinates have no contributions and dare not think about it, so they let the lord arrange it." Mo De kowtowed in a cold sweat.

What he was most worried about was this. Although he was the first to surrender to Zhao Hu, he was just a plan to settle down and didn't care. Now he thought he was just a leader! The lord wouldn't give each person fifty stones to deal with? Then how could he support dozens of retainers who called him lords!

"Okay, let's talk about these things after capturing Mingyue City. I will arrange them according to my achievements." Zhao Hu saw Zhou Wen and others appearing in the distance, and stood up and said.

"yes."

Mo De secretly decided that he would make great contributions later. Now is not the time to pursue the position of the city lord, but to decide how much territory he can obtain.

Back to the war ahead, although the commander of the Mingyue Army who was in the rear shouted when he saw the cavalry attacking the spearmen: "Archers can shoot arrows!" But when he pulled the bow and shot out, the cavalry was already in front of him. The only ones who were shot by these bows were the bandits who rushed in with the cavalry.

Although the archers were protected by swords, they were unable to protect themselves. The archers almost pulled the strings once, and were killed by the cavalry.

The archers who knew that melee combat with cavalry were equal to seeking death immediately avoided the attacks of the cavalry. The sword soldiers who were still fighting, found that the commander who was jumping happily died after being penetrated by an arrow shot by unknown people, joined the ranks of dodging, and the entire formation immediately collapsed.

The cavalry team did not stay in the Mingyue Army formation. After running for a while through the sword bow formation, they turned around before turning. However, this time they did not charge, but put away the swords and guns and pulled the bow and fired.

After shooting a few arrows in a row, Lao Dao found that the Mingyue Army was in chaos. He either dodged around or competed with the bandits in groups of three or three, and had completely lost the organization.

Seeing these, Lao Dao stepped forward and shouted: "Surrender and don't kill!"

However, his words caused several low-level officers of the Mingyue Army to shout: "Don't listen to him, fight me to the death for the sake of his lord!"

These officers didn't know that their shouts not only did not resonate with the soldiers, but instead exposed themselves.

He just finished shouting, and immediately let the old knife shoot to death.

Lao Dao shook his bow disdainfully and continued to shout: "Submit to avoid death!"

Several archers who knew that they had no hope of escaping but were unable to sacrifice their lives, and at the same time felt that they were very weak immediately threw away the bow and arrow and shouted: "Don't kill me, I surrender!"

Lao Dao pointed to a piece of open space next to him and said to the archers: "Go and stay there."

The archers immediately ran to the open space carefully and hurried in the corner in horror.

When Lao Dao saw that no one else surrendered, he waved his hand and thousands of sharp arrows bit into the flesh of the Mingyue soldiers waving their weapons.

Then, dozens of cavalrymen shouted again to surrender and avoid death. This move immediately made the Mingyue soldiers beside them surrender hundreds of people.

The servants from the grassland were very good at this kind of threatening surrender, and they didn't care about their own side, and they just persuaded thousands of Mingyue troops to surrender.

Under the influence of such attacks and the excitement of the bandits, the Mingyue Army, whose morale has been destroyed, finally surrendered after three volleys, and rushed to surrender to the cavalry because the bandits did not accept surrender and still killed the captives.

If it weren't for those little leaders who knew their boss' intentions to stop them, I'm afraid that these killing bandits would not only run to the cavalry to chase, but even aim their weapons at the cavalry team.
Chapter completed!