Seeing the city, the cavalry slowed down and began to run slowly. The city also found the cavalry. The six-meter-wide wooden door was slowly opened. Dozens of soldiers and several warriors were lined up on both sides of the gate, waiting quietly for the arrival of the cavalry.

As soon as the cavalry appeared at the gate, a soldier immediately stepped forward to hold the reins of the young knight, while the others knelt down under the leadership of several warriors and shouted: "Welcome the lord back to the city!"

The young knight who had turned over and dismounted, waved his hand and walked into the city. The soldiers were busy, and only those warriors followed the young knights.

The young knight looked up and saw the flag fluttering in the wind and leaning against the flag of the cavalry. He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Oh, the customs of many years have completely disappeared after the appearance of this lord. Who would have thought that the flag of the affiliated family would actually be added to the main family emblem."

"Lord, please be careful. This is the wise nature of the hall. In this way, who is your own force on the battlefield, even the peasant soldiers at the bottom can be seen at a glance. There will never be any trash of your own people fighting your own people." A warrior hurriedly said.

"Haha, the lord is very generous and will not deal with my Tian family just by such words."

The young knight, Tanaka, the leader of the Tian family, waved his hand with a smile.

After entering the lobby of the city, the master and servant sat down, Tanaka saw that there were only three retainers beside him, and he couldn't help feeling sad.

I think the retainers could fill the hall at the beginning, but who would have thought that they would accept the order to summon Mingyue City to fight but let their own strength go 90%? Now they have to surrender to their original enemies.

However, because of this, my second son, who has almost no future, can become the head of the family. I really don’t know whether to hate or thank the Qin family.

Tanaka, who was thinking about random things, saw that his retainers were all lowering their heads and wondering what they were thinking. He broke the silence and asked, "Is there nothing wrong with my family during my visit?"

"Please rest assured, lord, everything in the family is as stable as before." The three retainers said.

"Lord, don't you know if this interview will go smoothly?" asked an older retainer.

"It went smoothly. I waited for a week and was received by my lord alone." Tanaka's tone was calm.

"Congratulations to the lord, you can actually meet alone. The Ming Hall attaches great importance to the lord." The retainers hurriedly congratulated.

"It's nothing. All the wealthy families who maintain their family ranks have been received by the lord. It's just a means to win over foreign retainers." Tanaka didn't care.

"My lord is careful. The Dadian family has no foreign retainers now, because since the lord has accepted the salary from the Dadian, he is a direct retainer. Do you think, except for the former nobles and a few important officials, who has a real leader in the Dadian now? So as long as you make meritorious contributions, it is not impossible to become a prince of Wanshi." The retainer hurriedly advised.

Tanaka thought for a while and smiled, "Well, this is true, haha, those retainers were happily prepared to exercise their lordship after obtaining Shigao, but suddenly realized that in addition to being able to use various resources and own a piece of residential land, they would not be able to mobilize even a lord's people.

"I went to Master Fengxing to find out that Shi Gao, who was enthroned to them, actually refers to the amount of food that can be obtained after collecting the grain, rather than the territory that is taken for granted."

"Hmph, they really thought that territory was so easy to obtain? When the hall was enthroned, the ministers thought there was something wrong with it. How could they enthrone the family and individuals? In hindsight, they found that the hall was also clear."

"I think this should be the case. Only Shi Gao, who was enthroned to the family, is considered a territory. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess? After the matter was revealed, the upstarts who had looked down on us, immediately looked at us differently."

"Haha, this person has heard of it. After hearing this, the upstarts were all stunned. After that, most of the upstarts formed their own families."

The retainers also catered to the jokes of the upstarts. The old rich families looked down on the upstarts who were not long ago, but now they are the same lord, so they can only laugh at them privately.

"Well, okay, this time I received a mission. The lord asked us families with real leaders to send soldiers to obey orders and commands at the ratio of ten stones." Tanaka patted his legs and said.

As soon as these words were spoken, the three retainers immediately glared at each other, and then asked with joy and nervous expressions: "Lord, is the war finally going to start in the hall?"

"Although I can't guarantee that I'll leave like before, I'm probably 80% sure I'll occupy the land I'll capture this time. After all, a large number of upstarts do not have real leaders, so the lord must need land to stabilize them." Tanaka said.

"Okay! Finally, I'm waiting for the day to make achievements! Lord, when will the request of the hall arrive?" A retainer jumped up excitedly.

"Well, today is fifteen days later, and my family will gather at the Kawashima Road." Tanaka thought for a while and said.

"Time is tight. My family actually receives 1,500 stones, and needs to pay 150 people; and now there are 60 regular soldiers. After deducting the 30 people who need to stay, 120 peasant soldiers need to be recruited. Well, there is no problem with weapons."

A retainer muttered for a while and said, "Lord, there is no problem with my family completing the task. But these peasants and soldiers have not been trained and can only behave like this. If you really want to make merits, you still can't count on them."

"Well, I left ten regular soldiers and twenty peasant soldiers to stay behind, and the cavalry team also brought them. The merits of my family will be taken by me in person." Tanaka said.

"Yes, according to the convention, one cavalry is equivalent to five peasant soldiers. If there are these fourteen cavalry, we only need..." Before the retainer finished his words, he was interrupted by Tanaka: "No, we will recruit 150 peasant soldiers. We don't need to worry about these things."

"Yes, it's my ignorance." The retainer hurriedly apologized for guilt. Now is not the Mingyue City era in the past, but the Qin family era.

The Qin family emphasizes that if you have merits, you will be punished. Even if these fourteen cavalrymen are destroyed, as long as they make meritorious service, the rewards they receive will be enough to form several such cavalry teams immediately. This is a role model, and there is no need to be as petty about their own losses as before.

Seeing that the matter was explained, Tanaka smiled relaxedly and said, "Haha, no wonder those upstarts tried hard to get real titles. After all, only families with real titles can have a single military unit. All the merits established in this way are monopolized.

"Unlike now, those upstarts can only lead their lord's direct soldiers to fight, and the merits they get must be divided from top to bottom, and when they get to the hands, they will only have a pitiful contribution."

"The main hall has maintained the tradition of the Southeast Peninsula well in this regard." The retainers all catered to it.

"But there are more things that have been changed." Tanaka sighed secretly.

In the past, a wealthy family like me could be lip service to the master's family. After all, I was just a foreign minister of the master's family in name and had never received the salary from the master's family. No one would blame him even if he was a fence-bearer.

But now that he is receiving the salary of the master and belongs to the master's direct minister, he should not be a fence-bearer. Just a lip service is enough to destroy the family.

However, although Tanaka complained about the Qin family, he was not an ignorant person. Looking at the Qin family's tens of thousands of professional troops trained by actual combat, and looking at the princes who were still using peasant soldiers, you will know how strong the two sides are.

In addition, the Qin family tried every means to increase their wealth and supplies, and the inventory they knew was enough to ensure that the Qin family would go to war all day long. Since they were such an extremely powerful subordinate, it depends on how they rely on these advantages to make achievements and earn a rich family property for their descendants.

From the Qin family's head landing in a big way to meeting all subordinates and then the army began to mobilize, all those who have been paying attention to the Qin family are very clear about it.

Because of the existence of the Qin family, the nearby princes, who were peaceful when other princes were killed, sighed. The Qin family finally planned to take action. This time, they might not have sent people to rob and retreated like before.

Liaoshui City is a symbolic city of a force near the Qin family, and the Mu family owns this city.

Although the Mu family's territory is like Mingyue City, unfortunately, there are no excellent ports in the territory, only a few piers. However, even so, relying on these piers, you can still get rid of the smuggling business of Mingyue City, the neighbor.

But after the Master of Mingyue City was replaced by the Qin family, it would be unlucky.

The first goal of the Qin family naval army after its establishment was to take advantage of the Mu family naval army, which dared to take advantage of the Mu family naval army. In one round, it also occupied these wharfs.

However, I don’t know if it was the intimidation of the Mu family army or the Qin family’s docks were not seen by the Qin family, but the Qin family’s naval army demolished the wharf and left.

These wharves have never been rebuilt again. What's the use of building them? The sea surface here has become the sphere of influence of the Qin family's naval army.

The lack of this profitable part is not counted, but the blood is even worse. The Mu family is angry at the Qin family. When they heard that other princes wanted to make the Qin family, they immediately excitedly participated in one.

But the result was that not only did it cause the loss of troops and generals, but it also plundered all the family's savings for many years, and also began a harassment war that lasted for more than half a year.

Now, although the signs of princes are still on the surface, they are actually just local tyrants. The foreign retainers who do not have their own affairs, and even the direct retainers have begun to disobey them.
Chapter completed!