At this moment, Mu Zheng, the head of the Mu family in Tianshou Pavilion in Liaoshui City, was pinching his eyebrows in distress, while his younger brother Mu Xiu was also sitting below with a frown.

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

"Oh, why is this happening?" Mu Zheng replied casually.

Mu Xiu knew that he had wasted his saliva just now, so he had to continue saying: "It's not because of the high salary of the Qin army that Qingshui led all the wandering wild warriors to the Qin family to join the army."

"Then let's hire mercenaries?" Mu Zheng 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 the city of Liaoshui. This is 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 afford to hire mercenaries at all." Mu Xiu said with a glaring eyes.

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

"All of the Qin family's bastards! What kind of standing army system is used, and the treatment is so high! Now everyone learns this trick in the entire Southeast 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?" Mu Zheng 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 the Qin army, which has not moved for several months, has begun to mobilize. Seeing that they are 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." Mu Xiu reminded.

"Oh, I know this. I didn't expect that the things that our forces near the Qin family had been worried about finally happened. In the past, there were two major powers to suppress them, and whoever emerged would be over. But now the empire is in chaos and the alliance is busy taking advantage. After no one suppressed them, the princes on our side should be swallowed up quickly.

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

"Brother, don't you notice it. The Qin family's blatant mobilization of troops is impossible to know about the local tyrants, and they who were also robbed by the Qin family cannot not know about the strength of the Qin family's military strength.

"Since that's the case, why do they still occupy the land on a large scale? I wonder if the Qin family comes in, all these lands belong to the Qin family?" Mu Xiu carefully considered the sentence.

After mumbling for a moment, Mu Zheng 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 Qin family enter the country? To ensure their territory?" But after saying that, Mu Zheng rejected it himself: "The Qin family cannot allow them to divide the Shigaojiao in Liaoshui City!"

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

"I think they will give half of the Shigao to beg the Qin 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." Mu Xiu said.

When Mu Zheng heard this, he immediately scolded: "Damn it! He actually sold my Mu family's territory? Damn! It's better to sell it to you than to sell it! Mu Xiu, you go to Mingyue City immediately and ask the Qin family to surrender!"

"Yes!" A hint of joy flashed in Mu Xiu'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 Qin family, and that his territory would sooner or later be annexed by the Qin 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?" Mu Xiu asked hurriedly. This is related to the future interests of the Tian family.

"We will offer the entire territory of Liaoshui City!" Mu Zheng's words made Mu Xiu stunned and gave out all his territory? Then what should his family eat?

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

"Yes, the lord is wise!" Mu Xiuxin bowed to the ground in convincingly.

The inner city of Mingyue City.

"The lord is here!"

Juan, including Deo and others immediately lowered their heads and shouted: "See Lord Zhao Hu."

Not long after Zhao Hu came back, his real name and surname were spread out, and no one cared that it was an outsider who ruled Mingyue City.

Just like the civil strife in the empire, fists are the king. Now Zhao Hu is the biggest fists nearby, so no one else dares to mutter anything.

Zhao Hu, dressed up properly, sat in the main seat accompanied by Zhou Wen. He originally wanted Zhou Wen to become a retainer, but Zhou Wen immediately refused to become a retainer after knowing that his retainer could not be with his lord all day long. Zhao Hu had no choice but to agree.

In this way, Zhou Wen, who had no rank or Shi Gao, actually served as the head of the inner court while also serving as the head of the inner guard.

Everyone who always regarded him as a beauty had no objection to this point, but instead looked as if he was taken for granted.

"Well, you all started with me, so I won't say much about the scene." Zhao Hu nodded to Zhou Wen after he finished speaking.

When he was in the empire, Zhao Hu still remembered that he was a soldier and had rules in his words and deeds. After returning to the only Mingyue City, Zhao Hu, who was no one standing above his head, naturally acted as a monarch.

Zhao Hu was not uncomfortable with this because he had been a monarch here for almost a year, and now he was just reliving this feeling.

Zhou Wen took out a volume of documents and opened them to clear his throat.

First, the usual opening speech, and after expressing the intention of this order, the formality and legal effect of the order, Zhou Wen directly read the most concerned thing for everyone: "Dio, with a general of the rank, received five hundred stones, a monthly salary of one hundred coins, a family was granted one thousand stones, and was appointed as the chief supervisor of the Foreign Court.

"Sun Jie, the rank of general, received five hundred stones, a monthly salary of one hundred stalemate, and his family was granted one thousand stones, and he was allowed to follow the information.

"Locke, with a rank of general, was awarded five hundred stones, a monthly salary of one hundred stalemate, and his family was granted one thousand stones, and he was appointed as the official of the First Infantry Battalion."

Deo, Sun Jie, Locke, Luo Fei and Lao Dao were all named generals, and the family was enfeoffed by 1,000 stones. In other words, there were twelve retainers directly under the Qin family who had hereditary territories at once.

However, everyone was not surprised by this. What surprised them was why the territory was enthroned so few. You should know that bad people like Mode had fiefs of five thousand stones, and the confidants of these lords were only one thousand stones?

However, everyone obviously did not expect that it was because they were Zhao Hu's confidants who were only one thousand stones.

Originally, Zhao Hu wanted to give these twelve people the family's elders, and each of them gave 10,000 stones, but they refused to accept it and told some great reasons to refute Zhao Hu. In the end, he had no choice but to compromise with the conditions of the general level and the fief of Qianshi.

However, this effect is also very obvious, because it is indeed difficult to obtain the territory. The retainers who come to watch the ceremony are secretly deciding to make undisputed achievements.

Unlike these retainers who thought, Mo De looked proud. Hehe, although everyone has the same rank, I have five times more territory than you. I am the undisputed second retainer in my family. I will never have to look at your face again.

However, Nangong Dun, the retainer with the most territory, did not have the good mood of Mode. He knew very well what these twelve retainers occupy in the lord's heart, and it would be enough to just look at the position they held.

Needless to say, Zhou Wen, although he has no rank or Shi Gao, he will not underestimate him. The head of the inner court is responsible for all the things in the lord's inner house; the head of the inner guard is in charge of all the Qin family's most powerful internal martial arts warriors, and even the elusive secret guards may be controlled by him. It is truly powerful.

Dio, the chief supervisor of the Foreign Court, that is, the Qin family's servant recruitment, procurement of supplies and other tedious matters. Although he looks like a steward, his power is really small.

Not to mention Sun Jie, just a position that can be expressed. He is responsible for external and internal intelligence. Who knows that he has any secrets in his hands can be said to be the one who keeps his retainers the most alert.

Locke, Luo Fei and Lao Dao are not bad yet. They all hold military positions, which seems to be no different from other retainers. But looking at their military positions together is equivalent to firmly grasping the military power of all direct troops, it can prove the lord's trust in them.

However, when will the lord's direct troops be changed to the battalion-level system? Is it possible that one camp is organized?

In this case, why only four infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion officer were granted?

Moreover, the troops of the infantry and cavalry battalions are also very different, right? Do you want to build a framework first and then slowly recruit troops?

From these points of view, it can be confirmed that these twelve retainers are the real important officials of the Qin family.
Chapter completed!