Seeing that all the stubborn knights had put down their weapons, Zhao Hu began to command his soldiers to clean the battlefield. The dozen or so valuable tents sewn in sheepskin were all taken into account by Zhao Hu. Although I don’t know what the harvest was like in this battle, the dozen tents and the full armor of the knights alone made a considerable income.

Although the Marquis Cato was not captured alive this time, he was not allowed to run away. The body was also a lot of money. If the successor of the Cato family wanted to inherit the position of the head of the family legitimately, he would have to spend a lot of money to redeem the body of the old marquis.

Just as Zhao Hu was happily commanding the soldiers to clean the battlefield, his cheap father-in-law, Lord Liu Ming, was wearing a mess, wearing a ragged mail, and ran out of the castle with a dozen servants, hugging Zhao Hu with a grievance and howling. This made Zhao Hu, who was still cleaning up the battlefield, cursing angrily: "I'm fighting in blood in front, but you are here to negotiate with the enemy. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I will send someone to take back your territory!"

"Reclaim the territory? OK, OK, I don't want to stay in this broken place anymore. You can take my territory back. I'll be a knight at your disposal, which is better than staying here to endure the revenge of the Kesto family!"

Out of Zhao Hu's expectations, Lord Liu Ming not only did not have any fear when he heard that he wanted to take back his territory, but instead showed a look of joy. Even his originally embarrassed expression seemed to exude an exciting look, and he burst into tears of gratitude.

"Sir, you must give titles and land compensation to take back the territory of an independent lord!" Seeing his lord's face inexplicably dull, Adjutant Starn came over with awkward expression and explained in a low voice in Zhao Hu's ear.

"According to the imperial decree, to annex an independent lord's territory, it is necessary to give the lord some property and land compensation to continue the lord's bloodline." It is this decree that ensures that although there are sometimes constant wars within the imperial nobles, as long as they do not rebel against the emperor, the noble's bloodline can always be continued for a long time. Many knights themselves are descendants of the previous lords.

This time, Lord Liu Ming not only pretended to be a robber and robbed the caravan of the Kato family, but also colluded with the Falcons to ambush Marquis Cato, which led to the death of Marquis Cato in battle. Lord Liu Ming had long planned to run away, and if he stayed here, he would definitely be a dead end.

The revenge of a marquis family was not something that he could bear, a little lord. Now that his caring son-in-law was willing to take back his territory, Lord Liu Ming was ecstatic.

Just take it back. Fortunately, my cheap father-in-law only has three villages. Zhao Hu sighed secretly. The original owner of this body seemed to be really autistic and didn't even know a lot of popular knowledge.

"If possible, I want to meet my two fiancées!"

Zhao Hu sat down in Lord Liu Ming's castle hall. The two sides had just agreed to reclaim the territory. Zhao Hu assigned two villages to Lord Liu Ming from more than a dozen villages near his castle in exchange for Lord Liu Ming's three villages.

"Of course, but my two daughters are still learning aristocratic etiquette from Mrs. Vina of the Dream Castle. I am afraid I will not come back next autumn. At that time, I will bring them to pay homage to the adults immediately. They will be thirteen years old next year and will be able to hold their wedding." Lord Liu Ming picked up the village deed from the table and handed it to the adjutant Starn with a happy expression.

"Thirteen years old!" Lord Liu Ming's age spitting out of his mouth scared Zhao Hu, who was sitting on the hall's master's seat. After a long time, his fiancée and sister were still two thirteen-year-old girls.

"No hurry! No hurry! Since the agreement has been made, I will lead the army back first." Zhao Hu stood up from the main seat in embarrassment. Regardless of whether the sisters are beautiful or not, Zhao Hu is not as evil as to destroy the little girl.

"Sir, this battle killed a total of 138 ordinary soldiers and captured 17 knights. A total of 3,500 gold coins were received. Sixteen villages were allocated, with a population of 3,786,,,,,,"

Starn respectfully handed over a thick data sheet in his hand and the village head table to Zhao Hu. Starn knew that the battle in Lord Liu Ming's territory not long ago made his lord make a small fortune.

In order to redeem the body of the unlucky Marquis of Cato and the captured family knight squadron, the Cato family had to cut off thirteen nearby villages before they could redeem all the prisoners.

Except for the knight with red feathers floating on his head, he was the captain of the Marquis of Cato, the captain of the guard Stutt Iron Shield Knight. Due to the lord's aggrieved death, the captain Stutt had been deprived of the title of Iron Shield Knight by the new patriarch and became a entourage guard without territory.

Zhao Huting admired the loyalty and command ability of this knight captain Stu. If it weren't for Stu's organization of the panicked knights to resist tenaciously, these knights might have been defeated long ago.

Zhao Hu forced him to stay in the castle on the grounds that there was no ransom.

Because Marquis Kato met the Falcon family who invited Lord Liu Ming to help fight the bandits when he invaded Lord Liu Ming's territory, he died in a heroic duel.

According to the tradition of the Imperial Knights, this is a battle between two two knights with noble character and extremely brave character. It is a fair and sacred battle, and it is a thing worthy of preaching. Therefore, the Kato family cannot pursue the attacks of the Falcon family, unless the Kato family is willing to admit that their lord was thrown off the war horse and fell to death after being suddenly attacked. This will make the already embarrassing Kato family completely a laughing stock for the nobles.

"I only earned 2,000 gold coins after doing so many things. It seems that if I want to get rich, I still have to find a way from my own territory!" Zhao Hu simply looked through the report submitted by Starn. Although this battle has gained a lot, the expenses are also very high.

Due to the bounty marked before the war, these two battles consumed their bounty of nearly 600 gold coins. Moreover, after returning to the territory, these farmers who participated in the battle continued to run away. With a lot of money, who would still be willing to stay in the castle and work hard, they tried every means to run to their homes. In the end, only 200 peasant militiamen left with only 70 people left.

The hunters also retreated to the mountains to spend the winter under the leadership of the leader. Although the hunter leader promised that as long as he received his recruitment order, the hunters would come back immediately, these situations that had never been considered before made Zhao Hu question his idea of ​​"governing the army with money". Does it necessary for knights to truly form a standing army?

After thinking about it for three days, Zhao Hu promulgated his new policy "Land Reward System" in his territory.

"All soldiers who have participated in ten battles with the lord will be automatically promoted to sharp soldiers and transferred to the castle to serve as the lord's guards. The lord will allocate a piece of reward from the richest land near his castle.

All soldiers who have hunted more than three enemy heads in battle will automatically become the leader, and will serve as the three leader in the army. All soldiers who kill the opponent's knights in battle will become war soldiers. They will serve as the ten leader in the army, and will have the right to get one percent of the spoils after the war,,,,,”

"Money is the driving force that drives people's desires, and land is the foundation for retaining talents!"

This is the conclusion that Zhao Hu had been thinking hard for several days before he came to.

In this world with underdeveloped productivity, most farmers gather in villages, and in other places there are often large areas of wasteland, especially the "bare commander" who has no subordinates who even have a knight who has enfeoffed the enemy. It can be said that "the poorest ones are left with land.

Zhao Hu specially allocated piece of land on the edge of the river outside his castle to serve as the garrison and production of his castle garrison.

I am not rich and cannot always keep a large number of soldiers in the castle. It is better to draw out land for them to farm themselves. I only need to hand over a very small amount of food. I serve as soldiers in wartime, for the people in peacetime, and conduct military training after dinner every day.

This system of farming in the morning and training in the afternoon can not only allow the soldiers to support themselves, but also maintain a well-trained army for themselves, and can also drive the surrounding commercial trade. As before, the farmers will be led back to their territory by knights after they return from the battle.

The new policy issued by the lord shocked the farmers in the territory. Accepting the lord's reward of land has always been the privilege of the knight master. Now, as long as you join the lord's army, you will have the opportunity to get the lord's reward of the lord's land and you can also get the plunder of battle.

Farming in the garrison camp outside the castle requires only a small amount of food, which makes many extremely poor farmers feel that they have seen heaven and being able to eat enough is the lifelong dream of these extremely poor farmers.

With the free publicity of peasant militias that fled back, the peasants in the territory knew that their lord were the most generous person in this empire, and now this good reputation is even more famous. Everyone knows that their lord is a generous and keeping his word.

However, the list was posted for more than ten days, and there were more than 1,300 farmers gathered outside the castle and asked to join the army.

This shocked Zhao Hu, who was not mentally prepared, that even in the heyday of the Falcon family, the 1,000 soldiers had only made up for 800 military power, including more than 100 knights.
Chapter completed!