Pioneering

Chapter 64 Status of the Territory
As for the army, there are four main types of armies in the fantasy world: knights, standing army, levies, and mercenaries.

Knights are generally the lord's personal guards, composed entirely of junior and intermediate trainee knights, and are directly managed by the lord.

There are also a small number of knights who have reached the level of senior trainee knights. Due to insufficient credit or tight territory, these strong men have not obtained the title of feudal knights, so they take important positions in the knights.

For this kind of guard-like knight order, the lord not only needs to pay a high monthly salary, but also needs to provide additional supplies such as clothes for four seasons, a large amount of meat, and knight secret medicine.

The knights are expensive, but as the most loyal and powerful private army, every lord spares no effort to build his own knights.

Entering the cavalry regiment of the great aristocrats, and then being awarded the title of knight for meritorious service, is also the preferred path for many aristocratic offshoots and illegitimate children.

The Knights of the Schuster Family reached a maximum of more than 600. After being cleaned by Zhong Ming, there were only more than 600 soft-boned surrenders.

The rest are die-hard loyalists who want to bite Zhong Ming with their last breath.

The loyalty of the Knights is beyond doubt.

Zhong Ming didn't dare to use this extraordinary army, but it was a pity to kill it, so he simply broke up and mixed into the standing army in Moant City.

Zhong Ming would rather cultivate his extraordinary troops from scratch than use the remnants of the Schuster family knights.

Even if they are soft bones that surrendered, who knows if they will miss the old master one day after drinking too much horse urine and do something.

The standing army is a full-time army stationed in various cities and villages. It is composed of a small number of knights and extraordinary soldiers, and most of them are non-extraordinary soldiers. They act as guards and security forces.

Under normal circumstances, a village has [-] to [-] standing troops, a town has [-] to [-] standing troops, and a city has [-] to [-] standing troops.

Moant City, as the core city of the earldom, once had a standing army of more than 4000, but after cleaning and sweeping, Zhong Ming only took over 2000.

In recent years, the human kingdom has vigorously promoted the knight breathing method in the standing army. As long as they can cross the threshold of apprentice knights, no matter where the standing army is, they have the opportunity to enter the lord's knight order.

The conscripts are simple, consisting of freedmen, serfs and criminals called up temporarily, but the Principality of Andreia prohibits the slave trade, and there are no serfs.

Conscripts are often used as cannon fodder for siege or auxiliary soldiers for transporting food and grass, which are large in number but low in combat effectiveness.

The mercenary group is a mercenary organization led by some extraordinary knights. It is so strong that it can even change the situation of a war;
The weak mercenary group is also really weak, so weak that they can't even beat the garrison of a town.

Zhong Ming thought, perhaps he should carry out a wave of large-scale conscription and replacement of troops, so as to further wash away the imprint of the Schuster family, and cultivate a group of qualified armed forces to strengthen the rule.

Devon currently has six cities, 130 three towns, and more than 3000 villages.

In the magical world, cities must have castles, so whether it is the super-large city of Moant or the remaining five cities, there are castles.

Estimated from the amount of tax revenue in previous years, the urban population should be more than 70.

130 three towns, 56 of which have castles.

Estimated from the amount of tax revenue in previous years, the population of the town should be more than 300 million.

There are 3000 and 500 villages. Based on the amount of tax revenue in previous years, the total population of the villages should be more than [-] million.

The total population of Devon should be around 900 million.

Before Zhong Ming's purge, there were 3 viscounts, 28 barons, more than 100 feudal knights, and the population directly controlled by non-county lands was around 300 million.

After Zhong Ming's purge, there were no viscount nobles, 13 barons, more than 500 feudal knights, and the population directly controlled by non-county counties dropped to 40 million.

Moreover, the surviving nobles, after the massacre by Laerton before his death, and the payment of plea fines to the Principality, their force and financial resources were greatly weakened.

It can be said that [-]% of the population and [-]% of the land in Devon County are under the direct jurisdiction of the Earl's Mansion under Zhong Ming's command.

According to the support of 1000 people for one extraordinary knight, he can form a knight order of seven to eight thousand people.

But in fact, in the role of security and guarding, at least half of the financial and material resources must be allocated to support the standing army.

And there are administrative expenses and infrastructure maintenance costs.

Therefore, he can form a knight order of up to 3000 people.

Of course, if he spared no effort to use the tinder box treasure to support the construction of the territory, raising ten thousand knights would not be a problem.

However, it is not necessary.

It is almost enough to transfer a small part of the initial funds for the development of the territory.

Exploding [-] trainee knights in a short period of time is not enough to train a full-fledged wizard.

I currently have no plans to seize the Principality of Andreia by force, at least not for the time being.

The divine kingship of the human kingdom is no joke.

If he really did this, not to mention whether he was sure of taking down the royal family of Prince Andreoia with extraordinary background, even if he took it down, he would have to be attacked by all the human countries on the mainland.

The vassal has taken the seat of the lord, this is the next step!This is not taking royal power seriously!
If you do this, what do other human kingdoms think?What do other vassals and lords, big and small, think?
Do we still want the aristocratic order of mankind?

It is still reliable to marry the beautiful Princess Morisa, a beautiful country, killing two birds with one stone!
My next step is to continue to recruit and train talents, improve the law code, and expand the army to the average level of the earldom.

When the situation stabilizes, before going to Kalindia City to find his future father-in-law to propose marriage, it is best to leave Keshalena and Ange in the territory and go with her token.

With two oil bottles, it seriously affected my speed.

If he rode the Void Hound alone to the city of Carindia, he would have lost track of how many round trips he had made.

Besides, as the great nobleman of the Principality of Andreia, the old rival of the Principality of Yige, he is too conspicuous with a group of people, and it will be troublesome to run away if he encounters any danger.

Oh, and I have to go back to Ant City to marry Shanna Miller.

Poor Shanna is still waiting for her lover to marry her with glory and territory.

　The magical world is a big place, and it is normal for the population to be larger...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)