In Crag Rock City, all the servants are busy arranging the wedding of Jenny and the Magic Mountain, and in Count Gavin's study, a very 'chic' military meeting is being held.

He is called chic because there were two people in the military conference of the conscription who should not have attended: Count Leo Lyford of Golden Tooth City and Count Damon Malbran of Imprint City.

Damon Malbran's severed hand has been treated, and the wound has healed at a rare rate. This was secretly surprising to Master Asaph, but it was in a good mood for Gavin and Count Leo. Count Damon's own mood also changed from depressed and resentful to cold and arrogant, and his speech became bitter.

The Magic Mountain invited Count Leo and Count Damon to come and participate in his zhēngbīngjìhuá. One of the two counts readily agreed, and the other nodded with contempt in his eyes.

In Crag Rock, all the knights who were captured by the Magic Mountain overnight have been released, including Sir Adam Malbran of Imprint City, and all the families have returned all of the Westerling lands. Count Damon did not go because of the severed hand, and he needed the medical skills of the Asaphic Bachelor.

In this world, once a wound becomes infected and suppurated, there is only one way: death!

There is no anti-inflammatory ointment in this world, and after the scholars have done everything that needs to be done, whether the wound of the remaining person will be infected and suppurated, will be left to a more amazing doctor to decide: the Seven Gods.

Count Damon's severed hand was bleeding profusely, and when the bleeding stopped, Master Asaph's ability to heal was revealed, and Count Damon's wound healed at a very rare rate, which was surprising to Count Leo, Count Damon, and Count Gavin, who had been injured.

So, Count Damon stayed behind and was further treated by Master Asaph in Crag Rock.

In fact, Master Asaph himself was surprised and did not understand why Sir Damon's wounds healed so quickly.

And the Magic Mountain is very respectful and cordial to the two Counts Leo and Damon, as if there has never been any unhappiness between them, and Count Damon's severed hand seems to have nothing to do with the Magic Mountain.

No, Moshan wants to establish an infantry corps of 1,000 people on his father-in-law's territory, and the first step is, of course, to recruit soldiers, Moshan invited Count Leo and Count Damon to participate, he said, the two counts are very powerful military generals, and Moshan wants to hear their opinions.

Count Damon was naturally very pleased.

He had formed a grudge with the Magic Mountain and the Westerling family, and if Branded City wanted to retaliate in the future, he would be able to clearly know that the other party's forces would definitely only be good for him.

Count Leo is the only guest invited by the Magic Mountain to attend his family wedding, he has nothing to do anyway, the wedding will not be held until five days later, the Magic Mountain is invited, so come!

Count Gavin didn't agree to let both Leo and Damon come to this meeting, but when he faced the huge body of the magic mountain, he realized that he couldn't open his mouth, so Count Gavin nodded.

The training of the garrison and guards of Crag Rock City, and the recruitment of the Westerling family, are all led by the Magic Mountain. Neither Count Gavin nor Madame Hiberry were reluctant to conscript on such a large scale, for a simple reason: money!

It takes money to raise soldiers!

Raising a soldier is not easy.

Food, clothing, use, weapons, armor, training, and salaries, everything costs money.

The Westerlings found it difficult to raise 180 professional soldiers, not to mention the sudden need to add a thousand infantry.

Fortunately, it was infantry, and if it was cavalry, it would be even more staggering.

In peacetime, except for the four major families and a small number of large nobles who raised thousands of troops, the rest of the nobles did not raise professional soldiers except for the necessary guards.

For every one of his people is a soldier of the nobility.

Let the people make money, do things, mine, farm, hunt or fish, and let them feed themselves, but also feed the soldiers of the nobles. As soon as something happens, a military service order, these people have to obediently bring their own weapons to fight. Not only did it save a lot of money for the nobles, but it also earned a lot of tax revenue for the nobles.

It's really good to let your people live in the wilderness, especially for a middle-of-the-road aristocrat like Westerling. There is only one downside to this: when it comes to real war, the combat effectiveness of the assembled soldiers cannot be compared with that of professional legions, and many of these legions, once the general or centurion hangs up, or is slightly defeated, the entire legion is very easy to collapse.

This is not the case with professional legions, where a well-trained professional legion, if a general dies in battle, he will immediately be replaced by a lieutenant, and if a lieutenant dies in battle, a centurion will immediately be elected and continue to lead this gang of people. Even if they run for their lives, they will be different from the militia, and there will be people who will be elected as leaders in the ragged ranks, leading a group of people to continue to flee for their lives.

The snake can't be without a head, and the army is not in order!

However, if the serpent has only a head and no body, and the legion has only generals and no soldiers, the same will not work.

The Magic Mountain wants the Westerling family, not only generals without soldiers, but soldiers and generals must be trained, lived, grown, and professionalized together.

Because, in just one year, the war will break out mercilessly.

In the trajectory of the previous life, Crag Rock City would be easily taken by Robb Stark in the north. This time, however, Crag Rock will bring the flames of war to someone else's home.

And as for money, what could be a faster income than smuggling coins?

When the country is in chaos, the civil war breaks out, and the major families are fighting around, who else cares if the golden dragon you take out is privately minted or issued by the state?

The country's financial system will not collapse because of the war, because gold and silver, along with brass, have always been the hard currency of the country's money. Whether it is the past thousands of years of history, the three hundred years of Targaryen's rule in modern times, or the sixteen years of Robert Baratheon's reign, gold, silver, and bronze stars have been the hard currency of this continent.

The same is true of the continent of Essos, on the other side of the Narrow Sea.

There is gold in the hand, whether it is a round golden dragon, or a different style of gold coins minted by each country and each nation on the other side of the Narrow Sea, as long as it is made of gold, it is the hardest coin that can be zìyóu and circulate smoothly.

Casting a map of the territory of Crag Rock City on his desk, Magic Mountain began to check the number of people, families, and the ratio of men and women from area to area, and found a very important problem, all the people on the land mortgaged or sold to the surrounding nobles were richer, more well-manned, and more fertile than the people in the territory led by the Westerlings themselves. In addition, the number of households has increased by more than 200 on the original basis.

Because of the high birth rate, the number of people has grown.

The original estimate of 1,300 households has now become more than 1,500.

In this sense, the nobles bought the Westerlings' land at a very cheap price, but when they returned, the land had increased in value.

This is a more subtle 'legal income' than directly extorting the nobles, but it also shows that the Westerling family does not help their own people enough, or in other words, they completely ignore it because of the family's downfall, and let their people fend for themselves, which is the same as how the Magic Mountain treated its own people in the past. There was no help except for collecting taxes.

It's a no-no!

The war will break out in March of next year, and it will continue to be fought, a very long civil war, year after year, such a long war, and it will be necessary for the people to continue to provide strong taxes to support the war.

Therefore, while conscripting soldiers, there is also a need to consider enriching the people. Only by enriching the people can we strengthen the army.

In this damned era of semi-animal husbandry and semi-farming, the nobles needed to bring their own food and all the means of subsistence when they sent troops to fight. When those sub-militias go to war, they must bring their own swords and armor. If the people are poor, they can't even afford to buy slightly better swords, and the combat effectiveness of such an army is naturally very low.

There is no doubt that while conscripting, it is urgent to find ways to enrich the people!

But how to enrich the people?

This is a puzzle that has plagued the Westerlings for generations!

No solution!

However, the Magic Mountain, which is several levels higher than the civilization level, has gained the wisdom and inspiration to solve problems in the precious soil of Oriental Chinese history and culture.

Enrich the people and strengthen the army, he thought about it before he came, the victims will not, and the people who will will not be difficult!

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