casually found a position, because there was no one he knew, Yan Xu watched the game intently.

"Huh? How come there are no knights? Yan Xu didn't see the knights riding war horses and wearing plate armor, but many strong men dressed as warriors were fighting fiercely in the four venues, so he asked with some confusion.

"My lord, this is the first knockout match of the entire knight competition, which lasts for ten days, followed by a five-day advanced competition, these two games are mainly for those fighters who are not famous and are trying to get a good future, and the top three can even qualify for the real knight competition, which is equivalent to winning the title of knight, and they make a lot of money." Mogg pointed to a poor, sour warrior below, either shirtless or dressed in tattered metal.

"If they show enough strength during this period, it is not that the nobles who have no chance to watch value recruiting as family knights in advance, and even if they are not recruited by the nobles, there are many businessmen who come to watch the game, and it is good to be a guard in the Chamber of Commerce, and they can always eat a bowl of rice." Mogg is no stranger to these, and sometimes he will select some suitable people from them to join the green cloak, so he continued to explain to Yan Xu in detail.

"Not everyone can participate in the knight competition, at least knights with a certain reputation, their battle is the focus of this grand event, and therefore too many people pay attention, so it is difficult for some small nobles who are not strong enough to grab the important candidates from some powerful nobles. Therefore, the small nobles generally select people from the knockout or advanced rounds, which is more economical, and the big nobles don't look down on the origin of these poor ghosts, so they won't shoot with them. ”

may have seen that Yan Xu didn't know much about these common senses, Mogg gave a detailed explanation very intimately, and according to Yan Xu's small question, he would piggyback on everything involved, and if Yan Xu understood, he would skip the topic in time. In this way, Yan Xu doesn't need to open too much to understand many things he wants to know, and he won't seem to be ignorant, it can be seen that Moge's eyes and eloquence are not as deep as his grasp of human feelings.

The more Yan Xu listened, the more he admired the Bos family, and it was hard to imagine that they had such a vision in such an ignorant and backward era.

In Yan Xu's mind, in an era of such low productivity, a small marquis with a population of only tens of thousands dared to hold a knight competition that lasted for thirty days every year, which could not be explained by a sentence of bravery, and the cost was simply fatal.

But after listening to it, Yan Xu understood the cleverness of the Bos family.

Regardless of the arena that cost as much as a fortress, the annual knightly competition alone consumes a lot of resources, and it is simply not something that a small princely kingdom can afford.

But when the fame spread, the people around it regarded it as a grand event, attracting a large number of talented warriors, commoners with small fortunes, merchants looking for business opportunities, and nobles who recruited talents. At this time, whether it is participating in the competition or watching or recruiting talents, the Boss family has taken the opportunity to obtain a large amount of taxes, connections, and talents, which make the Boss family, which has the right time and place, directly occupy the majority, which can be said to be a million profits.

After owning a territory, Yan Xu understands the importance of these even more, as an outsider, if Yan Xu hadn't passed through Baron Sal, he wouldn't have thought about opening the situation so quickly, after all, the aristocratic circle is very closed, and it will take at least three generations and hundreds of years to integrate into it. Even if there is no introduction from a weighty local nobleman, he can't even enter the door, let alone integrate.

The other is talent, there is no school in this world, and the inheritance method is only an inefficient apprenticeship method in addition to family inheritance, or the kind of savage way that the master wants to squeeze the apprentice to death, the apprentice can only learn something by stealing, and if you want to become a teacher, you can only see if you are smart enough, and whether you have brought enough benefits to the master.

Such low efficiency cannot satisfy even the most basic craftsmen, let alone improve the number of end talents.

After a simple count, Yan Xu's literacy rate in this world is not even one in a thousand, and even many low-level nobles are illiterate, so they have to hire the second sons of some merchants as housekeepers to help them read and write letters, announce orders, tax administration, and other work.

And thanks to the blessing of the aristocratic fiefdom system, the world's commander-in-chief talents are even more scarce, comparable to thirty-year-old beauties on the earth who have no experience.

There is no way, the territory is too fragmented, the king is a big noble, the big nobles are a small noble, and the small nobles are knights, resulting in the resources in everyone's hands are quite limited and cannot be effectively used.

But there is no way, they lack enough talents to effectively manage their vast territory and the people who are not much higher than animals, and they must canonize more nobles to convert these potential resources into strength for them, even if they can't fully use these strengths.

Therefore, even a marquis only has a population of one or two hundred thousand, and the maximum number of soldiers under his command is three or five hundred, and it is very scattered, just because it is necessary to protect the territory from being harassed by aliens and monsters, which makes it difficult to gather troops.

Generally, the battle between nobles is just for the knights to lead the militia or village guards in the village and town to fight a group fight, and the casualties are very limited, because these people are strong laborers in the territory, even if one side has the upper hand, they will not chase and kill, because they do not have the strength to occupy the opponent's territory, but will lead to the loss of their own strength. Therefore, even if the lord of the other party is captured, he will ask for a ransom at most, and he will not kill them all, and the river crab in the scene is quite loving.

In fact, if you ignore the background of the times, they are no different from the thugs who fight for territory, the fighting methods of both sides are inferior enough, and there is no technical content at all, as long as the knight takes the lead in rushing, so the brave knight is so marketable.

However, with the increase in strength, the soldiers became more and more professional, and the difference in strength with the knights gradually narrowed, although personal courage is important, but it is no longer ranked first, and the need for commanding talents of the great nobles is getting higher and higher, even exceeding the need for strong knights. After all, it takes more than ten years to train a qualified knight, and a soldier only needs one or two years, and the resources consumed are incomparable.

What's more, after having the title of the country, they can generally train professional soldiers such as sergeants, and they can be called a weakened version of reserve knights. And unlike knights, they are easier to replenish and cheaper, but if you want to give full play to the strength of the sergeant, you must have a good commander, and they can use the strength of the sergeant several times over.

In this way, the knight seems to become an expensive and difficult to use high-level army, but in fact it is not, the real knight is the best commander. They have received training in writing, painting, singing, swimming, archery, horseback riding, swordsmanship, etc., and after the age of sixteen, they are looking for an experienced canonized knight to become a knight squire, and follow them to learn how to maintain armor, take care of horses, battlefield battles, battlefield command, governance of territory and other knowledge, although the military merit and glory obtained during the period will all belong to the canonized knights, but they have also gained enough growth, once they can be completely independent, at least there is no problem in commanding a hundred people.

But there are too few real knights, and the training cycle is too long, only strong enough nobles are qualified to cultivate such real knights, and ordinary nobles can only support those who only know how to charge.

However, human beings have never lacked geniuses, some people have mastered some command abilities through perennial battles or clever minds, although they can't talk about commanding thousands of troops, but dozens of people are still no problem, and this is also an extremely rare talent, which is the goal of the nobles.

After the championship match between the knights, there is a 100-man tournament that is valued by the nobles, and the two hundred soldiers provided by the Bose family are the participating knights to fight, because the soldiers are the same strength, the test is the knight's command ability, and it is also a game to verify whether they are the commanders.

Therefore, after understanding, Yan Xu admired the Bosch family so much, which is the foundation of a long-term foothold.

As time passed, the knockout rounds became more and more intense, and those who dared to play were confident enough in their own strength, and they could not ignore the corpses being dragged out of the field and the blood of the stumps all over the ground.

Warriors are the closest profession to knights, wearing plate armor and riding war horses, they can also be used as half knights, especially they are not picky about equipment, and they are more economical, suitable for those small nobles who lack heritage.

However, the number of places is limited, and it is impossible not to work hard to get ahead, especially most of the outlaws who participate in the competition are outlaws who lick the blood with knives, and they are even more ruthless, and ten lives have been lost before the first day of the game is over, and injuries are even more common. As for the crippled who quit the game, these guys don't have a pension, and the only end of the cripple is to die miserably in an unknown place, not to mention that they have a lot of enemies, it is better to die directly on the field, at least to win a name of bravery, and if you are lucky, you will be buried in the knight's cemetery, and you will be accompanied by those noble knights.

Yan Xu shook his head at this, although Lao Jian was a warrior, in fact, he was not optimistic about this profession, because the mortality rate was too high.

Although the warrior is also one of the professionals, and the number is also the largest, the status is not high, and there is no sense of superiority of the professional, and he is even called cannon fodder among the professionals. In addition to the fact that warriors are the only professions among professionals who have not mastered energy, another reason is that warriors are basically from the lowest level, second only to thieves, and generally those who turn warriors are outlaws, and the previous profession is either mercenaries or robbers, and there are few orderly existences. Although there are also a large number of warrior professionals in the army, they are all controlled in the army, rarely go out, and have little impact.