"Thank you for the reward, and the minister will swear to die to serve the lord!" Zhao Hu shouted a slogan before getting up, glanced at him, and saw that his eyebrows were full of satisfaction, and he couldn't help but pout his lips secretly.

According to the rules of this world, the lord cares about his retainers, and it is his family who asks his subordinates to be loyal, but he didn't expect that he actually asked his subordinates to be loyal to him personally, which made Zhao Hu know how to please him.

"Haha, the head of the Qiao family, this competition is won by my Ling family, so ...... according to the agreement" The head of the Ling family directly shouted at the other side in a loud voice.

"Humph! Congratulations to the head of the Ling family! There was a cold snort over there, and then the military formation began to retreat slowly, and the Ling family naturally followed up, this is preparing to receive Yanshi Township. For the samurai of this world, there is nothing more exciting than taking land.

Zhao Hu and the low-level warriors of the first vote and the peasant soldiers of the big vote did not receive the task of receiving the territory, but gave the Ling family master an order to follow the family Chinese book. That is, the middle-aged warrior who counted the merits returned to Lingwu City, and the peasant soldiers were directly disbanded on the spot. And he led the middle and high-level warriors with the soldiers to follow behind the Qiao family army to receive the territory.

Those warriors were busy dismissing the peasant soldiers and taking care of their bags, and Zhao Hu, a newcomer, didn't have much work, so he wanted to show his existence, so he naturally followed behind the clerk and was busy.

Zhao Hu, who has been in the fight in many worlds, is simply perfect when he pats his ass, which makes people unconsciously have a good impression of him. Although some people don't look down on his peasant soldier background, those samurai who have gone from peasant soldiers to warriors to samurai account for the majority, and these people have a strong sense of identification with Zhao Hu. So Zhao Hu naturally got acquainted with everyone here all of a sudden, and he could also say a few whispers.

Through the communication with these low-level warriors, Zhao Hu had a certain understanding of the Ling family that he had taken refuge in. Although it is impossible for low-level samurai to know the secrets of the family, these low-level samurai are clear about some things that seem ordinary but are related to the situation of the entire family.

For example, how many soldiers are in the family, how many high, medium and low samurai are there, which samurai is better than which samurai, which samurai is hostile to which samurai, which samurai likes what things, which surname the lord prefers, which lady in the lord's house is the most beautiful, and which young lord is the most favored. How many factions are there in the family, what are the members of the faction. What strength do they have, which factions will be linked together, but those factions will never get along.

How much money and food is there in the family, whether it is enough to support the autumn harvest, what is the business tax at home, what is the price of goods, which territory is the poorest in the family, which territory is the most fat, who is the most awesome under the influence of the family, what strange characters exist under the influence of the family, which tavern in the castle town has the best and cheapest chicks, and which blacksmith has the best blades! The peasant was the best at waiting for the fields and other seemingly trivial things, but it was related to the content of confidential information from top to bottom of a force, inside and out, and these low-level samurai were able to tell it in detail like counting their fingers.

Of course, it's not someone who can boast about it, everyone says a little bit about this and that, and ordinary people only listen to interesting things when they hear it, but Zhao Hu has collected all of them, and analyzed them in his mind, it can be said that the current Zhao Hu definitely knows more about the situation of the Ling family than the head of the Ling family!

United, the Ling family has 125,000 stone Zhixing, which is directly under the Ling family, that is, so many Zhixing need to bear the more than 1,000 soldiers and nearly 100 warriors who receive food and money.

Don't look at the fact that the expenses are not much, but the roads, ditches, equipment of the soldiers, the repair of the city, the expenses of the maids, and the expenses of the head of the family and the inner house, etc., etc., can only maintain decency and food and clothing in the direct Zhixing.

A warrior like Zhao Hu who received Zhixing and erected a flag is not counted in the Ling family's Zhixing, because Zhao Hu and they all have to support themselves, and they also have to follow the rules, when the Ling family sends troops, they must lead soldiers who meet their knowledge and practice to fight, that is, the requirement of 1 person in ten stones, regardless of whether you are a peasant soldier or a soldier or a samurai, anyway, you must bring enough people, you can do more or less, more than you don't reward, less deprivation of Zhixing!

It's just pulling people into the war! Not to mention being in charge of weapons, you have to be responsible for food during battle, right? And a hundred-stone warrior, a year's harvest of a hundred stones' grain, in exchange for money, is only a hundred, a whole year, you don't have to eat, drink, socialize, don't wear decent clothes, don't need to buy weapons? Many samurai owed the merchants a large sum of money throughout the year, and the production of the territory was transported away by the merchants before they could be touched. So it's hard to maintain an army.

What's even more bitter is that you lead people to the war, and if you win, you will be rewarded, and if you lose, you will be responsible for the loss. What if you lose because of you? Well, either you will kill yourself to apologize, or you will be deprived of your knowledge and deeds. Therefore, the Zhixing samurai don't look at having a piece of their own territory, no one can take it away when they are fine, but they are also very poor and hard. Therefore, Zhao Hu can still receive food and Yulu after receiving Zhixing, which is definitely eye-catching, because the people of Zhixing with five hundred stones are probably not as chic as Zhao Hu.

Knowing that the Ling family's territory actually had more than 120,000 stones, Zhao Hu was a little shocked. He thought that his lord was a lord of ten thousand stones, but he didn't expect it to be a lord of one hundred thousand stones! Although there are still 500,000 stone lords and million stone lords on it, this is also very awesome.

It's just that Zhao Hu sighed helplessly after analyzing the information, the lords of this place are a little unlucky. The Ling family is located in a place called Dongshengguo, about 3,000 square kilometers, a place the size of a county is called a country, a place the size of a town is called a county, a village is called a township, and a village is a few flat lands and a few hills.

Dongsheng country is near the sea, there are several big rivers meandering through, and there is a traffic artery connecting the east and west, it can be said that the land is fertile, the transportation is convenient, and seafood can be engaged.

The sad thing is that there are 7 counties in Dongshengguo, and the five richest counties have been semi-unified, what is semi-unification? It is that half of the territory has fallen into the hands of a family, such as Donglai County, where the Ling family is located, and Qingshan County, where the Qiao family is located.

If there are no accidents, these five semi-unified counties will definitely be able to unify the whole county! But the accident happened, and I don't know how it was done in the first place, the territories of the five semi-unified forces are all intertwined, and the forces of the ununified half of the counties are behind them.

That is to say, the five big guys are fighting each other, and the little guys in the five counties stay behind the big guys, while uniting with each other to keep warm, and at the same time fighting each other to become the sixth big guy. Of course, the main thing is to keep pulling the hind legs of the five big guys, and never let these five big guys turn around and eat their little guys.

For example, the Ling family, if there is only one enemy in the Qiao family, or one more, then if you give up certain interests, you must also stabilize the enemy, and then turn around and eat the bastard behind you!

But it's a pity that any one of them is facing four enemies, although everyone is in the same state, and they all want to turn around and eat the bastards behind them, but no one wants to watch their enemies dominate the whole county, and then turn around and eat themselves, so the five big guys are so restricted.

The five big guys are very sad, it stands to reason that the family that controls half of the territory of a county can coerce the other forces in the county, make them surrender, and lead these cannon fodder to fight.

But as I said before, the five counties are connected, and the little guys in the five counties are all huddled together for warmth, so once any big guy dares to do a unified act on the surface, it will definitely be resisted by all the forces in the five counties!

And this is also the reason why the battles between the Ling family and the Qiao family were all soldiers of their two families, and there was no foreign minister. Because these five families are all lords of 100,000 stones, there is no system of foreign ministers at all! There used to be, but they were all lost with the tireless efforts of those little ones.

After getting these information, Zhao Hu, who counted with his fingers, couldn't help but be a little stunned. I found that this Dongsheng Country was terrible, the five lords added up to almost 600,000 stones, counting the other half of their butts, there were 1.2 million stones in the five counties alone, and there were still two counties not counted!

Although those two counties were even more chaotic, each county had more than 200,000 stone lords, but didn't it add up to more than 400,000 stones? The entire Dongsheng Kingdom is actually as high as 16.7 million stones!

Counting this number, Zhao Hu couldn't help but scold. No wonder Dongsheng Kingdom has always been so chaotic, and no country lord has ever appeared, dare to love that this place is so rich? As long as he becomes the lord of the country, he will immediately be at the level of a million stone lord, which is much worse than those who have not yet reached the level of a million stone in the unified seven or eight countries!

It's no wonder that there has never been a rise of the tweed lord, and the twesome characters with a little sign have hung up for various inexplicable reasons before they have grown up. This is the ghost of the surrounding forces, they will never allow the unification of this Dongsheng country!

It's just a bit hard to stay in such a place, and it is estimated that there is no way to expand externally. The top five inside bite each other, a large number of piranhas outside make trouble back and forth, and what is even more excessive is that there is an inexplicable guy outside, who dares to take the lead in this place will be attacked by a joint attack, and it will not stop if you are not destroyed!