At this moment, Mu Zheng, the head of the Mu family in the Liaoshui City Sky Castle Tower, was pinching his eyebrows in distress, and his younger brother Mu Xiu was also sitting down with a sad face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mu Xiu saw that the eldest brother had not yet decided, and couldn't help but say again: "Big brother, now the Mu family can only recruit peasant soldiers to fight in addition to the two thousand standing army, and it is impossible to recruit wild warriors like before." ”

"Well, why is this happening?" Mu Zheng replied casually.

As soon as Mu Xiu heard this, he knew that he had wasted his saliva just now, so he had to continue: "It's not because of the high salaries of the Qin family's army, almost all the wandering wild warriors in the Qing Shui Command have gone to the Qin family to serve as soldiers. ”

"Shall we hire mercenaries?" Mu Zheng suddenly shouted.

His current distress and excitement are all caused by the wealthy clans below, and they divide the territory and do their own thing, anyway, they have no ability to force them to obey orders, but they actually have the audacity to stretch out their hands to the direct leader under the water city, which is unbearable! Without these direct collars, where will you get the soldiers and where will you get the taxes?

"Big brother, you can't forget, do you? We only have 10,000 gold coins in our vaults now, and we can't afford to hire mercenaries. Mu Xiu said with a glare.

Speaking of this, Mu Xiu sighed and continued: "Alas, fortunately, those guys from the Qin family can't afford to look down on food, otherwise we may not even be able to recruit peasant soldiers." ”

"It's all bastards of the Qin family! What kind of standing army system, and make the salary so high! Now everyone in the entire Southeast Peninsula learns this routine, otherwise everyone relies on peasants and soldiers to fight, and my family's 2,000 standing army is still afraid of those little tyrants? Mu Zheng said angrily.

"Big brother, now is not the time to talk about this, the local tyrants are ready to move below, and the spies have also reported that the Qin army, which has not moved for months, has begun to mobilize, seeing that they are actually gathering on the surrounding borders, it is certain that they are ready to take advantage of the great opportunity for the two major powers to relax their vigilance to clean up our peripheral forces." Mu Xiu reminded.

"Alas, I know this, but I didn't expect that what our forces near the Qin family had been worried about for a long time finally happened. In the past, there were still two major powers suppressed, and whichever one emerged would be finished, but now that the empire is in civil strife, the alliance is busy taking advantage, and no one is suppressing, so the princes on our side don't hurry up and swallow it.

"I don't know about other families, but how can we resist the Qin family's attack as we are now. Damn, the standing army is more than 50,000, which makes us little princes fart! So many people can afford to raise it, and the Qin family is really fucking rich and perverted! Speaking of the back, Mu Zheng became anxious again.

"Big brother, I don't know if you noticed it, the Qin family's blatant mobilization of troops and horses, it is impossible for those local tyrants not to know, and it is impossible for them who have also been plundered by the Qin family not to know the strength of the Qin family's army.

"Why, then, are they usurping land on a massive scale? I don't know that as soon as the Qin family comes in, these lands belong to the Qin family? Mu Xiu carefully considered the sentence.

After Mu Zheng pondered for a while, he shook his head and said: "Those guys won't be so idiots to do useless things, they must be sure to keep Shi Gao, so they will recruit troops to fight at such a cost." ”

"Are they ready to surrender when they see the Qin family enter? So as to secure their territory? However, after saying that, Mu Zheng vetoed it himself: "It is impossible for the Qin family to allow them to divide up Shi Gao in Liaoshui City!" ”

You must know that those local tyrants now almost occupy 80% of the stone height of Liaoshui City, but after these local tyrants surrender, the victor can only get 20% of the stone height? No one would agree to that.

"I think they will sacrifice half of the stone height to beg the Qin family for the recognition of their territory, you must know that now their stone height is three or four times that of before, and sending half of it out is also double the earning." Mu Xiu said.

When Mu Zheng heard this, he immediately scolded: "Damn! You actually took my Mu family's territory to sell it? Depend on! It's better for me to sell it to you! Mu Xiu, you immediately go to Mingyue City and ask for surrender from the head of the Qin family! ”

"Yes!" A hint of joy flashed in Mu Xiu's eyes.

I wanted to propose it a long time ago, but I was just a subordinate, how dare I say it, and now that the lord has said it, then I don't need to be so scared. He had long known that he couldn't compete with the Qin family, and his own territory would be annexed by the Qin family sooner or later, since this was the case, just like the eldest brother said, it was better to give his own family benefits in exchange for the benefits than to cheapen the betrayed subordinates.

"Big brother, what conditions are we going to give?" Mu Xiu hurriedly asked, this is a matter related to the future interests of the Tian family.

"Let's talk about the whole territory of Water City!" Mu Zheng's words made Mu Xiu dumbfounded, and he gave away all his territory? What does your family eat?

Seeing his younger brother's appearance, Mu Zheng smiled and said, "Why are you stunned?" If we act quickly, our Mu family will be the first prince to submit to the Qin family, and then we will be the example and the banner. In order to set an example, the Qin family will definitely not treat us badly! ”

"Yes, my lord is wise!" Mu Xiu bowed to the ground in convincing.

The inner city of Bright Moon City.

"The lord has arrived!"

Juan, including Dio and the others, immediately lowered their heads and shouted, "See Lord Zhao Hu." ”

Not long after Zhao Hu came back, his real name and surname were passed out, and everyone didn't care that it was an outsider who ruled Mingyue City.

Like the civil strife in the empire, the fist is king, and now Zhao Hu is the biggest fist in the vicinity, where do others dare to mumble something.

Zhao Hu, who was dressed appropriately, sat on the main seat accompanied by Zhou Wen. originally wanted Zhou Wen to become a retainer, but Zhou Wen immediately refused to become a retainer after knowing that the retainer could not follow the lord all day long, and Zhao Hu, who had no choice, had no choice but to agree.

In this way, Zhou Wen, who did not have any rank and Shi Gao, actually served as the head of the inner court and also served as the head of the internal guard.

Regarding this, everyone who has always regarded him as a beauty has no opinion at all, but still takes it for granted.

"Well, you're all from my family, so I won't talk much about the scene." After Zhao Hu finished speaking, he nodded to Zhou Wen.

When he was in the empire, Zhao Hu still remembered that he was a soldier, and his words and deeds were in order. And after returning to the self-respecting Mingyue City, Zhao Hu, who had no one standing above his head, naturally acted as a monarch.

Zhao Hu didn't feel uncomfortable with this, because he had been a monarch here for almost a year, and now he was just reliving this feeling.

Zhou Wen took out a volume of documents and unfolded it, clearing his throat.

First of all, the usual opening remarks, after expressing the intention of the issuance of this order, the formal rigor and legal effect of the order to everyone, and so on, Zhou Wen directly read the things that everyone was most concerned about: "Dio, the rank is a general, with a salary of 500 stones, a monthly salary of 100 yuan, and a family seal of 1,000 stones, and he is the head of the outer court."

"Sun Jie, with the rank of general, receives 500 stones, 100 yuan per month, and the family receives 1,000 stones, and he is appointed to serve the intelligence.

"Locke, with the rank of general, receives 500 stones, a monthly salary of 100 yuan, and the family receives 1,000 stones, and serves as the officer of the first infantry battalion."

Dio, Sun Jie, Locke, Luo Fei and Lao Dao were all named generals, and the family received all 1,000 stones. In other words, the Qin family's direct retainers suddenly had twelve more retainers with hereditary territories.

But everyone was not surprised by this, they were surprised that the territory was canonized so little, you must know that rotten people like Maude have five thousand stone fiefs, and the cronies of these lords and cronies are actually only one thousand stones?

However, everyone obviously didn't expect that it was because they were the cronies of Zhao Hu's cronies that they only had a thousand stones.

Originally, Zhao Hu wanted to make these twelve people family elders and give 10,000 stones each, but they swore to death, and said a big reason to refute Zhao Hu. In the end, in desperation, he had to compromise to the general level and the condition of a thousand stone fiefdom.

However, this effect is also obvious, because it makes it more difficult to obtain territory, and the retainers who come to watch the ceremony are secretly determined to make an indisputable achievement.

Unlike what these retainers thought, Maude looked proud. Hehe, although everyone is of the same rank, Lao Tzu has five times more territory than you, and he is the undisputed second retainer in the family, so I don't have to look at your face in the future.

And Nangong Dun, the retainer with the most territory, did not have such a good mood as Maude, but he knew very well what position these twelve retainers occupied in the heart of the lord, just looking at what position they held.

Needless to say, although Zhou Wen has no rank or stone height, idiots will not underestimate him, and the head of the inner court is responsible for everything in the lord's inner house; The chief of the internal guard commands all the most elite internal guard warriors in the Qin family, and even the elusive secret guards may be in his hands, which is really powerful.

Dio, the head of the outer court, that is, the Qin family's servants, recruitment, procurement of materials and other tedious matters are all in charge of him. Don't look like a housekeeper, but the power is really small.

Sun Jie, not to mention, can be expressed by a single position of intelligence officer. He is responsible for both external and internal information, and who knows what secrets he has in his hands, it can be said that he is the most vigilant one of the retainers.

Locke, Luo Fei and Lao Dao are nothing, they all hold military positions, and they look no different from other retainers. However, looking at the fact that their military positions add up to a firm grasp of the military power of all the troops directly under them, it can prove that the lord trusts them.

But when did the troops directly under the lord change to a battalion-level system? Is it a camp for a formation?

In this case, how can only four infantry battalion officers and one cavalry battalion officer be sealed?

And the difference between the strength of this infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion is too big, right? Do you want to build a framework first and then recruit troops slowly?

From these points of view, it can be confirmed that these twelve retainers are the real important ministers of the Qin family.