Seeing the city, the cavalry slowed down and began to trot slowly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The six-meter-wide wooden gate was slowly opened, and dozens of soldiers and a few people dressed as samurai lined up on both sides of the gate, quietly waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

As soon as the cavalry appeared at the gate, one of the soldiers stepped forward and grabbed the young knight's reins, while the others, led by several samurai, knelt down and shouted, "Welcome back to the city!" ”

The young knight, who turned over and dismounted, waved his hand and said "get up" as he walked towards the city. The soldiers were busy, and only the samurai followed behind the young knights.

The young knight looked up and saw the flag fluttering in the wind at the top of the castle tower, with the same pattern as the cavalry's leaning flag, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "Alas, the customs of many years have completely disappeared after the appearance of this lord, who would have thought that the flag of the affiliated family should be added to the family crest of the main family." ”

"Lord, please be cautious, this is the wisdom of the main hall, so that who is your own force on the battlefield, even the lowest peasant soldiers, can be seen at a glance, and there will definitely be no bastards of your own people beating your own people." A samurai hurriedly said.

"Hehe, the lord is very magnanimous, and he will not deal with my Tian family because of such words."

The young knight, Tanaka, the head of the Tian family, smiled and waved his hand.

After entering the hall of the city and sitting down the master and slave, Tanaka couldn't help but feel sad when he saw that there were only three retainers around him.

I thought that the retainers could fill this hall at the beginning, but who would have thought that accepting the summons of Mingyue City to fight would make their own strength go to ninety percent? Now we have to surrender to the enemy we used to be.

But because of this, his second son, who has almost no future, can become the head of the family. I really don't know whether to hate or thank the Qin family.

Tanaka, who was thinking wildly, saw that his retainers were all bowing their heads and didn't know what to think, so he broke the silence and asked, "I didn't have anything to do at home during my visit, right?" ”

"Please rest assured, everything in the house is as stable as ever." The three retainers all nodded and said.

"My lord, don't you know if this audience went well?" An older retainer asked.

"It went well, and after waiting for a week, I was received by the lord alone." Tanaka said in a calm tone.

"Congratulations to the lord, you can actually meet alone, which shows that the hall values the lord very much." The retainers hurriedly congratulated.

"It's nothing, all the wealthy families who keep their family titles have been received by the lord, it's just a means to win over foreign retainers." Tanaka said disapprerovingly.

"The lord said cautiously that the main hall family now has no foreign retainers, because since the lord has accepted the main hall's salary, it is a direct retainer. Do you think, in addition to the former wealthy family and a few important ministers, who has the real leader of the current hall? Therefore, as long as you make meritorious deeds, it is not impossible to become a prince of Wanshi. The retainer hurriedly persuaded.

Tanaka thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Well, that's right, hehe, those retainers were happily ready to exercise their sovereignty after obtaining Shi Gao, but they found that in addition to being able to use various resources and have a piece of homestead, not to mention farmland, even a lord can't be mobilized."

"When I went to Lord Fengxing, I found out that the Shi Gao who was canonized to them personally only refers to the amount of grain that can be obtained after harvesting grain, not the territory that is taken for granted."

"Hmph, do they really think the territory is so easy to obtain? When the main hall was canonized, his subordinates felt that there was a problem, how to carry out the canonization of families and individuals in a proper manner? In hindsight, I found out that the main hall also knew it. ”

"The minister thinks that it should be like this, only Shi Gao, who is canonized to the family, is considered a territory, otherwise wouldn't it be a mess? After that incident was revealed, the upstarts who originally looked down on us wealthy families immediately looked at us differently. ”

"Hehe, this minister has heard of it, and the upstarts at that time were all stunned when they heard the news. It is said that most of the upstarts formed their own families after the incident. ”

The retainers also cater to the jokes of the nouveau riche, they especially look down on the upstart who was a rogue not long ago, but now everyone has the same lord, and they can only laugh at it in private.

"Well, okay, this time we have also obtained the task, and the lord has asked our families with real collars to send soldiers to obey the command according to the ratio of ten stones to one person." Tanaka patted his leg and said.

As soon as these words came out, the three retainers immediately glared, and then asked with a happy and nervous face: "Lord, the main hall is finally going to war?" ”

"Although I can't guarantee that this time I will still grab a handful and leave like before, I estimate that this time I am 80% sure that the land will be occupied. After all, a large number of nouveau riche did not have actual leaders, and the lord definitely needed land to stabilize them. Tanaka said.

"Good! It's finally time for the day to make a contribution! Lord, when and where will the requirements of the main hall arrive? A retainer jumped excitedly.

"Well, today is fifteen days later, and my family will assemble at the Kawano Nao." Tanaka said after thinking for a moment.

"Time is a bit urgent, my family actually received 1,500 stones, and 150 people need to be paid; Now there are 60 standing soldiers, and after deducting the 30 who need to stay behind, 120 peasant soldiers need to be recruited. Well, there are no problems with weapons. ”

A retainer muttered for a while and said, "My lord, there is no problem for my family to complete the task, but these peasant soldiers have not been trained, and they can only be behaved, and they can't be counted on to really establish meritorious deeds." ”

"Well, leave ten standing soldiers and twenty peasant soldiers behind, and the cavalry team will also bring it, and the merit will still have to be captured by my family in person." Tanaka said.

"Yes, according to the custom, one cavalry is equal to five peasant soldiers, and with these fourteen cavalrymen, we only need to ......" The retainer's words were interrupted by Tanaka: "No, we will recruit one hundred and fifty peasant soldiers, and we don't have to worry about these things." ”

"Yes, it's the foolishness of the minister." The retainers are busy pleading, and now it is not the previous era of Mingyue City, but the era of the Qin family.

The Qin family pays attention to rewarding meritorious service and punishing mistakes, even if these fourteen cavalrymen are all wiped out, as long as they make meritorious service, the reward they receive is enough to immediately form several such cavalry teams. There is an example of this, and there is no need to worry about your losses as before.

Seeing that the matter was explained, Tanaka smiled lightly: "Hehe, no wonder those upstarts desperately want to get the real collar, after all, only the family with the real collar can have a single military unit, and the merits established in this way are all monopolized."

"Unlike now, those upstarts can only lead the soldiers directly under the lord to fight, and the merits they get have to be divided from top to bottom, and when they get it, they only have a pitiful little merit in their hands."

"The main hall is a good continuation of the traditions of the Southeast Peninsula in this regard." The retainers all nodded in acpathy.

"But it's been changed even more." Tanaka sighed to himself.

Like before, a wealthy family like himself could disobey the lord's family, after all, he was only a minister of the lord's family in name, and he had not received the lord's salary, even if he was a grass on the wall, no one would blame him.

But now he is the leader of the lord's family, and the direct ministers of the lord's family, not to mention being a grass on the wall, just one yang and yin are enough to ruin the family.

However, although Tanaka is full of complaints about the Qin family, he is not an uninteresting person, look at the tens of thousands of professional troops of the Qin family who rely on actual combat to train, and then look at the princes who are still using peasant soldiers, you can know how strong the two sides are.

Coupled with the fact that the Qin family has done everything possible to increase their wealth and materials, the little inventory they know is enough to ensure that the Qin family will fight around the clock for a year. Since he is such a powerful subordinate of the main family, it depends on how he can rely on these advantages to make contributions and earn a rich family property for future generations.

From the landing port of the head of the Qin family with great fanfare, to the reception of all his subordinates, and then the beginning of the army to mobilize, all the people who have been paying attention to the Qin family are very clear.

Because of the existence of the Qin family, the nearby princes who were peaceful when the other princes were fighting and dying all sighed, this Qin family finally planned to make a move, this time I am afraid that it will not send people to loot and retreat as before.

Liaoshui City is a symbolic city of a force near the Qin family, and it is the Mu family that owns this city.

Although the Mu family's territory is close to the sea like Mingyue City, unfortunately, there are no good ports in the territory, only a few small docks. But even so, relying on these small docks, you can still get some oil and water from the smuggling business of this neighbor in Mingyue City.

But after the owner of Mingyue City was replaced by the Qin family, it would be unlucky.

The first target of the Qin family navy after its establishment was the Mu family navy that dared to take advantage, and wiped out the Mu family navy in one round, and then occupied these small docks.

However, I don't know if it was the intimidation of the Mu family's army, or if these small docks were not looked at by the Qin family, anyway, the Qin family's navy left after demolishing the small docks.

These small wharves have never been rebuilt since then, so what's the use of building them? The sea here has become the sphere of influence of the Qin family's naval army.

The place where there is less money and water is not counted, and what is even more bloody is that the Mu family is not angry with the rampant of the Qin family, and when they heard that the other princes wanted to fight the Qin family's idea, they immediately participated in it.

But the result was not only a loss of soldiers, but also a robbery of the family's savings for many years, and the beginning of a harassment war that lasted for more than half a year.

Up to now, although there are still signs of princes hanging on the surface, in fact, it is actually just a local wealthy family, not to mention that the foreign retainers under his command are in their own way, and even the direct retainers have begun to disobey the yang and the yin.

It can be said that the Mu family was the first of so many princes who provoked the Qin family to give up resistance and let the Qin family's soldiers and horses enter and leave their own territory.