In the Beiguan military fort, Yat alone called Patus, the captain of the fourth flag of the second company, who repeatedly emphasized the superiority of the super spear phalanx at the military meeting last night, to the barracks to talk, Yate did not say too much greetings, and went straight to the topic, "Pats, I will give you twenty days from today, and you will take your flag team to practice the spear phalanx." I've had the garrison send you weapons, and your bannermen's separate training ground is in the wasteland on the outside, which is wider enough for you to use spears, and in twenty days I'll have you fight against the bannermen of Bangada to see if the spear phalanx is really suitable for the Welsh Legion. ”

Patters was very excited, he didn't expect his opinion to really be approved by Art, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely live up to your high expectations." But I have to make it clear to you that I will need the hoplites to accompany my phalanx, and it is impossible to win with a single spearman. ”

Art nodded, "Of course, I will also equip Bangada's flag team with cavalry when the time comes." ”

Patus thanked Art again for the opportunity, then saluted and left the barracks.

The barracks was silent, and Art picked up a quill pen and continued to sketch the array diagram of the spear phalanx on the "straw paper" made by the valley.

Before you know it, time passed, and Art was completely obsessed with it, until Ron knocked on the door and walked in.

"Ron, what's the matter?" Art glanced up at Ron, then leaned down and continued to write.

"Sir, Northland Hawkeye has sent back the news collected in April." Ron held several pieces of parchment rolled into strips.

"Read it to me." Art said casually.

Ron put the roll paper on the table, pulled out the first one, and read, "Thorne City Eagle Eye: April is stable in the west, and the border army has not moved for the time being. The bishop of the province of Saône was removed from the priesthood and was not reappointed for the time being. The department of Saône recovered the arrears of taxes for the past years, amounting to 25,000 silver marks. Hawkeye of the Westland is unusual. ”

Art listened to the tax arrears collected by Bernard's Saône Province over the years and was only 3.6 million pfennigs, and couldn't help but scold: "Bernard, this old mongrel, controls the richest county in the country, and he is embarrassed to take out such a small amount of money to send the court?" Even Tignets, which is so poor that it eats stones, can come up with a million, and the province of Saône is afraid that it is ten times richer than Tignets! ”

After sneering at a few words, Art commanded: "Order to monitor the Eagle Eye in the Western Frontier, so that they must pay attention to the dynamics of the Western Frontier Army and the private armies of the lords in various parts of Thorne Province, and report back immediately if there is any change." Keep reading. ”

"Yes." Ron picked up another roll of paper and unfolded it.

"Besançon's Eagle Eye: In April, there was no change in the court, and the marquis had two court meetings, but his illness did not improve. Besançon and the surrounding cities of the Southern Goods Guild will change blood, and the Earl of Balwyn and his faction of powerful merchants will occupy the place. ”

Art stopped thinking for a moment, and naturally said to himself, "The marquis also feels that the undercurrent of the country is turbulent, and he has to try his best to maintain it despite his serious illness, but this day has changed and he can't help it." ”

"Tell the 'fat man' of Besançon to find a way to buy off the servants of the inner court, and I want to know the condition of the Marquis. Let him not be afraid to spend money, and I will ask Kennem to send him a sum of money to inquire about the palace. ”

"Yes, sir." Ron jotted down Art's words.

"Go ahead."

"Eagle Eye in the East: The Eastern Frontier Army has secretly expanded its army, and in addition to the 2,000 garrisons on the border to guard against the Swabians, the number of legions in the Eastern Territory has exceeded 3,500."

"Baron Charis is the commander of the First Legion in the East, leading six hundred troops, stationed in the city of Jonah. Sir David was the company commander under his command. ”

Ron interjected, "The Eastern Eagle Eye is the news gathered through Sir David."

"Well, herald Hawkeye, and send greetings to Sir David for me."

Ron nodded, "There is also news from the East, the southern goods transported from the southeastern mountains to Jonah Province in late April have been accepted by the South Goods Guild of Jonah Province, and Baron Antayas's goods have gained a foothold in the East. ”

Hearing the news, Yate stopped writing, "Great, being able to directly transport southern goods from the southeast mountains to the east can save half of the distance." ”

"I'll write a letter to you to send someone to the border post immediately, so that the post can increase the supply to Baron Antayas, and let Simon tell Baron Antaas that he must continue to expand the trade volume of southern goods in the east, and it would be better if he could open up the trade route to Swabia."

"Master, the relationship between the court and Swabia has not eased, and the border is impassable, so it is not so easy to earn Swabian money, right?"

Art stood up from the chair and walked around the chair, "Ron, you underestimated the ability of merchants, as long as there is money, there is their way. And you have forgotten how the old butler brought the wagon we had stolen in Swabia back to the valley? ”

Ron suddenly realized, "You mean smuggling?" ”

"Smuggling is good, smuggling can avoid border checkpoints, not to mention, it can also save a huge amount of transit business taxes."

Ron thought about it carefully, it was really true, anyway, he had ventured all the way over the years, and he was not afraid of taking risks to make money.

"Any other news?"

Ron pulled out a piece of parchment covered with fire paint from the pile of papers and handed it to Art, "Sir, this is the power behind the lords of Tinets County that you arranged for Besançon Eagle Eye to collect, and it was provided by the governor of Count Balwyn's inner house, and it cost a lot of silver coins. ”

Art took the fire paint, and inside was dense text, recording the families and forces of the lords in Tinets, Art glanced at it and put it on the table, he had to calm down and study it slowly.

"Ron, now that the Northland caravan has been temporarily merged to the south, we have to rely on themselves to deliver the news to the Hawkeye in the Northland, so the money spent by Hawkeye has also increased a lot, and I won't be stingy with this money, so I have explained the priority guarantee of civil affairs to support Hawkeye."

"But you have to warn Hawkeye everywhere that I don't care about the odds and bits, but I also won't allow anyone to steal a copper coin from my purse behind my back, and the Hawkeye are scattered all over the place and away from us, you have to think about how to make them spend as little money as possible."

"Master, I'll think about this matter, but you also said that Hawkeye is scattered all over the place far away from my field of vision, and the cost of their inquiry and transmission of news is uncertain, so it is really difficult to control."

"Warn them first, and let them keep an eye on each other, as much as they can prevent." Art stretched his waist, then sat back in his chair, stared back at the spear phalanx on the wooden table, and said intently: "Ron, I have decided to set up a guard officer, the guard officer is only subordinate to me, under the jurisdiction of the baronial guard, task force, and Hawkeye in various places, mainly responsible for guarding, intelligence, interrogation, and special tasks assigned by me. ”

With the expansion of Yat's power, it is becoming more and more necessary to set up a special baronial chamberlain, and the original guard army law team is responsible for guarding the safety of Yat and also has to take care of the military law of the legion, which is indeed a little inadequate, so Yate simply let the military law team break away from the guard team, and the two guards who have been in charge of military law selected six soldiers and petty officers who are familiar with military law and have a relatively dull head to set up a special military law team, which is subordinate to the legion command camp. Under the jurisdiction of Otto, the lieutenant of the legion. The elites left behind by the guards are responsible for the security of Art, and they will also form a reserve force on the battlefield with Art in wartime.

As for the task force, due to its outstanding performance since the incident of the Dean family, this improvised team was officially awarded the flag team rank. Stanley served as task force leader, Dawson and Oliver served as vice captains, and one captain and two vice captains plus four remaining transferees and eight new recruits for "special talents", a total of fifteen people. Some of the soldiers in the task force are good at close combat, some are good at tracking and pursuing, some are good at setting fire to poison, and some are even thieves who are originally bandits...... All in all, they are all people with unique skills.

"When you go down, think about how to straighten out the duties of this guard officer, and come to me to talk to you when you think about it."

"Yes, sir."

Ron didn't leave after he finished speaking, and he stopped talking.

"Anything else?" Art glanced up.

"Master, that~ I want to discuss a private matter with you~" The blush spread from the base of the neck to the top of the head......

"Ron wants to marry Ollie? That's a good thing! I certainly agree. In the mansion of the lord of Wooden Castle in the valley, Lottie heard that Ron finally proposed to marry Ollie, and quickly handed over the little George in his hand to the wet nurse.

"It just so happened that Scott and Emma had built a new wood-and-stone house in the wood-and-stone neighborhood that Ron and Ollie could live in after their wedding."

"Hmm~ I remember that there are no utensils in his new house, so I took out a sum of money from the inner treasury of the mansion and asked the workshop to make them a wooden bed, a set of tables and chairs, and a set of woolen quilts for them, and I also bought Ollie's wedding dress, which is also a wedding blessing for them. How is it? ”

Ollie has been Lottie's personal maid for many years, and although the two are different from master and servant, their relationship is very close, and now she is very excited that Ollie can find a home.

But Art's thoughts were a little different, he also felt that it was a good thing for Ron to get married, but he thought more about the other officers under him, "Lottie, I have an idea. ”

Lottie stared at Art intently, waiting for an answer, "Didn't we mention holding a group wedding before?" How do you know that Ron's kid is moving so fast, I wonder if I can let Ron and Ollie wait first, there are still several eye-catching officers and civilian officers on both sides of the military, government and civil affairs, and we will hold it together when the time is ripe, which will not only save trouble, but also be more lively. ”

"But Ron and Ollie~"

"Ollie, you go tell her, I'll talk to Ron. We didn't say we wouldn't let the two of us get married, we just waited for the other guys a little bit. ”

"Okay~ I'll tell her when Ollie comes back in a moment."

"Well, that's it." Art raised his glass and raised it to his lips to drink.

Lottie suddenly sounded something, and her face suddenly changed, "Art! ”

"Huh?" Art still had a mouthful of wine in his mouth, and he couldn't make a speech.

"Do you want to concentrate on exercising the right of the first night?"

"Concentrate on exercising the right of the first night!" Art squirted out a sip of wine, spilling all over the floor.

Lottie asked, "Did you say?" I've heard that the Lombard lords still have the right to their first wedding night! ”

Art choked so hard that he coughed for a while before he slowed down.

"Who do you listen to? Besides, Ron and the others are all knights, not commoners. ”

"You mean civilians, you're going to exercise?"

"That's there! I don't mean that! Art turned his head and coughed violently.

Lottie grabbed Art's cuffs, "Look at me!" Swear you don't have that idea. ”

"Don't you know me yet? Am I that kind of person? ”

"You swear!"

"What else do you need to swear about this, there is absolutely no idea!"

"You swear!"

"Hey, your sons have given birth and you still don't believe me."

"You swear!"

Art compromised, and he raised his hand, "In God's name, I swear!" ”

Lottie's eyes stared straight at Art for a long time, and she stared at Art until her scalp tingled.

"Well, I believe you."

"Hey~ That's right."

"But you must issue a pardon declaring your realm to abolish the Right of the First Night forever."

"Huh?"

"Do you send it?" Lottie began to glare at Art again.

"I'll send it, I'll send it immediately~" Art was more than half a cut shorter.

The look in Lottie's eyes softened for a moment, and she gently pulled Arte's arm, "Honey, I knew you were the best." ”

Lottie gave a look to the nurse who was holding little George, and the nurse pushed open the door with the baby in her arms and left.

"Honey, I asked Ms. Fana Yu yesterday and she said it's been almost two months and we can ......" Lottie's face turned red all at once.

"This~ What are you waiting for!"

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Chapter 297: Abolition of malpractice