"Okay, I'll form a Scottish Highland Infantry Corps!" Marin nodded and agreed to Edward's request. But immediately, Marin began to pour bitter water......

"Your Majesty, for the sake of the stability of Scotland, you can form a Scottish infantry corps of 10,000 people. However, this budget is a bit tight. You know, how expensive it is to feed an army of 10,000......"

Edward's heart suddenly tightened - what's the matter, you want me to pay for the military? There are no doors......

However, he could not refuse Marin bluntly. So, Edward thought about it, and suddenly smiled:

"Do you want military spending? No problem. In this way, I will give you military expenses, but the right to appoint and dismiss officers of this regiment ......"

"I'd better figure out how to make it up on my own!" Marlin quickly interrupted Edward. Nima, the right to appoint and dismiss officers is given to you, so I won't be able to form an army for you? What am I busy with?

Edward smiled and said to himself—I knew it was so......

After cooperating with Marin for a long time, Edward found that Marin is a person who loves money more, and in addition, he loves military power very much. As for administrative power, I don't pay so much attention to it. Therefore, military power is Marin's bottom line. Speaking of which, Marin refused to budge. As for other things, I don't really care much.

If Marin knew what he was thinking, he would definitely tell him - in his previous life, Lao Tzu knew the truth that "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" when he was a child. As for executive powers? Without the protection of a gun, it can be taken away at any time......

Moreover, Marin's plan is too big, and he wants the whole of England. Therefore, before actually getting started, Marin will rein in all his edges. Except for military power, nothing else. In this way, even if you do it in the future, no one will suspect you.

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Of course, Marin took this thunder for Edward, and it couldn't be that it didn't benefit at all. It's impossible for Edward to give money or food. However, Edward can still afford everything that doesn't need money. For example, land......

"Well, as compensation, I will crown you the Earl of the Scottish Highlands, and the northern Highlands will be yours. You see, this is a good condition, right? The Scottish Highlands are so big ......"

The Scottish Highlands are indeed huge, covering an area of more than 25,000 square kilometres. But when Marin heard this, instead of being happy, he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood......

Why? The Scottish Highlands are huge. However, he knew by looking at the name that it was the high ground! Not plains, not hills! In later generations, the Kingdom of Scotland covered an area of 77,000 square kilometers, and the Highland counties accounted for more than 25,000, accounting for almost one-third.

But this was of little use, and later the population of Scotland was 5.3 million, but the population of the Highlands was only 230,000, accounting for only 1/23 of the total population of Scotland......

Moreover, most of these 230,000 people are also located in the vicinity of several cities with narrow river valley plains, such as Inverness. As for the vast highlands, there is actually no population.

At present, the population of the entire Kingdom of Scotland is only about 500,000 people. As for Highland County, it is said that there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people in such a large area, and most of them are herdsmen herding sheep. If you want to grow food, you can't grow it if it's so far north and on the high ground. Even if it is cultivated in some river valleys, it will not be able to grow on a large scale. Moreover, the climate change here is very complex, with heavy rain and low temperatures. If ordinary crops want to grow, it seems that the light and accumulated temperature are not enough...... As a result, the vast majority of Scottish Highlanders can only raise cattle and work as herders. It's a mountain man and a herdsman, so it's strange if you don't plagiarize......

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In fact, the most authentic Scottish Highland infantry does not refer to the people of most of the mountainous regions of Scotland, but to the army of highlanders in the northern Highlands of Scotland.

These inhabitants living in the northernmost mountains of the British Isles, living in such a harsh environment, have developed a strong physical fitness and a savage and fierce character in the process of confronting nature. Therefore, after the unification of England and Scotland, the English king was very fond of conscription in the Highland counties. This is just like the later Later Jin regime, in order to get enough daredevils, the wild boar skin sent people into the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast to capture those barbaric "birth Jurchens" who drank blood, and let them put on armor to charge in front of the Ming army's firearms. Anyway, the more bitter cold the people are, the more ferocious the off-road. Just like Maozi in later generations, living in a bitter cold land, it is much more barbaric than the Chinese people in the south. Similarly, the northeasterners in the bitter cold land are much tougher than the southerners, and the boys often fight from childhood to adulthood. Of course, this is speaking of the old era of poverty. Later, China became rich, and the people of the Northeast were not so fierce. Moreover, it is not cost-effective to lose a lot of money if you break someone in a fight......

Getting the Scottish Highlands, Marin actually has a complicated heart. On the one hand, he was happy to get the entire place where the highland county sent elite soldiers. On the other hand, being able to produce elite soldiers also means that the people here are very tough and difficult to manage.

Also, there are very few people here. Twenty or thirty thousand people, at most two or three thousand soldiers and horses. This person is not enough......

So, the end result was that Marin had to gather people from other parts of Scotland to form a less authentic "Highland Infantry Regiment......

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After discussing with Edward, Marin took people to the prisoner of war camp to select soldiers and horses.

After arriving at the Scottish prisoner of war camp, Marin asked people to find a roster and crossed out all the Scottish noble officers first. Because, these people are not easy to manage, and they have a lot of ideas. Since it's not easy to manage, it's better not to have one. In addition, people who have a lot of ideas are not suitable for being a soldier. The best source of soldiers is that they don't like to use their brains, and as soon as the commander gives an order, he will rush to copy the goods on the guy......

Therefore, as soon as Marin came, he cleaned up all the Scottish officers who were not easy to manage and had too many ideas.

Then, the second step is to clean up the veteran oil......

Many people may mistakenly think that they are veterans of a hundred battles and the elite of the army. Actually, that's not the case at all......

If it is a traditional feudal army, these veterans are indeed very important. After all, recruits need them to bring. In the modern and modern army, where discipline can be emphasized, veterans are dispensable. Even, these veterans who are good at escaping for their lives may also be a scourge in the army.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a good chance to build a modern army. Qi Jiguang's Qi family army is a typical modern army, emphasizing discipline and not advocating the courage of a horseman. It's a pity that the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty ruined the last Qi family army - they were dragged to the northeast and sent to death without receiving much support. In the end, they perished under the siege of the Later Jin army and received no support.

Marin's method of cleaning up the veterans' oil is unique - take off your clothes and look at your back......

What to see? Look at the wound......

Once, in his previous life, Marin read a very interesting one. At the time of the Dynasty, there was a military general who showed off his scars all over his body and boasted that he was very brave. Then, the protagonist reveals his true nature at once, proving that he is nothing more than a coward who is used to running away......

How was it revealed? The protagonist proposes that if you are a brave warrior and face the enemy head-on, the wound should be on the chest or side. As a result, the back was full of wounds, but the chest was smooth...... Obviously, these wounds were all fallen during the escape...... Therefore, this guy is not a brave general, but a coward who escaped......

Therefore, Marlin is also used here. He asked the veteran soldiers to take off their shirts and check their injuries - if there were many more wounds on their backs than on their chests, they belonged to old slippers who were good at escaping, and they didn't want to do it.

In addition, veterans who have no injuries on the chest or back should not be ......

Why? How can there be a veteran who has gone through a hundred battles without injuries on his body? There were no injuries on his body, which proves that he has been hiding behind and not making any efforts, and even ran away early...... Even if you are a warlike veteran, there will always be minor injuries. He was not injured at all, proving that he did not participate in the war......

What, you said that he was not easily injured when he wore plate armor? Sorry, but the old man in plate armor was fired by Marin in the first place...... The rest are all ordinary Scottish mountain people who can't afford to wear plate armor...... couldn't wear plate armor, there were no injuries on his body, and he drove away decisively......

These two kinds of veteran oil must be cleared out of the army. Otherwise, the recruits will be spoiled by them.

However, this selection method greatly reduced the number of tens of thousands of Scottish troops who met the requirements - out of tens of thousands, Marin finally selected only 6,000 people, which was just the number of a Roman legion......