Guy nodded to the little boy who greeted him, and headed for the restaurant's grocery room.

Guy walked for a short time before he came to their Flying Fish Guard's meeting room, the general storeroom. The room is located in the innermost part of the whole restaurant, there is only one road around it, it is very remote, and there is a person who guards the door, which is very confidential.

Guy saw that it was the thin man Ed who was sentry today, and couldn't help but nod at him and smile at him.

"Hey! Top dog! "Well, keep an eye on the gate!" “Ok！” Eddard, the thin man, greeted Guy warmly and helped open the door by the way.

"Boss!" Guy walked straight in, and suddenly the noise in the room stopped abruptly, and more than twenty strong men inside shouted in unison.

Guy's prestige among these people was very high, and his words and deeds were unconsciously observed by those present.

Almost all of the twenty or so people present were recruited by Guy, and it was Guy who gave them a job to eat.

Of course, this job is not very decent, and there are always some people who can't stand it and go back to the countryside to work as a gentleman's accountant, or to become a small merchant and find themselves a job to eat.

However, bankrupt gentlemen like them disdain to be accountants or small merchants, and they all have a very small dream - to restore the family.

So they rallied around Guy and went on to do the shameful thief work to curry favor with the king, year after year.

For almost ten years, the shadows came batch after batch of bankrupt gentlemen like them, and batch after batch left, and only they persevered.

Finally, after the accession of His Majesty Edward VI to the throne, they ushered in the long-awaited opportunity. How can this not excite them?

"Brothers, our King has sent us a mission!" Guy looked at them, "This mission is our first mission, and it is a test for us by His Majesty. ”

As soon as Guy's words fell, everyone who had been standing loosely suddenly straightened their waists and began to get serious.

"His Majesty has asked us to adopt orphans, especially vagrant orphans under the age of 14, male or female." Guy said something that made them excited, "The three people who have adopted the most orphans this time will be rewarded with ten pounds!" ”

"They'll also get three merit points!" Ignoring the noise of the people below, Guy uttered another message that would have taken them out of breath.

"Moreover, he will be personally promoted to 100 households by His Majesty the King!"

Whoa! The twenty or so bankrupt gentlemen below cheered in unison, and even the skinny man Ed, who was on guard, ran in to cheer together.

The point system is a reward and punishment system customized by Edward Flying Fish Guard, as long as you can complete the general task, you will get ten acres of land if you accumulate 100 points, and if you complete ten more tasks specific to His Majesty, you can get His Majesty's sub-seal and become a knight. Of course, this is a court knight, and there is no fiefdom. Only after being promoted to 100 households and completing 10 specific tasks of the king can you have a fiefdom.

Of course, this is for the merit points of ordinary soldiers, and for the leaders of more than 100 households, as long as they complete twenty tasks issued by the king, they can be divided into knights by the king and have a village as a fief.

I also forgot to mention that one point is deducted for receiving a task and not completing it, while the king's specific task is mandatory to be completed, and a specific task point is deducted for those who are not completed. If the commander is demoted to the deputy commander, the thousand households are demoted to the deputy thousand households, and so on.

This flexible mechanism can stimulate the subjective initiative of the Flying Fish Guard, so that it will not become rigid in the later period like the Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty.

Another point is that he can continue to create a loyal knightly class for Edward, laying the foundation for the suppression of the bourgeoisie in the future.

Of course, the easiest thing to create a knightly class is the army, but Edward is not yet in power, and the army is still controlled by the Regency Council, and he cannot go past the Regency Council to recruit troops.

Since the Regency Council was in charge of the army on behalf of the king, the slightest hint of contact would have caused him to add a lot of trouble to the coup d'état two years later.

Back to the point. None of the gentlemen below held official positions, and only Guy became the only one of them in a thousand households. The thought of their possible rise to office stimulated them to their own devices, and the king's wise cheers rang out.

Seeing that these people below changed their previous decadence and became energetic one by one, Guy's heart was full of comfort.

These people were all personally recruited by him one by one, and they were all bankrupt gentleman families like him, and seeing them happy, his heart couldn't help but get excited, this is empathy!

The whole day was spent in excitement, and Guy returned to his little nest to plan his mission.

That's right, Guy's mission is different from theirs, and his mission is to expand the number of Exocessians and recruit enough men for His Majesty.

Thin Ed hurried back to his home with a belly full of excitement.

When his family went bankrupt, his wife did not abandon him, but used the money from the sale of the dowry to open a small grocery store in London with him, and could only fill his stomach in this London city and barely survive.

In the shadow period in the past, Ed only had a task when he had a subsidy, and he would have a subsidy from the king to support the family's expenses and buy some meat and clothes to improve his life.

Ed stepped lightly through the wooden floor past the first-floor grocery store, and quickly through the old staircase to his bedroom.

He looked around nervously, closed the window uneasily, carefully took out a handful of silver coins, and unconsciously counted them again, a total of 10 shillings, Ed looked stupidly, and smiled dumbly, not feeling that anyone was coming behind him.

"Aren't you happy?" "Yes!" Ed replied naturally.

Ed turned his head unnaturally, only to see his wife, Mary, staring at him with round eyes and a playful expression.

"Hey! Mary! Ed winced in greeting, and he saw his wife like a mouse to a cat.

As the saying goes, the economic base determines the superstructure, and it is clear that it is his wife Mary who is in charge of this family.

Of course, in this patriarchal society, Ed could easily take back control of the family, but he didn't.

Not only because Mary controlled the lifeblood of the family, but also because she followed him to bankruptcy recklessly, from a gentleman's beautiful lady and a gentleman's rich wife, who became a small businessman who was only much better than a poor man with him, worrying about food, clothing, housing and transportation all day long.

"Hey, hey! Wife, this is the salary that His Majesty has paid me! Ed said with a smile on his face, as if to prove himself, he said again.

"Every month in the future, it is possible to return to our previous life!"

Ed couldn't help but say to his wife about the reward and punishment system of the Takeoff Fish Guard.