Chapter 389: The Prototype of the Eastern Knight Class

The regulation of the rotation of guards between pastures and manors has been carried out for less than half a year, and it has already brought unexpected benefits to the various reclamation estates outside the entire Guanwai.

In the past, the various reclamation manors outside the pass were semi-closed, the roads between each other were very simple and rough, most of the manors were located on the edge of the river, relying on the waterway to transport the production of the manor, in addition to those manors near the border of Liaozhen, where there were roads built by the Jurchen merchants, Korean merchants and the Ming Dynasty during the inland trade.

The manors over there are grouped with each other, and the economic situation is also much better, because of the convenience of the road, there are often many civilians gathered around the manor, and the gathering of civilians drives the development of various commercial and related industries, and the scale of some towns is slightly larger, which is the right way for the development of reclamation manors.

However, the more they went to the north, the more closed the reclamation manors became, and at the beginning, the big fish swallowed small fish of each other, and the state of the weak and the strong made these manors wary of each other.

In fact, there is no benefit to this closed state, although there are nearly two million people outside the Guanwai in this situation, they are isolated from each other, and only the northernmost Huifeng Manor, which is run by Iron Egg, takes the initiative to communicate with several other manors and gather the population. However, just doing so is obviously still a little thin, and the role and impact are not so great.

The manors that have no support for each other, if it weren't for the thorough killing at the beginning, and the Liao people who served as the main force of the manor were all martial and brave, they would have suffered heavy losses because of the mountain barbarians wandering in the mountains, and even so, there were several manors that were looted by the Tunguska tribe further north, and in the end they could only ask for help from the iron egg, and the group of Huifeng Manor would have practiced the crusade.

Although it is said that the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the Han people outside the border have greatly increased since they were liberated from slavery, if they were to be conscripted to build roads, it would be a huge and costly project, and there would be no benefit at all in the short term.

However, the guards set out in groups from various estates, gathered at the East Fort in the Taal Valley, and then set off for the West Fort on the other side of the pasture.

The guards were all the wealthiest class outside the Guan, and in the process of their allegiance to Jiang Feng, they were given a large number of land and slaves, so naturally they had a lot of money to spare.

Jiang Feng gave them a rule, that is, in order to avoid chaos, each guard was not allowed to lead slaves when they were in rotation, and they were only allowed to follow five or ten regiments around them, and they must be civilians. The convoy consists of nearly 5,000 men, who spend a lot of time on the road each year.

Since it was a hurry, it was necessary to follow the manor where people had gathered as a relay station, so the escorts took their retinue, most of whom were Hanmes-epitek group trainees—young people who wanted to live a better life through their martial prowess.

The supply and rest of the wealthy guards along the way brought a lot of business opportunities to the relay stations, and many of the more energetic Han meso-Epian farmers began to do small business, although most of the goods were the production of the estate, but it was a business after all, and they made some income in addition to food.

A number of hotels and inns began to appear, and the guards were given in this way, and they would not skimp on their money, which was already very cheap.

The residents of the manor saw that these things could make money, and they joined in one after another, and also spontaneously improved various environments, such as building roads......

Many of the guards also saw the business opportunities in these shops when they traveled from one manor to another, and they were the upper class of the local area, and they were willing to participate in it, and the effect would be better.

Each manor is connected to each other because of the migration of the guards, although they are all outside the gate, but the production of each manor is still different, because of the needs of the guards, all kinds of production are transported to the road of rotation and deployment of the guards.

One of the interesting things is that among the Dutch people in the Jiang family's military system, their name for the escort may say something.

Although many of the Dutch people want to return to Europe. 'Liberate' their compatriots, but the current situation is clearly that a better and more stable survival under Jiang Feng's rule is the right thing to do.

Therefore, every 'newcomer' from Luzon had to learn Chinese from a few teachers who were priests in the Netherlands, and incidentally, this cram school also had the participation of interpreters sent by Jiang Feng, and legend has it that the Governor was also going to make a distinction between the high and low levels of Chinese proficiency as "one, two, three, and four", and to determine the size and remuneration of the Dutch people according to their rank.

It is said, and of course, that at the advice of Lady Andrea, Jiang Feng canceled this rule, after all, many Dutch people now talk in Chinese at home, in order to better integrate into the collective.

In Jiang Feng's system, there are all kinds of new things that are different from the Ming Dynasty, and even the old translators who have been doing it for many years may not be able to find suitable words to replace them, so after the white people understand the nature of this thing, they will find a similar thing to describe in the country where they lived in the past.

In a simple dictionary of Flemish (now the official language of the Netherlands) and Latin and Chinese, compiled by several clergy, the "guards" of the Kanwai manors are simply explained as "knights".

Four hundred years ago, Europe was invaded by foreign peoples, with Muslims in the south, Vikings in the north, and Magyars (the predecessor of the Hungarians) in the east.

The children of the nobility, who worked far from the Lore to the Rhine, were trained in fighting and equestrianism from an early age. There is no doubt that the earliest cavalrymen and knights were nobles and wealthy men.

Because only they could afford to buy expensive equipment: they needed three or four rotating horses, each of which would eat a lot of food, and the armor had to be made to the blacksmith's shop, and the equipment of the servants, which was a great expense, and such an expense that the common people could not afford.

The samurai class on horseback was also an aristocratic class, and the superiority of their birth was inevitably accompanied by contempt for the lower ranks, and they found a common passion: war. Similar to the Roman era, the medieval aristocracy formed the hoplite cavalry, which became the main force of the army of that era.

At this time, the guards of the reclamation manor outside the gate are very similar to this kind of knights, regardless of the origin of these guards, the capital of their life outside the gate is their martial arts, their weapons, their war horses, Jiang Feng as a lord granted them land, they are loyal to Jiang Feng, fight for Jiang Feng, pay taxes to Jiang Feng, and have the responsibility to protect the civilians under them.

The wealth and status of the guards are closely related to war, the knights of the West like war, and the same is true of the guards, they can only maintain their position and expand their wealth by constantly plundering and conquering, and they can gain a position of trust in Jiang Feng's system.

All Chinese dynasties have a tradition of despising the martial arts, and the martial artists have a relatively high status when they fight the world and troubled times, and if it is a peaceful year, the civilian clique will always quickly overpower the military attachés and squeeze the other party into the political fringes. The descendants of the warriors and nobles are either rich and noble, or they change their families to study and take scientific examinations, and of course, many people died on the battlefield and in the purge.

Although the guards are all outside the Guan, they are no longer the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, but they are still Han people, Han people who will not change in culture and inheritance for thousands of years. Everything is inferior, only reading is high; The experience and bloody facts of bastards like the Bird Bow and the Hidden Bird reminded them all the time, even when they had earned status, wealth, and land by making a living by force.

But if their families continue to engage in this, will there be such benefits and benefits, most of the warriors of the past dynasties have been slowly consumed for this reason, their martial courage and toughness, and they have become weak literati, and they have been so slender from generation to generation.

Jiang Feng now has a clear concept of how to make his power stronger, but he doesn't have a very accurate spiritual concept, such as what kind of system he wants to establish, the Ming Dynasty is a complete Confucian rule of law, but now he is using what way to govern Huazhou, Yizhou and Guanwai, it seems that there is no other possibility except for the dictatorial military system.

However, one thing is very clear, that is, Jiang Feng does not like to turn the army and people under his management into a situation where the civil officials respect and control the world like the Ming Dynasty, and the military attaches and nobles are all restrained, and there is nothing else to do except get rich, and the army is becoming more and more corrupt.

If that's the case, then why bother to be independent outside the Ming Dynasty, with Jiang Feng's power and connections, the glory and wealth of officialdom are at your fingertips.

To maintain the combat effectiveness of those guards and regimental trainers, Jiang Feng's method is quite simple, or vulgar, that is, to tempt them with benefits, Jiang Feng gives them the power to plunder foreigners and oppress slaves, and at the same time let them fight themselves.

In order to increase and maintain this wealth, the guards had to constantly raid the non-Han people, maintain their ferocity against the slaves, and in order to maintain this status, they had to constantly strengthen themselves and improve their strength.

In fact, sixty years later, the Guards had formed about 8,000 hereditary warriors with titles and land.

Bustling, all for profit.