William's decision was a better choice, as the heavy cavalry did not have knightly status and were slightly inferior to the official knights in foot combat, but they were not weak in horseback combat. 10,000 volumes, full text hand-typed first // .org

And William can also mobilize the enthusiasm of the remaining heavy cavalry and make them more brave and fearless in battle, after all, knighthood is still so valuable in the eyes of civilians.

Although the heavy cavalry fought the knights on the battlefield and did not lose on horseback, it was very tempting to tell them that they too had the opportunity to become a knight.

After all, if you want to become a nobleman, you must first become a knight, after all, every nobleman has a knight's title on him.

A knight is considered the lowest noble, and it is also the reserve of the nobles, and as a commoner, only becoming a knight is the only hope of turning over.

Although there may be no hope of becoming a baron for tens or hundreds of years after becoming a knight, becoming a noble knight lord with a fief is also what countless civilians and warriors aspire to.

Although William's plan to be a knight of the Inner House will not grant a fief, speaking of which, after becoming a knight of the Inner Palace, he will have more time to stay by William's side.

There will be more people who get along with William, and being able to get along with William more means that there is enough opportunity to be appreciated by William.

Moreover, William has not yet said the salary of the knights of the Inner Palace, but with William's financial resources, it is estimated that the salary will not be less.

And those knights who were not eliminated also began to think about William's plan after hearing it, after all, although they also had a fief, they actually didn't have much property that could be provided to them.

I didn't want the knights of the Mandes to bring them seventy or eighty silver coins a year, and the richest of them brought in a fortune of only thirty or forty silver coins a year.

If the knights of the Inner House can search for water for more than fifty silver coins, then they would rather give up the mining and join the Inner Knights.

After all, the knights of the inner palace are much better than ordinary knights in terms of various benefits, the wife can become a court lady, the eldest son is a trainee knight, and the second son is educated as a grassroots official.

It can be said that as long as you become a trainee knight, everyone in your family will have a way out.

William now started such conditions as a helpless, at the beginning he had trained more than a dozen low-level officials under the advice of Kenos, and it was indeed very useful in many cases.

But now, the big laughter of the territory has expanded so much, these dozen people are not enough at all, and the more than 600 villages in his hands means that at least more than 600 officials need to manage them.

After all, he needs to carry out all kinds of development and construction, as a traverser, can he still keep the territory unchanged like other lords?

It is undeniable that although some visionary nobles will work hard to develop their territories, most of the lords will still keep their territories as they are.

At most, I want to make my cities and towns more prosperous.

But William will not do this, he will try to build his own territory, make it more productive, population, and prosperous.

It's not just about using the half-baked techniques he brought from his previous life, to be honest, as an otaku, most of the poor knowledge he knows comes from those fighting on the streets.

It is basically impossible to compare with those big doctors who have crossed over, and he wants to increase productivity and prosperity, and he can't rely on those technologies alone.

For him, the rational allocation of manpower is more important, and efficient and effective manpower scheduling is also a very good way to improve productivity.

If you want to have people run all the posts in his castle, city, town, and entire territory, then you need at least a hundred officials.

Even if he cultivates the so-called officials of the children of the knights of the Inner Palace, it is estimated that it can only be improved slightly.

Eventually, William set the salary of the knights of the Inner House at seventy silver coins per year, which may not be as high as the salaries of the knights of the Mandes, but it is much higher than that of ordinary knights.

Compared to the annual silver coins of the heavy cavalry, it is several times higher.

Of course, the number of knights in the Inner House is not so right, and they will be selected among them, and William intends to open this spot to wandering knights.

Because there are indeed many capable people in the wandering knights, this is a fact, so in order to ensure the strength and quality of the knights in the inner house, William plans to let the wandering knights also participate.

This is a time-consuming project, and it is estimated that the screening will not be completed in a month or two, but William intends to be incorporated into the formed sword and shield infantry, and the selection has been completed.

More than 300 sword and shield infantry have been selected from more than 500 mercenaries and more than 600 former earl guards, who will undergo a year of brutal training until they can be fully disciplined and understand the array.

And William has already transferred more than 300 young men from the Manders area to train them for the Manders infantry, and after one to two years of training, they can officially serve in the army.

At that time, there will be 900 Manders infantry, plus 300 sword and shield infantry, you can Xingcheng three strokes and one combination, and at that time, the Mendes infantry's ability to resist the line will definitely be improved by leaps and bounds.

As for the rest of the people, such as the remaining mercenaries, they continue to let Captain Merlin take them, as his own army, which is itself a team of others.

As for the remaining 400 or so guards, William intended to make them ordinary composite hand-to-hand combat, wearing light armor for sharp attacks, and equipping them with some javelins, which could be used as a force for medium-range strikes.

William looked at the three hundred outstanding ones in front of him who had been screened, and a smile was removed on his face, although they were not as good as the current Mandes infantry, but compared to the armed infantry of other lords, they already wanted to be strong.

William had already made a plan for them, and the military system was also changed, the number of men in a column was changed from sixty to one hundred and twenty, the Mandes infantry was ninety, and the sword and shield infantry was thirty.

Sword and shield infantry will not become a separate combat sequence, they will only be used as a supplement to make the troops' resistance to the line stronger.

Sword and shield infantry will wear armor similar to that of the Manders, but their weapons will be turned into door shields and one-handed swords or maces, which will allow them to effectively protect themselves and the unshielded Menders.

However, William did not know much about the sword and shield infantry, and Commander Merlin and Banstesk did some research on it, so William had a discussion with them for a whole afternoon.

Finally, a plan suitable for training sword and shield infantry was found, which included discipline training, as well as combat skills and physical training, in short, the cruelty was no less than that of the Manders infantry.