In late autumn, it was already cold in Denlenburg, the fallen leaves on the ground were rustled by the bleak autumn wind, the fields were empty after the harvest, and the farmers were cutting down trees in the forest to prepare for the winter.

The merciful Lord Baron has opened up the nearby forest, and the prey, trees, and everything in it are provided to the people for free, and I believe that no one will starve to death and freeze to death this winter!

The lords began their final hustle of the year, and some were even busier than they were, as the Manders infantry were training intensively on the training ground in a portion of their scales.

The heavy scale armor is more than twenty kilograms, such a weight makes them no longer need any weight, of course, wearing scale armor is only the veterans of the year, after all, the blacksmiths are not so fast, this time only made more than a hundred sets of scale armor, and more than a dozen sets of encrypted chain mail, most of the soldiers can not wear it.

Of course, the chain mail is configured for the cavalry, this kind of lighter equipment and more flexible armor is more suitable for use on war horses, only fifteen of the last batch of cavalry are heavy cavalry, and the remaining fifteen are light cavalry.

However, after several battles, only nine light cavalry remained, and four heavy cavalry had also lost, and now equipped with horse armor and chain mail, they were the new heavy cavalry, and the remaining thirty cavalry were still in training.

It is estimated that by the beginning of spring, none of the nearly 300 veterans will have a scale armor to wear, and as for the recruits, of course, they are wearing obsolete leather armor.

William sat on the third floor drinking hot honey water, his body was warm, and he was extremely satisfied watching the infantry training and the cavalry training in the distance.

"How? See what those cavalrymen have in mind? William looked at the fourteen teenagers behind him.

These fourteen boys were the eldest sons of the knights' families, and were sent to William for training as future knights, and in addition to several knights from Comos Manor who had children, several knights who were recruited later also took their families over.

These fourteen teenagers are of different ages, the oldest is seventeen years old, and the youngest is only fourteen years old, and the purpose of their sending here is to cultivate a relationship with the future feudal monarch, and the second is to train.

Now every day William will brutally train them, and the etiquette of knights and the like is rarely taught, and more brainwashed them, such as loyalty to oneself and so on.

After all, these teenagers will also be knights under their own command in the future, of course, the stronger the better, so William did not spare half of his hands and let them undergo the most brutal training.

Today William gave them a day off and let them follow him, which is why he just asked.

"It's very powerful, and it can lead an overwhelming charge, I think this is the second only soldier with the knights!" The eldest of these knights, the eldest and the most mature, said.

"Well, yes, what do you think?" William set his sights on the youngest teenager.

"Although their riding skills are a little better than mine, they are not as good as my father, right?" The fourteen-year-old boy replied.

William smiled slightly, it was not for no purpose for him to ask, these teenagers were very malleable, and they followed themselves early, far more valuable than their fathers, maybe they were not only knights in the future, but also nobles who supported his rule.

So he asked these questions in order to be able to raise nobles who were strategic, who could assist him, whose future was far greater than that of their fathers

"You're right, but the advantage of these people is that their numbers are huge, and the civilians are far larger than the knights, although they are not as good as the knights in all aspects, but if they are allowed to train like this for two or three years, they will not be much worse than the knights at that time, right, look at those cavalrymen wearing iron armor, their strength on war horses is not much worse than your father, although they may be inferior in foot combat."

"But knights need to be trained from an early age, they don't need to, this is their advantage, and their biggest advantage to me is that they don't need to be a knight to become an army that is slightly inferior to knights, and knights need to use their territory as a province to be able to exchange for troops, this is what I like about them."

William's words were very direct, he didn't take into account the impact of these words on these knights' children, but this can be regarded as a showdown, since these teenagers have been set by William as the mainstay in the future, they need to understand William's philosophy.

For the knights' fiefdoms, to be honest, he is a little dissatisfied with the two things, as a soul from the Celestial Empire, he is most inclined to centralize power.

Although he knew that he had no intention of abolishing the feudal system, even if he developed it in the future, he would not divide too many nobles, at least the elite areas and most of the land would be in his own hands, and even if the territory was divided, it would be like paying taxes to the royal family.

And all this will undoubtedly offend the interests of the nobles, and will definitely produce irresolvable contradictions, throughout history, whether it is the Middle Ages in the past life or the current continent, the king and the royal family who have lost the support of the nobles will always not last long.

In the past, if there was no overwhelming strength, and the interests of the nobles were offended, then the nobles always did not mind uniting for a king or royal family.

This is also the reason why William has never done such a thing as fighting local tyrants to divide land, he once thought carefully, since he violated the interests of the nobles, he must be compensated elsewhere, so he had to make up for it in terms of productivity.

He didn't intend to stand on the side of the commoners, and the aristocracy was not the object he completely relied on, such a policy on others was definitely a dead end, as a superior person must have a clear political tendency, either to help the nobles desperately squeeze the commoners, or to help the commoners get rid of the nobles' lives, there must be a choice.

But he is different, he has insights and insights on productivity that are not comparable to people of this era, and he can use the expansion of productivity to alleviate the contradiction between nobles and commoners.

The interests of the nobles will not decrease but increase, although the commoners will be exploited more, but they will get more, and neither side will rebel against William at that time, as for whether the expansion of the productive forces will produce something like capitalism, that is not within William's scope of thinking for the time being.

If you have to talk about a political leaning, William should be inclined to the aristocracy, at this time the power generated by the commoners is not like the Renaissance in the previous life, at this time the aristocracy and the church are really powerful, so William wants to win over the nobles and the church.

Such early indoctrination can not only reduce William's resistance to reducing the fiefdom in the future, but also promote William's initial proposition early, even if it is to attract talents in the future.

After William lectured them, he let them go out to play, so that no one would take a silver coin, and William didn't care so much about what to play.

After they left, Lingsi walked into the room with a pot of honey water and added a cup to William, this maid was used to serving William, and William Xu didn't have much to serve, so she was also very leisurely.

In the past ten days, Lingsi has become familiar with the life in the manor, and even more familiar with the days of serving William, except for the fact that she is still lukewarm to William, there is no sense of disobedience.

William looked at Lingsi who walked out expressionlessly, his face was full of helplessness, such a handsome girl was in front of him all day long, it was impossible to say that there was no idea, there was no progress in this relationship, and William was also a little frustrated.

But he soon put the matter behind him, picked up a knightly novel from the table, and read it.

Now that Wella is busy, the manor, including the ingredients, accounts, and servants, are all under her jurisdiction, which is not a seizure of power, but the obligation of a noble lady.

When she's done, William can go to her room and do whatever he wants......

Although it's impossible to do something before getting married, it's good to have a good time, and Wella is always shy at this time.