Chapter 174: Lolitsa's Shock
In three days, the reorganization of the unit was successful, and all nine officers were taught by Banstesk and Delsey. ☆☆ New; Think; Road; Middle; Wen; Netters hit the first ☆☆ .org
They need to learn the role and characteristics of various platoons, and then make judgments based on the situation on the battlefield, as well as command soldiers.
It was not so easy to command a force of sixty men, so William equipped each column with a flag so that the soldiers could find their own column.
Instead of being the same as before, the entire army also had only an iron cross with a white background.
The cavalry were also being trained, and compared to the rapidly advancing heavy infantry, their progress seemed to be quite slow, and they were in danger of falling off their horses at any time, and Norwen, who was in charge of their riding training, had already complained to William about how many times.
Of course, the training of cavalry is like this, and you still want to go to the battlefield without more than a year of training?
The Celestial Empire often said that it would take at least three years to train a qualified cavalryman, and even William's high-intensity training would take at least more than a year to form combat effectiveness, so it was normal for cavalry to progress slowly.
On the side of the Golden Lion Guard, it was slowed down because William's money bag was not particularly rich, and four people were added from the heavy infantry, and the number remained at ten, while the number of heavy infantry was expanded to forty by William, and the new heavy infantry was also selected from the Mandes infantry, and it is now making rapid progress.
For more than a month, Lolitsa took his soldiers to his quarries early.
To his eldest brother, William was still kind, and gave him a village with a larger population and a relatively rich income.
If the village is well run, it can get more than one hundred and fifty silver coins a year, which is quite generous compared to William's initial mining and the dozens of silver coins that other lords and knights under other lords can earn.
Riding on a warhorse, Lolita led twenty of his soldiers into his fief.
As soon as he entered the village, he was shocked, and there were about 200 people in the village, some of them busy drying meat, some milking cows in the sheepfold.
Or they were busy with all sorts of other things, with lively children playing on the ground, and young people either fighting with their buddies or making their own weapons.
This is because William had told them that each of them could go to war or be drafted into the army, so they had to exercise well and train when they had nothing to do.
It can be regarded as the prototype of the militia system, and in the next step, William plans to implement the militia system in the territory, so that young adults who have not joined the army can receive some military training and be responsible for the security of some territories.
After all, he couldn't have scattered so many troops in more than fifty villages, and the chances of being defeated one by one were too great for him to take the risk.
Looking at the sturdy, healthy-looking villagers, Lolitsa began to ponder.
He had been walking outside for many years, and had passed through not five hundred but four hundred, and this was the first time he had never seen such a rich village.
Although he also passed through many villages when he came, they were all directly under William's village, and he didn't even pass through Comos Manor, and followed the road where Juboun came until he reached Mandes Manor.
He had thought that only William's domain would be so rich, because he had already heard of the wealth brought by vodka, so it was completely normal for William's domain to be so rich.
But what really surprised him was the prosperity of this village, a small village of more than 200 people, with the presence of taverns and small merchants, ploughing cattle in the cowshed, lambs in the sheepfold, everything was available.
Not only here, but also the knight fiefs he passed by when he came, they were all similar to here, the only difference was the size of the population.
He didn't believe that the villagers had bought these things themselves, and if it weren't for William and the Chekers doing business, he might not have been able to afford them.
William is certainly not unreasonable, if he can't get any benefits, he won't do such a thing.
William had said when he was canonizing the knights that he could build the knights' estates together, but one-fifth of the revenue from their territory would be given to William.
Don't look at this fifth It doesn't seem like a lot, you must know that most of the tax rates in the ancient Celestial Empire were one out of ten, one out of fifteen, or one out of thirty.
This seems to be a lot, not to mention that it may not be a big gain now, but it has already given William a box of excuses to interfere in their territory.
You always need me to go in and build the territory, you see this building is very necessary, this thing is built by me, I have the right to use it, don't look at them can create wealth for you, but the property right is mine, I said I won't use it for you if I don't give it to you.
This excuse gave William a lot of convenience, and when he waited until later, maybe where the income would swell, the income would not be small.
Moreover, he also intends to continue this policy, and when he can afford to canonize the nobles, he will also make them pay their shares and taxes according to this model, and interfere with their territory.
Anyway, it would be nice for the nobles to have the money to take and not have to build these things themselves, but what they didn't know was that William already had control over their territory at this time.
Lords, nobles, and knights in other places do not need to pay any taxes, as long as a little annual gift every year, and only in times of war may there be war taxes.
And with him, the power of the nobles will be greatly weakened, and William, who has gradually mastered their lifeline, will be able to further weaken the nobles, it will be very easy.
And if a wise person saw William's purpose and wanted to oppose such a policy, it would also be stopped by the nobles who could not resist the temptation of profit.
At that time, it will be William who will reap the benefits of the fisherman, and now he has begun to prepare for a dozen or twenty years later.
His ultimate goal is still like the Celestial Empire, centralized power, in fact, every king wants this, even in Western Europe, where the monarchy was not very heavy in the previous life, didn't some people shout the slogan of "I am the country".
Although it may be a bit unrealistic to completely ban the noble lords, he can take his time, first weaken their strength, and gradually reduce the power in their hands, and in the end, they will find that at some point, their rights are getting smaller and smaller.
In the end, all that was left was probably a few insignificant silver coins, and by that time, it would not be difficult to ban this group of nobles.
Although there may be resistance from all sides and all kinds of troubles in the middle, this kind of centralization must be implemented.
Although it may even take tens or even hundreds of years of hard work, William will still let his children and grandchildren continue to implement it, as a former otaku, it is really difficult for him to have such a vision.