"You are all faithful and valiant men, new converts to God, so that we are all brothers of the same kind, equally humble and equal before God, enjoying the highest glory of the kingdom of heaven."

"Everyone must know the purpose of today's rally, that is, to select excellent warriors for Nijmegen, form the Lyutich Guard, and use blood and loyalty to win glory and respect, and the eliminated brothers do not mean that they are not good enough, because there is another equally important battlefield waiting for you to explore, but with a different weapon, I hope you can prove to me that the Lyutich people are worthy of the children of the forest no matter what front they are on!"

After saying that, I paused deliberately and looked at them expectantly, hoping to get thunderous applause, but unsurprisingly few responded.

I had to lick my lips as if I had paused deliberately, and my eyes swept over the Lyutich in the front row, who stood leaning on or shoulder-to-shoulder, staring at the Duke with an indifferent expression as if he were listening to a prodigal who liked to talk about meat jokes during casual conversation.

"Under the light of the Father's love, everyone has equal rights, everyone has a loving wife, a lovely child, a gray-haired parent, a brother by blood, and we choose war not because we like to kill, but because we have to take up a butcher's knife in exchange for a rare peace."

I felt that the early emotional foreshadowing was almost over, so I tightened my abdomen, concentrated my strength on my throat, and said loudly: "If the father and son are in the army, the father can go back, the brother can go back, the brother can go back, the only son in the family can go back, and those who don't want to join the army and volunteer for agriculture can also go back, please implement it immediately!" ”

It seems that a bomb has been thrown into the ranks of the Liutiqi people, and the pot exploded in an instant, everyone look at me and I look at you, looking at each other, loudly expressing their thoughts, and the scene is very chaotic for a while.

Yaroslav also frowned, I did not let him know in advance about the speech I had just made, for the Lyutich who valued honor and wanted to fight like a man, this difference was tantamount to a disguised humiliation, and no one would appreciate it.

"My lord, I understand your kindness, but the Lyutich people are all warriors, regardless of men, women, young and old, from the moment they opened their eyes and came to this world, they knew that they picked up the weapons around them to fight for their own peace, and it was a destined glory to die on the battlefield."

Yaroslav argued with me with fists in both hands, he did not want to see anyone from his tribe leave in disgrace: "Please take back the order you just made, I don't understand!" ”

"Don't be impatient!"

I waved my hand to stop him from wanting to continue, turned to the Lyutich who were shouting in chaos, and explained very carefully: "Of course I can understand everyone's feelings, men crave glory like women crave love, without it life would become meaningless, Lyutich people are like this, Nijmegen people are like this, the selected warriors do not mean anything, and the unsuccessful warriors can't say that you are not worthy of joining the army, but after all, the home needs someone to run it, and the family also needs someone to take care of it, if all the men go to war, How will the orphans and widows in the family struggle to survive? ”

"The selected soldier is a standing soldier, provided with equipment and weapons by Nijmegen, receives a monthly allowance, has the right to give priority to the selection of trophies, can obtain land by virtue of his military exploits, or can use the land he owns to redeem his free status and retire from the army, his vacancy will naturally be filled by other warriors who want to join, and those who are not selected will be incorporated into the military household, as a reservist, they will also undertake certain combat missions in wartime, but you need to bring your own weapons, because your main job is to learn farming with the farmers of Nijmegen, Develop this vast land. ”

"In addition to the necessary handover, the rest of the Nijmegen Chamber of Commerce will buy fairly according to the market price, and the most important point is that you can reclaim the wasteland according to the actual situation of the family, and the newly cultivated land is all owned by individuals, and you can also let your children and grandchildren inherit it, and the detailed expropriation rules will be explained by special personnel later."

"Remember, you can get glory on different battlefields, as long as you are diligent and down-to-earth, you will eventually get what you want."

I paused, thinking that what I had to say had been clarified, and waited for the Lyutich to slowly digest Nijmegen's new rules and make a choice according to their heart.

You must know that having enough to eat has always been the truth that the people of any country and any nation have been diligently pursuing for thousands of years, and no matter how dazzling the honor is, it is just illusory, and living well is the right way.

The plan I put forward basically takes care of everyone, that all men, women, and children can survive on their own, that peasants and soldiers are separated, that each other can concentrate more on doing their jobs, that war becomes a professional game, that there are professional and specialized soldiers to deal with, and that the quality and combat effectiveness of the soldiers are also improved.

A Lyutich hugged the people around him, and walked out of the queue with tears in his eyes and stood aside, from the face they may be brothers, the elder brother chose to go back to support the family, and the younger brother went to win honor on behalf of the family, someone took the lead, and the rest of the things were much easier, more Lyutich people walked out of the queue, there were sturdy middle-aged people, there were immature teenagers, and old men with beards on their faces, they encouraged their relatives who stayed in the army, and they must not live up to the ardent expectations of the whole family, and be an upright soldier in Nijmegen.

I smiled and said to Yaroslav, who was standing beside me, "Look, what a touching picture, I believe that you must be willing to be the commander of the Lyutich Guard, lead your own people, follow the example of the Valangian Guard, which has already made a name for itself in Constantinople, and create your own immortal cause!" ”

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After a while......

Obviously, I broke my promise, so I inevitably gained weight, after the establishment of the Lyutich Guard, did not do anything earth-shattering, the main job of the day is to provide fresh meat for the Duke, hunting and catching some pheasants and hares, I did not forget to tell them to be good at observing and using the terrain, and to adopt reasonable tactics, which is really not shallow.

Although the castle of Neustadt is far inferior to Nijmegen in terms of comfort, as the ruling class, I still have all kinds of privileges that are superior to others, such as eating meat and picking more meaty legs, eating vegetables and only eating fat leaves, etc.

"What would you like to eat today, sir?"

Yaroslav tightened his bowstring, picked it up and tried it, and asked with his mouth open as if he were casually asking, but I still smelled a strong grief in it, his warriors were deceived by me under the guise of glory, and they were full of enthusiasm but did not get any opportunity to display their ambitions, and spent more than a month in the deep mountains and old forests, in his words, more familiar with the forests of this area than the pheasants.

"You can try to catch two deer and come back, I'll give you a ball to taste, quite a professional level!" I deliberately replied as I pretended to be serious, and as I spoke, I made a gesture of squeezing the meat puree, which made Yaroslav's face slightly unnatural, and I thought that I was going to continue to ridicule him.

"We are not Orions!"

He threw his bow to the ground and complained to me in frustration: "The battle axes of the Lyutich are about to rust, but we don't even see the shadow of an enemy. Did you still count what you said at the beginning? ”

I moved my chair in, avoiding the sunlight coming in through the door, yawned lazily, and looked at him with a smile on my arms: "Since you have joined Nijmegen, Verlatin has never seen the hostile Slavs again, they run faster than rabbits with their tails between their legs, and they don't even look at the shadows, where can I go to find you an enemy to practice?" ”

"Are we guarding this group of farmers all the time?"

Yaroslav crouched down on the spot and asked unwillingly: "Planting, harvesting, replanting, reharvesting, often never end, you want to turn us all into peasants facing the loess with their backs to the sky, tending to the grass that bears seeds all day long, and the Lyutich people are eager to establish merit on the battlefield, not to compete who hoes the ground better." ”

I opened my mouth and was about to pick up the stubble to ridicule him, Rollo hurriedly ran in from the door, carrying two simple wooden boxes in his hands, the expression on his face seemed to be very difficult, Yaroslav sensitively smelled blood, and immediately stood up and stared at Rollo who walked in front of me with a look of excitement about good things.

"My lord, it's not good. One of our scout squads didn't return all night last night, and their bodies were found by soldiers who went to search this morning. ”

Luo Luo put the two wooden boxes at my feet, and continued with some anxiety: "I didn't report this matter to you in time last night, thinking that the scout might have gone too far to return, and there was still no news until this morning, only then did I find out that something had happened, Lord Bull personally led a team to search, and found the remains of the murdered soldier in a forest eighty miles away from the castle, and the scene was quite bloody. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

I instantly furrowed my eyebrows, and Luo Luo stood aside with a chilled hand, not daring to speak, and he had been familiar with the meaning of each facial expression of the Duke for a long time, and the frowning brow indicated that I was on the verge of anger, and naturally felt frightened.

"And what's in these two wooden boxes?"

Before Rollo could answer, Yaroslav, who had circled the wooden box several times, immediately answered: "If I guessed correctly, it should be a bloody human head inside, the other party's methods are cruel enough, not only took people's lives, but also sent back two heads to sincerely disgust you, which is a bit interesting." ”