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Looking at the back of Michael leaving in a hurry, Caroline laughed slyly. It seems that Michael is not as calm as he imagined about things like brown sugar, otherwise, with Michael in the kingdom, there is no need to forcibly arrange time in his busy schedule to finalize these things with himself.

Didn't think much about Michael's affairs, no matter what, now Michael could only be his own help. Carolan, who sent Michael away, was not in a hurry to leave the hall, and during this time Caroline had been worrying about how to increase her strength, and now it was finally over. After all, now that the Klose family is on the cusp, if he relies too much on the Klose family's resources, there is no doubt how many people will whisper in front of Rudolph that they are unwilling to lose their inheritance rights or something. Even if I believe that Rudolph will not contradict himself because of these rumors, it is always good to avoid such a situation. Now that Michael's Tobias family is on board, there is no need to worry about the lack of resources at all.

Psychologically relieved, Caroline grabbed the wine glass that she had never touched in front of Michael with a relaxed smile and took a sip. Caroline herself didn't realize that she had unconsciously imitated Herman's every move, which showed that her subconscious had completely accepted the world, and I didn't know how Caroline would feel if she realized this.

"Now that the money is enough, it's time to think about how to turn it into strength. The gold dinar is good, but there is no interest at home. And looking at Herman's appearance now, he should be planning to take Carolan and Rudolph on the expedition when he conquers Blaneybell, and if he is not strong enough, he will lose his life there when the time comes. Caroline pondered her plans as she drank the last bit of wine in her glass, then stood up and stretched. Hey, spending money is not an easy job. Caroline finished thinking and left the hall.

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"What? Do you want to form a guard of your own? Rudolph looked at his brother in surprise, and as soon as this morning's morning exercise was over, Caroline sneaked him into a corner and asked some questions.

At the dinner the day before yesterday, Rudolph's attention was focused on the new wine that Caroline had brought, and then he simply drunk himself. So all he heard about Carolan was making something that would make the wine taste good, and as for what it was, and what the value of the thing was, Rudolph didn't notice it at all. Now he suddenly heard that Carolan seemed to have plans to form a guard of her own, and Rudolph was very surprised.

"I know that the Goethe family has given you a lot of money, but you won't last long with that money, so I suggest you spend it on the construction of the Iris Manor if you don't want to keep it." At this time, Rudolph thought that Caroline was stunned by the 800 gold dinars, but when he knew that the Goethe family had paid so much money to Carolan in one go, he was also surprised, he did not expect the Goethe family to be so rich.

"If it were only the eight hundred gold dinars, I would have used the money as you proposed. But yesterday I just made an agreement with the Tobias family that we will be responsible for the production of brown sugar and they will be responsible for the sales. In this case, I will have enough gold to form a guard to be stationed at Mirror Lake, and the Goethe family of the province has always been so concerned about my land. Carolan casually brought up the guise of the Goethe family, and I have to say that it is sometimes a good thing to have an enemy next to her territory who is watching her fiercely, at least she has a justified excuse for doing a lot of things.

"Well, if it's just a guard, it shouldn't be a problem." Rudolf Zaza, as the legal heir of the Klose family, he knows very well how strong the economic strength of the Tobias family, the allies of the Klose family, is, it can be said that Henry the Bird Catcher rules all the Saxon nobles through the two families of Tobias and Klose.

As a traverser, Carolan actually wants to establish a standing army through this guard, and when the strength is enough in the future, she will directly use the guard as a template to expand a standing military force of her own. The best thing to do in this regard is the Byzantine Empire's Varyag Guard and the Ironclad Paladinary Formation, although with Carolan's strength, there is no way to form a force like the Ironclad Paladins, but this does not prevent Carolan from working hard with this force.

Traditionally, a feudal army was an army formed by the great nobles who conscripted the lower nobles who were loyal to them in time of war. The lower nobles answered the call of the lord in wartime with their servants and a certain number of militia to go to an unknown place to fight for interests that did not belong to them, while the high nobles were not responsible for any logistics of these armies that did not belong to them, and at most provided a batch of smocks to distinguish between friend and foe in battle. The combat effectiveness of such an army can be imagined. This was simply the result of the fact that the great nobles did not have enough money to form an army entirely of their own, so they had to give up their land to other lower nobles in exchange for their promise to submit to military service for a certain period of time in time of war, as well as a number of other obligations.

Carolan, who came from later generations, naturally knew the instability of such an army structure, so he naturally did not pin the security of his territory on such an army. You must know that Charles VII of France ended the Hundred Years' War with a standing army, Gustav II of Sweden swept the Holy Roman Empire with a standing army, and Basil II of the nearby Byzantine Empire is about to rely on the Varyag Guard and the ironclad paladier to bring the ancient empire to a new peak, and the royal standing army established by Henry the Bird Catcher by squeezing the tribal nobles will also completely end the nightmare of Western Europe in the near future: the Magyars.

"Actually, I don't know about this, but you can go to Heinrich, our family's guard was formed by him, and he has a lot of experience in this area. In addition, you may be able to find a mercenary group and hire them permanently. Rudolph made a gesture of his own powerlessness, but he also gave his opinion, although Carolan's personality would never choose to use mercenaries as his guard.

"Well, Heinrich has been busy lately, I haven't seen him since I came back from Mirror Lake." In every respect, Heinrich was an industry insider that Carolan trusted, so Carolan immediately wanted to go to Heinrich to ask some questions.

"He recently helped his father train the recruits of the Royal Cavalry Regiment at the training ground outside the city, and if you want to meet him, I can go with you." Rudolph saw that Carolan was so eager, so he simply proposed that he take him there directly, anyway, Rudolph himself is a royal military attaché, and it is a daily job to inspect the recruit training ground.

"That's great, thanks Rudolph." Carolan agreed.

"If only you remembered to bring me some of that wine from last time. I'll go get the horses ready and I'll see you at the gate of the manor. It seems that Rudolph still remembers the wine that Carolan brought last time, and told Carolan three times in a row to remember to give him more wine next time, and then Rudolph turned around and went back to his room to prepare for the trip.

A quarter of an hour later, Carolan and Rudolph met at the gate of the manor, and then led a large group of people towards the royal family's recruit training ground.

The royal family's recruit training ground is said to be a training ground, but in fact it is a small fortress at all. According to Rudolph, the site was built during the confrontation between Henry the Bird Catcher and the previous East Frankish King Conrad I, and was used as a training ground for the new army of the royal army after Henry ascended the throne. After the recruits were recruited, they spent a full six months of training, eating, drinking, and staying here.

Carolan listened to Rudolph's introduction as the gates of the fortress were slowly opened by the guards on the gate tower who had identified them. When the gate was completely opened, Rudolph led Carolan and his party into the fortress.

Carolan, who had entered the inside of the fortress, kept looking around at the castle, and compared to Rudolph's brief introduction, in Caroland's eyes, there were many things to be seen just from the places he had observed.

First of all, the castle was designed with multiple walls, and the walls were full of stone holes that could be climbed, which was very rare in Western Europe today, and now only the Byzantines used such fortresses to defend against enemies. Secondly, the layout of this castle is very exquisite, and the space utilization rate is also very high; Residential areas, armament depots, and training grounds are reasonably and compactly distributed; This shows that when this fortress was built, there must have been a good enough designer who was personally present to guide the construction of the workers. All the details show that the castle was not built solely to defend against King Conrad I, and that Henry should have been imitating the Byzantines' idea of training armies.

Carolan and Rudolph quickly found Heinrich under the guidance of the fortress's insiders, but it was the familiar roar that let Caroline and them know Heinrich's location before Heinrich's figure: "You pigs! Idiot! Waste, I'm talking about a collective left turn! You're not even as good as a three-year-old! A bunch of rubbish! ”

"Wow, it looks like we didn't come at the right time." Carolan plucked out her ears and said helplessly to Rudolph.

"It's okay, it's nothing! He does this every day, and these recruits will always tell you by their actions why we are nobles and they are just lowly outcasts. Rudolph shrugged, apparently accustomed to the situation.

"Outcasts?" Carolan caught the word in Rudolph's words that interested her.

"What do you think a freeman with land at home, or a commoner who knows how to trade, would come here?" Rudolph rolled his eyes, feeling that his brother was innocent and cute in this.

“。。。。 All right. Caroline found herself measuring the present against her thoughts a thousand years from now, so she simply kept her mouth shut, ready to wait until she had seen enough before speaking.

"Come in, two adults. Lord Heinrich will soon be cleaning up these scumbags. The guards who had led Rudolph to the place shocked Caroline again, and now Caroline had no expectations for these so-called recruits, and then Caroline and the others passed through an archway, and then saw the tall figure.