The advantage of the conscription system is that it can quickly select a group of elites, and Allen's conscription system is developing in the direction of professional soldiers, and the newly recruited soldiers are specialized in training and separated from production, which not only improves the combat effectiveness of the army, but also ensures that it does not affect the country's economic development.

But the key problem is that the cost of conscription is too high. First of all, there is the issue of the treatment of soldiers, soldiers undergo high-intensity training, and they are not allowed to eat and drink? In order to ensure the morale and loyalty of the soldiers, all kinds of additional benefits are indispensable. Otherwise, this group of Qiu Bashao will not be able to deviate from morality, and get a mutiny for you every day.

But in order to live happily in the future and avoid bankruptcy crisis, Alan was ruthless and threw away all the 500 gold coins in the treasury. Regardless of Lao Sai's resistance, he insisted on selling the red-shirted wooden table with 6,000 gold coins in his study. Although Lao Sai scolded Alan for being a loser with a snot and tears on his face for several days, Alan really couldn't get angry with this white-haired and loyal old housekeeper, so he had to go to the barracks every day to watch his army slowly build up.

With this start-up funding, Guy quickly began to take action, first recruiting young people.

This young man is also particular, first of all, to ensure that the family is innocent, and there is no criminal record and bad behavior. This is Allen, in order to ensure the purity of the army and the innocence of the family, he requires that the families of these soldiers at least have property, so as to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers. After all, there is no welfare system in this era, and when you retire, you will be given a job or something.

Like the famous movie star Sylvester Stallone's "First Blood", the protagonist Rambo retired from the Vietnam War and returned to his hometown to find that things were wrong, not only did he have no place to live, but he was also considered a war criminal, forcing him to wash the whole town in blood! Even the father country of the human rights report could not guarantee the living conditions of the soldiers, let alone the barbaric Middle Ages.

The second is the requirement of physical fitness, and Guy's request is to wear double chain mail, a helmet, a sword, and three days of military rations to run. Those who can run 40 kilometers in half a day are considered qualified. In such a poor place, people can run marathons? Alan was surprised, just those medieval commoners who ate some bread and water every day, occasionally picked some wild fruits and weeds, and beat their teeth and sacrificed their teeth to live like ascetics, could run a marathon?

As a result, Allen was slapped in the face, and the iron-clad facts told him that human potential is really infinite, even if he can't eat meat, he has the same strength. Looking at these muscular strong men in front of him, Alan silently told himself that it was time to start exercising.

Just when Allen was smashing the pot and selling iron to build a group of elites and plan to make a war fortune, Allen's letter was finally delivered to the city of Tulga.

Earl Andrew's full name is Andrew Ouranos. His father was the younger brother of Allen's father, so Andrew, who is now forty years old, is Allen's cousin. He was the second in line to the throne of Duke Essis, and Andrew was already in power when the old duke died, if it weren't for Duke Lawrence's strong support for Allen, and at the same time clearly opposing Andrew, which caused other nobles to remain silent, he would have been Duke Essis now. But in the end, he still coaxed.

In the face of the famous Duke Lawrence, the shield of the kingdom, an iron-blooded duke who came out of blood and fire, although Andrew, who was in the prime of life at the time, had enough strength to wage war, he still did not have the courage to rebel openly. Because don't look at Andrew in his thirties, but he hasn't fought a war in his life.

Although Tulga is located on the border of the Kingdom of Lorrain and the Kingdom of Ammusi, he has spent a lot of money and material resources to make friends with the Kingdom of Lorraine since his father, and at the same time, the opening of trade has made both sides profitable, and the risk of war has been reduced. So much so that by Andrew's time, there had been no war for decades, and the entire people of Tulga had lost the concept of war, so Duke Lawrence's statement that he would not hesitate to go to war was a bombshell for Andrew, and the title of Duke that was about to arrive flew away with a little hesitation.

Andrew has been ashamed of this for several years, and the whole person has also lost weight from the original big fat man, and touched the belly that is no longer protruding with his hand, Andrew sighed in his heart and lost weight again.

"My lord! A letter came from Essis, addressed to you by the Duke himself. The attendant on the side interrupted Andrew's thoughts.

"Oh? Did that kid write to me? Where, I'll see what he can write. Andrew sneered contemptuously.

The attendant on one side hurriedly handed over the letter. The pale yellow paper reflected a burst of yellow light in the sun, which affected reading a little, and Andrew laughed again in his heart, Tulga had already begun to use a new type of paper that had been handed down from the Kingdom of Lorraine, which was fairer and smoother to the touch, and he didn't want this pale yellow paper to be so rough at all.

The letter is not very long, but only a few hundred words, mainly to describe Andrew's heavy responsibilities during the old duke's serious illness, saving the building from the general collapse, and building the world, which is hereby encouraged. Now that your cousin Alan has become an independent adult, you want Andrew to return the property of the former Ouranos family, and as for the previous profits, he will not ask Andrew for the previous profits, as Andrew's reward for many years.

Seeing that Andrew still has a good impression of Allen in the front, this kid is insightful, but he is furious in the back. Andrew was indignant in his heart, if he hadn't been half a step late, this kid wouldn't have been able to even be a duke, and now he would have been rolling in hell a long time ago, and he still had the courage to ask for his inheritance, his eggs! As for the brothers in the back, they are united in creating beautiful Essis or something, and they are directly ignored.

"He NND, why did this kid ask Lao Tzu for industry, he ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, if Lao Tzu didn't let him go, he could have the current life? provoked Lao Tzu to be angry, believe it or not, Lao Tzu immediately pulled the pole and rebelled?" Andrew couldn't hide the anger in his chest and scolded angrily.

The attendant on the side saw Andrew angry, and immediately said: "Lord Earl, this kid has only been a duke for two days and thinks that he is powerful, thinking that the duke will die as long as he orders the vassals." We don't have to pay attention to him, as long as he knows it's useless, he won't dare to make a fuss. Is it just the strength of his barren Isis? ”

Andrew was originally an indecisive person, but after listening to the words of the attendant, he slowly calmed down, and threw Alan's letter into the stove next to him, which burned in an instant.

The attendant said as if flatteringly, "Your Excellency is angry, Your Majesty has good news for Your Excellency."

Andrew said angrily: "Tell me quickly, what kind of thing to sell!"

"Yes, yes, sir." The attendant officer hurriedly continued: "Your Excellency, the Marlboro Chamber of Commerce recently got a good thing and plans to present it to your lordship."

I heard that someone gave gifts, and Andrew didn't care, after all, none of the merchants who came and went in the commercial capital of Tulga had ever given gifts.

"What is it?"

"It's a desk made of top-quality wood and red shirt wood, and according to the people of the Marlboro Chamber of Commerce, this desk was obtained from the city of Essis, and it cost six thousand gold coins."

"Oh?" Andrew was curious, "Take it and I'll take a look." ”

With the help of a few guards, a table was moved in.

Andrew felt familiar at first glance, and when he looked closely, wasn't this the table in the duke's study, how did he come here. Andrew had been to the Duke's Manor before, and knew the low-key luxury of the Duke's Manor House well, where even a table and a chair were worth a thousand dollars, and every item could tell a piece of history, even a miscellaneous tree on the side of the road might have been personally taken by the first Dukes. Andrew has always been envious of this kind of style, so he is also very fond of antique collecting, and desperately leans on it.

The attendant on the side saw that Andrew was interested, and said with added fuel and vinegar: "Listening to the people of the Chamber of Commerce, the people who sell the table seem to be in urgent need of money, and this kind of superb table is sold without much bargaining." However, judging from this condition, only the Duke's family can use this table in Essis. You say how could the Duke's Palace suddenly sell tables? Is there a financial crisis?"

When Andrew heard this, he thought of Allen's plan to take back the property, and he was even more sure in his heart. "Hmph, I didn't expect this kid to even start losing his family business, so Lao Tzu just sat and waited for him to go bankrupt, and then came to ask Lao Tzu to help him!" Thinking of the way Alan knelt in front of him and cried bitterly, Andrew couldn't help but laugh.