"Gold and silver,

Spread all over my bed---"

Byron counted the gold coins, dressed in his dressing gown, and hummed a song triumphantly.

At noon this day, he completed the final step of Deherim's plan, successfully invested in the city's only private bow-making workshop, and reached a supply agreement with the army through his relationship with the Sith Baron.

Because of the order, the craftsmen began to make bows, crossbows and arrows in large quantities, and the stock was so large that they already needed to be pulled by horse-drawn carts.

Even though the hottest part of summer had arrived, and he had to buy ice cubes from the cellar at a high price every day to cool off, Byron was still full of fighting spirit.

In the past month or so, he has relied on sufficient cash to complete the acquisition of six workshops in different industries, and even the Jinshou family can't bear it, so he sent someone over to remind him to control the development.

Byron pretended to be humble in this regard, and secretly built an intelligence network to find a way to deal with it.

Perhaps the cooperation between the two sides can produce a good win-win effect, but if Byron wants to seek better development, then it is very necessary to suppress the other party.

In addition to his commercial activities, he did everything possible to expand his mercenary force and instill in them the notion that:

"Parents who gave birth to me, Byron who made me rich."

If you shout too much, people will take it seriously. After a long time, these soldiers were really loyal to Byron and used by him. That is, of course, if Byron can always come up with the money to ensure that their needs are met.

Looking at the entire Svadia Kingdom, and even the entire Calradia continent, I am afraid that only Byron's Peony mercenary team is so keen on recruiting new soldiers. For experienced mercenary captains, the training cycle of recruits is long, morale is generally not high, and it is very easy to hang up after a fight, and investing in recruits is basically more than worth the loss.

However, Byron has a system behind him, although this gold finger is usually in a stealth state, but it is very useful at critical times. After a promotion, the proficiency of those recruits will immediately increase dramatically, and the training results that the army can only achieve in a year will only take a month or two here in Byron, and it will be faster if there is combat experience to rub in.

And after Byron's wealth has increased significantly, many experienced and equipped mercenaries will also take the initiative to come to take refuge, although some of them have not very pure backgrounds, and some of them still ran over because of crimes, but Byron is willing to accept them, as long as they promise not to betray Byron, and can fight bravely.

Byron's dinar was consumed in large quantities, and in response to the addition of new military forces.

The previous male refugee and 2 would-be farmers were promoted to mercenary sentinels, while the 13 female refugees all became military women except for the pregnant woman, who was also defined as a peasant woman.

There was always some doubt as to why Irene trained the woman, but Jamila was supportive.

Byron, of course, had his own ideas, and these women had been bullied a lot, and they also had a certain sense of gratitude for Byron. On top of that, these women are not only able to do their jobs better than men, but they are also happy to use their weapons to kill men who want to attack them because of their previous experiences.

Byron equipped the 12 women with crossbows that had been eliminated by the light infantry, and had Bandak teach them how to use them. On crossbows, some women shot more accurately than Byron.

In addition to this, they were also given pickaxes that were cheap to build and had a certain armor-piercing effect, and these women were not equipped with armor, so they had to have a means of confrontation when facing enemies with armor.

There are many mercenaries joining Byron, 31. Of these, 15 were judged as mercenary sentinels, 11 were judged as caravan guards, and 5 were mercenary infantry.

Byron's dinar shrank to 5,000, and his dominance was not enough.

Now Byron has more than 180 troops, and even if Byron has read some books about army command and increased the command limit by 30 men, he can only lead 150 men.

Although Manid and Fatis had taken many of them to run the business, he could still feel the consequences of exceeding the upper limit.

He was overburdened by too many soldiers, conflicts, supply problems, and troubles for nearby villages and farms.

In accordance with Bandak's discipline requirements in the Rhodok army, as well as some of Ellene's suggestions for governing the army, he issued a simple military order, and the effect was okay, at least there were a lot less annoying things.

And beyond imagination, with basic military orders and discipline, Byron has an additional "+50" symbol behind his dominance, which is an additional bonus that will only appear when the military order can be enforced, giving Byron an additional number of dominions.

This surprised Byron, and he began to study what good ways to manage the army in his time could be brought into the world.

But after thinking about it for a while and combining it with the current situation, Byron felt a sense of powerlessness.

In the final analysis, the degree of national consciousness awakening in this era is very low, and the knights sometimes regard glory as higher than the state, and the civilians at the bottom have no concept of defending the country. If this lord is good, he will support him. If it's not good, run to another place.

Moreover, Byron is a mercenary captain in the final analysis, not a noble lord, and his words lack coercive force, so many later generations of military management methods are not easy to achieve.

However, Byron still used some of the methods of physical training in later generations to the training of recruits, such as getting up early to run laps, many mercenaries were puzzled by this behavior, and there were many complaints from recruits. However, Alleyne and Bandak were quite supportive, they didn't quite understand what this meant, but Bandak felt that it would allow the soldiers to maintain their physical fitness during non-combat periods, and Alleyne even considered it a step towards regularizing the army, praising Byron for his foresight.

In addition, Byron also ordered a uniform red and black striped burqa, although he was not qualified to draw his own coat of arms on the burqa, but it was still possible to simply draw a peony mark.

With the increase in troops, the issue of heralds became an important issue. For this, Calradia already has relevant examples to refer to.

The sound of trumpets, the waving of flags, and the eye-catching ornaments on the officers' bodies can guide troops on the march and attack. A well-trained unit can complete a change of movement with just one command, and in this era, reaching this level can already be regarded as a disciplined unit.

Byron's thinking expanded greatly after this, and he began to write down in his notebook a lot of management methods he could think of, as well as possible future inventions, and began to figure out how to realize these ideas.

He began to find bards to write military songs for his troops that would ignite their fighting spirits, and he also began to secretly buy high-purity charcoal, high-quality sulfur, and saltpeter, which was already expensive. He also bought another small, more remote farm outside the city, where he could start his "little inventions" according to the recipe he could still remember.

It is said that the Salanders have already made something similar, but it is not too late for Byron to start.