Regarding the "army" seen in this world so far, Gawain's evaluation is only two words: wonderful.

At least on the territory of Ansu.

The combination of various factors such as the serious regression of civilization, low productivity, the division of the aristocracy, and the absolute dominance of high-end military professions led to the deformity of the military system of the Ansu Kingdom, which was nominally a unified whole, but in fact each feudal nobleman was equivalent to occupying an independent kingdom, and the so-called king was only the most glamorous of all the lords (and not necessarily the most authoritative). There are no unified professional soldiers in this kingdom, some are only the leaders of various nobles and the knights directly under the royal family in the city of St. Sunil, and there is no top-down ruling authority at all levels of nobles, similar to the situation of "my vassals are not my vassals" in classical Europe on the earth, even the many southern families who claim to be directly under the king's nobility are only dependent on the royal family in the form of a covenant, and they only have a few obligations to the king to monitor the southern border, provide intelligence, and send troops in wartime, but will not listen to the king's other commands.

The soldiers under their command are naturally only their own.

Even a few soldiers under a viscount were the viscount's own.

So if a great nobleman needs to fight a war, how can he raise a large army?

Simple, if his prestige is enough, and he finds a good reason for the war, and promises enough benefits for the post-war partition, then the lords and lords under his name are obliged to lead their own private soldiers to help in the war, and these private soldiers are each in their own ranks, led by their own lords or powerful force professionals sent by the lord (usually the latter, many of the Ansu nobles in this era have degenerated to the extent that they cannot fight on horseback, but can only use money to hire strong people to sit in the family), when fighting, These "mixed armies" with all kinds of banners and tactics rushed up, depending on the strength of the enemy and their own benefits, they chose to work without effort and lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, and when the battle was over, the leader of the team ran to the big lord or the king to calculate the benefits of the partition.

The result of this is obvious: the whole kingdom does not have a professional army, nor does it have a unified command system and soldier training rules, and the various nobles put together their own private soldiers in a variety of ways, and the weapons are not uniform, the military system is not uniform, the logistics are not uniform, and even the army trained by the nobleman Lao Tzu and the nobleman's son is not necessarily unified - if the relationship between the two is not so good.

In addition to the variety of soldiers, this chaotic military system has led to a series of other serious consequences: the army's combat effectiveness is extremely slow, the training is inefficient, the selection of soldiers is undisciplined, the desertion rate is frightening, and once the strong man who leads the team is killed, the whole team of soldiers is equal to the whole team - because they are neither disciplined nor knowledgeable, and all they learn is to charge with the knight who leads the team.

The Cecil family is slightly stronger than other nobles in this regard, as the "Southern Guardian Family" that resisted the invasion of monsters on the frontier back then, even if the Cecil family declines, it still retains the habit passed down from generation to generation: a more scientific militia system.

In addition to the regular soldiers (i.e., the family soldiers), another major source of Cecil led soldiers was the trained militia, the family knights trained these people recruited from the free people according to a lower standard than the regular soldiers, training soldiers in their spare time, busy farming, in order to supplement the lack of regular soldiers, but also in this way to reserve a large number of reserve soldiers for the territory, because there are many people who have received basic combat training, in case of emergency, it will be much easier to replenish regular soldiers than other nobles.

Rebecca's expansion of the conscription of the militia and the conversion of the militia from freedmen to serfs was the result of further development of the system.

But Gawain decided to take it all a step further.

Considering that he needed a professional, professional, and stable army for the future, he simply abolished the system of separating the militia from the family fighters, and instead unified all soldiers into a "combat corps", and he demanded that all soldiers must be systematically trained in a new and unified way, and announced that they would be paid a unified salary.

In the past, the private soldiers of the nobles did not have a salary, usually the private soldiers of the nobles had to bring their own weapons or buy weapons from the lord at their own expense, and even had to bring their own food when they went to war, in this case, the reason why the soldiers were still willing to fight for the nobles was because of the existence of "privateering" behavior: soldiers could loot on the battlefield and after breaking through the enemy's city, and keep half of their property for their own use, which was their reward for being a soldier.

The situation of Cecil's lords was different from other places, and the successive lords of Cecil would provide soldiers with weapons and equipment on a lend-lease basis, and distribute food as a subsidy for delaying farm work during training and service, but other than that, they were not paid any salary, and the food was only enough to make ends meet.

Naturally, Gawain decided to pay professional soldiers, and at the same time announced that Cecil's soldiers would permanently ban any privateering.

And if soldiers want to be promoted or rewarded, it's simple: Gawain also promises to work out detailed references for promotion based on merit and contributions, and that there will be more wealth to be gained by killing the enemy or following orders than the disorderly and barbaric plundering of the past.

This is not a problem, because the Cecil family has always only fought monsters, at most in the early years, they fought against the barbarians outside the state, and their soldiers have no privateer habits at all, and what has always maintained their allegiance to the Cecil family is those food subsidies and various benevolent policies for the families who join the army. At this time, Gawain just turned the "prohibition of privateing" into a clear law, and everyone didn't feel it, and even welcomed it: after all, Gawain promised that even if serfs joined the army in the future, they could be promoted by virtue of their military exploits, which was a privilege only for family soldiers in the past.

But what happened next made them feel a little bit: as a retention and extension of the original militia system, Gawain stipulated that all adult men in the territory were obliged to receive basic military training during their leisure time, which changed from the original conscription to a national and compulsory one.

This does not mean that everyone should go to the battlefield to fight, but to ensure that the subjects have basic military literacy and can be easily transformed into professional soldiers.

If this had been brought up at another time, it would probably have caused a certain amount of resentment, but at this moment, less than a day after the monster attack, Gawain Cecil's prestige was at an all-time high, and the fact that he had defended the camp with his own hands, the system was announced.

And everyone also thinks very openly: anyway, the usual service of the lord is also a contribution, and participating in training at this time is also a contribution, if you think about it this way, in fact, there is no change, as long as you can eat a full stomach.

Besides, if there is a real chance to be selected as a regular soldier, then putting on armor and holding a sword is equivalent to becoming a "semi-decent person", which is a rare way out for most of the poor people who have been destitute all their lives.

Considering the receptivity of the audience and the complexity of various detailed rules, Gawain did not explain all his thoughts on the stage, he just roughly said that all the soldiers were integrated and organized into a "combat corps" and basic military training and left the high platform, as for the real details...... Then we had to discuss it with the two knights and Hetty.

And what he announced today is just a foundation, to put it bluntly, considering the current situation of the territory, these things he said are even a little too advanced - there are only more than 800 people on the side of the frontier, and only 100 of them are pulled out to train into soldiers, and these 100 people are actually the entire "army" of Cecil's territory, and its scale is very different from the future conceived by Gawain.

And don't look at only a hundred, this military-civilian ratio has actually reached the point of madness - one-eighth of the population is converted into professional soldiers, judging from the proportion alone, it is almost the four words of poor military force written on the face, Gawain has the impression that the military-civilian ratio of a kingdom in a world state of peace is usually between forty to one to seventy to one, or even lower, and even in wartime, this ratio will not exceed one-tenth - Unless there is a great war of life and death, or a nomadic people like the northern barbarians back then.

And in his territory, one out of eight people are soldiers!

If these are all non-production soldiers, then it means that almost all the material output of the camp will be used to support the one-eighth of the full-time combat population, and all development will be stagnant, and social stability will also be reduced, so all the soldiers in the territory are now not out of production, they usually train, guard, and participate in the construction and clearing of the camp when they have time, so as to ensure the abundance of labor.

This gave them an approximation of a construction corps, and to Gawain's chauff, the soldiers had no complaints.

This is partly due to the fact that more than half of the soldiers are militiamen, which themselves belong to the category of non-production, and the remaining part are highly loyal veterans, and the Cecil family's strict military management strategy also ensures that the soldiers under the family's name will not become lazy old soldiers, which is why there is today.

Even so, this one-eighth ratio of soldiers is not a long-term solution, and Gawain's next plan is to find a way to bring in more people to make up for the camp's biggest shortcoming.

If you don't make up the population, it's all a fantasy to say anything, and plan a professional and professional modern army for a camp of only 800 people and a team of 100 soldiers, Gawain thinks that even if he didn't hold his head steady and was hit by the coffin lid when he first opened the coffin.

It's just that he has to set these frameworks in advance, even if it can only be a framework now—because once there is a large influx of outsiders, it will be too late to do a lot of things, and if there is no mature and stable framework to support at that time, all the efforts he has made here will be diluted by those new populations.

After the meeting was dispersed, Gawain immediately summoned the camp administrators, including the two knights, and this time he also called Norris, a farmer who had been adjusting to the position of "head of agriculture" for more than ten days, and Hammer, a blacksmith who had already taken charge of the affairs of the steel mill.

(Damn, the transition chapters are so difficult)