At the end of January, the warm winds of the land and sea in the south of the continent finally overpowered the cold winds of the North Sea, and the breath of spring quietly covered the whole of Florence from south to north.

The Duke of Clayton, the deputy commander of the Lorraine Legion, and Prince Boyle, the royal liaison, were also late, and finally arrived in Lorraine with a large entourage.

However, the two did not receive any warm welcome this time, and Charles did not let them into the city at all, but led them directly to the recruit training base outside the city.

"Legionnaire, you don't want His Royal Highness to live in such an inferior house, do you? ”

When Clayton and Boyle saw the luxurious palace that Charles had prepared for them, Clayton, the deputy commander who knew that Charles was not easy to mess with, couldn't help it.

Where is this palace, it is clearly a few thatched huts made of mud and a large courtyard with adobe walls.

"Originally, I really wanted to build a beautiful royal palace for His Highness, but why are you half a month late? Where do I have the money to build a comfortable palace for you, and the other soldiers still live in tents and pits? Why don't you change with them?"

The Lorraine Legion was nominally a regular army under the control of the Flensian military department, and was paid in full, but the quartermaster assigned to the Lorraine regiment by the military department in charge of paying the military pay did not arrive in Lorraine on time, but came with Clayton, the deputy commander, and the soldiers under Charles were already in arrears for half a month.

Charles squinted at the two "subordinates" and sneered very unhappily: "What's the matter? You still want to use the military salary of the legion to control me? I'll tell you today, what is a strong dragon that does not suppress the head snake, and what is a senior official who crushes people to death." ”

"Someone, drag that damn quartermaster over for me!"

Charles turned his head and roared loudly, and the loyal dog-legged and personal knight Brut greeted him, and rushed into the newly arrived group with a few would-be warriors, dragging a fat-headed, big-eared fellow over.

The sound of killing pigs resounded in the sky above the recruit training base, attracting all the recruits who were being trained, and the three layers inside and outside the thousands of people surrounded Clayton and the others, and the little round face of the little prince Boyle turned white.

"Charles...... Legionnaire, what are you doing here?"

Although Bowyle was a little scared, he stood up, and it was he the prince who everyone present could talk to Charles on an equal footing.

"Your Highness Boyle, since you have joined the Lorraine Legion as a military officer, have you ever looked through the military discipline established by His Majesty the King?"

"I read it carefully, but if you fail to arrive at the assembly site on time for special reasons, you don't need to be punished, and you can defend yourself even if you are accused of guilt. ”

The little fat man's reaction was quick, and he obviously really read the book of military discipline written by his father, and the road was difficult to walk in the heavy snow in winter, which could be counted as a special reason no matter how you said it.

But Charles just smiled, and instructed his minions to hang the fat quartermaster.

Charles erected a lot of seven or eight meter-high poles around the playground of the recruit training base, specially hanging those who are clever and bullying, and no one in the entire Lorraine Legion does not know the power of "Master Charles" these days.

At this time, Charles explained to Prince Boyle: "Let's not discuss the fact that he did not escort the military pay on time, let's take a look at the accounts first, if he escorted me with the full amount of military salary, naturally there is nothing, but if it is insufficient....... Hehehe!"

Boyle listened to Charles's eerie laughter, and he was a little confused, but the Duke of Clayton next to him changed his face greatly, leaned over to the little fat prince's ear and quickly told something.

The little fat man's face soon changed, and he looked angrily at the quartermaster who was howling on the pole, and his eyes seemed to want to tear him with his own hands.

The quartermaster brought three wagons, each filled with large chests, but when the Charr smashed open them, they found that many of them contained only a small amount of coins, or even empty.

It took some time to count the salaries of the three wagons, and when the count was complete, the quartermaster on the pole no longer killed the pigs, but shouted loudly that he had been wronged.

"Lord Marquis, the practice of the military department has always been to pay eighty percent of the military salary, and the marshal also acquiesced, and I only took one percent myself, which is already a conscience........ I am willing to compensate, and I am willing to make up 30% of the military salary myself......."

"Hehehe! acquiescence?"

Charles still had a smile on his face, but anyone who saw it thought it wasn't a laugh, but a murderous knife.

"Your Highness, if you had ten warriors, you would have been paid ten louis, but now there are only seven, how do you distribute them?"

The little fat man Boyle raised his head and replied angrily: "I'm sorry Legionnaire, I don't know about this bullshit convention, and I don't support this bullshit convention, I will truthfully report the situation here to His Majesty abroad, and I also support the enforcement of military law against this greedy quartermaster." ”

"Your Royal Highness, as the liaison officer of the Lorraine Legion, you must urge the military department to allocate military funds on time and in the right amount!" Charles hugged the little fat man's shoulders and made friends with him very "sincerely".

The little fat prince puffed up his chest and belly: "Of course, if something like this happens again, I will let those guys in the military department know what the anger of the Augustine family is!"

"Good!"

Charles turned around and walked onto a prominent platform, his voice clear throughout the field.

"I know that some of you have served as soldiers for the old man before, and you have seen all kinds of dirty things, no military pay, or only a little military pay......"

"You may think that even if there is a military salary, it is also the officer's business, the battalion commander deducts the captain's salary, and the captain deducts the soldier's salary, you are also used to this kind of hard life, and you only look forward to finishing the war one day earlier and going back to plant the few acres of land at home......."

"But I can tell you that in my legion everyone has more money to earn than they do farming, and no one can take other people's personal belongings, much less allow any deduction of military salaries.......

"I will publicly announce the amount of salaries, weapon rations, and armor styles of officers and soldiers of each rank and rank, and the battalion commander has the standard of the battalion commander, and the soldier has the price of a soldier, and if anyone finds that a copper plate is missing, then I will let the embezzler know what the rules of the Lorraine are. ”

Charles jumped off the platform, walked over to one of the knights, grabbed his spear and threw it with all his might.

"Duo!"

The sharp spear pierced the quartermaster's belly, nailing him firmly to the pillar, and the bitter pleas for mercy came to an abrupt end.

"Hang on it and expose the body for three days!"

"Start paying immediately, starting with the first battalion!"

The humble boy Neo Griver had already memorized his own script, so he quickly gathered his own people, divided them into ten groups according to the team, and distributed the first month's military salary in an orderly manner, just like handing out meals every morning.

"You are all soldiers who have just participated in the training, they are all rookies, and the rest of the money will be paid to you in full before the training is completed, but if you can't tell the difference between the left and right, who can't count the number of people in your team, and if you can't hit the target thirty meters away, this money will be confiscated!"

The loud voice of the humble boy Neo Griver echoed over and over again at the scene, and the soldiers who got the money were all smiling, and some of the clever soldiers who had reached the training standard even got four or five livres, which caused a sensation among the thousands of recruits on the field.

Not long ago, they were all farmers, and they used to have no money to fight for their lords, and they even had to bring their own dry food, and these days of hard training have made them miserable, and if they hadn't been able to eat several extra meals a day, they would have been unable to hold on.

Now holding the solid silver coins in their hands, they finally felt that all the hard work was worth it.

But Bowyle and Clayton next to them didn't know what to do, because Charles's move to make the payment of military salaries public was very unfavorable to them, and when did they need to explain the military salaries so clearly to the soldiers?

Just as Bowyle was frowning and thinking about something. Charles walked over with a smile, "Why is Your Highness Bowyle so sad, why don't you go to my Sunset Castle and enjoy the beauty of the sunset, and then talk to me about how I can help you?"

The little fat man Boyle looked at Charles's sincere smile and couldn't help but shudder.