"The tax collector of the town hall, the price is three thousand gold talers. ”

"The mayor of a small coastal town sells for five thousand gold talers. ”

"A commoner with noble blood, as long as he pays a large amount of sacrifice to His Majesty, and then passes the family genealogy review of the Noble Heraldic Academy, he can become a glorious knight or lord, although this title cannot be passed on to future generations, but in any case, it can be regarded as entering the threshold of nobility!"

"Haha, there is also a gold coin clang, and the soul ascends to heaven. ”

"There is no easier way to ascend to heaven, and I think that the saints who died for the faith of the Lord would weep with emotion if they knew it in Heaven......"

"By throwing in silver coins, one leg of your deceased loved one will be able to step out of Hellfire, and by throwing in gold coins, your deceased relatives will be able to ascend to one level in Purgatory, and you will be offered land and houses, and you can ascend directly from Purgatory to Heaven...... Haha, if the sale of Purgatory can be bargained, then I'm afraid that there will not be enough rooms in the future Heavenly Kingdom!"

Everyone is an active-minded, rebellious young man, and they don't know where they have skewed the topic when they talk.

"You guys, don't be sarcastic, if you don't sell the indulgence scroll, how can the church raise the five knights!"

The scheming Georgie couldn't help but defend the church and the kings: "The power of the knights is great, but the consumption of material and resources by the knights is also extremely huge. A knight needs nothing else, just five to ten times as much food as an ordinary person needs for a meal, and most of them are mainly meat-based. In addition, the secret medicine and ointment required for cultivation, the armor, mounts, and weapons required for battle, as well as the manpower and material resources required to maintain the armor, raise mounts, and forge weapons, this is only the daily training in peacetime, not counting the consumption of knight squires and a team of auxiliaries to lead during battle. ”

"After such a rough calculation, it is still a question whether a knight's manor can really support a knight's expenses. ”

"So now that His Majesty and the lords are canonizing new knights less and less, it is much more difficult to become a knight of the fiefdom than it is to pass the examination of the heraldic court and never become a knight. ”

"Haha, that's because the knights of the canonized knights have to pay money from the pockets of the king and the lord, and they also have to divide at least one manor, and the canonization of knights not only does not have to pay, but also takes the opportunity to collect a generation of donations, which is more cost-effective, obvious!"

"However, although the knight of the palace is rare, the title of the court knight is still easy to get, after all, the court knight only needs to get an annuity, and there is no need to divide the knight separately!"

"Haha, if a knight doesn't have a fiefdom, is it still called a knight? Compared with annuities, the king and lord are far less generous than those rich and chamber of commerce!"

Franco snorted lightly and said disapprerovingly: "The foundation of nobles and lords lies in the territory, if the territory cannot be divided, the fief cannot canonize the knights, and only rely on the annuity to support the knights, then I am afraid that more and more knights will turn to serve the merchants." ”

"Not necessarily!"

Levi said lazily: "Those high-ranking old men are not stupid. Don't you see that the kings, the lords, and the churches are all trying to make money? The lords are setting up checkpoints, collecting taxes and raising taxes, and the kings are building cities and selling positions, and our great and glorious church is not also selling abonements and buying and selling the priesthood!"

"I feel that the current situation is similar to before the collapse of the Magic Empire of Gulosta, the number of knights is increasing, and the need for materials and resources is increasing, but the resources that can be generated in this land are limited. ”

"It's a big problem to feed an overspended knight with limited resources!"

Listening to the arguments of the people, Carl has gradually understood what kind of era he is living in now.

At the same time, I also understand why the original owner was born in a family like Roland, which is known for cultivating knights, but he has never been exposed to knightly training, it turns out that it is not only because he was ostracized as an illegitimate child, but also because the Roland family is too short of money.

The Roland family is known for its conservatism and stubbornness, and while it has a stable heritage, it also represents the family's rigid thinking, poor management, and lack of economic achievements. For centuries, the family had largely not expanded outside the world, except for clinging to its own territory.

However, the Roland family is also a quite fertile family, and is known for producing knights who are as tough and strong as a rock, and the awakening rate of the knight bloodline has always been the best among all families, and each generation will have at least a dozen descendants awaken the bloodline.

Karl carefully searched the memories of the original owner, and indeed found that the Roland family had not canonized a new knight for many years, and the descendants of the awakened knight bloodline in the family, if they were not able to inherit the territory and title, would leave the family after completing the family's knight training and look for opportunities as a freelancer.

And it's not just the Rowlanders. In Princess Alicia's memory, the King of the Northland has also been troubled by the question of reign, the establishment of the Ice Crown Knights is only a thousand people, but the reserve knights who have awakened the bloodline on the Crown Plateau are far more than this number, if King Gusta is willing, he can instantly multiply the number of Ice Crown Knights several times.

However, King Gusta was able to pull out the reserve knights who would multiply the size of the Ice Crown Knights, but he could not afford the money and resources to support them. Although the territory of the Northlands is vast, most of it is uninhabited land covered with snow and ice, and the fertile plains that can produce food are extremely scarce, and the limitation of food and resources has forced King Gusta to control the scale of the knights.

At the same time, Karl also understood why among these commercial city-states along the Harp Sea, there were more and more large mercenary groups, and the scale was getting bigger and stronger.

There were too many new knights, and the kings and lords could no longer afford to accept these new knights, so they could only be allowed to wander outside the system and become free knights.

In order to earn a living, the wandering freelancers also had to explore ancient ruins, venture to dangerous areas occupied by dark races, and had to accept the employment of merchants and nobles, hoping to gain fame and wealth in these adventures, and finally obtain canonization and return to the aristocratic class.

Over time, these freelance knights combined to form a large-scale mercenary group. In the name of the collective, they accept all kinds of commissions, from escorting caravans and clearing thieves, to guarding cities and participating in wars.

In the interior, the group of mercenaries was seen as a threat to the authority of the lords, and were constantly suppressed and expelled by the lords. But the merchant city-states along the Harp Sea welcomed these powerful forces that could be hired for a fee.

Over the past few centuries, with continuous cooperation and running-in, the mercenary groups along the Harp Sea have gradually formed a good symbiotic relationship with these commercial city-states.

Those large mercenary groups with a good reputation were hired by the city-states and chambers of commerce, and were stationed as the city's permanent armed forces, responsible for the city's security and day-to-day security, and also accepted various commissions, responsible for clearing thieves, suppressing underground forces, maintaining the smooth flow of trade routes, and protecting the interests of the city-state and merchants.

The Silver Dawn Mercenary Regiment, stationed in the Silver Tide City, is such a large mercenary group with a good reputation. Although they have been stationed in the Silver Tide City for no more than 50 years, with the improvement of law and order, the stability of order, and the prosperity of commerce, the residents of this city have gradually begun to get used to treating them as a whole city, rather than hired outsiders.