Therefore, all invasion wars are bigger and more painful, and because of this, it is very difficult for the warriors of this world to fight for a piece of land, and after obtaining a piece of land, it is also very cherished. Because once it is recognized by the villagers, it is very difficult to lose this land, unless it is invaded by a large army, otherwise this situation of layer of resistance is enough to collapse the ordinary invaders.

Because of this, the peasant soldiers, a cheap type of military that is limited in their combat time and combat range, are generally used as garrison forces, and those who really go out to fight rely on the second level of the samurai armed forces-Ashigaru.

Don't look at the ashigaru is only one level higher than the peasant soldiers, but the ashigaru is organized, which means that the ashigaru can get rice and grain every month, and it is considered a full-time soldier.

As for how much is the monthly grain? The standard is one stone of coarse grain a month, 12 months a year, but you can get 13 stone of coarse grain, which is enough to feed a family of five for a year if you don't do anything.

Therefore, there is a unique noun, called the food man. 1 person is equal to 13 stone of coarse grain. The samurai did not reach the point of rewarding his subordinates for their merits, but when they wanted to reward them again, they would use this person as a reward.

For example, if you kill a low-level samurai, and the merit is not enough to reward Zhixing, the samurai will say that you will be rewarded with 10 grains, which means that you will be rewarded with 130 stone of coarse grain.

The reward of the bread man is one-time, and after the reward is completed, your merits will be erased. Zhixing is the land, which represents the annual grain harvest and is the long-standing foundation of a samurai. The samurai are very, very stingy with the rewards of knowledge and action, because the amount of knowledge and action is also the foundation for a martial artist to climb the world.

Because in addition to getting 13 koku of coarse grain every year, the samurai also had to be responsible for Ashigaru's weapons and equipment, and they also had to have two sets of uniform clothing a year, and they had to be rewarded with some silver coins during the New Year. And they have to build a garrison area for those who are on duty to rest, and they have to practice the training ground for these ashigaru training, and more importantly, when Ashigaru is on duty, they are the main family for food, housing and clothing, and they don't need to spend anything on themselves.

Therefore, it is conceivable that raising an ashigaru is not just a matter of giving 13 koku coarse grain a year, but also has many other hidden expenses.

Therefore, the number of ashigaru in each samurai is not much, such as some village-level samurai, it is enough to guarantee that there are five or ten ashigaru.

For example, Shen Zuofeng, the first martial artist in Gyeonggi, only needs to maintain 1,000 ashigaru all year round to ensure that his status as the first martial artist in Gyeonggi will not fall.

You may feel strange here, damn it, one collar has an area of tens of millions of square kilometers, one collar has seven or eight counties, and a county has more than a dozen counties, a county has seven or eight townships, and a township has more than a dozen villages.

In this way, a county is at least 1 million square kilometers, a county is at least 780,000 square kilometers, a township is at least 10,000 square kilometers, and a village is at least 1,000 square kilometers.

There are thousands of square kilometers in a village, such a vast place, just reclaim it, plant it casually, then there is not a lot of food, why is the food so expensive?

This has to show that this is a world where the nine-tailed fox is fighting for freedom, and demons and monsters are rampant. The villagers stay in the village, as long as they don't encounter big demons and big demons hitting the door, then safety is still guaranteed.

I don't know if those powers have made a ban or a blessing, generally speaking, as long as you don't leave the range of the village too far, and don't leave the range of the avenue too far, you won't encounter demons, monsters, beasts, and poisonous insects.

But if you leave the village, for example, to reclaim wasteland or something, then any beast or poisonous insect can destroy these bold villagers, not to mention those demons and monsters who are staring at the village but have no ability to break through the village. If the villagers dare to leave the village and run far away from the avenue, they will definitely have no bones.

Therefore, it is a very expensive thing to carry out wild reclamation in this world, because it has to be dispatched by a demon exterminator to drive and seal within a range, and after these preparations are completed, the demon exterminator still has to guard this new land, waiting for the first round of cultivation and harvesting, and this reclamation work is truly completed. This land will be included in the protection scope of the original village farm.

Think about it, a vote for a demon exterminator, at least three or more, and all of them must have the ability to protect themselves in the wild and have the ability to exorcise and seal the magic of the demon exterminator! A person who is rumored to have a price of 1 gold judgment, 1 gold judgment, will only use copper coins, at most it is through this coin unit, and the martial artists who are completely inferior to the Riba people, where can they have the money to invite a demon exterminator?

And a martial artist with a lot of money naturally has a large territory, and a large territory needs more demon slayers, and no matter how much money he has, he can't afford to spend it. Therefore, land reclamation in this world is a very difficult thing, and because of this, although the land area is large enough, the production of grain is still very small, and most of the territory has no special products, if you want to buy other materials, you must sell the grain for money, and then use the money to buy materials, which makes food even more scarce.

Therefore, it represents the knowledge and action that can continue to produce food, and the samurai cherish it very much, and they are easily reluctant to reward it to their subordinates, because according to the rules of this world, once the land is rewarded, unless the master is so strong that he can't resist, or goes to war directly, it can't be recovered.

Ashigaru ranks second to last in the samurai armed forces, then the third to last is the ashigaru captain level, this ashigaru captain is also the lowest level of samurai, generally speaking, as long as he is a samurai, he has zhixing, otherwise he would not dare to say that he is a samurai. And the minimum of this Zhixing is 10 stone of land.

That is, you can only be called a samurai if you have land that produces 10 koku of grain per year. And the land in this world is owned by the owner, so if you want to legally own the land, the samurai can fight and reclaim the land to increase the land, and the samurai can only get the gift from the master's side, and other methods are illegal.

As for illegal land, it is not protected by temples and shrines, not to mention whether to send a demon exterminator to help you reclaim the land, and not to let you build temples or shrines on your territory, you just wait for the demons and monsters to be destroyed.

Of course, there is also a kind of existence called pseudo-samurai, that is, the armed forces of the samurai's descendants, also known as the flag samurai, this kind of samurai is generally rewarded with 1 stone Zhixing, higher than the ashigaru who receives the food, and lower than the captain of the ashigaru, but because they are equal to the direct armed forces of the head of the family, they follow the lord's side, whether it is meritorious service or affection, it is not comparable to others.