Luo Ming saw that Martin was not small (1.72 meters, a little higher than average height in this era), and according to him, he was only 17 years old, so he simply took him in - if this guy was fed, maybe he could grow a little longer.

And he will be paid a military salary, but the military salary for the first two years will be withheld to pay for the "ransom fee" to show that there is no gratuitous grace.

If he marches forward bravely on the battlefield, Luo Ming plans to directly use this as an excuse to reward him with a sum of money, not only to pay off the ransom fee, but also to give him another love and a little more gratitude.

This was a real encouragement to the other slaves—most of whom were not freedmen before, but tenants.

Now that they can turn back to their tenant status and eat official food, although some people have doubts about whether they will completely become cannon fodder, others are caught in great enthusiasm.

As a result, there are many slaves who would rather join the army, but Luo Ming adopts an attitude of preferring shortage to indiscriminate to his elite soldiers, and selects three people, and the remaining eighteen are temporarily incorporated into the sequence of the militia.

And the militia training was already a bit of an eye-catcher—a total of 115 people in the entire territory, including the slaves who were stuffed into the militia ranks—and forty-three of them were women, and it was these people who were the "healthy women" who were singled out to help defend the city in ancient China when there were not enough men in critical situations.

The farmer's aunt with a big waist and a round waist is indeed a bit of a deterrent to be honest.

As for the rest who were not selected, they were really a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was useless to train them.

These 115 people have experienced a condensed version of military training, which is about the same level as the military training of students on the planet, and even made a lot of cuts to the parts that are physically exerting such as running and standing in military postures.

In short, it took them more than half a minute to form a team that was considered horizontal and vertical, holding a long wooden pole, walking more than ten meters in unison with the captain's roar without obvious deformation of the queue, and even if an enemy rushed over to beat them, they would not drop their weapons and flee before engaging them, nothing more.

Even so, it is much stronger than the kind of militia that is temporarily recruited.

Incidentally, the last one was the responsibility of the former Standing Army soldiers, who also picked up sticks (wrapped in a cloth to cushion them in case they were too lethal) to storm the militia's array.

The other part of the soldiers served as the overseers, and whoever ran away would be beaten, and whoever stood still and refused to take a step back, that person would be rewarded with a slice of meat as thin as a cicada's wings at the time of eating, and it could be accumulated—in short, Luo Ming only paid a few hundred grams of meat a day for this reward, but he succeeded in boosting the morale of most of the militia.

There is also a benefit for the regular army soldiers - that is, they get used to the feeling of dealing with the militia in advance.

After the militia had been trained in the basics, their discipline increased considerably, and they were used as workers – and a lot of work was done.

For example, three watchtowers were built on the edge of Schönbrunn, and a watchtower was built on top of Loming's house, with the roof as the foundation.

Due to the rush of time, the door was not opened on the roof at all, and the tower had to be climbed from the outside to get up - fortunately, Lormine and Grant were good enough.

To be honest, it was quite chaotic to build a tower on the roof, but there was no way, there was no time for them to build a high enough guard tower on the flat ground - Luo Ming's house was built on the top of a small hill, plus the height of the house with the second floor, after adding more than three meters to the top, the height relative to the flat ground reached more than twelve meters.

He then mounted the fragment of the Eye of the Arcane on the spire. According to Aya's estimates, when it was originally on flat ground, it might only be able to reconnoiter a distance of 400 meters, and it was not enough to cover its own territory, but now it has become able to reconnoiter a radius of about 1,100 meters, not only the entire main part of the territory is included, but even a little place outside the territory can be seen clearly.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time to build a mage tower - even the most rudimentary, lite version of a mage tower would be tall enough to extend the detection range of the arcane eye fragment to a two-kilometer radius.

What kind of concept is that? With an area difference of about four times, it can not only monitor the entire territory of Schönbrunn Territory, but even cover most of the entire Barony of Miyana - relying on this, he can completely turn Charlotte into a puppet and completely control it in his own hands, it is just a matter of whether he wants to or not.

In addition, the biggest difference between a simple sentry tower and a mage tower is the energy supply capacity.

The tower was a wooden structure, with limited capacity and strength, and could not fit even the lightest pool of magic - and there was no room for one in the house below.

Then it is impossible to keep the Arcane Eye in motion, not to mention the excessive consumption of being able to project a clone that Aya said before...... Even if you use its basic functions normally to detect from a distance, you need to provide it with energy supplements - that is, manual.

Idle is idle, Luo Ming tried to start it once, and found two things.

The first thing is that there are no more seeds that have slipped through the net in the entire Meiquan Territory, and the Eye of the Arcane can shine through to a depth of one foot underground, and there are no clues, which proves that the previous search of the three swordsmen has been fruitful.

And the second thing is that it's really a big eater of magic.

Luo Ming can be converted into any normal energy by relying on Cangyan, which naturally includes magic power, and his own Dou Qi reserves are also very strong among sword masters...... However, if you use all-round monitoring, it can only last for more than ten seconds.

Of course, he could also switch to scanning mode for patches of land, and even then, he estimated that his strength was only enough to scan the entire Schönbrunn collar three times.

Although he was a little frustrated at first, he soon realized that this was actually a normal thing - even Brandon, as the capital of a country, did not have the magic tower monitored all year round, and still scanned it every once in a while.

Although Luo Ming also thought that taking a circle around the territory with the Arcane Eye Fragment by himself could greatly expand the range of the safe area where there were no seeds, he finally gave up - the swordsman didn't have any extra fighting energy to waste.