In the West, a country is made up of the lands of many lords. Therefore, the imperial power here is not as strong as in the East, and any lord has the opportunity to become king again if he has the opportunity.

It was only in Catlea that nothing like this had ever happened, not because the king was popular, but because almost all the lords had evil intentions.

They all wanted to get the most land instead of the king, but at the same time they didn't want to be so conspicuous. Because if it is too conspicuous, the result will be a siege by other lords.

So they were all waiting, waiting for some lord to be the first to strike and fight. And they can fight both sides to lose and get the most out of it.

It's just that no lord wants to do that now, because the king's realm is too small. With the exception of Chartre, the capital of Catlea, none of them were under the power of the king.

Even Chartre was not entirely the domain of the king, because Cotenburg was just a few dozen miles away from Chartreux. It was one of the duke's fiefdoms, so now the whole of Cataleaa is actually the duke's domain.

If it weren't for the unwillingness of the lords to obey him, he would have been a king by now.

To be honest, Zhao Yulong is not too interested in the fiefdom system of the West, although the East will also be crowned kings, but most of the military power is still in the hands of the royal family.

In the West, almost all kings did not have many soldiers, and they divided their territories among some lords and let them administer. But for these lords, as long as the fief is in their own hands, it doesn't matter whether they are finally kings or not.

Even if the lords are loyal to the king, some of the lesser lords below them may not be loyal to the king. The idea that "the master of my master is not my master" is very solid and the most common in the West.

The marquis obeys only the duke, and the earl only obeys the marquis. In this way, the only people who were truly loyal to the king were some commoners and some knights.

This is also incomprehensible to Zhao Yulong, it is also a title, although they are still high and low in the East, but they are still parallel. Both dukes and barons, in the East they were princes directly under the administration of the emperor.

In the West, the king was able to manage only a few dukes, or some marquis without a duke. The titles below were all managed by dukes or marquises.

In this way, the royal power will not only not be strengthened in the slightest, but will be weakened even more. Because in the East, although there are many princes, there are always a few who are loyal to the emperor.

Although their forces were not very strong, they were directly under the orders of the emperor. In the West, there may be viscounts or barons who will be loyal to the king, but this is a minority, and they are not able to obey the king, they can only obey their masters.

Therefore, this has led to the fact that the entire king of Catalia has now become an ornament, and if it weren't for the fact that the city he ruled was too small to be worth fighting over by these lords, it is estimated that the dynasty would be broken.

And now the only way to restore the dynasty is to give birth to a new duke, a duke who is completely loyal to the royal family. And that person is Zhao Yulong, as long as he can succeed in this operation, he will be able to make a great contribution to Katerea, and then Yinhu will have enough reasons to give Zhao Yulong the title.

However, all these other lords, including Duke Walker, could not see that they only regarded Zhao Yulong as a victim and recovered the sacrifice of the Balita region for them.

But in fact, the Balita area is not the land they deserve. It was a piece of land controlled by the royal family, but it was occupied by an army that did not know that had appeared from there a year earlier.

It is said that it is a strong team, but Zhao Yulong feels that the reason why they really did not regain these lands is not because the enemy is too strong, but because of the Western system.

Each piece of land in the kingdom was managed by different lords, and in their fiefdoms all the systems were made by the lords, so they had no sense of home at all.

All they care about is whether their fiefdom is complete, unlike in the East, once a city is breached, the armies of other cities or other vassal states will come.

Here they only look at their own interests, although there is indeed quite a lot in this Balita area. However, because this is a division of lords, not all the lands in this kingdom are connected to each other, and it is impossible to have a city next to each other like in the east.

Thus, in this country, although all of it is their territory, at least half of the land is not built into cities. And there is no city between the two cities to transfer supplies, and the result is inevitably a lack of backup.

This is true not only when the enemy is fighting abroad, but also when the enemy army invades the country. Because each fief was so divided between them, they completely divided the country into several lands, but nominally unified.

After a month's trek, Zhao Yulong has finally come to the Balita area. It is indeed a good place because the horse's hooves will step on something hard from time to time while riding through here.

Those things were rough stones of some kind of metal, rough stones everywhere, and it was no wonder that all the lords were thinking about it.

However, after seeing the scene here, Zhao Yulong understood why these lords didn't dare to come here even if they were worried.

Because it was so desolate, I didn't see a single town along the way, except for a few villages. Although it is easy to attack such a place, it is difficult to defend it, because if you don't have a city, how can you defend it?

Although this is the West, Zhao Yulong doesn't know if these Westerners will also play with the art of war like the East. However, he knew that it would never work without a city here, and with such a long front, there was not even a place to defend it, so it was no wonder that they couldn't help these foreign troops.

But Zhao Yulong still saw a city, and there were no soldiers on the city walls, obviously because of the reason why the foreign enemy killed him. It's just that the enemy army didn't dare to take interest in this place, and they didn't stay behind after taking the city.

But this is easy to understand, because it is Zhao Yulong, he will not choose to be stationed here. After all, there were no villages around the city, and there were no rivers, and all the supplies were brought by foreign merchants.

And once someone comes to attack and surround this place, the business travel will be blocked, and within three days, this place will be breached.

Even though there are enemy troops, these civilians don't seem to care much about them. After the enemy captured and left, the civilians continued to live in these cities.

It's a bustling city, at least a lot more lively than here in Chartre. I guess there is no reason for the lord's management, but the commoners of this generation are living freely.

Taxes do not have to be paid, and business travel is not regulated. Without soldiers, it is inevitable that the city will not be able to protect the whole city. But unlike the East, there are mercenaries in the West.

Maybe they won't help these people for no reason, but they know that those monsters can be exchanged for money. Even if no one in this city pays them much, they can still sell it in other cities.

And for them, it is much better here than other places to kill these monsters and not hand over some of them to the lord here, because there is no lord here at all.

Now Zhao Yulong and the three of them walked into the city, trying to find something through the crowded crowd.

"What are you looking for, weapons or? I tell you that it's best not to try to run away, because the Duke has sent me to watch you, and if you dare to leave, I will be able to kill you on the spot." ”

"You should understand that if I wanted to run, you wouldn't be alive until now. You must know that you don't have a teleportation charm in the West, and your strength doesn't seem to be able to learn the sound transmission technique!" Zhao Yulong looked back at the minions who had followed him all the way.

This was the name given to him by Zhao Yulong, because Zhao Yulong felt that he was very similar to the people he had seen when he was in the East and followed the emperor all day long.

This was sent by the Duke to monitor him, and Zhao Yulong naturally knew this. However, the Duke was a little too confident, and he actually felt that such a person from the Bright Dragon Realm was his opponent.

But Zhao Yulong really had no intention of escaping, because he promised the young king to raise an army for him and help him regain the throne. Although that guy is a little obsessed with chivalry, at least he is not bad and is a person worth making friends with, so Zhao Yulong feels that it is not impossible to help him.

"What do you mean, I swear in the name of my House Komilas that I will kill you if you do something to escape. ”

"Okay, okay, your family is the chief of the word, you win the general line, but I have my own arrangement, you just need to watch. Zhao Yulong felt ridiculous about this person, but he was not in a hurry to end his life.

After all, his strength is honestly still good, and if he can contribute on the battlefield, he will have more chances to win. And Zhao Yulong knew that he would definitely be willing to contribute, because he wanted to gain majesty among these soldiers.

After all, soldiers will only obey those who are majestic, and once they reach a certain level of majesty in the ranks, they will be able to control the entire ranks.

This is exactly what the Duke wanted, because he wanted more troops and more land. It's just that now Zhao Yulong has not been able to bring a single soldier with him, except for Meng Liang who has been following, it seems that there is no one else around Zhao Yulong.

Therefore, this made the servant very angry: "Why don't you recruit soldiers until now, maybe you just want to live here, I tell you, I can kill you now! ”

To be honest, for this guy who hasn't changed a few words in a month, although Zhao Yulong is not tired of it, Meng Liang has already seen him very unhappy.

Now it is directly raised up, although Meng Liang's strength is actually not as strong as him. But it can't be denied that the power of orcs is really strong.

Now Meng Liang lifted it as if he had picked up a piece of cotton, and he didn't feel any weight at all: "I'll tell you, I've been putting up with you for a month, you'd better pay attention to what you say, otherwise I might eat you one day!"

"Sinner, take care of your servants, I tell you, kill me, and the Duke will not let you go. "Although the strength is still stronger than this minion, but now Meng Liang's momentum really scares him a lot.

"First of all, he is not my slave, and secondly, don't scare me with your set. Open your mouth and close your mouth to a duke, he can't help me. However, Meng Liang still let him go, I think I have seen our soldiers. ”

To be honest, although Meng Liang still wanted to continue to say something. But now that he was stopped by Zhao Yulong, he had to put down this minion and followed Zhao Yulong up.

"Where are the soldiers? Why didn't I see that there can be qualified soldiers in such a broken place, you are afraid of death! Sure enough, you people have no knowledge. The slave saw that Meng Liang had let go of himself, and now he was arrogant again, completely forgetting his previous embarrassment.

"Isn't that there?" Maybe because of the commonplace, Zhao Yulong didn't pay much attention to him, just pointed to the distance not far ahead.

"Where? There, you're not joking, are you? There's nothing but some slaves there, you're not deceiving me. ”

"Lie to you, are you worthy to be deceived by me? Those slaves are our soldiers. With that, Zhao Yulong walked towards those who were locked in cages.

Slaves, this is a class peculiar to the West. Most of them were made up of defeated enemy troops or some refugees, and of course a few of them were captured by slave traders who should have been ordinary people.

In short, these slaves have no free power, and everything they have belongs to their masters. And not only them, but even their descendants are all the property of the slave owners, they have no power to speak of, and being a cow or a horse is just something they are used to.

Therefore, they are the lowest level in the whole West, and they want to be sold everywhere like goods. And now in the city, there is such a slave trader who sells them.

Truth be told, these slaves were strong. Apparently they were all enemy troops of a defeated country, and the generals in the army sold them to slave traders, who in turn sold them everywhere.

Many places have been passed through now, but not many slaves have been sold. It is also true that those who can afford slaves have a lot of slaves themselves. Slaves could not afford to be short, so the slave traders' business was not very good.

However, this is a good thing for Zhao Yulong, because it means that he can form a powerful army in the fastest time. Although there are not many of these slaves, they are all strong and soldiers, which can save Zhao Yulong a lot of time.

It's just that the slave didn't like to see Zhao Yulong do this: "Oh my God, you actually want these slaves to become soldiers, what lowly people they are, we are recovering the land for the duke and the king." We should use some noble knights, and they will only make the duke very faceless. ”

"Sorry, I'm only interested in being able to win. To hell with you, duke, don't forget, I'm not from your Katerea. ”

Zhao Yulong didn't pay attention to his words, maybe in Western thought, these slaves are very lowly. But for him, there is no class distinction between people. As long as you have this strength, why bother with the restrictions of these classes.

Now he is walking towards the slave trader, to be honest, these people are also smart, and when they saw Zhao Yulong coming, they understood that he wanted to choose some slaves. Suddenly, the slaves in the cages cheered up and began to look at this person who might be their master in the future.

But compared to these slaves, it was the slave traders who were the most enthusiastic: "My honored guest, I don't know what kind of slaves you want to buy? My slaves here are retired soldiers, they have fought for their former country, they are very capable, and the soldiers are very loyal, you should understand." ”

"I'm not very interested in these, I'm just concerned about your price, how do they sell them?" To be honest, although this was indeed what he had seen with his own eyes, Zhao Yulong still couldn't accept the fact that these slaves were sold like goods. So now I just want to reconfirm the price.

However, this has another meaning for the slave traders, and after so many years of wandering, he has naturally summed up a lot of experience. Usually the customer asks for the price, which means that he has already chosen the slaves, and now he just wants the number.

Therefore, he stepped forward and said, "Honorable guest, I don't know which slave you have a crush on. But what I want to say today is that because you are my first guest, I am willing to reduce the price for you, the strongest one I sell for three silver coins, and the thinnest one I only need nine copper coins, of course, if you buy more, I don't recommend you to cut the price, what do you think?"

"Yes! Sure enough, there were ten merchants and nine traitors, and this slave trader didn't know that he had told a few people today that the other party was his first guest, and now when he saw Zhao Yulong, he still said so.

However, what Zhao Yulong cares about is that these slaves are so cheap, according to Zhao Yulong's thoughts, even if they are slaves, they will be sold very expensive.

But now, judging from the tone of the slave trader, the price of these slaves should be much lower. Because a merchant would not let himself suffer, and now he is willing to let himself bargain, which shows that the price of this slave is far from worth so much now.

"If I'm going to buy a lot, where can you give me a discount?"

"My honored guest, of course it depends on how much you buy. How much do you need, my honored guest?" and the slave trader was snickering with joy in his heart, for he estimated that he would be able to make a fortune.

Although Zhao Yulong doesn't look like a rich lord, he doesn't even look like a lord at all. But his tone was that he wanted to buy a lot, and that was good.

(End of chapter)