A very cheesy name. And Ying Zihan was surprised to find that this can also be called a city wall? This is an earthen wall, but the base is relatively high and thicker. But even so, it still does not meet the standards of ordinary city walls.

Well, Ying Zihan said that he was already mentally prepared...

Seeing such a large team, pedestrians on the road avoided it one after another. Of course, the guards in the city did not fail to find out and told their superiors. Then what Ying Zihan saw was a large number of people going out of the city to greet him.

The leader was a big man, very burly. But the face of the Oriental is wearing Western-style armor, and Ying Zihan looks awkward. He took two hundred Yu soldiers, talked with the cavalry in front of him for a while, and then rode his horse to Yingzihan alone.

The big man dismounted in front of Ying Zihan and asked, "May I ask you are Count Ying Zihan?"

After inheriting the earl, Ying Zihan should have taken his surname back. As for why he was recognized at a glance? Hehe, here he is alone with black eyes and black hair, and it is embarrassing to admit his mistake.

Ying Zihan looked at this person and thought it was okay, at least it was not a waste, and it would be useful in the future. replied: "I'm Ying Zihan, who are you?"

After seeing him confirmed, Dahan knelt down on one knee and said, "The last general, Yang Yuan, has seen my lord." ”

Ying Zihan: "..."I was really surprised, Ying Zihan thought that he had come to ancient times, and he was shocked for a while.

Li also thought it was a bit incredible, but the population of more than nine floors here were Orientals, so the system almost all followed the Oriental system. Although he is of mixed Eastern and Western descent, he doesn't know much about this place. However, Li is a person who has seen the world after all, and he quickly reacted. Helping Yang Yuan relieve his embarrassment, Li said: "Lord Earl has been living in the Prince's Mansion, so I didn't understand what you mean just now..."

Yang Yuan saw that Ying Zihan didn't speak, and thought that he was dissatisfied with him, but he reacted when he heard Li's explanation. Hurry up and say, "Humble, humble... Suddenly, he remembered the introduction of the merchant from other places, and said again: "Honorable Earl, your loyal Yang Yuan salutes you. ”

"Poof, hahaha!" Ying Zihan couldn't hold back anymore, it was so funny. Steady, steady, Ying Zihan told himself in his heart. After a pause, he spoke again: "You don't have to be so troublesome in the future, just speak according to the customs here, don't call any earl, just call your lord." He turned to Li beside him and said, "You are the same." "Ying Zihan said that the respected Earl is too numb. Then he asked Yang Yuan: "Can so many people live in the city?"

Yang Yuan replied: "My lord, we received the news that it was you and two hundred cavalrymen, and we didn't know that so many people were coming. ”，

"Hmm" Ying Zihan didn't reply immediately, but thought about it, these people can't let them in, it won't be good if they disturb the people, and there are robbers among them... Then he commanded: "Yang Yuan, you immediately arrange for the carpenter, the blacksmith and my maid to enter the city." The carpenter and the blacksmith dwelt in the prepared room, and the maid brought me into my dwelling. Then he said to Li: "You will take ten men into the city with me later, and the rest will stay." Immediately organize men to camp on the spot outside the city, and give me the slaves and captives. ”

"Yes, Lord Count. Lee still didn't deserve the title, so he went to pick up men and arrange camping. Yang Yuan also commanded people to lead the way and let these craftsmen enter the city.

As soon as Ying Zihan arrived here, he didn't have time to understand the situation, so he went straight to the lord's mansion. Those maids, the subordinate Ying Zihan didn't want to worry about this, so he handed it over to the steward to deal with, so he asked Yang Yuan about the situation here.

Yang Yuan reported: "In the past, the big and small matters here were handled by the earl, and I was only in charge of commanding the army. ”

Ying Zihan asked, "How many people are here, and how many people are in the army?"

Yang Yuan suddenly felt embarrassed, and said embarrassedly: "The population is close to 100,000, and the army is more than 2,000 people. ”

"What?" Ying Zihan and Li were both taken aback, how could there be so many people here? Didn't the intelligence say that there were only more than 60,000? Now it was nearly doubled out of thin air.

Ying Zihan still couldn't believe it, and asked again: "You said that there are 100,000 people, is this true?"

Yang Yuan also knew why they were surprised, and replied, "Yes, I don't dare to deceive adults." In the past, the Earl said that this place is vast and sparsely populated, so fertility is encouraged, and the population is growing rapidly..."

Great, Ying Zihan said that it was too late for him to be happy. The reason doesn't matter, what he wants is the result, and then immediately let him report the details of the population here.

Yang Yuan was in trouble immediately, and he didn't know it. He thought for a moment and said, "My lord, I don't touch these things for many years, but the former housekeeper here often helped Master Guan deal with these things, so you can ask him." ”

Ying Zihan asked people to call the housekeeper, as for whether these people would join hands to deceive and fool him, he said hum, once he found out, blood flowed like a river.

Then he talked to Yang Yuan about the army, and he was a little curious: "So many people have two thousand troops?" This is too unreasonable.

Yang Yuan felt that this question was not easy to answer: "Because it costs too much money to raise an army, there is almost no war here." So the crown earl cut the army. Now in addition to a cavalry corps of three hundred men, there are two thousand-man convoys. One is stationed near Sand City, and the other is fending off goblins in the north. That is, General Wang's troops. ”

Ying Zihan became interested, he knew through these days of marching that the cost of raising an army is very large, so it is relatively normal to disarm here without war. What he wanted to know was the situation of the goblins, and although he knew a little, it was only scratching the surface. Then he asked Yang Yuan: "What's the situation with this goblin?"

Yang Yuan: "The northern wasteland is uninhabited, and there are hundreds of goblin tribes large and small, ranging from thousands to thousands, dozens of small ones, and many wandering ones. Every year when the harvest comes in the fall, they gather thousands to grab our food. Although their combat effectiveness is not strong, they are numerous, like a piece of dog skin plaster, and every year before the autumn harvest, we will organize an army to kill a group of those small tribes and wandering goblins to reduce the threat of goblins during the autumn harvest. Now is the time of the autumn harvest, and General Wang is resisting them. ”

Ying Zihan proposed: "In this case, why don't you organize a large number of troops to cripple their tribes? ”

Yang Yuan wanted to laugh but couldn't, he could only stubbornly explain: "If there is indeed no goblin harassment in this way, but we will face a large number of black-backed jackals in winter." The presence of goblins can compete with black-backed jackals for food to inhibit the growth of their numbers, sometimes their large goblin tribes will also hunt black-backed jackals, and when there is a lack of food in winter, black-backed jackals will hunt goblins, so that they can suppress each other's numbers, if they kill goblins on a large scale, then in winter, we are facing black-backed jackals that will be more ferocious when they are hungry. And the combat effectiveness of our army will be greatly reduced. In the past, there were people who used your idea, but when it comes to winter, they will lose a lot. ”

Ying Zihan said that he should not underestimate the people of the world, he has no strengths, but his vision is wider than theirs.

At this time, the old butler finally came.