Although Martin had anticipated his popularity, he underestimated the aristocracy's desire for new territories and their madness.

The first knights to follow Old Lorraine to the Pioneer Territory were destined to prosper.

Like the elder Kouden or Sylvie Grants, they must be in the second place below Martin in the pyramid of power in Lorrainburg.

However, Lorrainburg is now in ruins, and it can't compete for the second gear, so it's okay to have the third gear!

Sylvie told Martin that once upon a time, under the banner of Lorraineburg, he couldn't recruit people in Bakaria himself, because in everyone's eyes, going to Lorrainburg was to deliver food.

What now?

There is no need to recruit people outside at all, as long as Martin wants, 10 knights can pull it out.

On the surface, there are only 1,000 knights in a knight order, but in fact, only regular knights and probationary knights will be counted in the establishment, and the servants and apprentices who help with the work are not counted. A knight order, counting these supernumerary combat forces, plus equipped infantry and archers or something, plus logistics civilians, there are 3,000 people.

Pull out 10 regiments, this is not an exaggeration.

If you don't pursue quality, there are really so many people in Bakaria, anyway, the Bakaria people are martial, as long as they have a weapon and a horse, they can call themselves cavalry.

Even if Martin pursues quality and wants the concubines of these big nobles, it is not a matter of pulling out a few full knights. Those noble-born dogs and concubines always went to Martin with their own full armor, horses, and shackles.

The point is - he can't afford to raise meow!

As soon as Martin took a knight under his command, he was to be in charge of the family's food and drink. Either pay a monthly salary, or give a fief to let them collect rent to support themselves and their subordinates.

Lorraine has a lot of land right now, and if Martin is not responsible, he can make a blank check and seal off the mountain land near Ggent. It's just that the orcs counterattacked, and they couldn't bear it and would come to Martin to cry. After all, it is also the duty of Martin, the great lord, to repel the invaders.

This pot Martin is back.

Now, with so many of his dead ghost father's remaining relatives, Martin can't refuse at all, at least not all of them, after all, these are the political legacies left by his dead ghost father!

Directly accept it all, Martin can't afford it.

Martin, the chicken thief, simply spread his big hand, saying that Lorrainburg had no money, and the fief was unreliable, and if he wanted to come, he had to accept his lord's request:

The knight is coming?

First of all, I have to try two pounds, and if you don't have the strength, you have to roll as far as you can, and the examiner is Sylvie, the Holy Grail Knight who has been justified by the Red Knight.

Secondly, the first year was a part-time job, including room and board. There are wooden houses and horses. Regardless of other things, it is also forbidden to condone subordinates to loot privately or something.

In the second year, he began to receive a salary from Martin, 2 gold Pegasus per knight per month, including the salaries of his apprentice knights, servant knights, and apprentices.

In the third year, mediocre performers continue to receive salaries. Those who have made meritorious deeds can increase the income of Lorraineburg's commercial tax by one thousandth as a near, or choose a fief as a reward.

Finally, the most critical requirement is that if Martin is unhappy for three years, he can tell any knight who joins his command to get out of the house at any time, without any reason. Go back to where you came from, and find your own father.

Most of the knights are heroic people, and in the past, everyone only saw such stinginess in the interior officials, but I didn't expect to see it in Martin, a descendant of knights with strong roots.

Everyone was stunned and conflicted.

On the one hand, everyone knows that only such a lord with brains and careful calculations can really run a territory well.

On the other hand, I am worried about whether my children will suffer in the future.

At last...... Everyone still pinched their noses and admitted it.

Who told Martin that he is now a new star of the kingdom? The Patronus Red Knight endorses him, and he probably saw this.

As a result, Martin even saved the recruitment fee and maintenance fee, and took away nearly a thousand elites in a way that was almost empty gloves and white wolves.

80 knights, 160 cavalry, 360 archers, 400 pikemen, all with their own equipment. Although this is destined to be a variety of equipment and the system is not uniform, the combat effectiveness can be guaranteed. Among the knights, Martin also specially selected 20 ranger knights who were good at riding and archery, as well as 60 archers.

It's winter now, and if you want to open it, at least wait for the spring flowers to bloom next year, at least in March, and it's time. Martin didn't have to worry about Lorrainburg's winter food, at least.

Immediately afterwards, Martin took advantage of the king's good mood and signed a series of decrees with the king that would make the major nobles shout 'I have a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not' - anyway, the theme is to let Martin do a big job in Lorrainburg and the wasteland, and the state doesn't have to invest, but don't care about Lorrainburg. Unless the province of Kot is invaded by a foreign enemy, even military service is exempted.

This banquet is basically about business.

Martin never imagined that there would be such a thing as a ball at the back of the party.

No, it should be said that he had heard the news before, but Martin, who was preoccupied with territorial affairs, chose to forget about it.

Now when he heard that there was a ball, Martin's scalp was tingling. The banquet ends at eight o'clock and the ball begins at 10 o'clock in the evening, with two hours of rest in between, as well as preparations.

He can't dance!

The dead ghost Martin's memory of this aspect is missing.

Rub, afraid of what comes.

When Martin secretly consulted with Sylvie about not wanting to go to the ball, Sylvie couldn't believe her ears: "What? Why don't you go? Are you afraid of being rejected like before? Young master, don't be kidding? Now no noble girl who is nominally single can refuse your invitation. ”

"I just don't want to go to the prom!" Martin was anxious.

"Why? Don't you want to see the eldest ladies who confessed and were rejected before?" Sylvie blinked her purple eyes, and her eyes were full of amusement: "It's okay, they looked down on you before, and now they can't look down on you." ”

it! It's getting darker and darker. That's Martin, the old dead ghost!

Martin felt a panache of acceptance at the thought of meeting the girl whom the dead had previously liked—always with a thick layer of powder on his face, bright lipstick, and always wearing the tunic dress, which was the most popular among the aristocratic maidens of Bakaria.

Although it looks great with a 32-inch bust that feels like a 20-inch waist, Martin knows that it is the result of relying on a long-term waist to tighten the four ribs at the bottom of the chest to the deformity and shrink up.

This kind of body is like a foot-bound woman before the Celestial Empire, using a wrapping cloth to strangle the foot bones until they are deformed. Some people may think it's beautiful, but Martin can't accept it.

And those dead ghost Martins have never soaked in them, so they don't necessarily have to inherit the taste of the dead ghosts, right?