Chapter Eighty-Five: The Knighthood of the Nords

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Hiko's plan seems to many to have very similar examples. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and among them, the most imaginary is the knightly system that originated in the Kingdom of Feilun.

Knight is an honorary title that originated in the age of elves. At that time, the elven empire would always canonize some elven generals as royal knights. But it was only during the founding of empires and kingdoms that the title really flourished, and even reached its peak.

When the empire was founded, the famous Champion Knights were formed with brave warriors who were skilled in cavalry and archery, and in this way, the stability and prosperity of the northwest of the empire were established. But at that time, knights were only a special branch of the army, and at most they could only be regarded as a special honor.

The kingdom is different, the two kingdoms created a special system on the basis of knights at the beginning of their establishment, that is, the knight system that maintains the kingdom's martial arts and military strength.

The basis of this system was the division of the kingdom's territory to the samurai who had made meritorious contributions in the early days of the state. Let them have their own territories and peasants. However, this division was limited to one generation, and if their children were to inherit their domains, these samurai had to train their offspring to become qualified samurai and have the king's approval.

However, this requirement was too difficult for most of the Divided Samurai. After all, as heroes who have created a kingdom with bravery, they belong to the type of genius anyway. They're brave, and that's good. But that doesn't mean that their children and grandchildren will be able to become great samurai like them. The uncertainty of this kind of thing is too strong, so strong that according to this system, most people can only enjoy the wealth of this generation, and their next generation will completely lose everything they have now.

This is obviously not something that the feudal warriors can accept. But when they reported this to the founder of the kingdom, the answer was very strong. This is the basic national policy of the kingdom, and it must never be shaken. Of course, the king could not force his own heroes to death, so he gave his two suggestions.

The first is that the descendants of these divided samurai families concentrate on serving martial arts, receiving training from their fathers since childhood, and concentrating on learning mounted archery and tactics, so that until adulthood, how can they get a good martial arts.

Second, honor. The kingdom will create a knightly formation for the descendants of these feudal warriors, who can join them when they reach adulthood, and be baptized and trained in war.

After learning martial arts since childhood and the tempering of war, as long as you can persevere, you must be a samurai who is enough to inherit the family business.

To be honest, this suggestion is a bit tricky, because it is equivalent to limiting the families of these heroes to death, and they can only be continued in this way, and the future development can only be in terms of military merits. But when the feudal warriors had no choice but to fulfill the king's request, the prototype of a powerful knight order that shocked the whole world was created.

The teaching of famous teachers, coupled with twenty years of dedicated martial arts, made these second-generation feudal warriors have extraordinary martial arts. And when the kingdom gathered these people together to form a special order of knights, a terrible army appeared before the eyes of the world.

Three hundred knights with superb martial arts and superb riding skills can do more than just one enemy and ten on the battlefield of cold weapons, what they can do is one enemy hundred.

When the rise of the kingdom was strongly suppressed by the Empire, this newly created knight order directly defeated the Empire's Southern Legion with lightning speed, completely defeating the entire 50,000 troops. Nothing can stop these superb knights, not even the champion knights of the Empire. The 500 champion knights of the Southern Legion were wiped out in front of these fledgling knights, and even the commander of this army was slaughtered by the knights.

The first battle of this knight order resounded throughout the world. In recognition of the military exploits of these knights, the Kingdom of Faeron named this knightly order the Knights of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of Princes.

The knights of the Anglican Church won a hundred battles, allowing the kingdom of Faeron to be completely stabilized. And as the prestige of these state knights spread throughout the world, both empires and kingdom allies began to compete to learn this special way of training.

Since then, the knight has been completely separated from the military and has become a new symbol of honor and force.

For example, now, both kingdoms and empires have a large number of knights who have spent decades painstakingly honing their martial arts at the cost of a fief according to this system. They are the backbone of the military strength of these human countries, and they are also the strength of a country.

It can be said that, to a large extent, the number of knights determines the direction of the war. And unfortunately, whether it is a kingdom or an empire, the number of these knights is not very large.

The Glorious Knights of the Kingdom of Faeron have only grown from three hundred to five hundred over the years. And after the reorganization of the champion knights of the empire, there are less than 800 sub-knights in existence. Compared to the hundreds of thousands of troops in the entire human army, the number of these knights is really pitiful.

Of course, there's a reason for that. On the one hand, it is because the requirements for the knights are too high. If an ordinary knight wants to become a knight, he must at least accumulate the merits of about 100 people. In addition to this, his force must also reach a fairly high level. And this criterion is divided into qi sense.

Almost most of the Split Knights are only one step away from comprehending the existence of Qi. And some of these elite knights have a transcendent existence.

Too high a standard is one thing, and too much consumption on the other. To train a feudal knight, it is necessary to have at least one manor fief unconditionally for twenty years to see results. This is still the time consumed by those who are themselves knights, and other ordinary people will only consume more.

However, excluding the lands of the nobles and the great merchants, there was a limit to the amount of land that both the kingdom and the empire could give to the knights. After all, once the land was handed over to the feudal knights, it meant that everything owned by the land would become private assets, and there would be no taxes even to pay. The state is run by taxes, and if all the land is divided among the knights, then the country will be directly threatened with bankruptcy.

Therefore, it is impossible for the knights to expand uncontrollably in any way. This is the basis for maintaining the balance of the country, and it is simply impossible to change it by the will of the individual.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the pioneering plan implemented by Yan in Beifeng Town has a clear shadow of the knightly system. In fact, he did create this plan based on the knighthood of this world and some knowledge he had learned in his previous life.

In his plan, the Nords would become the same class as the knights. The difference is that the Nords have a much greater advantage than the Knights.

First of all, the natural physical fitness of the Nord people is there, and with the same resources to support two people with the same talent, there is no doubt that the Nord people will grow faster. Second, the advantage of the general environment is here. Although the knight of the Divided Seal began to practice martial arts since he was a child, the training he received could not have been more adequate and arduous than that received by the Nords.

The Nords have been entrenched in Arest for more than 10,000 years, and they have already integrated the sharpening of their martial arts into their lives, which cannot be twisted by some systems at all. It can be said that if it were not for the fact that the Nords also had to think about their livelihoods, they would have to devote a considerable part of their lives to production. Then the combat effectiveness of the Nords should be increased by at least two grades. And the gap between these two grades is enough for the elite Nord warriors to crush any class of troops in the world, even the knights.

The Kingdom of Feron once boasted that its Knights of the Kingdom of Church were the most powerful land troops in the world. Even the Nords may not be able to compete with them. The Nords did not deny this, because this kind of knights who had been piled up with resources and countless amounts of money did have their strength.

But in Hiko's view, there is a lot of water in it.

The strength of the knights is based on their complete detachment, in other words, without this kind of full-time, franchise military martial arts system, the knights of the division would not be able to have the current height. The Nords and the Knights are compared to the Knights, and if they lose, they will lose in this place. If the Nords could be completely out of production like the knights, then the achievements and force would inevitably surpass the former. This was Hiko's judgment, and he made such a plan for this judgment.

After all, there are only three points in the strength of a nation, one is culture, which Yan can't do anything about, and the culture that the Nord people have developed for more than 10,000 years is not something that he can change. But the second and third points are where he can meddle.

Economy is not only the circulation of money, but also the production and supply of materials. Hiko, who ushered in a new era of maritime trade, has already made great strides in the Nord economy to some extent, and his current farming program is essentially changing the Nord economic system. As long as it works, the Nords will make a leap forward, and the most obvious is reflected in the third point.

The third point is military. The most critical issue for the strength of a race is military power. And once they had a large supply of economic goods as their support, the Nords could be immediately freed from traditional labor production. This is a race where almost all the people are soldiers, so simply let it completely lose production and become a country of professional soldiers like Sparta.

This is Hiko's most fundamental plan, and it is also the plan that these Nords agree with. That's what they need, because they know very well that this will make the Nords stronger than ever.