These thousand war horses can be regarded as solving the urgent need of the current Storm Castle, after all, there are no five hundred war horses in the Storm Horse Farm, and even if Duke wants to train cavalry, there are not enough horses for riding training.

Now with the addition of these 800 war horses, Storm Castle can already consider forming a new cavalry unit, but now that Storm Castle's human resources have been used to the limit, it is basically impossible to recruit enough cavalry talents.

Duke thought about it for a while, and could only ask Fei Duo, the second commander of the Storm Army, who was left behind in Storm Castle, to find a way to use all his strength to recruit more knights. Because once a knight comes, it is not just a knight, as a nobleman, he also has farmers and servants under him, etc., and he can almost drag hundreds of people with his family.

This kind of efficiency is much faster than recruiting homeless people one by one, but it is also much more difficult to recruit the knight class than homeless people. However, Fedor's father was the lord of Marseille at the time, and he had many loyal knights.

It's just that because he offended the French royal family and the Holy See, in the end, Fedor could only take his mother incognito to Storm Castle. If he were to be another lord, Fei Duo's secret would probably be kept for a lifetime. But Duke was different, he was not afraid of offending the royal family and the Holy See, so Duke gave Fedor the authority to pay a high price or even give up the land on the Seine River to recruit the knights who had been loyal to Fedor's father.

The knights of this era are still very loyal if they are loyal in the territory, as long as Fedor pulls out his father's banner, the three thousand knights of Marseille in the heyday can pull at least one-third.

The number of a thousand people does not seem like a lot, but you must know that these are real knights who have received professional riding training, and can be directly integrated into the army and go to the battlefield. Moreover, many of these knights' personal entourage are horsemen, that is, potential seeds of cavalry.

Stormcastle is not limited by nobility, and these relatives can become future cavalry, so if Duke is lucky, Stormfort will soon be able to build a cavalry regiment of 3,000 men. This kind of cavalry scale is already able to cope with some local wars, and Duke's ambitions are only focused on local wars at present.

In fact, the plan and future outlook are there, the only thing that bothers Duke is the problem of money, forming cavalry is not a small number, the cost of 3,000 cavalry may be higher than the current cost of the entire storm army.

Duke thought for a while, relying on the current scale of the transaction with the barbarians, it is still not enough to maintain the income of the storm castle, since the war horse trade has been launched, then Duke can also carry out more transactions, such as buying some items on the continent by himself, and exchanging materials such as wool, animal skins and other materials with the barbarians, these things are at a good price in the continental empire, and can also expand the supply of the storm trading house.

As soon as he thought of this, Duke called Goodman, the logistics officer, over: "Goodman, at present, our trade with the barbarians is going well, but with this scale of trade, Stormcastle's financial resources are still not sustainable, and there are big problems with manpower and armor production, so I plan to create other sources of income." ”

"Your lord, you mean you want to start more trade with the barbarians?"

"That's right, their wool and hides are some good things, especially the hides are very favored by some nobles in winter. We can buy their hides, or buy other things from the mainland to trade with them, and make another profit. ”

Hearing Duke say this, Goodman understood that this was a good idea, so he nodded and replied: "This method is feasible, Lord Lord, do you mean to let the logistics army transport and handle these things?"

"I have this idea, but the Storm Army is a professional soldier and must not be allowed to do business. Therefore, I still have to deal with these things in the Storm Firm, and I will call the shopkeeper of the flagship store of the Imperial Capital Storm Firm over at that time, and the logistics army may be borrowed by the Storm Firm for a while. ”

"I see, follow the orders of your lordship. ”

After deciding to open up other income trades, Duke sat down in the tent and rubbed his temples vigorously. Recently, all kinds of trade and development matters have simply kept Duke busy, and he already feels a little overwhelmed.

After all, with a small territory like Storm Castle, if you want to challenge a behemoth like the Holy See, you need to do your best to develop every step of the way.

But before Duke could rest, the door of the tent was opened, and Princess Gina burst in.

Seeing that there was no one else around Princess Jina, Soduke didn't get up to make those false salutes, but sat on the seat and said lightly: "Why are you here?"

"There have been two meetings of the Northern Army recently, how can you, as the military commander of the Storm Army, be absent every time?"

Princess Gina asked Duke angrily, because of the frequent transfer of the barbarians recently, the Northern Legion has held two military meetings to discuss how to deal with the attack of the barbarians and the Hans Empire, but Duke always absences from the military meeting under various excuses, which makes Jina, who is presiding over the meeting, feel very unhappy.

After all, now she is the nominal commander of the entire Imperial Northern Army, and she also represents the royal status, and Duke is too faceless.

"I don't have time. ”

Duke replied to Gina tiredly, it was indeed not that he didn't want to go over, in the recent period of time, because of the need to organize transactions with the barbarians, as well as to coordinate the transportation of various logistical supplies of the Storm Firm, Duke has been very busy, the Storm Army camp and the Alakou Fortress run between the two places, how can he have time to attend any military meetings.

After all, in Duke's heart, any military action of the Northern Army has nothing to do with him, and Duke doesn't plan to participate anyway, he just wants to get a number of three or five thousand war horses, and then find a way to apply to Emperor Fran to transfer back.

You must know that this is the Middle Ages, and if the emperor wants to summon the lord to fight on the border and fight, then the benefit fee must be sufficient. It's like if Duke is not a professional army, if he wants to recruit 3,000 storm troops to the northern border, it is estimated that he will also have to bled heed.

However, the French Empire did not have any benefit fees for Duke, not even basic military expenses, and the supplies were still supplied by his father, Duke Otto's Duchy of Berry, so when the time came, he refused to participate in the war or wanted to return to Storm Castle, and the Emperor of France had no reason or excuse to stop him, because Duke had already done his duty beyond the ordinary lord.