When I left the City Lord's Mansion, it was almost noon.

Xu Yi glanced at the sky, thinking that he had just come back, and he said that he would go back to the Falling Star Manor to enjoy it with Steele for lunch today, so the remaining time would not be enough to visit some of the scheduled people, so he had to get into the carriage and go to the Falling Star Manor.

His body swayed back and forth along the highway as the carriage drove on, and Xu Yi pondered the answer he had just received from Sevigny.

Theoretically, a nobleman's private army can be unlimited, as the Kingdom Council and the Kingdom Noble Council have never had any special restrictions on this.

Because if you carefully analyze the structure of the Lampari Kingdom, you will find that in fact, the entire Lampari Kingdom is composed of a combination of great nobles.

And the royal family is actually the most powerful noble family in the kingdom.

The army owned by the royal family is also the most powerful in the kingdom, so the royal family can always control the greatest power in the kingdom, and the patriarch of the royal family can be the king of the kingdom.

If one day the royal family is unable to maintain this absolute superiority, then it is very likely that the rule of other noble families will be overthrown, and the regime will be changed.

It should be said that this is not uncommon even in the history of the earth, but it has not been reflected as much as in the kingdom of Lampari.

And in the entire Sainz continent, except for some small principalities and ultra-small kingdoms, all other countries, including the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, basically have this kind of political system, so Xu Yi's problem is actually not a problem at all in Seviny's opinion.

Of course, the infinite aristocratic private army can only be stored in theory.

First of all. And the most important question. It's about the cost input.

Want to form your own private army. Of course, it is impossible to say that if you just recruit a group of people to form it, you can be regarded as a private army.

The army, without combat effectiveness, is a rabble.

If you want to have combat effectiveness, the first thing you need is to have enough soldiers.

The population in the Lampari Kingdom has always been small, and the living conditions have not been very good, so the body is qualified, and there are not enough candidates who can serve as soldiers, and the number of troops in the Lampari Kingdom has not been large. Even the Zhenbei Army, which is known as the strongest, only has a total of more than 30,000 people.

The second is sufficient logistical supplies.

In addition to being suzhì himself, a qualified soldier must also have weapons and equipment in order to form combat effectiveness.

And to ensure that this soldier always has such combat effectiveness, there must be corresponding supplies, at least so that the soldier can eat his stomach.

The investment cost on this is undoubtedly very terrifying.

The current total army of the Lampari Kingdom is only about 50,000 people, but the annual investment of the kingdom's treasury in military expenses is at least more than 300,000 gold coins.

And this kind of investment is still extremely low.

Not only is it far inferior to the Kingdom of Sark, but even several small countries around it. For example, the Duchy of Draco is very different.

There is no way, the kingdom of Lampari was so poor before.

So. If you want to have an unlimited private army, you first have to have an unlimited amount of money.

Of course, this is impossible, so even the most powerful Stark family in the Lampari Kingdom except for the royal family has only 3,000 private troops on the surface.

Of course, there is no accurate answer to how many private armies the Stark family actually has.

But even the most daring calculations would be about 5,000 at most.

Because no matter how willing the Stark family is to invest, it will also involve another very important issue in addition to the cost input, that is, the suppression from the royal family.

Since the political system of the Lampari Kingdom determines that the royal family must be the most powerful family, then in order to maintain this advantage, the royal family will of course strictly limit the private army owned by other nobles in the kingdom.

Although limited by the unwritten agreement between the nobles and the traditions of the Sainz continent, the royal family could not force the noble council to pass a resolution that clearly limited the private army owned by the nobles in the kingdom, but as the family that wielded the most power in the kingdom, the royal family certainly had countless ways to do so.

For example, Lampari XIII once issued an order to protect the kingdom, requiring the major nobles in the kingdom to send a certain percentage of their private troops to join the Zhenbei army to fight against the kingdom of Sark.

The proportion of casualties in the Zhenbei army is very high, and if it is sent to the private army according to the proportion, then it is obvious that the more private troops, the greater the losses suffered by their own family.

As a result, combined with a series of other restrictions by the royal family, the nobles in the Lampari Kingdom gradually stabilized the number of private armies under their names.

A big family like the Stark family has a private army of 3,000, which is already the highest standard in the kingdom.

In other kingdoms, the private army of the famous big families is about 2,000.

And a mere viscount like Xu Yi......

Want to have a private army? Are you crazy?

Of course, Xu Yi is not crazy, and Sevini naturally does not think so.

She knew very well what Xu Yi meant by this question, so after giving Xu Yi a detailed analysis of the situation of the nobles' private army in the Lampari Kingdom, she gave him a Jianyi.

It's best not to declare your desire to have a private army, but at most to recruit hundreds of guards in the name of the territorial guard.

Although this will still attract the attention of countless people, at least it is reasonable, and it can be regarded as the usual practice of many nobles in the kingdom.

Xu Yi gladly accepted Sevigny's proposal, but the words of only a few hundred people seemed to him to be far from enough.

When the time comes, hundreds of people don't make a difference.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not need to have a headache for many nobles, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can have assets for weapons and armaments, so in fact, Xu Yi can fully support a private army of far more than hundreds of people.

And if you want to avoid the suppression of the royal family, there are actually many solutions.

Of course, there is no need to discuss this in detail with Sevigny.

Not long after the carriage drove out of the west gate of the old town of Bonta City, it suddenly slowed down and stopped.

"What's the matter?" Xu Yi asked the driver driving in front of him in amazement.

"Grown, there's a traffic jam. ”

"Traffic jam?" Hearing this term that was familiar on the earth but extremely unfamiliar to this world, Xu Yi was stunned for a moment.

Lifting the curtain of the carriage and looking forward, he found that the road ahead was indeed blocked.

Originally, the road was eight meters wide enough to accommodate four horse-drawn carriages running side by side, but now it is mixed with a few medium-sized magic buses and a few medium-sized freight magic locomotives that are supposed to go to the Falling Rain Valley, which makes the road a lot more congested.

Ahead, as if something had happened, two carriages could be seen falling to the ground in the distance, and loud quarrels could be heard from ahead.

Seeing the anxious expressions of the people waiting in traffic jams around him, and hearing the discussions of the surrounding crowd, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.

This scene is so nostalgic for him.

"Daddy Bell, are there a lot of traffic jams here?" Xu Yi asked Bell, the driver of his personal carriage.

"There weren't many before, but in the second half of this year, there will be more. Daddy Bell replied, and suddenly glanced at Xu Yi rather strangely. "Lord, to be honest, it was only after the magic locomotive of our Chamber of Commerce began to be sold that we were often stuck in traffic, and many people scolded us when we were stuck in traffic. ”

Xu Yi laughed: "Sooner or later, they will adapt to this situation." ”

Looking up at the situation in front of him as if there was no improvement, and then seeing that there were more and more blocked cars behind, and even almost extending to the city gate in the distance, Xu Yi remembered that there was no traffic police in this world who would be dispatched to maintain order and ensure traffic.

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Yi added a wind control technique to himself, and flew over the head of the blocked carriage and magic locomotive.

Fly to the accident site in front of you and find that it is supposed to be a medium-sized freight magic locomotive and two horse-drawn carriages collided and caused an accident.

Both carriages were lying to the ground at this time, and one of them even looked like it was about to fall apart, apparently not lightly hit.

And the medium-sized freight magic locomotive stood intact on the side, without any signs of damage.

His eyes swept over the few people who were arguing, but Xu Yi found an acquaintance.

"Daddy Sack, it's you, what's going on?"

Father Sackchi looked at Xu Yi who fell from the sky in amazement, and a hint of joy flashed across his face.

"President Xu, why are you here too? I just came back from Karamay City to transport goods, you see, this car is still the goods of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and it is about to be transported to the Falling Rain Valley. I didn't expect to walk here, and I happened to be bumped into by them. ”

Xu Yi looked in the direction of Daddy Sack's finger and recognized that these people who quarreled with Daddy Sackchi were all small nobles in Bangta City, no wonder they could have a private carriage that looked pretty good.

Seeing Xu Yi looking over with an inquiring gaze, several little nobles immediately cried out.

"President Xu, don't listen to his nonsense! We were walking well on the highway, but he just crashed into him. You see, our carriage is about to fall apart, and a few of us are wounded, is it still our fault?"

"It's not your fault, who's fault? I don't think your horses are crazy?" immediately retorted Daddy Sackchi.

Several little nobles looked stunned, but then they still shouted at their necks: "I think you are crazy! Our horse and carriage have been used by the family for more than ten years, how can it not be as good as your magic locomotive that only came out this year......?"

As soon as a few little nobles spoke, they remembered that Xu Yi was next to them, and they actually dared to say bad things about the magic locomotive in front of Xu Yi, isn't this looking for death?

Turning their heads, they saw Xu Yi's face sank, and several people suddenly became frightened in their hearts. (To be continued......)