After everyone had left, Gawain and Mrs. Lee Kerst followed Stuart into the hall of the left castle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is a large set of sandalwood tables and chairs in the hall, and at this moment, the tables are full of various documents and books, and Situ Jin usually sits here to work.

Hurt stood in the middle of the hall wearing a guard costume, after the baron's mansion was completely built, Situ respectfully asked him to serve as the chief guard of the mansion and his personal guard, and his subordinates could mobilize a total of 500 people to be responsible for the defense of the mansion, and directly listen to him!

In the past, when he was in the Imperial Capital Earl's Court, Hurt's job responsibilities were almost the same as now, if there was any difference, it was that at that time Hurt was working for Situ Nan, and now, he is working for Situ Nan's son.

Seeing Situ Jin walking in from outside the castle, Hurt's expression did not change, he had just finished inspecting the interior of this castle, according to the custom, he was going to go out to inspect the entire manor to ensure the absolute safety of the Baron's Palace! This is the work he does every morning after getting up and every night before going to bed.

More than two months ago, Situ Jin asked Xiu to transfer some manpower from the dawn to set up the framework of intelligence work on the island as soon as possible, although Xiu repeatedly insisted on taking care of his daily life by Situ Jin's side, but in the end Situ Jin still did not agree to his request! No way, such an important matter, except for arranging Xiu to do it, Situ Jin has no other better candidate in his heart!

Seeing that there was not even a single person around Situ Jin to serve him, Mrs. Lee Kerst temporarily transferred a dozen people from her mansion, which did not paralyze the daily maintenance of the Baron's Palace.

The castle hall was spacious, and the afternoon sun poured in through the windows in the walls of the hall, gilding the entire hall floor with a layer of gold.

After entering the hall, Situ Jin walked directly to his desk, and then sat down on the chair behind the desk.

"What??Gao Wen, have you encountered any difficulties at work?" Seeing that Gao Wen did not leave with the others after drinking tea, Situ Jin knew that he had something to tell him, so he took him into the castle.

Gawain did encounter difficulties, and there was more than one. It turned out that considering that the population of the island had increased greatly, and the number of troops was only the initial five or six thousand, a few days ago, after consulting with Situ Jin, Gawain began to be responsible for recruiting troops on the island.

The conscription went as smoothly as he imagined, because he learned that the salary of being a soldier on the island was extremely high, so as soon as he heard the news of the conscription, more than eighty percent of the young and middle-aged men on the island enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and in just over a week, the number of people who signed up to serve as a soldier had reached as many as 100,000.

This was supposed to be a good thing to be happy about, but when Gao Wen discussed with Situ Jin at that time, Situ Jin only asked him to levy the strength of five legions, one legion of 5,000 people, and the five legions only had 25,000 people, and so many people who were willing to join the army were turned away, Gao Wen felt that it was a pity!

So he came here today to discuss with Situ Jin whether he could at least double the number of conscripts, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Situ Jin vetoed: "The number of soldiers is not too many, but fine! Now our question is not how many soldiers to conscript, but whether we can bring our existing soldiers well, so that each of them can be treated as ten or even one as a hundred!"

When Szeto Jin was talking to Gawain, Mrs. Lee Kerst was sitting next to Szeto Jin's desk, because this lady was now in charge of the island's business affairs, and she was also one of the high-level people on the island, and there were many business matters to discuss with Szeto Jin, so during the day, this lady would come to Szeto Jin to work with Stuart.

Originally, Mrs. Lee Kerst didn't know what she was rummaging through in the pile of papers on Situ Jin's desk, but when she heard the conversation between Situ Jin and Gao Wen, she stopped what she was doing and listened intently to what the two were saying.

After a moment of silence, Gao Wen sighed, what Situ Jin just said involved another problem that gave him a headache, and this problem was the problem of "leading soldiers".

If you want to bring good soldiers, you must have excellent officers or excellent generals, if you bring one corps or two corps of troops, Gawain thinks that there is no problem, but let him bring a few or even a dozen legions, then he will have a problem.

Among the younger generation of aristocratic children in the empire, Gawain is indeed very good! However, he is not a natural general, except for a real war experienced in Tias with Situ Jin before, he has never experienced a war since he was a child! To tell the truth, he is really not sure that he can lead tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, and he does not think that he has such a general!

Gawain is not a presumptuous person, and his conclusion is completely derived from his experience in leading troops this year.

There were no noble soldiers on the island, whether it was the 5,000 soldiers assigned to Situ Jin by the previous empire or the 25,000 newly recruited soldiers, all of them were from civilian families. One of the most significant characteristics of civilian soldiers compared with aristocratic soldiers is that most of them have no education and can't read a few big characters!

You can let him be an ordinary soldier with such a soldier, and you can train him a little, and let him barely serve as a small officer at the grassroots level, but if you let him bring thousands or tens of thousands of people at once, isn't this tantamount to a fool's dream?

It is not excluded that there are some people who have the talent to lead troops to fight even if they are not educated, but after all, such people are in the minority, and the island is bound to need a large number of middle and high-ranking officers now and in the future!

During this year, Gawain completely relied on the people of the original 13th Battalion to assist him in managing the entire legion, and he did not find any people with military talent in the army, nor did he promote anyone in the army.

With the end of this conscription, a new problem has arisen! This question is, even if he can temporarily manage all the troops as the general on the island, if he does not have enough middle and high-ranking officers, how can he bring all the troops with him?

He couldn't help but tell Situ Jin about these worries, if he let Situ Jin's territory or Situ Jin himself suffer losses because of his self-righteousness, he would never be able to forgive himself.

When Gao Wen told Situ Jin about these worries in his heart, Situ Jin didn't speak for a long time, and just when Gao Wen thought that Situ Jin would not speak, Situ Jin suddenly said: "After the recruitment work is completed, I will be responsible for bringing these recruits for the time being!"