Before pointing to the truth, it is necessary to judge the shape of the shì first, and consider the acceptance of the audience, and after Balier blurted out "Don't you know this", he immediately understood this truth from the sharp eyes of Graire - most women do not care about war, and Graire regrettably, does not belong to that few exceptions.

"Well, let me give you a brief explanation, every household has to send out the militia." "The purpose of training them is to be able to resist them in the event of a bandit attack, so that mobile units can rush to support, that is to say, to train them in military affairs for the purpose of protecting themselves, and not to send them elsewhere to fight for anyone's ambitions." ”

"So, are they only responsible for defending the village?"

"When there is a need -- that is, when the flames of war burn here -- they have to undertake certain logistical support tasks, transport grain and grass, lead the way, and so on, and that's basically it."

"Uh, don't they fight with the army?"

"Where do you think of it," said Beryl, "to train each of them to be a real warrior, not to mention how much it will cost, how much time, whether the villagers can afford the cost of training and the loss of manpower, just a little bit, what to do with training each of them?" Think about how much food and grass they have to consume along the way--if the 100,000-strong army goes one way, I'm afraid they will collapse on their own before they reach their destination--Rather than let the poorly trained and untrained men waste their baggage and equipment, it is better to save money and training on mobile troops. ”

"So you don't have the money to train them?" Grirrell concluded.

"To put it simply, it's like this."

"So, why train them?"

"Because the existing standing forces are not enough to cover it...... No country's standing forces are enough to cover it......" Beryl thought of his superiors' sometimes complaints. Her Majesty the Queen does not seem to be satisfied with the fact that the army is only used to fight decisive battles and to clear out. It's like having to bear the burden of emergency rescue and disaster relief, but. There's no need to talk to Grirrel about that.

"After all, I still don't have any money."

"Efficiency!" After thinking for a moment, Beryl made an analogy, "Just like it is impossible for everyone to hunt and fish and make wine and iron and make shoes and clothes at the same time, and the professional is in charge of the professionals." You've seen striking iron, right? The old and experienced master adjusts the iron, and the young and powerful apprentice wields a sledgehammer, and this kind of cooperation is far better than each of them wielding a sledgehammer. If bandits attacked, a militia with a little training could fend them off. Some bandits who are not very determined to fight will retreat in the face of difficulties, and this delay will allow the truly elite standing mobile forces to arrive in time, so that 'the bandits are in the east, the army is in the west, and when the army rushes to the west, the bandits are ravaging the south'. ”

"Okay, but you seem to be hiding something from me." Grirrel said, looking at him suspiciously.

"If there is a cousin who is particularly outstanding, I will consider absorbing him into the standing army. Even as a knight, there is only one out of a hundred people who meet the requirements, and I don't think this village has enough base in terms of base, and secondly, it doesn't look like there is such a talent. So I won't mention it. ”

"In other words, as the villagers feared, there will be one person in every household who will be conscripted into the army, and it will not happen?"

"It is true that every adult man and a suitable adult woman has to join the militia and do a certain amount of military training. It's a fake that they'll leave their homeland to fight," Berlier pouted. "Nasty rumors are like that, half true and half false."

"Then I'll go talk to them."

"Then you'll be seen as a liar. The villagers will not believe the half-truths and half-truths that they hate this here, that 'gathering all the people for military training is not to send them to war', on the contrary, when they see us coming to train them, they will suspect that we will one day pull them into battle. People are suspicious, and the more they feel that we are deceiving them, the more they look like it. ”

"You have a great idea?"

"I think it's better to get a set of beautiful clothes, find two more soldiers to be my entourage, set up my full score here, and order them to prepare for a reception, and then despise them on the ground, saying that they are not qualified to be a standing soldier in their lifetime, and then they will break their heads and become soldiers." This is a recruitment ploy that Jason once used, when Beryl heard about it, he couldn't help but think of the sheep he herded, he didn't eat a good large patch of grass, he had to try to squeeze his head through the fence to gnaw the grass on the other side of the fence, he thought it was extremely funny when he saw it, but he didn't expect that the intelligence of humans in this area didn't seem to be stronger than sheep, and they were all masters who had to open the door if they were not allowed to open.

Hearing this, Glarel was sullen, for her quarrel with the archbishop was about whether the people of the countryside should wear fancy clothes as a sign of authority, or whether they should dress ordinarily to get close to the villagers. At that time, she had asked the archbishop eloquently, who had dressed and was so close to the people as an ordinary clergyman, why did the itinerant teachers who served the people wear red and green, and were superior in their clothing?

"There are so many poor people who want relief, and we still have to spend money on clothes!" At that time, she reprimanded the other party like this, feeling that it was a kind of profligacy.

It was no wonder that the archbishop sent her to the countryside, presumably to let her know that at some point, the ornate costume had its own purpose.

"Now that we know the reason for their non-cooperation, there is no need to stay here to blow the wind, let's go to the nearest village and see if we can find suitable props and assistants, and if necessary, we will have to go to Alonael to borrow clothes." Beryl extinguished the fire, divided half of the grilled fish to Grair, and took a berry from the basket and threw it into his mouth, "Shhh ”

"But why do they keep saying that they want Count Edwa to come back and rule over them?"

"Probably because they felt that there had never been a general conscription when Count Edward was here, what does that say? People are more afraid of the unknown than tyrannical. ”

"Yes." Glarel replied with gusto, and although she had found out the truth, she was not at all happy at the thought of the mistake she might have made, "The nearest village is in that direction, and the children say that it is a little smaller than this one." ”

"Ah, it looks like we're going to have to go back to Aronael."

"Yes."

"Let's go now, we'll have to eat a full meal before we get back to Aronael. Wait, now that we've all decided to go back to Aronael, we might as well tell the villagers that we'll consider their petition and see if they have anything else to say. Perhaps, we can get enough dinner without having to travel overnight. (To be continued......)