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"Dear Dusta, it's great that you arrived in time, if it's any later, my castle will be occupied by this vile and shameless Marquis of Kaitoka, you are truly a protector of God's reward to me"

Seeing that all the recalcitrant knights had put down the weapons in their hands, Du Yu began to command his soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the dozen or so tents sewn from sheepskin were all pocketed by Du Yu.

Although he didn't capture the Marquis Kesto alive this time, he didn't let him run away, and the corpse was also a lot of money, and if the successor of the Kesto family wanted to rightfully inherit the position of the head of the family, he would have to spend a lot of money to redeem the old marquis's body.

Just when Du Yu happily commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, his cheap father-in-law, Lord Kestora, ran out of the castle with a dozen servants wearing a tattered chain mail, hugging Du Yu with a face full of grievances and crying bitterly, which made Du Yu, who was still cleaning up the battlefield, angry and scolding

"I'm fighting bloody battles in front, but you're here to negotiate with the enemy, if you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I'll send someone to take back your territory!"

"Take back the territory?yes, yes, I don't want to stay in this place for a long time, you take back my territory, it's better for me to be a knight under you than to stay here and bear the revenge of the Kesto family!"

Contrary to Du Yu's expectations, Lord Kestora was not afraid at all when he heard that he was going to reclaim the territory, but instead showed joy on his face, and even his original wolf expression seemed to exude an exuberant look, and he was a mess of gratitude.

"My lord, to recover the territory of an independent lord, you must give the title and land compensation!" Seeing his lord's inexplicable sluggishness, the adjutant Statunenko leaned over with an embarrassed face and explained in Du Yu's ear in a low voice.

"According to the decree of the kingdom, the annexation of the territory of an independent lord must give the lord a certain amount of property and land compensation in order to continue the blood of the lord" It is this decree that ensures that although the nobles of the kingdom sometimes fight continuously, as long as they do not rebel against the king, the blood of the nobles can always continue for a long time, and many knights themselves are descendants of the previous lords.

This time, Lord Kestora not only pretended to be a robber to rob the caravan of the Caesto family, but also colluded with the Falcon family to ambush the Marquis of Caesto, and the Marquis of Caystor was killed in battle.

The vengeful anger of a marquis's family is not something that a small lord can bear, and now his intimate son-in-law is willing to take back his territory, which of course makes Lord Kestora ecstatic.

Take it back, take it back, fortunately, my cheap father-in-law only has three villages, Du Yu sighed secretly, the original owner of this body seems to be really autistic, and a lot of popular knowledge is not even known.

"If I could, I'd like to meet my two fiancées!"

Du Yu sat down in the hall of Lord Kestora's castle, just now the two sides had already negotiated the relevant matters of recovering the territory, Du Yu allocated two villages to Lord Kestora from a dozen villages near his castle in exchange for Lord Kestora's three villages.

"Of course, but my two daughters are still learning aristocratic etiquette from Madame Vienna at the Château de Morin, and I am afraid that they will not be able to return until the autumn of next year, and I will bring them to meet the adults at once, and they will be thirteen years old next year, and the wedding will be celebrated," Lord Kestora took the title deed of the village from the table and handed it to the adjutant Statunko

"13 years old!" Lord Kestora's age spitting out of his mouth startled Du Yu, who was sitting on the main seat of the hall, and after a long time, his fiancée sisters were still two 13-year-old girls.

"This is not in a hurry! There is no hurry! Now that it has been negotiated, I will lead the army back first" Du Yu stood up from the main seat in embarrassment, no matter whether the two sisters were beautiful or not, Du Yu was not evil enough to destroy the little girl.

"My lord, in this battle, a total of 138 ordinary soldiers were killed, 17 knights were captured, a ransom of 3,500 gold coins was received, 16 villages were allocated, and the population was 3,786 people......"

Statunko respectfully handed over a thick stack of counting watches and village head watches in his hand to Du Yu, and Statunko knew that the battle in Lord Kestora's domain not long ago had made his lord a small fortune.

In order to redeem the body of the unlucky Marquis of Kaitoka and the captured squadron of family knights, after paying another 3,000 gold coins, the Kaitoka family had to cut 13 neighboring villages to redeem all the captives,

Except for the knight with red feathers on his head, because he is the captain of the guard of the Marquis of Kaitoka, Stoli Iron Shield Knight, due to the death of the lord, the captain of the guard, Storey, has been stripped of the title of Iron Shield Knight by the new patriarch, and reduced to a subordinate guard with no territory.

Du Yu admired the loyalty and command ability of this knight captain Storey, if it wasn't for this Storey who organized the panicked knights to resist stubbornly, maybe these knights would have been defeated a long time ago.

Du Yu forcibly left him in the castle on the grounds that there was no ransom.

Since the Marquis of Ketoka was killed in a heroic duel when he met the Falcon family, who were invited by Lord Kestora to help fight bandits, during the invasion of Lord Kestora's territory,

According to the tradition of the knights of the kingdom, it was a battle between two knights of high moral character and great valor, a fair, sacred battle, and a thing worth reciting.

Therefore, the Kaitoka family cannot investigate the attack of the Falcon family, unless the Kaitoka family is willing to admit that their lord was thrown off his horse and fell to his death when he was suddenly attacked, which will make the already disgraced Kaitoka family completely become the laughing stock of the nobles.

"After doing so many things, I earned 2,000 gold coins, it seems that if you want to make a fortune, you still have to find a way from your own territory" Du Yu simply looked at the report submitted by Statunko, although this battle was quite fruitful, but the expenses were also very large.

Because of the bounty marked before the war, these two battles consumed their bounty of nearly 600 gold coins, and these peasants who participated in the battle continued to flee after returning to the territory, with a lot of money, who was willing to stay in the castle stupidly and work hard, they all tried their best to run to their homes, and finally the 200 peasant soldiers ran to only 70 people.

The hunters also retreated to the mountains for the winter under the leadership of the leader, although the hunter leader promised that as long as he received his requisition order, the hunters would come back immediately, but these situations that had never been considered before made Du Yu question his idea of "governing the army with money", is there a need for knights to really form a standing army?

After three days of hard thinking, Du Yu promulgated his own new policy, the "Land Reward System", in his own territory

"All soldiers who have participated in ten battles with the lord will be automatically promoted to the rank of sharp, transferred to the castle as the lord's guard, the lord will allocate a piece of the reward to him from the richest land near his castle, all soldiers who have hunted the enemy's head in battle and accumulated more than three will automatically become the head soldier, will be the three commanders in the army, all the soldiers who kill the opposing knight in the battle will become the soldiers, will be the ten commanders of the army, and will have the right to share one percent of the spoils after the battle......"

"Money is the driving force that drives people's hopes, and land is the foundation of retaining talents"

This is the conclusion that Du Yu came to after meditating for a few days, and as the impression of the land reward system of the Qin Dynasty and the Eight Banners system of the Manchus gradually became clear in his mind,

Du Yu felt that his doubts and difficulties suddenly became clear, it turned out that this difficult problem had already been solved by his ancestors, and he had nothing else, but there was still a lot of barren land.

In this world where the productive forces are not developed, most of the peasant households are gathered in the villages, and in other places there are often large tracts of wasteland, especially the "light commander" who does not even have a knight under his command, so it can be said that "the poor are left with land"

Du Yu deliberately allocated a piece of land on the edge of the river outside his castle as the garrison and production of his castle garrison.

He is not rich, and it is impossible to always keep a large number of soldiers in the castle, so it is better to set aside land for them to cultivate by themselves, and only need to hand in a very small amount of food, and serve as a soldier in wartime, serve the people in peacetime, and conduct military training every day after dinner.

This system of ploughing in the morning and training in the afternoon allowed the soldiers to feed themselves and maintain a well-trained army for themselves, and also to promote the commercial trade around them, instead of the former situation where the peasants were led back to their territory by knights after returning from battle.

The new policy promulgated by the lord shook the farmers in the farms in the territory, and it has always been the privilege of the knight lord to accept the lord's reward land, but now as long as he joins the lord's army, he has the opportunity to get the lord's land reward, and he can also share the spoils of battle,

Farming in the garrison camp outside the castle required very little food, which made many destitute peasants feel like they had seen heaven, and it was the lifelong dream of these extremely poor peasants to be fed.

With the free propaganda of the fleeing peasant soldiers, the peasants in the realm knew that their lord was the most generous man in the kingdom, and now the good name was even greater, and all of them knew that their lord was a generous and well-spoken man.

However, only ten days after the post was posted, the number of farmers who gathered outside the castle to ask to join the army reached 1,378.

This frightened Du Yu, who was not mentally prepared, 1,300 soldiers only had a military strength of 800 even in the heyday of the Falcon family, and there were more than 100 knights.

Other lords need to send knights to various villages to forcibly recruit soldiers, but they are very casual with a conscription order of more than 1,000 people, no wonder all the powerful countries in history have closely linked land with war achievements, which is indeed the best way to allocate war resources.

Just like the people who go to the mountains and go to the countryside all over the country to go around but are extremely enthusiastic about selling insurance, they link their interests to their achievements, work more and get rich, and make a fortune is the reason why they still insist on enduring the white eyes of others.

A soldier's achievements are his exploits, and a soldier's interests are the land.

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