The rooster crows, and the day comes.

Plo is relatively close to Twilight City, plus Lugo is a mercenary, he is resolute and efficient, he went out to run errands yesterday and came back today.

Lugo knocked on the door and entered Chino's office and said, "That's it, Percy and the 18 people who went with him, all..."

He made a throat-slitting motion.

Chino put down the document in his hand: "How many people are going with you?" ”

"All the mercenaries I brought with me were the surviving mercenaries of the Battle of Shilin Town, and all 12 of them were brought along, all of them were veterans, and no one was damaged."

"Can you guarantee that they can all be trusted?"

Lugo sneered and said playfully, "I'll do things, don't worry." It doesn't matter if someone informs you, even the gods can't find the bodies of those people, because there are no corpses at all. ”

Chino then remembered that yesterday the dog trainer reported to him that Lugo had taken all the nearly 100 hounds in the city with him.

Chino nodded, took out the bag containing 200 silver moons and put it on the table: "You take 20 of your rewards, and the rest will be divided equally among the others." ”

"Hey, thanks." Lugo took the money.

At that moment, Baixa knocked on the door and walked in.

"My lord, Paladin has taken leave of injury." He reported.

Chino frowned: "Injury leave? What happened to him? ”

"He," Baiza touched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment, "he drank too much yesterday and was robbed by two little thieves on the road, and he was stabbed in the back." ”

Chino was a little puzzled, although Paladin was not an extraordinary person, his martial arts were also obvious to all.

Not to mention anything else, during the offensive and defensive battle of Shilin Town, he was ordered to release the plague beast, and he was able to escape back from the lower epidemic area unscathed, how could he capsize in the gutter yesterday?

Chino asked, "Who is the prisoner?" Where are the people? ”

Baiza replied truthfully: "The two children, the identity of the sheriff's office has been checked, they are both habitual pickpockets, and they have been cut down by Paladin yesterday. ”

After hearing this, Lugo laughed directly and screamed: "This idiot, was stabbed by two children? Hopefully it didn't hurt his kidneys, and if he was ruined because of this, he would be the worst centurion in Dogulander. ”

Saving children on the street, the Trojan family asking for guilt, unwilling, being stabbed by children, repeat offenders, killing on the spot... The flow of information converges in Chino's mind.

After a brief silence, Chino smiled and playfully said, "If you want me to say, he's smarter than both of you." ”

Both Lugo and Baixa were confused and didn't understand what it meant.

Chino acquiesced to Paladin's injury leave, stopped discussing the subject, got up and said, "Baiza, you have a mission, recruit soldiers. Last night, the superior consul conveyed an order to me that after the battle of Shirin, the horse bandits suffered heavy losses, and the desert forces may launch a retaliatory action, and the city defense force of Twilight City should be expanded from 5,000 to 7,000 men. ”

Baiza asked, "How do you choose the source of soldiers?" ”

Chino handed over a thick roster: "You can choose from the militia reserves, after the expansion, you and Paladin will be promoted to the commander of the thousand, the rank of captain can be directly appointed, and the position of centurion will be listed for me, and I will decide." ”

With the promotion of military rank, Baiza was naturally extremely excited, and hammered his chest hard: "Yes!" ”

After Baixa left, seeing Chino continuing to sort through the papers, Lugo tentatively asked, "What about me?" ”

Chino shook his head: "You don't have any other tasks, just take care of those mercenaries." ”

Lugo hurriedly said, "If you need it, I can also help you recruit troops!" I'm familiar with the underground forces of Twilight, murder, theft, robbery, vandalism, open defecation... I can gather hundreds of them for you! They must be happy to sell you their lives! ”

"I'm not forming a den of thieves, why do you want so many criminals?" Chino said helplessly, "And, theoretically, my current 'private soldiers' are already overstaffed and can't be added." ”

Chino was talking about the "Recruiting Order for the Nobles of Doguland".

The ruling class in Dogurlander consisted of aristocrats, especially the Five Princes, who were the only ones who could have private soldiers.

In order to prevent the private forces of the major families from being too large and threatening the royal power, the "Dogurand Noble Recruitment Order" made a "ten" quantitative limit, that is, the private strength of the nobles shall not be greater than ten times the registered members of the family.

For example, if a noble family has 50 registered members, the number of private soldiers cannot exceed 500.

In the face of this law, the situation of different families is also very different.

Since ancient times, the Trojan family has advocated force and valued reproduction, so it has been marrying with foreigners all the year round, intermarrying, giving birth to children, and absorbing outsiders to change their surnames to naturalization.

According to incomplete statistics, the Trojan family has more than 1,000 registered people, with more than 10,000 private soldiers, and the strength of the family is extremely terrifying, and most of them are infected people who have undergone high-level blood therapy all year round and can be freely beasted.

Of course, this kind of expansion also has drawbacks, it is easy to make family members mixed, and the intricate relationship is very chaotic internally, and the management cost is extremely high.

Some families value bloodline and never carry out such expansion, the most typical is the "Regnome family" with the dragon as the banner, with only more than 80 registered members and more than 600 private soldiers.

Due to the extreme difficulty of becoming a dragon knight, there are only 24 dragon knights in the Regnome family, which is commonly known in the world today as the "Twenty-four Dragon Riders of the Cold Valley", and the rest are all transcendents who are not dragon knights.

And Chino's "Helsing family" is also pitiful, the family is in the middle, his parents are dead, and he is the only one with Helsing's surname.

That is, theoretically, he was only allowed to have 10 private soldiers, and 13 mercenaries, including Lugo, were already overstaffed.

And Paladin and Baixa were originally subordinate to the border guards of Shilin Town, and now they are subordinate to the city guards of Twilight City, which are actually the "public army" of the Doguland Kingdom, not Chino's private soldiers, but because they are usually close, they look like retainers.

Of course, rules are dead, people are alive, and no one will talk too much because the executive has recruited 3 more people, as long as you don't expand it hard.

Seeing that Lugo was complaining, Chino handed over the pen and paper: "If you really want to recruit a few good players, you can do this." You write an application to join the Helsing family and become my retainer. You can even get a wife and ask her to change your surname with you and have a few more children, so that the recruitable manpower will go up. ”

"Shhhh Does that mean I have a last name now? Lugo Helsin... Hahaha! Sounds great! As soon as Lugo took the pen and paper, he smiled awkwardly and said, "My lord, can you send me a scholar?" I can't read. ”

"...," Chino sighed lightly, "Alright, you now have a task, to read and write. I don't allow illiteracy among my subordinates. ”

Lugo's eyes widened in horror: "Read and read??? I get sleepy when I see a book, you might as well kill me!" ”

Chino continued to sort out the documents and said lightly: "Yes, killing you is also one of the options." ”

Seeing Chino's expressionless face, Lugo knew that it was not a joke, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Okay, read, I can't read..."

"Give you 6 months. After 6 months, you should be able to read a literary masterpiece without barriers. Chino's slender fingers swept across the shelf, and finally landed on a red book, pulled it out and handed it over, ""She is a dragon, I finished reading this book, it is very well written, the words are concise, the rhetoric is not complicated, it is suitable for beginners." ”

Lugo took the book and laughed more than he cried.

"Don't be sad, you'll thank me later. Go to the library and study, find a bachelor you can see, and follow him to read and write. Chino picked up the sorted documents and walked out the door, "I still have something."