Hurriedly left Zuo Yu groceries, the four of them came directly to the big car shop where the horse shopkeeper was, the big car shop belongs to a kind of inn, but it is prepared for merchants and ordinary peddlers and pawns, the living price is cheap, of course, the environment is not good, and there is even the kind of Chase shop where you can sleep all night for a few pennies, and you are not afraid of crowding if you sleep twenty or thirty people.

"Here, hehe, the dishes have already been ordered, just waiting for you to come back, the owner of this Majia car shop and I are our family, the dishes are no worse than those restaurants, the most important thing is affordable, all are big bowls and big pots, eating is enjoyable, come, I have a treat today!"

"Hehe, then it's better to be respectful than to obey!" Leng Zhuo looked at the big table of dishes, and knew what Boss Ma meant, it was nothing more than that the previous animal skin was too valuable, so he used a table of sumptuous dishes to compensate for a few points, Leng Zhuo didn't say anything, and the four of them began to eat when they came to the table.

"Xiao Er, come two catties of cooked beef, two bowls of fire, hurry up!" Outside the door, a burly man and a scholar-like teenager walked into the lobby, and the burly man shouted loudly in a thick voice.

"Second brother, sit, let's stay in this store for one night today, tomorrow we can rush to Phoenix City in a day's way, calculate the day, just in time to meet the deadline for recruitment, big brother dare not say anything else, I should be the soldier of the Phoenix Legion!"

The scholar boy said with a wry smile on his face: "Big brother, you don't have to pull your little brother with you if you want to be a soldier, this little brother is not the material for being a soldier!"

"Second brother, don't be presumptuous, although your body is a little weaker, but your skills are not bad, besides, you have caused a lawsuit, what other way out is there if you don't want to be a soldier, only if you enter the Phoenix Legion, then the Chen family will not dare to trouble you, otherwise they will be caught, and you will not be broken legs!"

The scholar boy hurriedly covered the big man's mouth and said in a low voice: "My good big brother, you can't be quiet, for fear that others won't know what the lawsuit is about the little brother!

"Hehe, that's right, don't worry, the eldest brother knows that you were framed, the little ladies of the Chen family are smart enough, I heard that they are still students of Phoenix Academy, this can be handled by the second brother, hehe, the eldest brother admires you for this, why can't I get that kind of little girl's skin! I'm much more burly than the second brother!"

Leng Zhuo almost didn't squirt out, is this thing envious, although this young man is dressed plainly, but he is clean and tidy, and he has the potential of a little white face, it seems that he should be born in a commoner, but he is a talented young man, and the big man is a rough man, and his attraction to women is almost disproportionate, and it is also a shame that this guy still feels good about himself.

"Little brother, you don't know yet, the Phoenix Legion recruits new soldiers, most of Youzhou is alarmed, this is not a big deal, last year and the year before last, the Phoenix Legion seems to have suffered a lot of casualties, leaving a lot of vacant seats, usually, even if the recruitment is small-scale, every year that the number of places can be pitiful, how many people fight, this year seems to be the most recruited in the past, the most extensive one, I think the little brother's ability is not bad, if you go, maybe you can directly be a low-level general, this opportunity is rare!"

Leng Zhuo sighed and said, "Why is it difficult for this Phoenix Legion to enter!"

"That's natural, the little brother has also seen the virtue of that group of local officers and soldiers before, but this Phoenix Legion is different, it is the elite legion of the northern platoon, it can fight well, not to mention this, it is also this!" Boss Ma said and gave a thumbs up, put it down again, and raised his second index finger.

Oh, Leng Zhuo sighed, the Tianlong Empire was founded for five hundred years, during which there were perennial side disasters, but it did not affect the Central Plains, except for the disaster a hundred years ago, the Central Plains was peaceful for hundreds of years, and these hundreds of years also made the population of the Tianlong Empire increase rapidly, according to official statistics, the population of the Tianlong Empire was twenty-five years ago, and the population of His Majesty after his accession to the throne exceeded 100,000, and this number should be more, homeless, noble servants, and slaves will not be counted, and there are a large number of black households who evade taxes。

The number of soldiers and horses owned by the Tianlong Empire, which has a large population, is also quite terrifying, the territory of the Tianlong Empire is divided into Kyushu, except for Zhongzhou in the hinterland, there are only two major legions, and Yunzhou is the place where the imperial capital is located, there are only two local legions, in addition, the remaining seven states, each state has three major legions, each legion has a fixed establishment of 100,000, and 20,000 logistics baggage, slaves and servants, there are three million soldiers and horses in this part alone.

In addition to the local legions, it is the Praetorian Guard Corps directly under the royal family, and the Praetorian Guard can be divided into the Praetorian Army and the Guard, of which there are eight forbidden armies, with a total of 800,000 soldiers and horses, 200,000 soldiers and horses in ten battalions of the Guard, and the Praetorian Guard Corps adds up to millions of soldiers and horses.

In addition, the prefectures, counties, and counties under the jurisdiction of Kyushu in the world also have their own local soldiers, and each county, the county soldiers are not many, one or two hundred in one county, and there are more counties, but there are only a thousand, but there are many counties, and this part of the soldiers and horses belongs to the local yamen is responsible, and the expenditure of the food and salary yamen is not less than one and a half million in the whole empire.

Whether it is the regular army in charge of the imperial court, or the garrison soldiers and horses in charge of the local government, they are all in the imperial court, in addition to these, there is also a large number of soldiers and horses, that is, the private soldiers of the nobles, a quasi-noble, that is, the lord can have fifty private soldiers, including ten cavalry, the lowest baron can have three hundred private soldiers, no more than fifty cavalry, the viscount can have a thousand private soldiers, no more than a hundred cavalry, and at the earl level, he can have three thousand private soldiers, no more than three hundred, a marquis can have eight thousand private soldiers, no more than a thousand cavalry, and at the level of the national duke, there can be fifteen thousand private soldiers, and no more than two thousand cavalry。

How many nobles are there in the Tianlong Empire, just a rough count can be known, five hundred years, thirty-four dynasties, each dynasty Emperor Yanjing to canonize three or five hundred nobles, this number is small, if there is a big war on the border, this number is estimated to be several times more, the expansion of the noble group has almost dragged down the Tianlong Empire a hundred years ago, and then the old aristocratic system was destroyed, but the foundation of the aristocracy can not be removed, in the past hundred years, although the next four Huang Yanjing rarely divide the nobles, but each Huang Yanjing will canonize two or three hundred, this is the lowest number, and how many troops the nobles have, not to mention more, but one or two million is there。

In addition to the aristocracy, there are also those wealthy families, families, although there are no public private soldiers, but there are always family members, and even some wealthy families are not much better than the regular army, the number of this part is more, as long as there is a little bit of people who have a family Ding Nursing Home, the Tianlong Empire has been peaceful for five hundred years, there are not many others, but there are many rich people like Mao, but this person is the sea.

Back to the topic, in the imperial Kyushu, if the twenty-five regular legions are ranked, the best at fighting are naturally the northern You, Liang, the southern Chu, and Yang, and the legion is ranked, the Phoenix Legion can be ranked in the top three in the north, and the top five in the empire, of course, these two or three are just general, one person and one arrangement.

Leng Zhuo naturally can't be a soldier here, because he has to rush back to Chuzhou in the south, and there are soldiers in his fiefdom, which is enough for him to play, not to mention that his family is in the territory of the Southern Barbarians, and there is still a lack of war, but Leng Zhuo thinks more.

He has a psychic hundred generals in his hands, which also means that he will have a super luxurious lineup of subordinates, and these many generals are in hand, only succumbing to a small fiefdom, which seems to be a bit tyrannical, if he is still in the imperial capital, maybe he doesn't have many ideas, but what he saw along the way, he saw the accumulation of the Tianlong Empire, maybe there was no Shenwu Emperor born a hundred years ago, this day has already changed, history has a huge habitual surname, the dragon of the Tianlong Empire is already old, maybe it will collapse one day, Leng Zhuo naturally can't help but make some preparations.

And from memory, I know that his family's fief is located in the southernmost part of Chuzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, lush rainforests, although there are border troubles every year, but there is no big war, unlike the north, there are tens of soldiers and horses, millions, and the three generals around him, Zhao Yun belongs to the generals, but he is the kind of charge, and the leading troops are not enough to kill, not to mention Li Yuanba, is a fierce general, let him lead the troops It is a dream, it is good not to lose yourself, these two people naturally have to take it with you, and Bai Qi is different, if this person slaughters the god by his side, he has no great use, Chuzhou's fiefdom platform was too small at first, suitable for Leng Zhuo to play, but not suitable for Bai Qi。

After some calculations in his heart, Leng Zhuo secretly made some decisions and decided to let Bai Qi join the Phoenix Legion, of course, before that, he wanted to help Bai Qi complete the psychic ceremony, if it really didn't work, he also wanted Bai Qi to have some understanding of the world, eliminate illiteracy, maybe it would be good to find two younger brothers for Bai Qi, Leng Zhuo looked at the rough and weak two people opposite, and the corners of his mouth showed a wicked smile.