Although everyone knows it, it is best not to disturb the Lord when he is hiding in the Doge's Palace. Because everybody knows that the Duke is a magician, and when a magician is obsessed with the study of magic, it is best not to disturb him.

What's more, even Steward Made, who was closest to Du Wei, faintly felt that the young master seemed to be in a bad mood recently.

Indeed, Du Wei was irritable!

The construction of the new city went smoothly, and the specific administrative work did not need to be taken into account. But his mood was still getting worse day by day.

Because he's been waiting for someone.

That green-robed Gandov, that old fellow, said that he would find himself in three months! But now it has been more than half a year, and he has not heard any news.

Seeing that autumn is over and winter is about to begin, is that old cuckold guy playing tricks on himself?!

Du Wei felt that his strength had reached a bottle of strength. With his current level of magic power, he has already reached the sixth level. And the magic cāo control ability, in the magic academy has absorbed the results of so many magicians' lifelong research, plus more than half a year of hard work, his strength is already quite good. Quite a few spells have been mastered.

If Du Wei is allowed to re-evaluate now, Du Wei is confident that he can obtain a sixth-level magician micro-medal.

And now, if it was pure magic fighting each other, Gargamel was no match for Dewey.

However, Du Wei found that this was all he could do. After all, there is a limit to the research results of the magicians collected in those magical societies. Dewey needed a mentor, one who could keep him on the path of magic. At least an old magician with a complete study of the theory of magic.

It turns out that Gargamel should be able to temporarily act as this horn, but this rat is good at transfiguration. Transfiguration wasn't what Dewey needed. And the poor little Weiwei'an, although he has the strength of the eighth level. But she stammered back even when she spoke. Not a qualified teacher.

In desperation, Du Wei devoted more time to the study of magic. Master Erik's recipe to replace Mithril made Dewey study it over and over again for a long time, but in the end he couldn't succeed. However, Seth, who used to be good at making wands, was very interested in Du Wei coming up with the manufacturing method of the "flying broom", and he was almost successful in his research.

But after two test flights, poor Seth broke a leg.

Du Wei knew that the establishment of the new city was just the beginning, and he needed to urgently strengthen his strength. In this place in the northwest, it is impossible to gain a foothold without strength! Moreover, others will not see themselves developing here, and there will always be people who will come to make trouble.

Du Wei was not wrong. Because soon, the troublemakers came.

Although no one dared to disturb Duke Du Wei and the magician who was obsessed with research, everyone also knew that Lord Duke had been in a bad mood recently.

But at noon that day, Mader still had to go into Du Wei's study, and broke Du Wei, who was perusing a bunch of recipes given by Arico.

"Young Master. Made's eyes winked. Although Du Wei is already a duke. But unlike others who call Du Wei "adult", Ma De has always called Du Wei "young master".

"Young Master, someone wants to see you. ”

Du Wei frowned and raised his head: "Could it be that there is something wrong with the relocation of immigrants?

"It's not. Madeh shook his head: "It's people from the Northwest Legion who came." ”

Du Weileng for a moment and put down what he was holding.

The people of the Northwest Corps?

It has been a few months since he came to the Northwest, but the Northwest Army has never taken the initiative to find him, and Du Wei will not take the initiative to deal with these warlords.

What's going on today?

In the reception room, Du Wei met the people of the Northwest Legion.

The person who came was a middle-aged officer, and judging by his attire, he was supposed to be a general.

The imperial ** system, stepping into the commander level, can be regarded as touching the side of a senior officer, and the commander of the army is the leader of a regiment. Under the imperial system, an infantry regiment is 4,000 people, and a cavalry regiment is 3,000 people.

In general, four regiments can form a division, and the commander of the division is a general. For example, General Junker of the Second Division of the Wang Family Guards at the time of the dìdū coup.

There are four levels of generals in the Empire, and generals like Juncker are only first-class generals. Of course, a general who served as a dìdū garrison like Juncker was only the lowest rank of the general, but his status was already very high. For example, Longbottom, who is also a general of this level, also commands a cavalry of 20,000 people, but as a general in the barren land far northwest, although he is of the same level, his identity can definitely not be compared with Junker in Dìdū.

Such a general, officially known as "Major General" in the Roland Empire.

This title Du Wei is naturally not unfamiliar, especially after knowing that the founding emperor Aragorn is also a person who has crossed over like himself, it is not surprising. The empire was founded by Aragorn, and the military system was also left by him, bringing the strong sè color of Du Wei's previous life, that is, normal.

At the top, it is the corps commander, who generally has the title of "lieutenant general". And there are exceptions, such as Du Wei's father, Count Raymond, who was originally a lieutenant general, although Raymond did not really command a corps, but he once commanded an expeditionary fleet, and he can be regarded as a lieutenant general.

Further up, there is the Admiral. Generals are generally not directly responsible for commanding an army or legion. Basically, they are some veteran military ministers, who will not stay on the front line of the army after they are old, but go to the Dìdū Junfang Command, hang up the rank of general, and then become the boss of the Command.

For example, Du Wei's father, Count Raymond, commanded the expeditionary fleet to conquer the South Seas as a lieutenant general, and then became a general as soon as he was promoted to the military command.

The highest, of course, is the marshal. However, the marshal is generally just a "false title", and it is only a symbol of glory.

However, there is currently no marshal in the Empire. Because this supreme glory can only be given to some who have great military merits. However, there is no war in the current environment, and it is in peacetime. Naturally, there is no great military feat.

And the Northwest War of that year was only a local war. As for the South Seas Expedition to bully a group of natives with a huge fleet, how much credit can it have?

However, there have been several real marshals in the history of the empire, such as the ancestor who founded the Rollin family, such as the founding war of the Aragon era

And now, the position of marshal, which all military men dream of, is still vacant.

"Your Excellency, Duke. The general of the Northwest Army, who was standing in front of Du Wei, introduced himself very politely: "I am the commander of the 13th Division of the Northwest Army, Tadoro. ”

The first effect is that Du Wei has a very bad impression of this guy who calls himself Tatoro.

Because although he wears a military uniform and wears a sword, this guy does not have the temperament of a soldier in his body. He looked to be in his forties, and it was clear that he was wearing the largest uniform, but the fat seemed to tear through his clothes at any moment.

The horizontal flesh on his face, coupled with the pale face that is obviously overly drunk, and the fat body can be said to be more like a rich man if he changes his clothes.

This person can actually be a general?

However, after Du Wei heard his self-introduction clearly, he immediately understood.

Because this so-called "13th Division of the Northwest Army" is not a regular army. Du Wei knew that the 13th Division was actually a logistics department, which was responsible for the deployment and distribution of military supplies. To put it simply, this Todoro in front of him is a logistics officer of the entire Northwest Army.

Du Wei immediately paid attention. He had already vaguely guessed what this guy meant.

"General Duoduodou. Please do it. Du Wei casually pointed to a chair in the room.

Then the two politely exchanged words for a while, this Duoduoluo is obviously a veteran of officialdom, and the scenes in those officialdoms are very skillful, he first complimented Du Wei a few words of "young and promising", and then praised Du Wei for a few words of "young genius". In the end, he also expressed his amazement at the miracle of Du Wei building a new city so quickly, "The power of a magician is really not something ordinary people can guess."

Du Wei laughed at his sycophants, and after drinking two cups of tea, this Totara finally said what he meant. "Your Excellency. I came today, in addition to bringing the greetings of our corps commander, General Lu, there are some small things that I need your help with. ”

Du Wei smiled: "General Dodoro, please speak." ”

"This" The fat man pondered for a moment and then laughed: "Seeing that autumn has passed, according to the decree, I want to ask, when can our Northwest Army come to extract the military supplies of this jealous land?"

Came to ask for money

Du Wei sneered in his heart.

"Lord Duke, you should know, according to the decree of the Northwest. The supplies and supplies of our Northwest Army are directly allocated from local financial revenues. As has always been the case. After every jealous financial income is reported, our Northwest Army has to accept our share from the locality.Hehe, you also know that it is not easy to be a soldier, our young men are defending the borders of the empire, and they always have to eat enough to defend the frontier land. You are also from a martial arts family, I don't need to say more about this truth, you must understand. ”

Du Wei nodded silently: "Oh, then." I don't know how much is extracted according to the convention?"

In fact, Du Wei was already very familiar with that decree, he asked. It's also deliberate.

"Forty percent. Duoduoluo smiled slightly and raised four fingers: "According to the usual practice, our Northwest Army will withdraw forty percent of the financial revenue. ”

Du Wei raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Forty percent? General Dodoro, are you kidding?" According to the Provisional Decree in the Northwest, the local fiscal revenue is only 20% supplied. ”

Duo Duoluo smiled, and the fat on his face was almost counted: "My lord, you are new to the northwest, maybe you don't know about this, if it is usual, it will naturally be twenty percent." However, the Northwest Army takes 40% of the financial revenue in the autumn of each year, and it has been a practice for many years. ”

After a pause, this time without waiting for Du Wei to ask, Dodoro himself explained: "As soon as the autumn is over, it is the end of the year, and the practice in the army, in order to engage in the hard work of the soldiers for a year, will be at the end of the year, each person will be given an extra regular salary as a reward for the soldiers' hard work for a year. Therefore, every autumn finance, military spending must be doubled. ”

In fact, Du Wei also knew these things, but he pretended not to know when he heard it, and then thought for a while, and said with a generous face: "Since this is the case, I naturally can't break the rules here." The lads in the army are fighting for the Empire, and of course they can't be treated badly. General Duo Luo, please wait, I will ask my deputy to report the financial revenue for the autumn. ”

Damn, you give out year-end bonuses, and you have to pay for it?

Du Wei sneered in his heart, but immediately asked people to call Philip to come.

While waiting for Philip to come. Du Wei casually asked about the Northwest Army.

It turned out that it was just to extract a jealous military budget, and it didn't have much money, and if it was to Rì, it would be enough for one of the commanders under the Tatara faction. However, not long after the new duke took office, the first time he reached out to get the money, it was better to run it himself. After all, the identity of the other party is not ordinary.

I thought that this new lord would probably reject him like the few fools who didn't know the times. However, when Dodoro saw that Du Wei agreed so happily, he was relieved.

Hmph, after all, he's just a teenager no matter how you say it. How is the duke? This is the northwest! Even if the emperor comes, he has to give face to the northwest army!