The next day, after a busy night, Jiang Yuan took a few people and the village chief to inspect the village, and ten slaves began to count the household registration in the barony's domain, and the final reward was to restore the status of a free man.

He spent another 40 gold coins to buy two hundred long knives from the Chamber of Commerce, and the remaining initial capital was only 470 gold coins, which were mainly used as pensions and military salaries, and could not be used easily.

On another day, the 500 young men who were selected began to compete in the school field outside the city, according to the imperial military system, five people in one army, ten people in one team, one hundred people in a team, and one battalion in a thousand people, these young men had no merit at all, and their status could only be determined according to the level of force.

Jiang Yuan and Viscount Abel sat in the stands, according to the ranking, everyone's enlistment fee is different, and the annual military salary is also different, the war can basically be related to the broken bones, if there is no dividend, do not consider other impacts, even if you win, it will be a loss.

"But why would it take so much effort?" Jiang Yuan frowned, he was almost unable to afford it at the beginning, mainly because of food consumption, the daily training of five hundred people was an exaggerated number, and the gold coins could not last long.

He sensed that something must be wrong, because the archbarony would not be able to pull out even five hundred people, and even the territorial escort team had two hundred people and had enough food and clothing, since the result was wrong, it was definitely a problem with the process.

A few minutes later, Jiang Yuan turned his head and said in an indifferent tone: "Viscount, where is the tax revenue of the barony, I have read the account books and have been to the village, at least 100,000 stone of grain, and the maximum amount of 50,000 stone handed over to the earl and the consul hall in the territory this year is right." ”

Viscount Able: "......"

You also said you don't check!!

"It's all in the granary, I forgot to tell you." Able smiled and said, this young master really didn't seem to have been to the house.

"Make up for the food shortage, and then give me a compensation." Jiang Yuan said briefly, he had to reassess the greed of the imperial nobles, and he was greedy for two-thirds, even he had never been so excessive.

"This ...... The grain reserves have to be supplied to the earl's troops, and the people also need assistance for this year's winter, and the fundamental reason is actually that the weather has been suddenly cold in the past few years......"

Able had prepared countless reasons to explain that most of the people in the city were his allies in this matter, and of course he had to treat the baron with respect, but now that it was his own interests, he was not prepared to let go.

Jiang Yuan understood it and said calmly: "In other words, I want to grab 100,000 stone of grain, but you can't give it." ”

In the eyes of the other party, he is just a child who is easy to fool.

In the black-purple light, the thirty-meter-long silver-white giant snake wrapped around the stands, and the huge and hideous horn bones easily collapsed the top shelter, and the snake head finally stopped beside the two, and as the fangs opened, the viscount couldn't help but get up and retreat by the fishy wind.

Able was silent for a moment and said, "Noor, there are many people involved in this matter. ”

"Then let's put it another way." Jiang Yuan tilted his head and asked in a cold voice, "Why don't you take me?"

Able: "......"

Good fellow, I thought you were some kind of messenger of justice.

The serpent dissipated, and before the young men on the school field could recover their senses, Able asked, "How much do you want?" ”

"Seventy percent."

"Seventy thousand stone is too much."

"I mean all seventy percent."

"What greed!!"

Able was about to run out of breath, "At most, forty percent, two hundred thousand stones, how can you promise not to leak secrets to the earl." ”

"Let your second son follow me." Jiang Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, "I can't stay out of it after being exposed like this." ”

He didn't believe that the Count didn't know what his subordinates were rotting into, and probably chose the same as himself, to solve the main contradiction first, Winter Hunt, and the forces that had been targeting the Tius family behind the scenes, and then clean up the inside.

Abel hesitated, "This is indeed the best option. ”

"Grain to the barony."

In the evening, the competition ended, and Jiang Yuan was about to choose the first place to be the adjutant, but he was stunned for a moment when he saw the comer.

"Name, age, place of origin."

"Report chief, my name is Will, I am sixteen years old this year, from Shuwu Village, I am a blacksmith, my dream is to join the army, the navy is the best, and the local army can also be."

The young man with a childish face that had not yet faded scratched his head and smiled, he actually only wanted to go to the Imperial Navy, but the remuneration given by the baron was too generous, and the enlistment fee, military salary, and pension were not lost, and I heard that the Imperial side had not been paid more than ten years ago.

"This age has come to the apex of the guard level, there are no resources, there should be a teacher." Jiang Yuan asked, Will's hometown is by the sea, and he will become a member of the hunters under Estes in the future, and master the armor-type imperial equipment and noble chariot, and the potential is very good.

"Yes, yes, the master retired from the navy, and he said that I need to go out to train before I am tested." Will was honest.

"The enlistment fee is five gold coins, the military salary for half a year is the same five, and the pension is twenty gold coins after death, this is the treatment of an adjutant, is there a problem?" Jiang Yuan said.

"No, sir." Will replied aloud.

Jiang Yuan threw the gold coins and a large bag to Will, pointed to the flags piled up on the table next to him and said, "You take them to train, white is forward, black is backward, red is left, blue is right, white with patterns is approaching with guns, and the drawing of hounds is free charge, the specific is written on paper, you can read." ”

Will looked at Ling Qi and said, "Literacy, but sir, this is too troublesome." ”

Jiang Yuan shook his head and said, "Theoretically, in the imperial army, this is just the foundation, using food, military salaries, and rewards, and carving these orders into their instincts, you can punish them, anyway, you have the strength to ensure safety, there are three thousand copper coins in the big bag, try to spend them all." ”

"Whip, whip?"

"If you can't remember, you will be out of touch with the battle formation, it is easy to die, of course you can refuse, wait for the soldiers to die in a few batches, no matter how naïve you are, you should understand."

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and left, the initial casualties of a unit are destined to be relatively heavy, and the remaining ones are the backbone of the future, and they can easily recover their combat effectiveness after replenishing personnel according to the framework.

……

Two days later, late at night.

Jiang Yuan turned over and dismounted in the woods, the moonlight flowing in front of him could be seen faintly, according to the information of the Heito Chamber of Commerce, the three-headed eagle lived on the cliff in front of the left all year round, and every morning, this special dangerous species would patrol the territory, it flew extremely fast, and could spit out the wind blade that cut through the rock.

The intelligence also mentions that the other party likes to hunt snakes and rats.

Jiang Yuan pulled out the march of the dead, the purple-black light at the tip of the knife shone, and a gray-black earth dragon almost as tall as a tree appeared, its appearance similar to that of an insect, its shell was hard but not tough, its two claws were thick, and the bottom was composed of four limbs covered with barbs.

With the rapid rotation of the limbs, the ground sinks easily, and the most striking feature of the earth dragon is to open a passage in the earth.

Jiang Yuan turned back and entered the forest, taking advantage of the time when the earth dragon was creating a trap, he had to hunt down a few carnivorous tool dangerous species.