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Du Yu's face was solemn and he looked at the ledger in his hand, which recorded the grain that had just been harvested in his territory this month

This year's rain is very sufficient, and the rare harvest of grain is thirty percent more than in previous years, but these do not make Du Yu's heart happy.

The grain in the granary of the castle has long been piled up in the warehouse, which is enough for the people in the castle to eat for three years, but the taxes in the towns in the territory are very small, only more than 3,000 gold coins.

If it weren't for the fact that all the knights under his command had run out, the money would not be enough to give the knights an annuity, and the ledger showed that half of the food hoarded in the castle was transported out and sold every year to fill this big hole.

Thinking about the knights who the family spent a lot of money to raise, but they escaped without a trace when the family was in the most crisis, Du Yu couldn't help but feel disgusted with the knight's profession of being holy on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Seeing the young master's tight brows, the tax collector Stanad speculated in his heart, "I heard that there is a bounty in each village, and 200 young men have been gathered, and many of the hunters from the villages have also participated, and the Dukelly Moore family has agreed to exchange it in the prosperous town of Ekari, which can increase our income by 500 gold coins."

"Hunter?" Du Yu, who was looking through the account book, stopped what he was doing, in fact, Du Yu couldn't understand what was written on the account book at all, those complicated numbers and hundreds of merchants, the names of the tenants made Du Yu feel dazzled, and pretending to look through the account book was just for the tax collector to see, so that the tax collector could do less tricks.

"Yes, there are thirty-eight hunters who have participated in the levy, and these barbarians, who like to run around in the mountains, used to run far away as soon as they heard about the levy, but this time they ran back because they saw the lord's notice" The tax collector Stanad secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the lord take his attention away from the ledger.

It is impossible to guarantee that there is no problem with the ledger, and as a hereditary tax collector, Stanad considers himself much more honest than many of his peers,

I just concealed some smaller transactions, although the money was not much, but it was enough for my own expenses, I was old, how to safely hand over this position to my son is my biggest concern.

"You just offered to ask your son to take your place, you bring him here, I need to meet my future tax collector" Du Yu closed the account book on the table, 3,000 gold coins in addition to daily expenses, there are still more than a thousand left, and the bounty is enough for this expedition, which makes Du Yu, who has been worried about the lack of gold coins, relieved.

After reading the account book, Du Yu has a certain understanding of a lord's source of income, and the income of the lord's gold coins is determined by the checkpoint road tax and town poll tax of his own territory, and the others such as the income from plundering the enemy lord, the income from the redemption of hostages, and the income from the king's reward are some uncertain numbers, so if you want to be rich, in addition to fixed taxes, you can only rob the enemy and grab the land.

"You are the son of a tax collector, Statunko, how could your father, who had been a knight of the Marquis of Skarna for a year, suddenly think of coming back to be a tax collector, and being a knight has a better future than being a tax collector?"

Du Yu saw the tax collector Stanad leading a heroic teenager into the hall, he really didn't expect the fat tax collector to have such a heroic son, but unfortunately the young man's right foot was obviously a little lame, and he walked bumpy, which was really a pity to look at.

When the young Statunko saw Du Yu sitting on the lord's seat in the hall with blazing eyes, he couldn't help but feel abrupt in his heart, feeling as if he had been seen thoroughly by Du Yu's sharp eyes, "Could this be the idiot lord who is circulating outside, how can a person with such eyes be an idiot?"

"I used to be the captain of the archer squad under the Marquis of Skana, but I was shot in the right leg by the Kugit in the battle last year and had to come back" Thinking of his bloody battle, but not appreciated by the lord, Statunko's originally heroic face darkened, and the fingers on his sides were nervously clenched.

"You go down first, since you used to be a knight and a servant, be my adjutant first, and tomorrow all the 200 soldiers who have been requisitioned will be mobilized to the castle, and I will personally preside over the training!" Du Yu looked at the grief and indignation on the young man's face, and waved his hand at the tax collector's father and son......

"This is the real strength of the knight!" Du Yu looked at the young man galloping in the center of the castle playground, and the tax collector's son Statunko skillfully swung his knife left and right on horseback, and the knife light flying up and down was like a chain of light, and the scarecrow head as a target was cut off by Statunkko's gorgeous drag knife technique, which attracted the peasant soldiers standing around to applaud.

"If the knight who rushed into the hall that day was riding on a war horse, I don't know if I would have a chance to stand here?" Du Yu saw that Statunenko, who was only a knight, had such a smooth knife dragging technique, and the ability to skillfully cut left and right on the horse.

I don't know what kind of power those regular knights with sharp spears, two-handed swords in close combat on their backs, and heavy armor all over their bodies will be, no wonder the main force of the kingdom is still knights, and the ordinary troops mainly farmers can't compete with these war planes who have practiced killing since childhood.

"My lord, what do you think of these recruits" The well-informed old butler didn't care about the young Statunko's showmanship, as an old man who had served the orthodox knight family all his life, these tricks were just some fancy pediatrics who made people shout, and the task of recruiting soldiers this time was the old butler's concern.

Du Yu looked at the peasant soldiers gathered, most of them were young and middle-aged, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, from farm tools to butcher knives to kill pigs, although they all tried to pretend to be energetic, but the long-term malnutrition still caused these peasant teams to be very messy.

On the right side of the procession stood dozens of archers dressed in various animal skins, all of whom were relatively thin, but with a somewhat thick and well-developed right arm and sharp and terrifying eyes, which should be the hunters of the various villages in the mouth of the tax collector.

"Bring out all the weapons equipped this time, I can't let the people in my territory kill the enemy like this" Du Yu waved his hand at the guards behind him who were pushing a cart full of weapons,

This time, Du Yu decided to move two hundred weapons from the castle's arsenal to equip his first troops, as an old knight family, nothing else, but this weapon and equipment are still piled up in the warehouse, some have accumulated over the years, and many have been captured from the enemy.

"My lord, isn't this a little too short? This is a guard sword for archers, and we were killed before we could cut the enemy" The peasants were curious as they gathered around the wagon full of weapons, and their faces were a little gloomy with excitement,

As an adjutant, Statunko curiously picked up a short sword from the car, waved it in his hand a few times, and then looked at the other things on the car, his face turned green ugly.

The entire carriage was stacked with the short sword, which was only half the length of the sword, and the archer's tall wooden shield, which was equipped with armor for archers on the battlefield, and could not go head-to-head with the enemy, whose spears could stab you in the heart from two meters away.

"Unload all the equipment on the carriage first" Du Yu waved his hand at everyone in front of everyone, and the fat on his face trembled with white flowers, which made Statunenko confirm his conjecture more and more, "It's over, I have long heard that the current lord is an idiot, and I would not be greedy for this money if I knew it."

Du Yu held a one-person-high wooden shield in his left hand and a wooden short sword in his right hand, and held Statunko, who was holding a spear in front of him, close to him.

"Bump!" The three-meter-long spear in Statunko's hand was blocked by the shield at the first blow, and there was no chance to stab out, and the spear sweep was even more useless, but he kept retreating helplessly until he retreated to the wall, gritting his teeth and watching the close-fitting shield shake in front of his nose, but there was nothing he could do.

Because Du Yu had already relied on the cover of the big shield to rush closer than a meter, in this short distance, the short sword in Du Yu's hand was absolutely deadly, and he only needed an assassination with a small space for action and activity to kill Statunko lightly.

The peasants who were giggling stopped laughing when they saw that the majestic Statunko in front of them was knocked down by the idiot lord with such a despicable but effective move, and all of them found that the short sword with a large shield was so dangerous! Even the knight Statunko was cornered by this tactic.

In the highly dense melee, the Roman infantry phalanx with giant shield self-defense and javelins, short swords and other hand-to-hand combat weapons is like raising the hilt of a sharp knife and inadvertently popping a fatal blow when you inadvertently pop out a fatal blow.

This once left a deep impression on Du Yu, and it was also the purpose of Du Yu's training this time, the javelin was being made at the blacksmith in the castle, and 200 people could form a small phalanx, and this special force would definitely be able to surprise the enemy at that time.

"There is still a month to go, you are going to go to the battlefield, if you still want to come back alive, and you still want to get a rich bounty, practicing these is your only chance" Du Yu threw the short sword and giant shield in his hand to the ground, and when the peasant soldiers looked at some weapons, there was a kind of fanaticism in their eyes instead of contempt just now

"A knight rewards a gold coin, a lord rewards a piece of land" Many peasants came for the head of that silver coin, although the front was very tempting, but these peasants did not think that those heavy armor killing machines were what they could think.

But Du Yu's demonstration just now made these goals, which originally made farmers feel distant and out of reach, suddenly seemed to be within reach.

The ambition in my heart is beating, glory, gold coins, land! Many peasants have pushed and jumped on the carriage to choose their own weapons, and the stunned Statunko who was leaning on the wall looked at the back of Du Yu who turned to leave, and felt a burst of astonishment: "This is a genius, or an idiot!"

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