Chapter Ninety-Eight: Everything in the World Is Difficult at the Beginning Grace and Grace and Spread Word of Mouth
It's been three days since the lord of Hosoyanagi City issued a notice to recruit private troops, but the number of people who signed up to join the army was only about two hundred.
But even these two hundred people are all crooked melons and cracked dates, and some of them are obviously still children, about twelve or thirteen years old, and they are half a head shorter than Xiaochuan.
Most of the people who meet the recruitment age are also yellow and thin, and their physical fitness can be said to be miserable.
There is even a guy with gray hair and wrinkled face who actually said that he is only thirty years old, what are you kidding, and he has not yet walked Xiaochuan's grandfather Liang Zhenlisuo!
The new lord, the lord of Hosoyanagi City, and the hereditary viscount Liang Xiaochuan, looked at his good brother who was wearing a high hat and was full of interest, and he couldn't help but cry and laugh.
Originally, I thought that when I got to my fiefdom, I would show my strength and take a good look at the scenery, but now I have the scenery, but these two words are separated, so I will drink the northwest "wind" quickly, and I will quickly lose my face "light".
How good it would be if you were as handsome as heartless, at least I don't know how to worry.
The people of Hosoyanagi Castle are still very resistant to the new lord.
"What? This is a private domain! That means the new lord will do anything to get me to pay my taxes, damn it!"
"What lord! It's just a hairy boy, I heard Yang Bald in the city say that this kid is going to do a big job. I don't look at what kind of place this is, and when he is deflated, he will make a fuss, and we will be free again......"
"Recruit a private army!Phew, I don't want to be a soldier for a doll, and I won't go to call me grandpa......"
Xiao Chuan has two relatives who love to chew the root of his tongue, and the fine willow city is not big, and within a few days, these two "hand-picked" minions reported the news they heard to Xiao Chuan.
"Some people are still scolding you! The scolding is very ugly, the lord has sent me a team of people, I will punish these people well, and kill a hundred ......people."
Xiao Chuan ignored Zhifen, who looked loyal and loyal, what kind of joke was he making, and he had to be severely punished, could it be that he, the new lord, had only been here for a few days, and in order to establish his authority, he would have killed him, so he wouldn't have done such a brainless thing!
Besides, Zhifen's villain has a good look, how could Xiaochuan not see it.
Ogawa then issued a series of orders.
"Buy me the best armor, and it must be powerful and bright to wear. Buy the best horses, each one tall and strong. Procurement of the best weapons ......"
A lot of gold coins were scattered, and what was supposed to take two months was completed in a little more than half a month.
A fine steppe horse worth fifteen gold coins, a whole five hundred, each of them strong, handsome, well-proportioned and tall, with a glittering coat, some of them black, flowing with strength and majesty, and some of them golden-red, burning with flame-like brilliance......
From the more than 600 people who signed up, the sixty-seven selected ones and the one hundred cavalry brought by Xiao Chuan were all changed into bright armor that only the most elite legions of the empire could afford, wearing bright red cloaks like roses, sabers forged from steel hanging from their waists, holding sharp and shiny spears, wearing long leather boots made of high-quality calfskin on their feet, and patrolling the streets and alleys of Hosoliucheng every day on the good horses of the grassland.
"Damn, did you hear that? Eat meat every three days, damn it, I haven't eaten meat in over a year......"
"What's that! I've heard that when they're not worth it, they can still drink, and all they drink is two gold coins a barrel of good wine, two gold coins a barrel! It's not a copper coin or a pot of inferior ale that you drink......
The treatment of Viscount Ogawa's private army is too high, there is a salary of one gold coin every month, if there are two gold coins for the cavalry, it is still issued at the beginning of the month, that is, when you become a private soldier on the first day, you can receive the salary of the month.
The sixty-seven private soldiers who were chosen, because they were recruits, were granted ten days of vacation each by the lord to go home to visit their families, or to go home on good horses on the steppe and in bright armor.
Those selected private soldiers, each of whom showed off their equipment in front of relatives and friends, the arrogance on their faces did not look like a private soldier at all, but more like a general who had returned triumphantly.
"Such a good horse, only an officer like the captain of the Imperial cavalry is qualified to ride! My saber is the same as that worn by the Imperial cavalry commanders......"
"Even the feather stuck in the helmet cost two silver coins!"
People are starting to be envious, people are starting to blush!
"Damn, the second boy of the Chen family, he was stupid, but he was chosen because he was strong. When we fought before, he wasn't bruised and swollen by me, but now he walked in front of me and deliberately stomped his boots......"
"I heard that private soldiers only need to serve for five years, and after retirement, the lord will give a settling-in allowance of fifty gold coins......"
"If you want to stay in the private army for a few more years, it is impossible, unless you become the cavalry captain of a hundred-man team, which is a full five gold coins a month......
"Is this lord a fool to spend money like this?"
"What do you know! I heard that our lord has a gold mine at home, a big gold mine!"
"I don't know if the lord will recruit soldiers, I'm really a little tempted......"
"Phew, didn't you say I'd call you grandpa, and you wouldn't go?"
"If he can ask me, I will call him grandpa immediately......"
The recruit holiday ended, and there was not a single deserter. Just kidding, who would be stupid enough to throw a watermelon for a sesame seed!
However, not everyone returned, and one private soldier was killed.
His armor, his sword, and his horse were gone. Where his body was found, there was the body of another person......
Ogawa is furious!
"Whoever provides clues will have a bounty of 100 coins! Whoever captures the murderer will have a bounty of 500 coins!"
One hundred and sixty-six cavalrymen were dispatched, searching everywhere for the traces of the murderers.
Xiao Chuan was not idle, and after using his divine sense to find the hiding place of the murderer, he remained silent, but he did not relax his surveillance of these people for a moment.
Two days later, someone ran to the city lord's mansion to denounce it, and then the cavalry team set off......
One of the assailants resisted arrest and was killed, while the remaining two were captured alive.
"Seven days in the territory, then hanging!"
"The families of the killed soldiers will be given a pension of 500 ......"
It is worth mentioning that during the capture of the perpetrators, one of the cavalrymen was wounded. How could a heavily armed squad of cavalry, catch three gangsters, and be injured?
This unlucky guy just jumped off his horse and broke his foot!
As a result, everyone soon began to envy him.
Xiaochuan's "Chrysostom" opened: "Lord Viscount's heroic soldier was wounded in the line of duty, and the reward is five gold coins!"
"If anyone dares to lie about his exploits in the future, give him thirty lashes!" Lord Ogawa immediately issued an order.
A day later, the City Lord's Mansion issued another proclamation - recruit private soldiers in ten days for three days!
Ten days later, the men from the private recruitment office opened the door in the morning and found that it was already crowded outside......