The first impression of the city wall is that it is low and dilapidated.

There is not a single stone on the walls, and the whole is made of mud. I don't know how long ago it was built, it is obviously in disrepair, the high place is about seven or eight feet, the low place is five or six feet, two or three feet, and some places simply have no city walls, but it is convenient for people to enter and exit.

Of course, this can't be like this when it was built, but it has been in such a state of decay due to the long-term experience of war and disrepair.

Xiao Chuan's face is not good-looking, very ugly, as the lord of the city, it is really difficult to have a good mood when he sees such a decaying and decadent scene of his own city.

Along the way, before and after the saddle, Liang An and Liang Xing, who showed their loyalty and dog-legged duty, also stood quietly aside, trying not to touch Xiaochuan's moldy head.

On the contrary, Liang Yan and Zhifen, who were "hand-picked" by Xiao Chuan, rushed to slander Xiao Chuan, wantonly slandered the former city guard of Hosoyanagi City, and listed a series of "heinous crimes" that were difficult to wash away, such as dereliction of duty and enriching their own pockets.

Xiao Chuan smiled silently, and sighed in his heart that this pair of dog men and women is really a masterpiece, and he needs such a shameless and unscrupulous "talent"!

Of course, Liang Zhen will not let Xiaochuan bring the ten people who were selected, not to mention shabby, taking over a "bandit city" still requires a large number of people.

So in addition, ten capable directors and experts were selected for Xiaochuan, a team of 100-man cavalry, according to Liang Zhen's words, there are rich people, and it will all depend on your own ability in the future!

The handover to Hosoyanagi Castle was carried out smoothly and quickly.

There is no grain in the warehouse, and there is no money in the warehouse, which is very easy to count.

However, he still owed taxes to the national treasury for several years, but there was no need for Ogawa to worry about it, and the chancellor of the exchequer would not hold Ogawa accountable for the money.

His Majesty the Holy Emperor even exempted Ogawa from paying taxes for three years - a full thousand gold coins per year. That's right, it's a thousand gold coins! One gold coin is exchanged for twenty silver coins, which means that the taxes that Xiliu City needs to pay are less than one silver coin per person on average, which is already one-third of the taxes paid by other state capitals, and they can't afford to pay it......

Ogawa now completely understands how poor Hosoyanagi City is.

As a lord, the lord of Hosoyanagi City, and the lord of Hosoyanagi Castle want to collect taxes, I'm sorry, there won't be a single copper coin!

If you want to repair the city walls and strengthen the city defenses, I'm sorry, the lord has to pay for it himself!

I want to build bridges and pave roads to benefit the people's livelihood, I'm sorry, the lord has to pay for it himself!

If you want to repair your weapons and protect your fiefdom, I'm sorry, but the lord has to pay for it himself!

It turns out that to be a benevolent and beloved lord, you have to have a lot of money to back it up......

There were originally 500 city defense troops in Xiliu City, and after the handover was over, it was natural to withdraw from Xiliu City. This is already a private territory, as the official army of the Great Han Kingdom, it is naturally not suitable to stay here, of course, Xiaochuan is impossible to leave these people, a lord left the official army to enrich his private army, hehe......

The handover was completely completed, and the original castle guard of Hosoyanagi Castle was obviously relieved, and the smile on his face was much more.

Hara Castle Mamoru even took out twenty gold coins from his personal pocket and bought a lavish dinner table, which was extremely rare in Hosoyanagi Castle, to wash the dust for Ogawa, the new lord.

For this reason, when the original castle guard left the next day, Ogawa took out two hundred gold coins for him to practice.

Ogawa's top priority was to form a private army, maintain law and order, and consolidate the city's defenses.

If you only want to defend the city and effectively manage this fief, you must form a private army of 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, which is also the maximum number of private troops that a viscount with a fief can have.

However, Liang hinted that Ogawa would have to raise an army of 30,000 men in order to withstand pressure from the Izumo Empire in response to the events at the mines.

The lords of each fiefdom of the empire had their own countermeasures in terms of the number of private troops, such as servants who nominally served the private army, and "reserves" who were trained in advance to improve the quality of the private army.

Of course, Ogawa did not need to worry about this, and His Majesty the Holy Emperor authorized Ogawa to appropriately increase the establishment of the private army when dealing with "special events".

"Hmph, there are only 24,000 people in Xiliu City, should I bring all the men, women, and children to form a private army?"

An army of 5,000 people is already the limit, and this requires all the populations in the entire area under the jurisdiction of Hosoliucheng to go through a sieve.

The rice should be eaten in one bite, and the road should be walked step by step, so let's make a small fight first!

Xiao Chuan had already made a step-by-step deployment, but after taking a look at the expenses counted by his subordinates, Xiao Chuan's eyes almost fell out all at once.

An infantryman's salary for a month costs one gold coin, and a year for three thousand men costs thirty-six thousand gold coins.

The salary of the cavalry was two gold coins, and two thousand men needed forty-eight thousand gold coins a year.

It doesn't sound like much, but what about the food and drink of these 5,000 people for a year? Doesn't there need money for military uniforms? Armor, swords, bows, and spears all need to be purchased, and they also involve daily maintenance and replacement......

The cavalry had to have horses, and they had to buy a sufficient number of horses.

The key problem is that horses also have to eat forage, and there must be stables and horse farms......

To form this private army, it cost him nearly 500,000 gold coins in the first year.

The next step was to rebuild the city walls, which cost nearly a million gold coins.

"Damn, should I also think about making a wall out of dirt......

"And buy food ......"

The most critical problem is that I will not have a single copper coin in taxes in the short term.

Everything needs to be paid for by Ogawa himself.

As long as this situation lasts for a few years, he, a noble lord, will be eaten poor, will go bankrupt, and become a poor egg!

During this time, Xiao Chuan spent money a little lavishly, and now that the owner knows that firewood and rice are expensive, Xiao Chuan has restored his miser nature, and every time he spends a gold coin, he has to rub it in his hand for a long time.

"Should I simply not have a private army, and when something happens, I will go into battle with my good brother Yingjun in person, which will save a lot of money......

But in such a large territory, everyone adds up, there are about seventy or eighty thousand people, how to solve the problem of eating, is it difficult to ask the honorable viscount, the newly canonized lord, to lead everyone in the territory to go out and rob together......

Xiao Chuan looked at the statistics on the table, as well as the subordinates standing in front of the table waiting for instructions, rolled his eyes, and said something that made everyone confused: "Among you, who has done a robbery?"