The Knight's Journey to the Empire

"We are now discussing the fifth issue - reorganizing the territory's army and strengthening defense capabilities!"

"Ramos, as the new military officer of the territory, can you first tell me what you are going to do?" Soran started asking questions directly.

Ramos then stood up and slowly began to speak out his thoughts: "I have the following ideas about the construction of the territory army:

The first is the issue of recruiting soldiers. As the young master said, the territory guard will be expanded into two squadrons, and a total of sixty people need to be recruited.

I plan to openly recruit these soldiers to all the citizens in the territory, and all eligible citizens in the territory can come and participate.

??Finally, I will conduct an assessment to determine the survival of the fittest among them, and eventually select the best soldiers to supplement the lord's guard.

But I haven’t decided on the specific assessment method yet.

But Master, I will prepare an assessment plan as soon as possible and give it to you for review and approval."

The new members needed for this recruitment operation of the territory guard will definitely be mainly the indigenous people of White Bear Territory, supplemented by those refugee followers.

Recruit a group of indigenous young people to be his subordinates, make them obey his orders and work under him, thus linking his interests with theirs.

This is undoubtedly a good opportunity for the newcomers, Soran and his group, to integrate into their group.

In the future, this will also be more helpful in the implementation of territory development and construction.

“The second is about the stationing of the territory guards.

The territory guard team consists of two squadrons, with a total number of sixty people, so they definitely can no longer live in the lord's mansion.

Therefore, we need to plan and build a new barracks to house the territory guards for their daily life or training."

If the army of sixty men still lived in the lord's palace, it would be better not to move those slaves and refugee followers out.

Because the army’s daily life or training is much noisier than theirs!

“The third is about the daily training subjects of the territory guards.

I still have no idea how to implement this daily training subject.

But I will also draw up a training plan as soon as possible for the young master to review!"

“The fourth and final one is about the task of protecting the territory.

The primary mission of the White Bear Territory Guard is to protect the safety of the young master and the lord's mansion, and to safeguard the lord's power and interests.

The second is to patrol the territory and protect the safety of the territory and its inhabitants."

The nature of the territory guard is actually equivalent to a private army that Soran supports with his own money.

Sauron is their most direct superior, and they need to swear allegiance to Sauron and fight for Sauron.

Therefore, their most direct task is to protect Sauron’s personal safety and property safety!

Of course, this is the form, but the specific situation depends on Sauron’s own command ability.

At this point, Ramos also raised the difficulties he thought of: "Master, I have three more difficulties here, and now we need to discuss them together:

The first is about the recruitment method of the territory guard: should we adopt the traditional "knight team" recruitment method or the new "conscription system" recruitment method.

The second is the issue of the Territory Guard’s salary: How much salary should we pay to the soldiers of the Territory Guard?

The third is about the weapons and equipment of the Territory Guard: After the recruitment of the two squadrons of the Territory Guard is completed, we need to replenish their weapons and equipment as soon as possible. "

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In the traditional thinking of the Knight Continent, "soldier" is a relatively sacred and respectable profession.

Those who are able to serve in the army are the elites of society and the upper class.

Therefore, slaves were forbidden to serve as "soldiers".

Although slaves can serve as logistics support personnel to help the army transport logistics supplies, they can even take up weapons and fight the enemy when there are insufficient troops.

But they still cannot be called "soldiers".

For those slaves who were able to make great contributions on the battlefield by killing enemies and charging into battle, the general practice was to first pardon their slave status before they could be rewarded.

Because slaves are as lowly as dogs and are the private property of slave owners, they have no human rights at all.

Therefore slaves could not receive the rewards given to "perfect men".

According to the long-standing historical tradition of the Knight Continent, the only class that can be called "soldiers" are free men.

Moreover, the most traditional military recruitment system in the Knight Continent is the "Manor Knight Conscription System" based on the form of "Knight Team".

In the past, the productivity of the entire slave society was very underdeveloped, and social wealth was highly concentrated in the upper class of society.

Therefore, all the extraordinary knights who possess extraordinary powers are almost all born in the aristocratic class.

So at that time, "knight" was actually a noble aristocratic title.

Only nobles who have cultivated fighting spirit can be granted the noble title of "Knight".

Moreover, when a hereditary noble needs to confer the title of knight on someone, he also needs to grant the knight noble a manor and a territory.

And this was a standard system at the time.

Therefore, this kind of knight who owns a hereditary manor is also called a manor knight.

It is worth mentioning that the hereditary nobles at that time could confer the title of manor knight on anyone, without any limit on the number.

Of course, the prerequisite for any canonization is that the knight has cultivated fighting spirit, and the hereditary noble can reward corresponding manors and subjects.

So in a sense, the more manor knights a hereditary lord appoints, the stronger his power will be.

After obtaining a manor and subjects, the knight would select strong subjects from among the subjects of his manor and train them to become squire knights or knight attendants.

Finally, he appointed himself as the knight commander and formed a team of knights.

For example, when Soran and his party participated in the Western War, they joined the army of Marquis Saladin as a team of knights, and Soran was the knight-in-chief.

Normally, the manor knights would stay in their own manors with their own knight teams to carry out daily training or production farming.

When the feudal lord needs to go to war, he will issue a conscription order or mobilization order to summon the manor knights under his command to lead their troops to help in the battle.

Therefore, the manor knights led their own knight teams to obey the call and formed an army under the leadership of the feudal lord to fight in the south and the north.

It is worth noting here that the manor knights obeyed the call of the feudal lord, and the relationship between the two was one of rights and obligations, and it was free of charge.

Therefore, when the manor knights obeyed the call to participate in the war, all expenses were to be borne by themselves.

In other words, when following the feudal lord to fight, the manor knights had to bring their own dry food and weapons and equipment.

If you are not well prepared and encounter some stingy feudal lords, you may even have to use your own money to buy supplies from them.

Of course, this does not mean that the manor knights obey the feudal lord's call to join the war for free, and only pay without gaining anything.

In fact, when the war is won, the manor knights who participated in the war can participate in the distribution of spoils.

There are two main types of spoils distribution here: one refers to the spoils captured by the manor knights and their knights during the war, such as weapons and armor; the other refers to the gold coins and supplies paid by the defeated party after the war.

How much each warring force gets allocated depends mostly on how much military merit or role each of them has played.

Well, status or title is also an important influencing factor.

So this is the income of the manor knight.

If you meet a benevolent and kind feudal lord, he will give you some rewards or pensions after the war.

This is also one of the income.

There are mainly two types of knights appointed by hereditary nobles, and the counterpart of the manor knights is the house knights.

As the name suggests, this kind of "house knight" is a knight who is supported by hereditary nobles in the house.

At that time, the Knights of the Imperial Household did not have the right to establish their own knighthood, and their status was much lower than that of the Manor Knights.

However, they are the confidants of the hereditary nobles and can hold important positions in the hereditary nobles' territories or in their direct armies. Their income is also provided by the salaries directly paid by the hereditary nobles.

Of course, at that time, most of the direct armies of the hereditary nobles were also formed by free conscription of the subjects.

Moreover, the subjects who obey the conscription also need to bring some food and weapons and equipment with them.