Planeswalker My Plane War

Chapter 203 Returning to Kunwu City 4
Although the "Kunwu City" referred to in a narrow sense refers to Dr. Kunwu's castle and its surroundings, when people usually refer to "Kunwu City", they refer to a large piece of land with the castle as the core.

Doctor Kunwu is a vassal directly under the emperor, but he is actually one of the most remote corners of the emperor's territory directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor.If it is normal, it is naturally a rural area, which is not conducive to social and economic development.But in this war-torn era, this has become an advantage.Not only that, but within the scope of Wang Ji, Doctor Kunwu's territory is the closest to Chu State.In fact, Kunwu City has three neighbors, one is Sui State, the other is Dao State, and the third is exactly Chu State.

In this era, productivity is backward, and different lords may appear to be neighbors on the map, but in fact they may be separated from each other by a large no-man's land, and there is no road to pass through.So on the surface, Dr. Kunwu has three neighbors, but in fact, he has no close relationship with Suiguo and Daoguo, and basically has no communication.On the contrary, because Dr. Chu and Kunwu actually have the same surname and are both descendants of Zhu Rong, Dr. Kunwu has closer contacts with Chu.From another perspective, Dr. Kunwu can be regarded as a middleman between Wang Ji and Chu State. On the one hand, he sold Wang Jinei’s products to Chu State, and on the other hand, he sold Chu State’s special products to Wang Ji, making a lot of money from it. benefit.Part of the reason why Kunwu City can support a relatively large and particularly elite army is because of this.

Doctor Kunwu is a vassal whose territory is less than fifty "li" square, but this area is a theoretical value rather than an actual value.Because the actual situation is that no one cares about those no-man's lands at all, and whoever occupies them belongs to them.Of course, the population density is low in this era, and generally speaking, this kind of wasteland is not occupied by anyone.Because on the one hand, there are many dangers in the wild, and on the other hand, many lands with better conditions have not been developed and utilized, so no one cares about such remote places.Only mature fields that have been cultivated for a long time are high-quality assets.Of course, the wilderness is not really a complete wilderness, there are many "savage" villages located in it.The origin of these aliens and savages is complicated, and some are simply escaped slaves.They are not counted as subjects under the direct control of the lord.Lords usually ignore these wildlings, but sometimes force wildlings to pay tribute.

In short, this is a wild, but vibrant world.

It should be noted that although Doctor Kunwu is a doctor, he originally had no other territory except Kunwu City.But now he actually controls far more than Kunwu City.Taking advantage of the opportunity of the war with Quanrong, Dr. Kunwu's actual ruling area has doubled at this time.Undoubtedly, Dr. Kunwu took the initiative to lead the army to attack the dog army before. While achieving brilliant victories, he also actually seized some of the original territories of Wang Jinei's colleagues.These colleagues were either engulfed by the attacking wave of the dog army and died, or they gave up their territory and fled.

So speaking of it, Dr. Kunwu's mind is actually very clear-headed. Although it is true to defend the family and the country, he never let go of the opportunity to fight for his own interests.

At dusk on the third day, Zhang Cheng and Huang Gong finally arrived at the edge of the territory currently controlled by Kunwu City.In the distance, Zhang Cheng saw another castle, which was called "Border Town" and was the territory of the doctor of Border Town.Of course, Zhang Cheng didn't know anything about the origin and identity of the doctor in the border city. The only thing he knew was that the doctor obviously didn't have enough accumulation in his daily life, and he didn't respond properly to the frenzy of the dog army invasion. Now he has bid farewell to the stage of history.

This is Zhang Cheng's last new territory, a village that has suffered from wars and now has few people.But this is not because the residents here were killed, but because Dr. Kunwu moved the residents of this village away in time.Or at least the "countrymen" were removed.This is why Dr. Kunwu was able to take advantage of the situation in this war to expand himself - as a lord, it is very useful to have a great god behind him.Although Zhu Rong didn't go down to earth directly to help his son, it was invaluable just to provide all kinds of valuable information, allowing Dr. Kunwu to face the crisis in his spare time and make a correct judgment.

As I said before, there is no one in the village for the time being.So Huang Gong just pointed out the land to Zhang Cheng.But for Zhang Cheng, this empty village is far less attractive than the castle in the distance.

Soldiers were faintly visible on the castle, obviously there was a garrison in the castle.

"Master Zhang Cheng cares about that border town?" Huang Gong noticed Zhang Cheng's performance.

"In the border town...is it Quanrong?" Zhang Cheng asked.

"Ah, Mr. Zhang Cheng must have misunderstood." Huang Gong laughed, "The doctor in the border city should be dead, and now the doctor in the city is Xichuang."

Doctor Xichuang... is that doctor Xichuang, the ancestor of the Qin people?
Doctor Kunwu's previous alliance, that is, Doctor Xizhen, is said to have garrisoned troops on the edge of Kunwu City.Zhang Cheng didn't know who heard this before, saying that Dr. Xizhen built a camp not far from Kunwu City and stationed there.

Thinking about it now, this statement is quite strange... This is not an attitude among allies at all.The two doctors add up to only a hundred military vehicles, thousands of people, this number is not too much, can it be accommodated in a Kunwu city?Only now did Zhang Cheng know that this was a deliberately released rumor.The real situation is that Dr. Kunwu had already regained the border town captured by the dog army in the previous battle, and he generously gave up the border town to Doctor Xijun's troops for stationing.On the one hand, Dr. Kunwu's actions are very generous and tolerant, and no one can say anything wrong, but he managed to put Doctor Xijun's troops on the front line of danger, and he stayed on the second line.On the other hand, if Doctor Biancheng comes back (it is said that he has been killed by Quan Rong, but there may be an heir), there is no way to trouble Doctor Kunwu.

By the way, in Huang Gong's few words, Zhang Cheng understood that Doctor Xizhen came from afar after all, and it was almost impossible to keep the enclave of the border town.So when the dog army withdraws and the war is over, Doctor Kunwu will most likely swallow the entire border town.This is why Dr. Kunwu's rewards are so generous recently - he has a large number of territories that are about to be credited.

This is the difference between high-level and middle-level people, and also the difference between "insiders" and "outsiders".Zhang Cheng realized that since he took back the dossier of the Master of the Nine Barbarians, he has truly become "one of his own" in the eyes of Dr. Kunwu.So Huang Gong basically didn't hide those secrets from him... Although it doesn't feel very good, I really have to admit that these natives in the wild world actually have a strong sense of secrecy.

"Master Zhang Cheng, do you want to go further?" Huang Gong asked suddenly.He looked at Zhang Cheng with a smile on his face.

"How can I go further?" Zhang Cheng asked.

"As long as Dr. Kunwu can rank among the princes," Huang Gong replied. "Then it is not difficult for Mr. Zhang Cheng to go further."

"Doctor Kunwu ranks among the princes..." Zhang Cheng thought for a while. "Should it be difficult?" Although Dr. Kunwu told Zhang Cheng before, he would support whoever the two emperor candidates gave him the position of prince.But this matter is really mysterious.Let's put it this way, if the historical development of this world and the historical line of the earth will be staggered, Zhang Cheng thinks it should be this moment.On the earth, there will be a situation where two kings will stand side by side, and the development of this world is completely unpredictable.But there is a high probability that the same history will not happen again.This means that Dr. Kunwu must first choose the right candidate, and secondly, after choosing the right candidate, he must be able to withstand the enemy's attack.Although it is said that "you have no jokes", the secret contract does not necessarily fall within the scope of this "joke".So it is not too much to say "difficult".

"It's very difficult." Huang Gong immediately agreed. "Doctor Kunwu is not from the Zhou family. Even in this situation, it is very difficult to rank among the princes. It must be a miracle."

Although the content of the two parties' conversations was a very orthodox dialogue, but for some reason, Zhang Cheng always felt that Huang Gong looked at him a little bit wrong.It's like looking at some rare animal.

There are not many people in this small team receiving the territory. There are only two chariots plus four or five other vehicles. The total number of people is less than twenty.At this time, Zhang Cheng and Huang Gong took a chariot, and the rest of them followed in other vehicles.

According to the handover of this road, Zhang Cheng now owns about a thousand acres of land, which are scattered within the range of Kunwu City. If this small border village that is temporarily unoccupied is not included, there are five in total.There are actually two types of this thousand acres of land, one is the land directly under Zhang Cheng, and Zhang Cheng's slaves are in charge of farming and grazing, and all the production belongs to Zhang Cheng.The other is well fields, which are cultivated by Chinese or savages, and part of the tax is paid (labor time, not currency tax).Wild land, such as woodland, is ambiguous. If a tolerant lord is free to use by residents, while a strict lord may charge additional taxes.

Every village has a lord's mansion—all the other mansions are not as high-class as the previous one of Doctor Kunwu's.But compared to common people, it is already a good house.

There are five "three elders" under Zhang Cheng, who are responsible for the specific management of each village.Each house has a steward, plus various numbers of servants.These stewards and servants are all Zhang Cheng's slaves, and they can be used at will, and the decision is made with one word.But the "Three Elders" cannot be appointed and dismissed arbitrarily, these are recommended by the people of the country, lords, at least the lords of Zhang Cheng's level cannot be appointed and dismissed arbitrarily.If you must appoint and dismiss, you need to go through a relatively complicated procedure, and you will be supervised by your boss, Doctor Kunwu.

Matching the territory of a thousand acres, there are usually about 2000 to 30 people in his territory.This is the countrymen and savages under the control of the lord. The people of the country have military obligations. Young and middle-aged men have to serve as soldiers and fight at the same time. There are more taxes.If the Chinese people have any opinions, Zhang Cheng cannot ignore them, or at least they will report them to Dr. Kunwu.No one cares about the life and death of the savages.All these lands, including the arable land, grassland, and woodland production directly under Zhang Cheng himself, as well as the taxes of ordinary residents, have an annual income of about [-] yuan per year.However, this varies considerably from year to year.

In addition, there are some savage villages in the wild that are within Zhang Cheng's territory but are not actually ruled by him.How to deal with these villages is a matter of opinion.At least in Kunwu City, the lords usually go to blackmail after a while, and they are satisfied after extorting a little supplies.That's about it.

By the way, the newly added territory this time has no warehouse savings or livestock—both warehouses and livestock were emptied by Dr. Kunwu, and only the slaves responsible for farming and a small amount of grain were left behind.Therefore, Zhang Cheng can't get income from the fief immediately, he has to wait for the next year's harvest to get income.

As a vassal, Zhang Cheng had to bear the military obligation of "five chariots", that is, five chariots and the disciples who followed the chariots.Regardless of the apprentices, these five chariots are not just casual, but must meet the requirements of Dr. Kunwu, that is to say, they must have the basic configuration of a driver, a warrior and a spellcaster.This was originally a headache for Zhang Cheng, but fortunately, he doesn't need to care about this trouble at present.Because although Qian is dead, this is a war period, and the army organized by Qian has not been disbanded in Kunwu City at this moment.These soldiers are still under the command of Dr. Kunwu, which means that Zhang Cheng solved this big problem without doing anything.At least temporarily.

In addition, Huang Gong also discussed the issue of retainers and vassals with Zhang Cheng.At the beginning, when Zhang Cheng was just a corporal and only owned a small village, as a lower-level nobleman, although Zhang Cheng was capable of recruiting and supporting his retainers, he was not yet qualified for enfeoffment.Zhang Cheng himself is just the lowest lord in the real feudal system.But after Zhang Cheng became a sergeant, he was initially qualified to entrust others.Theoretically, Zhang Cheng can entrust a certain village of his own to whoever he wants, turning the other party into his vassal.Of course, he can't actually do this, unless it is distributed to his sons, otherwise this method is very disadvantageous.After all, the benefits of direct control can be much greater than enfeoffment.

Huang Gong reminded Zhang Cheng on this point, reminding Zhang Cheng that Dr. Kunwu was very generous in his promotion and land grant.

Under normal circumstances, a doctor has at most three or five sergeant vassals.In fact, no matter what kind of vassal it is, in the history of the earth, it is called "cracking the soil".Just by hearing this word, you can tell what an annoying thing this is for the lord.

That's the end of the receiving territory.After finding out their newly acquired territory and wealth, the team returned the same way, and Huang Gong bid farewell to Zhang Cheng on the edge of Kunwu City.

"By the way, Mr. Zhang Cheng has a wife." When we parted, Huang Gong asked tentatively.Although humans in this era marry early, it is unlikely that Zhang Cheng will have a wife at his age.Marriage at this age is usually due to the far-sightedness of the parents and the practical needs (for the big nobles, the marriage of children is a very important political bargaining chip), and the marriage is arranged for the son early.

"This..." Zhang Cheng actually knew that he would be asked this question sooner or later.After all, it is different from the earth. In this world, not getting married is a very weird and completely unreasonable behavior.In fact, not to mention being married, even being unmarried at an older age can shock the world.If it was in the past, he could say "unmarried" frankly, but it's different now.

"Young Master Zhang Cheng, you must not disobey the orders of your parents." Huang Gong said, Zhang Cheng thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come back to his senses. He didn't know what Huang Gong meant.

"I have a daughter," Huang Gong said. "Twenty-eight years old, thin and pretty, if Mr. Zhang Cheng doesn't dislike him..."

Zhang Cheng was surprised, sure enough!Of course it's normal to say that.No matter what kind of society it is, for Zhang Cheng, a young man with great potential, it is easy for someone to find him as a matchmaker.

(End of this chapter)