Warlock Royal Family

The old Xibo and his party who fled to Rome were quickly arranged in a monastery in the outskirts of Rome that directly belonged to the Pope, and they didn't even see the Pope.

It's no wonder that the current force of the Xibo family is the warriors of those families. Even if the French are driven away by the emperor, what reason does the warlock royal family have to restore the power of the Xibo family instead of taking the opportunity to bring Liguria back under the rule? Woolen cloth.

Fortunately, the old Xibo has seen the coldness of the world. Although this kind of thing inevitably disappointed him, he still tried his best to adjust his mentality, began to count his property, and tried to reorganize his strength.

Anna also moved to the suburbs to live with her father, and Ladislaus stopped being polite and moved directly to Susan's bedroom. For almost half a month, Sibo went to the suburbs to visit Old Siebo every morning.

In the past few days, Anna has become more gentle towards him, and it is one reason why she no longer has to fight against Susan every day.

Another reason is that the old Xibo planned to form a renaissance army to participate in the battle against the French together after the emperor's army arrived.

At the same time, the old Xibo needs to use Ladislaus as a medium to express his dedication to the emperor.

After Machiavelli made the gesture of checking the accounts, Ladislaus received gifts of about [-] thalers one after another. The abbots and tax contractors of the three monasteries basically contributed [-] thalers through their own channels. Thaler.

Ladislaus consulted the Marquise Facchetti and confirmed that it was not bad, and that was the market.

Since the rules are so, Ladislaus, who is basically satisfied, also liberated Machiavelli, and took him to study with the old Xibo about organizing the team.

Regarding the organization of the team, the first and most important question is whether to organize a commercial or militia-like team.

The so-called commercial team is a major feature of the Middle Ages. Many city-states in the Apennine Peninsula have prosperous business, rich people, and very weak citizens' willingness to join the army. Moreover, politically, the citizens of these city-states often do have a little power.

Any decree to force conscription to organize a large national standing will be blocked by populist politicians and will never be implemented.

To have a standing army of several hundred to nearly a thousand, and to mobilize thousands of people in urban areas during wartime, is a remarkable and powerful state.

Therefore, wars between most commercial city-states can only be "outsourced" to so-called commercial mercenaries. City-states sign contracts with these mercenary leaders and pay according to their scale and combat effectiveness.

The mercenary leader may be a du li imperial knight with a castle, a mountain king who has just been washed white, or a half-black and half-white hero.

The mercenary captain himself has at least level [-] to level [-] force. Of course, if he is a spellcaster, he can touch the fifth layer of the magic net, that is, a level [-] mage, or a level [-] warlock.

These commercial mercenary teams often have a core ranging from more than a hundred to nearly a thousand people. They are completely out of production and can be regarded as professional soldiers. Like the main force of a powerful country, basically every soldier has one or two ranks of warriors. Among the officers, there will even be characters above the fifth rank.

Once there is a "war contract", the mercenary captain will expand the team and organize the unemployed or farmers in the countryside who are unwilling to continue working and farming, and want to earn some extra money. Most of these peripheral personnel are required to bring their own weapons Shields, especially powerful mercenary groups will occasionally issue a coat. The theory of uniform uniforms increasing the sense of honor may not be written yet, but some people have indeed discovered the secret that the same color coat can strengthen the combat effectiveness of troops. Of course, more mercenaries The soldiers are very disgusted with any order and discipline, and some people even launch a rebellion just for the reason of being able to wear a flowery coat.

The combat effectiveness of such a team can be imagined. It is not surprising that wars between Italian city-states are often like acting.

The so-called national army is naturally recruited by a certain proportion of the owner farmers and tenants, and directly belongs to the lord's armed forces. This organizational model has many advantages, but there is another disadvantage besides arousing the resentment of the citizens, that is, it takes time to compare Hire more and more financial resources to maintain.

Ordinarily, the old Xibo, who has no territory now, shouldn't fantasize about the militia, but the war provoked by France is not comparable to that of the Italian city-states. Even if all the city-states make up their minds to be neutral, at this time He desperately hired all kinds of teams, trying to give himself a sense of security, so that the French and Spanish armies would destroy themselves without stopping by.

Therefore, the price of mercenaries has risen due to competition.

Moreover, the danger of completely relying on mercenaries is obvious to all. If they are defeated by the enemy's autumn wind like falling leaves, then naturally everything will be over. Even if they rely on this kind of commercial troops to win, the situation is likely to deteriorate.

Whoever masters force will master justice and legal principles. The Sforza family is a noble born of mercenaries. When the time is right, the mercenary captain expelled the original nobles and took power.

As for the issue of illegal usurping the throne, as long as you have money, you can always find jurists to prove the legitimacy of the title.

Machiavelli is a staunch supporter of the militia. His "The Prince" can be said to have explained the threat of mercenaries to the check and balance of power very thoroughly. Ladislaus has gained two points of intelligence in the past two days. Basically already understood the problem.

So under the persuasion of the two of them, Old Xibo also hoped to organize a small team directly under his control, and then consider whether to hire commercial troops.

Of course, even if he wanted to form a large team, the Church of Rome would not agree.

Moreover, Ladislaus also took the initiative to provide a recruitment channel. He has been recruiting crew members for the White Agate for the past two days. It should not be a problem to find another 200 people under this guise.

The few warriors around old Xibo can be middle-level officers, and then use Ladislaus's face to get a few officers from the Colonna family's city defense army with high salaries, so that they have experience and the team is relatively balanced.

Ladislaus is providing channels and opening up joints, so naturally he also has something to ask for.

He had already received a letter from Laciris, the shipowner.

In a few days, the beautiful female ship owner Laciris will come to Rome. Not only must there be an arrangement for the use of the White Agate, Laciris mentioned in the letter that she can take care of her cousin Milo. Take a look at Laciris' business.

The task of "establishing a black continent trade route" will of course bring wealth, and the system rewards reputation and experience points is a core task.

Of course, Laciris' favorability is also a matter of course, not only women have a "favorability setting", all related characters will have a favorability, and many tasks require a certain degree of favorability to trigger.

The Xibo family controls many commercial routes in the Mediterranean Sea, and these trade routes will inevitably be divided up by other forces as the Xibo family loses power.

If he can get the assistance of the Xibo family, through some old relationships, Ladislas may get a part of the financial resources.

This transaction is also very beneficial to the Xibo family. Even if their agents want to continue to trade with them, it is impossible. Although there may be some particularly loyal deployments, loyalty alone cannot do anything.

There is no difference between letting Ladislaus take it and letting someone else take it.