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Chapter 1446 The Qin Family (2)

Seeing the city, the cavalry slowed down and began to trot slowly.The cavalry was also found in the city, and the six-meter-wide wooden door was slowly opened. Dozens of soldiers and a few people dressed as warriors lined up on both sides of the gate, quietly waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

As soon as the cavalry appeared at the gate, a soldier immediately stepped forward to hold the reins of the young knight, while the others knelt down under the leadership of several warriors and shouted: "Welcome my lord to return to the city!"

The young knight who got off his horse waved his hands and said "get up" while walking into the city.The soldiers were busy, and only the few warriors followed the young knight.

The young knight looked up and saw the flag fluttering in the wind on the top of the castle tower, with the same design as the cavalry flag, he couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Oh, the customs of many years have completely disappeared after the appearance of this lord. Who would have thought of the flag of the subordinate family? It’s actually necessary to add the family crest of the main family.”

"My lord, please be careful. This is the wise man of the hall. In this way, even the peasants and soldiers at the bottom can clearly see who is our side on the battlefield. There will never be such a bastard thing as one of our own fighting against our own." A warrior hurriedly Said.

"Hehe, my lord is very magnanimous, and I won't deal with my Tian family just because of such words."

The young knight, who was the head of the Tian family—Tanaka, smiled and waved his hands.

Entering the inner hall of the city, after the master and servant sat down, Tanaka saw that there were only three retainers around him, and couldn't help feeling sad.

Back then, the retainers could have packed the hall to its fullest, but who would have thought that accepting the call-up order from Mingyue City to play in the battle would have reduced their strength by [-]%?Instead, he has to surrender to the original enemy.

However, it was also because of this that his second son, who had almost no future, could become the head of the family.I really don't know whether to hate or thank the Qin family.

Tanaka, who was thinking wildly, saw that the retainers lowered their heads and didn't know what to think, so he broke the silence and asked, "Is there nothing going on at home during my visit?"

"Please rest assured, my lord, everything in the house is stable as before." The three retainers nodded and said.

"My lord, don't you know if this interview went well?" an older retainer asked aloud.

"It went well. After waiting for a week, I was received by the lord alone." Tanaka said calmly.

"Congratulations, my lord, to be able to meet alone, which shows that the hall values ​​the lord very much." The retainers hurriedly congratulated.

"It's nothing. All the powerful families who maintained their clan leadership were received by the lord. It's just a way to win over retainers from other families." Tanaka said indifferently.

"Your Majesty, please be careful, there are no external retainers in the Great Hall family now, because since the Lord has accepted the salary of the Great Hall, they are direct retainers. Think about it, besides the former wealthy family and a few important ministers, who owns the real retainers in the Great Hall?" ? So as long as you make meritorious service, it is not impossible to become a prince of thousands of stones." The retainer hurriedly persuaded.

Tanaka thought for a while and then smiled: "Well, that's true, hehe, those retainers happily prepared to exercise their lordship after obtaining Shigao, but they suddenly discovered that apart from being able to use various resources and own a piece of land, there is no need to Speaking of farmland, even a leader cannot be mobilized.

"I went to Master Feng Xing to find out that the Shi Gao conferred on them personally only refers to the amount of grain that can be obtained after harvesting the grain, not the territory that is taken for granted."

"Hmph, did they really think that the territory was so easy to obtain? When the hall conferred the title, the ministers felt that there was a problem. How could the family and the individual be conferred properly? Afterwards, I found that the hall also knew it well. "

"I think that's the way it should be. Only Shi Gao, who was entrusted to the family, is considered a territory. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess? After the incident became clear, the upstarts who had looked down on us, the wealthy clan, immediately looked at us differently."

"Hehe, this minister has heard about it. The upstarts at that time were all dumbfounded when they heard the news. It is said that most of the upstarts formed their own families afterwards."

The retainers also pandered to the jokes of the upstarts. They, the old rich, looked down on the upstarts who were rogues not long ago, but now they all have the same lord, so they can only laugh in private.

"Well, well, this time I have an audience, and I have also received a mission. My lord has asked us families with real collars to send soldiers to obey orders at a ratio of ten stone to one person." Tanaka patted his leg and said.

As soon as these words came out, the three retainers immediately stared, and then asked with joy and nervousness: "My lord, the hall is finally going to war?"

"Although I can't guarantee whether this time I will just grab and leave like before, but it is estimated that this time there is an [-]% certainty that the land that has been laid down will be occupied. After all, a large number of upstarts have no real claims, and the lord definitely needs land for stability. Let them go," Tanaka said.

"Okay! It's finally the day of making contributions! My lord, when and where will the request from the hall arrive?" A retainer jumped up excitedly.

"Well, fifteen days from today, my family will gather at the straight road of Sichuan." Tanaka said after thinking for a while.

"Time is a bit tight. My family actually received 150 shi, and we need to send 60 people. Now there are 30 standing soldiers. After deducting the 120 people who need to stay behind, we need to recruit [-] farmers and soldiers. Well, there is no problem with weapons."

One of the retainers muttered for a while and said, "My lord, my family has no problem completing the task, but these peasants and soldiers have not been trained and can only act as a show. If we really want to make meritorious service, we still can't count on them."

"Well, ten standing soldiers and twenty peasant soldiers are left behind, and the cavalry is also brought along. The meritorious service still has to be tested by my family." Tanaka said.

"Yes, according to the usual practice, one cavalry is equal to five peasants and soldiers. With these 150 cavalry, we only need to..." Tanaka interrupted before the retainer finished speaking: "No, just recruit [-] peasants and soldiers. We don't need to be petty. To count these."

"Yes, it's my ignorance." The retainer hastily pleaded guilty. This is not the previous Mingyue City era, but the Qin family era.

The Qin family paid attention to rewards for meritorious deeds and punishment for demerits. Even if all fourteen cavalrymen were wiped out, as long as they made meritorious service, the rewards they received would be enough to immediately form several such cavalry teams.There are role models for this, and there is absolutely no need to worry about your own losses like before.

Seeing that the matter was explained, Tanaka smiled easily: "Hehe, no wonder those upstarts are desperately trying to get real collars. After all, only families with real collars can have a single military unit, and the merits established in this way are all for themselves.

"It's not like now, those upstarts can only lead the soldiers directly under the lord to fight, and the merits they get have to be distributed from the top to the bottom, and they only have a pitiful little credit in their hands."

"The main hall has maintained the tradition of the southeast peninsula well in this respect." The retainers all nodded in accommodating manner.

"However, more have been changed." Tanaka secretly sighed.

Like before, a rich family like myself can treat the master's family in a positive way, after all, I am only a foreign minister of the master's family in name, and I have never received the salary of the master's family, so no one will blame me even if I am a fool.

But now that he is receiving the salary of the lord's family and belongs to the direct ministers of the lord's family, let alone being a fool, a mere act of obedience and injustice is enough to destroy the family.

However, although Tanaka is full of complaints about the Qin family, he is not a person who is not ignorant. Looking at the tens of thousands of professional troops trained by the Qin family in actual combat, and looking at the princes who are still using farmers and soldiers, one can know the strength of both sides.

Coupled with the fact that the Qin family has tried every means to increase wealth and supplies, the little inventory he knows is enough to ensure that the Qin family will fight around the clock for a year.Since he is such an incomparably powerful servant of the main family, it depends on how he can rely on these advantages to make contributions and earn a rich family property for future generations.

From the fact that the head of the Qin family landed at the port with great fanfare, to receiving all his subjects, and then the army began to mobilize, all those who have been following the Qin family are very clear about it.

Because of the existence of the Qin family, the nearby princes who were peacefully sighed when the other princes were beating their lives to death. The Qin family finally planned to make a move. This time, it might not be like the past when they sent people to loot and then retreated.

Liaoshui City is a symbolic city of a power near the Qin family, and the Mu family owns this city.

Although the Mu family's territory is close to the sea like Mingyue City, unfortunately, there are no good ports in the territory, only a few small docks.But even so, by relying on these few small piers, they can still get some oil from the smuggling business of their neighbor Mingyue City.

But after the owner of Mingyue City is changed to the Qin family, it will be unlucky.

The first goal of the Qin family's water army after its establishment was the Mu family's water army who dared to take advantage of it. They wiped out the Mu family's water army in one round, and then occupied these small piers.

But I don't know if it was the intimidation of the Mu family army, or whether these small piers were not taken seriously by the Qin family. Anyway, the Qin family's navy left after demolishing the small piers.

These small piers have never been rebuilt so far. What is the use of building them?The sea here has become the sphere of influence of the Qin family's navy.

It's not worth it to lose this lucrative place, and what's even worse is that the Mu family was not resentful of the Qin family's arrogance, and when they heard that other princes were going to plot against the Qin family, they immediately participated in a share excitedly.

But the result was that not only did the soldiers lose their troops, but the family's savings for many years were plundered, and a harassment war that lasted for more than half a year began.

Up to now, although the signboard of the princes is still hanging on the surface, in fact, it is just a local wealthy family. Not to mention that the foreign retainers under him are doing their own thing, even the direct retainers have begun to obey and violate.

It can be said that the Mu family was the first among so many princes who provoked the Qin family to give up resistance and allow the Qin family's soldiers to come and go in and out of their own territory.

(End of this chapter)