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Chapter 1447 The Qin Family (3)

At this moment, Mu Zheng, the head of the Mu family in the Tianshou Pavilion of Liaoshui City, is wrinkling his brows in distress, while his younger brother Mu Xiu is also sitting below with a sad face.

Seeing that the elder brother hadn't made a decision, Mu Xiu couldn't help saying again: "Brother, now the Mu family can only recruit farmers and soldiers to fight in addition to the [-] standing army. It is impossible to recruit wild warriors like before."

"Oh, why is it like this?" Mu Zheng responded casually.

As soon as Mu Xiu heard it, he knew that he was wasting his saliva just now, so he could only continue to say: "It's not because of the high salary of the Qin family's army, almost all the wandering wild warriors in Qingshui led went to the Qin family to serve as soldiers."

"Then let's hire mercenaries?" Mu Zheng suddenly shouted.

His troubles and agitation are all caused by the nobles below. It’s okay for them to divide the territory and do their own thing. Anyway, he has no ability to force them to obey orders, but they boldly stretched out their hands to his direct leader under Liaoshui City. Can't take it anymore!Without these direct collars, where did I get my soldiers and where did I get my taxes?

"Brother, you have forgotten, right? We only have ten thousand gold coins in the treasury now, and we can't afford to hire mercenaries." Mu Xiu stared.

Speaking of this, Mu Xiu sighed and continued: "Well, fortunately, those guys from the Qin family don't care about food, otherwise we might not even be able to recruit farmers and soldiers."

"They're all bastards of the Qin family! What kind of standing army system is being implemented, and the salary is so high! Now everyone in the southeast peninsula is learning this way, otherwise everyone will rely on peasants and soldiers to fight. My family's [-] standing army is still afraid of those Little local tyrant?" Mu Zheng said angrily.

"Brother, now is not the time to talk about these things. The local tyrants are ready to move below, and the spies have also reported that the Qin army, which has not been stationary for several months, has begun to mobilize. Seeing that they are actually gathering around the border, it is certain that they are planning to take advantage of the relaxation of vigilance by the two great powers." It's a great time to clean up the surrounding forces like us." Mu Xiu reminded.

"Hey, I know this. I didn't expect that what our neighbors of the Qin family had been worried about for a long time finally happened. In the past, there were two major powers to suppress, and whichever took the lead would be finished. But now the empire is in civil strife, and the alliance is busy taking advantage. After being suppressed by people, why don't the princes on our side hurry up and swallow.

"I don't know about the other family, but how can we resist the Qin family's attack in our current state. Damn, the standing army exceeds [-], which makes us little princes beat the farts! So many people can afford it, the Qin family can't afford it." How fucking rich!" After speaking, Muzheng became anxious again.

"Brother, I don't know if you have noticed that the Qin family's blatant and wanton mobilization of troops and horses, it is impossible for those local tyrants to know about it, and it is impossible for them who were also looted by the Qin family to be unaware of the strength of the Qin family's army.

"Since this is the case, why do they wantonly occupy the land? I don't know if the Qin family came in, all these lands belong to the Qin family?" Mu Xiu weighed his words carefully.

After pondering for a while, Muzheng shook his head and said, "Those guys wouldn't be such idiots doing useless work. They must be sure to keep Shi Gao, so they recruited troops to fight like this at all costs."

"Are they going to surrender when they see the Qin family enter the country? To guarantee their territory?" But after finishing speaking, Muzheng vetoed it himself: "It is impossible for the Qin family to allow them to carve up Shigao in Liaoshui City!"

You must know that those local tyrants now occupy almost 80.00% of Shigao in Liaoshui City, but after these local tyrants surrendered, the winners can only get 20.00% of Shigao?No one would agree.

"I think they will donate half of the stone height to beg the Qin family's recognition of their territory. You must know that their stone height is three or four times that of before, and giving half of it out is double the profit." Mu Xiu said.

As soon as Mu Zheng heard this, he immediately scolded: "Damn it! How dare you sell my Mu family's territory? Damn! Selling it to you is not as good as selling it to me! Mu Xiu, you immediately go to Mingyue City and ask the head of the Qin family to surrender! "

"Yes!" A gleam of joy flashed in Mu Xiu's eyes.

I have long wanted to propose such a proposal, but I am just a subject, how dare I say it out, now that the Lord has said it, then there is no need to be so worried.He already knew that he couldn't compete with the Qin family, and that his territory would be annexed by the Qin family sooner or later. In this case, as the elder brother said, it is better to gain benefits for himself than to take advantage of those traitorous subordinates.

"Brother, what conditions do we want to give?" Mu Xiu hurriedly asked, this is related to the future interests of the Tian family.

"We will dedicate the entire territory of Liaoshui City!" Mu Zheng's words made Mu Xiu dumbfounded, donating the entire territory?What does your family eat?
Seeing his younger brother's appearance, Mu Zheng smiled and said, "Why are you in a daze? If we act quickly, our Mu family will be the first princes to submit to the Qin family. We will be a role model and a banner at that time. In order to set the The role model will never treat us badly!"

"Yes, my lord is wise!" Mu Xiu bowed down on the ground convinced.

The inner city of Mingyue City.

"My lord is here!"

Juan, including Diou and others immediately lowered their heads and shouted: "See Mr. Zhao Hu."

Not long after Zhao Hu came back, his real name and surname spread, and everyone didn't care that an outsider ruled Mingyue City.

Just like the civil strife in the empire, big fists are king, and now Zhao Hu has the biggest fists around here, how dare other people mutter.

Zhao Hu, who was well dressed, took the main seat accompanied by Zhou Wen.Originally, he also wanted Zhou Wen to be a retainer, but Zhou Wen immediately refused to become a retainer after knowing that retainers could not be with the lord all day long, so Zhao Hu had no choice but to agree.

In this way, Zhou Wen, who has no rank and no Shi Gao, actually served as the head of the inner court and the head of the inner guard at the same time.

Regarding this point, everyone who has always regarded him as a beautiful woman has no objection at all, and instead takes it for granted.

"Well, you are all people who started with me, and I won't talk too much about the scene." After Zhao Hu finished speaking, he nodded to Zhou Wen.

When he was in the empire, Zhao Hu still remembered that he was a soldier and had rules in his words and deeds.And after returning to Mingyue City, where no one stood above him, Zhao Hu naturally acted as a monarch.

Zhao Hu has no discomfort with this, because he has been the monarch here for almost a year, and now he is just reliving this feeling.

Zhou Wen took out a volume of documents and unfolded them, clearing his throat.

First, there is the usual opening speech. After expressing to everyone the intention of the order, the formality and rigor of the order, and the legal effect, etc., Zhou Wen directly read the things that everyone cares about most: "Diou, class As a general, he received five hundred shi, a monthly salary of one hundred guan, a family seal of one thousand shi, and served as the head of the outer court.

"Sun Jie, with the rank of general, received five hundred shi, a monthly salary of one hundred guan, and a family seal of one thousand shi, and was appointed to carry out information.

"Lock, the rank is a general, with five hundred shi, a monthly salary of one hundred guan, a family seal of one thousand shi, and serving as the first battalion officer."

Eight people including Diou, Sun Jie, Locke, Luo Fei and Lao Dao were all named generals, and all the families received a thousand stones.That is to say, there are twelve more retainers with hereditary territories in the Qin family's direct retainers.

But everyone is not surprised by this, what they are surprised is how the land canonization is so small, you must know that a rotten person like Mode has five thousand stones, and these cronies of the lord's cronies are actually only one thousand stones?

But everyone obviously didn't expect that it was because they were Zhao Hu's cronies that they only had a thousand stones.

Originally, Zhao Hu wanted to make these 12 people family elders and give each of them [-] shi, but they vowed to die and refuted Zhao Hu with a lot of reasoning.In the end, in desperation, he had no choice but to compromise on the condition of the rank of general and the fiefdom of Qianshi.

However, this effect is also very obvious, because it makes it more difficult to obtain the territory, and the retainers who came to watch the ceremony secretly decided to make an indisputable great contribution.

Contrary to what these retainers thought, Maude looked smug.Hehe, although everyone has the same rank, I have five times more territory than you, and I am the undisputed second retainer in the family, so I don't have to look at your faces anymore.

However, Nangong Dun, the retainer with the largest territory, was not in such a good mood as Maude. He was very clear about the positions these twelve retainers occupied in the lord's heart, just by looking at their positions.

Needless to say, Zhou Wen, although he has no rank and no Shi Gao, no idiot will underestimate him. The head of the inner court is in charge of everything in the lord's inner house; All the secret guards may be in his hands, which is really powerful.

Diou, the head of the outer court, that is, the Qin family's servant recruitment, procurement of supplies and other tedious matters are all in charge of him.Don't look like a housekeeper, but the power is really big.

Not to mention Sun Jie, who can be expressed by a single intelligence post.He is responsible for external and internal information, who knows what secrets he has in his hands, it can be said that he is the one that makes the retainers most vigilant.

Locke, Luo Fei, and Lao Dao are nothing, they all hold military positions, and they seem to be no different from other retainers.But looking at the sum of their military positions is equivalent to firmly controlling the military power of all the troops directly under them, which can prove the Lord's trust in them.

But when did the lord's direct troops change to a battalion-level system?Is one camp for one establishment?
In this case, why are only four infantry battalion officers and one cavalry battalion officer sealed?
And the strength of the infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion is too different, right?Do you want to build a framework first and then slowly recruit troops?
From these points of view, it can be confirmed that these twelve retainers are the real important ministers of the Qin family.

(End of this chapter)