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Chapter 955 The Situation of the Ling Family
"Thank you, my lord, for the reward, and I will swear to serve my lord!" Zhao Hu shouted the slogan before getting up, glanced at him, saw the satisfied look in his eyebrows, and couldn't help curling his lips secretly.

According to the rules of this world, what the lord cares about is his retainers, and it is his family that asks his subordinates to be loyal to him. Unexpectedly, he actually asked his subordinates to be loyal to him personally. This made Zhao Hu know how to flatter him.

"Haha, Patriarch of the Qiao family, my Ling family won the competition this time, so according to the agreement..." Patriarch Ling shouted directly to the opposite side.

"Humph! Congratulations to the Patriarch of the Ling family!" There was a cold snort from the other side, and then the army began to retreat slowly, and the Ling family naturally followed up, this is to take over Yanshi Township Woolen cloth.For the samurai of this world, there is nothing more exciting than occupying land.

Zhao Hu, a group of low-level warriors and a large number of farmers and soldiers did not receive the task of taking over the territory. Instead, they gave orders to Patriarch Ling to follow the family to write Chinese.That is, the middle-aged warrior who counted meritorious service returned to Lingwu City, and the peasants and soldiers were disbanded directly on the spot.And he led the middle and high-level warriors and soldiers to take over the territory after Qiao's army.

Those warriors were busy dismissing the peasants and soldiers, and busy packing their bags. Zhao Hu, the newcomer, didn't have much work. He wanted to show his existence, so he naturally hurried up and down behind the clerk.

Zhao Hu, who has been around in many worlds, is really good at flattering, and people have a good impression of him unconsciously.Although some people didn't think highly of his background as a peasant and soldier, those warriors from peasant to soldier to warrior accounted for the majority, and these people had a strong sense of identification with Zhao Hu.So Zhao Hu naturally got to know everyone here at once, and he was able to say a few whispers.

Through communicating with these low-level warriors, Zhao Hu has a certain understanding of the Ling family he has taken refuge in.Although it is impossible for low-level warriors to know the secrets of the family, these low-level warriors are clear about some seemingly ordinary things that are related to the situation of the entire family.

For example, how many warriors are there in the family, how many high and low samurai are there, which samurai is better than which samurai, which samurai is hostile to which samurai, which samurai likes what, which surname the lord prefers, which lady in the lord's back house is the most beautiful, Which young master is the most favored.How many factions are there in the family, and what members are in the factions.What kind of strength is there, which factions will be linked together, but those factions will never communicate with each other.

How much money and food is there in the family, is it enough to last until the autumn harvest, what is the business tax in the family, what is the price of goods, which piece of land in the family is the poorest, which piece of land is the richest, who is the most powerful in the family, and what is strange about the power of the family Characters exist, which tavern in the castle town has the best and cheapest girls, and which blacksmith makes the best weapons!That farmer is the best at serving the farmland and other seemingly trivial matters, but it is related to the contents of the confidential information of a power up and down, and these low-level warriors can talk in detail like counting their fingers .

Of course, not a certain person can boast. Everyone talks about this and that. Most people only listen to it as an interesting story, but Zhao Hu collects them all and analyzes them in his head. It can be said that the current Zhao Hu is definitely better than the Ling family. The Patriarch also knows the situation of the Ling family better!
Taken together, the Ling family has 12 shi of Zhixing, which is directly under the Ling family, which means that so many Zhixing needs to support the more than 1000 soldiers and nearly a hundred warriors who receive food and salaries.

Although the expenses don’t seem to be much, but this directly belongs to the roads in Zhixing, the maintenance of ditches, the equipment of soldiers, the repair of the city, the expenses of maids and servants, the expenses of the head of the house and the inner house, etc. After all, the Ling family can only maintain a decent face and food and clothing.

Warriors like Zhao Hu who have led the Zhixing and set up the flag are not counted in the Ling family's Zhixing, because Zhao Hu and the others have to support themselves, and they have to follow the rules when the Ling family sends troops. To go to battle with soldiers who meet their knowledge and actions, that is, ten stones per person, regardless of whether you are a peasant soldier, a soldier, or a samurai, you must bring enough soldiers anyway, you can have more or less, and you will not be rewarded for more. Less deprivation of knowledge and action!

This is simply pulling people to join the battle!Not to mention being in charge of weapons, you have to be in charge of food during the battle, right?And a warrior with a hundred stones, who collects a hundred stones of food a year, is only a hundred guan in exchange for money. For a whole year, you don’t need to eat, drink, socialize, dress decently, or buy weapons?Many samurai owed a large sum of money to the merchants for a year, and the products of the territory were shipped away to the merchants before they could touch them.So maintaining an army is very difficult.

What's even more difficult is that you lead people to participate in the battle, and you will be rewarded if you win, and you will be responsible for the loss if you lose.What if it was lost because of you?Well, either let you commit suicide and apologize, or deprive you of your knowledge and actions.Therefore, although Zhixing warriors have a piece of their own territory, no one can deprive them of it when they are free, but they are also very poor and hard-pressed.Therefore, Zhao Hu was able to receive food and salary after receiving Zhixing, which definitely attracted people's envy, because people with five hundred stones who knew Zhixing were probably not as chic as Zhao Hu.

Knowing that the Ling family's territory actually has more than 12 shi, Zhao Hu was a little shocked.He thought that his lord was the Lord of Ten Thousand Stones, but he didn't expect to be the Lord of Hundred Thousand Stones!Although there are 50 stone lords and million stone lords on it, this is also very awesome.

It's just that after Zhao Hu analyzed the information, he felt a little helpless. The lords of this place are all unlucky.The Ling family is located in a place called Dongsheng Kingdom, which is about [-] square kilometers. A place the size of a county is called a country, a place the size of a town is called a county, and a place the size of a village is called a township. Then a village is called a county. A few flat lands and a few hills.

Dongsheng country is near the sea, there are several big rivers meandering by, and there is a traffic artery connecting east and west. It can be said that the land is fertile, the transportation is convenient, and it can also produce seafood. Anyone who occupies this country can immediately become a There are countless overlords in the world.

The sad reminder is that there are 7 counties in Dongsheng Country, and the five wealthiest counties have been semi-unified. What is semi-unification?That is, half of the territory fell into the hands of one family, such as Donglai County where the Ling family is located and Qingshan County where the Qiao family is located.

If there is no accident, these five semi-unified counties can definitely unify the entire county!But an accident happened, and I don't know how it was done in the first place. The territories of the five semi-unified forces are all intertwined, and the forces of the half of the county that have not been unified are all behind them.

In other words, the five big guys fought with each other, while the little guys from the five counties stayed behind the big guys, and while uniting with each other to keep warm, they fought against each other to become the sixth big guy.Of course, the more important thing is to keep holding back the five big guys, and absolutely not let the five big guys turn around and eat the little guys like themselves.

For example, the Ling family, if there is only one enemy of the Qiao family, or if there is one more, then they must give up certain benefits, and they must secure the enemy, and then turn around and eat the bastard behind them!
But it's a pity that any family is facing four enemies. Although everyone is in the same state and wants to turn around and eat the bastard behind them, no one wants to watch their enemies dominate the whole county, and then turn around and eat themselves , Therefore, the five big guys were restricted like this.

The five big guys are very sad. The family that controls half of the territory of a county can coerce the other forces in the county, make them submit, and lead these cannon fodder to fight.

But as I said before, the five counties are connected together, and the little guys in the five counties are all huddling together to keep warm, so if any big guy dares to do a unified behavior on the surface, he will definitely be punished. The boycott of all forces in the five counties!

And this is why the battle between the Ling family and the Qiao family were all soldiers of their two families, and there was no foreign minister.Because these five families are all lords of [-] shi, there is no system of foreign ministers at all!It used to be there, but it was all gone under the unremitting efforts of those little guys.

After getting these information, Zhao Hu, who counted with his fingers, couldn't help being a little stunned.I found out that this Dongsheng Kingdom is incredible, the five lords add up to almost 60 shi, including the other half behind their buttocks, the five counties alone have 120 million shi, and there are two counties left!
Although those two counties are more chaotic, each county has more than 20 thousand stone lords, but isn't it more than 40 stone in total?The entire Dongsheng Kingdom is as high as 70 million stones!
After counting this number, Zhao Hu couldn't help but yelled and cursed.No wonder Dongsheng Kingdom has been in such chaos, and there has never been a king. How can this place be so rich?As long as you become the lord of the country, you will immediately be at the level of a million-stone lord, which is much poorer than those who have unified seven or eight countries and have not yet reached the million-stone level!

It's no wonder that there has never been an awesome lord to rise up. The awesome characters with a little bit of a sign died due to various inexplicable reasons before they grew up.This is the work of the surrounding forces, they will never allow the Dongsheng Kingdom to be unified!
It's just a bit hard to stay in such a place, and it is estimated that there is no way to expand externally.The top five inside are biting each other, and a large number of piranhas outside are making troubles back and forth. What's more, there are still a group of inexplicable guys watching over the outside. Whoever dares to take the lead in this place will be attacked by a joint attack, and they will not stop until you are wiped out. !

(End of this chapter)