Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

The person Richard sent out took Alfons back only after a while. It turned out that Alfons was just about to hand over his demographic statement to Richard, except for the demographic statement. , And the roster of the current city defense army.

As Richard said earlier, Mein has two Viscount collars and six Baron collars, but this does not mean that Richard can only canonize these nobles. It can be seen from the population report that the entire Mein collar There is a city with more than 5,000 people and two towns with more than 5,000 people in the territory. In addition, there are more than a dozen large and small villages and manors. If all together, the population of the entire territory is 13 thousand. About a thousand people.

In addition, deduction of Mein City and the three affiliated villages, even if Richard canonized all the titles, he still has three directly affiliated villages and two estates in his hand. When he got up, there were nearly 6,800 people who directly accepted his rule.

Richard is not prepared to control all the land in his own hands. His current problem is still to consider how many nobles can be canonized. Canonizing aristocrats will reduce income and increase vassal troops. If the income remains the same, the money taken is used to recruit troops and maintain a standing army with high battle strength.

He couldn’t hold back his idea, but at this moment, Alfons said: “Earl, we will leave Mein City tomorrow and return to Touraine. You’d better specify now A city defense officer and a sheriff were handed over smoothly.”

hearing this, Richard nodded, he said: “I will let Simon hand over with you, then you can directly take the command of the city defense army composed of locals. The right is transferred to him.”

It was Richard’s helpless act to let Simon be a city defense officer. The advertisers he recruited were all arranged in the army, and Simon was recruited at the first place. The veteran soldier can be used, and the loyalty of the soldiers can be checked in the system, and Richard does not worry that he will betray him.

Simon was so confused as to be promoted to the position of city defense officer by Richard. As for the sheriff, Richard was prepared to let the mercenary leader Phyllis, who luckily survived, take the post.

The number of the city defense army is only one hundred and 82 people, which is undoubtedly not enough in Richard’s opinion, so he has to recruit some young and middle-aged people from the city to supplement the city defense army, which must be expanded to at least 500 people. And just relying on locals who don’t have loyalty to speak of is not enough, he has to select some veterans from the cavalry and slashing arms to serve as low-level officers.

In this way, the current number of cavalry and cutting units may not be enough. After dealing with the things at hand, Richard has to go back to the world and continue to recruit troops and horses, and recruit adventurers.

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Alfons left soon. After he left, Richard took a parchment and placed it on the table, and began to think about how he needed courtiers He didn’t want to spread the news about him. It was too high-profile, and it might attract a bunch of weird people.

Suddenly, divine light flashed in his mind, he thought of a way.

What he needs most is people from aristocratic families. People who come from aristocratic families have generally learned a few years of culture and are proficient in fighting, so why can’t he send people to find those who have supported him? The family, asked them to introduce some nobles without Fiefdom to work for him. It happened that Richard’s domain still had a large number of titles and lands that had not been canonized, which was enough to attract the nobles who longed for Fiefdom to come.

Of course, in order to ensure that the nobles introduced were not undercover, he decided to start with the three families of his father-in-law, the Lylis family, the natal Fergus family, and the Vareen family, and write separately Letter to the principals of the three families and ask them to introduce some people over.

In addition, Richard also remembered one thing, and drafted a letter and ordered it to be sent to Count Wallis. In the letter, Richard emphasized his friendship with Count Wallis and proposed The two requests to form an alliance promised that if Earl Wallis encounters a war, Richard will send troops to the war as an ally.

The reason why he wrote this letter, or for, was to appease the emotions of Earl Wallis. Although the relationship between the two was very harmonious before, it was because the interests of both parties were not involved. And now Richard has taken away one of the viscounts in his domain. I believe that as long as it is a normal person, you can’t bear it. If you don’t immediately declare that the war is already giving you face, even if Richard is the son-in-law of the Duke of Olsson, he will Can’t intervene in this legal and legitimate war.

That’s why Richard wrote to propose an alliance between the two. He was showing his favor to Earl Wallis and gave him another option. Losing a viscountry in exchange for an Earl-level ally was also It’s not unacceptable. Moreover, Richard was engaged to the only daughter of Duke Olsson on the front foot. As a vassal, he hurriedly jumped out to fight with Richard on the back foot. Isn’t this fiercely hitting Duke Olsson in the face?

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After sending the letter out, Richard started to deal with other things again. He set Neibo (the original lord’s palace was not suitable for continued use, so he was simply (The land was changed to the inner fort) The city defense forces originally stationed in the city were all transferred back to the city wall, allowing the cavalry and hacking units loyal to him to take over the defense of the inner fort.

In addition, there is also a closed blacksmith shop in Naiburg. This blacksmith shop was originally designed to repair weapons for the guards of Naiburg. When the former earl left, the blacksmith and apprentice were taken away together. , So it can only be closed. This gives Richard a convenience. Didn’t Smith always dream of having his own blacksmith shop? This is easy to do. This blacksmith shop belongs to Smith from now on!

After learning that Richard really rewarded him with a blacksmith shop, Smith burst into tears on the spot. He followed Richard to the reopened blacksmith shop and watched that it had not been moved away. The big and small utensils and leftover tools immediately knelt down in front of Richard and said excitedly.

“Lord, thank you very much for your fulfillment of my wish. From now on, I, Smith, will be loyal to you.”

Richard smiled, nodded said: “Blacksmith’s shop Already, Smith, I want you to resume production here as much as possible. Apprentices in need can go to the outer city to recruit. You can also mention tools and raw materials. As long as production can be resumed, I will satisfy you.”

“As you bid.” Smith quickly responded. He flushed, stood up and walked in, looking at the walls and utensils blacked by fireworks, his throat kept surging up and down, he couldn’t help but touched it. With the cold appliance, I couldn’t stop saying okay.

Looking at his performance, everyone around him smiled, and I don’t know who took the lead. People clapped and celebrated for fulfilling their wishes with the companions they’ve lived with. .