Extra: How to establish a legal armed organization
In a background dominated by conflict and chaos, violence is the primary factor in judging the value of an individual or group and is the basis of everything.
To put it bluntly, the structure of most kingdoms is no stronger than that of joint venture chambers of commerce. At least chambers of commerce still have common interests most of the time, while kingdoms are essentially alliances made up of a bunch of large and small military groups.
The general level of governance of these military groups is so limited that many of them adopt a "colonial" style of governance - with castles and fortresses as the center, while ensuring control of transportation hubs and major towns, and subcontracting the rest to vassals
knight.
The rough packaging and division of land and population taxation resulted in a short-term rapid increase in standing professional military forces, but seriously overdrafted territorial control.
The above embarrassing situation often makes people feel that the lord is a powerless farmer who regularly harvests the fruits of freely growing crops on his own farm, rather than actually ruling the land and the people on it.
Even if the people on the land are replaced, as long as the castle is not affected, it will have little impact on the ruler. Farmers only care about whether the wheat grains are full, and will not care about the variety of straw, unless the straw mutates to the extent that it hinders harvesting.
This means that there is actually a huge power vacuum in the land that seems to be divided up by various lords like a puzzle. Only the key towns under direct jurisdiction may be regarded as the real territorial citizens.
Even these citizen classes are gradually emerging, seeking partial autonomy from the control of the lords. Some of them accumulate wealth, and some combine with the church. After gaining enough influence and force, they force the local traditional forces to make concessions.
As a result, free cities were formed one after another, forming alliances with each other to consolidate their autonomy, and exchanged economic and taxation capabilities for compromises with the great nobles or kings.
The whole situation is chaotic, but there is no doubt about one key point - violence.
Violence is the base of the king's crown, the basis for the lord to maintain his rule, and the guarantee of a free city. Everyone needs it.
Various armed forces outside the traditional army have emerged, including militia teams organized spontaneously in cities, mercenaries who accept a variety of payment methods, brotherhoods with complex composition but common goals, security corps, rangers, bandits, and soldiers who broke out.
Class anarchist armed forces.
Most of them exist objectively, but are not very recognized.
So, is there a flexible and legal organization that is recognized by the mainstream view, has independent decision-making and management, independent financial operations, reliable military quality, qualified ideological construction, is allowed to own territory, and undertakes special functions?
The answer is that it does exist, and those in need can consider forming a knighthood.
Of course, this is not easy. The Knights are not a simple army, but a special organization with multiple levels of religious, military, and government significance. It requires a large number of complex and difficult prerequisites and a long and tedious but indispensable process.
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In Kraft's view, the whole process is actually closer to applying to establish an activity club in college.
First of all, the association needs a positive and healthy purpose of activities. The knights usually have to have a clear, at least lofty purpose and mission, such as defending holy places, participating in wars, and resisting foreign enemies.
It is not impossible to undertake medical work and resist all desecration of life, but it is not so specific.
Secondly, as a "legal" organization, the association needs to be approved by the school, and the knights must also be recognized by the church or secular authority. It is best to have both as a prerequisite for obtaining legal status and resources.
It’s not too difficult in terms of secular authority. Duke Westminster’s statement has enough authority and I believe no one will refute his face. The church is a little more troublesome, but with the mediation of someone, an agreement was actually reached.
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The bishops and archbishops were willing to give permission, but were unwilling to meet in person or even hold a formal ceremony for the matter. It was Green's immediate boss, an old man who looked a bit gloomy, who handed over the corresponding documents and items.
After obtaining authorization, it is time to formulate internal rules and recruit members. A successful knighthood needs to establish a reasonable organizational structure and regulations, recruit members, and build its own foundation brick by brick.
Kraft roughly decided to divide the structure into a medical civilian department responsible for research and translation of results, and a field department responsible for solving specific problems.
It is not too difficult for the civilian staff to solve the problem. He can send letters to colleagues at Port Wenden, Westminster, and Rivers University. Even if acquaintances have no intention of their own, they will recommend students and juniors for selection.
High-quality field personnel are the hardest to find. Among the people he knows, most of those with armed training backgrounds have low educational levels, and those with higher educational levels generally have poor physical fitness and are not suitable for contact with special forces.
Work.
Fortunately, we now have a source. The church is willing to release people, and there are not many people who are interested in joining. There are only twelve people, which is barely enough.
Surprisingly, one of the monks under Green who participated in the exploration of the lake suddenly decided to find a new job. The significance of his joining may be greater than that of five or even ten newcomers.
Just filling the backbone layer is not enough, it also requires several times more auxiliary personnel, attendants, craftsmen, etc. to be responsible for daily chores.
Among these people, ordinary civilians can be hired for marginal jobs, but those with professional skills are not so easy to recruit, and you have to pay a much higher price than normal to get them to follow you.
The Knights will also recruit volunteers, such as wealthy nobles, who will donate some funds and equipment. The Higo family is willing to make up for this in exchange for sharing new potions and detailed usage guides.
Both club activities and knights must have their own activity venues. The venue can be applied for, or you can use your own unique skills to solve it. It may not be big, but it cannot be without it.
The size of the Wood family castle cannot meet this demand, so the site is of course located in the monastery donated by the church. The hilltop, including the surrounding land originally needed to supply the monastery, is theoretically more private than private property, and they enjoy such a small amount that they can pick it up.
Get dry firewood, and have all the rights including taxes.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After solving the event venue problem, it is time to think about how to obtain stable event funds. Obviously, relying solely on funds will not accomplish anything.
Although the newly established Knights currently possess wealth that is unimaginable by ordinary people, it is not very abundant for an organization, especially since the actual liquidity within it is actually not large.
They need to develop their own industries, create industries with sustainable income, meet daily supply and maintenance expenses that will never be low, and some expenses that will never appear on the surface.
Finally, the club needs to hold activities from time to time to demonstrate its value to the student body. The Knights also need to participate in certain necessary activities, such as participating in church ceremonies and providing medical charity services, in order to strengthen their influence and gain prestige and support.
Perhaps the first comprehensive medical institution can be established, with names such as "The First Affiliated Hospital of the Knights Hospitallers", "Integrated Medical and Surgical Hospital Affiliated to Rivers University", "Designated Teaching Hospital of the Tuberculosis and Rare Disease Society", etc. The name should be as long as it needs to be
How long.
He even thought about the logo, so he replaced the ring in the religious emblem with a snake body and used the winged Ouroboros as the symbol, which not only retained the religious elements but also had the familiar snake element.
To be honest, Kraft is not very good at these tasks. Rather than indirectly communicating with one person after another through countless documents to influence their thoughts and behaviors, he prefers front-line clinical work. Although it is busier, it is more practical.
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He was immersed in his busy life until an unexpected visitor arrived
"You even poached Raymond from under me! Raymond?!" Father Green pushed open the clinic door and slammed a transfer application on the table.
During the days when he was still handling various approvals for Kraft in the church, the latter had quietly wielded a pickaxe and poached one of the few talents in the church who could withstand the most difficult test.
The monk followed them to the center of the lake. He was not bewitched by the evil and twisted things underground. Instead, he suddenly decided to change his life plan and join this gang that was full of problems no matter how you looked at it.
However, the Knights are a half-church organization. A monk's job transfer is at most equivalent to changing his job in another department. It does not mean that he has abandoned his faith. In theory, it is blameless.
Thinking that he had a share of credit for the establishment of the Knights, the priest wanted to immediately announce the severance of the cooperative relationship.
"Don't be like this, my brother." Kraft ignored Green's indignation and even changed his title, quite conscious of the identity change. "Isn't it right to call it that? We are the same lambs of the Father. We are one family.
We are equal to each other and no one is subordinate to anyone else, so how can we restrict the brothers’ freedom of choice?”
"What kind of Lamb of Heavenly Father are you!" Green slammed the table, and the water glass jumped and rolled down.
The faith environment has been ruined by people like this. These days, even medical school professors who play with strange magic can openly poach the church and claim to be members of the church. It is impossible to imagine what will happen in a few years.
He was wrong. He thought he could tolerate the existence of a Kraft. However, when this guy wandered around with the title of mentor of the Knights and claimed to be a devout believer certified by the church, he realized that he was wrong. He was so wrong.
Very outrageous.
"To be honest, I originally wanted to ask you and Wading if they had the intention to serve for a period of time. After all, having people familiar with the church's operations would make it easier to get started and spread the gospel of the Lord through the Knights' affiliated hospital.
More people…”
"Craft, stop." The priest interrupted the professor's eloquent sales pitch, "Just for our precious friendship, can you agree to my request?"
"Of course, it's obligatory."
"Pack your people and things. Before next Sunday, I hope your convoy will be driving on the land where the Notre Dame Cathedral can't be seen."
"But isn't the church steeple visible to the entire Dunling?"