In fact, the Sheriff of Bunas did not dare to capture 500 prisoners. He could only turn a blind eye even to the slightly powerful gangsters in Bunas City.
The rule of the kingdom is based on the support of the nobility and plutocrats. In order to maintain the privileges of the nobility and plutocrats, the entire kingdom has always maintained a fairly loose management system for private armed forces.
Nobles have knights under them. Knights were originally noble soldiers who fought on horseback, but now they have developed into a title.
These noble lords have their own guardian knights under their command. These guardian knights are appointed by the nobles themselves. They are only limited in number and do not need to be reported.
According to the laws of the kingdom, the baron should have three knights under his command, the viscount should have ten under his command, the earl can have thirty knights under his command, and the duke can have one hundred knights as his private army.
Because in ancient battles, knights did not exist alone. A complete knight establishment included a servant who led the horse and did chores, two cavalrymen who covered the flanks of the knights during mounted battles, and a waiter who was responsible for maintaining the armor, raising horses and providing food.
handyman...
Therefore, a knight included a lot of miscellaneous subordinates. At that time, a knight had to support about 7 followers.
Since then, this kind of knight organization has developed to the present day, and has undergone tremendous changes over time.
First of all, in terms of quantity, a guardian knight is no longer just a team of 7 people. These guardian knights usually lead 30 to 50 soldiers, which is a serious overstaffing situation.
On the one hand, the kingdom's top officials hope to use the knighthood system to reserve the army that the country cannot afford and maintain the country's war readiness standards. On the other hand, the nobles themselves also need private armies to protect their own interests, so this system does not distinguish between public and private affairs.
It continues to this day.
But as time goes by, this seemingly mutually beneficial system gradually decays as time goes by.
The nobles are getting richer and richer, and they are more and more willing to raise more private armies to consolidate their power and suppress dissatisfied common people.
The status of businessmen is also getting higher and higher, they have more resources, and they also need the army to protect their businesses.
As a result, there are more and more private armies, management is becoming more and more chaotic, and everyone's private armies are becoming more and more out of control.
Of course, this is not a common phenomenon. Many nobles who are not good at business cannot actually afford to support so many knights and private troops. Therefore, they often only have a few guards.
In the same way, some knights have great families and are nobles themselves, and may have hundreds of private armies. Some knights are poor and may not even be able to afford a wife.
In such an environment, many knights who originally belonged to the nobility became mercenaries who specialized in managing private armies for the plutocrats.
For example, the Cyric Consortium has thousands of private troops in the Kingdom of Wright to protect Cyric's interests and industries. This private army is so large that even the king cannot mobilize it.
Coupled with some special cases regarding the military within the country, the military management system looks even more chaotic.
Take the Kingdom of Wright as an example. This country has various armed forces, including the following categories. The largest is the "Central Army" that obeys the king's orders, followed by the private army of the Cyric plutocrat, which is too big to lose, and then there are those assigned near the border.
For the "border guards" of each territory, as well as the private armies of each noble knight.
Count Fishereau's Northridge Corps is the "border defense force" of the border territories. This force is trained by Fishereau, and the expenses are paid for by Count Fishereau himself. During the war, it is responsible for cooperating with the king's "Central Army" to fight.
The private army of the Cyric plutocrat, which cannot be eliminated, is not at the command of the king. It is just a cancer outside the law and protecting Cyric's interests.
In short, the entire social system has been corrupted, and many of the original laws and old customs have been completely destroyed, but everyone is still accustomed to certain frameworks of this system to a certain extent.
However, if someone is willing to cause trouble, there are still laws to check in many aspects. This is why Count Fisherow gave Tang Mo a knighthood.
If someone really caused trouble, Tang Mo could at least avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble by relying on his title of Earl Knight.
Of course Tang Mo hopes that he can become the guardian knight of the nobles, because this is the first step to enter the noble class.
Only by becoming a true knight can he be canonized as a baron by the king for meritorious service or other messy reasons. In a sense, he is only one step away from the previously unattainable Baron Stella.
It's just a level up.
"Then thank the Earl for your appreciation for me." Tang Mo smiled and recognized the name: "Thank him for his support."
"The Earl knew that you would become a noble sooner or later, so he deliberately asked me to tell you that he never meant to treat you as a subordinate." Tiger added.
"Well...it's just a false name." Although Tang Mo was cheating outside under the name of the earl, he never thought that one day he would be under the influence of others and become the earl's true subordinate. Therefore, when he heard the earl's instructions, his face changed.
The smile on his face became even thicker.
He pointed in the direction of the factory and introduced to Tiger, who had just returned: "I have prepared a new batch of guns. You will be responsible for packing them in the boxes and sending them to the earl as quickly as possible."
"As for you, just stay here! Train these farmers from Beiling for me." As he said this, he walked towards the workers and young men who had come from afar.
"It seems we have a lot of work to do today." Tang Mo looked at Weiss with a smile on his face.
Weiss's face was covered with a somewhat unnatural expression, and it was obvious that he still hadn't figured out why so many people from Beiling came all of a sudden.
However, he quickly brought his attention back to Tang Mo: "Yeah, it's not easy to accommodate so many people."
"There are quite a few recruits here who know how to pitch tents. We came all the way and camped a few times. There are also tents..." Tiger immediately entered the state.
Tang Mo nodded and said helplessly again: "Then we can only give them a hard time and let them live in tents first. Weiss... try your best to put women and children into wooden houses. It will be safer."
There is no way. Although the number of wooden houses around the entire workshop has increased at a speed visible to the naked eye in the past few days, there is no way to accommodate so many people at once.
What's more, not only people, but also a large amount of materials transported from Beiling - including food that can feed two thousand people for a whole month!
Bag after bag of grain was carried from the carriage. This grain not only made the workers in the entire workshop feel at ease, but also stabilized the mood of the immigrants who followed.
Now that they have enough food, everything can continue as usual - living, working, and the ordinary cycle repeats itself every day.
Immediately afterwards, some carriages following behind also began to unload, including heavy iron ingots and carts of coal.
There were also some valuable chemicals that Tang Mo named Tiger to bring, including some oil and some other messy things.
Of course, modern industry also includes the chemical industry. Only when chemical preparation processes are developed can many modern industries be able to develop downwards.
Tang Mo didn't want to be stuck by the lagging behind in a certain link when he needed it. He didn't have that much time to waste.
"I'm going to Bunas in a while. With so many immigrants arriving at once, it's necessary to report to the mayor." Tang Mo decided that the problems that needed to be solved first should be solved first.
It is definitely not a small thing that so many people came to Bunas, started working for him, and started to build a factory that had never appeared on a large wasteland.
If this kind of thing can be concealed, then Tang Mo can apply for KBG. In fact, there is not much he can do. He can only rely on distance, bribery and other means to delay Cyric's reaction time as much as possible.
"I brought a personal letter from the Earl. If the mayor still dares to make trouble after reading this letter and seeing so many people under your command, then I also admire his courage." Tiger said.
He took out an envelope from his arms, which was also sealed in red with the emblem of the Earl's Wolf Head clan embossed on it.
Because Beiling's decision was to cooperate with Tang Mo, Alice tried her best to think of the details of dealing with local officials for Tang Mo. She was a veteran and a local snake in this area, and she was more familiar with it than Tang Mo.
joint.
This saved Tang Mo a lot of trouble, and he could devote more energy to his "inventions".
"Huh? Why didn't you see Loew? Where did he go? Where are the mercenaries you recruited? Why is Wes the only one left?" Tai, who has been studying with Loew, Bernard and others for almost a month
Ge, at this time, he asked about his friend Loew.
Tang Mo shrugged his shoulders and replied vaguely: "I asked him to take people to the wild for survival training. I don't think he will come back in the next ten days. I hope they can live happily in the vicious forest."
"Okay..." Tiger didn't ask further. He saw that there seemed to be trouble in the distance, so he shouted loudly to his men unloading the goods behind the carriage: "Hey! Pay attention to those barrels! You are crazy.
Is that so? That’s gunpowder! Be careful! If you don’t want to live anymore, just say so!”
"Don't have an accident! This is all money!" Tang Mo warned Tiger from the side: "Let your people settle down as soon as possible. We will hold a welcome party in the evening and prepare a slightly sumptuous dinner for everyone...Wes
, go tell Aunt Trish about this decision..."
"No problem." Wes nodded, nodded slightly in greeting to Tiger, then turned around, pressed the two revolvers on his waist, and left majestically.
