celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 146 Standing Army

A standing army must first be loyal.

Brainwashing is one aspect, but profit is the most critical.

For this reason, Luo Yi gave the standing army a very good treatment, and by the way announced the establishment of the standing army at the enfeoffment ceremony, secretly improving the status of the standing army.

In addition to asking for the loyalty of the standing army, Luo Yi's other requirement for the standing army is to be able to fight.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, there were almost no standing armies, and the main force in wars was knights and mercenaries.Occasionally catch some peasants and go to the battlefield, but it is really not enough.

However, some armies were able to fight at the beginning, but gradually lost their combat effectiveness later.For example, the military households of the Ming Dynasty.

Regardless of whether the European peasants in the Middle Ages or the military households in the late Ming Dynasty had almost no combat effectiveness, the main reason was lack of training.

In order to ensure that the standing army can guarantee its combat effectiveness for a long time, Luo Yi formulated a series of related systems.

Before Luo Yi liberated the slaves and allocated them "allocations", he formulated a high "real estate shield tax" for two purposes.

[-]. Suppression of land mergers.

Unless the "allocation" can provide militia service, it will need to pay a high shield tax.If the landlord annexes the "land" but cannot serve, it will be unprofitable.

Second, lay the foundation for all the people to become soldiers and provide excellent sources of soldiers for the standing army.

The shield tax is very high, so in order to avoid paying the shield tax, the public will exercise as much as possible.The soldiers selected under this premise may not have any combat skills, but their physical fitness can meet the standard.

The decree issued by Luo Yi stipulated the specific selection procedures for the standing army: the top five in each event in the manor, went to the main city of the Kingdom during the slack time after the autumn harvest, and participated in the cup competition of six events.

In the first session, the top [-] players in each event will be eligible to join the standing army.

However, after joining the standing army, it is not a lifetime system.

During peacetime, 5% of the standing army will be eliminated internally every three years.And the eliminated 5% will directly participate in the three-year main city sports meeting and compete with others for precious places.

Although the standing army is not even a retinue, after joining the standing army, its economic treatment is obviously better than that of ordinary citizens.Therefore, ordinary citizens naturally rushed to join the standing army.

Luo Yi does not intend to use the standing army as the main force to regain lost ground.

Although Luo Yi can equip the standing army with armor and cultivate excellent heavy infantry.But it would take a long time to train an elite hoplite from scratch, and he couldn't wait.

Luo Yi obviously has a trap faction on hand that can be used, so why not use it?
So he plans to rely on the camp and tiger and leopard riders to attack other kingdoms occupied by orcs.

Regarding the formation of the standing army, Luo Yi is currently not in a hurry.At least the archer squad, the sword and shield squad, and the pike squad, these formations can be selected slowly through the sports meeting, there is no rush.

Since the camp and the tiger and leopard cavalry will soon go on an expedition to other kingdoms, and the Goethe kingdom cannot be completely without troops, so Luo Yi will form the grenadier squad in the standing army in advance.

As long as there is a grenadier team defending the city, even if three thousand orcs attack the city, they can still defend it.

When one hundred citizens who were proficient in throwing homemade grenades were announced as a standing army, the atmosphere in the square suddenly reached a climax.

The onlookers were all so excited that they couldn't contain themselves, and they all shouted: "King of kings!"

"King of kings!"

"King of kings!"

For the people who were only slaves not long ago, even if they were not regarded as the servants of the nobles, it was quite unattainable.

But if the citizens want to become a standing army, it is not a far-fetched delusion.

"Join the standing army--promote to an officer--accumulate military merits and obtain a subordinate leader", such a clearly visible and within reach of the road to class advancement appeared in front of their eyes!

This is simply a greater favor than giving them a share!

Seeing the friends or neighbors they knew before become standing soldiers, the leaders felt a sense of excitement.

Especially those young people, they can't wait to go home and train immediately.Then use your excellent performance when the sports meeting is held to obtain the qualification to join the standing army.

……

The enclosing ceremony can be regarded as dividing the cake.Although Luo Yi got the biggest share, the Earth Crowd, Faction and Tiger and Leopard Riders also got corresponding rewards.

The morale of the trapped camp plummeted after Goethe's siege.This enfeoffment ceremony accelerated the recovery of the morale of the trapped camp.

Luo Yi judged that after three days at the latest, the morale of the trapped camp could return to normal.

So Luo Yi ordered to set off to the neighboring Smo Kingdom in three days, so that everyone was ready to go.

……

After the ceremony, Luo Yi returned to Earth.

Wang Wei was a little dissatisfied with Luo Yi returning to his hometown twice in a short period of time.So when Luo Yi picked her up from get off work, she deliberately kept pouting and didn't talk to Luo Yi.

Fortunately, what happened last time, Luo Yi only said that a friend of his father had a financial dispute with someone else, so he went to help resolve it.

If it was Sun Suxian's father who had the accident, Wang Wei might be jealous.

Until entering the coffee shop, Wang Wei was still playing with a temper, pouting and ignoring Luo Yi.

Luo Yi couldn't help smiling, and reached out to shave Wang Wei's face.

"You can hang oil bottles with your lips pouted. Why are you angry?"

Wang Wei became even more angry, turned sideways and said "hum", but still ignored Luo Yi.

Luo Yisi said to Wang Wei calmly: "Do you still remember that last time a friend of my father encountered a financial dispute?"

Of course I remember it. Why would I be angry if I don't remember it?I always run to my hometown every now and then and don’t miss her at all!
Wang Wei responded with a slanted scorpion.

Luo Yi understood what Wang Wei meant, so he continued.

"My parents didn't know what I was doing in ML. In fact, when I told my parents to work in ML, they thought ML was some unknown [-]th-tier county."

Wang Wei was immediately attracted by this topic.

His parents thought ML was an eighteenth-tier county?

"Later I made money, but I didn't dare to tell the truth to my parents. So I only gave my family 4 yuan in two months."

Wang Wei couldn't help feeling sorry for his uncles and aunts, thinking they were so pitiful.

Luo Yi is too bad!
"The last time I went back to my hometown to help my father's friends resolve financial disputes, it exposed my financial strength."

Wang Wei said "Yeah".

"The uncle's friends will definitely tell the uncle. Did the uncle call you home when he found out, and then gave you a scolding?"

At this time Wang Wei felt that Luo Yi was very pitiful again.

She looked at Luo Yi, stretched out her hand to hold him, and couldn't help showing a look of pity on her face.Because in Wang Wei's perception, being scolded by his father is the most pitiful thing in life.

Luo Yi smiled and shook his head.

"No. But it's about the same."

"Whether my financial strength will be exposed because of the last incident, if I can hide it for a while, can I still hide it from my parents forever?"

(End of this chapter)