Chapter 3: genius? moron?

Du Yu looked solemnly at the account book in his hand, which recorded the food he had just received this month in his territory. Overall, it was still very good. It was a serious imbalance in the balance. This year's rain was sufficient, and the food was rare. A bumper harvest, 30% more than in previous years, but these did not make Du Yu happy,
"Is the food useful?" Du Yu remembered watching the scene of Xingu entering the warehouse a few days ago. The family's tax collector opened the door of the warehouse, and a mildewy smell of grain came out of the warehouse, making Du Yu slightly smothered. Eyebrows, there are piles of grain bags tied with hemp piled up like a hill there, it is obvious that three different shades of color divide the grain pile into three parts.
The granary caretaker pointed at the grain dump. "The top is Chen Gu last year. The middle is the last two or three years. The bottom is hard to say." The granary caretaker said with embarrassment. "Because it is always taken from the top. No one knows how long the bottom grain has been accumulated. The grain in the castle granary is enough for the people in the castle for three years."
Du Yu looked at a bag of new valleys superimposed on it again, and felt very helpless. The Falcon Territory was a traditional grain-producing area, which led to the economy in the territory relying too much on agriculture, almost no commercial economy, typical rural Economic model, because the territory is divided into several pieces, and the taxes in several small towns are very small, but only more than three thousand gold coins. If not all the knights under his command have run out, the money is not enough to open an annuity for the knights. It shows that every year the grain hoarded in the castle is shipped out and sold halfway to fill this hole.
　　Think about the knights who spent a lot of money supporting these families, but escaped without a trace when the family was most in danger. Du Yu couldn't help but hate the knight's sacred appearance and internal dirty profession. Seeing Master’s tight brows, tax collector Stannad’s speculative report
"Each village heard that there is a bounty, and it has already gathered 200 young and middle-aged people. Many of the hunters in the mountains have also participated. The Du Kaili Moore family has already applied for the prosperous Ekari town exchange, which also increased us by 1,000. The income of a gold coin, otherwise..." The tax collector did not continue, but that was a crying face.
"Mountain hunter?" Du Yu, who was looking at the account book, stopped working. In fact, Du Yu couldn't understand what was written on the account book. Those complicated numbers and hundreds of merchants, the tenant's name gave Du Yu felt dazzled and pretended to look at the account book just to show it to the tax collector, so that the tax collector would do less.
Tax collector Stannad saw Lord Lord remove his attention from the account book and secretly relieved. "Yes, there are thirty-eight mountain hunters willing to participate in the levy. These like to run around in the mountains. Barbarians always used to run far as soon as they heard the enlistment. This time they ran back again after seeing the notice of Lord Lord."
It is impossible to fully guarantee that there is no problem with the ledger. As a hereditary tax collector, Stannad believes that he is much more honest than many of his peers. He just concealed some smaller transactions, although the money Not much, but it is enough for my own expenses, and I am already old. How to give this son a safe position is my most concerned issue. The tax collector is a hereditary fatality of all generations.
Du Yu closed the account book on the table, and 3,000 gold coins removed daily expenses, and there were more than a thousand, which was enough to count the bounty for this expedition. This made Du Yu, who had been worried about not enough gold coins, put down heart.
Du Yu raised his head and moved his sour neck. After reading the account book, Du Yu had a certain understanding of the income source of a lord. It was the road tax and the urban head tax in his own territory that determined the gold income of the lord. The income obtained by plundering the enemy lords, the redemption of the hostages, and the king's rewards are some uncertain amounts
The economic area of ​​the kingdom is in the central part near Kyoto, and the northern territory where border trade is prevalent. It is said that the lords there not only have their own caravans, but also established a huge smuggling network. They are the most loyal to the war, the barbarians All kinds of special products and women are the source of their wealth. In the remote areas of the South like the Falcon family, in order to be rich, in addition to a fixed tax, they only have to rob the enemy and grab the land.
　　 "Which book is this, what is it? It's just crying poor!" Du Yu dissatisfiedly placed the book on the table, scaring the tax collector to tremble.
　　 Du Yu looked at the miserable tax collector and asked, "You just asked your son to take your place, you bring him, I need to see my future tax collector"
Soon, the fat tax collector, Taxnator Stannad, led a brave teenager into the hall. I didn't expect the fat tax collector to have such a heroic son, but the teenager's right foot was obviously a bit It's a pity to look limp and walk one after another.
The fat man looked at his new tax officer curiously and asked curiously, "Are you the tax collector's son Statunko? Listen to your father saying, you have been a knight in the Marquis of Skana for a year, how could you Suddenly thought of coming back to be a tax collector, being a knight is more promising than being a tax collector."
The boy's eyes turned round and saw Du Yu sitting on the seat of the lord in the hall. He felt a sudden abruptness in his heart. He felt that Du Yu's sharp eyes seemed to see him thoroughly, making him feel depressed. "Is this an idiot lord circulating outside, how can a person with such a look be an idiot?"
The teenager looked unnaturally said, "Master, I used to be the archer squad leader under the Marquis of Skana, but in the last year's battle, the Kujit shot his right leg and had to come back." Without the appreciation of the prince, Statunko's original vigorous complexion dimmed, and the fingers on both sides pinched into a tight ball.
　　 Du Yu looked at the grief and indignation on the face of the teenager and waved his hand at the tax collector father and son. "You go down first. Since you have been a knight, you should be my lieutenant first. Tomorrow, all the 200 soldiers recruited will be transferred to the castle. I will preside over the training myself!"
Early in the morning, Du Yu came down from the mountain and saw a group of people gathered in the middle hall of his castle. A teenager was circling the horse in the field. It was Statunko, the son of the tax collector, with his wrist skillfully on the horseback. Swing the knife left and right, the light of the knife flying up and down is like a chain of light passing through,
　　 The scarecrow heads, which were the targets, were cut off lightly by Statunko's magnificent drag knife technique, which attracted the peasants and soldiers standing around to applaud. "If the knight who rushed into the hall on that day was riding on a war horse, do not know if he still has a chance to stand here?" Du Yu saw that Statuenko, who was just a slain knight, had such a smooth drag knife technique , And the ability to operate on the right and left immediately, I can’t help but wonder
I don’t know what kind of power a regular knight with a sharp spear, a two-handed sword holding in close combat, and heavy armor in the whole body. It is no wonder that the main fighting force of the kingdom is still a knight. Contend with these war machines that have practiced killing since childhood.
"Adult, what do you think of these recruits?" The well-informed old housekeeper didn't care about the ostentation of the young Statunko. As an old man who served the life of the orthodox knight family, these ostentations were nothing more than fancy slogans. Pediatrics, the task of recruiting soldiers this time is what the old housekeeper cares about.
Du Yu looked at the peasants and soldiers who were called up. Most of them were young and middle-aged men. They held a variety of weapons in their hands, from farming tools to rakes to pig killing knives. I saw the lord Lord coming, although they tried hard one by one. Pretending to be energetic, but long-term malnutrition still leaves marks on their faces and bodies,
　　 The hair is fluffy like chicken coops, his face is yellow, and the whole formation looks messy. After seeing Du Yu frowning slightly, "Such troops can also fight? It is estimated that Statunko can defeat them alone!"
"Hey! This day is really..." Du Yu sighed, there is no way, even such a team still smashes the pot and sells the iron by themselves, dozens of people standing on the right side of the team wearing all kinds of animal leather The archer caught the fat man’s attention,
Although these people have relatively thin bodies, they have thick and developed right arms and sharp eyes, which should be the mountain hunters of various villages in the taxation officer's mouth. These people have the appearance of an army, but they are The animal skin outfit made Du Yu think of "Lambo" first
　　 Thirty-three Rambo! Very good, very powerful, Du Yu cheered himself up with a mental victory method, Du Yu waved to the guard pushing behind his car with weapons. "Move out all the equipped weapons this time, can't I let my territory The people do this to kill the enemy"
This time Du Yu moved 200 weapons from the castle's arsenal to equip his first army. As an old knight family, there is nothing else, but this weapon and equipment is still full of warehouses, accumulated over the years Yes, many of them were seized from the enemy, there are about thousands of them. It seems that the fat chickens are a bit small!
The farmers were curious about the carriage surrounded by weapons. Several farmers picked up a short sword curiously and danced in a pose. The excited face was a bit bleak. "Adult, is this a bit too short? This is for bows and arrows. The defensive sword equipped with the hand, we were killed before we even cut the enemy"
The entire carriage is piled with this half-sword dagger and the siege soldier's special high wooden shield. These are the armor used on the battlefield for the archer. They can't confront the enemy directly. Shock cavalry, the opponent's spear can poke you through the cold three meters away.
　　 As the adjutant Statunko also curiously picked up a short sword from the car, waved a few times in his hand, and then looked at the other things in the car, his face was ugly and green.
"Remove all the equipment on the carriage first." Du Yu waved his hands at everyone under the eyes, and the white fluttering fat on his face made Statunko more sure of his conjecture. "It's over. I heard that the current lord is an idiot.
Du Yu looked at the silly soldiers around him. He took off a tall wooden shield from the wooden frame next to his left hand, held a wooden dagger in his right, and waved his hand to the stupefied Statunko. "Come on, we Let's try it right!" Statunko hesitated, removing a wooden spear from the rear weapon rack and placing a cross in his hand
Du Yu agile forward, with a big shield in his hand, pressed Statuenko with the spear in front and pressed it close to him, "touch!" Statuenke's three-meter long spear After the first blow was blocked by the shield, there was no chance to stab it,
　　 The rifle swept more harder than before, but he kept retreating back helplessly until he reached the wall. He gritted his teeth and watched the close shield sway in front of his nose, but there was no way. Because Du Yu has relied on the cover of the big shield to approach within one meter,
Everyone looked at all this intently, and everyone could see that within this short distance, the short sword in Du Yu's hand was absolutely deadly. Only one assassination with a small movement space was needed to kill Statu Enke killed easily.
　　 Farmers who had been giggling after seeing the majestic Statunko in front, UU reading www.uukanshu.com was no longer laughing after being knocked down by this idiot lord with such a mean and shameless but effective action.
　　Everyone found that a dagger with a large shield was so dangerous! Even the knight Statunko was forced into desperation by this tactic. To
The body shield quickly approached the enemy, shortened the distance and used a dagger to give the enemy a fatal blow. In a highly intensive dogfight, the Roman infantry phalanx tactics with giant shield self-defense and javelin, dagger and other close combat weapons, It's like raising the hilt of a sharp knife and letting out a fatal blow inadvertently.
This once left a deep image of Du Yu, which was also the purpose of Du Yu’s training. The javelin was being rushed by the blacksmith in the castle. 200 people could form a small square. By then, this special force would definitely be able to give the enemy a surprise.
Du Yu threw his dagger and giant shield on the ground. "There is still a month, you will be on the battlefield. If you still want to come back alive, you also want to get a rich bounty. Practicing these is your only chance." When the peasants and soldiers were looking at some weapons, their eyes instead of the contempt just now was a frenzy
"A knight rewards a gold coin, and a lord rewards a piece of land." Many farmers came from the head of that silver coin. Although the front is very attractive, these farmers don't think that the killing machines wearing heavy armor can think of themselves. of,
　　 But Du Yu's demonstration just made these targets that had made farmers feel far away, and suddenly they seemed to be within reach. The ambition in my heart was beating, glory, gold coins, land! Many farmers pushed onto the carriage to pick their own weapons, and relying on Stutunko, who was stunned by the wall, looked back at Du Yu, who turned around and left, feeling a daze. "This is a genius or an idiot." !"