"Reported to Lord Lord, the Xia Kingdom was able to occupy the Hartengtaohai Basin and manage it because the Xia Kingdom implemented a system called the "county system". "Babu went to Guihua City personally, and he still believed in the information he had collected.

"County system?" Parker asked in confusion when he heard Burt's report: "What kind of system is this?"

Babu had already done his job before he came to see Parker. At this moment, he replied confidently: "Lord, if you want to talk about this 'county system', you have to start with the name 'Xia Kingdom'."

"Xia Kingdom? Isn't it the territory of Xia Kingdom?" Parker asked in confusion. In his opinion, the envoy Changsun Sheng, who has always regarded himself as the representative of Xia Kingdom, was just abbreviation for the outside world, just like "Nanshan Territory" calling himself "Nanshan" to the outside world.

Babu shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, Lord Lord, 'Xia Kingdom' is Xia Kingdom. Xia Kingdom is not a territory, but a title that is higher than 'territory'. These Xia people call it 'country'."

"What is 'country'? What is 'summer'?" Parker asked quickly when he heard that it was a higher-level force than the territory.

Babu explained: "Return to Lord Lord, the 'country' is a very powerful territory with very large land. In the eyes of these Xia people, the title of 'country' can no longer describe their power, so their monarch established the 'country'."

"And my subordinates don't know what the meaning of 'Xia' means. According to the Xia people in Guihua City, this word seems to have a meaning, but my subordinates don't understand what they said." As he said that, Babu also sighed. This is a language problem, and he has no choice, at least for a short period of time.

"Well, I know the name of Xia Kingdom. What does the 'county system' have to do with this name?" Parker signaled to Babu and said the key point.

"Yes, Lord Lord." Babu responded and then said: "The 'county system' of Xia State is to subdue other territories under one lord. The lord of Xia State is called 'monarch', which means the same. It is a higher-level title than 'lord'."

"What? Is it a higher level title than the 'Lord'?" Parker asked in surprise. He usually felt superior to his lord's identity. Unexpectedly, someone told him now that the lord's identity is nothing great, and there is a higher rank on it.

Babu was surprised at the lord and was not surprised. He just thought about the lord's problem for a while and said, "Lord can regard this title as a title above the 'duke', but this title can only be called this by the master of a force."

"Above the Duke? There are still titles above the Duke? I really couldn't imagine that!" The Duke is already the highest title in this world. If Xia Kingdom is really a more powerful force than the Duke, then many of the current situations are reasonable.

In this world, the Duke's territory must have a population of more than three million. With so many people, the land area is inevitable, and the number of soldiers will not be small.

According to the world's regulations, the population of Xia Kingdom now is not as high as a duke-level territory, even the territory of the marquis level (more than one million) cannot catch up.

"Yes, when I heard this, I was also surprised." Babu said, thinking about what he saw and heard when he came to Guihua City some time ago, just like people from two worlds.

"Don't worry about this for now, you'll just tell me about the 'county system' of Viscount." Parker originally wanted to call himself "Suit Lord", but when he thought of what Babu said just now, he changed his name.

The title of "Lord" can be used as this title, no matter which title, the size, strength and weakness of the territory, and it is already the identity of these lords. It is worth mentioning that when it reaches the level of "Duke" and "Marquis", there are more lords who claim to be titles.

Babu replied: "The 'county system' of Xia State is combined with their 'county'. The 'county system' means dividing the land of the territory into 'county' and sending officials as chiefs so that the monarch can directly manage the local area."

Looking at Parker's puzzled gaze, Babu thought for a while and gave an example: "Lord Lord, it's like our Nanshan leader has many villages, and the village has a village chief. The village must listen to the management of our civil servants. Xia State has set up another 'county' on the village to manage several or more villages in a place, and the 'county' is to set up another county to manage several to more than a dozen counties on the 'county'. On it, we civil servants, and we all obey the orders of the lord."

After Babu said this, not only Parker, but even Polante on the side understood it, even faster than Parker.

Because the army under Polante is divided into small team leaders, and the likes of brigade captains, isn’t this the same thing?

So Polante interrupted, "Isn't this the hierarchy in the army? What's the difficulty?"

When they heard Polante's words, Parker and Bab all rolled their eyes at him, and were speechless at the Cavaliers who were not active in administration. If it were as simple as Polante said, they would not have had a headache about these things.

After Babu explained the key points of the "county system" in detail from beginning to end, Parker also knew the advanced nature of this system.

"Isn't it a wonder that the Xia Kingdom dared to launch an annexation war? This is sufficiently prepared!" Parker sighed after hearing Babu's explanation.

But then Parker asked Polante seriously: "Captain, two months have passed now, how are the army training?"

Parker asked this because he had decided to be a 'monarch'! He also wanted to learn from the Xia Kingdom and turn the surrounding territories into their own land.

Babu's explanation of the "county system" of Xia State made him lose his last worries. The remaining obstacles were just the issue of officials' acceptance of their fate, but is this a problem? His subordinates have so many nobles and their descendants, so they are not afraid of no one managing them.

As for administrative divisions, it’s not too late to divide them after you build the territory!

Polante bowed and replied very seriously: "Report to Lord Lord, the training of the recruits has been completed, and the remaining food and grass is enough for the soldiers to eat for half a month. You can launch an attack at any time!"

"Okay! Immortal Viscount didn't wait for other territories, so I decided to take action first and start an annexation war!" Parker was shocked and ordered: "Knightmaster, there are only four baron-level territories around the territorial territory. Immortal Viscount limited you to capture these four castles within one month."

"Sir, obey the order!" Porant could be regarded as waiting for this order. On this day, he waited for the arrival of the 30,000 sets of weapons and equipment in the warehouse of Guihua City.

Polante is a knight commander, a warrior, and his honor is obtained from the battlefield! - No warrior can withstand the temptation of honor.

Sixty thousand troops! Polante led these sixty thousand soldiers to attack from east to west, along the border of the Nanshan Territory, from south to north, and then from north to south, and easily captured four baron territories.

After capturing these four territories, the army led by Nanshan not only did not decrease, but increased by 10,000. These were all troops that surrendered from surrounding territories.

As for the powerful people in these territories, they all became prisoners and were detained to Nanshan City.

The war of annexation of the Nanshan territory surprised all the surrounding territories, but then they reacted, and they were nervous about what they should be nervous, what they should be united, and what they should be prepared.

As long as the Nanshan Leader withstood the first wave of counterattack, the world outside Shanhaiguan will inevitably enter the era of war!
Chapter completed!