Chapter 85 Recruitment
In the south mountain city of Fulime, Parker asked the civilian government official Bert, "The Xia Kingdom needs a large number of slaves. Bert, how many can the country take out?"
Bert recalled for a moment and replied, "Go back to the monarch, there are at least hundreds of thousands of slaves in his country, but all of these slaves are in the hands of the nobles."
Burt knew the reason Parker asked this, and he also knew that the current situation in the country of Welmet was very bad. If Parker hadn't had a huge army, the surrendered lords would have united to resist.
The reason for the current situation in Welimete Kingdom is that Welimete Kingdom stopped its expansion, which made many lords who were originally convinced and dissatisfied to know that Welimete Kingdom can also be blocked.
The Xia Kingdom had long known that the feudal system of Fulimet had such flaws. When Fulimet stopped expanding, Changsun Sheng came to Nanshan City to tell Parker about the solution.
The solution is to stabilize the current situation, use time to settle, and make the existing territory of the Welfare Mate a foregone conclusion. In addition, effective management and publicity, as long as one or two generations have passed through decades and one or two generations, who will still remember what the lord was like?
However, now it seems that Parker didn't listen to Changsun Sheng's suggestion at all, and he also wanted to use a powerful army to expand so that those insincere powerful people could shut up their mouths.
"Port, how many slave troops are there?" Parker knew that it was unrealistic to let these nobles give their property, so he took the attention of the army.
"Sir, the slave army is 50,000." The Knight Chief Porant was a little anxious about Parker's inquiry. After answering Parker's words, he immediately said: "But Lord, the army of his country is insufficient, if..."
"Port, you need to say nothing about it. The slave army can be reconvened at any time, but now we need the support of Xia Kingdom." Parker interrupted what Portant wanted to continue to say.
At this time, the financial officer Babu, who had been watching aside for a long time, spoke confidently and suggested: "Mr. Monarch, my subordinates have a way to prevent the reduction of their own army and trade with the Xia Kingdom with enough slaves."
"What is the solution? Tell me quickly!" Parker was looking forward to what the young finance official said.
"Return to the monarch, my subordinates believe that the monarch ordered the recruitment of slaves under the nobles in the name of the monarch. If any noble is unwilling, he will remove his noble status on the grounds of violating the monarch's orders. This will not only know that those nobles are sincerely loyal to you, but also make those who refuse to follow the monarch's status lose their noble status and recruit enough slaves."
As soon as Babu finished speaking, Parker shouted loudly: "This method is good. Babu, let's do what you said. This monarch should see which nobles are truly loyal to this monarch!"
"Port, you send an army. If any nobleman doesn't follow you, what do you know next?" Parker knew that he could have his current status, but he still relied on the army.
Polante had long disliked the nobles in China who were disobedient and disobedient. Now that he had this opportunity, he immediately accepted the order and said, "Yes, monarch, my subordinates obey the order, and my subordinates will definitely pay close attention."
"The Lord of the Monarch shall order! All nobles who own slaves must contribute half of the slaves to the Lord of the Monarch to show allegiance. If there is any violation, their aristocratic status will be cancelled!"
Parker's conscript order soon spread throughout the country of Welmet. The conquered and loyalty of the former lords all looked at the army outside the city in fear and handed over the slaves in their hands.
Did they fail to fulfill their noble duties, or did Parker find something to do when he sees them being too comfortable? Why are they starting from slaves now?
It has not been a few years since the troops arrived at the city. Now the country of Fulimet is here to play this trick, which has forced these nobles to make more guesses.
Parker's army was powerful and he successively captured several surrounding territories. If Parker hadn't told them that as long as they were loyal to Parker, the so-called monarch, they would have been able to guarantee their current status.
The lords thought that after they were loyal, they would just pay the tribute on time, send a lot of soldiers to join the army of the Fulimet Kingdom, and declare their allegiance to the outside world. They never thought that things would change after just a few years.
When Parker learned about the attitudes of these nobles and the changes he could perceive, he felt that this decision was not wrong. He did not see the powerful people who were a little restless in the past, but now he saw him respectfully.
He decided that after the matter in front of him, Parker would find some ways to rectify these powerful people from time to time.
"Babu, your method is very good. This monarch rewards you with ten gold coins." Parker rewarded Babu in front of many powerful people. After Babu received the reward and thanked him, he nodded with satisfaction, turned to Bert and asked, "How many slaves are there now?"
"Go back to the monarch, there are more than 100,000 slaves now, but only 30,000 young and strong slaves." Bert was a civil servant, and he was in charge of the slaves he recruited.
Parker ordered Burt: "Get up 50,000 young and strong slaves."
"Yes, Lord Monarch." Although Bert was a little reluctant, he had to accept the order after seeing Parker's methods.
The country of Welcoming Met recruited 100,000 slaves this time. Even if 50,000 young and strong people were handed over, the remaining 80,000 slaves would still be rich after filling the 20,000 losses.
Burt's farm and ranch used a large number of slaves, and Parker's orders were equivalent to causing him to bleed, but when he thought of the extra old and weak slaves, he felt better immediately.
Parker continued to chant to Ba: "Babu, this time you will be on behalf of this monarch to go to Xia Kingdom to discuss using young and strong slaves to exchange for support from Xia Kingdom, but you must succeed!"
As he said that Parker was very expecting Babu. It was precisely because of Babu's outstanding performance that Parker believed in Babu's wisdom very much.
"Subordinate to obey the order!" Babu solemnly claimed the order, but what he thought was that he could finally see how strong his "enemy" was again!
Since his father was assassinated by the assassin of Xia Kingdom, Babu has a deep hatred for Xia Kingdom, but after so many years, he also knows that his strength alone cannot do anything to a country.
Gradually, as time passed, his ideas changed a little. He now decided to make the Welfare Mate country stronger and eventually surpass Xia country. He wanted Xia country to know what regret is!
Chapter completed!