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The envoys will stay in the fertile field until the arrival of the new Supreme Commander of the Steppe Dispatch Army, who will select 80,000 cavalry before resuming the journey.

"The new commander-in-chief of the grassland dispatch army is Marquis Ji Buji, and the deputy commander is Marquis Xu Zhixu."

"Awesome, right? Several wars against the steppe Hu people resulted in one duke and three marquises. ”

"Your Majesty attaches great importance to the original Hu people, and once said that the grassland Hu people will be a great harm to the empire, and if it is not completely solved, it will plague the empire for thousands of years."

"So, the empire has two marquises, seven marquises, another duke and one marquis, one is a fifth-class duke who handled civil affairs and was awarded a fourth-class marquis, and one is a fourth-class marquis who was awarded the battle of the Southern Expedition."

The two current dukes of the empire are Sima Xin and Xiao He, and the seven marquis are Ji Bu, Gongwei, Xu Zhi, Luo Shao, Xiong Xin Han Cheng, and Ji Xia, most of whom are military marquises. The total number of counts, viscounts, barons, and lords below the marquis is nearly 800, of which only 20% are knights of non-military merit. Among the nobles who were not knighted for military merit, forty percent came from the civilian system, and sixty percent came from other fields.

What are the so-called other areas? For example, the master craftsman Jiang Kuo, who developed smelting technology, and then developed firearms, was awarded the title of first-class earl. There were many more who had achieved success in the field of scientific research and other fields, and who created or innovated certain technologies that would have played an indelible role in the development and progress of the empire, and thus received the title of nobility.

"Nobles above the baron can have fiefs, where did you choose your fief?"

"Huaiyin."

"That's right, you're from Huaiyin, but with your title of fourth-class baron, you can't include the entire Huaiyin in the fief, right?"

"Well, I chose a village in the suburbs. That's where I used to be. ”

"That's great, in the future, forty percent of the taxes paid by that village will become your income."

"Hmm."

The nobles of the empire can have fiefs, and the higher the title, the larger the fief, and the nobles can already be called lords, but the size and command of the nobles at each level are different. For example, there is only a partial right to tax, like a type with autonomy, like a type with patent rights. Each of the different definitions also relates to responsibilities and obligations, but there is no such thing as full autonomy.

"Duke Sima, the fief he chose was in the Wudong Plain in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, everyone thought that he would choose a fief in Qin, but in the end everyone guessed wrong."

"The Wudong Plain is a good fiefdom, which is located on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, connecting the river systems of Ba, Shu and Hanzhong. Water transport is very well developed. ”

"Yes, Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong want to go out and take water transportation is much simpler than land, plus Shi Lu was instructed to plan and build the Ling Canal, and in the future, water transportation will be directly connected to Qindi, and there will be more ships going south through the upper reaches of the Yangtze River."

"The hussar general wants to build the city by himself, His Majesty has approved it, and the ruling government will issue the relevant auxiliary funds, and the hussar general only needs to contribute half of the cost of building the city. The other half is spent by the Empire. ”

"yes, so the first ten years. Eighty percent of the income from Duke Sima's fief was to be handed over to the imperial treasury. ”

Imperial aristocratic fiefs, no matter what form of fiefs, large and small nobles have to hand over at least forty percent of their income to the center, such as Sima Xin's fief that builds a new city and invests funds in the center, it depends on how they negotiate, and how much to add to the original basis to determine the time and amount. That's the completion of the contract.

If you observe carefully, in fact, the empire ruled by Lu Zhe is similar in form to the canonized nobles of the Chinese dynasties, for example, Han Xin's fief is a village, then he is a village baron, that is, the so-called "village man". Sima Xin will have a city. That city is the size of a county, so it is a county duke, and the abbreviation is called "county duke".

Other marquis, earls, and viscounts are also based on fiefdoms to become a nobleman with a territory, and the difference between other dynasties is just that the pavilion marquis, the marquis of the village, the marquis of the village, the marquis of the township, the marquis of the county, and the difference between the marquis, the so-called difference is that there are not so many "marquis", and the title is further subdivided.

"Marquis Ji's fief was selected in Yugan of Lujiang County, and Marquis Xu's fief was selected in Juzhang of Huiji County, looking at the fiefs chosen by the nobles are mostly places with water systems, and the convenience of water transportation must have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!"

"There is only one stream on the edge of Huaiyin, is it also considered water transportation?"

"You are a native complex, most of the fiefs chosen by the higher nobles are not their hometowns, and only the low-ranking nobles will choose their hometowns."

"Archon and Imperial Duke Xiao He, the fief he chose is Pei County."

"Uh...... Duke Xiao is the exception, is the exception. ”

"Liu Bang, the chief envoy of the envoy and the baron of the empire, the fief he chose was the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County."

"It's said to be Surabaya, and of course there is a water system next to it!"

Han Xin was too lazy to deal with the far-fetched Yu Fanjun, and he also felt that it was not interesting to talk about the topic of the imperial aristocracy.

When the rulers of the empire became emperors, and almost 800 people became nobles, they left Nanling and set out on their way to Central Asia, which was still bustling with activity, with the new nobles enthusiastically or cautiously choosing their fiefdoms, some of which were accepted and some of which were dismissed. Those nobles who got the fiefdom they wanted, large and small drinking feasts continued. Those who didn't get the fiefdom they wanted were running up and down, and naturally they were indispensable for drinking and feasting one after another.

There are too many drinking banquets, and the sales volume of wine in the Nanling market has reached a new high, and there is no place for each restaurant if it is not reserved in advance. There is too much food to eat and drink, and all kinds of new and old foods are filled with every piece of the table and are cooked into delicacies, as if more ways to eat will be studied under the atmosphere of eating and drinking.

"I'm kind of missing Yusheng."

"This is the Hetao, where did it come from? Besides, you seem to be from Zhao Di, right? Why do you like it too? ”

"Or is it Your Majesty's only apprentice, don't you know that you don't call people in a certain place now? They are all directly enclosed by the name of the county, and to be more precise, the name of the local area. In addition, I am from Lujiang County, where is Zhaodi. ”

"It's Chudi...... It's a Lujiang person, no wonder he likes to eat bridle. ”

"Hey! All of you...... The people over there are also very fond of it. Good no good. ”

"I don't like it, listening to Your Majesty, eating raw food will make it easy to get sick, especially aquatic products have the most bacteria and parasites in it, and if you eat too much, your stomach will be full of worms. This is the reason why people who eat it regularly will have a much larger belly than those who don't. ”

"Ah!? It's true? ”

"Your Majesty said it."

"That's true!"

Yu Fanjun was touching his stomach. A look of fear. In his impression, it seems that people who eat a lot of belly are much bigger than usual, even if they exercise regularly, they are relatively large.

"Do you really grow bugs?!"

"If you cut your stomach open with a dagger, take out the intestines inside, and dissect it, won't you find the answer?"

"Who would cut open their own belly!!"

"That's right, well...... it's true that someone has dissected the corpse and found bugs in the stomach. The doctor in charge of the dissection said that the bugs that stuck to the mucous membranes of the large and small intestines were a parasite. The longest parasite was found, more than a meter long after stretching. ”

"No, don't...... That's it! ”

"Huh!"

Is Han Shin scary? No! He wasn't scaring Yu Fanjun, it was the empire that had really done the relevant dissection, but it wasn't the people who dissected the empire, it was the Baiyue people who dissected. And the dissected Baiyue people often ate raw aquatic products, and finally died of abdominal distention.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... Why is it not forbidden to eat raw aquatic products? ”

"Are you kidding? How could His Majesty issue a relevant prohibition order, and if he wanted to issue it, he would only issue a persuasion order. I have also issued persuasion orders more than once, but some people don't care. Someone didn't see it. Like you, it's obvious that you are a person who doesn't pay attention to the current situation of the people. only cared about military affairs, and did not pay attention to the people. ”

Yu Fanjun was silent, he really didn't pay so much attention to the people, and all his energy was focused on military affairs. That's when he wants to climb up, get higher positions and fight for more opportunities. This time he was able to become the deputy commander of the escort of the legations. Isn't it also the result of his focus on military affairs?

The sound of the horn made Han Xin and Yu Fanjun, who were chatting in the tent, run out, and they pulled someone to ask, only to know that a senior general of the grassland dispatch army had come to Woye.

The senior general of the Grassland Dispatch Army is really high, and the person who came is Deputy Commander Xu Zhi, who brought 20,000 troops. Fifteen thousand were cavalry, and the other five thousand were infantry in vans.

"That kind of van, I heard that the Empire's manufacturing department has been rushing to build it lately."

"Well, it's a military vehicle that can be used to transport soldiers, and it can also be used to load grain and other baggage. When they are connected, they become a line of defense. ”

"I've seen a model where the carriage can be opened, and when opened, what is revealed is a huge multi-shot crossbow, with a crossbow arrow length of at least two meters and two, and it can fire thirty bed crossbows at a time."

"Well, the one you are talking about is the model of equipment, and the troops who are out of the jam this time will carry a lot of vans of the kind you mentioned."

It's not just the Wehrmacht sequence that has vans, in fact, there is no shortage of vans in the missions, it's just that there aren't so many, and the reason for this naturally doesn't need to be explained too much, it's nothing more than inappropriate.

The 20,000 troops brought by Xu Zhi did not get close to the camp of the envoy group, they drove directly into the camp of the military, and about an hour later, someone came to spread the word, saying that they were asking the person in charge of the envoy to go over.

There are not many people in charge, that is, Liu Bang, Chen Yu, and Han Xin, when they entered the national defense barracks, the troops that had just arrived had already been properly placed. Others may not have noticed, but Han Xin, who knew about the firearms unit, saw soldiers wearing combat uniforms of the firearms unit.

The number of firearms troops in the empire is not large, and the people who know about firearms troops are even rarer, Liu Bang and Chen Yu saw soldiers in strange clothes, but they couldn't guess what kind of troops it was.

The military also seems to have a sense of secrecy, and the firearms soldiers do not carry firearms when they hang out, but they are equipped with swords at their waists, but their clothing is more conspicuous than that of other soldiers.

"The Empire's military uniforms have been reformed again?"

"It looks like ......"

"I'm not talking to you."

"Humph!"

Fighting, fighting, fighting! Liu Bang and Chen Yu always have to choke each other whenever they appear on the same occasion, and Han Xin is no longer surprised.

The Wehrmacht's camp in Woye is very large, the range is estimated to cover an area of 30 miles, from entering the gate to arriving at the Chinese army, there are many checkpoints along the way, if there is no messenger of the officer to show the token, the idle people and so on can not approach the Chinese army camp at all.

The closer you get to the Chinese military camp, the more firearms soldiers you see on the road, most of them are chatting with the robes of other arms, and it seems that they are learning some common sense in northern Xinjiang?

If I remember correctly, Han Xin actually has a firearms unit that has commanded a school, he knows the firearms arms, and many of the firearms soldiers he saw in the camp are also people he knows, but he didn't greet those soldiers, but his eyes kept patrolling, as if he was looking for something.

Han Xin was looking for artillery, and he did see the cannons wrapped in cloth, the big ones whose bodies were covered with cloth, and they only exposed the base, that is, the two wheels of the gun carriage.

"What's that? It looks very long, and its body is round. Liu Bang was just asking casually.

This time, Chen Yu didn't look at himself anymore, but he also looked at the cannon covered by the cloth curiously.

There was no extra time to stay, and after entering the position of the Chinese military camp, the officers who led the way obviously accelerated the pace of their steps, and walked in a hurry, but even if they deliberately accelerated their pace, they still walked for nearly half an hour before approaching the Chinese army's big tent.

The big tent of the Chinese army looks very large, about 50 meters in size, and it is indeed very large compared to the general tent of only five square meters.

The Chinese army tent itself has the purpose of bringing together generals and schools at all levels for meetings, and the commander also needs to place sand tables, books and other things, and the tent is naturally much larger.

At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army was wide open, and from a distance, you could see Xu Zhi, who was dressed in military uniform, talking to some generals, and only when he got close did he hear that he was discussing some military situation.

Liu Bang, Chen Yu, and Han Xin arrived outside the Chinese army's tent, and Xu Zhi stopped talking with the military generals.

"See the Marquis!"

"In the army, it's better to call the position."

"No! See the deputy commander! ”

"Come in."

"No!"

Xu Zhi had no intention of letting the military generals retreat, he beckoned Liu Bang and the other three to one side, sat down with each other, and then ordered his soldiers to bring tea.

"The military team is still resting, and you need to stay for some time."

"Dare to ask the deputy commander, how long do we need to stay?"

"Three days at the earliest, ...... at the latest Five days, right? ”

"It's okay, it's okay......."

Xu Zhi still seemed relatively kind. After he finished talking to Liu Bang, he motioned for Liu Bang and Chen Yu to sit down and drink tea, and then stood up and beckoned Han Xin: "You come with me." (To be continued......)