Chapter 847: The Enemy (1)

When Zhang Zhongjun was desperately transporting troops to Oak Harbor here, the Bingli Kingdom, one of the three major kingdoms in the north of Jiade Island, was holding a meeting in the royal palace.

"Your Majesty, Barony of Ya'an, we dispatched our troops quickly and seized one-third of the land, the remaining one-third was occupied by the Longlin Kingdom, and the remaining one-third was occupied by the lords scattered around. Wang Guocheng reported.

King Bingli smacked his lips and said with some unhappiness: "It's only eaten a third, we're already fast enough, as soon as the Holy Light Sect's men and horses evacuated, we rushed in, and we only grabbed a third of the land?

The prime minister shrugged: "There's no way, whoever let the people of the Holy Light Sect announce the matter of ceding the territory to the entire island, and everyone has to wait for the people of the Holy Light Sect to evacuate before they can act, so the forces around the Ya'an Sect have been prepared early, and they are waiting for the people of the Holy Light Sect to rush in as soon as they leave." ”

"A third of the baronies, that is, three lords, can be divided into fifty knights, right?" asked King Bingli, touching his chin.

"If you divide it by the most economical number, you can indeed divide fifty knight collars, but I am afraid that the knights who have received such a small knight collar will not be happy. The prime minister said worriedly.

"Hmph, if you don't like it, just stay in the royal city as a reserve, and a lot of knights are waiting to have a territory!" roared the Minister of War, dissatisfied.

"Okay, don't dispute this, take out thirty knights and divide them, the royal family is only divided into ten knights, and the remaining ten knights are divided by themselves. King Bingli waved his hand.

The ministers present naturally looked at each other with their eyes shining, and King Bingli didn't see it, but he also knew that most of the thirty knight lords who had just gone out would definitely be divided among them, and the knight lords who were really divided into those knights with no background would only be in single digits in the end.

Thinking of the somewhat large number of empty knights in his country, King Bingli couldn't help but sigh, if there were few knights in his own country, he would definitely not dare to close his eyes when he slept, for fear that he would be attacked by the enemy in an instant. But if there are too many knights, it is also a headache, because the territory in the country has been divided for I don't know how many hundred years ago, and there is no extra territory to settle them.

And these knights who have the strength of knights, but have no territory, can only wander around, looking for opportunities to get territory.

But such a chance is very slim, the descendants of the major families, such as the children of the second son, can't be arranged, where is it possible to divide the territory to outsiders!

Therefore, some nobles with few heirs will attract a large number of knights to serve, especially some nobles who only have only one daughter, and there are even more knights who go to serve like a carp crossing the river.

But these knights are just trying their luck, as long as they are not idiots, which nobleman is willing to divide their own territory, everyone thinks that their family business will get bigger and bigger, and no one will think that their family business will become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, those disappointed knights, some of them ran to the Holy Grace Continent to look for opportunities, some wandered around the entire Jiade Island, looking for generous nobles to accept them, and more of them thought about dying their eldest brother and dead brother, so that they could inherit the family business and make the entire Bingli Kingdom into a miasma.

The king has no choice about this, he has several sons, and the throne is naturally inherited by the crown prince, but his sons can't be left without a little landing, right?

It can be said that the matter of dividing the royal family's territory, except for those princes and their associates, other things related to the royal family are not happy to see.

Because one will weaken the strength of the royal family, which is not what a king should do, and the second is that the people below who serve the royal family and get paid from it do not want to see this scene, the royal family's territory is divided, and their benefits will become smaller, and no one will give up easily about interests.

So don't look at the king's majesty, in fact, he has the same headache and anxiety as those nobles in the country.

Maybe since there are so many empty horsemen in the country and need more territories to divide, why not expand externally? To put it nicely, the situation on Garter Island has been stable for hundreds of years, and the wars that have appeared are not foreign wars, but internal nobles.

When the empty horsemen of the country first appeared, these knights fanned the flames everywhere, causing infighting among the nobles, and then they took refuge in the past fights, and then let the surviving victors redivide their territories in a ruin.

If this is the case, the problem of excess population will not cause a headache for all nobles, after all, according to the previous rules, continuous aristocratic infighting will not only consume the excess population, but also reshuffle the cards. But the king, who was forced by the problem of children, personally intervened, and ate the two noble families who lost both in one go, and frightened the nobles of the whole country, and then all the nobles of the whole country forbade infighting, and vaguely confronted the king.

This is also the reason why King Bingli immediately pounced on it like a vicious dog pounced on the barony of Ya'an, and then was very generous to leave only a little, and take out all the others and divide them.

If it weren't for the fact that the king had found some anxiety in the country, and that the nobles had some inclination to target him collectively, he would not have given forty of the fifty knights' collars to his nobles!

Just think about the time when you decided to invade the Barony of Ya'an, the blank knights of the whole country flocked to the border, and not only the blank knights, but almost all the knights were crowded on the border, their eyes were red, and they stared at the Barony of Ya'an with salivation.

And if he invaded the Barony of Ya'an, he would directly merge with other invading forces, and if it wasn't for the leaders of himself and other forces to stop it directly, I am afraid that it would lead to a big battle on Jiade Island.

Thinking about that scene, King Bingli knew that if he didn't let the blank knights in the country get the territory canonized, or if he didn't consume most of these idle knights, his kingdom would one day explode because of it!

But against whom is the war to be waged on? Hey, this is really a troublesome question, because not only does this kingdom have a large number of blank knights, but other kingdoms and other principalities are said to have a large number of blank knights, and other kings and dukes also have a lot of headaches about it, right?

I really don't understand how in recent years, not only has the fertility rate increased significantly, but also the survival rate, especially the growth rate. I was overjoyed when I learned these data, who would have thought that I would be distressed by too many knights in the future!

(End of chapter)