As early as ten years ago, in order to expand his influence and let himself take root in the Northland, Chen Heng adopted a policy of being proactive and trying to make good friends with the nobles of the Northland.
The aristocrats multiplied, and basically in every family, except for the eldest son who had the right to inherit, there were a large number of clan members who could not be arranged.
The whereabouts of these people is undoubtedly a headache.
As the second son or even the partial branch, these people have no inheritance rights, and can only get a small amount of property and even other help.
Under the rules of this era, it is difficult for them to live a decent life like their parents did.
But Chen Heng solved a difficult problem for them to a certain extent.
Different from other lords in this era, Chen Heng's territory has a complete bureaucratic system, involving all aspects, which is very complete.
A perfect ruling system naturally requires a large number of administrative officials for execution.
And the second sons of nobles who could not be settled by others were targeted by Chen Heng.
In this era when civilians were generally unable to read and write, these second sons of nobles were born among the nobles, and they could basically read and write, and some of them might have mastered other skills. They were the best and only source of officials in this era.
Therefore, in the past ten years, with the development of Chen Heng, a large number of people from other nobles have gathered in his territory.
At this level, naturally many people are loyal to it.
But among them, there are only a few lords like Kurudo.
Among those loyalists, more are landless nobles who are eager to obtain territory through Chen Heng.
"His Majesty Oriman ordered me to gather the army and go to fight the rebels."
Sitting in the hall, Chen Heng looked calm and said as he watched Kurduo.
"Fighting the rebels?"
After the words fell, the faces of everyone present changed.
Leaving from one's own territory and going to an unfamiliar place to fight against the rebels was not a matter of lip service, and there were many, many things involved.
How to arrange the food and how to guarantee the logistics? Where is the army drawn from, will it cause the territory to be empty and cause accidents
There are many questions just on the face of it.
And there are more problems outside the battlefield.
Especially with the current situation, do they still support Auliman to fight those rebels
These are all questions.
Thinking of this, the faces of everyone present couldn't help but change, and then they all looked forward and stared at Chen Heng.
At present, in the entire Suoda, the only one who can make a decision is Chen Heng.
His thoughts are the most important factor in deciding whether to play.
Sensing the gazes of the people around him, Chen Heng looked calm, but raised his head silently, and said, "If we really go to war, how many troops can we bring out so far?"
"Without affecting the defense, about 5,000 people can be taken out."
Someone thought for a moment, and finally spoke like this.
"Five thousand people."
Chen Heng nodded.
These 5,000 people are his family property accumulated over the past ten years.
Although it looked good, it was completely incomparable with the hundreds of thousands and millions of troops in history, but it was already the result of Chen Heng's efforts.
After all, Suo Da's background was too poor, it was just a piece of white land back then.
Although in the past ten years, Chen Heng has tried his best to develop, attract population, attract tribes, and buy slaves to fill it, but the current population of Suoda is only a few hundred thousand.
With this population, it is already the limit to support 10,000 troops.
And among these 10,000 people, only these 5,000 people can be selected.
Of course, although this number is nothing in the eyes of Chen Heng, it is already an extremely huge number in the eyes of other lords of the Kutu Kingdom.
The lords of this era are generally poor. Except for a few big nobles, the number of fighters in the hands of the other small lords is actually not many at all.
Just like Chen Heng's father, Baron Kaisen, the number of guards in the entire territory was only three or four hundred.
At this moment, the rebel army in the south is so powerful, but its core combat power is probably less than 10,000 people, and it is still under the command of different lords. It is not the same as Chen Heng's army with the same orders and complete command.
In the eyes of Kurduo and others, the strength in Chen Heng's hands is already very strong, and he can be called the number one in this northern land.
However, in Chen Heng's view, this number of troops is still somewhat insufficient.
It's not that the fighting power is not enough.
In fact, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of his army, Chen Heng has put in a lot of effort.
The army in his hands is an army that fights against foreign races every day. Not only do they often face battles, but the daily food and training are not bad at all.
As far as their training level is concerned, if they are placed in the army of other lords, they may immediately cause mutiny.
There is no shortage of training, logistics, equipment, and actual combat.
Such an army must have good combat effectiveness.
And in fact it is.
In these years, apart from fighting against other races, it was not that Chen Heng had never fought against the army of the Lord of the North.
For the southern lord, the army in the northern territory was regarded as an elite army. Facing the army in Chen Heng's hand, it could not match with the same number of people and would be easily defeated.
The lords of the North have been fighting all year round, and the combat effectiveness of the army is stronger than that of the South.
Even they are like this, not to mention the army in the south.
It's just that although the combat power is enough, it may not be enough to achieve a greater goal.
If he wanted to defeat the southern army, Chen Heng's 5,000 men were enough.
But it may not be enough to control the vast territory and achieve the effect Chen Heng wants.
With this in mind, Chen Heng turned around and looked at Kurduo: "If I ask the lord of the Northland to send an army to go with me, how many people can I recruit?"
Chen Heng opened his mouth lightly and said so.
Looking at Chen Heng, Kurudo was taken aback for a moment.
But soon, he came to his senses and his face straightened: "The Aura family is willing to send out five hundred people to follow."
"The Kelso family is willing to take out three hundred people."
"The Thorin family is willing to offer four hundred."
"The Vido family can take out three hundred."
A burst of sound fell on the spot.
In the presence, besides Kurudo, there were several small lords who also secretly swore allegiance to Chen Heng.
As soon as the number of troops these people took out increased, within a short period of time, they gathered another thousand and five hundred people.
"Send messages to several other families for me, saying that I want to entertain them in Soda."
Hearing the words of Kurduo and the others, Chen Heng showed a smile on his face. At this time, he couldn't help but smiled: "By the way, please send troops together to assist me."
(end of this chapter)