When we left the City Lord's Mansion, it was already close to noon.
Xu Yi took a look at the sky and thought that he had just come back. Today's lunch had to be shared with Steele at Luo Xing Manor, so the remaining time would not be enough to visit some of the scheduled people. He had no choice but to get on the carriage and head to Luo Xing Manor.
As his body swayed back and forth as the carriage drove on the road, Xu Yi thought about the answer he had just received from Sevigny.
Theoretically, the private army owned by a noble can be unlimited, because the Kingdom Parliament and the Kingdom's Parliament of Nobles have never placed any special restrictions on this.
Because if you carefully analyze the structure of the Lampali Kingdom, you will find that the entire Lampali Kingdom is actually composed of a coalition of large nobles.
The royal family is actually the most powerful noble family in the kingdom.
The army owned by the royal family is also the largest and strongest in the kingdom, so the royal family can always control the greatest power in the kingdom. Only the patriarch of the royal family can always be the king of the kingdom.
If one day the royal family is unable to maintain this absolute superiority. vertex. If the family loses power, it is very likely that other big noble families will overthrow the rule and change the political power.
It should be said that this is not unusual even in the history of the earth, but it is not as naked as in the Kingdom of Lampali.
In the entire Sainz continent, except for some small principalities and ultra-small kingdoms, all other countries, including the Candela Empire and the Malo Empire, basically have this political system, so Xu Yi's problem is It seemed to Sevigny that it wasn't really a problem at all.
Of course, unlimited noble private armies can only exist in theory.
first. It is also the most important question. It’s about cost input.
Want to form your own private army. Of course, it is impossible to say that just recruiting a group of people to form a private army can be regarded as a private army.
An army without combat effectiveness is just a mob.
If you want to have combat effectiveness, you must first have soldiers with sufficient quality.
The population of the Lampali Kingdom has never been large, and the living conditions have not been very good. Therefore, there are not enough candidates with qualified physical fitness to serve as soldiers. As a result, the number of troops in the Lampali Kingdom has not been large. Even the Zhenbei Army, which is known as the strongest, only has a total of more than 30,000 people.
The second one is sufficient logistical supplies.
In addition to his own qualities, a qualified soldier must also possess weapons and equipment to achieve combat effectiveness.
To ensure that this soldier always has such combat effectiveness, there must be corresponding supplies, and at least the soldier must be able to have a full stomach.
The investment cost in this is undoubtedly very scary.
The current total of the kingdom's army in the Lampali Kingdom is only about 50,000, but the kingdom's financial investment in military expenditures every year is at least more than 300,000 gold coins.
However, such investment is still extremely low.
Not only is it far inferior to the Sak Kingdom, but it is even inferior to several small countries around it. For example, the Principality of Drake is very different.
There is no way, the Lampali Kingdom was so poor before.
so. If you want to have an unlimited private army, you must first have unlimited capital investment.
This is of course impossible, so even the Stark family, the most powerful family outside the royal family in the Lampali Kingdom, only has a private army of only 3,000 people.
Of course, there is no accurate answer to how many private armies the Stark family actually owns.
But even if you make the most bold calculation, it will be around 5,000 people at most.
Because even if the Stark family is willing to invest, it will still involve another very important issue besides cost investment, and that is the suppression from the royal family.
Since the political system of the Lampali Kingdom determines that the royal family must be the most powerful family, in order to maintain this advantage, the royal family will of course strictly restrict the private armies owned by other nobles in the kingdom.
Although limited to the unwritten agreement between the nobles and the tradition on the Sainz continent, the royal family was unable to force the noble council to pass a resolution to clearly limit the private armies owned by the nobles in the kingdom. However, as the family that holds the greatest power in the kingdom , the royal family certainly has countless ways to do this.
For example, Lampali XIII once issued an order requiring the major nobles in the kingdom to send a certain proportion of their own private troops to join the Zhenbei Army to jointly fight against the Sark Kingdom on the grounds of protecting the kingdom.
The Zhenbei Army suffered a high casualty ratio. If the private armies were sent out according to the proportion, then obviously the more private armies there were, the greater the losses would be suffered by the family.
Therefore, in conjunction with a series of other restrictive measures by the royal family, the nobles in the Lampali Kingdom gradually stabilized the number of private armies under their names.
A large family like the Stark family has a private army of three thousand, which is already the highest standard in the kingdom.
Other famous big families in the kingdom have private armies of around two thousand.
And a mere viscount like Xu Yi...
Want to have a private army? Are you crazy
Of course Xu Yi is not crazy, and Sevini certainly doesn't think so either.
She knew very well the hidden meaning of Xu Yi's question, so after giving Xu Yi a detailed analysis of the situation of the noble private armies in the Lampali Kingdom, she gave him a suggestion.
It is best not to directly declare that you want to have a private army, but at most you can only recruit hundreds of guards in the name of the Territory Guard.
Although this will still attract the attention of countless people, it is at least reasonable and can be regarded as a common practice of many nobles in the kingdom.
Xu Yi readily accepted Sevini's suggestion, but in his opinion, it was not enough for just a few hundred people.
When the time comes, hundreds of people won't make any difference at all.
Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not need to worry about the cost investment problem that many nobles have. In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has assets in weapons and armaments, so in fact Xu Yi can fully support a private army of far more than a few hundred people.
If you want to avoid the royal family's suppression, there are actually many solutions.
Of course, there is no need to discuss these with Sevigny in detail.
Not long after the carriage drove out of the west gate of Bangta City Old Town, it suddenly slowed down and stopped.
"What's the matter?" Xu Yi asked the driver in front of him in shock.
"Sir President, there's a traffic jam."
"Traffic jam?" Xu Yi was stunned when he heard this term that was familiar on earth but extremely unfamiliar to this world.
He opened the front curtain of the carriage and looked forward, and found that the road ahead was indeed blocked.
Originally this road was eight meters wide, enough to accommodate four carriages traveling side by side, but now it is mixed with some medium-sized magic buses and a few medium-sized magic freight locomotives that should be going to the Falling Rain Valley, making the road very crowded. few.
There seemed to be an accident in front. Two carriages could be seen falling to the ground in the distance, and loud quarrels could be heard coming from the front.
Seeing the anxious expressions of the people waiting in the traffic jam and hearing the discussions among the people around him, Xu Yi couldn't help but laugh.
This scene really made him miss it so much.
"Dad Bell, are there frequent traffic jams here?" Xu Yi asked Bell, his private carriage driver.
"There weren't many before, but there will be more in the second half of this year." Father Bell replied, and suddenly glanced at Xu Yi rather strangely. "President, to be honest, we started to get stuck in traffic jams after our Chamber of Commerce started selling the magic motorcycles. Many people scolded us when we were stuck in traffic jams."
Xu Yi laughed: "Sooner or later they will adapt to this situation."
He raised his head and glanced at the situation ahead, which didn't seem to be improving. Then he looked at the number of blocked cars behind him, which was almost reaching the city gate in the distance. Only then did Xu Yi remember that there was no traffic policeman in this world who would be dispatched to maintain the situation. Order ensures traffic.
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Yi added a wind control technique to himself and flew over the blocked carriages and magic locomotives.
Flying to the accident site ahead, I found that the accident should have been caused by a collision between a medium-sized freight magic locomotive and two horse-drawn carriages.
Both carriages were tilted to the ground at this time, and one of them even looked like it was about to fall apart. It was obvious that it had been hit hard.
The medium-sized freight magic locomotive stood aside intact without any trace of damage.
His eyes swept over the people who were arguing, but Xu Yi found an acquaintance.
"Dad Sakchi, it's you, what's going on?"
Father Sakchi looked at Xu Yi who fell from the sky in shock, with a hint of joy on his face.
"President Xu, why are you here? I have just returned from transporting goods from Karamay City. You see, the goods on this car are still from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and they are about to be transported to the Falling Rain Valley. I didn't expect to come here Here, they happened to hit me.”
Xu Yi looked in the direction of Father Sakchi's finger and recognized that the few people arguing with Father Sakchi were all minor nobles in Bangta City. No wonder they could own a private carriage that looked pretty good.
Seeing Xu Yi looking at him inquiringly, several young nobles immediately started to cry out.
"President Xu, don't listen to his nonsense! We were obviously walking well on the road, but he bumped into us directly. You see, our carriage was almost broken apart by the collision! We all suffered a lot. Hurt, can this still be our fault?”
"It's not your fault, but whose fault is it? Who made your carriage run crookedly and run so fast on this road. I wonder if your horse is crazy?" Father Sakchi immediately retorted.
Several young nobles looked suffocated, but then they shouted into their necks: "I think you are crazy! Our horses and carriages have been used by our family for more than ten years, how could it be possible that you didn't have them just this year?" What kind of magic motorcycle is useful for you..."
As soon as the few nobles spoke, they remembered that Xu Yi was nearby. They dared to speak ill of the magic motorcycle in front of Xu Yi. Isn't this looking for death
Turning around, they saw Xu Yi's face darkened, and several people suddenly became frightened. (To be continued...)