The night was shrouded, and bright and warm candles were already lit inside the manor villa.
"Master! Welcome back!"
As soon as Wu Ming returned to the villa, Amelia stepped forward and took off his robe softly for him, and grabbed Beatrice's job next to him, making her pouted in dissatisfaction.
"Oh! What's for dinner today?"
Wu Ming didn't feel the slightest, but was delighted that this woman could enter his role as soon as possible.
"The main course is roast lamb, the side dishes include onion soup and toasted white bread, and there is a bottle of wine. The olive oil produced by our estate is also very good..."
"Um!"
Wu Ming sat in the master's seat and watched Amelia instruct the maid to place the tableware and deliver the meals. She also wore a maid outfit, and her every move had the gentleness of a mature woman.
"godfather!"
Celis and Cecil saluted Wu Ming, they were the only ones who were qualified to dine with him.
"Amelia!"
After Wu Ming ate, he tapped the silver spoon: "I'm going to appoint Qiaofu as my militia captain, and train more than 30 good boys for me!"
"My master!"
Amelia hesitated: "This may delay their farming!"
"So, I will make up for it, and choose to mobilize after the end of spring plowing!" Wu Ming replied with a smile.
"Mobilization? Are we going to fight again?"
For this, Amelia is very afraid, because she just lost her husband in the last war, and she doesn't want to lose her stable life because of another war.
"No, it's just to suppress the bandits! The bandits on the Tucker Mountains, as well as the wild people, always come to harass my territory and plunder my people. As a lord, this is an intolerable shame!"
Wu Ming declared: "I will fight back fiercely, kill their warriors, snatch their women back, and turn them into our serfs! Work for us to make up for the sins we committed!"
Well, in fact, there is nothing wrong with wanting to commit a crime. Wu Ming still wants to replenish the manpower of the territory.
"However, I ordered Geoff to take stock of our storeroom, but got a disappointing news. In the entire arsenal, he only found five rusty swords, three longbows, a dozen spears, and With a spear, not even a piece of leather armor..."
Wu Ming spread his hands.
"I'm very sorry!"
Amelia clutched the hem of her skirt with both hands: "My husband took a lot of equipment with him when he set off... If you need new weapons, after the grapes are harvested this year, we may be able to get enough silver thalers Come buy them."
"I have no intention of blaming you. I'm just stating a fact. If we rely on the sale of grapes and olives to arm us, we may have to wait until the next year to attack the wildlings!"
Wu Ming shook his head and said, "I brought five hundred Jin Delong, you and Qiao Fu take them, go to the nearest city, and buy these equipment back!"
He handed a piece of parchment to Amelia.
These properties are all gifts from Alfred, and Wu Ming is not a miser, so if he can use them to arm himself, he will naturally not miss them.
Amelia took the parchment and saw that it said—"five pieces of leather armor, iron armor is the most suitable, twenty cross sword handles, fifty javelins, ten longbows, one thousand arrows, kerosene Some, some ropes...'
"Okay, what else can I order?"
"Hurry up, and you can ask Qiao Fu to find out how to buy a bow and crossbow. Don't be stingy with Jin Delong, if you don't have enough, ask me for it!"
Wu Ming waved his hand, appearing quite rich and powerful.
"I see!"
Amelia replied, although these equipments, in her opinion, are enough to arm a regular army of 100 people.
A few days later, Wu Ming stood on the playground, watching the farmers come to receive training at dusk.
They are all quite shrewd. Although Wu Ming is voluntary, as long as he trains for a certain time limit, he can get a loaf of bread and even a dinner!
The value in it naturally made them a little reluctant, and they came every day, and gradually formed a habit.
The seeds of the future army are here.
On the school grounds, there was still a big pot cooking, which contained thick fish meat, wild vegetables, and noodle cakes. Wu Ming deliberately added a lot of oil and salt into it. That kind of generous attitude made Amelia It hurts to see it.
Any high-intensity training without sufficient food and meat supply is a hooligan! Wu Ming naturally wouldn't do this.
Of course, he didn't expect much from the farmers under his hand, as long as they could understand simple orders, be familiar with the weapons in their hands, and know a certain array, they couldn't ask for more.
This is a world that is worse than bad. It doesn't matter if your own army is bad, as long as it is better than other wildlings and lords.
"My lord!"
Qiao Fu ordered the militiamen to form a line, came to Wu Ming and saluted with his right fist on his chest: "The militia brigade has assembled, there are thirty-seven soldiers in total!"
"very good!"
Although watching the training, it can be described as horrible, but compared to their previous performance, Wu Ming can no longer expect more.
"Disband!"
With his order, the team dispersed and came to the side of the cauldron. Everyone got a bowl of hot chowder and a loaf of oatmeal bread, and they squatted on the ground and started to move.
Wu Ming issued an order that the oatmeal bread can be taken home, but the chowder must be eaten here!
This is to prevent those militiamen from bringing home to their families as soon as they get their dinner. After all, there are precious salt, meat, and oil in it! This will not achieve his goal of increasing the physical fitness of the militiamen, so the strict order must not be like this, but at the same time, it is open, so that the older teenagers can also come to train together and have a good meal.
To be honest, Wu Ming's expectations for these teenagers are actually higher.
"Jeff!"
He looked at the old soldier next to him: "What do you think of those teenagers?"
"Very young... very immature!"
Geoff thought for a while and used two adjectives.
He looked at those energetic teenagers with some doubts, and didn't understand why Wu Ming said that.
"Teach them the tricks I taught you first!"
What Wu Ming said was still the same set of things he taught Ava, but for Qiaofu, he organized it more systematically, and only passed on part of it at this time.
It would be too worthless if it was sprinkled in one breath, after all, it is considered a pretty good method of knight training.
"That's really cheap for those brats!"
Qiao Fu looked at those teenagers with jealousy in his eyes. He knew the weight of what Professor Wu Ming gave him.
Thinking back, when he first went out to make a living, how much he had suffered in order to gain some warrior skills
But now, they got it lightly and skillfully.
"Let them try it out first, and if someone really develops something, then bring him to see me!"
This is just a simple training method at the beginning, but if you can persevere and have understanding, you will gradually be different from ordinary people and stand out.
In Wu Ming's view, this is a simple way of selection and screening.
Of course, with the population and size of his territory, no matter how much he cultivates his internal strength, it is useless. The most important thing is to go out to plunder resources, whether it is population, minerals, gold coins, markets... Only in this way can he be able to get rid of it at the fastest speed. developed.
Therefore, two months later, this militia team was ready to take shape, and Wu Ming couldn't wait to lead them out.
"I know, many of you are on the battlefield for the first time!"
Standing on the high platform, he looked at the faces below with different expressions but couldn't hide his uneasiness, and said loudly: "But the leather armor you wear, the knives, guns, bows and arrows in your hands are all piled up with Jin Delong. Yes, but your opponents are just a group of wild people and robbers in furs!"
"Excellent equipment and experienced training are not comparable to them. What are you worried about?"
An excellent commander can boost morale with words, but Wu Ming is obviously better than that.
"I promise in the name of the lord that once you make meritorious service, you will not only become a free citizen, but even that piece of land, I will issue a certificate to make it truly belong to you! Even if you die or be injured in battle, the manor will also Give you or your family a pension!"
This heavy reward and guarantee immediately caused a commotion in the crowd, and soon the uneasiness in their eyes subsided, and what emerged was desire! The desire to change your own destiny!
Become a freeman and own the land that truly belongs to you!
For these serfs, this is simply the hope of a lifetime! What's more, even if they are dead or even disabled, they don't have any worries, so what are they afraid of
There is nothing to lose in the first place, so why not fight it out, maybe your children and grandchildren will have the chance to become a master
"Aww!"
From the first militiaman, I don't know who it was, they all brandished their weapons and started to roar. That kind of expression made Amelia who was watching beside him very dazed.
She knew that what appeared in front of her was no longer the cowering farmers, but a group of real soldiers who had been trained!
"I will bring thirty people with me this time!"
Wu Ming said to Amelia at this time: "Other matters in the territory will be left to you!"
Ordinary lords are naturally not as relaxed as he is. In fact, there are many things on the territory, and most of them are trivial matters.
As a lord, he usually mainly deals with disputes between two serfs in the manor court.
Wu Ming didn't even bother to do these trivial things for parents, but Amelia was very smooth, and he was very satisfied with being able to handle them in an orderly manner.
After explaining the matter of the territory, Wu Ming stepped on the horse and shouted, "Let's go!"
"Ho Ho!"
The soldier roared, with an eager expression on his face, and followed the horse out of the manor and embarked on a journey.