From Soldier To Emperor

Richard at the back naturally saw the poor results of the infantry of the 5th Army Battalion. He never expected that thousands of iron armors could be assembled in a county government office, even if most of these iron armors were light weights weighing only a dozen catties. Chain mail!

　　 This is the remote area on the westernmost side of the remote Anxi Duhu Mansion in Datang!

　　 From a small glimpse of the big picture, it reflects from the side how well the metallurgical technology of Datang has developed, and how rich the Tang court is!

　　The popularization of iron armor on such a large scale is obviously because Datang has the technology of cheap smelting to make iron armor and pig iron raw materials, as well as its strong national strength!

　　Actually, Richard's guess is only half right. Datang possesses very advanced smelting minerals and armor-making technology compared to the feudal era, which can greatly increase the efficiency of armor-making production.

　　 But the Tang court is not very rich!

　　The reason is very simple. It has been nearly a hundred years since the invasion of Greenskins. Although Greenskins has been unable to unite to launch a large-scale offensive in the past 100 years, local wars will break out every year, and there will be more than one!

　　 It costs money to fight a war!

　　 Therefore, even if Datang itself has a strong national strength, it will not save much capital after such a long period of consumption...

Only because of the perennial war, the Tang court became poor, but the local wealthy merchants achieved abnormal prosperity and development, especially the war-related industries, which were in a saturated business state all year round, leading to the emergence of technology in the armor and weapon building industries. The rate of improvement.

　　Mingguang Heavy Armor is specially developed to fight against the armor of the black orcs in the green skin!

　　 The government was poor, so the government and county soldiers that Richard encountered were basically unable to deploy iron armor, at most a set of leather armor and battle robe configuration.

　　 Some of the lower-level town patrol camps are not even equipped with leather armor.

　　 However, poor government does not mean poor local tycoons. On the contrary, due to the multiplication of green skins, the wilderness is full of dangers, commercial circulation becomes difficult, and the prices of products traded in different places are increased in disguise.

　　 In other words, the profit of the caravan from one area to another area has greatly increased!

　　The risk of wilderness transportation has led to the annexation or bankruptcy of a large number of private vendors and small caravans with insufficient financial resources. If you want to transport goods in the wild, you must hire a large number of armed personnel.

　　 This undoubtedly provides strong business competitiveness for the famous and wealthy, and they themselves support a large number of family guards!

　　The soldiers of the government will not **** the merchants along the way, unless the government is bribed!

　　 However, the cost of buying the government is too high. No matter how safe the officers and soldiers are, the caravan has no money to hire officers and men to **** goods for themselves...

　　 This made those local tycoons and gentry for commercial interests, began to carefully cultivate their own guards, not only equipped them with high-priced iron armor, but also hired warriors as their leaders, and even guest bodyguards to **** the caravan along the way.

　　 Because of this, the Gongsun family recruited thousands of guards and warriors in Gaoxiang County.

　　 Among them, although the Gongsun family contributed a large number of their own family members, it also shows from the side how powerful the armed forces of the people are!

　　 Deformed business prosperity has fattened local tycoons, gentry and merchants, and naturally allowed them to have money to support more family guards and better equipped weapons and equipment.

　　In addition, these family guards must often **** the family caravan, and they will inevitably encounter green skin fights along the way. The combat experience is even more abundant than the officers and soldiers!

　　 As a result, from equipment to combat experience, Jiading guards are superior to officers and soldiers. If local government encounters a large group of rebels that cannot be defeated, they will often unite with local gentry and tycoons to use some family guards to fight the rebellion, which is very useful!

　　 In addition, since local gentry and gentry often offer higher wages than government officials, many martial artists are more willing to join the gentry family as guest warriors, or to be the leader and instructor of family guards.

　　 Looking at the government, in order to save money, the salary of the wise man is not high, and the wise man often needs to participate in some dangerous combat missions. It is far not as safe as the warrior guarding the caravan for the local gentry family.

　　 Although the wilderness is dangerous, it is not unlucky to encounter the wandering green skin every time. As long as the green skin is not smoked from the ancestral grave, it will not be encountered!

　　 Therefore, for a warrior with a high level of martial arts, it is far safer to be a caravan **** than to be a government official.

　　As a result, the officials who are strong in the government are often the third-rate warriors who are selected by the gentry family, that is, the warriors of the flesh-and-bone realm, and the warriors of the bones and muscles generally choose to join the local wealthy family to sell their lives.

　　 Only those warriors who want to be promoted in the imperial system will join the government.

If you want to be promoted to the Tang court, you have no background and personal connections, so you can only use your life to fight for your military merits. Otherwise, the team Zheng and the school lieutenant who are stuck at the bottom for a lifetime are normal. Without great perseverance and courage to fight for life, warriors would never choose to be the court. Hard work.

　　 As for the acquired realm, it is enough to be a top-notch master in the arena~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can stir the situation in the arena everywhere. It is naturally difficult for the general wealthy to pay a high price to hire, let alone the government...

　　 If you want to let the masters of the acquired realm work their lives, the court must promise to provide real power officials, such as the guard appointed by Bu Haoyu!

　　 It’s just that guarding this kind of official position like a local emperor is often controlled by the local family, how can it be easily handed over?

　　 Therefore, there are very few Houtian realm warriors serving the government...

However, the Tang court attached great importance to the innate realm warriors. The golden seal of the warriors is the highest among the warriors. It can be said to be a qualitative leap. The Tang court was a person of high authority as an inspector!

　　 Therefore, most of the innate realm martial artists, that is, the great masters known as grand masters in the arena, are mostly caught by the Tang court.

　　 These information were all told by the former officials in Dashi Town after Richard occupied Dashi Town. This was not secret in Datang.

Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, it seems peaceful, but the local wealthy family and the local government are connected with each other. It is no longer uncommon for the gentry to be like small warlords. It is just that the Tang Dynasty still occupies the general trend. Everyone has a common enemy, Lupi. That's why the world is peaceful.

　　 In the uninterrupted war with Lupi for nearly a hundred years, Datang’s central power is gradually being dispersed by local powerful forces, and the Anlu Mountain Rebellion is just a gathering flashpoint!

　　 As a result, after An Lushan broke through that layer of window paper, the Emperor's Anxi Duhu Mansion, which was far away from the sky, was immediately separated into more than a dozen independent forces, large and small...

Of course, these have little to do with Richard. He is now engrossed in the battle before him. The weakness of the fifth army battalion infantry's strong bow made him realize that he might no longer be able to use the seemingly useless Ming army gunslinger as a display. Up!