Chapter 164 Traffic Jam

It was almost noon when we left the City Lord's Mansion.

Xu Yi glanced at the sky, thinking that he had just come back, so he had to go back to Luoxing Manor to share with Steele for today's lunch, so the remaining time would not be enough to visit some scheduled people, so he He had no choice but to get on the carriage and head towards Luoxing Manor.

As the body swayed back and forth with the carriage driving on the road, Xu Yi was thinking about the answer he got from Seweney just now.

Theoretically speaking, the private army owned by a noble can be unlimited, because the Kingdom Council and the Kingdom Noble Council have never had special restrictions on this aspect.

Because if you carefully analyze the structure of the Lampari Kingdom, you will find that the entire Lampari Kingdom is actually composed of a combination of great 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, and the patriarch of the royal family can always be the king of the kingdom.

If one day the royal family cannot maintain this absolute superiority. vertex. If the novel is not powerful, it is very likely that the rule will be overthrown by other big noble families and the regime will be changed.

It should be said that this point is not unusual even in the history of the earth, but it is not as naked as it is in the Kingdom of Lampari.

On the entire Sainz continent, except for some small duchies and ultra-small kingdoms, all other countries, including the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, basically have this political system, so Xu Yi's problem lies in Sevigny doesn't seem to be a problem at all.

Of course, the unlimited noble private army can only exist in theory.

first. And the most important question. lies in the 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 it can be regarded as a private army.

As an army, if there is no combat effectiveness, it is a mob.

If you want to have combat effectiveness, you must first have soldiers with sufficient quality.

The population of the Lampari Kingdom has always been small, and the living conditions have not been very good, so there are not enough candidates who are qualified to serve as soldiers, resulting in a small number of troops in the Lampari Kingdom. Even the Zhenbei Army, which is known as the strongest, has a total of more than 30,000 people.

The second is adequate logistical supplies.

In addition to their own qualities, a qualified soldier must also possess weapons and equipment to form combat effectiveness.

And to ensure that this soldier always has such combat power, there must be corresponding supplies, at least so that this soldier can have a full stomach.

The investment cost on this is undoubtedly very terrifying.

The current kingdom army of the Lampari Kingdom is only about 50,000 in total, but the kingdom's financial investment in military expenditures is at least more than 300,000 gold coins every year.

However, such investment is still extremely low.

Not only is it far inferior to the Sark Kingdom, but even the surrounding small countries. For example, the Principality of Drake is very different.

No way, the Lampari 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 most powerful Stark family in the Kingdom of Lampari apart from the royal family, the private army they have on the surface is only 3,000 people.

Of course, there is no accurate answer to how many private troops the Stark family actually owns.

But even if the most daring calculation is made, it will be about 5,000 people at most.

Because no matter how willing the Stark family is to invest, it will also involve another very important issue besides cost investment, that is, the suppression from the royal family.

Since the political system of the Lampari 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 limit the private armies owned by other nobles in the kingdom.

Although limited to the unwritten agreement between the nobles and the traditions on the Sainz continent, the royal family has no way to force the noble council to pass a resolution to clearly limit the private army owned by the nobles in the kingdom, but as the family with the greatest power in the kingdom , the royal family certainly has countless ways to do this.

For example, Lampari XIII once issued an order to protect the kingdom, requiring the major nobles in the kingdom to send a certain percentage of private troops under their own names to join the Zhenbei Army to jointly fight against the Sak Kingdom.

The casualty ratio of Zhenbei Army is very high. If the private army is sent according to the proportion, then obviously the more private army, the greater the loss to your family.

Therefore, in conjunction with a series of other restrictive measures by the royal family, the nobles in the Lampari Kingdom gradually stabilized the number of private troops under their names.

Three thousand private troops of a big family like the Stark family is already the highest standard in the kingdom.

For other well-known big families in the kingdom, the private army is about 2,000.

And a mere viscount like Xu Yi...

Want to have a private army? Are you crazy?

Of course Xu Yi wasn't crazy, and Seweini certainly didn't think so.

She knew the hidden meaning of Xu Yi's question very well, so after giving Xu Yi a detailed analysis of the situation of the noble private army in the Lampari 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, at least it makes sense, and it can be regarded as the usual practice of many nobles in the kingdom.

Xu Yi readily accepted Sevini's suggestion, but in his opinion, it was far from enough if there were only a few hundred people.

When the time comes, hundreds of people will be useless at all.

Moreover, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not need to worry about the cost investment that many nobles have headaches. In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has assets in weapons and armaments, so in fact Xu Yi can fully support a private army far exceeding hundreds of people.

And if you want to avoid the suppression of the royal family, there are actually many solutions.

Of course, there is no need to discuss these with Seweney in detail.

Not long after the carriage drove out of the west gate of the old town of Bangta City, it suddenly slowed down and stopped.

"What's the matter?" Xu Yi asked the driver in front of him in astonishment.

"Master President, there is a traffic jam."

"Traffic jam?" Xu Yi was stunned when he heard this familiar term on earth but extremely unfamiliar in this world.

He opened the front curtain of the carriage and looked forward, only to find that the road ahead was really blocked.

Originally, this road was eight meters wide, enough to accommodate four carriages driving side by side, but now there are some medium-sized magic buses and a few medium-sized cargo magic locomotives that are supposed to go to the valley of the rain, which makes the road very crowded. few.

And there seemed to be some accident in the 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 surrounding crowd, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.

This scene really made him nostalgic.

"Father Bell, is there often a traffic jam here?" Xu Yi asked Bell, the driver of his private carriage.

"Not many before, but more in the second half of this year." Papa Bell replied, and suddenly gave Xu Yi a strange look. "Master President, to be honest, traffic jams have been frequent since the magic locomotives of our chamber of commerce began to be sold. Many people scolded us when they were in traffic jams."

Xu Yi laughed loudly: "Sooner or later they will adapt to this situation."

Looking up, the situation in front of him didn't seem to be improving. Then he saw that there were more and more cars blocked behind him, even reaching the city gate in the distance. Only then did Xu Yi realize that there is no traffic police in this world to maintain the traffic. Orderly guarantees traffic.

After hesitating for a while, 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 there should be a collision between a medium-sized freight magic locomotive and two carriages, causing the accident.

At this moment, the two carriages were tilted to the ground, and one of them even looked like it was about to fall apart, obviously it was hit badly.

And the medium-sized freight magic locomotive stood intact, without any signs of damage.

His eyes swept over the several people who were arguing, but Xu Yi found an acquaintance.

"Father Sakchi, it's you, what's going on?"

Papa Sakchi looked at Xu Yi who fell from the sky in astonishment, and a gleam of joy flashed across his face.

"President Xu, why are you here? I just came back from Karamay City. You see, this car is still your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's goods, and it is about to be transported to Luoyu Valley. I didn't expect to come Here, it happened to be hit by them."

Xu Yi looked in the direction of Papa Sakchi's finger, and recognized that the people who were arguing with Papa Sakchi were all minor nobles in Bangta City. No wonder they could have private carriages that looked pretty good.

Seeing that Xu Yi looked over with a questioning gaze, several little nobles immediately cried out.

"President Xu, don't listen to his nonsense! We were walking well on the road, but he ran right over. Look, our carriage was almost smashed to pieces! We all suffered Injury, can this still be our fault?"

"It's not your fault. Whose fault is it? Who made your carriage run crookedly and so fast on this road. I wonder if your horse is crazy?" Papa Sakchi retorted immediately.

Several little nobles were suffocated, but then they still shouted at 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 to come out this year without you?" What kind of magic locomotive is easy to use? You..."

As soon as the few little nobles said something, they remembered that Xu Yi was right next to them. They dared to speak ill of the magic motorcycle in front of Xu Yi. Isn't this courting death?

Turning their heads and seeing Xu Yi's face darken, several people suddenly panicked. (To be continued..)