Chapter 99: Classification of the Silver Knights

More than a month has passed since the black tea trees were planted in the mangrove canyon.

During this period, Weilin would inspect the Black Pig Ranch and the Camel Ranch almost every day. From time to time, he would go to the Ivy Mountain and the Mangrove Manor to check on the status of these four animals and plants.

As the four pillars of the future of the territory, there was no room for him not to be so concerned.

If something went wrong during the cultivation process and the crops died, he wouldn't even have a place to cry.

A few days ago, a gold-level warrior from the Nankul Chamber of Commerce came to the Lake of Praying Stars, took away six thousand bottles of ice blue potion on his own, left eighteen thousand gold coins, and left.

Seeing the space equipment carried by the opponent, Weilin was very envious.

A piece of space equipment that is only one cubic meter is priced at upwards of 200,000 gold coins, and there is often no way to buy it.

"My lord, a knight who claims to be the 16th Knights of the Kingdom is asking for an audience." Kyle entered the study and reported to Wei Linhui.

"Let him in."

Ten minutes later, after many inspections, a young knight entered the study, beat his chest and saluted: "Lord Verin, I am the financial secretary of the Sixteenth Knights, and I am also the apprentice of Lord Medmonchi. You can Call me Kak.”

"Kake, welcome."

Verin asked Kyle to prepare tea, and then invited Kak to sit down in the guest room next to him.

"Captain Medmonkey is doing well lately."

Hearing this, Kak said politely: "Master led the knights to support the kingdom's border last year and made great achievements. The military has upgraded the 16th Knights to the third-level Silver Knights. He is busy expanding the knights. personnel."

"Congratulate Lord Medmonkey for me."

Verin didn't know how many Silver Knights there were in the Kingdom of Ilia, but he knew the levels of the Silver Knights.

The Silver Knights are divided into five levels from low to high, namely Athos, Loman, Saint Clo, Kalilan, and the highest level, Micah, named after the most outstanding kings of the five generations of the Kingdom of Ilia.

As for the structure of the Silver Knights at other levels, Verin was not very clear about it, but he knew the true structure of the Micah-level Silver Knights.

A Micah-level silver knight has one soul-level knight leader, three soul-level deputy captains, one hundred gold-level knights, one thousand silver knights, three thousand bronze knights, and Five thousand high-level knight attendants, and a team of three hundred silver-level priests.

The Akers family has three Micah-level Silver Knights. The most powerful one is in the hands of his father Angus, named the Eagle Knights, and he can only order this knights in the name of Earl Eagle.

The other two are in the hands of Count Oster of Andusi and Count Ivelrios of Hurricane.

As for how other Micah-level Silver Knights arranged their logistics, he didn't know, but one of the Soul-level deputy leaders of the Eagle Knights held a large storage space ring in his hand, which supported the logistics operation of the entire knights.

It is impossible to support this knightly order solely by relying on territorial taxes. As far as he knows, there is no powerful noble force that can support a Micah-level knightly order by relying on its own territorial taxes. It almost all relies on the income from the family industry. own troops, and also increase the loyalty of the knights.

In fact, Verin is very confused about the tax collection system of the Ilia Kingdom.

Some nobles at earl level and below can only rely on squeezing the territory and sucking the bones out of the people in order to maintain their noble image and family power. For a barony with a population of only 20,000, it is outrageous that he can squeeze out 50,000 or 60,000 gold coins a year. .

Most of the nobles at earl level and above basically implement medium or low taxes in their territories. The average tax evenly distributed to each citizen is less than five silver coins, because the annual tax in their territories does not even account for 10% of the total revenue. Not even one.

It can be said that no one in a respectable and prestigious noble family lives on taxes.

Moreover, the higher the title, the more powerful the family, and the more important it is to maintain one's face, at least on the surface, to treat the people in one's territory well.

"Sir, I am here to make a deal with you on behalf of my master and the Sixteenth Knights." Kak looked at the entranced Weilin and said softly.

"Oh, okay." Weilin came back from his thoughts and said to Kak, "How much ice blue potion can you take in a year?"

When Kak saw that the other party was blaming the problem on himself, he was not angry, and said calmly: "Lord Vera, the Knights have recently expanded their personnel, and the military funds provided by them are limited. We can buy about two thousand bottles at most."

"But don't worry, in the past few years, when the expansion of the Knights is completed and military expenditures have increased, the purchase of magic potions will definitely increase." Kak added, fearing that the other party would be dissatisfied.

"Kak, I'm not angry." Verin waved his hand and said, "Buying and selling this kind of thing requires your consent. Plus, with the help given to me by Lord Medmunch, I won't be so petty."

"The purchase price of the ice blue potion from the Nankul Chamber of Commerce is three gold coins per bottle. Can you accept it?"

"No problem, we totally accept it."

Kak replied immediately, and then took out six gold tickets of one thousand denominations and placed them on the table.

"Kyle, pack two thousand bottles of ice blue potion."

"Yes, my lord."

Then the two chatted for another half hour, when Kyle came in and reported that all the goods had been loaded on the carriage, and Kak immediately submitted his resignation.

Weilin tried to persuade him to stay, but when he saw the other party's refusal, he personally sent him off to the Lake of Praying Stars.

Back in the study, Weilin had just sat down when he saw Kyle walking in quickly.

"My lord, Mr. Baird sent someone to report that Kazak, the son of the Governor of Cardro Province, has arrived in Qixing Town and wants to see you, as well as the arrogant nobleman who was in the Mangrove Canyon a month ago."

"There's no rush, just leave him alone and say I have something to do, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Yes."

……

In a hotel in Qixing Town, Kazak looked a little unhappy after receiving the other party's words.

"Cousin, this country bumpkin looks down on you and dares to neglect you like this." After the attendant left, Charles couldn't help but encourage him.

"Shut up." Kazak scolded Charles, "You are a loser and have no eyesight. Otherwise, why would labor and management come to this place?"

"Cousin, you..."

"Shut up from now on. There is news from my uncle. If you can't get forgiveness from the other party, just prepare to be a pig for the rest of your life." As soon as Kazak finished speaking, he ignored the other party and left the room.

After hearing this, Charles sat down on the ground, his eyes dull.

"I don't want to be a pig, I don't want to be a reproductive tool."

"My life has just begun, I don't want it, I don't want it."

The banging of the door woke Charles up, and he couldn't help lying on the ground and crying.