Magic Industry Empire - 487. Chapter 487

When leaving the City Lord’s Mansion, it was close to noon.

Xu Yi glanced at the sky and thought that he had just returned. Today’s lunch said that he would return to the Falling Star Manor to share it with Steele, so the remaining time would not be enough to visit some of the reserved people. Had to get into the carriage and headed towards the Falling Star Manor.

As the carriage swayed back and forth on the road, Xu Yi pondered the answer he had just received from Severini.

In theory, the private army owned by a nobleman can be unlimited, because the Kingdom Council and the Kingdom Noble Council have never placed special restrictions on this aspect.

Because if you carefully analyze the structure of the Lampari Kingdom, you will find that, in fact, the entire Lampari Kingdom is 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 advantage, then it is very likely that other large aristocratic families will overthrow the rule and change the regime.

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

On the entire Sainz continent, except for some small duchy and ultra-small kingdoms, all other countries, including the Candela Empire and the Marlow Empire, basically have this kind of political system, so Xu Yi’s problem is Severini didn’t seem to be a problem at all.

Of course, the infinite private army of nobles can only exist theoretically.

The first and most important issue is cost input.

If you want to form your own private army, of course, it is impossible to say that you can just gather a group of children to form it, and it can be regarded as a private army.

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

If you want to have combat effectiveness, you must be the first one to have sufficient quality soldiers.

The population in the Kingdom of Lampari has always been small, and the living conditions have not been very good, so the physical fitness is qualified, and there are not enough candidates to be able to serve as soldiers. As a result, the number of troops in the Kingdom of Lampari has been small, even Known as the strongest Zhenbei Army, there are only more than 30,000 men in total.

The second is adequate logistics supplies.

A qualified soldier must possess weapons and equipment to form combat effectiveness in addition to his own qualities.

And to ensure that this soldier always has such combat effectiveness, there must be corresponding supplies, and at least the soldier must be able to feed his stomach.

The investment cost on this is undoubtedly very scary.

The current total army of the kingdom of Lampari is only about 50,000, but the annual investment of the kingdom’s financial expenditure on military expenditure is at least more than 300,000 gold coins.

However, such investment is still extremely low.

Not only is it far inferior to the Kingdom of Sark, but even the surrounding small countries, such as the Duchy of Drake, are very different.

No way, the kingdom of Lampari 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 Lampari Kingdom, apart from the royal family, has only three thousand private troops on the bright side.

Of course, in fact, there is no accurate answer to how many private armies the Stark family has.

But even if the most daring calculations are made, it will be around 5,000 people at most.

Because even if the Stark family is willing to invest, it will also involve another very important issue in addition to cost input, which 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 could not force the noble council to pass a resolution to clearly define the private army owned by the nobles in the kingdom, but it is the family that holds the greatest power in the kingdom. Of course, the royal family has countless ways to do this.

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

The Zhenbei Army’s casualty ratio is very high. If it is sent to the private army according to the proportion, then it is obvious that the more the private army, the greater the loss suffered by the family.

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

The three thousand private army of a large family like the Stark family is already the highest standard in the kingdom.

For the famous big families in other kingdoms, the private army is about two thousand.

And a viscount like Xu Yi…

Want to own a private army? Are you crazy?

Of course Xu Yi was not crazy, and Severini would naturally not think so.

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 private army of the nobles in the Lampari Kingdom, she gave him a suggestion.

It is best not to directly declare that you want to have a private army, and 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 it can be regarded as the usual practice of many nobles in the kingdom.

Xu Yi readily adopted Severini’s suggestion, but the words of hundreds of people were far from enough in his opinion.

When it’s really needed, hundreds of people won’t do much.

Moreover, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce does not need to have a headache. Many nobles have a headache of cost investment. In addition, the weapons and armaments of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce can be assets, so in fact, Xu Yi can fully support a private army that far exceeds hundreds of people.

There are also many solutions to avoid the repression of the royal family.

Of course, these do not need to be discussed with Severini.

Not long after the carriage drove out of the West Gate of the Old Town of Bangta City, it suddenly slowed down to a halt.

“What’s the matter?” Xu Yi asked in shock to the driver in front of him.

“President, there is a traffic jam.”

“Traffic jam?” Xu Yi was stunned when he heard this familiar term on the earth but extremely strange in this world.

I opened the front curtain of the carriage and looked forward, and found that the road ahead was really blocked.

Originally the road was eight meters wide, enough to accommodate four carriages running side by side, but now it is mixed with some medium-sized magic buses and a few medium-sized freight magic locomotives that are supposed to go to the Rainy Valley, making the road congested. few.

And there seemed to be an accident in the front. From a distance, two carriages could be seen falling to the ground, and loud quarrels could be heard coming from the front.

Seeing the anxious expressions of the people waiting for the traffic jam, Xu Yi couldn’t help laughing.

This scene is really missed by him.

“Daddy Bell, are there frequent traffic jams here?” Xu Yi asked Bell, his private carriage driver.

“Not much before, but more in the second half of this year.” Papa Bell replied, and suddenly glanced at Xu Yi quite strangely. “Mr. President, to be honest, it was only after our Chamber of Commerce’s magic locomotives were sold that there were frequent traffic jams. Many people have scolded us when they were in traffic jams.”

Xu Yi laughed: “Sooner or later they will adapt to this situation.”

Looking up at the front, the situation didn’t seem to improve. Then, when there were more and more blocked cars, they were about to extend to the far gate. Only then did Xu Yi remember that there is no traffic police in this world to maintain. Order to ensure traffic.

After hesitating for a while, Xu Yi added an imperial wind technique to himself and flew over the blocked carriage and magic locomotive.

I flew to the accident site ahead and found that it was a medium-sized freight magic locomotive colliding with two horse-drawn carriages and causing the accident.

Both carriages fell to the ground at this time, and one of them even looked like it was about to fall apart. It was obviously hit hard.

And that medium-sized freight magic locomotive stood completely aside without any trace of damage.

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

“Papa Sakchi, it’s you, what’s the matter?”

Father Sakchi looked at Xu Yi falling from the sky in amazement, with a hint of joy across his face.

“Chairman Xu, why are you here? I just returned from Karamay City. You see, this car is still the goods of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and it is about to be transported to Luoyu Valley. I didn’t expect to walk there. Here, I happened to be hit by them.”

Xu Yi looked in the direction of Father Sakchi’s fingers, and recognized that these few quarrels with Father Sakchi were all little nobles in Bangta City. No wonder they could have a private carriage that looked good.

Seeing Xu Yi looking over with inquiry, several little nobles immediately cried out.

“Chairman Xu, don’t listen to his nonsense! We obviously walked on the road well, but he ran into it directly. You see, our carriage was about to fall apart! We have all suffered. Injury, can this still be our fault?”

“It’s not your fault who is? Who made your carriage run crookedly, and it runs so fast on this road. I think your horse is crazy?” Father Sakchi retorted immediately.

The few little nobles looked suffocated, but then they shouted at their necks: “I think you are crazy! Our horses and carriages have been used at home for more than ten years. How could it have come out this year without you? What kind of magic locomotive is easy to use? You…”

As soon as the few little nobles spoke, it realized that Xu Yi was next to him. They actually dared to say bad things about the magic locomotive in front of Xu Yi. Isn’t this just looking for death?

Turning his head and seeing Xu Yi’s face sinking, several people suddenly felt panic.