Chapter 150 Final Preparations
“Sister Jeanne, you are back.”
Having just dismounted, Horn felt a little confused when he looked at the little girl wearing an apron in front of him.
Jeanne stroked the little girl's head and explained: "This is Gilles Lana, an orphan. I saw that she was often bullied by other children, so I made her a maid."
The little girl named Giles is about twelve or thirteen years old. Judging from the scars on her face and the bruises at the corners of her mouth, she must have suffered a lot before.
Stepping forward and touching Giles' head, Horn smiled and said to Jeanne: "Why do you suddenly want to find a maid for yourself?"
"After all, I have to focus on the military recently. , don’t have that much time to clean the house.”
This is not a lie, during this time, Jeanne and a group of black hat army commanders were undergoing intensive training at Jeshka’s place.
Horn brought them here. In the future, they will go to war with the Duke. They cannot just spread their hands and run away completely on their own. They still have to help them prepare for war.
Therefore, Horn required all officers from the brigade level and above in several major legions as well as all marshal-level company captains to participate in Jeshka and Hakuto's military courses.
It is said to be a military course, but it is actually the two people's battlefield experience and the methods of arranging and changing formations that they have figured out.
Hakuto originally didn’t want to participate, but Horn gave him too much.
Not only did he get him on the church's wanted list, but he also helped him get expelled from the Bai Feng mercenary group.
We can only go to the dark side with Horn.
In these courses, even Horn himself would come over to observe. It must be said that Jeanne is quite talented in this area.
Asked her to calculate eleven times eleven, she would be stunned. She could see the number of people and the length and width of the formation at a glance. It was almost the same as the formula that Horn had summarized. It was really off the mark.
Coming out of the stable, Horn looked at the sky, which was still gloomy.
He walked back to the Papal Palace, and Jeanne, guided by the knights of the Holy Grail Knights, quickly ran towards the area where the fight took place.
Along the way, especially in the square, you can see groups of young men performing step prayers under the command of Ten Households and Hundred Households.
Every time someone makes a mistake, the black hat army will mark it down. After the prayer, they will directly step forward and whip the person with a cane until it spins like a top.
But unfortunately, after three or four days of training, this group of people still can't tell the difference between left and right, let alone walk in an orderly manner, and it's difficult to stand in an orderly manner.
In addition to these young men participating in the formation training, there are also some young men carrying shovels and pickaxes to dig drainage ditches under the leadership of the ten and hundred household heads.
Not far away, you can also see that they are rebuilding fences and houses, knocking down rotten houses, cleaning out garbage, and gathering people from the same ten or one hundred households together.
After this period of 100-household reform, Horn had two 100-household heads in the old camp with more than 1,200 people, and 20 100-household heads in the new camp with more than 11,500 people. people.
There are a total of 22 hundred heads of households and about 12,800 people.
Among the 100 heads of households in the new camp, fifteen were elected from the original refugees in the new camp, and five were appointed from Horn's old camp.
As for some of the former bandits and robbers, they were either honest and good citizens, or they violated the laws of the Papal State three times and were exiled.
There are not a few people who have been beaten to death for serious violations of the law.
Horn expelled and beat to death more than a hundred refugees. Almost every day, people were hung on flagpoles or paraded in shackles.
The day before yesterday, he even fined two elders who fought in the street and damaged public property half their tickets, and asked them to read a letter of apology in public.
This led to the fact that when Horn was walking on the road to the camp, the refugees were not only in reverence but also in fear when they saw Horn.
Looking at the crowded crowds in and around the camp, including those from several nearby small camps, Horn shook his head helplessly.
Normally, most young people will be building roads and dredging rivers nearby. There should not be so many people in the camp during the day. But since the war tax incident, both guilds and citizens have been mobilizing funds to cope with the heavy tax burden.
After the book funds were exhausted, the work-for-relief program was temporarily stopped, and a large number of young people had to stay in the new camp.
Fortunately, due to Horn's influence, the Duke exempted these migrant workers from taxes, and the young men still had some savings. In addition, Horn bought a large amount of grain before the price of food rose, so the current life in Xinying was not bad.
But just eating food and not working is not enough.
With nothing to do, Horn simply let them participate in basic military training, such as step prayer, formation, marching, etc.
In addition to this, the ten households were also asked to renovate the new camp and divide the roads, areas and drainage ditches, otherwise there would be a stink all day long.
In order to enable them to better adapt to possible wars in the future, Horn also specially organized a patrol team to pay close attention to public security.
The establishment of the patrol team is not only to pre-train the soldiers' mentality, but also to meet the needs in this regard.
Since the deterioration of security near Fort Joan of Arc, many rogues and even bandits have come to Horn to collect taxes under the guise of tax commissioners.
But they were all persuaded by Horn's three-inch gun of corruption and left honestly.
Sometimes they come to sneak attack at night, then these patrols play a role.
The Xinying area where Horn is located has gradually become a restricted area for tax commissioners, and many refugee workers from nearby camps have relocated.
This resulted in the number of migrant workers near Horn Camp reaching nearly 15,000. In such a small area, the number of people in such a small area was almost larger than the residents of Fort Joan of Arc.
This morning, when Horn went out to Fort Joan of Arc, he even saw these refugees holding a small market. When he came back, the patrol said that there had been several quarrels, thefts and fights at the market. .
When there are more people, there will be more things to do. Horn will have to hold another meeting tonight to talk about the issue of public security and the personal qualities of the elders.
Horn came to the Pope's Palace holding the alchemy product catalog and alchemy formula book.
The Papal Palace is splendid with green wood. Not only is there a cutting board hanging at the door with the name Papal Palace engraved on it, but there are also foreign guards at the door - the lycanthrope Varangian Guards from the Black Bone Swamp.
It is very consistent with the standards of a papal residence.
Pushing open the door and walking into the lobby of the Papal Palace on the first floor, Horn was the first to see Bonnard and several boy soldiers grimacing and copying out their account books.
During this period, Halkin did use money to do things. He dutifully collected a lot of messy account books and swept away the discarded old account books from the nearby grocery store market.
Horn always felt something was wrong about the previous account books. After thinking about it, he couldn't let go, so he arranged for Bonader to sort out these account books.
The order given by Horn was to extract all abnormal flows and transactions and make statistics in a two-dimensional table.
Bonade's situation was similar to that of Hakuto. After being brought to the Papal State, he was labeled as a short-haired spy and had to work as a secretary for Horn.
As for what he thinks in his heart, I don’t know.
"How's it going?" Horn knocked on the table to wake Bonnard up from the numbers.
"Halkin just sent another batch of account books, but there is still no harvest." Bonade knocked on his neck, "Among this batch, only this one has some value, and there are two abnormal transactions."
“Keep working hard.” Horn nodded, took the alchemy list and recipe book and wanted to go inside, but was suddenly stopped by Bonad.
"Your Majesty, Halkin is waiting for you on the second floor. He also brought someone here, who he said was the locksmith."
(End of this chapter)