At noon the next day after the Talburg dinner, Yat summoned three managers of the military caravan.

"You three have done a good job in dealing with the guild. I also know that the guild people are not that easy to deal with. Since the trade route of Besançon cannot be opened for a while, the caravans with the army will not go to Besançon to do southern goods trade for the time being. You can rest in Talburg for a few days first."

"In the next period of time, you need to do three things. The first and most important thing is to bring the supplies of Talburg, the craftsmen we captured, the innocent prisoners rescued, and the prisoners who were willing to surrender. The second thing is to send people to recruit a group of refugees who were affected by the war along the edge of the northern theater command, and take them back to the valley wooden fort to open up land and farm. If you encounter craftsmen who are willing to go to the valley, you can give higher salaries. The third thing is to recruit a group of half-year-old orphans who are twelve orphans aged twelve orphans. There are not too many for now, just fourteen orphans, and you can recruit again in the future. There are many such orphans in churches and monasteries in various places. You can choose in the name of caravans' good deeds. There are only three standards for selection - boys, strong and flexible."

After hearing this, Lawrence asked curiously: "Sir, what do you want these half-large orphans to do? You can't cultivate land and produce food, or you can't hold a spear and sword to the battlefield. You can't use it and eat it. Raising most of these children is too expensive and grain. It's better to buy slaves directly. Besides, wherever wars are happening, you can recruit young and strong refugees to farm for you or even march to fight."

Yat picked up the wooden bowl filled with clear water on the table and took a sip, and replied with a smile: "I don't plan to let these half-grown boys farm, and I don't expect them to go to war for the time being."

"Then are you planning to?" Lawrence asked, and Cooper and Salter also listened.

"I plan to let them learn general language in the valley, teach them combat techniques and tactics, teach them arithmetic and medical skills, and give them the faith of the Holy Spirit." Yat said to him to recruit orphans.

"Do you want to raise a group of boys like knight attendants?" Salter understood Yat's meaning a little.

"It's such a meaning, but it won't be as complicated as the training of a knight attendant. I just want them to become the backbone of my future army and territory." Yat said calmly.

No one spoke anymore. Lawrence may not understand it very much, but Cooper and Salter understood Yat's profound meaning. They knew Yat to "forge" a group of "weapons" that they had received his training since childhood. These "weapons" will become the sharpest sword he has been based in troubled times in a few years...

"Well, by the way, there's one more thing"

Yat's voice interrupted the contemplation of several people, and they came to their senses and listened to Yat's arrangements.

"While completing these things, you will also take Kazak's old father, who was ill in bed, and Andrew's family in his hometown back to the valley. If you ask them for specific places, please go and ask them for the two of them. Kazak's father is provided by Mubao. After he recovers from his illness, he can give him a relaxing job in the warehouse. Andrew's family can also allocate land between the valleys first. If there are other people who have relatives who want to receive the valley, you can also receive it into the valley. Let Odo help you with this matter."

"Okay!" several people replied.

"After these things are finished, you will stay in the south for some simple trade. As for what you buy and sell, you will decide on your own. If you really feel that there is no way, go to Sap and ask Baron Galvin for help." Yat said to several managers of the army caravan.

Several people wrote down Yat's arrangements.

After hearing this, Salter nodded, and then said with a worrying expression: "Sir, if you want to support the army through trade, we must interfere in the trade of South China. No matter what kind of goods are in the trade, they cannot make more money than the trade of South China China. The money comes quickly."

Yat picked up the account book of the military caravan on the table and glanced. A caravan with thirteen carriages could make a net profit of 24,000 Finneys in less than a month for a South-South goods trade. This money could maintain the wartime military pay and food consumption of the Yat's army for four months. If it could even maintain a forty army of six months' daily expenses (except weapons and armor). This could be made when the South-South goods were not easy to acquire and the purchase price was high. If it could seize the route of the South-South goods trade before the end of the war and form a larger caravan, the money earned by the caravan could expand its army several times.

"Salter, I understand what you said. After I finish my military service mission to garrison Talburg, I will personally shovel and hoe the obstacles on this trade route." Yat said calmly, but his eyes were filled with murderous aura.

Salter knew that Yat had its own arrangements, so he didn't say much and was ready to continue reporting to Yat's caravan's accounts and the inlet and outflow of goods.

"Salter, I won't listen to these little things. Since I dare to hand over the caravan to you, I'm just rest assured that you can do it yourself." Yat only cares about the caravan's major affairs and is unwilling to interfere in the details, and he doesn't have much energy to care about these things.

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Three days later, he followed the army caravan with more than a dozen carriages full of supplies and more than thirty entourages (workers, prisoners, craftsmen and prisoners of war, etc.) and left Talburg under the escort of sixteen armed guards (and coachmen), and passed through the southern mountain road through the southern mountainous road from Andermatt to return to the valley. Later, Cooper would leave the army caravan and return to the valley, because the most important winter wheat seeding season in the valley was approaching, and Yat handed over to Cooper a task to expand the soldiers' barracks in the wood fort and build a new shed residence in the valley, because after the garrison mission of Talburg ended, Yat would soon return to the valley with the expanded army, and people would continue to join the valley in the next time. So Cooper had to go back to the valley in charge of the valley and the valley to prepare for Yat's subsequent expansion.

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Here on Talburg.

On the first day of November, Baron Jeffrey of Biltenberg sent his guard to Talburg with 46,000 Finney's coins and two war horses. Yat was not a person with no credibility. He took the coins sent by the messenger, took away the war horse, and then handed over the white and fat Baron Jeffrey's only son to the messenger and brought back to Biltenburg.

In the following time, a tacit peace between Talburg and Biltenburg entered. The Talburg defenders did not cross the edge of the mountain, and Biltenburg's army did not step into the mountain.

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When he entered Talburg, Yat brought thirty soldiers, plus ten prisoners of war, and fifty peasant soldiers sent by Earl Ballwin.

During the past few months of sneak attacks, plundering and defense, more than 20 peasant soldiers stationed in Talburg were killed and injured, of which five were killed in battle (including a battle group leader and a sentry cavalry), three people seriously injured (including a battle group leader), and eight people slightly injured (including two team leaders); five peasant soldiers drawn were killed in battle, two seriously injured and one person slightly injured; even two were killed in the battle to defend the city.

Yat arranged a simple and solemn funeral for all those who died in battle, whether they were soldiers, peasants and peasants, and also paid a hundred Finney's comfort fee for the dead and wounded peasants and peasants who were transferred to the Yat army to take them back and hand them over to their families. Yat believed that the money spent was worth it, because the return of peasants and peasants would spread the heroic achievements of the Yat army with the enemy in the southeast border area and the kindness and fraternity of the commander Yat.

Two of the soldiers who died in the valley had relatives. Yat specifically instructed Coober to give each family a 200 Finney comfort fee to each family after returning to the valley. Yat also decided to allocate a single acre of a single acre of land from the land reclaimed between the valleys as the permanent land for the Hero Soul family members of the Battle. This acre of land will not be taxed forever.

The soldiers who were seriously injured and unable to fight will make other arrangements after the army returned to the valley according to their injuries. If they could no longer fight for the army, the valley wood fort would pay the comfort fee based on their military duties and military merits and allocate land ranging from one to three acres for them to farm. These arable land will not have to pay any taxes within ten years.

Other non-war soldiers also enjoyed the preferential treatment of the Valley Wood Fort to varying degrees.

Yat's series of actions have been unanimously praised by the army because they no longer have to worry about not having a place for their lives or their family members after they died and were injured in battle. Of course, Yat also explained to everyone that the premise for this preferential treatment to be implemented is that he can successfully obtain the land of the valley in the future, but everyone has at least hope.

There are both reductions and increase in staff.

Before the Talfort Defense War, Yat obtained a group of prisoners and craftsmen in Bilten. After the Talfort Defense War, he also brought seventeen young and strong warriors with the military caravan. After leaving with the military caravan and the drawn peasant soldiers, apart from the wounded soldiers placed in the city of Glaru County, there were still twenty-two war soldiers left in Talfort, twenty-six new soldiers (including the peasant soldiers left and the prisoners of war selected as soldiers), as well as five remaining mail-offs and several enemy prisoners of war who were not easy to deal with in the inner castle dungeon.

In the following time, Yat trained his army while guarding against the enemy in the east.

December soon entered. After the training of the recruits was completed, in order to facilitate the coordination and command of the army, Yat put all the soldiers in Talburg into a temporary formation.

After completing the training, there were forty-eight soldiers (including commanders) in Talburg. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army and guard against possible enemy situations, Yat did not disrupt the new recruits and veterans' organizational mixed groupings for the time being. Instead, he drew eight excellent recruits to make up for the shortages of the original war squads, and then temporarily formed the remaining recruits into new squads, which were temporarily called the recruits (the original squad was called the combat squad).
Chapter completed!