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Chapter 164 Traffic jam

When I left the city lord's mansion, it was almost noon. {

Xu Yi glanced at the sky and thought that he had just returned. He said that he would go back to Luoxing Manor to enjoy with Steele for lunch. Then the remaining time would not be enough to visit some reservations, so he had to get on the carriage and go to Luoxing Manor.

While his body was shaking back and forth along the road as the carriage drove, Xu Yi was thinking about the answer he had just obtained from Sevini.

In theory, a noble can have a private army that is infinite, because the Kingdom Parliament and the Kingdom Parliament have never had any special restrictions on this.

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 united group 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 most powerful in the kingdom, so the royal family can always control the greatest power in the kingdom, and the patriarch of the royal family can be the king of the kingdom.

If one day the royal family cannot maintain such absolute advantage, it is very likely that the rule will be overthrown by other great noble families and thus change the regime.

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

In the entire Synez continent, except for some small priests and super-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 actually not a problem in Sevini's opinion.

Of course, the infinite aristocratic private army can only exist in theory.

First and most important issue lies in cost investment.

If you want to form your own private army, of course it is impossible to just win over a group of people to form them, and it can be considered a private army.

If the army you work for is not capable of fighting, it is a mob.

If you want to have combat effectiveness, the first thing you need is a soldier with sufficient quality.

The population of the Kingdom of Lampari has always been small, and the living conditions have always been poor, so there are not enough candidates to serve as soldiers, which has led to the fact that the number of troops in the Kingdom of Lampari has always been small. Even the Zhenbei Army, which is known as the strongest, has only more than 30,000 people in total.

The second is sufficient logistics supply.

In addition to his own qualities, a qualified soldier also needs to have weapons and equipment to form combat effectiveness.

To ensure that the soldier has such combat power, he must also have corresponding supplies, and at least he must be able to fill his stomach.

The investment expenses in this are undoubtedly very terrifying.

The current King** team in the Kingdom of Lampari is only about 50,000, but the investment in military expenditure of the kingdom every year is at least more than 300,000 gold coins.

However, such investment is still extremely low.

Not only is it far inferior to the Sakh Kingdom, but it even has a very different difference between the surrounding small countries, such as the Principality of Drake.

There is 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 investment in funds.

This is of course impossible, so even the most powerful Stark family in the Kingdom of Lampari, except for the royal family, had only 3,000 private troops on the surface.

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

But even if you make the calculations with the most courageousness, there will be at most about 5,000 people.

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

Since the political system of the Kingdom of Lampari determines that the royal family must be the most powerful family, in order to maintain this advantage, the royal family will of course strictly restrict the private army owned by other nobles in the kingdom.

Although limited to the unwritten agreements between the nobles and the traditions on the Continent of Synes, the royal family could not force the noble parliament to pass a resolution to clearly limit the private army owned by the nobles in the kingdom, as a family that holds 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 proportion of private troops under their own names to join the Zhenbei Army to jointly fight against the Sak Kingdom.

The Zhenbei Army has a high casualties. If it is sent to the private army in proportion, then it is obvious that the more private army, the greater the losses the family will suffer.

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

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

The famous big families in other kingdoms have about two thousand private troops.

And a mere viscount like Xu Yi...

Want to have a private army? Are you crazy?

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

She knew very well what Xu Yi meant to hide, so after 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 announce that you want to own a private army, but at most you can only recruit hundreds of guards in the name of the territory guards.

Although this will still attract the attention of countless people, at least it is reasonable and is considered a common practice for many nobles in the kingdom.

Xu Yi readily adopted Sewini's suggestion, but the words of only a few hundred people were far from enough in his opinion.

When it really comes to the time when it is needed, hundreds of people don’t have any effect at all.

Besides, the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce does not need to be a headache for many nobles to have cost investment problems. In addition, the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce can have assets, so in fact, Xu Yi can fully support a private army that exceeds hundreds of people.

There are actually many solutions to avoid the royal family's suppression.

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

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

"Is there anything wrong?" Xu Yi asked the driver in surprise.

"Sir, there's a traffic jam."

"Traffic jam?" Xu Yi was stunned when he heard this noun that was familiar on earth and extremely unfamiliar to this world.

I lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked forward, and found that the road ahead was indeed blocked.

Originally, the road was eight meters wide, enough to accommodate four carriages to drive side by side, but now it is mixed with some medium-sized magic buses and several medium-sized freight magic locomotives that should be heading to Luoyu Valley, which makes the road much more crowded.

Something seemed to have happened in front of me. From a distance, you can see two carriages falling across the ground, and you can also hear loud quarrels coming from the front.

Seeing the anxious expressions of the people waiting for the traffic jam around him and hearing the crowd around him talking, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.

This scene really made him miss it.

"Dad Bell, are there often traffic jams here?" Xu Yi asked his private carriage driver Bell.

"It wasn't too much before, but it will be more in the second half of this year." Dad Bell answered and suddenly glanced at Xu Yi with a strange look. "Sir, to be honest, it was because our Chamber of Commerce's magic motorcycle started to be sold and many people scolded us when it was traffic jams."

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

He looked up and saw that the situation in front of him did not seem to improve. Then he saw that there were more and more cars behind him, and it was even about to extend to the city gate in the distance. Xu Yi then remembered that there was no traffic police in this world who would be dispatched to maintain order and ensure traffic.

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

When I flew to the accident site in front, I found that it was a collision between a medium-sized cargo magic locomotive and two horse-drawn carriages.

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

The medium-sized cargo magic locomotive stood completely aside without any signs of damage.

His eyes swept across the quarrels, but Xu Yi found an acquaintance.

"Dad Sarkic, it's you, what's going on?"

Dad Sarkic looked at Xu Yi who was falling from the air in shock, and a hint of joy flashed across his face.

"President Xu, why are you here too? I just returned from Karamay City. Look, the car is still the goods from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on this car, and I am about to transport them to Luoyu Valley. I didn't expect that when I got here, I happened to be hit by them."

Xu Yi looked in the direction of Sakchi's finger and recognized that the people who quarreled with Sakchi's father were all the little nobles in Bonta City. No wonder they could own private carriages that looked pretty good.

Seeing Xu Yi looking at him with a consulting gaze, several young nobles immediately cried out.

"President Xu, don't listen to his nonsense! We were walking well on the road, but he just ran into it. Look, our carriage was almost broken up! We were all injured. Could this be our fault?"

"It's not your fault, whose fault? Who made your carriage run crookedly, and it's still running so fast on the way. I think your horse is crazy?" Dad Sakchi immediately retorted.

Several young nobles looked suffocated, but then they still shouted to 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 that there is no magic motorcycle that has only emerged this year? You..."

As soon as several young nobles spoke, they remembered that Xu Yi was right next to him. They actually dared to say bad things about the magic motorcycle in front of Xu Yi. Isn’t this asking for death?

When they turned around and saw Xu Yi's face darkened, the few people suddenly became frightened. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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