Chapter 47: Military Merit Establishes the Country

  "Kingdom Military System: Beheading ten enemies, recording one military merit once, rewarding one servant and one plot of land;"

  Killed 50 enemies, recorded two levels of military merit once, rewarded with four servants and two plots of land.

  Cut down 100 enemies, record three levels of military merit once, reward sixteen servants and eight pieces of land.

  "Slain a thousand enemies..."

  "Alas, still six short. It seems my first personal servant will have to wait until next year." Liu Yu sighed as he stood in front of a wooden board hanging on the wall in a tall wooden house within the fourth division's campsite.

  This is where the fourth division records military achievements for all officers and soldiers, also known as "Military Merit Section".

  The wooden house of the Military Merit Division was very simply decorated. Liu Yu estimated that it was at least fifty square meters, but there were only four wooden tables lined up in a row facing the door, with a chair behind each table. On the wall behind the wooden tables hung four wooden boards, engraved with a large number of beast tribe characters, which described the military merit system of the Beastman Kingdom.

  Like the passage Liu Yu read just now, it is the first few articles of the entire Kingdom's military merit system. Liu Yu, who had already killed four Fano De scouts during his patrol, was calculating when he could get the servants and land rewarded by the kingdom according to his military merits.

  "Yi he di, yi fang di" are units used by the Beastman Kingdom to calculate land area. One fang di is equal to two he di. Liu Yu specially asked Ge Ri about it, and roughly estimated that one he di is about the same size as a wooden house in the Military Merit Department, which is around 50 square meters.

  Although Liu Yu had never been short of servants in the Fire Fortress before, they were all beautiful women from the Fox and Rabbit tribes that were unique to the entire kingdom. However, this was because Croak King was a monarch, and as a direct relative within three generations, Liu Yu could enjoy the king's benefits.

  In Liu Yu's mind, these things were not his own, but what he got in exchange for military service and land was his own.

  "Little kid, you're here again." A voice came from behind Liu Yu's back, a man wearing black military uniform without any armor, about thirty years old, walked into the wooden house.

  "General Du." Liu Yu turned his head and saw that it was the officer in charge of military merit, so he hastily bowed slightly and greeted him.

  "You little brat just has that bit of military merit, and you're already coming to turn it in. You'll never get a raise in military merit no matter how many times you turn it in." Du Er said to Liu Yu with a hint of teasing tone.

  "I'm also bored and came to take a look at the military rules, so that I can have a sense of security if I make any military achievements in the future." Liu Yu replied somewhat casually.

  This Du'er is not an outsider, he also belongs to the Weilin family and is a member of another branch. In terms of generation, he is one generation higher than Liu Yu, and since their age difference is not very large, when they are alone, Liu Yu speaks with him relatively casually.

  "Haha, actually when we first joined the army, it was like this too. Every time we clashed with the Fandor military, no matter if we achieved anything or not, we would run back here to take a turn." Du Er said to Liu Yu as someone who had been through it before.

  "I am..." After chatting with Du'er for a while, Liu Yu excused himself and left the military achievement department. Only when he walked out of the military achievement department did Liu Yu discover that it had started snowing heavily outside without knowing when, and the white snow covered the ground completely. Now it was already deep winter, and there was only more than a month left before the Beast God Festival.

  The border in winter is slightly warmer than the places like Di Huo Fortress, and there are fewer severe weather conditions such as blizzards, but it is still not suitable for large-scale military operations. Therefore, when winter comes, both the Beastman Kingdom and the Fano Empire choose to withdraw their troops, even patrol teams are dispatched very few, and Liu Yu's patrol mission has also been reduced by half, now they can often stay in the camp to cultivate.

  It's been almost half a year since arriving at the military camp, and Liu Yu has not been idle in his cultivation. His Dou Qi cultivation has reached the early stages of 5th rank Dou Jiang, while his spiritual power cultivation has made little progress and remains at mid-5th rank Mo Dao Shi.

  Liu Yu's strength has now caught up with Ivan, and his spiritual power is even higher than Ivan's by a small margin. This made Ivan, who had always been proud of his exceptional talent, feel somewhat unaccustomed to it. Liu Yu pretended to be calm on the surface, but in his heart, he was secretly shocked at the incredible effect of the inherited treasure.

  Sometimes Liu Yu worried that this thing would bring trouble to himself, but thinking back, Cro King told him the secret of the inheritance treasure except for the Taishang Laojun's Shengjie Longwang, only their three generations knew, so naturally there was no need to worry about any trouble.

  Treading through the thick snow, listening to his own footsteps, Liu Yu's mind once again turned to the kingdom's system of killing enemies and achieving merits. As he fantasized about his repeated military achievements, Liu Yu also gained a deeper understanding of the internal situation within the Beastman Kingdom.

  The Beastman Kingdom is different from other empires and kingdoms on the continent, it is a country without nobles or titles, its subjects have superficial equality.

  For example, the three families of Weilin, Suobo and Dila have a huge influence within the Bimon tribe, and the number of kings, elders and high-ranking military officers who have emerged over the years is astonishing.

  But these three families are like all other Beaumont families, neither large nor small, with no hereditary titles and no hereditary privileges.

  Other smaller families like the Ptolemaic Pas family, and Ivan's Belrag family, were superficially equal in status to these larger family members, and the kingdom would not give them any overt special treatment.

  The influence of the three major families is far beyond that of small families like Pas, Ivan, and Simon. They have many strong members within their clan, and their territory and servants are far more numerous than those of other small families.

  Great power is achieved through innate talent and diligent practice. All the techniques practiced by Mong are "Broken Hu Dou Qi", but Huang Jin Bi Mong, Lie Yan Bi Mong, Da Di Bi Mong, three branches should be different attributes of the specific incantation practiced.

  In terms of magic, the magical education they received was also a summary of the experiences of their predecessors, passed down directly by the strong within the tribe, without too much family-style inheritance.

  In a word, all the Bimon, no matter how strong their family is after they were born, the opportunities for cultivation they get are mostly equal. So basically within the Bimon tribe, as long as they work hard to cultivate, relying on their generally not mediocre talent, it's possible for anyone from any family to become a strong one.

  But the rights and titles of the kingdom are limited, the territory and serfdom are also limited, it is impossible to divide them equally among all families just because each family has a strong man, nor can they be divided among these strong men. In the end, only competition can be used to allocate these social wealth and resources.

  The current competitive way of the Beastman Kingdom is the military merit system. For anyone who wants to defeat other strong men in the tribe, gain power, territory and servants, killing enemies on the battlefield is the most direct and effective way.

  Inside the country, from the Da Sima down to the Huo Wei, all officials are appointed based on their military achievements. Even the king's appointment is also an important reference for military merit.

  This forms a situation where young Bimons who join the army at around the same age have roughly equal fighting spirit and magical abilities, and are all ordinary soldiers.

  Through the military merit system, they were motivated to work hard on the battlefield to kill enemies and make achievements. After four years of ordinary military service, those who made fewer achievements were eliminated and returned home, while those who made more achievements were given large tracts of land, servants, and granted military positions to become officers.

  After many years of becoming an officer, the status is getting higher and higher, the power is getting bigger and bigger, and finally a big family is born. Those who were eliminated and returned home, generally, could only hope that their next generation would kill enemies on the battlefield and gain official positions.

  Liu Yu thought back to every piece of history he knew about the rise of the Sima family, and their rises all started with military achievements.

  "Meritorious service established the country, and the system of meritorious service has penetrated every level of this nation, more thoroughly than Shang Jun's 'Twenty Levels of Meritorious Service Granting Nobility' back then." Liu Yu secretly weighed the pros and cons of this merit-based system.

  When Liu Yu was thinking about the founding law of the Beastman Kingdom, the heavy snow had already covered the entire land. Along the fourth division's garrison all the way to the east, the mountains were a snowy white world. All the wild beasts and magical creatures either chose to hibernate or tried to hide in their own caves to reduce going out. At this time, the big mountain was exceptionally quiet except for the snow scene.

  However, hundreds of miles further east, in the Sas province of Fanore, tens of thousands of Fanore border troops are constantly transporting logs and grain from the provincial capital Banan City to the border towns on the edge of the province.