As expected, the tortillas and the flavored waters were excellently experienced. Everyone in the castle was amazed, especially my parents when they tried the food, they didn't even realize when they finished they were already asking for more from me, it was nice to try them again, I just lacked ice in the water to make it perfect but unfortunately, there is no way for the moment, unless he comes from the north, but I'll think about how to convince the father to go north.
Within a few days, I was talking to my father about exporting, I had to hit the iron while it was hot.
"I understand, certainly this is an excellent idea, how did you manage to create something like that?" Father asked as he looked at the sugar in the fascinated bowl.
With a slight smile I replied "Well, the idea came to me while training on the outskirts of the Valley I came across this strange plant which I name as cane this sulpura, a sweet liquid. After that, I just had to think of a way to make it compact. The method itself is quite complicated and takes time but in the end, the result is the desired one. I need your permission, father, I have the idea of commercializing my inventions. "
I could see that he was seriously considering it, father is quite wise I am sure that I notice the value of things and the net profits that it could bring to our house after a moment he looked at me.
"How would you do it?"
Oh, it's proving good to me, in that case, I'll give it a good impression "First, I will start a controlled cenbrad of the plant will be behind the Valley so that only members of our family and employees specialized in this have access, for this they will need men loyal to the house and even then they will not know that they are cultivating as an extra measure. Once the problem is fixed I want to build a sugar industry where the process of converting cane to sugar will take place, naturally, this also applies to the dough and the fresh waters are three great moves that will take a while but will be worth it in the end. "
When you're done speaking, allow a few seconds to let the information sink in. I could see his eyes shining more and more as time passed, it seems that he was doing all kinds of paperwork in his mind trying to recreate the scene in his mind.
In the end, he looked up and said to me.
"What do you need?."
"A few million golden dragons," I answered as seriously as possible.
"Very good, but I need a monthly update on the progress."
I nodded "No problem."
I was surprised that he will accept so quickly, I already had many countermeasures in place in case he refused to accept. After all, giving him that amount of money even as a child is not a move that anyone would make. It seems that my father trusts me more than he originally thought.
After that, I proceeded to gather people to work on the sugarcane planting, together with the construction of the three factories located a few kilometers away from the castle. Something good to add about the Valley is that it is huge. It is not a game to say that I could build a small city inside, for the building of the factories they were drawn by me explaining every detail and machine that they would have to create with extreme detail, this won me the astonishment of everyone in the place, now in any part of the Valley whispers about the genius heir of the Burkhardt can be heard.
Now that the plan was in place, I just had to supervise it should in time this leaves me free for the next move. And the most important in many ways, I speak of the army naturally every house that is respected has to have a solid military force, the level of power of the houses within the continent is mediated for that reason after all the Burkhardt are a giant that can pressure the king himself.
This case only saved me a lot of work that I am infinitely grateful for, while I moved to my room I kept my mind working on the empires of yesteryear which were the strongest militarily speaking, the most obvious option would be Rome but in terms of the regime and army themselves, they would be the Spartans. Something interesting about this topic seems that in this world none of the most famous empires of my old world existed, that explains why the slow growth of military techniques and tactics, I am not complaining, that is an opportunity for me.
Once inside, I settled down at my table, grabbing an ink pen and a sheet of paper, and I started to create the family's military plan.
Military service;
Military service affected citizens between seventeen and sixty years of age. Until the forty-five they participated in the campaigns, and the older ones defended the cities and formed the reserve. It does not matter if the graduate is from the upper or lower classes, no one can try to avoid military service, since its fulfillment was essential to be able to access the mag State institutions and a political career
The basic political organization 'gens' or flag-bearers will be forced to each gens to provide a certain number of armed men plus other support men. First, twelve military tribunes were chosen, each of whom was chosen from among those who brought together four hundred soldiers, who were called legion. The basic requirement was to be a citizen of the Valley with a minimum income of four hundred drachmas, and to join the infantry or heavy cavalry; or a citizen of some town under the domination of the Valley, which contributed to the army having high morale and great patriotic fervor. Other factors such as religion or skin color will not be taken into account. On the contrary, anyone who wants to take part will be integrated as long as they pass the required tests.
The troops that make up the army will be divided according to their age. The youngest would be enlisted among the Levites (light infantry that threw a javelin and was very versatile), then the hastarios; those who were in the splendor of their age among the 'princeps (heavy infantry) and at the end, the most mature.
The loyalty of the army will be reinforced by the oath (sacrament) of fidelity and obedience to superiors and not desert the battle. Discipline offenses will be punished according to their severity with a suspension of salary, whipping, or even death. The punishment for entire units would consist of decimating them, that is, applying the death penalty to one in ten legionaries.
Military training;
The first thing that aspiring legionaries will learn is to march in place. Then the extreme physical exercises will begin, and will not stop due to inclement weather.
In the training of the Legions of the Valley, everything is thought out, first, they used the recruits to make 30-kilometer marches and when they succeeded they asked them to march 36 kilometers loaded with all their military equipment in addition to kitchen utensils and tools for digging. and build, including stakes, because at the end of the march, they had to build the forced fortified defensive camp protected by embankments and moats.
They will also have to lift heavy weights, and learn to swim, being one of the last physical tests that they will have to overcome is to swim across a river dressed in all their equipment (armor, shield, and all their weapons). The Legions of the Valley training will also include learning to march in formation and perform very effective special combat formations. Only when the troop is in optimal physical shape will the instruction in the handling of legionary weapons begin.
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Without knowing it the hours began to pass, when I stared towards the window the sunlight was beginning to hide I looked at the writings on my table with a slight smile. If you ask me, I would say that the Romans created an almost perfect military system, they were only small defects that were mainly due to the nobles who in the end fell out of favor.
Fortunately in this case it would not be like that since there are no noble idiots who can put their noses in this, among the plans created there were also the armor that he had designed for each part of the army, mostly totally different from those used by the Romans due to his knowledge I ask to create something much better and more modern insight, I could already imagine how majestic they would be parading.
A sigh left his lips he had so many ideas, but everything had to come in time. Raising my right hand pointed towards the wall in front of me. Concentrating all his attention he slammed his hand closed with all his strength and at that moment right in front of him the painting on the wall moved from its place falling to the ground in a thud, this would be a normal scenario if not for force because it was his room where the air could not pass, if for some reason some servant entered he would be scared due to the smile that was drawn on my face.
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Hey Here mayo.
I do not have much to say except that I did not want to integrate all the historical information portrayed about the Roman army. Since that would be very long and would need several chapters just to be able to explain everything.
That is why it will only be summarized, in the most important parts that I believe best.
Without further ado, see you in the next chapter.