Attracting these middle-level managers was Zhang Bo's primary method now. Since Zhang Caidong had successfully entrusted him with the authority to recommend who would become a Spiritual Realm Commander, it meant Zhang Bo now held personnel power.
Personnel is politics.
This was a very realistic issue.
Zhang Bo pointed to 20 Blue Star Humans who were previously close to him, capable, and efficient in their work.
He gave them the opportunity to become Spiritual Realm Commanders today.
Then he led them to the Noble Residence, where they met Shen Mu, and after respectful greetings, they were directly appointed as Ten-Man Commanders by Shen Mu, who also gave each of them 10 Swadian Commoners.
This was considered the completion of the Spiritual Realm Commander's inheritance in their eyes.
"Thank you for your generosity and kindness, Respected Lord Shen Mu," these Blue Star Humans said, placing their hands over their chests and respectfully backing away from the Noble Residence.
The Holy Tree Knights escorted them away and then stood guard at the Noble Residence's entrance once more.
However, inside the Noble Residence.
Shen Mu sat on his lord's chair, watching these Blue Star Humans leave, a thoughtful expression on his face: "Now more and more humans are becoming Spiritual Realm Commanders. If each person has 10 Mount & Blade Soldiers, then 10 Blue Star Humans will have 100 Mount & Blade Soldiers, 100 Blue Star Humans will have 1,000 Mount & Blade Soldiers, and if it's 1,000 Blue Star Humans, that would be 10,000 Mount & Blade Soldiers."
The increasing number of Blue Star Humans becoming Ten-Man Commanders significantly increased the pressure on Shen Mu regarding the number of Mount & Blade Soldiers.
Although Shen Mu possessed a considerable number of mount & blade Commoner units, their current count was only around two thousand.
If calculated, 200 Blue Star Humans could completely occupy all of these mount & blade Commoner units.
"Now I need to consider whether I can increase the number of mount & blade Commoner units, especially since New Rivadin and New Uzhhorod have been established and require a large deployment of troops and personnel for garrisoning. Thus, new recruits have become a problem."
Shen Mu pondered.
If he considered it this way, then the source of these new recruits needed to be resolved.
At this moment, Shen Mu thought of the Mount & Blade Warband World.
"If I can open up the Mount & Blade Warband World, then I can obtain an endless supply of mount & blade Commoner units," Shen Mu couldn't help but frown. He truly didn't know how to open up the so-called Mount & Blade Warband World, as he couldn't actively recruit mount & blade Commoner units at present.
After all, these mount & blade Commoner units were not like Mount & Blade Soldiers, who could be promoted and recruited through town barracks and the mount & blade Commoners themselves.
mount & blade Commoners were the most basic type of commoner unit, the fundamental base.
Since they were already the most basic units, how could they be recruited and promoted?
Of course, Shen Mu also knew that in his one town and two castles, there were many mount & blade Commoner units with both males and females, and a small number of young child commoners.
These were children around fourteen or fifteen years old, also commoner units.
However, the majority were mount & blade male commoners, with very few female commoners.
According to normal biological logic, males and females combine to produce the next generation, thus increasing the population.
But if calculated purely by this, nearly four to five thousand males and only two to three hundred females, plus a few dozen children, this ratio was simply exaggerated.
If it truly followed biological logic, and males and females combined to produce the next generation, how could these two to three hundred females possibly satisfy four to five thousand males?
Just thinking about it made Shen Mu feel a bit unbearable.
【Ding! Your current need has been detected! Mount & Blade System function is active! You can consume Faith Power to issue a Refugee Recruitment Order in the Mount & Blade Warband World! Recruit a group of homeless refugees to join your faction!】
【Note! Your issued Refugee Recruitment Order is not limited to the homeless. Furthermore, due to your high renown, even commoners with land or town residents willing to forge a new life in towns will actively respond to your Refugee Recruitment Order and come to you!】
【Therefore, if your Refugee Recruitment Order affects the political stability and economic output of that country, it will have a negative impact on the nobles and supreme ruler of that country.】
【Please use this Refugee Recruitment Order with caution.】
"......" Shen Mu was slightly stunned, looking at the dialogue box that appeared before him, feeling a bit helpless: "Alright, alright, the Mount & Blade System is indeed like a worm in my belly. Whenever I want or need something, my Mount & Blade System can help me achieve it."
He naturally had nothing to say about this, as it was his golden finger.
"Then use the Refugee Recruitment Order." Shen Mu's thoughts directly communicated with his Mount & Blade System. As the details of using the Refugee Recruitment Order appeared in his mind, he also had an idea: "For the country, I'll choose the Kingdom of Swadia!"
His renown in the Kingdom of Swadia was already quite high, and for him, the Kingdom of Swadia was like an important logistics base.
If he could use the Refugee Recruitment Order from the Kingdom of Swadia, the refugees he obtained would certainly be Swadians.
In this way, his Deherim would surely be able to quickly replenish its Swadian Commoners.
As if sensing Shen Mu's thoughts, a new content appeared in the dialogue box.
【Ding! You have used the Refugee Recruitment Order. The cost of this Refugee Recruitment Order is 10,000 Faith Power.】
【Through the Refugee Recruitment Order, you have conveyed your need for a large number of homeless refugees in the Kingdom of Swadia to come and help build your territory.】
【Approximately 1,000 Swadian Commoners have heard your call and plan to come to you.】
【Note: Commoner units from any kingdom, once they arrive here, will join you as the most basic commoners. You can train them into soldiers of different kingdoms through various castle military buildings or town military buildings.】
"Train them into soldiers of different kingdoms through various castle military buildings or town military buildings?" Shen Mu looked at the content of the last dialogue box, his eyes slightly widened, and then a smile appeared on his lips: "It seems that by training them in the military buildings of a certain faction, soldiers of that faction will appear. This solves my problem of choosing soldier types."
After all, there was no other way.
Among the 6 nations in mount & blade Warband, each nation specialized in different unique troop types.
For example, the Kingdom of Swadia excelled at heavy shock cavalry.
The Nords excelled at heavy melee infantry.
The Rodok Kingdom excelled at heavy defensive infantry and Rodok Sharpshooters.
The Vigia Kingdom excelled at Vigia Sharpshooter and heavy assault troops.
The Kujit Khanate excelled at light shock cavalry and horse archers.
The Sarranid Sultanate excelled at heavy cavalry, represented by the Mamluk.
It could be said that each had its advantages and disadvantages.
But if all the unique troop types of all kingdoms could be combined, it would be the advantages of the Calradia Empire, which integrated all the strengths of these kingdoms.
For holding the line, it would have the Rodok Kingdom's heavy defensive pike square infantry.
For sieges, it would have the Nords' heavy melee infantry.
If aiming for a decisive victory or breaking a stalemate, one could deploy the Vigia Kingdom's heavy assault infantry, which used two-handed great axes and had extremely high attack power.
As for ranged shooters, both Rodok Sharpshooters and Vigia Sharpshooters could make enemies suffer.
And in terms of cavalry, one could always send out the Kujit Khanate's light cavalry for reconnaissance, or horse archers for harassment.
If the enemy dared to send out small, outnumbered units, sending out light shock cavalry to deal with them would be as easy as flipping a hand.
If the enemy appeared with a large number of soldiers, then in the plains, Swadia's heavy shock cavalry formation could easily crush the enemy.
And after Swadia's heavy shock cavalry formation tore through the enemy's formation, the Mamluk's heavy cavalry could follow up and use their stronger melee skills to deal with the enemy's attempts to regroup their formation.
Furthermore, the Vigia Knights within the Vigia Kingdom, also heavily armored heavy cavalry whose combat strength was entirely focused on attack, could also display even more formidable combat power, wielding two-handed battle axes on horseback to further devastate the enemy's formation.
At this point, the enemy's formation would surely have completely collapsed. The Kujit Khanate's light shock cavalry or horse archers, whether continuing to harass the enemy or delivering the final blow, would be up to the commander.
One could say that this was why the Calradia Empire was so powerful.
The top-tier troops of these 6 kingdoms were actually the ordinary, regular troops of the Calradia Empire.
This is also why mount & blade Warband is viewed only as an independent meta-world; it's because the Calradia Empire within the Mount & Blade Warband World itself is an empire in a standalone background.
In fact, the Mount & Blade Warband World itself has a completely different development from the mount & blade Bannerlord World, which nominally was not fully split centuries ago, but merely just began to show signs of splitting from the Calradia Empire's background world.
It's just that nominally, mount & blade Bannerlord is a prequel to the Mount & Blade Warband World, located earlier on the timeline.
But fundamentally, the two have little connection.
They only have some background connections.
【Ding! A group of refugees from the Kingdom of Swadia has arrived near your Deherim and are filled with joy upon seeing the town you built. You now need to send special personnel to guide these refugees over.】
【Ding! Because you recruited homeless refugees, which harmed the interests of the Kingdom of Swadia, King Harlaus is extremely displeased with you. King Harlaus's approval of you has now decreased.】
【Ding! King Harlaus condemns you.】
Then, new dialogue box content refreshed on Shen Mu's screen, indicating that homeless refugees from the Kingdom of Swadia had arrived at his Deherim.
And there was also King Harlaus's condemnation.
"Very normal. I already know King Harlaus well. No problem. Let him condemn, it doesn't matter anyway." Shen Mu shrugged. This was indeed something King Harlaus would do.
At that moment, noisy sounds also came from outside.
At the same time, a Holy Tree Knight quickly walked to the door of the Noble Residence and reported to him: "Lord Shen Mu, Knight Fatis has come to report that a group of refugees from the Kingdom of Swadia has been discovered, and they intend to come to you. Knight Fatis also requests your arrangements."
"Tell Fatis to directly lead people to receive those refugees. They are coming to me; since they intend to come to me, then choose to take them in," Shen Mu raised his hand and said to the Holy Tree Knight.
"Understood, I will go and inform Knight Fatis immediately." The Holy Tree Knight nodded, then turned and left the Noble Residence.
Then, Fatis, having received the order, turned and mounted his warhorse, taking about 10 Swadian Heavy Cavalry to meet the arriving homeless refugees.
As a model noble, Fatis naturally hoped these homeless people would stay here. This would not only bring new blood to Shen Mu's Deherim but also provide a new future for these poor homeless individuals.
Fatis spurred the reins of the warhorse beneath him, looking at the homeless people who had already reached the edge of Deherim, each of them disheveled, extremely distressed, and with tired expressions.
A smile appeared on his face.
"Everyone! I am very happy that you can come to the Kingdom of Swadia. I know that you are all homeless people who came here after hearing of Respected Lord Shen Mu's reputation. So, since you have come here, I sincerely wish you a wonderful future here, because the respected and benevolent Lord Shen Mu is willing to take you in!"
Fatis came before them and loudly spoke of Lord Shen Mu's arrangements, while also having these homeless people elect about 10 leaders among themselves, so they could arrange their own settlement.
Of course, after hearing Fatis's words, these homeless people all let out loud shouts and cheers.
The reason they came to Deherim was that they had heard that Respected Lord Shen Mu wanted some refugees to cultivate the land within his increasingly expanding sphere of influence.
This was also why these homeless people were willing to come with all their belongings and families in tow.
Of course, Shen Mu did not pay too much attention to the arrival of these refugees, merely instructing a Holy Tree Knight who served as an attendant: "The settlement of these homeless people will be entrusted to Manid."
As the current Governing Governor, Manid should be responsible for these most basic livelihood issues.
