My lord, rumor has it that a nearby Kingdom has developed a curious

>>51085379
Pfff, that's fucking stupid. Now the King is going to have to pay many a shilling to keep his army in peace so he may have it in war, and he'll have fewer peasants to work the fields and grow grain for his nation. Folly, I say!

>>51085379
Isn't that exactly what I've been ordering you to do this whole time? I told you a thousand times it's nothing but stupidity and suicide to conscript our labor force during times of war! Guards, execute this man for failing to follow the orders of his lord!

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>>51085451
Yes mi'Lord.

Begging yer forgiveness sire, but why ought we to worry? We have three times as many knights as them, each armed in heavy plate and steel, and whom have as much experience as any sellsword. Surely chivalrous courage and fealty to God and King can best the heart of any man who fights only for coin and mortal greed.

>>51085540
You simpleton, replace only the peasant levies with the mercenaries so that all ranks of our armies are professional soldiers and our labor force remains strong even during times of war.

>>51085582
Sire, there is trouble. Among the lords and knights is great disdain for these mercenaries, and many have petitioned you to segregate them or remove them entirely. They refuse to fight alongside, ehm as they said, "looters and thieves." calling it a stain upon their honor to associate with them on the field.