When he left the City Lord's Manor, it was close to noon.
Xu Yi looked at the sky and thought that since he had just come back, he had to return to the Falling Star Manor to have lunch with Stiel. There wasn't enough time left to visit the people he had made plans for, so he could only get in the horse carriage and head to the Falling Star Manor.
His body swayed back and forth with the horse carriage as Xu Yi thought about the answer he had just received from Seveni.
Theoretically speaking, a noble's private army could be limitless because the Royal Parliament and the Royal Parliament had never placed any restrictions on this aspect.
This was because if one seriously analyzed the structure of the Lampari Kingdom, they would find that the entire Lampari Kingdom was made up of large nobles.
As for the royal family, it was actually the most powerful noble family in the kingdom.
The royal family had the strongest army in the kingdom, so the royal family always had the most power in the kingdom. The head of the royal family was the king of the kingdom.
If there was a day that the royal family couldn't maintain this absolute advantage, they would be overthrown by the other large noble families and the regime would change.
It should be said that this wasn't strange even in the history of earth, but it wasn't as obvious as in the Lampari Kingdom.
In the entire Sines, other than some small duchies and small kingdoms, all the other countries, including the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire had this kind of political system. So Xu Yi's problem wasn't a problem for Seveni at all.
Of course, an unlimited private army only existed in theory.
First, and also the most important problem, was the cost.
If one wanted to form a private army, of course they couldn't just gather a bunch of people to form a private army.
An army without battle strength was just a motley crew.
To have battle strength, the first thing was to have enough soldiers.
The Lampuri Kingdom's population had always been small and adding in the fact that their living conditions weren't good, there weren't enough people with good physiques who could become soldiers. This caused the Lampuri Kingdom's army to always be small. Even the strongest northern army only had a total of thirty thousand people.
The second was sufficient logistical supplies.
A qualified soldier, in addition to their own qualities, also needed to have weapons and equipment in order to have combat effectiveness.
In order to ensure that this soldier would always have such combat strength, there must be corresponding supplies. At the very least, this soldier had to be able to eat his fill.
The amount of investment spent on this was undoubtedly terrifying.
The Lampari Kingdom's current army was only about 50,000 soldiers, but the kingdom's finances spent at least 300,000 gold coins on the military every year.
However, this investment was still extremely low.
Not only could it not compare to the Sack Kingdom, it couldn't even compare to the surrounding small countries like the Drake Duchy.
It couldn't be helped. The Lampari Kingdom had always been so poor.
Therefore, if you want to have an unlimited private army, you must first have unlimited capital investment.
Of course this was impossible. So even the strongest Stagg Family in the Lampari Kingdom other than the royal family only had three thousand people in their private army.
Of course, there was no accurate answer to how many private armies the Stagg Family had.
But even with the boldest guess, it was at most around five thousand people.
Because no matter how much the Stagg Family was willing to invest, there was another important problem other than the cost, which was the suppression from the royal family.
Since the Lampari Kingdom's political system determined that the royal family was the most powerful family, in order to maintain this advantage, the royal family would naturally strictly limit the private armies the other nobles had.
Although there were unwritten agreements between the nobles and the traditions of the Sines, the royal family couldn't force the Royal Parliament to pass a resolution to limit the private armies the nobles had, as the family with the most power in the kingdom, the royal family had countless methods to achieve this.
For example, Lampuri Thirteenth had given an order to protect the kingdom. He wanted the nobles to send a certain amount of their private armies to the northern army to fight against the Sack Kingdom.
The northern army had a high casualty rate, so if they sent their private armies, it was clear that the more private armies there were, the more losses their families would suffer.
So with the restrictions of the royal family, the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom gradually stabilized the number of private armies under their names.
For a large family like the Stagg Family, having a private army of three thousand was already the highest standard in the kingdom.
The other famous clans in the kingdom only had about two thousand soldiers in their private armies.
As for a trivial viscount like Xu Yi … …
He wanted a private army?
Are you crazy?
Of course Xu Yi wasn't crazy, so Seveni naturally didn't think this.
She was very clear on the meaning behind Xu Yi's question, so after giving Xu Yi a detailed analysis of the private armies of the Lampari Kingdom, she gave him a suggestion.
It was best not to directly announce that he wanted a private army. At most he could use the name of the territory's guards to recruit several hundred guards.
Although this would attract the attention of countless people, it was still acceptable and was the usual method of many nobles in the kingdom.
Xu Yi happily accepted Seveni's suggestion, but if it was only a few hundred people, it was far from enough for him.
When he really needed it, several hundred people wouldn't be of any use at all.
Not to mention that the New Flyer didn't need to worry about investment like many nobles. Adding in the fact that the New Flyer had assets, Xu Yi could support a private army of several hundred people.
And to avoid the suppression of the royal family, there were many ways to solve this.
Of course, there was no need to discuss this with Seveni.
Not long after the horse carriage left the west gate of Banta City's old city, it suddenly slowed down and stopped.
"What is it?" Xu Yi asked the driver in front of him in a daze.
"Sir chairman, there's a traffic jam."
"Traffic jam?"
Hearing this familiar word from earth, but unfamiliar in this world, Xu Yi was stunned.
Opening the curtain of the horse carriage, he found that the road in front of him was blocked.
This road was eight meters wide and could fit four horse carriages side by side, but now there were some medium sized Magic Passenger Cars and some medium sized transport Magic Cars heading to the Falling Rain Valley, so the road was much more crowded.
There seemed to be an accident in front of them. They could see two horse carriages on the ground and they could hear loud arguing coming from in front of them.
Seeing the anxious looks of the people waiting in the traffic jam and hearing the discussions of the people around them, Xu Yi couldn't help smiling.
This scene really made him miss it.
"Old man Bell, are there often traffic jams here?" Xu Yi asked his private horse carriage driver Bell.
"There weren't many before, but there were more in the second half of this year." Old man Bell replied before suddenly looking at Xu Yi with a strange look.
"Sir chairman, to be honest, it's only after our company started selling Magic Cars that there were often traffic jams. There were many people who scolded us when they were stuck."
Xu Yi laughed, "They'll get used to this situation sooner or later."
Looking at the situation in front of him that didn't seem to change, he saw that there were more and more cars behind them, even reaching the city gates in the distance. Xu Yi finally remembered that this world didn't have traffic police to maintain order.
After hesitating a bit, Xu Yi used the Wind Control Spell on himself and flew over the horse carriages and Magic Cars blocking the road.
When he flew to the accident site, he found that it should be an accident caused by a medium sized transport Magic Car colliding with two horse carriages.
The two horse carriages were on the ground and one of them looked like it was about to fall apart, clearly being hit quite hard.
As for the medium sized transport Magic Car, it was standing on the side without any traces of damage.
Looking over the people arguing, Xu Yi found someone familiar.
"Old man Sarkozy, it's you. What is going on here?"
Old man Sarkozy looked at Xu Yi falling from the sky in a daze before a look of joy appeared on his face.
"Chairman Xu, why are you here?
I just came back from transporting goods from Cramer City. Look, the goods in this carriage are from your New Flyer, we were preparing to transport them to the Falling Rain Valley.
I never thought that when I came here, I would bump into them. "
Xu Yi looked in the direction old man Sarkozy was pointing and recognized that the people arguing with old man Sarkozy were all small nobles of Banta City. It was no wonder they had good looking private horse carriages.
Seeing Xu Yi look over with an inquiring gaze, the small nobles immediately complained.
"Chairman Xu, don't listen to his nonsense!
We were clearly walking on the road, and then he crashed into us.
Look, our horse carriages are about to fall apart!
We're all injured, could it be that this is our fault? "
"If it's not your fault, then whose fault is it?
Who told your horse carriages to run crookedly and run so fast on this road?
I think that your horses are crazy? "Old man Sarkozy immediately refuted.
The small nobles' expressions froze before they roared out, "I think you're the crazy one!
Our horses and horse carriages have been used by our family for over ten years, how could they not be as good as your Magic Car that just came out this year?
You … … "
When the small nobles said this, they remembered that Xu Yi was right beside them. They actually dared to say bad things about the Magic Car in front of Xu Yi, wasn't this seeking death?
Turning to see Xu Yi's face sink, their hearts filled with panic.