A professional army is a completely different matter, with costs for food, salaries, and maintenance being unimaginable. In his past life, Laine heard many people boast, claiming that a mercenary system was the best, conscription second, and draft the worst, and that everyone should adopt a mercenary system to separate soldiers and farmers and build a strong army.
But brother, Laine surely knows that mercenary armies are the most powerful. But what about the money? Where does the money come from? Does it fall from the sky? Get dug up from the ground? Float in the water? Or is it funded by the United Nations?
No, none of these. I, Lord of Pigeon, have no money, nor do I have food. In the end, this cost still falls on the heads of the people under my leadership, leading again to the old path of raising taxes, and the public trust Laine painstakingly built over the years will be destroyed.
