Chapter 56: Things Acquired In Others Territories (5)
The current Aquitania Territorial Army was 14,000 men, but this was not a fully regular army.
Looking at the history of China and Europe, the number of elite soldiers is generally around 1% of the population.
This 1% is not ordinary infantry, but special troops such as cavalry and archers.
In the case of the Chinese, however, they often drafted up to 10% of the population, with 1% being a standing army of professional soldiers, and the remaining 9% being a reserve force that was usually engaged in farming and were used as needed.
With the condition that they would normally be engaged in farming, it was possible to conscript a high figure of 10% of the population.
Aquitania 14,000 troops were a mixture of these two.
Currently, the population of the Lunan Kingdom is about 10 million.
And the population of Aquitania territory is 220,000.
With the onset of war, I intend to increase the regular army to 10,000 and prepare 20,000 troops to be engaged in farming.
The problem is that Aquitania is a border region and therefore has a smaller population than the other territories; however, there has been a big change recently.
The original population was around 180,000, but thanks to the tax exemption policy and my fame, the population had increased by 40,000 as refugees from the northern part of the Lunan Kingdom, where the war was taking place, moved into the area.