It was nearly noon when he left the City Lord's Manor.
Xu Yi glanced at the sky. I've only just returned. Whatever happens, I have to go back to Falling Star Manor and have lunch with Stille today. That left him too little time to visit the other people he had planned to see, so he boarded his carriage and headed for Falling Star Manor.
As his body swayed with the carriage's movement along the road, Xu Yi considered the answers he had just received from Servini.
In theory, there was no limit to the size of a noble's private army, because neither the Kingdom Parliament nor the Kingdom Noble Council had ever imposed any specific restrictions on it.
A careful analysis of the Lampari Kingdom's structure would reveal that the entire kingdom was, in fact, a union of great nobles.
The Royal House was simply the most powerful noble family in the kingdom.
The Royal House also possessed the largest and strongest army in the kingdom. That was why it could maintain its hold on supreme power, and why its head could remain the kingdom's king.
If the Royal House ever lost that overwhelming advantage, another great noble family would very likely overthrow its rule and replace the regime.
Such things were hardly unusual even in Earth's history. They simply had not been quite as nakedly apparent as they were in the Lampari Kingdom.
Across the Sains Continent, apart from certain small duchies and tiny kingdoms, virtually every nation-including the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire-had this political system. To Servini, Xu Yi's question therefore was not really a question at all.
Of course, an unlimited private army could only exist in theory.
The first and most important issue was cost.
Building a private army was certainly not as