After the caravan and cannon were launched in the surrounding camp and surrounded the camp of the Lydian border people's army, looking at the cannon ports lined up on all sides, the 4,000 border people who were making trouble suddenly came to their senses, and they understood that they had gone a little too far, and as a result, before the big guarantor arrived, they took the initiative to send out all the forbidden soldiers who were seized, and then everyone opened the camp door, and the fifty captains who took the lead prostrated themselves on the ground, shouting "We also want the holy soldiers", and tried to reduce the "mutiny" to "petition". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wearing a black cloak, Gawain stepped out of the Prusa Gate and raised a flag outside a slope on the edge of the camp, and met with ten "petition representatives" of the "Lydian Border People's Army".

"Why did you kick over the soup pot?"

"Because the food in the pot is too little compared to other teams, even if you kick it over, there is no loss." The delegates spoke in unison.

"Your treatment under the former Grand Duke of Brenus has not diminished."

"Please bear with me, the chief guarantor, the rest of your border residents in the border area have land in the local area, and then they are armed to serve and fight on the condition of tax reduction and rationing of war booty. But we are different, Ben was drawn out of the army in Lydia, firstly, there is no place to stand, and secondly, the salary is too meager. Now they will send us to Crete to fight, and even if we try our best to restrain our troops, I am afraid that all of us will surrender in front of the enemy. An experienced fifty-man commander took the opportunity to say both hard and soft.

Gawain nodded slightly, "Your original tradition is to be rewarded before the opening, but my military principle is not this, everything depends on meritorious service to obtain holy soldiers, or capture the enemy's spoils." ”

"I don't dare to ask for a reward, I just hope that the great guarantor will give us a suitable holy property!" Everyone was almost in unison and expressed their hopes.

Seeing that the plan had been accomplished, Gawain put his fingers to his lips and beard, pretended to think for a while, and then said, "Not only do you and the three thousand soldiers of the current Samoster county belong to the old department of the original Grand Duke of Breenus, so it stands to reason that I should give you preferential treatment and arrange suitable land. However, the lands of Lydia, Misia, and Samos, which were already full of monastic estates and the territories of the Pronya, and which originally belonged to the royal property department, have also been taken back by me and belonged to the special holy farms of the royal family of Tarsus, and now there is really no room for you to ration! ”

Everyone bowed down in front of Gawain's eyes, looked at each other for a while, and their eyes suddenly showed murderous aura, and then a bold man moved half a step forward, and said directly to the great lord and guarantor, "Then take the monastery estate and the prison land, and give it to us as a holy gift, as long as the great lord and the guarantor do so, we are willing to be loyal to you and your descendants for generations." ”

"Take, I'm afraid this word is not very good......" Gawain hesitated.

Just as everyone's appetite was aroused, Gao Wen, who had just finished speaking, stood up and walked back and forth in a way that continued to meditate for a long time, and the eyes of the group of fifty captains followed him.

Finally, he spoke:

"Originally, all of these areas fell into the hands of the Turks, but later, after the restoration of the former emperor, some monasteries and Plonian possessions were restored; Then Brenus vigorously built the Pronian system here, and pursued a military system in which the Plonian landlords were the cavalry and officers, and you civilians were the auxiliary light soldiers. And now that I want you to go to a dangerous place like Crete, without giving you the right position and treatment, it is indeed a bit unreasonable. ”

Hearing this, everyone was moved to tears, and their hearts were warm.

"The monasteries were not profitable for the state, so they were all abolished, all monasteries were converted into new synagogues, and all subordinate slaves were emancipated into village freemen, and they paid taxes for the cultivation of the state; And the landlords of Pronya also abolished the tax and judicial powers, and changed them to the holy estates and included them in my army as cavalry, so that a large amount of the extra land was distributed to you, and some of them were under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family of Tarsus. ”

"Okay!" A warm welcome from all, of course. In fact, they did not know what it meant for Gawain to promise to give them the holy estate.

This meant that Anna's previous promise to the local Pronian landlords and monasteries to "remain unchanged for fifty years" would be overturned in just three months.

Originally, in Anatolia and Cilicia, the old estates of the original empire were almost wiped out by the frenzy of the Seljuk invasions, so Gawain's implementation of the "Gospel of the Holy Legion Military Service Estate" was not greatly resisted; But now in Lydia, Micia, and Bithynia, this is still a place where the old forces are deeply rooted, so Gawain wants to take the opportunity to provoke this group of disgruntled border people, using the ration of holy soldiers as bait, and using them to realize his secret plan: that is, to replace the Plonian estate with the holy bestitution system, and to destroy the Orthodox monastery with the Confession, vigorously renovate this old imperial land, and pave the way for a more powerful wrist change in the future!

Gawain can never forget that when he first crossed over, the poor village, all under the pressure of the tax collectors, relying on the barren land, to do everything they had to pay for the equipment, grain and horses of a soldier going on the expedition, why? This is not at all a problem of people not working, farming, or having children, but that society is too unfair and orderly.

Now he's going to get justice back again, even if it's with swords, cannonballs, and blood.

Even if you destroy a hundred villages, as long as you can give a thousand a new life, it is right and righteous.

So Gawain turned around and added a lucrative condition to the petitioning soldiers, "Generally speaking, only regular brigade soldiers have holy soldiers, so I will simply take you and the men of Samos as the backbone, and each form a new brigade, that is, the Nika Brigade and the Opshikin Brigade to serve me, and the General Temaci is Licapannus and Arcro Borites, respectively; In addition, you do not need to go to Crete for the time being, but immediately stationed in the city of Prusa to monitor the sanctification of the surrounding area, while the Epshkin brigade continues to besiege the castle of Massemna on the island of Lespos.

I have given you the sword - so put up your own pot of stock. ”

The mutiny was quickly quelled, and the "Lydian Frontier People's Army" became the new "Nika Brigade", and all the soldiers cheered and began to raise their battle flags in the city of Prussa, and then began to tear down the earthen ramparts that had been built inside and outside the city, including the nodule ramparts and the large tortoise ramparts, because "after the end of the war, such earthen ramparts were no longer needed, and immediately the chief engineer of the Ordnance Division, Gedier, was to build a real half-moon stone rampart on the periphery of the walls of Prusa, and there were no blind spots for firing on them, The walls were to be able to support the recoil of the artillery, and the entire city and fortress were to form perfect fortifications so that five hundred defenders could resist ten times the enemy. ”