In fact, the military system adopted by the Ottoman Empire before the 17th century to conquer Byzantium is also a copy of Plonia, the famous timar system, in which the Sultan's bureaucrats carefully calculated the military estate, and took a part of it as the service remuneration of the knightly class (Sipahi), who also acted as the supervisor of farming and taxation on the estate, and the timar was also not hereditary (but if the heirs of Sipahi died and could also join the Sultan's army, this estate would also be given priority to the heirs). The list of beneficiaries is submitted to the Sultan for personal review and is subject to regular rotation, and if Sipahi has not provided military service to the Sultan for seven years, his Timar will be confiscated. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The timar system, which effectively supported the miraculous expansion of the Ottoman Empire and became a nightmare for Europe for three hundred years, proved to be the most scientific and effective military system of its time, although it could not be flawless or lasting. When the modern military system prevailed, it inevitably declined - but we have no reason to say that a system that has been in place for 500 years has finally declined, that it has never functioned, or that it has never advanced. In fact, it was precisely because of the Byzantine Komnenos that the Pronian system was introduced, and the military strength was rapidly rebounded, and the number of men who could be pulled out for field battles in the era of Alexios was only 20,000, John II reached 40,000, and Manuel I was able to mobilize 70,000...... The timar and pronya systems are also similar to the military system of medieval Japan, and the land gains given by the daimyo to the samurai under their command are also divided into two categories, Chiyuki and Wanyuki. Wanxing is a land grant that enjoys benefits, but does not occupy hereditarily.

In fact, Gawain's "Gospel System" is also a variant of the Pronian estate and the timar system, which has the advantage of facilitating the rapid expansion of territory (everyone knows that the more Sacred Estate, the more you earn), and the morale can be high in both the defense war and the invasion war (the former is to defend the Sacred Warriors, the latter is to increase the Sacred Warriors, and the more meritorious deeds, the more Sacred Warriors will be), and the soldiers are easy to elite (the soldiers receive the benefits of the Sacred Warriors, and are not directly tied to the fields, so they can stay in the camp and practice military drills with peace of mind, The Ottoman Empire was the quickest to accept new weapons and tactics, and only began to use firearms after 1470, but it was very fast and efficient, and soon formed a team of muskets and artillery that would staggering European countries), and it was also able to protect agricultural production to the greatest extent.

Of course, there are no shortcomings, for example, once the territorial expansion of the empire reaches a bottleneck, it will bring military progress to a standstill, and in order to account for real estate and supervise the military class, a professional and huge bureaucracy is also needed, and power will continue to move towards centralization, which will inevitably bring rigidity (those who advocate the efficiency of centralization obviously look at only one side of the coin, and in my opinion, the greatest harm of centralization is nothing else, but it is rigidity, and it is particularly efficient to rigidize or do rigid things - it will not elaborate on it, nor tear it up), Of course, this was not the question that Gawain was thinking about in this era, because Gawain was a pragmatist in the same way, and he would not care if he could be called a collective farm. In Gawain's mind, once the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages, it is a good system and it is worth adopting.

Oh, Sulla describes the past and future lives of the Pronian estate, and the level is limited and can only be said so roughly, but it is not for the sake of water words (pure eyes), but it is very important ((☆w☆)) to facilitate the reader's understanding of this era and Gawain's actions.

To get back to the point, Gawain categorically vetoed the privileges of the Prona estate, much to the embarrassment of all the knights present who came to serve.

However, Firactos, the confidential official of the great guarantor, soon came up with a compromise plan: to ensure that all the profits originally registered in the imperial archives of all the Plonian knights would not be changed, and that the "holy sage" converted into money or grain would be increased by thirty percent, and that their original land would be recognized as "shadow land", which could be passed on as an inheritance or sold, but their rights over the prison land would be revoked, and all the fields and peasants on the prison land would be liberated, and the proceeds would go directly to the Tarsus state.

In addition, the knights would henceforth become centurions or hoplites in the new brigade and continue to serve Gawain.

Of course, this plan was prepared by Gawain as a buffer for induction.

Hearing this, some of the Plonian knights were willing to accept it, but some also expressed euphemistic protests, such as Berkus, who directly questioned the chief guarantor:

"We were first recognized by the Golden Edict and the Imperial Archives because we were able to directly convert the output of the land into military service, saving the state the financial burden of collecting taxes and transporting it in transit. Of course, we can understand the feelings and thoughts of the great guarantor, but considering the current situation, ......"

Gawain raised his hand and replied politely after his questioning, "The great success of the Sacred Estates in Tarsus and Seleucia is the greatest credit to the invisible victory of the Emperor's conquest army, and there is no reason why it may not work in Atalia and Pisidia." In addition, you don't have to worry about the management of the Atalya tax. After speaking, Gawain pointed to the map sand table, "Atalia and Ferner, I am going to set up a large military station for each of them, and I will hoard all the grain collected locally in it, and then let the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce come by sea and land to exchange a third of it with salt, silk and other light goods, and then convert it into coins and send it to the city of Tarsus; As for the two-thirds part, I handed over the treasury of the Governor of Agriculture and the Recruiting Office to manage, mainly for the exchange of services for the local people, such as the manufacture of armor, the construction of roads, etc., and also for the supply of brigade soldiers in the future battle. ”

At this time, Bekus didn't seem to have anything to say, but the other Acro Borites next to him had questions again, and it seemed that he still hadn't given up, "But this group of people in charge really don't have anything to say except us." Why bother the great guarantor to send a new man? ”

Akro Borites had the confidence to say this, after all, their predecessors and even themselves had dealt with taxes to a greater or lesser extent.

Gawain laughed, and said to all the men, "There are sixty students in St. Paul's College who have just dropped out, and they know the law and calculations, and I will send them all to Atalia and Afyon to serve as market overseers, tax collectors, and workshop overseers, who, like you, pay for their labor with the wages of the holy sage." In another three years, I will revive the schools of Atalya, I will revive the schools of Afyon, and I will revive the schools of Beritus (Beritus is Beirut, now also reverted to its original name) - you are specialized in military warfare, and you will naturally have someone to run the administration, the judiciary, and the taxation. ”

At this point, all the Plonian knights were speechless.

They then had no choice but to follow Gawain to besiege the city of Atalia, while all the dependent peasant soldiers were immediately released, and Gawain's confidential officers presided over the "distribution of land" in Atalia, or circled the estates of the Holy Farm, or replanned the autonomous agricultural commune, all in line with Afyon and Seleucia.