Chapter 25: The Fear of Poverty
Pity.
Some of the main drawbacks of the feudal feudal system could not have been avoided by the king's personal wisdom and efforts.
The feudal system can be said to be a balancing bond between the feudal monarchy and the traditional allegiance of the upper and lower classes in this feudal monarchy.
Even if the great nobles who continue to accumulate merit and rise to the rank of lord always leave the king without land to reward in the end, even if this kind of great nobleman has no ambition to overthrow the king at the beginning, his descendants will continue to secretly annex and control the surrounding territories, so as to frantically absorb profits endlessly, until one day he finds that he can replace the king.
But though the king could make small moves, it was impossible for him to directly remove a great nobleman or forcibly reclaim their hereditary domains for no reason, which would directly weaken the confidence and allegiance of all his subordinates to him.
If no one is willing to serve the king, then before anyone rises up to rebel, the rule of the royal family itself will collapse.
Because all the big and small lords will unite against the king, and the king's own decrees cannot go out of the royal palace and the king's direct territory around the royal capital, then the royal family will lose control of the country, and the whole country will either be invaded and annexed by the enemy country, or wait for some "hero" to rise up and overthrow the "tyranny".
In such a feudal era where everyone was eager to make a career and finally obtain the authority of a hereditary title and territory, even as the king of AIDS, there was some helplessness.
The kingdom continues to this day, and the king has been under the various erosions of the nobility, and the small and medium-sized lords in many places have either openly or covertly surrendered, or have been directly annexed by the big nobles.
If it weren't for the fact that the eastern steppes of the Aids had always been threatened by the Maraketh nomadic tribes, the southern frontier had been a small harassment by the Kaloo, and the king himself had a firm grip on the kingdom's greatest source of revenue, the tax revenue from the port area around the giant bay of Skoti, which was used to massively mercenary regiments and train troops to defend the king's domains.
I am afraid that those local lords will be strong and strong, and the historical situation similar to the alliance of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty will soon be staged in this kingdom.
So.
The king was more than willing to see the local nobles fight each other to weaken their potential strength.
It is in such a situation.
David Lu, who is a little politically minded, that is, Baron Garcia, is now confident that through the semi-modernly trained professional soldiers he has trained to rival the low-level professionals, he can seize some surrounding territories by force and become bigger with the acquiescence of the king in the early stage.
Then he harvested the heads of some mountain barbarians to report military merits, paid a large political contribution to the king, and finally added the influence of his wife's family to promote himself to knighthood and title.
Of course, the whole kingdom of "little deeds" like him is everywhere, and it is not more valuable than any other, and the king will not personally go down and send troops to support him directly.
The so-called "king's support" only relied on the king's influence to gain a certain prestige, and most of this "king's nails" actually did not have extraordinary importance and actual support, because what the king needed was a group of obedient small lords who could bite and weaken the old nobles like a pack of wolves, rather than a new "careerist" who could overthrow the local nobles!
If.
Chen Xuyuan and others colluded with foreign riots, even if they didn't kill him, as long as they drove him out of the territory, it would be all over.
No one will help him rise again.
The king's edict would deprive the lord of his land and title of the lord who had failed to defend his duties, and wait for it to be divided into new lords who had made military achievements.
Garcia suddenly felt a chill and shiver.
He has seen the poison of these nobles around him, once he loses his territory and soldiers, he will even be secretly killed by other nobles and take away all his wealth, instead of letting him sneak back to the royal capital to find a chance to make a comeback!
The capital accumulation of the feudal aristocracy was also naked and bloody.
Deprived of a knighthood and become a commoner?
No!
That's horrible!
When Garcia thought of this, he trembled even more as if he was shaking a sieve: in this country similar to ancient Europe, those homeless people are more miserable than the beggars on the streets of his homeland who have been driven by the city management.
In this world where the products are not abundant, the yield of grain per mu without spells is only about 300 catties, and according to the consumption of 400 grams of grain per person per day, it is only enough for 10 adults to save money and barely eat for a month and a half.
For example, the commoners of the small cities around his territory do not have much surplus food, and they still want to pick up other people's leftover bread crumbs from other people's garbage heaps? Do you think that everyone in the city is an aristocratic merchant who eats half a loaf of bread?
I'm afraid it's almost like a dream.
If the homeless people from other towns go to the city to compete with those beggars in the city for food, I am afraid that bloodshed and conflicts will be absolutely indispensable, and many old, weak, sick, disabled, young children, women and children will directly become corpses in the gutter.
And those foods that have been used by ordinary civilians, even the bones will be smashed open by those poor ghosts, and licked and eaten cleanly.
So much so that every famine will lead to a large number of refugees, who are unwilling to enter the city to compete with others for territory, and just want to die in the wilderness like lonely ghosts, gnawing on bark, wild fruits and dirt.
Usually the lord who needs labor will also pick out a few young people with craftsmen's crafts or beautiful women from the homeless people to sell themselves as slaves, and then close the gates of the towns in their own territories, waiting for the cold weather of winter to freeze to death the unstable factors wrapped in stinking rags and leaves, huddled outside the cold and stiff city walls.
If too many ghost-eyed refugees roam the corners of their towns and cities, they will be reckless in their efforts to hurt and steal food, causing more unrest, confusion, and casualties among their legitimate subjects.
So David Lu thought that he could lose everything?!
Or start all over again and find a chance to make a comeback?!
I immediately felt that it was really more terrible than death~
He tried to keep his composure, but his teeth still chattered: No, I had crossed over to the nobility, I had the best womb, and I had the best start to my life in the Otherworld. I don't want to be like those failed traverser predecessors, and try hard from scratch again, because I don't have a goldfinger grandfather, and I don't have a noble spellcaster talent, and if I lose this identity, I will have nothing.
What kind of revolution, what for the people, I don't really care!