Eagle Byzantium

In fact, the military system adopted by the Ottoman Empire before the 17th century, which conquered Byzantium, was a replica of Plonia, the famous Timar system. The Sudanese bureaucrats carefully calculated the military real estate and selected some of them to serve as the knight class ( Sipaxi) was paid for his service, and Sipaxi also served as a supervisor of farming and taxation on the property. Timar is also not hereditary (but if Sipaxi dies, the heirs can also join the Sultan's army, and the estate will be given priority to the heirs). The list of its beneficiaries must be submitted to the Sultan for personal review and will be rotated regularly. If Pashi had not provided military service to the Sultan for seven years, his Timar would be confiscated.

The Timar system effectively supported the miraculous expansion of the Ottoman Empire and became a European nightmare for three hundred years. It proved to be the most scientific and effective military system of that era. Of course, this system cannot be perfect or last forever. new. When the modern military system became popular, it inevitably declined - but we have no reason to say that just because a system that has been in place for five hundred years finally declined, it has never played a role or has never been advanced. In fact, it was precisely because the Comnenus dynasty of Byzantium implemented the Pulogna system that the military strength rebounded rapidly. In the era of Alexius, the number of people who could be sent out to fight in the field was only 20,000. John II reached 40,000, and Mannu Er I was able to mobilize 70,000 people... The Timar and Pulonian systems are also similar to Japan's medieval military system. The land gain given by the daimyo to his samurai is also divided into two categories, Zhixing and Wanxing. Wanxing is a land grant that enjoys benefits but does not possess hereditary possession.

In fact, Gawain's "Sacrifice Gospel System" is a variant of the Pulogna Real Estate and Timar systems. Its advantage is that it facilitates the rapid expansion of territory (everyone knows that the more the Sacrifice Real Estate is, the more one's income will be. (many), morale can be high in both defensive and offensive battles (the former is to protect the holy stipend, the latter is to increase the holy stipend, and the more meritorious services are performed, the more the holy stipend will be), the soldiers Soldiers can be easily refined (soldiers receive salary benefits and are not directly tied to the fields. They can stay in the camp and practice military drills with peace of mind. They can accept new weapons and tactics as quickly as possible. The Ottoman Empire only began to use firearms in 1470. But the speed and efficiency are very fast, and a team of muskets and artillery that shocked European countries was quickly formed), and it can also protect agricultural production to the maximum extent.

Of course, there are disadvantages. For example, once the territorial expansion of the empire reaches a bottleneck, military progress will come to a standstill. In addition, in order to account for real estate and supervise the military class, a professional and large bureaucratic group will be needed, and power will continue to be centralized. Centralization will inevitably bring rigidity (people who advocate the efficiency of centralization obviously only see one coin) On the other hand, in my opinion, the biggest harm of centralization is none other than rigidity. Being rigid or doing rigid things is particularly efficient - I won’t elaborate on it, and I won’t quarrel with it.) Of course, this is not a wise man living in this era. The issue being considered is that because Gawain is an out-and-out pragmatist, he would not care if it were possible for him to set up a collective farm. In Gawain's mind, once the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages, it is a good system and is worth adopting.

Oh, Sulla described the past and present life of the Plonya Real Estate. Due to his limited skill level, he can only describe it in such a rough way, but it is definitely not for the sake of word count (pure eyes), but for the convenience of readers to understand this era and high society. Wen’s move is very, very important ((☆☆)).

Closer to home, Gawain categorically vetoed the privileges of the Plonian estate, embarrassing all the knights present who came to offer their services.

However, Philactus, the chief patron's confidential officer, soon came up with a compromise plan: to ensure that all the profits of the Plonian knights originally recorded in the imperial archives would remain unchanged, and that they would be converted into money or grain. The "sacred salary" was even increased by 30%. It also recognized that their original fields were classified as "shade land", which could be passed on as inheritance or sold. However, their rights on the supervisory land were revoked, and all the fields and farmers on the supervisory territory were liberated, and the proceeds were directly Owned by the state of Tarsus.

In addition, the knights will become centurions or heavy cavalry in the new brigade and continue to serve Gawain.

Of course, this plan was prepared by Gawain as an inducement buffer.

After hearing this, some Plonian knights were willing to accept it, but some also expressed euphemistic protests. For example, Bekus directly questioned the patron:

"We were initially recognized by the Golden Edict and the Imperial Archives because we could directly convert the output of the land into military service, eliminating the economic burden of national tax collection and transit transportation. Of course we have the thoughts of the great patron. Understandable, but considering the current situation..."

Gawain raised his hand and politely replied after he questioned, "The implementation of the Holy Pension Real Estate in Tarsus and Seleucia has been very successful. It is the invisible biggest contributor to my ability to defeat the emperor's expeditionary army. There is no reason to do anything in Atta." Leah and Pisidia won't work. In addition, you don't need to worry about the management of Atalia's taxes." After speaking, Gawain pointed to the map sand table, "Atalia and Felner, I'm ready. Each established a military depot. I will hoard all the food collected from the land in kind, and then let the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce come through sea and land roads to exchange for one-third of it with salt, silk and other light goods, and then convert it into coins and send it to Tarsus. The city; as for the two-thirds part, I gave it to the Treasury and Recruitment Office of the Governor of Agriculture to manage. It is mainly used to exchange the services of the local people, such as armor manufacturing, road construction, etc., and is also used to keep the brigade soldiers nearby when fighting in the future. supply."

At this time, Bekus seemed to have nothing to say, but the other Acropolites next to him had doubts. It seemed that he still had no intention of giving up, "But there is really no one in this group of managers except us." . Why bother the patron to send new people?”

Acropolites was confident in saying this. After all, their predecessors and even themselves had dealt with taxation to a greater or lesser extent.

Gawain burst out laughing, and he said to everyone, "There are sixty students who have just graduated from St. Paul's College. They know law and calculation. I will send them all to Atalia, Afyon came to serve as market overseer, tax collector, and workshop overseer, and like you they were paid with a stipend. In the next three years, I will revive the school in Attalia, the school in Afyon, and the school in Beritus (Beirut, which is now also changed back to Beirut). Original name) - You specialize in military operations, and you will naturally have someone to run the administration, justice and taxation. "

At this time, all the Plonian knights were speechless.

Then, they could only follow Gawain to siege the city of Atalia, and all the dependent peasants and private soldiers were immediately released. Gawain's confidential officers presided over the "field distribution" of Atalia, or circled the sacred stipends. Farm estates, or the reorganization of autonomous agricultural communes, along the lines of Afyon and Seleucia.