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Chapter 950 The Difference Between Lower Level Lords and Vassals
The Merchant Alliance has a very clear understanding of the military strength in the Xueman area, and even learned about the change of ownership of Ivas City at the first time, but they don't know the existence of the silver mine and Mithril.

As for the Sardinian leader, they have even more information: many nobles in the Sardinian leader are not convinced by Liya, Liya currently has limited troops, and Liya's financial situation is very tight. Chu.

The high-level business alliance judged that it was impossible to send too many troops to the southern theater of the Gloria region. Great internal danger.

Moreover, the imperial center's support for the southern theater is also extremely limited, and this situation is mainly due to Yun Xiaohan's butterfly effect.

Since Sardin took this big cake and did not bring other nobles in the empire, those big nobles and even many royal families did not agree to give assistance to the southern theater, hoping to use this method to force Liya to cede part of her interests. Under this noble system , the emperor of the empire is just a super noble, it is impossible for him to forcibly support Liya against the will of the public, not to mention that the war between the empire and the northern kingdom is still going on fiercely. a country.

In fact, there is no shortage of soldiers in Sardinia and Xueman. Even if they can't afford 20, 15 can be made up.

But this war has been going on for more than half a year (3:1 game time). Although the Xueman area and Sardinia have not been destroyed by the war, most of the soldiers in the territory are not professional soldiers separated from soldiers and peasants. It is necessary to engage in production and farming. Such a long period of war will have a great negative impact on the territory's economy.

At this time, the Sardinia and Snowman regions are relatively tight financially. Although there are still a lot of food reserves, there are not so many that are directly in the hands of Liya and Earl Balgruf. Most of the food is in the hands of In the hands of nobles at all levels,

Although it is possible to force the lords to prepare their own food for combat, this means that these lords can send out less troops, and some compensation will be given after the war.The current financial and material situation of Liya and Earl Balgruf can no longer afford a large-scale war.Moreover, this kind of compulsory recruitment cannot be carried out continuously in a short period of time, which will cause dissatisfaction among lower-level lords or vassals.

More importantly, Earl Balgruf just replaced the lord of Ivas City and handed over Ivas City to Yun Xiaohan. This practice made the lords in the Xueman area quite dissatisfied. There may be another mandatory call-up.

And Liya's situation is even worse. She has just finished appeasing the various lords of Sardinia so far, and has not had time to carry out the integration work, so she dare not act rashly.Not to mention compulsory conscription, even the order for the lower-level lords to send troops cannot be easily issued. Once these lower-level lords think that Liya is trying to kill people with a knife, and they collude with each other to resist the order collectively, her ruling foundation in Sardinia will be shaken.

There is a difference between lower-level lords and vassals. Vassals are canonized by nobles themselves, or hereditary from previous generations of nobles.After the previous vassal died or voluntarily abdicated, the next vassal still had to accept the recanonization of the vassal when inheriting the title, so that the relationship between the vassal and the vassal could be officially recognized.

After the vassal lineage has served his vassal lineage for 50 years (50 years is a relatively regular period, usually two to three generations, many small nobles do not live long, see the oath when swearing allegiance) The number of years of the book, which may be shorter or longer), is deemed to have fulfilled one's vassal obligations, and can actively seek to break away from the current vassal-vassal relationship.They can swear allegiance to a higher noble class, or directly become vassals of the royal family, or even seek to become independent nobles in the faction.

But this kind of independent nobles will not only be easily attacked by other lords because they cannot get the protection and canonization of the lord, but will also be degraded by one level of title when they are passed on to the next generation. Only by making enough contributions to the country, Or lay down more territory by yourself, so that it is possible not to be degraded during the inheritance.

Paying inheritance tax can also be regarded as a contribution to the country, but this inheritance tax is linked to the title and the size of the territory, and the amount is often relatively large, and this inheritance tax is not handed over to the royal family, but directly to the noble council (management An organization inherited by the nobles), and then a small part of the funds are used to maintain the noble council, and most of it goes into the treasury, which can be used during national wars. The seven camps have noble councils, and the rules are similar.

In addition, there are two other situations where vassals can leave the vassal without being spurned and rejected by the entire noble class: one is that the vassal has made great contributions but has not received the corresponding reward; - Vassal relationships.

The lower-level lord refers to the situation that belongs to the jurisdiction of a certain noble geographically, but is not a direct vassal of the noble.

Take the Duchy of Sardinia as an example. When the Duchy of Sardinia was formally established, there were many nobles in the Sardinia who were independent nobles. These lower-level lords collect taxes, and they can also be forced to recruit them to fight for themselves, but they must also act as "protectors" to protect the safety and interests of these lower-level lords.

In addition to those nobles who voluntarily broke away from the lord-vassal system, under the command of a long-standing noble, the number of lower-level lords is often much more than that of vassals.

Of course, many of these lower-level lords will take the initiative to serve the great nobles, establish a relationship between vassals and vassals, and seek more rewards or fiefs for the family.

Therefore, in the eyes of the great nobles in the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, there is no suspense in this regional war, and the victory must belong to the Chamber of Commerce, so Marquis Nkuru spent a lot of money to operate, making himself the leader of this war. The purpose of the commander in chief of the campaign is to plate himself with a layer of gold so that he can seek a higher position in the business alliance in the future.

This plot routine was originally intended to be cheap for Napoleon. Facing such an incompetent commander, Napoleon was able to defend the city of Gloria and establish his position in the empire with a arduous defense of the city.

After all, Napoleon's troops were seriously insufficient, and he was defending the city. At most, he was only defending Gloria City. It won't be too much of a loss if you lose, and the two camps can still maintain a relatively balanced situation.

(End of this chapter)