Pioneering

Chapter 203 Feudal Contract
Zhong Ming looked uncertainly at the old Andreoya nobleman kneeling in front of him.

What to do with them.

Killed all?
After that, every time a human kingdom is conquered, it will definitely be resisted desperately by all the nobles.

Besides, Xiang Yu would not be ashamed to get rid of Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet when he came to surrender in person, and Zhong Ming also paid great attention to image building.

If you don't kill them, these nobles who kneel quickly enough still account for nearly a quarter of Andreoya's territory.

A bit reluctant.

After being silent for a long time, Zhong Ming's expression suddenly softened: "I feel the sincerity of you all. Yasha has his own tolerance, and I can consider accepting your allegiance."

The kneeling knights breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, I don't like traitors, especially traitors who betrayed me."

With a light tap of Zhong Ming's finger, the nobles in Devon who had been canonized by him suddenly floated up.

These nobles also knelt down and swore allegiance to him at the beginning, even if they stood in line and did not help each other, Zhong Ming could still tolerate them.

But they took the initiative to take the lead in attacking Devonshire, so they should pay the price for their choice.

Zhong Ming, as the lord of these rebellious boys, has the right to deal with the vassals who betray him.

But these defectors can be counted between the guests and the envoys, and Zhong Ming didn't intend to hurt his reputation because of these ants.

Ignoring the cries and begging for mercy of these people, Zhong Ming lightly hooked his fingers: "Shameless betrayers, see you on the battlefield."

The group floated out of the camp.

With Xiaolu's hand, Zhong Ming looked at the reactions of other nobles with satisfaction: "Okay, now, we can talk about our feudal contract.

As the saying goes, today is different from the past, if you want to join Asshai, you must abide by our Asshai's rules, right? "

In the feudal society of the Zoya world, the feudal obligations of the lord and vassals are determined through feudal contracts.

This kind of contract stipulates the obligations and responsibilities of both the vassal and the vassal, and stipulates the obligations, responsibilities and rights of both parties in an express contract.

The duties of enfeoffing a monarch usually have the most basic four items: fiefdom, protection, judicial power, and tax privileges.

(1) Fiefdom: The fiefdom should allocate territory to vassals so that they can obtain all the benefits in the territory as private property, including natural resources such as forests, rivers, minerals, and grain fields in the territory and the human resources of the people in the territory.

(2) Protection: The lord is obliged to protect the land of his vassals from outside invasion.

If the vassal's territory is attacked by other nobles, the vassal has to intervene militaryly to protect the vassal.

(3) Judicial power: The feudal monarch will transfer part of the judicial power to the vassals, so that the vassals have the highest judicial power in the territory.

The premise is that it does not violate the customary law within the nobility.If it is violated, the lord has the right to fine the vassals, impose additional taxes, and take the opportunity to modify the contract and other punishments.

In the worst case, the territory can be deprived, but it is almost impossible for this to happen.

(4) Tax privileges: The lord provides vassals with preferential taxation of different proportions of taxation to the vassals, and the vassals only need to pay a "fixed" amount of taxes according to the negotiated feudal contract.

The vassal's obligations also include four basic aspects:
(1) Military service: When the lord summons the army, the vassal has the responsibility to provide manpower and military power to support the lord's war.

This is the most critical basic obligation. The key to a vassal's foothold is to provide military service to the lord and provide force.

(2) Tax payment: Vassals must provide the vassal with a "fixed" amount of taxes, including currency, materials and other forms of support.

(3) Obedience: Vassals must obey a series of regulations under the orders of the lord, such as customary laws within the nobility, administrative systems, military regulations, and other traditions.

(4) Security: Vassals have the responsibility to control their subordinates to ensure the safety of the fief and active communication and interaction with the lord.To put it simply, take care of your own people and don't fight blindly.

The duty of the vassal is the right of the vassal, and the duty of the vassal is also the right of the vassal.

These obligations and responsibilities will be specified in the feudal contract, and will vary according to title, region, and time.

If the vassal violates the feudal contract, the lord even has the right to take back the fief and other privileges!
However, this thing is basically impossible, and there may not be a single case in decades.

In a peaceful environment, it is difficult for the feudal monarch to even change the feudal contract between the two parties, let alone deprive the territory.

Conversely, if the vassal fails to honor the treatment that the vassal should enjoy, the vassal can rebel and revolt to fight for his rights and status.

It is analogous to Blue Star's "Qingjun side".

However, the chances of this happening are rare.The kings of various countries in the mainland often marry. If vassals dare to do this, it is hard to say whether they can beat their own boss.

Zhong Ming was still weak back then, so naturally he didn't dare to break the feudal contract between Devon County and his subordinates.

It's not that they are afraid of these weak chickens, but they are afraid that Anthos and other nobles will intervene because of too much movement.

Now?Of course it's Zhong Ming's home game, so why shouldn't he have a good talk with this group of future subordinates?

Zhong Ming is willing to accept them, one reason is to weaken the future when conquering other kingdoms, the nobles will not kill each other, kill all the leaders, pollute the rivers, and destroy good fields;
Secondly, the number of this group of people is not large now, and after killing the twenty-five boys in Devon County, they accounted for one-fifth of Andrea Oya;
Thirdly, these people are basically educated middle and small aristocrats. Zhong Ming is currently in the start-up stage, and there is still a shortage of people.

These defectors can be regarded as relieved, and they can be regarded as seeing the hope of being accepted.

"You have to participate too."

Unable to refuse, Zhong Ming summoned Saba, Karber and Levin, the three heroes who rebelled against the water and helped Yaxia win the "Battle of the Giant Current".

"First of all, let's talk about your territories. I guarantee that your titles and territories will remain the same, but you must move! I can't trust you!"

Zhong Ming simply expressed his worries: "If you can't accept it, please go back, let's continue to compete on the battlefield."

The three Saba families are not included here. Due to the credit of the three families, they can avoid relocation and replacement of fiefdoms.

Those who can come here to surrender have a general understanding of Zhong Ming's behavior style, and they gritted their teeth and accepted it.

Zhong Ming went on to say: "Then next, let's talk about the judicial power. In our Yaxia, the judicial power must belong to the royal family, and must belong to me!

Whether it is a commoner or an aristocrat, they must abide by the statutory laws promulgated by Asshai! "

If Zhong Ming still wants to reform and build his territory as he pleases, judicial power must not be left to these lawless knights.

A group of noble knights were of course very dissatisfied with this, and expressed one after another:
Is there any reason for nobles to break the law and common people to commit the same crime?We nobles should be superior to others!
We nobles cannot be bound by the same laws as commoners!

"What you are proud of is that you feel that you have extraordinary power, which is different from ordinary people.

Then I will find a hundred ordinary people to fight with you with Type 01 rifles. If any of you can defeat these ordinary people single-handedly, I will give up this one, what! "

These small and medium-sized nobles who are the tallest and have just touched the threshold of the earth knights have also seen the power of the enchanted 01-style rifle. If they hit a vital point, a formal knight will have to see the king of the underworld. How dare they try it.

After looking at each other for a while, the nobles pinched their noses and recognized them.

There are Earth Knights in the Saba family, and they even know the background of the Sky Knight's threshold, but they obviously don't intend to slap their new boss in the face.

Next, the two sides discussed the issue of taxes, and after a bit of arguing, they reached a conclusion that the various taxes collected by the lords on the territory must abide by the tax law of Yasha, and that taxes and labor were not allowed to be imposed arbitrarily.

In exchange, as long as they do not set tariffs within the territory and maintain a free market in Assia, Zhong Ming will be exempted from the fixed amount of "tax" that these nobles have to pay every year.

This is to prevent this group of aristocrats from overwhelming the markets in other regions by relying on tax advantages after Yaxia's industry starts, affecting Zhong Ming's economic control over Yaxia.

Of course, this group of nobles can't see this now. Although they feel sorry for losing their right to exploit at will, the benefit of exempting "taxes" makes them feel that this is a good thing, so they readily agreed.

In terms of military service, Zhong Ming doesn't make too many demands on this group of defectors, and the number of people sent to Zhong Ming to serve here every year is the same as that of Andre Oya before.

But Zhong Ming asked them to send all their direct descendants to Chang'an City for further studies. They can learn fighting spirit, martial arts, natural science, humanities and politics, and the tuition fees will be charged as usual.

Free tuition is impossible, the nobles are too talented, Zhong Ming does not intend to take advantage of them.

The defectors thought they had expected this request, and calmly accepted it.

If you are a "proton", just be a proton, and you can learn some skills, which has exceeded expectations.

After specifying some specific amounts in detail, before drawing up the feudal contract, Zhong Ming took out his biggest trump card:

"Finally, it's a benefit I give to everyone, and it's also a routine of my Asshai nobles:
After the death of a nobleman, in addition to the eldest son inheriting the title, other direct descendants can also divide part of their father's land to become nobles and directly serve the king.

For example, if the eldest son of the earl inherits the title of earl, the other brothers can obtain the title of viscount and pledge their allegiance to me.In this way, for three generations, the title will automatically drop by one level.
Of course, everyone can also rely on bravery on the battlefield to obtain territories and rewards to maintain the title level, and even go further.

My Yaxia's "Military Merit Law" includes clear indicators for the promotion of nobles.

What do you guys think? "

This is the fantasy version of the "Tweeting Order", and Zhong Ming didn't go so far as to stipulate that illegitimate children also have the right to inherit.

After all, even for Blue Star in the 21st century, isn't it only the government of Sichuan that stipulates that illegitimate children have the right to inherit?

If you want to say that this group of nobles cannot see the consequences and disadvantages of this regulation, it is impossible.

But to make them refuse, the first thing to make a fuss is within their family!

Is it okay to have only one son?
can.

However, even the heirs of nobles had a high mortality rate.

What's more, the nobles have military obligations to the emperor. On the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, and if you don't pay attention, it is easy for father and son to die in battle.

If there is no other son-in-law to make up for it, then it will be cheap to some relative in the corner!Who would?
So the nobles had to live more...

After a lot of coercion and temptation, they still pinched their noses and accepted the "tweeting" benefits. The meat was rotten in their own pot anyway, which was still acceptable.

After signing the feudal contract and confirming the feudal relationship, Zhong Ming hastily arranged a canonization ceremony for these defectors and the Saba family.

The defectors were transferred to the border areas of the Western Province, the Northern Province, and Magek and Wized.

The three Saba families took the initiative to seek refuge. Zhong Ming promised subsidies and some benefits, and moved them to the narrow border area between Andria and Estonia.

To get benefits from Zhong Ming, is it appropriate for you not to do something serious?

Honestly, be a "buffer zone"!

The transferred land is slightly larger than the original territories of these nobles.

Moreover, the more than 20 people who were entrusted to the fringes of the western provinces even got access to some cement roads that Zhong Ming had just spent money on for infrastructure, which was the envy of others.

However, the western provinces were overwhelmed by the expeditionary forces of the Winkrel Kingdom this time, and they also needed the painstaking efforts of these nobles with huge wealth.

Anyway, there are no military achievements for several generations, and these managed lands still have to be returned to Zhong Ming.

Ten days later, these defectors gathered under Zhong Ming with the most capable knights under their command.

Zhong Ming didn't ask them to bring the standing army to serve together, otherwise they might be like Ansos, and not even see half of the lords come to serve after the fight.

However, Ansos has no reason to pursue responsibility, because of Asshai's lightning raid, it is understandable that the noble lords did not prepare supplies!

Zhong Ming is not so easy to fool around. Taking advantage of the prestige of "conqueror", he forcefully ordered this group of nobles to only bring the extraordinary knights to serve. If the time is exceeded, the consequences will be at your own risk!
At this moment, apart from the more than 5 warriors and 20 coalition troops assigned to Sartre to rescue the western provinces, Zhong Ming actually had more than 3 warriors and more than [-] defeated troops who had just been captured from the "Battle of the Giant Current".

Oh, and more than 3000 knights and several standing troops from the three Saba families who took refuge here.

But the world of Zoya has always looked at the combat power and quantity of the fighting spirit knights. The mortal standing army can only be used as logistics, defense, and cannon fodder for filling trenches.

This group of defectors, who had seen Yashai's excellent equipment and combat power, naturally did not dare to do anything wrong, so they forcibly recruited [-] vindictive knights to accompany them in the battle, and wiped out the few self-indulgent nobles who still couldn't tell the situation clearly, as well as the nobles who had been killed Zhong Ming clearly kicked out the Devon nobles from the acceptance list.

Except for the Lorrs family and the Milas family where Lei Wen's father belonged to, the nobles of Devon County did not take the initiative to stab Zhong Ming in the back and were continued to be accepted, the rest of them were all on Zhong Ming's death list!

Twenty days later, Zhong Ming brought more than 5 extraordinary troops and more than [-] standing troops, basically cleared all the targets, and completely took over all the land of Andreoya.

At this time, the regretful neighbors thought of stopping the expansion of Yasha.

However, preparing for war is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Moreover, it took Yaxia more than three months to win most of the targets so far, and the speed exceeded the reaction of these neighbors sitting on the fence.

It's too late, time is waiting for me... that's pretty much what these good neighbors think.

By the way, after taking over the County of Capote, which the God of Vacuum lost to in a bet, Zhong Ming had to start thinking about how to solve a series of troublesome post-war matters.

(End of this chapter)