Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 122 The Temple of the Two-Faced God

Aware of their lack of ability, the nobles decided to seek foreign aid.Some people went to contact the enemies of the Purple Tent, such as Shinra, Hungary, and Ottoman.Others think that we have to organize ourselves: these companies are also not good, and if they intervene, they will definitely talk loudly.

Therefore, the crowd invited Paul Castriotti, an Albanian nobleman, hoping that he would contact mercenaries and lead the army.

Castriotti was originally a small family, with only two villages in its territory at first.But Paul is very good at fighting, and his territory is getting bigger and bigger.He has always wanted to join the circle of Serbs next to him, and even proposed marriage to his son.As a result, the nobles regarded him as the candidate for invitation.

Castriotti said that if they really wanted to do something, they had to establish command first.Regardless of whether he or someone else is in command, they must ensure that the orders are consistent, and they cannot do their own thing.

Moreover, to fight against the Roman army, it is best to abandon the plains and fight in the mountains. This means that those plain nobles who are richer and have more troops must be mentally prepared to dedicate their own interests to the country.

From a strategic point of view, the towns and fortresses in these plains have to survive the siege long enough to provide opportunities for maneuver and harassment to the army in the mountains.If the fall is too fast, even if it threatens the enemy's logistics supply line, it will not help.

He said frankly that he doubted that the Serbian nobles could do it.

It would be very unwise to start a war until this is ensured.Because of internal conflicts and insufficient quality of soldiers, the Serbs have already suffered a lot in the hands of Osman.If they act rashly, there is no guarantee that the outrageous precedent of that year will be repeated.

Although this is hard to hear, the nobles really cannot refute it.In fact, they themselves were quarreling over battlefield issues.Seeing this, Castriotti quickly found an opportunity to slip away and ran back to his hometown in Albania to hide from the limelight.

The nobles also understand that whoever takes the lead will be hit hard by the Purple Horde Khanate, and even if they win back, they may not be able to take advantage of it.Everyone wanted others to go first, so they kept hesitating and prevaricating. After two months of delay, they couldn't make up their minds.

In the end, it was actually an accidental mutiny that sparked the rebellion.

In some territories close to the core area of ​​the Purple Horde Khanate, the local nobles also tried to learn from their experience, allowing themselves, the nominal military leader, to gain the combat effectiveness of a regular military government.

The Purple Horde does not hide its various military systems-in fact, it is impossible to hide it.Therefore, as long as you are willing, you can learn all kinds of rules for conscription, training, etc. directly.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand the rules and regulations.As a nominal "person of their own", Serbian nobles can easily hire retired veterans from the purple tent to teach and train everyone.

However, when the actual training began, the situation was different.

Farmers in Serbia, the burden is very heavy.According to the local "Duchan Code", the highest-ranking and lightest-burdened citizens have to provide more than 100 days of labor rent to the lord every year, not counting other taxes and corvee—and this is already King Duchamp The result of standardizing the outrageous land rents of various private establishments.In Eastern Europe at that time, it was all praiseworthy.

Under such circumstances, the "military soldiers" of the lords have no conditions to train at all.

The Roman military advisers suggested that they either simply give up this plan, anyway, the combat power of the Serbian knight class is not bad, enough;It is impossible to satisfy both.

They said that in the military mansions of the Purple Horde, there is no land rent from the lord, because the land of the manor is not rented.

There is also no poll tax, because this thing is the "collection money" they used to buy equipment for military households, which is part of the military service system.

Later, when Khan Ting had money, he did not need to collect these equipments by himself, but the citizens of the manor also changed from serving as military households to serving as everyone.The arsenal can only provide long soldiers, armor and the like, and many gadgets have to be bought by themselves, so there is no further collection.

The other big head, church tax, also doesn't exist.In fact, the Khan court has never been able to understand why he had to pay the temple for incense when he did not go to burn incense.

Churches in other places have undertaken the obligation to educate and manage grassroots people, so they really need financial support.But in the Purple Horde, education and grassroots management were all organized by the Khan himself.Therefore, churches here also do not have tax privileges.

On the contrary, in Khanting's consciousness, the church should be used to make money.Especially after taking control of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Khan court used the authority of the Orthodox Church to often send people on business trips outside the controlled area, performing magic tricks everywhere, and trying to call on foreign church members to donate money.

Unfortunately, the influence of the Orthodox Church is too small, and it has not been able to provide enough income so far.

In this way, the burden of the manor citizens is only military service and land tax.

Moreover, when the first Khan Boyan Timur established the sacrifice, he accepted the proposal of everyone and built a temple to enshrine the ancestor Romulus Chenginus.

Because they don't quite understand the compound god here, they adopted Guo Gai's suggestion when making the statue, imitating the "Four Faces of the Yellow Emperor" and carving a double-faced god to express it in the most intuitive way.

This statue embodies the two elements of civilization of the Purple Horde Khanate, as well as the duality of culture: one side is war, and the other side is also war.

The Khan court announced that as long as there is a war, the temple will open the door to offer sacrifices and pray for the war.The state of war is different from normal times. Everyone only needs to pay for the grain and fodder that are used directly during the war, and no other money or silk is needed.Those who went to war didn't need to pay, just fight the war with peace of mind, and stay in the manor to provide enough food and grass.

As a result, decades have passed since the tent was built, and the temple has never been closed.This temporary policy has also become the norm.

This system made the nobles feel exaggerated.The people in the territory do nothing but fight, so how can the territory be maintained?

But advisers say the pressures of military service are already high.

In the Zizhang Khanate, building roads, building bridges and even constructing water conservancy projects should be part of corvee service, because of the special local military background, they are also included in military service.

Even now, there are frequent complaints.Because although the nominal tax is very low, all kinds of consumption and labor are already a high burden.Any further improvement will affect the combat effectiveness.

The various expenditures of the Khanate mainly depend on commerce.One of the main sources of wealth for the Khan and the nobles is to travel to and from various places.It is also because of this that shipping and trade routes are so important to the Khan Court and deserve daily attention.

Of course, in addition to this kind of cost-effective transactions, no-cost transactions are also indispensable.Although it is not so stable, most of the wealth accumulated by the Khan Ting himself was indeed obtained by the khans of the past dynasties with one knife and one arrow.

Therefore, under the current situation, some senior officials of the Purple Tent even advocated the complete abolition of the land tax, and that the military rations in the future should be purchased centrally by the Khan Court as a subsidy for the citizens of the manor.

General Li Yinglin told others at the time that the Legion is the knife of Rome. Since ancient times, how can a knife spit out gold coins?On the contrary, as long as you show your knife and go out for a few laps, the people around you will automatically spit out gold coins.

This is why Khan Ting is not afraid of others learning.

Other surrounding countries simply do not have the conditions to do this.Forcibly imitating is also HD learning to walk, because the most basic conditions are not met.Can Serbian nobles give up land rent?Can such a huge commercial income be obtained?Obviously hopeless.

Some people think that this is because the usual control over the citizens is not enough, as long as the control and management are strengthened, it will definitely be done.However, when the hired purple tent veterans trained the leaders, they obviously brought over the habits of the Legion Manor.

(End of this chapter)