Game of Thrones: The Strongest Guoguang

Chapter 40 The Necessity of Farming

"Who wants to jump up?" Rhaenella asked Harold with a low expression.

"Galvin Hightower is dissatisfied with Baron Baich, thinking that he is a soldier with no qualifications, and wants to deprive him of the position of guarding the city gate. control."

"Promote Baron to be the leader. From today onwards, none of the generals in Hightower's line will be transferred or demoted, and none of them will be allowed to stay in the golden robe. Let's gradually eliminate them. These are diehards. Why should I keep them? .”

Baron Baich was a small nobleman with no fiefdom, and he came to serve her the day before yesterday, so Rhaenyla arranged for him to command the defense of the old city gate, intending to train him.

Rhaenila had given these nobles a chance to get close to Calvin. She had been observing them these days, but she didn't expect them to start crowding out newcomers.

Now that the golden robe has passed for such a long time, it has become Rhaenila's minion after being transferred in and recruiting new people.

Then the problems left over from before can be solved.

At least the nails mixed by the nobles should be removed as soon as possible.

So you still have to raise soldiers. If you don't raise soldiers, when other nobles and vassals start a rebellion, what should you rely on to counter the rebellion?

Private soldiers of other nobles?Aren't you afraid that you will be out, you believe.That's what Rhaenyla did in the past. In the end, the situation collapsed, Damon and Emond died together, and Dragon Knight Adam died.

Velaryon support?Could it be that they want to get married again, the father and daughter just wrap up their children, the sea monster family dreams of this.

It is necessary to build an armed force.

At this time, no country in Westeros can afford to support a team of full-time soldiers, which is obvious.

It's not that Ranila took it for granted and thought that other vassals could be defeated with only farming soldiers, but because the productivity is too low now, so she made such a bad policy, and if she didn't farm, she couldn't support her people.

Daenerys became Khaleesi, with so many mouths to eat, how did she feed so many people, either fighting slave owners or trading city-states, there was no choice.Because the centaur lived by plundering, they plundered the docile goatmen who could farm the land, and they dared to attack the cities near the Dothraki Sea of ​​Grass with a LS.

But Rhaenyra is different, she is not the Misha of the centaurs and slaves, she is the successor rather than the founder.

If she is the heir of a certain noble family, when she starts a rebellion, she can accumulate food and grass, slowly become the king, the fiefs that she has conquered will be granted to heroes, and the plundered food will be used to support the army, and the war will be used to support the war.

But she is not, she is the princess of the kingdom, and she must practice the way of the king, otherwise what will the nobles who support her righteousness think.

After the ancestors conquered the Seven Kingdoms, generations of kings and queens have worked hard to make the Iron Throne more stable, so that those conspirators can only compete through power games.

If she raises a private army that plunders the nobles around the king's territory, then sooner or later her congregation will desert and go the old way.

At that time, even the church, which does not intervene in political affairs now, will not be able to stand it anymore, scolding her cruel Maegor II, and the poor will come to slay her dragon one after another.

So it is difficult to start a business, but it is even more difficult to keep a business.

Instead of being reckless from now on, thinking that he is the heir of the Seven Kingdoms, he started to behave indiscriminately, did not grow food, did not farm soldiers, and specialized in robbing houses, becoming pirates and robbers.

Ranila felt that this would be really cool, if she was the kind of person like Li Zicheng who would pull up a team and do it, but she was not, she was the Ming court with no power in her hands, only the righteousness of the empire.

Not farming means not being able to support a large number of soldiers, and it means going to lay down other people's fiefdoms and plunder wealth.Of course, it’s okay not to raise soldiers, then all the nobles will find you a stepmother, and give you a cheap brother, who will seize your power in the future, kill your people, and harm your Seven Kingdoms.

Either way means saying goodbye to the Iron Throne forever, and that's not how games are played.

Prince Emond of the Green Party did just that. He rode Waghar and burned the riverland to a clean slate. Countless people and nobles hated him and gritted his teeth. Then, who will clean up the mess for him? His older brother, Aegon II, could not hold on to the throne either.

Taking a step back, Rhaenyra would raise a private army, not caring what other nobles thought, and be Aegon II the Conqueror, the founder rather than the successor.

That's fine, what about the fiefs that were laid down?It also needs to be governed, so it goes back to the question of whether to farm or not.

It is not easy to siege a city, and it is even more difficult to defend a city. You cannot let the people flee. Not one of the king's leaders will survive. The young people will go to the battlefield for you, and the young and old in the family will starve to death.

And Ranila also knows what kind of virtues are noble private soldiers and trilogy in this era.

Just look at the disabled people all over the Seven Kingdoms.

According to Brother Meribald's definition, disabled people are outlaws in wartime.They started out as conscripted civilians, but later fled the battlefield to live off raids.

When the battle flag fluttered, brothers, fathers and sons, and friends embarked on the journey together, equipped with only the most primitive weapons (knife stolen from the kitchen, sharpened hoe, and stick tied with stones).

Alone, they stand against relentless disease and iron knights until the day they break.Some people fell in the first battle, and some persisted until one hundred. However, they watched their friends die, the original lord died, and they had to serve the strange lord, and the disabled finally fled.

He fled from fierce battles, from the pile of corpses after the war, and from the dead of night... They are used to plundering local civilians during wars, so it doesn't take much to rob young girls and kill for money adapt.

They often no longer know who they are, where they are, and where their family is, and become out-and-out bandits.Although small groups of disabled people are easy to produce in long-term melee, when the lord returns to his homeland with peace, they often cannot return to a peaceful life.

This is the status quo of the soldiers under some vassals after they recruit civilians.

Some could not return home, and some fell to looting other nobles and poor people, and then were killed and buried in foreign lands.

The chaos in the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms is the impact of the war between the North and the West.

Of course, the civilians recruited are not the real armed force of the nobles. For example, the Lannister family has a lion guard, which is extremely elite, but although Lannister does not farm, they also support these soldiers with the rich taxes of the Western Region.

The nobles everywhere are the same. Their private soldiers are very elite, but they are not available to Rhaenyla: the vassals of the vassals are not my vassals, and the soldiers of the vassals are not my soldiers.

Farming and raising soldiers is what Rhaenila must do. No matter whether she wants to survive or rule the Seven Kingdoms well, there is no other way to go.

Dragons are not invincible, and Dorne's dragon-shooting crossbow knocked Aegon's queen, Rhaenys, and the dragon Meraxes down from the sky.

When the Valyrians dominated the world, the Dragon King was not invincible. If others were to watch him, the dragon and its master would be in danger.

It is a national policy to develop productive forces and feed the people of King's Landing and King's Landing.

Regardless of whether you are rebelling outside or not, I will farm and raise soldiers at home, and the business is like an iron bucket.

At that time, you can tell those opponents that the next game has just begun.

(End of this chapter)