Realizing their own inadequacies, the nobles decided to seek outside help. Some people went to contact the enemies of the Purple Tent such as HRE, Hungary, and Ottoman. Others believe that we have to organize ourselves: these families are also not good enemies, and even if they intervene, they will definitely open their mouths.
Therefore, everyone invited the Albanian nobleman Paul Castriotti, hoping that he would contact the mercenaries and lead the army.
Castriotti was originally a small family, and its territory initially had only two villages. But Paul was good at fighting, and his territory was getting bigger and bigger. He has always wanted to join the Serbian circle next to him, and even proposed marriage to his son. Therefore, he was regarded as an invitation candidate by the nobles.
Castriotti said that if they really wanted to cause trouble, they would first have to establish command. Regardless of whether he or others are in command, they must ensure that the orders are consistent and cannot go their own way.
Moreover, to fight against the Roman army, it was best to abandon the plains and fight in the mountains. This meant that the richer and more powerful plains nobles had to be mentally prepared to dedicate their own interests to the country.
From a strategic point of view, these towns and fortresses in the plains must remain under siege for a long enough time to provide the troops in the mountainous areas with opportunities to maneuver and harass. If it falls too quickly, it will be of no use even if it threatens the enemy's logistics supply line.
He admitted frankly that he doubted whether the Serbian nobles could do it.
Until this is ensured, it would be unwise to start a war. Due to internal conflicts and insufficient quality of soldiers, the Serbs have already suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Ottomans. If we act rashly, there is no guarantee that the outrageous precedent of that year will be repeated.
Although it was hard to hear this, the nobles really could not refute it. In fact, they themselves did argue about battlefield issues. When Castriotti saw this, he 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 later, they may not be able to take advantage. Everyone wanted others to go first, and they kept hesitating and pushing the envelope. It took two months before they could make up their minds.
In the end, what sparked the rebellion was actually an accidental mutiny.
In some territories close to the core area of the Purple Horde Khanate, local nobles also tried to learn from their experience so that they, the nominal leader of the military government, could also obtain the combat effectiveness of a regular military government.
The Purple Horde Khanate did not hide its various military systems - in fact, it was impossible to hide it. Therefore, as long as you are willing, you can directly learn various rules on recruitment and training.
Even if you don't understand the rules and regulations, it doesn't matter. As nominally "one of their own", the Serbian nobles can easily hire retired veterans from the purple tent to teach everyone step by step in training.
However, when the actual training began, the situation was different.
Serbian farmers have a very heavy burden. According to the local "Duchamp Code", the highest-ranking subjects with the lightest burden must also provide the lord with more than one hundred days of labor rent every year, not counting other taxes, corvees and the like - and this is already Duchamp's This is the result of your Majesty standardizing the outrageous land rents of various private establishments. In Eastern Europe at that time, they were all praiseworthy.
In this case, the "military soldiers" of the lords had no conditions to train.
Roman military advisers suggested that they either simply give up on this plan, since the Serbian knights now have good combat effectiveness, which is enough; or they should reduce the burden on the people and don't think about making more money. It is impossible to satisfy both.
They said that in the military mansions of the Purple Horde Khanate, there was no land rent from the lords, because the land in the manor was not rented.
There is no poll tax, because this thing is the "shared money" they used to buy equipment for military households, and it is part of the military service system.
Later, when the Khan's court had money, they no longer needed to collect these equipment themselves, but the citizens of the manor also changed from military household service to everyone serving. The arsenal can only provide long soldiers, armor and the like, and many gadgets have to be purchased by yourself, so there are no additional collections.
Another big head, the church tax, doesn't exist either. In fact, the Khan's court never understood why he had to pay money for incense in the temple when he didn't go to burn incense.
Churches in other places have the obligation to educate and manage grassroots people, so they do need financial support. But in the Purple Horde Khanate, education and grassroots management were all done by the Khan's own organization. Therefore, the church here also has no tax privileges.
On the contrary, in the Khan's mind, the church should be used to make money. Especially after taking control of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Khan relied on the authority of the Orthodox Church and often sent people on missions outside the controlled area to perform magical arts in an attempt to call on foreign believers to donate money.
Unfortunately, the scope of influence of Orthodoxy is too small and it has not been able to provide sufficient income so far.
In this way, the only burdens on the citizens of the manor were military service and land taxes.
Moreover, when the first Khan Boyantemur established the sacrifice, he accepted everyone's suggestions and built a temple to worship the ancestor of the god Romulus Genginus.
Since they didn't quite understand the composite god here, when they were making the statue, they adopted Guo Gai's suggestion and imitated the "Four Faces of the Yellow Emperor" to carve a double-sided statue to express it in the most intuitive way.
This statue embodies the two cultural elements of the Purple Horde Khanate and the duality of culture: one side is war, and the other side is war.
The Khan's court announced that whenever there is a war, the temple will open its doors to offer sacrifices and pray for the war. The state of war is different from usual times. Everyone only needs to pay for the food and fodder directly used during the war, and no other money or silk is needed. Those who go on an expedition do not need to pay. They can just fight with peace of mind. They can stay at the manor and provide enough food and grass.
As a result, decades have passed since the establishment of the temple, and the temple has never been closed. This temporary policy has become the norm.
This system made the nobles feel exaggerated. How can the territory be maintained if its citizens do nothing but fight?
But advisers say the pressure of military service is already great.
In the Purple Horde Khanate, building roads, bridges and even water conservancy projects should be part of the corvee service. Because of the special local military background, they were also included in military service.
Even now, people often complain. Because although the nominal tax is very low, the various consumption and labor are already a high burden. Any further improvement will affect combat effectiveness.
The Khanate's various expenditures mainly relied on commerce. One of the main sources of wealth for the Great Khan and his nobles was to travel to various places to do business. It is also because of this that shipping and trade routes are so important to the Khan's court and deserve daily attention.
Of course, in addition to this kind of trading with capital, trading without capital is also indispensable. Although it is not that stable, most of the wealth accumulated by the Khan's own court was indeed obtained by the Khans of the past dynasties with their swords and arrows.
Therefore, under the current situation, some senior officials of the Purple Chamber even advocated the complete abolition of land tax, and future military rations would be centralized purchased by the Khan's court as a subsidy to the citizens of the manor.
General Li Yinglin told others at that time that the Legion was the knife of Rome. Since ancient times, how could anyone let the knife spit out gold coins? On the contrary, as long as you show your knife and walk around a few times, people around you will automatically spit out gold coins.
This is why the Khan's court is not afraid of others learning from it.
Other countries around us simply don’t have the conditions to do this. Forcibly imitating is still HD's first step, because the most basic conditions are not met. Can Serbian nobles give up land rent? Can you obtain such huge business income? It's obviously hopeless.
Some people believe that this is because the usual control over the people in the territory is not enough. As long as control and management are strengthened, it will definitely be done. However, when the purple tent veterans were hired to train the people, they obviously brought over the habits of the Legion Manor.
(End of chapter)
