Chapter 154: Enfeoffment system

It's drizzling.

Then Viserys walked down the castle with Bessie who was practicing walking, and sent him back to recuperate.

He didn't need to participate in the next celebration, and rested mainly.

Viselis had nothing to do before that, and even if he had nothing to do, he even visited his most loyal subordinates.

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Half a month ago.

The bachelor received a letter from the school city on the other side of the sea.

The person who wrote the letter was his teacher, Westeros’s leading astronomer, Dr. Villing. In addition to the normal narrative, he also told his disciples and the lord he served—

Autumn has come.

Since Xuecheng announced the Red Comet as the "Sword of the Season", the season in Westeros has changed from spring to summer.

At that time, Veserys was still fighting on the battlefield of Ge Dohe, and now he has experienced many things, leading the victorious army back to his hometown, the defeat of the Longshidao naval battle, preparations for war, and so on...

Perhaps except for the busy farmers in the farmland, many people have not noticed that the weather is turning cold a little bit, and the footsteps of autumn are gradually coming.

Xuecheng’s letter of announcing the seasons is issued every season every year. Ordinary lords don’t understand calendars and astronomy. They all rely on Xuecheng to inform them of the changes in the seasons. Then the lords then ask farmers in the territory to do what they should do in this season.

Therefore, the operation of many places in Westeros is inseparable from the influence of the school city. As the place where the most intellectuals in Westeros gather, it is of vital significance.

In fact, Dr. Willing wrote more letters to his disciples with a focus on the past.

It has been more than a month since this letter traveled across the ocean to the mainland of Essos, and it was even later that it was handed over to the bachelor's hand.

However, the traditional festival harvest banquet can take advantage of this opportunity to unfold.

As one of the few festivals on the continent of Westeros, Andalus also has this tradition.

Because many cultures of Westeros originated from the Andals and Loina people, in fact, if you trace the roots, this is the birthplace of many Westeros cultures.

When the bachelor’s announcement was in the autumn, wise people began to store part of their crops.

As the largest local lord, he can hold a traditional festival such as a harvest banquet. Because of the long distance and difficult communication, the harvest feast is often a rare opportunity to meet between the lord and the vassal.

As the king of Andalus, Veselis naturally announced the first harvest banquet in order to celebrate the harvest and strengthen the hearts of the people.

Not long ago, the new aristocrats who were entrusted to various places and began to build castles and territories quickly came to Andaloth to gather.

As the first batch of nobles, in fact, these nobles have not yet separated from the common people, and each and every one also hangs on their shoulders like a soil bun, laughing and talking.

Now Viselis is sitting on the highest throne in the castle, and the hall below is rarely full of tables. The upstarts are sitting on the chairs with their wives and children beside them.

The servants in the castle are also extremely busy today, and dishes are brought out from the kitchen, and each of these dishes requires Veselis to taste the first bite, and then the nobles on the rest of the table. Qualified to start eating.

Pre-dinner dessert cakes, a variety of red wine, bread with cream, honey roast chicken, chunks of stewed wild boar, goose stuffed with berries, barley venison soup, salmon, giant lobster, etc. ..

The dazzling array of dishes is dazzling.

The atmosphere of the harvest banquet was also very warm. From time to time, some people shouted "Long live Andalus!" Some people held up their glasses and shouted "Long live Viserys!".

But Viselis just smiled slightly at these, then raised his glass and took a sip, still looking calmly at the lively scene below.

His sister Daenerys was sitting on his left hand, and Renis was sitting on his right, wearing a gorgeous long dress, and the young and beautiful girl had a clean smile on her face.

The feudal system of Andalus seems to have a shell similar to that of Westeros.

However, in fact, it is not the same as the fundamental system of Westeros.

The most fundamental difference lies in the ownership of the land.

Although the entire territory of the Seven Kingdoms, the final ruling power, and the supreme rights of all aspects belong to the king in theory.

However, in reality, the king was subject to Westeros' political status quo, and could not really do whatever he wanted.

For example, the king can't intervene in matters of the West. If you want to intervene, you need to greet the Lannister family, the guardian of the West and the Duke of Kaiyan City, or ask the other party to deal with it.

If Lannister decides to shelter a certain family, His Majesty has no other way than to reach a political compromise, go to war, or give up.

Even if the king loses in the competition for power, he may lose his position and die.

In fact, this is equivalent to the king being the largest nobleman with his own fief, and temporarily sitting in this position under the common praise of other great nobles.

If the king offends most of the rest of the country's nobles, he will be overthrown by the common flag.

Just like Visiris’s father, the "Mad King" Iris Targaryen II, for the people, it is a matter for the nobles to allow the flag of the city to change, and the people don’t care about those sitting on the Iron Throne. Whether it was Baratheon or Targaryen, they only cared about what to eat for the next meal.

And in Andalus.

Although Veselis was entrusted to the nobles, each noble ruled a village or town, and could be inherited by his descendants.

But the ultimate ownership of these lands still belongs to the king, that is, Veserys can abolish a nobleman who made mistakes at any time, put the other party to death, or become a commoner in the end.

These newly entrusted nobles had no actual ownership of the land, only the right to rule and the right to make decisions in the region, but this power was still affected by the king's highest ruling power.

And also need to pay the tax rate set by the state on time, and the rest are the benefits that the nobles can obtain.

For civilians, every civilian in UU Reading www.uukanshu.com has the obligation to serve, and they serve directly in the Andalus Army.

The legion has garrisons in various places, and the supreme command of these troops is in the hands of Viselis, and has no connection with the local nobles.

Nobles are allowed to build home castles and have private soldiers, but the number of private soldiers is under a very strict number, and they can only maintain law and order and defend the castle.

Because Viselis has a strong reputation among the civilians and legions, the people recognize Viselis more than the nobles assigned to them.

Therefore, the implementation of the new enfeoffment system went very smoothly.

Moreover, the new batch of nobles he pulled out were once ordinary people, who stood out on the battlefield or other channels and were canonized as nobles by Veselis.

It was too late to reach the sky from mud-legged to aristocratic grateful Dade, naturally, no one had any objection to the enfeoffment.

Otherwise, Veserys would not mind directly removing the title above his head, canceling the opportunity to obtain a fief and ascending the sky in one step, and becoming a civilian again.