Chapter 108: Autocratic Fate Part 2 (1/2)

Just because some of his public statements and opinion had angered some people. At that time in college, Carveslyver was quite well-known and repeatedly expressed publicly his political views. The Tekma military system which had been maintained for a hundred years in the Byzantine Empire was the root and weakness for causing the diminution!

Byzantine Empire population was ten times that of the Odin and the land was three times greater than that of the Odin. But in centuries the contest with Odin was in disadvantage, the greatest root cause would be the Tekma military system! The corrupted military system would split the empire into numerous individuals. The empire would have difficulties to concentrate all of the military force resulting they would be unable to compete with all the strength of the enemies.In the meanwhile, the military division led to a repetitively consumption waste to the enormous strength of the empire.

Such a proposition did irate the strong forces of the military when it was suggested. Tekma military system was a special military administrative system of the Byzantine Empire a hundred years ago. Empire was unfortunately caught in the midst of an internal rebellion civil war, while taking the advantage of the weakness of the Byzantine Empire, the surrounding enemies Odin and Oriental nomads took the opportunity to invade the empire. The empire was faced with the disintegration of the impasse.

The emperor at the time, in response to this crisis set up a new set of quasi-military administrative system. In this system, the Byzantine Empire territory, except for the part of the central empire, Osgiliath continued to be emperor territory. The other areas were set up to be dozens of military administrative system.Tekma had the meaning of the word of the establishment of the highest administrative official of a military governor in each of the section and the highest official was appointed by the military governor.

In principle, every military system carried amilitia system, which was part of the government policy to provide land for the crops cultivation and the recruitment of some farmers.The farmers could use the part of the land for harvesting, but also needed to join into the line of military service once faced with war enlistment.

The prevailing view was that as long as the lives of the militia be safeguarded, the mobilization of the army would be very easy during the wartime. The morale of the common solders to defend the homeland against foreign invaders would be high and the burden of the wage of the country could be reduced to a minimum. The Facts had proved that the idea itself was not wrong. However, there were also inevitably a lot of critical defects!

Such farming military system destined only for temporary use in times of crisis, but could be maintained as a long-term national statehood policy. Carvesylver had once expressedhis views when he was young that the system would play down mercilessly. The wise man of the empire believed, first of all, such a system could be used as an excellent contingency strategy in the face of the crisis.

Although the morale would be raised to protect their homes in the face of foreign invaders, but the nature of militia could not be diminished with the essential characteristics of farmers, love toward the homeland! They could not leave the home to carry out the local operations! Although at the time they were motivated when their homes were surrounded by enemies, once the need for such troops to set off, then, they often demoralized. In a nutshell, this agricultural soldiers simply could not bear the responsibility as a National Defense Force!

The second weakness was a waste! Such farming military system could only play a role in resistance to foreign invasion.When the enemy attacked to the house, then only the troops would have a high combat power. However,war may be impossible with only defensive warfare! Because of this, the empire must also establish a truly professional army as a combat maneuver for the empire standing. And a lot of resources such as military construction had repeatedly caused a wastage!

The third contradiction was the irreconcilable land! The Byzantine Empire was a feudal constitution.In essence, it was the largest royal nobility, and the following have a royal family as the center of aristocracy. Each new generation of the aristocrat would need a new land. Only when after a family tree was completely cut off, the Empire would have the right to nationalize their land…

The speed to produce new aristocracy was much faster than the extinction of the old aristocracy! Although the land of the empire was vast, after all, the total amount of land was still limited. A total of limited land needed to be distributed to keep the nascent aristocracy, as well as a large number of army divisions for the arable farmland. The increasing demand for land had formed an irreconcilable contradiction.

The fourth conflict was… the power!

The introduction of the Tekma system was the direct result of the unprecedented power in the military forces.By the standard of a national constitution, such a powerful force was a freak.