Chapter 536_2

"Numerous knightly estates are required to provide at least one knight, while the apprentices, servants, and footmen serving the knights are unrestricted, but note that each knightly estate must provide one knight, otherwise it will be stripped of its knightly status."

"Estates unable to provide a knight may, instead, contribute the expenses of a knight for three years as a form of tax."

These had all been similar commands issued by Oyo III, but this had been standard procedure.

All were rights the Empire had in the face of crisis.

However, whether the lords would comply was another question.