>>64502003
>medieval kingdoms would run around sacking taxes from people under their control to continue funding their domain?
One notable historical figure who did this was the (then) young Prussian nobleman Otto Von Bismarck.
When there was civil unrest and rebellion against the king of Prussia in 1848, this nigger legitimately tried to levy the peasants on his family's lands into a militia, so he could lead them on a march to Berlin in defense of king Frederick William IV, as if he was living in the fucking 1400s. He failed for obvious reasons.
So instead he traveled alone to Berlin, personally met the king, and was told to just use his peasants to produce food for the kingdom instead. So that's what he ended up doing, and he spent years sulking about the "betrayal" of the peasants who refused to die for his delusions.
Insane to think that this man would later be absolutely instrumental in crushing the third French empire, unifying Germany, sending Lenin back to russia as a political weapon to bring down the Tsar, radically changing the course of history on the whole.