Fed-Kun's army
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@th30wl You're wrong, the lord paid taxes and sent levies to the king in case of war or revolts, and in exchange, the king gave them various forms of protection. There's a thing called feudal contract that the real ones are way more complicated, but in a nutshell, it can be something resumed in something like this
As @Sir_elderock said, there are the marches, where I would say it's more like they pay fewer taxes, but have to to supply bigger levies, and the scutages, where the lord supply less to no levies but has to pay more taxes
Then you have other cases like of a king giving some lord who saved his life, a set period of years were the lord don't have to pay any taxes to him, or as to how it happened once in Japan where Hideyoshi Toyotomi after a stalemate with the Tokugawa, and the Tokugawa recognizing him as their lord, he gave the Tokugawa clan a set of privileges, with one being the exemption of having to participate in the army of Hideyoshi for 10 years
So yeah... Vassals had to pay their lord in one way or another unless they were given certain privileges
As @Sir_elderock said, there are the marches, where I would say it's more like they pay fewer taxes, but have to to supply bigger levies, and the scutages, where the lord supply less to no levies but has to pay more taxes
Then you have other cases like of a king giving some lord who saved his life, a set period of years were the lord don't have to pay any taxes to him, or as to how it happened once in Japan where Hideyoshi Toyotomi after a stalemate with the Tokugawa, and the Tokugawa recognizing him as their lord, he gave the Tokugawa clan a set of privileges, with one being the exemption of having to participate in the army of Hideyoshi for 10 years
So yeah... Vassals had to pay their lord in one way or another unless they were given certain privileges