The universal military service system once created by Charlemagne, which continues to the present Civil War era, is fast dying.
When the main enemy of the empire has weakened, so has the very foundation of the rationale for sustaining the system.
The system has been weakened intentionally or unintentionally by various places. After all, the Lombards, Saxons, and Avars either surrendered or lost, and the empire has been at peace for a long time, and there is no need to force all the Franks to be in a high state of military mobilization.
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