Fretting over the wealth of others and conspiring over its re-distribution is pure-strain Jewery, not Conservativism. In the context of US politics, the term "Conservative" refers to nothing except the Declaration of Independence, since without the DOI there's nothing "American" to be conserved.

The lords went out and fought their own battles.

Conscription and the draft didn't start until the first world world war. Which was fought so the Ottoman empire could be booted out of Israel, for the fake jews. Somehow or other zionism became very trendy among the pampered, mindless upper crust Christians in the late 1800's

Besides, where would peasants spend money?

A flat 28% tax rate with a tangible monetary system and fiscal discipline would get us out of the hole we've dug.