There's your problem. You conceive of any governing authority as having the power of a modern liberal state. An absolute fuedal monarch is far more limited in his power than a democratic state. Mass conscription isn't possible without a democratic political formula to justify itself as the will of the masses, as demonstrated well by the contrast of Napoleon and the coalition. The machinations of a king and his court does not touch the peasant, who can manage his piece of land as he pleases without applying for permits. Furthermore, it is in the interest of the Rex to uplift his people towards a better condition.

Heirarchy is not divorcable from society. Power should be prescient, which is to say formally invested such that responsibility lays bare. It is the impersonal disconnection between the rulers and their people that has degenerated society to this condition. You still cling to liberal myths, which is why you are fundamentally unable to oppose the progressive order.

Hoppe's Democracy The God That Failed is what you need, although I'm guessing you aren't a fan of reading books and just like sperging on the internet.