The name of the military mansion is a tribute to the Tang Dynasty.
Probably at the beginning, Li Tiance really wanted to recreate the glory of the Tang Dynasty. However, due to the cultural level and environmental problems of the Purple Horde Khanate, this setting is the same as all other systems. Upon closer inspection, it is completely a super hodgepodge that mixes various elements of different cultures and self-questioning. I don’t know what it is. Who is more like.
Greek scholars like to call the various guards and military mansions in Nanya military districts. It is said that this is because they were also divided into large and small military districts in ancient times. The Purple Horde Khan insisted that those corresponding to the Wei were called military regions, and the military government was the military government. It also specially issued a set of standard Chinese names to prevent confusion in documents. As for who is right, Guo Kang himself doesn't know, but that's all he can say.
The appearance of the military government was later than that of the Wei, and its formalization was even later.
After Queen Mother Helena expelled Li Yinglin, the large-scale guards were divided. This action was supported by many emerging military generals, collateral members of the Li family, and even more "civilian" princes such as the Guo family. It made the Queen Mother, who seemed to have no military power, dare to take a gamble, while Li Yinglin, who was alone, could only run away. road.
Since then, the "Gui" has changed from an independent establishment to a subordinate official office of the province. It has also gradually lost its command function and has become a full-time military and political agency. It is only responsible for the registration, training and daily personnel management of soldiers. , subsidy disbursement and so on.
Everyone is also more inclined to use the term "provincial military region", while in theory the "guards" under the military region have actually become a historical term. The command of local armies was decentralized to state-level military offices.
Unlike the two generations of the Li family who like to explore and think, Queen Mother Helena obviously had very clear goals and plans from the beginning.
She hoped to standardize the chaotic administrative regions formed by long-term expansion and carve-up by princes, and establish a three-level, mutually corresponding system of "province-military region", "prefecture-military government", and "village-hundred households". .
However, after driving away the thorny leader Li Yinglin and successfully trying to split the state, the first place where she implemented state capital units was in Serbia in the west.
The Serbian region was once a territory of the Eastern Roman Empire. With the decline of the empire, it gradually became independent. During the reign of Serbian King Stephen Dushan, the country was so powerful that it once controlled most of the Eastern Roman European homeland.
Dushan claimed to be the emperor of the Serbs and Greeks, contacted the Venetians, and prepared to advance by sea and land to capture Constantinople and establish a new Roman Empire. The Venetians were afraid that his family would become a dominant one and did not agree, which was why he failed to succeed.
However, compared with the Ottomans, who had many strong men on the opposite side, the Serbian Empire only prospered for this generation. After Duchamp's death, the heirs were unable to control the situation, and the country quickly fell into internal strife and division. There was even an outrageous incident where the Queen Mother wanted to acquire territory and become independent from the empire.
The Serbians also tried to revive and took advantage of the opportunity when the main Ottoman force rushed to Asia Minor. They assembled an army of more than 50,000 people and attacked southward, preparing to regain the previously lost land.
There were at most 4,000 Ottoman troops left in the area, and their commander was Shaheen Pasha, the teacher of Sultan Murad I. He studied the situation of the Serbian army and believed that there was no need to be afraid. He selected an elite force said to have only 800 men and launched a night attack on the Serbian camp.
As expected, the Serbian army was defeated directly. The emperor and his brother, as well as numerous nobles, were killed in the battle. The defeated soldiers poured into the Maritsa River next to the camp, and thousands of people drowned in the river. Greek scholars recorded that the blood of the war dead dyed the river red.
This battle is very classic and is still included in Guo Kang’s art of war textbooks. After this war, the Serbian Empire basically collapsed and lost its ability to compete for hegemony.
News of the removal of the Serbs reached Constantinople, and officials were alarmed, fearing that the Ottomans would march northward and seize the throne.
Seeing that Serbia was unreliable, he could only quickly win over the Purple Horde Khanate and offered a series of conditions, hoping to use their help to deal with the Ottomans.
This was also the beginning of the Zizhang family's struggle for the dominance of Rome.
By the time Queen Mother Helena came to power, although the Serbian region nominally belonged to Rome, it was still divided by warlords. Therefore, Queen Mother Helena summoned Serbian nobles many times in the name of rewards and mediation.
The Queen Mother claimed that she wanted to maintain fairness and regulate the order among the princes and vassals, so she often gave the titles of prefect and prefect brought by the Han princes to the middle and lower nobles. She also learned the customs of the Mongols, and made these nobles marry her sons John, Basil, etc. every day. In the end, I actually recognized hundreds of Serbian people.
The nobles who received maps, seals, ribbons and titles took the opportunity to stand on their own, relying on the support of Khan Ting'an Da and not taking the big nobles seriously. The local nobles launched several rebellions, which often resulted in the Khan's court collapsing before it even mobilized troops. Some people were even killed by their men and took their heads to the Khan's court for reward.
After the big nobles lost their power, the Queen Mother began to torment the small nobles again. Whenever there is a conflict, the Queen Mother will intervene and "admonish" both parties. She also used the transfer of official positions as an excuse to force some nobles to exchange territories. Those who disobeyed would be punished by the Khan's court, and the noble fiefs would be abolished and given to smaller knights and knights.
And for those who are willing to come to Dadu, she will grant preferential treatment and keep them in the palace.
At this time, the situation in Dadu had recovered a lot and it was becoming increasingly prosperous; many small nobles in the countryside could not resist the temptation and lingered here. Queen Mother Helena organized these people as a force to check other forces, even those "fellow" Greeks.
Guo Kang has actually heard of these methods before, but if it were him, he would definitely not have the confidence to do it well.
In fact, even Queen Mother Helena's skills were a bit too much to handle in the end. Although the Serbian nobles who had not been attacked had gained some benefits, their feelings of despair became stronger and stronger, and they became increasingly dissatisfied with her. In fact, the relationship between other Greek nobles and her has never been close.
In the end, the Serbian "Andas" who entered the capital and received frequent rewards from her also abandoned her after seeing the conflict between John VIII the Great Khan and the Queen Mother.
In 1378, while he was out hunting, John VIII united a group of Serbian and Bulgarian nobles who were dissatisfied with the Queen Mother because of the loss of their territory. They organized their servants and retinues to attack the Queen Mother's residence. The Queen Mother urgently mobilized the middle and lower-level military officers who had taken turns to serve as palace guards in Dadu and had not yet reacted, and asked them to protect the safety of the palace and disperse the mob.
Most of these officers came from the new military government in the north. They were the beneficiaries of previous reforms. They had a good impression of the Queen Mother and believed in her authority. And to be honest, it is not uncommon for Greeks to cause trouble in the metropolis. This time someone probably lost his mind again and bumped into the Queen Mother's head.
Therefore, without thinking twice, they sided with the Queen Mother. When someone accidentally caught John from the "thugs" group who was rushing too far forward, he realized that something was not right.
However, at this time, the noble rebel "army" was on the verge of breaking up. Only a few people, including John himself, actually rushed into the palace. This coup failed inexplicably.
(End of chapter)
