After a while, the Queen Mother will select some lucky nobles and grant them titles and huge rewards, and the reasons are very casual. Sometimes it was because a certain noble performed well during the Hajj and succeeded in pleasing her; sometimes it was because they actively attacked the rebels and achieved remarkable results; sometimes it was simply because they shot the prey designated by the Queen Mother while hunting, so they were so generous. It was rewarded to him with one wave.
This made the nobles flock to this, and many of them stayed in Dadu, hanging around the Queen Mother every day, waiting for rewards from this generous benefactor. The nobles favored by the Queen Mother will soon be able to bring a large harvest and prepare to go home and live a good life.
The Khan's caravan from the capital will bring a large number of rewards: priceless Serris brocade, gorgeous Javanese porcelain, sea green tamed by the Muscovites, and even high-grade wood products harvested by the Novgorodians from the far north. Complete furniture... these dazzling products began to flood into the Serbian countryside.
Of course, every time the Queen Mother gives a reward, it is impossible to give all these top-notch luxuries. According to tradition, when giving rewards, larger quantities of relatively common objects will also be given to increase the amount and make the nobles more face-saving.
Byzantine silk, Greek pottery, furs from the Rus region, wine from France and Crimea, and even woolen products from the steppes... these things may not be common in the countryside, but they are everywhere in the metropolis.
Compared with my hometown, you can find products with more exquisite craftsmanship here, but the prices are actually cheaper. So it’s better to buy everything here and then take it back.
The Queen Mother and the circle of nobles and ladies around her also encouraged this behavior. She said that everyone has seen the world now and no longer has to be tied down like those country gentlemen. The money she rewards is for everyone to spend.
Under this atmosphere, the nobles who had just entered the city were dazzled. Their money disappeared like running water and was replaced by carts of goods. Later, the Queen Mother even specially arranged for royal merchants to guide them on what to buy with the highest cost performance and the most dignity.
But as time passed, the nobles gradually discovered that something was not right.
If you think about it carefully, the Queen Mother's words are actually not wrong. I gave you so much money, but you can’t spend it even if you take it back to the countryside? However, with the influx of goods from many cities, the territory became poorer instead of rich.
When a lord has several Javanese porcelain plates in his house, and each knight has a set of Greek pottery and several pieces of silk clothing, there will be no good business for the craftsmen in the town. People with certain crafts often choose to leave, causing the industry to decline rapidly.
Some nobles realized something was wrong, so they refused to spend money in Dadu and called on everyone to bring the funds back to their hometowns to help their hometowns. The Queen Mother did not stop this. However, when these coins entered the local market, they caused even greater chaos.
The nobles were confused and couldn't figure out what was going on.
Some people vaguely feel that it may be because there is too much money.
At that time, Dadu had gradually recovered its vitality. After the Civil War, the Ross trade route gradually opened up, and most areas around the Black Sea settled down. As for the Italian businessmen who had withheld most of their commercial income, when facing the Khan, they were not only forced to give up their previous tax privileges, but also had to pay the rent of docks and waterways.
In this case, most of a few months' income from a dock instantly poured into a rural Serbian territory, which would undoubtedly "explode". As for the Queen Mother, she was actually blasting various territories one after another from time to time.
Once upon a time, this was an independent region. The neighboring regions of Greece and Bulgaria had experienced wars for a long time and were no longer wealthy places. Moreover, under the rule of the nobles, the flow of people and goods in the countryside was very slow, and the influence in other areas was not great.
But the arrival of the Purple Horde Khanate changed everything: not only did they stabilize the territory, making Dadu truly have the qualifications they boasted of being "common to all the tents," they also liked to build roads everywhere.
The soldiers and civilians of the Purple Tent will start operating highways that go deep into the interior when nothing happens. In conjunction with the route around the Black Sea, transportation will soon become more convenient. The lords who have been accustomed to enfeoffment for hundreds of years are very uncomfortable with this.
Now that everyone is nominally surrendered to Rome, they cannot openly ban caravans from other places, and the nobles themselves need to purchase supplies from the outside world. In this case, there is no solution at all.
What's even more disappointing is that it's not that some lucky nobles got the money, but that most of the nobles didn't get the money.
If the nobles want to maintain a higher degree of independence and prevent the Khan from over-introducing its order, they have to maintain order themselves. But when a lord suddenly becomes rich but his military strength does not increase, the local spontaneous order may not be so friendly.
Moreover, the improvement of the "taste" of these nobles has caused the overall requirements in the noble circle to rise. Comparing appearance is a part of their daily life. In order to maintain face, even if you don't have the other person's complete set of items, you must at least buy a similar one at your own expense, otherwise there will be no reciprocal communication.
As for these extra expenses, of course we can only work harder to collect the people.
After being tortured by the Queen Mother for ten years, many nobles could no longer hold on. They believed that although they did not understand how the more money they took, the poorer they became, this must be the evil and cunning Greeks at work again.
As long as we become independent from the empire and stop playing with this damn Anda, we can solve these problems.
I heard that most of the Serbs were plotting, and local nobles also became interested.
However, rebellion is not a simple matter.
The great nobles whose territories could reach the size of provinces had already been wiped out by Queen Mother Helena, and the same was true in Serbia. Today's main nobles are a group of feudal state and military leaders.
They also don't want the big nobles to come back - when the big nobles were split up, they were still the helpers and beneficiaries.
And here, there are no people with high military prestige or strong military abilities - the Purple Horde Khanate does not care about issues such as faith and origin, and does not even care about bloodline. As long as you have military merit, you can improve very quickly there. People with this ability would have gone to Dadu to become high-ranking officials and enjoy great wealth. Who cares about this bad place anymore.
Unless, they can offer a higher price than the Purple Horde Khanate: for example, inviting someone to be the de facto king, which is better than the salary of the army commander, and theoretically has the possibility of attracting high-level talents.
However, the purpose of everyone's rebellion is to maintain the independence of the territory. Before the rebellion, they were controlled by the powerful Khan; after the rebellion, they were controlled by the powerful king. Then wouldn't this counter-invention be in vain?
As for the name of king in name only...
Even the co-ruling emperors of the Purple Horde Khanate were able to distribute them indiscriminately, so much so that the French wanted to donate one. It's really a competition for names. If you pick a Greek scholar at random, you can come up with an exaggerated name that would make Brother Tian blush. Who cares about the empty title given by the country nobles?
As for why the countryside was emphasized, it was because the nobles could not win support from the cities.
Belgrade, a large local city, was determined not to participate in the rebellion.
The Purple Horde Khanate brought better pottery furnace technology and gave them a large number of army orders. In addition, the Khan also said that in the future, professional officials in various cities can be promoted to each other. In other words, municipal officials who perform well in Belgrade can be directly transferred to Constantinople - then this is nonsense. The opposite.
The citizens in the city originally looked down on the mud-legged nobles around them who blocked roads, robbed and disrupted trade every day, and now they didn't want to talk to them.
The city council told the noble representatives that the Romans had repaired the road for free, and the citizens were grateful. Advise them to take care of themselves and not break their oath of allegiance.
At the same time, the mayor immediately sent his cronies to Dadu with a report letter, preparing to improve his impression points and lay the foundation for his promotion. It was also the nobles who had been prepared for this, knowing that this guy would definitely be reported, so they arranged manpower in advance and intercepted the messenger, so that the rebellion did not directly fail.
(End of chapter)
