In the next few days, the special training given to little Jeanna by Wang Da Lama and others was still going on.
Theodora took the time to go there again, but Guo Kang was really doing business there, and there was nothing to criticize. This made her feel relieved, but she felt unspeakably unhappy. After all, admitting that she had made a mistake in judgment, especially when it came to feelings, and that her intuition was completely wrong, was something that she needed to make up her mind to accept.
Since she was a child, people around her have said that she is a smart and intelligent girl. Her mother has been cultivating her attentively and invited the best scholars in Rome to serve as teachers to teach her cultural knowledge.
Previously, the monks tried to expel her on the grounds that "women are not allowed to enter the temple of philosophy," but she ignored them completely. Because when she was a child, the teachers made an exception and took her to the formal philosophy academy to attend classes and debate with her seniors. She didn't even bother to refute the vulgar rules of these rural churches.
Also, she's not a "contemporary Greek" nerd.
Although unlike Tuo Huan, who had been playing with her father and Uncle Guo in the military camp since she was a child, she not only studied with her mother - her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, had also been in Dadu.
His grandfather, Basil III, may have been an outlier among all the Khans of the past. And his wife Elizabeth is actually an outlier among queen mothers.
Her father is a well-known knight in Serbia, and she has perfectly inherited her father's fighting spirit. Usually, her biggest hobby is not partying, chatting, or dancing, but practicing martial arts and then finding others to compete with.
As for intrigues, she has no talent or interest, so she just gets by in her position as queen. As a result, due to lack of experience, he even made jokes during the temporary regency.
However, compared with most noble ladies who also have no talent, she also has one biggest advantage, that is, she understands that she is not good at it, and she is not taboo about it.
When Basil was alive, she was very reluctant to stay in Dadu, saying that she couldn't do anything well in the city and was too idle, so she might as well go on an expedition together. But Basil disagreed, saying that we are not Persians, so what are we doing with wives in the war?
Elizabeth had no choice but to stay in the city. Since she really didn't want to worry about work, she left most of the things to Guo Di and others, and then began to use her status in the Khan's court to find fights everywhere.
The Norwegian mercenaries recruited from the Khan's court, to the visiting Turkmengulam warriors; from the Iberian sword and shield veterans who came here with the merchant ships, to the wandering monks from Seris...all kinds of people are common or rare, Basically I have fought against her.
Later, Guo Di and others also persuaded Basil to take her to fight. Nowadays, visitors from various countries are spreading rumors that when envoys and caravans arrive in Dadu, they must first select the most capable ones and then challenge the queen to a duel.
The majestic Roman city was made to look like a cottage where a strong woman was in charge. If this continues, everyone will become famous in every sense of the word...
Unable to bear the pressure, Basil finally had to take her to participate in several military operations with low risks.
There have been rumors among the Greeks in the city that it was because Basileus and Baselisa did not care about the rear affairs and left everything from city planning to logistics and transportation to Guo Di, which made him exhausted. died.
This statement is not too comprehensive. The queen herself is actually trying hard to help. For example, she likes children very much, so she is very concerned when she sees that other people are busy and have no time to take care of their children.
In fact, the tradition of Greek aristocrats is that parents often do not take care of their children themselves, but find specialized tutors to educate them. The upper-class princes and generals of the Purple Horde Khanate were also often very busy as husband and wife and could not spare any time.
But Elizabeth never trusted those Greek tutors, and felt that leaving her children to these people might not necessarily lead to good learning. So, she simply persuaded everyone one by one, gathered these children, became the teacher herself, and led them to study and train every day.
Therefore, Theodora's father's generation, including her father John, Guo Kang's adoptive father Guo Dawu, Li Xuanying's father Li Huawen, etc., were all brought up by her.
However, although the old queen has always been proud of this, judging from the results, her teaching may be a bit biased...
By Theodora's generation, Queen Elizabeth's infant school had been formalized.
After Basil's death, she gave up the opportunity to fight for actual power without much nostalgia. She even refused to live in the palace reserved for the Queen Mothers where Queen Mother Maria and Queen Helena once stayed. Instead, she moved into a nunnery in the city and lived a life of near seclusion from then on.
But in the nunnery where she retreated, Queen Elizabeth still did not give up her previous habits. She opened a school, set up dormitories, and took in homeless girls.
Generally speaking, orphans of legion members will be arranged and taken care of by the military government. But Dadu is probably the city with the largest number of people who are not part of the legion.
Due to the previous long-term decline, the original number of Greeks in the city was not actually large, but there was an endless stream of outsiders coming and going for business and work from various places.
Many people are engaged in hard and dangerous work. Either they are unfamiliar with the place and have no friends to help; or their friends and guilds are also poor and cannot afford much money. So once someone dies, they often leave behind children who lack care.
There are people in the city who will adopt boys, such as the "Beggars Gang" and "Tangmen" and other organizations, and they like these new blood very much. However, girls are often considered to be of lower value and are often directly sold as goods, making their situation even more miserable.
Therefore, the Queen Mother took in many people in the name of the Sisters. After that, she couldn't help but began to go into battle herself, training and educating these children.
When Theodora went to school, the old queen happily told her daughter-in-law that she could also help take care of the children - she had taken care of all the children in Rome, from the noblest to the humblest. I don’t believe that I can’t take care of my own granddaughter.
Queen Anna was quite worried about the direction of the old queen mother's "education". But in the end, she didn't bother her mother-in-law on this issue. She could only let little Theodora work harder and go to her grandmother's "school".
However, although she was very tired at the time, Theodora understood that it was also good for her.
Nowadays, everyone thinks that she is a "Greek girl" consciously or unconsciously, but she is not the smart but poor Hypatia - thanks to her grandma's training, among other things, those who live in the Holy Light Monastery every day The monk who stayed in the darkness of the room, pondering the light, really couldn't beat her.
Therefore, when she heard that Guo Kang and others were going to visit the Queen Mother Elizabeth again, she immediately regained her confidence and decided to go and have a look.
(End of chapter)
