Faced with Shi Huizhen's comments, everyone was speechless for a moment.
If it had been anyone else, they would have been kicked out by now, and there might have been a fight. But unlike others, Shi Huizhen is a distinguished guest in the literal sense.
When she came here, the queen personally introduced her to everyone. Now, among the many traditional aristocratic families, Queen Anna is the only one left who can have a certain influence on the government.
And for this to happen, they themselves are largely to blame.
In the early years, the old Greek nobles still had a strong presence in the Khan's court. Through several key marriages and surrenders, many people achieved a certain status in the Khan's court.
Due to the long-term war, the senior officials of Zi Zhang are very united and wary of these outsiders. Moreover, the Purple Horde Khanate had actually always followed the lower-class route before, and basically never cooperated with nobles from various places. When meeting these Greek nobles, even if they are in-laws, they don’t trust them very much.
However, the core of power of the Purple Horde Khanate was still divided into two parts: the Northern and Southern Yamen. Almost all the various systems of the Khanate were established by the Nanyazhu Kingdoms. The nobles in Beiya have some opinions on this, but they are really not good at it.
It stands to reason that at this time, the Greek nobles could take advantage of their cultural advantages to become qualified civil servants and system builders, gain support from the nobles of the North Yamen, and use them to restrain the princes of the South Yamen, thereby gaining a fixed position in the Khan's court. The right to speak.
But the problem is that these Greek nobles did not form a joint force. On the contrary, they still fought among themselves and even tried to kill people with a borrowed knife. They took advantage of the power struggle within the Purple Horde Khanate to eliminate their competitors.
In fact, the Queen Mother Maria who was married from outside the country at that time was actually able to obtain the power of regent. This was the result of the promotion of the nobles in the North Yamen - these grassland people and Greeks actually emphasized filial piety every day and demanded that everyone in the South Yamen respect them. The Queen Mother.
However, within the Beiya Army, there were even different opinions on how to treat the Khan's court. After losing Taishi Ye Xianbuhua who could suppress various factions, the group of people who were most dissatisfied with the status quo directly launched a mutiny.
This move caused a complete rift between all parties, and even other members of the Beiya Army could only take sides. It could have been possible to gradually exert pressure on others within the system and ask them to make concessions. It’s okay now, if you lose, you’ll lose everything…
During the processing, Queen Mother Maria's operation was also extremely poor. Not only did she not help the Khan court solve its difficulties, she did not even bring benefits to the Greek nobles. When the Beiya rebels came, Queen Mother Maria, who felt that she could not defeat them, her first reaction was to lead her troops and flee further south. He grabbed his brothers' territory to compensate. Even the Greeks couldn't stand her.
Later, when Queen Mother Helena was in power, there was actually no strict "Greek aristocratic group" around her. Because the Greek nobles simply cannot unite...
Queen Mother Helena came from a family of rulers of Trabzon. In the eyes of the Han princes, these were all "Greeks", but the Greeks themselves did not think so. They have a host of bizarre ways of distinguishing themselves, often mutually exclusive. The other families and Queen Mother Helena were not of the same mind. It was just because of her skill that they temporarily formed a group of palace nobles.
But the Queen Mother only treated them as tools to display strategies and power. These close ministers, mainly ladies, only moved around the palace and did not change the general trend of the old nobles losing their local management rights and military power.
Of course, the Queen Mother cannot be blamed for this. In the past few decades, only two great nobles from the previous dynasty have served as high-ranking officials at the Zhuguo level:
One is John Palaiolo, the Minister of Rites under Basil III. He is the cousin of Queen Anna and the only person in the Palaiolo family who can work for so many years. At least his speech ability is not bad, so he gets The special appointments were made to appease them after the large-scale land counting in Greece at that time.
Another reason is that the Purple Horde Khanate is powerful enough to allow Catholic countries to temporarily calm down and engage in diplomacy with them. Therefore, his main job is to travel around and lobby among European courts. If nothing else, the Greeks are quite good at coaxing Western Europeans...
The other one was Isaac Ducasse, the Grand Duke of the Navy at that time. The problem is that he, Dukas, must be a fake. Master Vlahos once said privately that he had researched the family lineage of the Ducasse family and found that there were many impostors, even more than one.
His family claims to be from Asia Minor, but careful research revealed that their ancestors actually came from the Caucasus, or even further away. Even if they are from the same origin as those who pretended to be the Dukas family and finally obtained the title of nobility in the previous dynasty. I don't know which Turkmen savage from the mountains came to the castle and pretended to be a noble.
Therefore, the old nobles cannot provide the talents needed now, and they look down on the new rich. In the end, it can only be reduced to this point.
This was the reason why Shi Huizhen had a fight with Vlahos last time.
Vlahos believes that the cultural level of these "newcomers" is too poor. After all, they are just outsiders who come to seek refuge. But Shi Huizhen reminded him that his own family was also a savage in the Caucasus. Is it really appropriate to laugh at savages from hundreds of years ago?
As a result, Vlahos was left speechless and she became famous at the party.
Of course, no matter how angry she was, Vlahos couldn't do anything to her.
As everyone knows, the only relationship that old nobles can have now is the queen. Moreover, like Queen Mother Helena, she was not a direct descendant before becoming queen, so she was not taken too seriously, and her relationship with the old nobles was only average. Now everyone can only increase their efforts to curry favor.
Unlike Queen Elizabeth, who practiced martial arts and fought every day, Queen Anna often made public appearances and called on everyone to promote education and culture. To this end, she also took the lead in organizing activities and holding rallies, gathering a large number of followers. The old nobles finally got a chance to stand out, so of course they didn't dare to offend her.
And Shi Huizhen was not only a guest of the queen, but also a rare person from the Zhuguo family among this group of people. She was a rare and distinguished guest. Everyone believed that the Queen had made an exception to take care of her and deliberately supported her, which was intentional. Because in this circle, someone with the ability to intervene in military command finally came. As we all know, the foundation of the Purple Horde Khanate is the legion. This shows how important it is.
Therefore, even if he was directly ridiculed, Vlahos could only endure it.
"The script is not just for performance. The most important thing in it is the cultural connotation and artistry." He felt that Shi Huizhen didn't understand it anyway, so he directly emphasized: "It's normal for civilians not to understand, because it is a very profound knowledge. Drama. and philosophy have always reflected each other. Aristophanes and Socrates can interact in the play. For nearly two thousand years, thoughtful writers have always insisted on this."
However, Shi Huizhen did not realize that this was actually a mockery of her, as her knowledge was similar to that of ordinary people. Instead, she thought hard for a moment and asked: "I heard from the Li family that drama has a great impact on combat effectiveness. It turns out that it is also mixed with philosophy..."
"You have been studying drama and philosophy for two thousand years, but it is getting weaker and weaker. It means there is something wrong with this thing, and you haven't noticed it?" She questioned: "I think the Greeks are becoming less and less able to fight. Even the Turkmen bandits can’t be defeated, and it’s inseparable from this. In the end, it’s probably all the fault of the founder Socrates!”
(End of chapter)
