Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 120 "The Anda War"
This incident had a great impact on many young junior officers who had been farming and fighting all the year round and didn't care much about other things.

Some people blamed themselves deeply for this, thinking that the Queen Mother had deceived themselves, and were very angry.Some people think that even the Great Khan can't rebel, and they don't know what they're doing with those noble family slaves, but it's definitely not good.In the end, no one came to a conclusion.

However, not long after more than a year, John VIII died suddenly.At this moment, the officers were outraged, thinking that the Queen Mother had broken the rules, and some people felt remorseful and even secretly contacted Li Yinglin who was in exile.

On the subsequent succession issue, the queen mother had conflicts with Guo and Shi.John VIII had no son, and the ministers hoped to support the second son of the Khan, Basil, while the queen mother hoped to support the youngest son, Alexios.

This time, the Queen Mother finally failed to fulfill her wish.

At that time, a war broke out between Hungary and Venice in order to compete for Dalmatia.The Venetian army was unable to defeat the Hungarians. After successive defeats, the governor sent envoys to Dadu many times to ask for support, and he did not hesitate to offer high rewards for this.The Purple Horde then assembled a group of soldiers and prepared to board the ship in Dadu.

In the winter of that year, the Hungarians were affected by the climate and weakened their offensive, and the main army began to camp in winter.The Venetian navy also stopped at the port of Dadu in accordance with the custom in the Mediterranean Sea, and did not set sail. It planned to wait for the sea conditions to improve in the spring before sending reinforcements there.

At this time, there were rumors that the Empress Dowager was about to expel Basil, coerced the Patriarch Yin Daochang, and supported Alexios herself.The idle legionnaires quickly organized under the leadership of someone who did not know.

Later, Anna, the Queen Mother's distant niece and close maid, wrote a memoir-like note called "The Biography of Helena".

She said that she still remembers that at the beginning of 1379, exactly the day before Christmas, there was a sudden commotion outside the Queen Mother's palace.The queen mother thought it was the citizens celebrating, so she didn't ask until the voice gradually became clear.

They went out to the terrace to find the street full of excited legionnaires.A large group of hundreds of households in red robes held rattan sticks and opened the way ahead, driving curious citizens away from the road.In the middle of the team were at least ten or twenty people wearing phoenix-winged helmets with conspicuous three-color horsehair plumes on the top of the helmets—this meant that they were at least senior officers of the chapter master level.

These people held up a huge purple felt, which was used for the coronation of Sai Khan in the Borjijinus dynasty.And now, sitting on the purple felt is Basil, the Queen Mother's second son.

Anna said that as the procession approached, the Empress Dowager's face grew paler.And the slogan of the team gradually became clear.

——they shouted "The Khan of the Khans, the Great Khan of Grace".

The huge team passed by the gate of the palace without stopping, and continued to walk towards the Hagia Sophia Cathedral.As for the Empress Dowager, until this time, there was a maid who hurried upstairs, hesitating to speak.

Even the guards in the palace ran to attend the ceremony.There was no one who had notified her in advance.

Anna said that after that day, the shrewd and capable queen mother suddenly looked a lot older.But she still persisted, and often asked herself about various matters that she had arranged before, such as the lost alliance between the Georgians and Tutuo, and the arrangements for the princes in the Morea region.

She also sent Alexios away, letting him go with the Venetians.And told him, when Basil and those Serbian "Andas" broke off completely and a war broke out, and when he would come back.

Two years later, a palace change occurred in the city, which was not considered a mutiny.With the help of the Serbs and the Marquis of Nanya, Basil arrested the Queen Mother without much difficulty.

Anna recalled that in the face of the menacing Imperial Guard soldiers, the people around the Queen Mother almost ran away.The guards guarding the palace seemed to have gotten the news and withdrew early.In the palace, even the eunuchs have all slipped away, leaving only a few.

Facing Marshal Guo Shuai and Zongzheng Saiyin Batur, who were ordered to lead the army to arrest people, the Queen Mother pointed at them and laughed at Anna, saying that the tongue and hands are actually not as good as a hundred households, and now it is really a shame to let these two people come. Think highly of her.

As a result, Guo Shuai and Seinbatur did not understand what this meant.

Later, Anna followed them to Basil and repeated the words to him.Basil complained that even if the Queen Mother wanted to compare herself to Cicero, she need not say that he was Antony.

In the end, the queen mother saved her tongue.According to the tradition of the purple tent, she was exiled to Crimea like the previous Queen Mary.

Anna also insisted in the book that John VIII drank drunk himself, and then tried to climb the wall to escape from house arrest, but fell into the moat and drowned.She thought that the Queen Mother had nothing to do with this matter, because the Queen Mother herself could not get any benefits from it, but fell into a great passivity.

But she can't believe everything she said, after all, in this situation, she must give priority to speaking good things to the elders.And she deduced around, and came to the conclusion that the main messenger should be the villain Li Yinglin.In Guo Kang's view, this conclusion is very magical - if Li Yinglin had this ability, why would he run away, he would have killed the Queen Mother long ago.

When he was a child, when his mother read this book to him, she warned him that people who wrote books have their own standpoints and perspectives. Even if she thinks she is objective and fair, her understanding of objectivity and fairness may not be the same. Just like you.Just like Li Xuanying and his son, they certainly would not agree that the queen mother made a fair ruling.

It's a pity that the Guo family didn't know what was going on at the time.

The adoptive father said that even the famous dialogue when the queen mother was arrested, he didn't know whether Anna made it up, and he couldn't verify it. Grandfather Guo Shuai told him that the queen mother actually said a lot of words at that time, and she still used them there. Drama in Greek.Who knows exactly what she wants to express.

What's more troublesome is that he can't say for sure that this is a fake, because Guo Shuai really doesn't know this allusion.He himself only realized that there is such an allusion after reading the book written by others later...

But what is certain is that the queen mother thinks that Basil must fall out with the Serbian nobles, which is the truth.

Anna believes that Basil is actually a violent person, but his will is too tough, and he uses reason to forcibly restrain his emotions.

Guo Shuai, Guo Di and other seniors described that he is actually introverted and likes to think very much. He is indeed strict but also very fair.

Basil, they felt, was more like the straight-faced, ancient Roman and Greek hero in the theater.His younger brother Alexios, on the contrary, was much happier.

Alexios prefers BMW wine to books.The greatest pleasure is to travel around, and to brag and fart happily with people every day.Guo Di even believed that the country needed an older monarch at that time, and the Queen Mother had inspired everyone's rebellious psychology, otherwise everyone might support him.In fact, Basil III may be a special case. Even John IX, the Great Khan, was more like his uncle than his father.

Soon, Basil fell out with those Serbian nobles at that time.

The fuse of the matter is the issue of rewards.

In order to win over these people, the Empress Dowager Helena gave high rewards no matter they came to Dadu or local.But Basil took the lead in advocating frugality, saying that wars are everywhere now, and it is not the time to pay attention to luxury.The allowances of the nobles were greatly cut off by him.

This made the nobles very dissatisfied.They soon stopped taking this "Anda" seriously and started a routine rebellion plan.

Serbian local nobles who had long been dissatisfied also took the opportunity to join.

Before, the Empress Dowager Helena intervened in the operation of the port of Constantinople, and took advantage of the conflict between the Venetians and the Genoese to squeeze out the Genoese Chamber of Commerce, which was entrenched in the commercial port.A large part of the large amount of extra income she obtained from here was invested in the Serbian region by her to buy the nobles.This is also the reason why many people can bear with her intentionally weakening the local nobles many times.

(End of this chapter)