Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 169 Theodora's Confidence

In the next few days, the special training for little Rangna by Lama Wang and others was still going on.

Theodora went there again, but Guo Kang was there, and he was really doing business, so there was nothing to criticize.This made her heave a sigh of relief, but there was also an unspeakable unhappiness in her heart.After all, admitting that she was wrong in judgment, especially in terms of feelings, that her intuition was completely wrong, for her, it was something she had to make up her mind to accept.

Since childhood, people around her have said that she is a smart girl.Her mother has also been nurturing her attentively, inviting her the best scholars in Rome to serve as teachers to teach her cultural knowledge.

Before, those monks tried to expel her on the grounds that "women are not allowed to enter the temple of philosophy", but she completely ignored them.Because when she was a child, the teachers made an exception and took her to a formal philosophy academy to attend lectures and debate with her seniors.She didn't even bother to refute the vulgar rules of these rural churches.

Also, she's not one of those "contemporary Greek" nerds.

Although unlike Tuo Huan, who played 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, has also been in Dadu.

Grandfather Basil III may be an outlier among the Bai Sai Khans of all dynasties.And his wife, Elizabeth, is actually an outlier among the queen mothers.

Her father was a well-known knight in Serbia, and she perfectly inherited her father's spirit of fighting.Usually, her biggest hobby is not partying, chatting, or dancing, but practicing martial arts, and then finding someone to learn from.

As for strategy, she has no talent and lack of interest, so she muddled through in the queen's position.As a result, due to inexperience, even jokes were made during the interim regent.

However, compared with most ladies who are equally untalented, she also has the biggest advantage, that is, she understands that she is not good at it, and she doesn't shy away from 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 she was so free that she might as well go out together.It’s just that Basil disagreed, saying that we are not Persians, so why would we bring our wives to 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 Khan Ting to find fights everywhere.

From the Norwegian mercenaries recruited by the Khan Court, to the visiting Turkmen Gulam 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, common or rare, Basically have played against her.

Later, Guo Di and others also persuaded Basil to take her to fight.Now visitors from all over the world are rumoring that when the missions and caravans arrive in Dadu, they must first choose the most capable ones, and then single-handedly fight with the queen.

The majestic Rome is made like a cottage where a strong woman sits in town.If this goes on, everyone will become famous in various senses...

Unable to bear the pressure, Basil finally had to take her to participate in several military operations with little risk.

As for the Greeks in the city, there have always been rumors that it was because Basilius and Basilisa didn't care about the rear affairs at all, leaving everything from urban planning to logistics and transportation to Guo Di, and as a result he was exhausted. died.

This statement is not very comprehensive, and the queen herself is actually trying to help.For example, she likes children very much, so she is very concerned when other people are too busy to take care of their children.

In fact, the tradition of the Greek aristocracy is often that parents do not take care of their children themselves, but find specialized tutors to educate them.The upper-ranking princes and generals of the Purple Horde Khanate are also often as busy as husband and wife and have no time to spare.

But Elizabeth has always distrusted those Greek tutors, and felt that entrusting the children to these people may not be able to learn well.So, she simply persuaded everyone one by one, gathered these children together, and became a teacher herself, leading them to study and train every day.

Therefore, Theodora's father's generation, including her father John, Guo Kang's adoptive father Guo Dawusi, Li Xuanying's father Li Huawen, etc., were all brought up by her.

However, although the old lady has always been proud of it, judging from the results, her teaching may be a bit biased...

By Theodora's generation, Queen Elizabeth's school for young children had been formalized.

After Basil's death, she didn't hold back much, and gave up the chance to fight for actual power.He didn't even want to live in the palace reserved for the queen mothers that the Queen Mother Maria and Helena once stayed in, but moved into a nun in the city, and lived a life of almost seclusion ever since.

It's just that in the convent where she retired, Queen Elizabeth still did not give up her previous habits.She opened a school and housed dormitories for homeless girls.

Generally speaking, the orphans of legion members will be arranged and taken care of by the military government.But Dadu may be the city with the largest number of people who are not in the legion.

Due to the long-term decline before, the number of Greeks in the city is actually not many, but there has been an endless stream of outsiders who come and go to do business and work.

Many people are engaged in hard and dangerous work.They are either unfamiliar with the place and have no friends to help; or their friends and guilds are also poor and cannot afford much money.So when a person dies, there are often children left behind who lack care.

Some people in the city would adopt boys, such as the "Gang of Beggars" and "Tangmen", they liked these fresh blood very much.But girls are often considered less valuable and are often sold directly as goods, making their situation even worse.

Therefore, the queen mother took in many people back and forth in the name of the nuns.Afterwards, unable to stay idle, she began to go to battle in person, training and educating these children.

When Theodora went to school, the old lady happily told her daughter-in-law that she could also help take care of the children—she had taken care of the whole of Rome, from the most noble to the humblest.I don't believe it, but I can't bring my granddaughter well.

Queen Anna was quite worried about the direction of the old lady's "education".But on this issue, she didn't screw her mother-in-law in the end. She could only make little Theodora work harder and go to "school" with her grandmother.

However, although it was tiring 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 clever but poor Hypatia-thanks to her grandmother's training, among other things, in the Monastery of the Holy Light, those days A monk who lives in the dark of the house and ponders the light is really no match for her.

Therefore, when she heard that Guo Kang and others were going to visit Queen Elizabeth again, she immediately regained her confidence and decided to go to see her too.

(End of this chapter)