Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 17
In the palace hall, a meeting is about to begin.

Guo Kang sat in his seat, chatting with Li Xuanying next to him.

At the end of the hall is the throne of the Great Khan, but there is no one there now.On the consul's seat next to him, the adoptive father was sitting bored.

The consul is a simplified Roman official position, which is roughly equivalent to the head of the prime ministers.Of course, it is quite different from the Eastern Roman system.

Eastern Rome had a very complicated system of official positions, and in the course of more than a thousand years of use, old official positions were constantly changing, and new official positions were continuously derived to divide or replace the functions of the old official positions.These new, old, real, and imaginary things mixed together are not only too difficult for Europeans to understand, but even Guo Kang finds it confusing.

In the later period, the official positions in Eastern Rome had been divided into two parts: loose officials who were purely honorary, and officials with actual powers. The two adopted different ways of conferring and different systems.Under each official position, there are three categories: male, eunuch, and female.There are so many categories, it makes people feel that the state-owned Qin Dynasty is like the Song Dynasty.For those who are not very familiar with the official system, it is difficult to directly figure out who is doing what.

The Greek honorary title of the adoptive father should probably be called "superior dignitary".The word dignitaries is originally "Augustus" in Latin, which is the title of the head of the empire.But as early as the Komnenian dynasty, it had been delegated to the noble bureaucrats.

Even the Governor of Venice and the Sultan of Roma have been bestowed with this title.It can only be said that two Romans cannot be written in one stroke, and three-eighths of Rome and Turkic Rome are the same Augustus of Rome.

Therefore, it can be said that the Purple Horde Khanate is spreading the Roman emperor randomly all over the world. It can be said that it has inherited the fine tradition, and the local Greeks are used to it.

Of course, the reason why Augustus is Augustus is because there was only one, at most two, Augustus back then.When there are more Augustus, Augustus is no longer Augustus.

As the original titles continued to depreciate as they spread, the Greeks began to add prefixes to these titles.For example, "superior dignitaries" came about in this way.When the Purple Horde established its system, it was directly translated into "Shangzhu Kingdom".

Of course, the Greeks stacked much more than that.Among the title holders, the person who leads is called the "chief dignitary".Later, I may feel that this is not prominent enough, and later there are titles such as "the chief dignitary who is higher than all dignitaries", and even "the chief superior dignitary who is higher than all dignitaries".

The complexity of their titles is so many that the purple tents can't be used up.So far, below Bai Saihan, only the level of Shangzhu State is still in use.

In the past few months, the Great Khan and several Pillar Kingdoms have been on the northwest front, marching into the hinterland of Hungary to cooperate with France's offensive in the west.There are also a few who go to various places as usual to conduct the annual selection of recruits.The Guo family who is in charge of staying behind is currently the only Shangzhu country in the capital, so he has to be in charge of all important meetings.

Outside the seats of the Great Khan, the Consul and others, there were several circles of seats, clearly divided into several groups.

On the right hand side of the Great Khan are the powerful princes of Nanya.Representatives of the Guo family, Li family, Cao family, and Shi family who were on duty sat in their respective positions in turn.

When Boyan Timur Khan entered the city for the first time, there were thirteen princes sitting here. The "Civil War" ended, leaving only eleven families.After the "Anda War", as compensation for the local loyal forces, the remaining Nine Pillars decided to make greater concessions. In the future regular meetings, only four representatives will be appointed, and the rest will be given to those in charge of specific affairs. Officials, thus forming the current pattern.

Guo Kang is now in his seat.

He didn't want to participate at first, or at most he could just watch from the sidelines. After all, with his adoptive father around, there was no need for him to stand out.Just before coming, the adoptive mother suddenly said that the other parents were not there, and the heir must be present on their behalf.That being the case, let your children go too.

The adoptive mother thought that he was stupid anyway, and he never won a quarrel with others.On the contrary, Guo Kang, in several discussions, had clear thinking and convincing speech, and he was a good seed.This time he will say a few words, just sit there as a display, so as not to make the jokes of those sharp-tongued Greeks.If you have something to say, let the child say it.

In matters other than the war, her adoptive father almost obeyed her, so regardless of Guo Kang's hesitation, he brought him over.

Seeing him appear, Li Xuanying, who also represented the old man, came over happily, and the other two also greeted him.

Opposite these people are several representatives of the nobles of the Beiya - Yexian Saraiwanhu Tuotuobuhua, stationed in Crimea, responsible for managing the tribes in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River; Timur Saraiwanhu George, stationed in the former land of Bergosarai, manages the tribes in the lower reaches of the Volga River; Yeligosarai Wanhu Yeluxin, stationed in Kiev, manages the hinterland of the grasslands in the upper reaches of the Dnieper River.

The Northern Yamen Guards are one of the two main military forces of the Khan. However, with the development of the Khan, the shortcomings of this grassland army have become more and more obvious.

When the third generation of Zizhang Khan Tuotuo was in power, the strength of the Beiya guards tended to peak.The auxiliary government also did not take the Taishi to command the troops of the second guard of Qincha and the third guard of Burial, and defeated the Lithuanian army near Kiev and Smolensk, and defeated the intervention of the White Horde Khanate near the Don River. military.But after the war, the contradictions within the Khan court became even greater because of the imbalance of forces among all parties.

Although he won in the end, Hua Taishi believed that the grassland army had too obvious flaws and needed to be reformed.He hoped to break up the original tribe, reorganize it, select elite soldiers, and organize a new army.

The Taishi sent envoys to inspect the pastures of various tribes.The envoys held the big banner of the Khan court and carried black iron pots to spread the word among the tribes and recruit herdsmen who were good at fighting.Those who signed up will be assessed on the spot, and those warriors who are qualified in equestrianism, riding and archery, and fighting will be awarded an iron pot for every ten people to bring back to the Great Ordon.

The recruited warriors are trained intensively in battalion units.There are [-] iron pots in each battalion, so this operation is also called the "Eighty Pots" reform.

Under the auspices of Yexian Buhua Taishi, the Khanate also restored the ancient Greek city Chessonis in Crimea, and used it as a stronghold to farm around.After the first batch of soldiers trained for two years, the grand master sent people to various ministries to bring all their relatives and put them in the grasslands in northern Crimea to graze, and set up fixed institutions to manage each grassland.In this way, these prairie elites broke away from their original tribes and joined new organizations.

Originally, the guards of the Beiya had to rely on the various troops conscripted, but these nobles and chiefs were not always reliable, and it was common to find excuses not to come and wait and see on the battlefield.Under certain conditions, everyone wants to preserve the strength of their own tribe, let others bear the losses, and share the spoils themselves.

The combat power of each department is also uneven, the core tribe is generally okay, and the other peripheral tribes are often difficult to describe.But the Khanate couldn't directly intervene, so it could only make do with it.It is not uncommon for an authoritative commander-in-chief to drive them to fight. It is not uncommon for someone who is not well-established and not well-known to be robbed by these "friendly troops" and then flee.

As a veteran commander of the grassland army, he is the most aware of these shortcomings, regardless of the grand master himself.

Now, after re-recruitment and rectification, the situation is much better.The discipline of the Beiya new army is far better than that of the previous nomadic army, they can execute orders better, and their combat quality has also improved a lot.

However, this kind of blatant behavior of digging the wall naturally aroused widespread dissatisfaction among the grassland nobles.

After several recruitments, the news spread across the grasslands.Even the rabbits under the King Khan's tent of various departments in the golden tent were also greedy for the iron pot of the purple tent, and ran away one after another.

Let's not spend his whole life fighting for the Grand Master, he is very famous in various departments of the grassland. When he is still around, no one dares to mess around.Later, however, the grand master was killed in battle with the Polish-Hungarian coalition forces.When the news reached the grasslands, a rebellion immediately arose.

The nobles from the former Beiya colluded with the Slavic princes and attracted Lithuania, Baizhang and Poland to launch a massive attack.The Khan Court was forced to end the war against the south, make peace with Ottoman, postpone the plan to re-enter Constantinople, and go northward with all its strength.

(End of this chapter)