Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 259 It's Socrates' fault that the Greeks' combat effectiveness is so poor!

Facing Shi Huizhen's evaluation, everyone was speechless for a moment.

If it were someone else, they would have been kicked out by now, and there might be a fight.But unlike the others, Shi Huizhen is the guest of honor in the literal sense.

When she came here, the queen personally introduced her to everyone.But now, among 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 are largely to blame.

In the early years, the presence of the old Greek nobles in the Khan Court was still very strong.Through several key marriages and surrenders, many people have gained a certain status in the Khan court.

Due to the long-term war, the senior officials of the Zizhang are very united and wary of these outsiders.Moreover, the Purple Horde Khanate has always followed the lower-level route before, basically never cooperating with nobles from all over the world.When I met these Greek nobles, even if they were in-laws, they didn't trust them very much.

However, the power core of the Purple Horde Khanate was still the two parts of the Northern and Southern Yamen at that time.The various systems of the Khanate were almost all established by the Nanyazhu kingdoms.The nobles of the 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 builders of the system. The right to speak.

But the problem is that these Greek nobles did not form a joint force. On the contrary, they continued to fight among themselves, and even tried to kill people with swords, using the internal power struggle of the Purple Horde to eliminate their competitors.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Maria who was married at that time was actually able to obtain the regency power. Queen Mother.

However, within the Beiya army, there are different opinions on how to treat the Khan court.After losing the grand master who could suppress all factions, the group of people who were most dissatisfied with the status quo directly launched a mutiny.

This move caused all parties to tear themselves apart completely, and even the other members of the Beiya army could only stand at both ends of the line.It would have been possible to slowly put pressure on others within the system and ask them to make concessions.Now it's all right, I lost nothing...

During the processing, the operation of the Queen Mother Maria was also extremely bad.Not only did she not help the Khan Court solve the difficulties, she did not even bring benefits to the Greek nobles. When the Beiya rebels came, the Queen Mother Maria, who felt that she could not beat her, turned out to lead her troops to flee to the south. Grab the territory of his brothers to make up for it.Even the Greeks couldn't stand her.

Later, when the Queen Mother Helena was in power, there was actually no strict "Greek aristocratic group" around her.Because the Greek nobles can't get together at all...

Queen Helena came from the family of rulers of Trabzonspor.In the eyes of Han Shihou, this is all "Greeks", but the Greeks themselves don't think so.They have a whole host of bizarre ways to differentiate, often mutually exclusive.The other families and the Queen Mother Helena are not of the same mind, but because of her wrist, they temporarily formed a group of court nobles.

But the Empress Dowager treats them only as a tool for strategizing and maneuvering.These close ministers, mainly ladies, were only active in the court, and did not change the general trend of the old nobles losing their local management and military power.

Of course, this is not to blame the Queen Mother.Over the past few decades, only two former nobles have served as high-ranking officials at the Zhu state level:
One was Basil III's minister of rites, John Paleolio. He was Queen Anna's cousin and the only person in the Paleolio family who was able to work for so many years. At least his speech ability was not bad, so he was awarded A special appointment was made, which was regarded as a consolation to them after the large-scale counting of acres in the Greek area at that time.

Another reason is that the Purple Horde is so strong that it can temporarily calm down the Catholic countries and engage in diplomacy with them.Therefore, his main job is to travel around and lobby among European courts.Among other things, the Greeks are quite good at coaxing Western Europeans...

The other was Isaac Ducasse, Grand Duke of the Navy at Guo Di's time.The problem is, his Dukas must be a fake.Master Frajos once said in private that he had researched the family lineage of the Ducasse family and found that there were many impersonators, even more than one.

His family claimed to be from Asia Minor, but after careful research, it was discovered that the ancestors actually came from the Caucasus, or even further away.Even those who pretended to be the Dukas family in the previous dynasty and finally obtained the title of nobility are not of the same origin.I don't know which Turkmen savage from the mountain came here pretending to be an aristocrat.

Therefore, the old nobles cannot provide the talents they need now, and they look down on the upstarts.In the end, it can only be reduced to such a point.

This was the reason why Shi Huizhen quarreled with Frajos last time.

Frajos believes that the cultural level of these "newcomers" is too bad, after all, they are just outsiders who have come to seek refuge.But Shi Huizhen reminded him that his own family was also Caucasus savages back then.Is it really appropriate to joke about the savages of hundreds of years ago and the savages of decades ago?

As a result, Frajos was choked up, and she became famous at the party.

Of course, no matter how angry he was, Frajos would have nothing to do with her.

As everyone knows, the only relationship that the old nobles can gain now is the queen.Moreover, like the Queen Mother Helena, she was not a direct descendant before she became a queen, so she was not taken too seriously, and her relationship with the old nobles could only be regarded as ordinary.Everyone can only increase their efforts to curry favor now.

Unlike Queen Elizabeth, who knew about martial arts and fighting every day, Queen Anna often showed her face in public on weekdays, and called on everyone to promote education and promote culture.To this end, she also took the lead in organizing events, holding rallies, and amassed a large following.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 the queen's guest, but also a rare person in this group who came from the Zhu family, a rare guest and an honored guest.Everyone believed that the empress made an exception to take care of her and deliberately supported her, which was intentional.Because in this circle, finally came a talent who has the ability to intervene in military command.As we all know, the foundation of the Purple Horde Khanate is the legion. It can be seen how important she is.

Therefore, even if he was directly ridiculed, Flajos could only endure it.

"The playbook is not just for performance. The most important thing in it is cultural connotation and artistry." He felt that Shi Huizhen didn't understand anyway, so he directly emphasized: "It's normal for common people not to understand, because this is a very profound knowledge. Drama Philosophy and philosophy have always mirrored each other. Aristophanes and Socrates can interact in the play. For nearly 2000 years, thoughtful writers have always insisted on this."

However, Shi Huizhen didn't realize that this was actually a mockery of her, and 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 is a thing that affects combat effectiveness. It turns out that it is still mixed with philosophy..."

"You have studied drama and philosophy for 2000 years, but they are getting weaker and weaker. It means that there is a problem with this thing, and you haven't found it?" She questioned: "In my opinion, the Greeks are becoming less and less able to fight. The Turkmen bandits can’t even beat them, and it’s also inseparable from this. In the end, it’s probably the fault of the patriarch Socrates!”

(End of this chapter)