Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 9

This chaotic environment provided the soil for Osman's growth.

Although the country was established with Ghazi, no one said that pagans could not be brought together to fight jihad, so there were many Christian soldiers in Ottoman's previous wars.Until now, the Armenians are still one of the main sources of troops for the Ottomans, and even though the Purple Horde took control of the Balkans, some Serbian knights ran to join the Ottomans because they were dissatisfied with the rule of the Khan.This also made Ottoman's actual available troops stronger.

Before the actual war, Timur still adopted the traditional strategy, sending people to attack Ottoman with public opinion, calling on everyone to launch a jihad against Ottoman.Soon, the Purple Horde, France and other forces responded one after another, sending troops to join the ranks of the jihad, preparing to march from the Caucasus, Junbao, Cilicia and other places, making Ottoman difficult to care about.

Hearing that Timur was coming to beat him, Sultan Bayezid was very angry.He immediately condemned Timur as "Ghazi of all Gaqis" and called on everyone to fight against him.Bayezid managed to beat the time lag and defeat the Herald of the Purple Tent near Nicaea.While the Purple Horde was busy shrinking its forces, the Sultan rushed eastward with the Serbian elite guards, joined forces with the army there, and prepared to defeat Timur first.

After the two sides approached, the Ottomans discovered that there were actually a large number of Persians in Timur's army.

The Persians have always been known for their weak soldiers. Filling these people into the front line shows that Timur's strength is far inferior to his own boasting.Bayezid also fell into the mood of blindly underestimating the enemy, did not choose a battlefield that was beneficial to him, and even rushed to attack without waiting for the soldiers to rest.

However, the Persians under Timur were extremely tenacious, which prevented the Ottoman army from making a breakthrough. Instead, the low-status Turks in the Ottoman army turned back.The Ottoman army was defeated, and the sultan was captured alive by Timur.

This catastrophic defeat brought the Ottomans to the brink of collapse.The defeat of the strongest opponent in Minor Asia has greatly benefited the Purple Horde Khanate. Khan Ting believes that it is necessary to express gratitude, show sincerity, and further strengthen the friendship between the two sides.

The Purple Horde Khanate and the Timur Khanate are brothers with different fathers and mothers.Emperor Timur's uncle Kuang helped the sweat room and made great contributions, which must be announced to the world.

The Khan court announced that Rome has been in decline for a long time.For the sake of stability, Xian Khan Derik Xian divided the world into four major Ulus, managed by two Khans and two deputy Khans respectively.However, the country is still in chaos, the four Uluses attack each other, and Rome has not yet been reunified.

Today, the fierce enemies have been eliminated one by one, and there is hope for the revival of Rome.Therefore, after discussing with the Pillars, the Great Khan of Rome made a solemn decision to award Uncle Timur the title of "Roman Co-rule Emperor".From now on, everyone will be Romans.

This time, Timur himself didn't quite understand what it meant, he just thought it sounded very powerful.It was later discovered that this was actually an honorary title.

The Purple Horde has a unique understanding of "Rome". They believe that this is an identity.In theory, the whole world could be Roman.Even Guo Kang's grandfather, Mr. Huang Lao, who has read the poetry and books of the Central Plains, also supports this view.

Mr. Huang’s idea is that Rome is the Great Qin—the Great Qin is similar to the Central Plains—anything similar to the Central Plains can be called Rome.This view was highly praised by the princes of the Han Dynasty and became the official teaching.Therefore, in the eyes of Zizhang, announcing that the other party is also Rome is a very high-level means of praise and win over.

As for the Roman co-emperor, it is actually the title of the rulers of other Roman countries.

Scholars with a background in the Central Plains can't accept the situation of two emperors in one country, so they regard it as some kind of honorary title.In the words of the play, it is "Luo character side by side king", which is used to reward those who have made great contributions.

For example, after the Timur Khanate accepted this honor, it could be called the "Rome in the River", and Timur himself was the "Roman Khan in the River".

Similarly, France, another traditional ally of the Khanate, is also very interested in Roman titles.Soon after this incident, the King of France also paid a huge sum of money and donated the title of "Franco-Roman Emperor".

In principle, these are all similar, and they all belong to the category of "co-governing emperors".It's just because everyone's original titles are different, so they are called differently.However, because they all have the word "Luo" in their names, they are still the same in nature.

After reaffirming the alliance, everyone set their next target on the Mamluk Dynasty.The coalition forces were at war with the main force of the Mamluks in Syria. At a critical moment, a Caucasian Mamluk rebellion against Sudan occurred in Egypt's hometown.

The rebels promised that as long as they support them as the new sultan, they will recognize Timur as the overlord and agree to the Purple Horde's request for the port. In the future, everyone will maintain peace and not invade each other.

Inside the Purple Horde Khanate, they had been in contact with them for a long time, and an army was sent from Cyprus to Alexander for reinforcements.Knowing that the backyard was on fire, the main force of the Mamluks was in a state of confusion, and the Sultan was anxious to withdraw his troops, but was defeated by Timur halfway.

After the victory of the war, each family began to carve up the territory spit out by the Mamluk dynasty, and the Purple Horde was divided into the city of Antioch in northern Syria.

After Heraclius was forced to abandon Syria, he was in pain at the border and said "Farewell, beautiful Syria".This time, after the Arab conquest, the Romans regained the land for the first time.The Khan court was very satisfied with this, and held quite grand ceremonies in the capital and Antioch to reward the army and the people.

At the Grand Velodrome in Constantinople, the Khan Court organized a 100-day Naadam, hiring a large group of Mongolian wrestlers from the steppe to perform wrestling with the Greeks all day long.

Citizens watch all kinds of fighting competitions in the arena during the day, and if they drink too much at night, they can also engage in unlimited fighting with Ke Xue who is trying to maintain order.After a few months, everyone felt very refreshed and felt that they had returned to the great era of Rome.

In Antioch, the Khan Court also held a ceremony to commemorate the first Khans since Heraclius.In the whole city, there are sacred images of the ancestors, the heavenly father Arhat, the heavenly brother Yishu and other religious figures everywhere, which is very grand.

In the port and the city, a grand water and land ashram was also held. The scale was so large that even the Orthodox priests sent by the then patriarch Yin Daochang were not enough, so they had to recruit a bunch of lamas and monks to help.

It was lively and noisy for a while, and everyone was very happy.Even the surrounding Arab lords specially invited by the Khan court to build a good relationship also drank the grape juice for more than half a month, all of them were rosy and very satisfied.

This victory finally opened the Khanate's sea passage to the Indian Ocean.After that, negotiations with countries such as the Javanese dollar and attempts to conduct direct trade have a realistic basis.

(End of this chapter)