Chapter 179: The System and Class of the Rus'
"This can't just be done!"
Juan II of Aragon angrily slammed the table.
The Enrique IV scandal, which was supposed to erupt next year, was staged earlier this year.
Enrique IV, the heir to the Kingdom of Castile, and his wife, Princess Blanca, divorced after a scandal. And after inspection, under fifteen years of husband and wife, Princess Blanca is still a virgin!
Enrique IV was called the Incompetent because of this. And this year's Castile is also particularly lively. The Spanish aristocracy, who were already fond of infighting, came and went, and the scandal of Enrique IV was deliberately magnified by them.
Juan II of Aragon had been the annexation of the Kingdom of Colora all his life, so he was overjoyed to see the news. However, Pope Nicholas V was unwilling to allow Juan II to succeed. He claimed that it was because witches prevented Enrique IV from having sex with his wife.
Spain is going to be in chaos again anyway.
The news came from Syracuse. Syracuse has been officially renamed Syracuse, which is a tribute to antiquity.
The Greeks of Syracuse were much more numerous for a time. These people are all from the Peloponnese.,It's a group of people with a deep degree of sinicization.。 Here, while they were doing business, they were asking Qin Cang about the information of various places. Wages are settled by Sophia Merchants.
And Qin Cang was watching the beheading scene in Chernihiv when he received the news.
If we talk about Russia, then autocracy and terror are actually inescapable. But these things began at the time of the terrible Ivan, and now Russia is still a Rus' in the fur of the Mongols. Their system has not yet completely fallen into authoritarianism. But it's not far off.
The social class in Russia is also simple.
The first class is the princes and nobles, that is, the various groups of people left behind by the Rurik family. Some of them still have fiefs, and some of them have no fiefs, so they work under other palaces. It is recorded that on one occasion, a landless Grand Duke of Moscow came with 1,700 attendants, and a few days later left one and took with him more than 1,300 attendants.
The second class was the boyar nobility. The boyars, according to research, are derived from the Norse Vikings' name for nobility. Translated as boyar, or boyer, is right. They were the backbone of the Grand Duke's command.
The third class is Liuqi. They were freedmen, that is, the middle class of Kievan Rus'. However, after the rebellion of Kievan Rus' and the Mongol invasion, the Lyuch class collapsed.
The fourth class is called Holden. It is a slave in the Rus' language, and this slave is a complete slave, a walking commodity. So this layer is actually very small. The real fourth class was the farmer, now the serf. They have a certain amount of freedom, but they lose the ability to leave their homeland. And after a few decades, he lost his freedom more and more, and finally became a slave to the farm.
Now the one who is beheaded in front is the boyar. A group of boyars who dared to resist.
There is always too little to see on the map, and there is always a lot to see in the book.
And only when you really see it, you will feel, wow, it turns out that the Desner River is so long.
The Desna River is a large direct stream of the Dnieper, which flows through Bryansk, Seversky, Chernihiv. It flows from northeast to southwest.
Therefore, Qin Cang walked very easily. Everything is put on, and people can pull the boat away on the shore. Setting out in early October, Chernihiv surrendered without any resistance.
Qin Cang didn't remember what Grand Duke Pinsk was called. Because Ya crossed the river with people early and ran to the nest in the west.
Chernihiv is a wooden wall. The wooden city wall of this era was completely a waste in front of the newly manufactured eight-pounder cannon, and the crazy solid iron bullets blew up the city wall with the people and the wall, not to mention the hollow bullets and flowering bullets that Qin Cang had been letting the big iron supervisor study.
Under the artillery, how can there be eggs?
Half of the city of Chernihiv was engulfed in smoke and flames. And the hard-boned boyars, dressed in their ancient scale armor, stared at the overlay and slaughtered together. Then the Army pushes the two-pounder gun forward, loads the shotgun, and fires!
In an instant, there was a blur of flesh and blood in front of the formation! Flying buckshot almost pierced most people's flesh! His face was smashed, his stomach was pierced, his intestines were flying, and his short legs were numerous. This is warfare in the age of hot weapons.
Under all the attention, the Slavs took up their knives. Their mission is to kill all the scum who dare to mess with the Great Khan of the Horrors.
"Long live the Great Khan!" They shouted. And it's Chinese.
As a gathering place for Slavs across the country, Jinshan County has a group of die-hard loyalists who respect Qin Cang's policy. Township school policy, self-government policy, civil freedom, freedom of movement, no exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes....... All kinds of things were packaged very beautifully by the literati, and the people also saw the benefits.
Almost all the members of the homecoming group have two names, one is a Slavic name and the other is a Han Chinese name. Not long ago, the Jinshan County Government also organized literati to publish a comparison table for converting Slavic surnames to Chinese surnames.
Similarly, there is a comparison table of Tatars to Chinese surnames, and so on. The core essence is almost one, speak Chinese, use Chinese names, and write Chinese characters. These nine words are the only criteria for obtaining a Dahan household registration certificate.
The Desna River is a river with a lot of water. Therefore, the army dragged the boat very fast, and soon reached Seversky.
Severssky, now Novgorod-Seversky, Ukraine.
It is also an ancient city. It's just that the scale is not huge. In front of 60,000 horsemen, the entire Duma of the entire city announced the glorious surrender to the Great Khan of the Terror.
And Qin Cang has recently become so rich that he doesn't even want money, so he only symbolically accepted 1,000 gold coins and 5,000 silver coins, and then rewarded them all.
Speaking of which, Russians used to be democracies as well.
Don't be unconvinced, the political system of Kievan Rus' was learned from the Greeks.
Kievan Rus' at that time was mainly divided into three parts, the Grand Duke, the Noble Duma and the Citizen Vetcher.
To this day, Russia has forgotten about the Vether (city council) for the townspeople, and has changed the Duma (noble council) for the nobility to the State Duma. I have to say that this is a habit that will not be good.
And what makes the Russians forget that there is another term called Weicher that remains in the long river of history?
Mongols, of course.
Russia adheres to the Mongol-style dictatorship, and since Ivan III, all the cities of the Vetcher have been abolished, and then special districts have been established, and even the Duma has been abolished. It can be seen how far the state has become dictatorial.
In the middle of October, the news of the arrival of the Great Khan of terror arrived belatedly and reached the Kremlin.