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

Guo Kang sat in his seat and chatted with Li Xuanying next to him.

At the end of the hall was the throne of the Great Khan, but it was empty now. In the consul's seat next to him, the father-in-law was sitting bored.

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

Eastern Rome had a very complex system of official positions, and in the course of more than 1,000 years of use, the old official positions were constantly changed, and new official positions were constantly derived, dividing or replacing the functions of the old official positions. These new, old, real and imaginary, mixed together, are not only too difficult for Europeans to understand, but even Guo Kang finds it a big head.

In the later period, the official positions of Eastern Rome had been divided into two parts: loose officials who were purely honorary and official officials with actual powers, and the two adopted different methods of conferring and different systems. Under each official position, there are three classifications of men, eunuchs, and women. There are so many categories that people feel that the Great Qin State has a class of Great Song Dynasty. For those who are not very familiar with the bureaucratic system, it is difficult to directly figure out who is doing what.

The Greek honorary title of the father-in-law should probably be called "superior magnate". The word magnate in Latin was originally "Augustus", the title of the head of the empire. But as early as the time of the Komnenos, it was already delegated to the aristocratic bureaucracy.

Even the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Rôm were given this title. It can only be said that two Romanias cannot be written in one stroke, three-eighths of Rome and Turkic Rome, the same as Augustus of Rome.

Therefore, now the Purple Horde is full of Roman emperors, which can be said to have inherited the fine tradition, and the local Greeks are accustomed to it.

Of course, Augustus is Augustus because there was only one, and at most two, Augustus. When Augustus is more, Augustus is not Augustus.

As the original titles continued to depreciate due to their proliferation, the Greeks began to prefix them. For example, this is how the "superior magnates" came about. When the Purple Horde established the system, it directly moved it over and translated it as "Shangzhu State".

Of course, the Greeks did much more than that. Among the recipients of the title of magnate, the person who is the head is called the "chief magnate". Later, it may be felt that this is not prominent enough, and later there are titles such as "the chief magnate who is higher than all the magnates", or even "the chief superior magnate who is higher than all the magnates".

The complexity of their titles is so much that the Purple Tent can't be used up. So far, below the pendulum Khan, only the level of Shangzhu is still in use.

In the past few months, the Great Khan and several pillar states have been on the northwestern front, marching into the Hungarian hinterland to cooperate with the French offensive in the west. There are also a few others who also go to various places as usual to carry out the annual selection of recruits. The Guo family, who is responsible for staying behind, is currently the only Shangzhu country in the capital, so he has to be in charge of important meetings.

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

To the right of the Great Khan were the powerful princes of the Southern Ya. The four Guo, Li, Cao, and Shi families on duty, each with their own representatives, sat in their respective positions in turn.

When the Great Khan of Boyan Timur first entered the city, thirteen princes sat here. The Civil War ended, and only eleven remained. After the Anda War, as compensation for the local loyalties, the remaining Nine Pillars decided to make greater concessions, and in the future regular meetings, only four delegates were elected, and the rest of the positions were given to the officials in charge of specific affairs, thus forming the current pattern.

Guo Kang is now in his own seat.

He didn't want to participate, or at most just watch from the sidelines, after all, there was no need for him to stand out with his father-in-law. It's just that before she came, her stepmother suddenly said that several other parents were not there, and it must be the heir who attended on her behalf. In that case, let your own children go too.

The stepmother thinks that he is stupid anyway, and he has never won a quarrel with someone. On the contrary, Guo Kang, in several discussions, has clear ideas, persuasive speeches, and is a good seedling. This time he would say a few words, and just sit there as an ornament, lest the sharp-tongued Greeks laugh at him. If you have anything to say, let the child say it.

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

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

Opposite them were several representatives of the Northern Ya nobles—also the first Salewanhu, stationed in the Crimea, in charge of the tribes of the lower Dnieper; Timur Salale vanhu George, stationed in the homeland of Belgosala, administered the tribes of the lower Volga; Yelukhin, stationed in Kiev, administers the steppe hinterland of the upper Dnieper.

The Northern Ya Zhuwei was one of the two most important military forces of the Khanate, however, with the development of the Khanate, the shortcomings of this steppe army became more and more obvious.

When the third generation of Purple Horde Khan was in power, the strength of the Northern Ya Zhuwei tended to be extremely strong. The auxiliary government also commanded the armies of the Kipchak Second Guard and the Briar Third Guard in the first place, and defeated the Lithuanian army near Kiev and Smolensk, and the White Horde intervention army near the Don River. But after the war, the contradictions within the Khan's court became even greater because of the imbalance of forces on all sides.

Although he won in the end, he also believed that the shortcomings of the steppe army were too obvious and needed to be reformed. He hoped to break up the original tribes, reorganize them, select elite soldiers, and organize a new army.

Taishi sent envoys to inspect the pastures of various tribes. The envoys carried the khan's court and the black iron pot on their backs, propagandizing among the tribes and recruiting warlike herdsmen. Those who sign up will be assessed on the spot, and those warriors who are qualified in equestrian, mounted archery, and fighting will be awarded an iron pot for every ten people, and they will be brought back with big ears.

The recruited warriors are trained intensively in battalions. Each battalion had eighty iron pots, so this operation was also known as the "Eighty Pots" reform.

Under the auspices of the Prince, the Khanate also restored the ancient Greek city of Cesonis in the Crimea as a stronghold and built it in the surrounding fields. After two years of training for the first batch of soldiers, the Taishi sent people to all the ministries to bring in their relatives and settle them in the steppes of northern Crimea for grazing, and set up permanent institutions to manage the pastures. In this way, these steppe elites broke away from their original tribes and joined the new organization.

Originally, the guards of the Northern Ya needed 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. When conditions permit, everyone wants to preserve the strength of their tribe, let others bear the losses, and share the spoils themselves.

The combat effectiveness of the various tribes is also uneven, the core tribes are generally okay, and the other peripheral tribes are often difficult to explain. But the Khanate could not intervene directly, so it could only be used. It is not uncommon for an authoritative commander to drive them to war, and it is not uncommon for someone with a weak foundation and a lack of prestige to be plundered by these "friendly forces" and then flee.

As the commander of the grassland army with old qualifications, he does not spend the Taishi himself first, and he knows these shortcomings best.

Now, after the re-recruitment and rectification, the situation is much better. The discipline of the Beiya New Army was far better than that of the previous nomadic army, and it was able to carry out orders better, and its combat quality was also much improved.

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

After several recruitments, the news was spread in all parts of the steppe. Even the rabbits under the tents of the Khan of the Golden Horde also coveted the iron pot of the Purple Horde, and ran away one after another.

He didn't spend his life fighting in the grassland, and he was very prestigious in the grasslands, and when he was still there, no one dared to mess around for the time being. Later, however, Taishi was killed in battle with the Polish-Hungarian forces. The news reached the steppe and immediately sparked a rebellion.

The former nobles of the Northern Ya, in collusion with the Slavic princes, attracted Lithuania, the White Horde and Poland, and launched a huge attack. The Khan's court was forced to end the war in the south, make peace with the Ottomans, delay the plan to regain control of Constantinople, and go all out north.