The Civil War was the most serious crisis since the establishment of the Khan's court. It may have only been at this point that the young Tokhtar Khan understood why his Greek abbot had to read to him every day that the internal troubles were worse than the external ones.

Khan's court had long been aware of the internal contradictions, but no one could have imagined that it would come so suddenly and violently.

Sui Ye first did not spend the Northern Army of Taishi to go to Poland, supported his son Boyan, rebelled against the imperial court, and also colluded with the enemy country to prepare to go south.

At this time, the guards of the Southern Ya were on the battlefields from Thrace to Transylvania. And part of the loyal new army in the Northern Ya Army was also in the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was suddenly besieged by the rebels and destroyed; There are also some who are arresting a group of bandits in the Rus' principalities.

More than ten years ago, the Imperial Master defeated the Golden Horde in a decisive battle, and since then the Rus' principalities have gradually shifted from the Golden Horde to the Purple Horde. But this surrender was still reluctant, and they actually didn't like either.

This time, the princes of Rus' had already premeditated. They elected the Grand Duke of Tver Ivan as the leader, and Lithuania, Poland and other countries had already secretly colluded, preparing to fight together to break the scattered new army.

More than 1,000 new troops happened to be near Tver at this time, and Ivan planned to wait for them to let their guard down and eliminate them in one fell swoop in the name of hospitality. Other princes will also follow his example and strive to solve the problem as soon as possible.

At the critical moment, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, through the merchants who came and went, got the news. Dmitry, the loyal Grand Duke of Moscow, immediately reported the rebel princes to the Khan's court.

The relationship between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the court of successive khans has always been very good, and the close relationship between the two sides dates back to the Batu era. When Batu's Western Expeditionary Army arrived in the Rus' region, Yaroslav, the Grand Duke's ancestor, was the first of the natives to take refuge in them.

Yaroslav had a good relationship with Batu and participated in the Kuriltai congress of Hara and Lin as a representative of Batu. However, Naimajin, the wife of the ruling Ögedei, hated Batu and held Yaroslav captive and finally poisoned him.

Probably ashamed of this, Batu was very kind to Yaroslav's son Alexander, and asked his son Sarida to marry him. With the support of Batu, Alexander also had his own domain.

Alexander was a very capable man, having previously led the Novgorod army as a guest secretary and defeated the Swedish raiders on the Neva River. The Slavs were so shocked that they won the battle against the Nordics, and they gave him the nickname "Nevsky", which means "hero of the Neva". Later, he defeated the German knights of the Crusade at Lake Chud, which was a miraculous victory at the time, and made people realize that the Slavs were also capable of fighting.

What's more, unlike other princes who were a little bit of a power against the water, Alexander Nevsky was very loyal to the Khanate.

Later, when his younger brother Andrei secretly united with the princes of Rus' and Western countries to overthrow the Mongols, Alexander immediately reported to the Great Khan and killed his relatives, thwarting the evil plans of the conspirators in time.

The Golden Horde also reciprocated. Alexander Nevsky sent his son to Novgorod as a lord, but because of the brutality of his rule, he was expelled by the locals. The Khanate then sent troops, with the cooperation of Alexander, to suppress the Novgorod revolt and re-establish his son.

Throughout his life, Alexander worked diligently for the Great Khan. Eventually, when there was an uprising against the yurt taxmen in the Rus' cities, Alexander, despite his health, personally rushed to Sarai to report the Rus' betrayal. Advise the Khan's court not to despise it, and must send heavy troops to decisively suppress it.

After convincing the Great Khan, the loyal Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky died of illness on his way back to his fiefdom at the age of 43. It is not an exaggeration to say that he died in the line of duty.

Guo Kang chatted with Tuhuan and others before, saying that in the future, this person would be regarded as a hero and a saint by the Slavs. Tuhuan couldn't agree more. In these years, there are not many people who are so loyal, and it is indeed unreasonable not to praise them.

Alexander's descendants continued to serve the Khan's court, and by the time of his grandson, Grand Duke Yuri, the Golden Horde at that time had no choice but to marry his sister to him, making him a "Gulegan", a relative of Timur's rank.

After Yuri, his younger brother "Money Bag" Ivan ascended the throne. At this time, the people of Tver, an important state of Rus', rebelled and killed the tax collectors arranged by the Mongols there. Under the orders of Yuejibee Khan, Ivan sent troops to suppress the rebellion and was given the responsibility of replacing the tax collector and collecting taxes from the countries. From then on, Moscow became the tax agent of the Khanate in the principalities of Rus'. Ivan also got the nickname of "money bag" because of his tyranny and insatiable greed.

The sons of Ivan, the "money bag", remained loyal to the country, supervised the anti-Mongol forces in other city-states, and reported to the Khan's court in a timely manner. It was only by the time of his grandson Dmitry that the situation changed.

The Golden Horde was mired in a long civil war and its national power was greatly weakened. The western part of the Khanate, controlled by the warlord Mamai. Dmitry's ambitions swelled, so he also colluded with the rebels of the Khanate.

The principalities of Rus' gathered more than 50,000 troops and confronted Mamai at Kulikovo on the Don River. As a result, Mamai's army was defeated, and Dmitry became famous, earning the nickname "Donskoy", which means hero of the Don.

However, only three years later, Tokhtamysh of the White Horde arrived here in an attempt to restore his rule over the Rus' kingdoms as a rear and continue the war with Timur.

Although he couldn't defeat Timur, Tokhtamysh was also a ruthless man who could command a strategic decisive battle in the main battlefield of the Eurasian continent, and it was not something that these Slavs could fight. It may have been that the victory over the landlord Mamai gave them too much confidence, but as a result, the Slavs were defeated again, and Moscow was burned to the ground by Tokhtamysh. Dmitry and the others fled in a hurry and surrendered to Timur and the Purple Horde, asking for support.

After the defeat and death of Tokhtam, Moscow began to rebuild. They also picked up their traditional skills again, and began to constantly report the remnants of the Golden Horde, as well as other Rus' who had colluded with outside forces, and actively led the way in the previous wars between the Purple Horde and Poland and Lithuania.

Moscow declared that they were always loyal to the Khanate itself only against the tyrannical vassal Mamai and the illegitimate usurper Tokhtamysh.

Guo Kang scoffed at this. Privately, he told his father-in-law that there was no doubt that these Muscovites would be the greatest threat to the Khanate in the future. You must not be deceived by their current behavior, and you must always guard against it.

But his stepmother told him that everyone actually knows this kind of thing. Although the Khan's courtiers were not prophets, they also dealt with local rulers all year round, and everyone knew very well what these local chieftains liked to do.

But the problem is that the Khan's power is really not enough to manage this distance, and there are not enough troops and officials to maintain the organization. In this case, it is only possible to select local agents to help with the rule.

The Rus' are not a single nation, but a collective name for a large number of states. Historic Kiev, honorable Vladimir, free Novgorod, rich Galich...... Each has its own characteristics.

Moscow, on the other hand, is a small and up-and-coming city, but it doesn't really have much of a character. Its only advantage is loyalty.

This is not to say that Moscow has not rebelled, but that compared to the other states that rebelled twice in three days, Moscow is fully worthy of the Khan's trust in them.

As for the question of the decline of the Khanate, this is actually of little significance.

If the Khan court can beat him, he will naturally continue to work. If the Khan court can't even beat him, then there is no need to worry about him. When the time comes, there will be stronger, more deadly enemies.

So, even if this is really a prophecy and convinces the Khan's court, everyone is at best a multi-minded person, and it is impossible to really do anything - even if it is a different person, can it really be more loyal than Moscow?