The name of the military government is a tribute to the Tang Dynasty when you hear it.

Probably at the beginning, Li Tiance really wanted to reproduce the glory of the Tang Dynasty. However, due to the cultural level and environment of the Purple Horde, this setting, like all other systems, is completely a super hodgepodge of various elements of different cultures and self-search, and I don't know who he is more like.

Greek scholars liked to refer to the various guards and military offices as military districts, which is said to be because they also had a distinction between large and small military regions in ancient times. The Purple Horde insisted that only the corresponding Wei was called a military region, and the military government was the military government, and a set of standard Chinese names was specially issued to prevent confusion in the documents. As for who is right, Guo Kang himself can't figure it out, anyway, it's called that.

The appearance of the military government came later than that of Wei, and the regularization was even later.

After the Empress Dowager Helena expelled Li Yinglin, the huge guards were split. This action was supported by many emerging generals, Li family members, and even more "civilian" princes such as the Guo family, so that the Queen Mother, who seemed to have no military power in her hands, dared to gamble, and Li Yinglin, who was alone, could only run away.

Since then, the "guard" has changed from an independent establishment to a subordinate official office of the province, and has gradually lost its command function and has become a full-time military and political organization, which is only responsible for the registration and training of soldiers on weekdays, as well as the daily personnel management and the distribution of subsidies.

People are also more inclined to use the term "provincial military district", and theoretically, the "guards" under the military region have actually become a historical term. The command of the local armies was dismantled into military administrations at the state level.

Unlike the two generations of the Li family, who like to explore and ponder, the Queen Mother Helena obviously had a very clear goal and plan from the beginning.

She hoped that the chaotic administrative regions formed by long-term expansion and the division of the princes would be standardized, and that a system of three levels, corresponding to each other, would be established: "provinces-military districts," "prefectures-military offices," and "villages-100 households."

However, after driving out the big thorn Li Yinglin and successfully trying to split it, the first place where she implemented the state capital unit was in Serbia in the west.

Serbia was once part of Eastern Rome, but with the decline of the empire, it became independent. During the reign of Serbian King Stephen Dušan, the country was so powerful that it controlled most of Eastern Rome's European homeland.

Dušan proclaimed himself emperor of the Serbs and Greeks, contacted the Venetians, and prepared to advance by land and sea to take Constantinople and establish a new Roman Empire. The Venetians were afraid that he would be the only one in the family, so they did not agree, so he did not succeed.

However, compared to the Ottomans on the other side, the Serbian Empire only flourished for one generation. After Duchamp's death, the heir was unable to control the situation, and the country soon fell into infighting and division, and even the outrageous thing happened that the queen mother wanted to obtain the territory and become independent from the empire.

The Serbs also tried to revive and took advantage of the Ottoman main force rushing to Asia Minor, amassing an army of more than 50,000 men and attacking south, preparing to regain the previously lost land.

The Ottoman army left behind in the area numbered at most 4,000 men, and the commander was Shaheen Pasha, the teacher of Sultan Murad I. He studied the situation of the Serbian army, decided that there was no need to be afraid, and selected an elite force, said to be only eight hundred men, to launch a night attack on the Serbian camp.

The Serbian army was indeed directly defeated. The emperor and his younger brother, as well as many nobles, were killed in battle. The defeated soldiers poured into the Maritsa River next to the camp, and thousands of people drowned in the river. Greek scholars have recorded that the blood of the war dead stained the river red.

This battle is very classic, and it is still in Guo Kang's art of war textbook. After the war, the Serbian Empire basically collapsed and lost the ability to compete for hegemony.

When news of the removal of the Serbs reached Constantinople, the officials were horrified, fearing that the Ottomans would march north and take the throne.

Seeing that Serbia was unreliable, it could only quickly win over the Purple Horde and set a series of conditions, hoping to use their help to deal with the Ottomans.

This was also the beginning of the struggle for Roman dominance by the Purple Horde.

By the time of the reign of the Empress Dowager Helena, Serbia was nominally part of Rome, but it was still divided by warlords. As a result, the Empress Dowager Helena repeatedly summoned Serbian nobles in the name of rewards, mediation, and the like.

The empress dowager claimed that she wanted to maintain fairness and standardize the order between the feudal monarchs and vassals, so she often gave titles such as Taishou and prefect brought by the Han princes to those middle and lower nobles. She also learned the customs of the Mongols, and every day let these nobles marry her sons John, Basil, etc. In the end, hundreds of Serbian Ans were recognized.

The nobles who had obtained the map, the seal and the title took the opportunity to stand on their own, relying on the support of the Khan's court and not taking the big nobles seriously. The local nobles launched several rebellions, which often collapsed on their own before the khanate could mobilize its troops. Some were even killed by their men and took their heads to the Khan's court to ask for a reward.

After the big nobles lost their power, the queen mother began to toss these small nobles again. As long as there is a conflict, the Queen Mother will intervene and "persuade" both sides. She also used the transfer of official positions as a reason to force some nobles to exchange territories, and those who disobeyed would be attacked by the Khan's court, and the nobles' fiefs would be abolished and divided among smaller knights and knights.

And for those who were willing to come to Dadu, she would grant them preferential treatment and keep them in the court.

At this time, the situation of the capital has recovered a lot, and it is becoming more and more prosperous; Many small aristocrats in the countryside simply can't resist the temptation and linger here. The Empress Dowager Helena organized these people as a force to counterbalance other powers, even the "fellow" Greeks.

Guo Kang has actually heard of these methods, but in his place, he must not have the confidence to do a good job.

In fact, even the wrist of the Queen Mother Helena was a little overwhelmed in the end. The Serbian nobles who had not been hit, although they had also gained some benefits, felt more and more cold, and became more and more dissatisfied with her. And the relationship between other Greek nobles and her has never been close.

And in the end, the Serbian "Anta", who entered the capital and was frequently rewarded by her, also abandoned her after seeing the conflict between John VIII Khan and the Queen Mother.

In 1378, John VIII took advantage of the hunting to unite a group of Serbian and Bulgarian nobles who were dissatisfied with the Queen Mother because of the loss of territory, and organized their domestic servants and servants to attack the Queen Mother's residence. The Empress Dowager urgently mobilized the middle- and lower-level officers who took turns to serve as palace guards in the capital and had not yet reacted, asking them to protect the safety of the palace and disperse the rioters.

Most of these officers came from the new military government in the north, and they were the beneficiaries of the previous reforms, and they had some good feelings for the Empress Dowager and believed in her authority. And to be honest, it is not uncommon for Greeks to make trouble in the capital. This time, it is estimated that someone was dizzy and collided with the queen mother.

Therefore, they did not think about it and sided with the Queen Mother. It wasn't until someone accidentally grabbed John who rushed too far forward from the "thug" group that he realized that something was not quite right.

However, at this time, the aristocratic rebel "army" was already on the verge of dispersing. There were only a few who actually rushed into the palace, plus John himself. This coup d'état failed so inexplicably.

(End of chapter)