This incident had a great impact on many young junior officers who had been plowing the fields and fighting wars all year round and did not care much about other matters.

Some people are deeply remorseful for this, thinking that the Queen Mother deceived themselves and is very angry. Some people think that even the Great Khan can't rebel, and he mingles with the group of aristocratic slaves, and he doesn't know what he's doing, but it's definitely not good. In the end, no one discussed a result.

However, a little more than a year later, John VIII died suddenly. At this time, the officers blew up, thinking that the Queen Mother had broken the rules, and some people regretted it, and even began to secretly contact Li Yinglin in exile.

On the issue of succession later, the Queen Mother had conflicts with the Guo family, the Shi family, etc. John VIII had no sons, and the ministers wanted to support Basil, the second son of the first Khan, and the queen mother preferred to support the younger son, Alexios.

This time, the Queen Mother finally failed to do so.

At that time, war broke out between Hungary and Venice over Dalmatia. The Venetian army could not defeat the Hungarians, and after successive defeats, the governor sent envoys to Dadu several times to ask for reinforcements, for which he did not hesitate to pay a large amount. The Purple Horde then gathered a group of soldiers and prepared to board ships in Dadu.

In the winter of that year, the Hungarians, affected by the weather, weakened the offensive, and the main army began to winter camp. The Venetian navy, in accordance with the custom in the Mediterranean, stopped at the port of Dadu and did not sail, planning to wait for the sea conditions to improve in the spring before sending reinforcements over.

At this time, it was rumored that the Empress Dowager was preparing to expel Basil and coerce the Patriarch Yin Daochang to support Alexios on her own. The idle legionnaires, under whose leadership they did not know, quickly organized.

Later, Anna, a distant niece of the Queen Mother and a close maid, wrote a memoir-like notebook called "The Biography of Helena".

She said that she still remembers that in early 1379, the day before Christmas, there was a sudden commotion outside the Queen Mother's palace. The Queen Mother thought that the citizens were celebrating, so she didn't ask until her voice gradually became clear.

They walked out to the terrace and found the street full of excited legionnaires. A large group of red-robed hundred-hundred- In the middle of the line were at least one or twenty men wearing phoenix-winged helmets with conspicuous tricolored horsehair helmets on top of their helmets—meaning they were at least senior officers at the rank of regimental commander.

These men were holding a large purple felt, which had been used by the Sons of the Khan for the coronation of the Khan. And now, sitting on the purple felt is Basil, the second son of the Queen Mother.

Anna said that as the team approached, the Queen Mother's face became paler. And the slogan of the team has gradually become clear.

- They shouted "Khan of Khans, Great Khan of Grace".

The huge procession passed in front of the palace gates, did not stop, and continued towards the Hagia Sophia. And beside the Queen Mother, until this time, a maid hurriedly ran upstairs, wanting to stop talking.

Even the guards in the palace ran to attend the ceremony. There wasn't even a person who reported her in advance.

Anna said that after that day, the shrewd and capable Queen Mother suddenly looked a lot older. Still, she insisted, often asking about the various matters she had arranged, such as the alliance between the Georgians and Tokhtamysh, and the arrangements of the princes of the Morea.

She also sent Alexios away and told him to leave with the Venetians. He also told him when Basil would make a complete break with the Serbian "Anda" and go to war, and when he would come back.

Two years later, there was a palace mutiny in the city, which was not considered a mutiny. With the help of the Serbs and the Marquis of Nanya, Basil did not take much effort to arrest the Empress Dowager.

Anna recalled that in the face of the menacing forbidden soldiers, the people around the Queen Mother almost ran clean. The guards guarding the palace seemed to have gotten the news and withdrew ahead of schedule. And in the palace, even the eunuchs have slipped away, and there are only a few left.

Facing the marshal Guo Shuai and Zongzheng Saiin Batur, who were ordered to lead the army to arrest people, the queen mother pointed at them and laughed at Anna and said to herself, her tongue and hands are actually not as good as a hundred households, and now she actually lets these two people come, she really looks up to her.

As a result, Guo Shuai and Sain Batur didn't understand what this meant.

Later, Anna followed them to Basil and repeated the repetition to him. Basil complained that even if the Queen Mother wanted to compare herself to Cicero, she didn't need to say that he was Antony.

In the end, the Queen Mother saved her tongue. According to the Purple Horde tradition, she, like the Queen Mother Mary before her, was exiled to the Crimea.

In the book, Anna also insists that John VIII was drunk on his own and then tried to escape from house arrest by climbing over the wall, only to fall into the moat and drown. She thinks that the Queen Mother has nothing to do with this matter, because the Queen Mother herself can't get any benefits from it, but has fallen into great passivity.

However, she can't believe everything she said, after all, people must give priority to saying good things to their elders in this case. And she deduced a circle and came to the conclusion that the main messenger should be the big bad guy Li Yinglin. In Guo Kang's view, this conclusion is very magical - if Li Yinglin had this ability, what else would he run, he would have killed the Queen Mother a long time ago.

When he was a child, when his stepmother showed him this book, she warned him that the person who wrote the book has his own position and perspective, even if she thinks that she is objective and fair, her standard of understanding of objectivity and fairness may not be the same as yours. Just like Li Xuanying's father and son, they will definitely not agree that the Queen Mother made a fair ruling.

It's a pity that the Guo family didn't know what the situation was at that time.

The father-in-law said that he didn't even know if the famous conversation when the Queen Mother was arrested was made up by Anna, and he couldn't verify it - his grandfather, Guo Shuai, told him that the Queen Mother actually spoke a lot at that time, and she was still reading dramas in Greek. Who knows exactly what she's trying to say.

What's more troublesome is that he can't say for sure that this is fake, because Guo Shuai really doesn't know this allusion. He himself read the books written by others later, and he realized that there was such an allusion......

What is certain, however, is that the Queen Mother thinks that Basil must fall out with the Serbian nobles, but she is telling the truth.

Anna believes that Basil is actually a violent man, but his will is too tenacious and he uses reason to forcibly restrain his emotions.

Guo Shuai, Guo Li and other seniors described that he is actually introverted, likes to think, and is indeed strict, but also very fair.

They felt that Basil was more like the Roman and Greek heroes of the ancient times who were in the theater with a straight face all day long. His younger brother, Alexios, on the contrary, was much happier than he was.

Alexios liked BMW wine and didn't like to read. The greatest pleasure is to travel around and brag and fart with people every day. Guo Li even believed that the country needed an older monarch at that time, and the Queen Mother had already inspired everyone's rebellious mentality, otherwise everyone might support him. In fact, Basil III may be a special case, and even the later Great Khan John IX was more like his uncle than his father.

Soon, Basil fell out with the Serbian nobles of the time.

The trigger is the matter of reward.

In order to win over these people, the Empress Dowager Helena gave high rewards to both those who came to Dadu and those who were local. Basil, on the other hand, took the lead in advocating frugality, saying that now is a time for war in all four realms, not a time for luxury. The allowances of the nobles were cut by him by a large amount.

This made the nobles very dissatisfied. They soon stopped taking this "Anda" seriously and began a routine rebellion plan.

The local aristocrats of Serbia, who had long been dissatisfied, also took the opportunity to join.

Previously, the Empress Dowager Helena intervened in the operation of the port of Constantinople, and with the help of the contradictions between the Venetians and the Genoese, she squeezed out the Genoese Chamber of Commerce, which was entrenched in the commercial port. A large part of the extra income she received from here was invested in Serbia to buy off the aristocracy. This is also the reason why she has repeatedly deliberately weakened the local aristocracy, but many people can still endure it.

(End of chapter)