After a while, the Queen Mother would pick out some lucky nobles and grant titles and huge rewards, and the reasons were very casual. Sometimes it was because a nobleman behaved well during his pilgrimage and succeeded in pleasing her; Sometimes it was they who actively attacked the rebels, and the results were remarkable; Sometimes it's just because when hunting, he shot the prey designated by the Queen Mother, so he was rewarded with a wave of his hand.

This made the nobles rush to this, and many people still stayed in Dadu, revolving around the Queen Mother every day, waiting for this generous big money lord to reward. The nobles who were favored by the Queen Mother will soon be able to bring a large harvest and prepare to go home to live a good life.

The Khan's caravans from the capital would send a large number of bounty: priceless Seris brocades, gorgeous Javanese porcelain, Muscovites tamed Haidongqing, and even furniture made of high-quality wood harvested by the Novgorodians from the far north...... These dazzling products began to pour into the Serbian countryside.

Of course, every time the Queen Mother rewards, it is impossible to give all these top luxuries. According to tradition, when rewarding, a larger number of relatively ordinary objects will also be given to support the amount and make the nobles more faceless.

Byzantine silk, Greek pottery, furs from the Rus' region, French and Crimean wines, and even wool products from the steppes...... These things may not be common in the countryside, but they abound in most cities.

Compared with my hometown, you can find more exquisite craftsmanship here, but the price is cheaper. So it's better to buy them all here and bring them back with you.

The Queen Mother and the circle of nobles and nobles around her also encouraged this behavior. She said that everyone has seen the world now, and there is no need to be tied up like those rural masters. The money she gave out was for everyone to spend.

In this atmosphere, the nobles who had just entered the city were dazzled. Their money disappeared like a stream of water, and was exchanged for a cartload of goods. Later, the Queen Mother even specially arranged for royal businessmen to guide them on what to buy at the most cost-effective and decent.

But as time passed, the nobles gradually realized that the situation did not seem to be quite right.

The Queen Mother's words, if you think about it carefully, are actually not wrong. Give you so much money, you can't spend it when you bring it back to the countryside? However, with the influx of goods from many large capitals, the realm became poorer than rich.

When a lord had several Javanese porcelain plates in his house, and the knights had a set of Greek pottery and several silk clothes, the craftsmen in the town had little business. Some people in the craft often choose to leave, causing the industry to decline rapidly.

Some aristocrats found out that something was wrong, so they refused to spend money in Dadu, calling on everyone to bring the money back to their hometown to help their hometown. The Queen Mother did not stop this. However, when these coins made their way to the local market, it caused even more confusion.

The aristocrats were confused and couldn't figure out what this was going on.

Some people vaguely think that it may be because there is too much money.

At that time, Dadu had gradually recovered. After the Civil War, the Rus' trade routes were gradually opened, and most of the area around the Black Sea was settled. As for the Italian merchants, who had withheld most of their commercial income, they were forced to give up their previous taxing privileges when faced with the Khan's court, and had to pay the rent of the wharf and the waterway.

In this case, most of the income from a dock for a few months instantly poured into a Serbian rural territory, and the latter undoubtedly directly "burst". And the Queen Mother actually blasted each territory in turn from time to time.

At one time, it was an independent region, and the war-torn regions of Greece and Bulgaria were not a wealthy place. Moreover, under the rule of the aristocracy, the movement of people and goods in the countryside was very slow, and the influence of other regions was not very great.

But the arrival of the Purple Horde changed all that: not only did they stabilize their territory, so that most of them did have the qualifications of "the best of the tents" that they boasted about, but they also liked to build roads everywhere.

The soldiers and civilians of the Purple Horde will start to operate the avenue deep into the interior when they have nothing to do. With the route around the Black Sea, the traffic is quickly convenient. The lords, who had been accustomed to dividing their feuds for hundreds of years, were very uncomfortable with this.

Now nominally everyone was subservient to Rome, but caravans from elsewhere could not be openly forbidden, and the nobles themselves had to buy supplies from the outside world. In this case, there is no way around it.

And what is even more desperate is not that some lucky nobles got the money, but that most of the nobles did not get the money.

If the nobles wanted to maintain a higher level of independence and keep the khanate from overintroducing its order, they had to maintain order themselves. But when a lord suddenly becomes rich but his military strength does not increase, this spontaneous local order may not be so friendly.

Moreover, the improvement of the "taste" of these nobles has made the overall requirements of the aristocratic circle rise accordingly. In order to maintain face, even if they don't have the other party's complete set of objects, they have to buy a similar one at their own expense, otherwise they can't communicate with each other.

As for these extra expenses, of course, they can only work hard to lead the people.

has been tossed by the Queen Mother for ten years, and many nobles are no longer able to hold on. They thought that although they could not understand how to get poorer and poorer the more they took money, it must be that the evil and cunning Greeks were playing tricks again.

As long as you become independent from the empire and don't play with this damn Anda, you can solve these problems.

Hearing that the Serbs in the capital were plotting, the local nobles also became interested.

However, rebellion is not a simple matter.

The great nobles whose territory could reach the size of the province had long been lost to the Empress Dowager Helena, and the same was true for the Serbian region. Today's main aristocracy is the leader of a group of feudal states and military governments.

They also don't want the big nobles to come back—they were still the helpers and beneficiaries when they split up the big nobles.

And here, there are no people with high military prestige or military ability - the Purple Horde does not care about matters such as faith and origin, and does not even look much at blood. As long as you have military merits, you can improve very quickly over there. Those who have this ability have already gone to Dadu to become a big official and enjoy great wealth. Who still cares about this bit of rotten ground.

Unless, they can fire someone more expensive than the Purple Horde: for example, inviting someone to be the real king, which is better than the commander of the legion, and theoretically it is possible to attract high-ranking talents.

However, the purpose of the rebellion was to maintain the independence of the territory. Before rebellion, you must be controlled by the great sweat of real power; After the rebellion, it will be controlled by the king with real power. Isn't this a waste of time?

As for the name of the king......

The Purple Horde was able to distribute even the co-emperor indiscriminately, and the French wanted to donate one. It's really a name competition, people can find a Greek scholar at random, and they can come out on the spot with an exaggerated name that a heavenly brother blushes when he hears it. The empty titles offered by the nobles in the countryside are rare.

As for why the emphasis was on the countryside, it was because the aristocracy could not win the support of the city.

The local metropolis of Belgrade resolutely refused to participate in the rebellion.

The Purple Horde brought better pottery oven craftsmanship and gave them a large number of orders for the army. In addition, Khanting also said that in the future, professional officials in various cities can be promoted to each other, that is, municipal officials who have performed well in Belgrade can be transferred directly to Constantinople - then this is a fart opposite.

The citizens of the city already looked down on the mud-legged nobles around them who blocked the road and robbed and destroyed trade every day, and now they didn't want to deal with them.

The city council told the nobles that the Romans had built the road for free, and that the townspeople were thankful to Dade. They are advised to behave in their own way and not to break their oath of allegiance.

At the same time, the mayor immediately sent his cronies to Dadu with a report letter, preparing to brush up on his impression score first and lay the foundation for his promotion. It was also the nobles who had been prepared for this for a long time, knowing that this goods would definitely be reported, and arranged manpower in advance to intercept the messenger, so that the rebellion did not fail directly.

(End of chapter)