For these unique customs of the Purple Horde, Guo Kang himself has thought about it.

This is not a safe place for them. In the history known to Guo Kang, this place of four wars was eventually exhausted and shattered into pieces, and since then it has been immersed in endless and meaningless internal friction, and has become a game arena for other great powers.

However, there is not necessarily only one ending in the land of the four wars.

More than 3,000 years ago, Dayu stood by the Yellow River, facing Dongyi, Sanmiao, Xirong, and Beidi, and it is estimated that he will also feel that he is in a place of four wars.

Two thousand years ago, when Ram Gao taught his disciples about the exploits of Duke Qi Huan, and concluded that "Nanyi and Beidi are in good faith, and China is endless", he would also feel that this was a place of four wars.

And in front of him, when Zhu Yuanzhang started his business, he found the opportunity to kill from the environment of Zhang Shicheng in the east, Chen Youliang in the west, Wang Baobao in the north, and Fang Guozhen in the south.

In the world where he had been, it was believed that his homeland of Seris was a lucky civilization, born at one end of the Eurasian continent, protected by the sea, plateaus, and deserts, and would not be invaded by foreign enemies.

But after looking at the civilizations of the two worlds, Guo Kang himself understood very well that Seris was not so big when he came out.

The so-called absence of enemies is just that there are no enemies.

If Rome had not collapsed and had ruled the Mediterranean region until later generations, later generations might have counted Gaul, Iberia, and the like as a branch of Roman civilization, and then lamented that Rome in the west of Eurasia was also a lonely civilization and lacked communication with other people.

Therefore, geography is a very important aspect, but it is still people who determine geography. And the various manifestations of the Purple Horde, in his opinion, are a choice to desperately survive in this harsh geographical situation.

The soldiers of the Purple Horde are not bad in combat or numerous. But how high their ability is, how big their temper is. The other nobles obviously did not understand why the Purple Horde tolerated and even connived at these arrogant generals, and was not very comfortable with how to get along with them.

When the nobles refused to reduce the soldier's labor and did not give money to subsidize it, the Purple Horde advisors began to hesitate. And when the consultants' salaries were also deducted, they decisively chose the traditional way of protesting.

Locally, the lords used to make trouble in a village-by-village unit, and at most a single domain opposed the liege. Most of the time, the nobles would suppress it directly - their network was much wider than that of the villagers, and all kinds of chaotic relatives could quickly organize a lean army.

If the trouble is big and the suppression outweighs the cost, sometimes they will choose to reprimand the local small lords and let them spit out some scraped wealth to settle the incident.

But this time, because of the intensive training for a period of time, the lords in various places knew each other, so they used this organizational method to deal with the lords.

The Roman veterans, who were owed commissions, also decisively joined in. They were previously comrades in the same legion, so they quickly connected with each other. At this time, recruits from most of the states began to gather, demanding that the local nobles follow the example of the military government next door and cancel all excess taxes.

Of course, the nobles could not agree, but this time the scale and speed were far beyond previous experience. In order to slow down the time, he had to make an appearance of humility and said that he would invite the leader of the people to negotiate.

The villagers were very happy about this, but the old non-commissioned officer who took the lead said that the answer was too quick and obviously wrong. So, he enlisted the help of a few mountain people, walked a small road to the negotiation site, and personally investigated the situation.

The nobles' sense of precaution was very poor, and after a few people turned around, they found that there was indeed a group of mercenaries in ambush, and the smoke and dust were rolling on the road in the distance, and there were obviously people coming on horseback.

Obviously, this is a scam.

So, they planned and organized a group of capable men, came to the venue a day early, prepared on the periphery, and then made a surprise attack. The aristocratic army was shocked and fled in all directions, and several lords were killed on the spot. On the same day, the others rushed to the local lord's manor and found that there was no one to guard it, so they quickly took it.

If it had ended here, it would have been a slightly more exciting mutiny. However, in the conquered estate, some letters were found.

The villagers were more concerned about the wealth that the lord had looted all year round, but the legion veterans immediately went to collect the letters and archives in the lord's hands to see if there was any important information. As a result, the news that the nobles colluded with each other and prepared a rebellion was thus exposed.

After a brief discussion, the crowd decided not to rebel. From now on, everyone will be loyal servants of the Purple Horde, and they must report the conspiracy of the evil Tusi in time. The old non-commissioned officer once again asked the mountain people to lead the way, and instead of going to Dadu, he went directly over the mountains to take a shortcut, and went north to find the nearest military government and inform them.

The largest civil war in the history of the Purple Horde began in such an unexpected way.

The Khan's court, which got the news, decided to intervene immediately, no matter what was going on over there, these nobles must be uneasy.

And the Serbian nobles, when they heard the news of the transfer of the Khan's army, also broke the jar and decided to reverse it first. Everyone pulls their own people, the more the better, and strives to drive the Romans out directly.

They first laid siege to Belgrade, demanding that the city allow them to be stationed and provide them with money and supplies to sponsor the Restoration. The citizens, fearful of being plundered, closed the gates and put up a desperate resistance. Both sides were in a state of scorching.

Other nobles marched south into Greece with private soldiers to prepare for the battle for Thessaloniki.

The Purple Horde did not rule here for long, and the local Greek nobility was very influential. And many of these people are old aristocrats who have gone through several dynasties - in the history of Guo Kang's world, they were still able to hold high-ranking positions such as Pasha until the Ottoman era, and it can be said that they are well versed in the survival of wall-to-wall grass.

The old nobles immediately declared that they also sympathized with the Serbs and could provide the necessary assistance. At the same time, he sent his henchmen with secret letters, set sail from the port, sailed directly to Dadu, and informed the Purple Horde of the size, composition, and supply of the Serbian aristocratic army.

In Morea in the south and Transylvania in the north, many people in the newly reconquered areas responded to the rebels. And when the news reached the north, several rebellious Grand Duchy of Rus' began to routinely besiege Moscow. Sure enough, the HRE, Hungary, and the Ottomans also tried to intervene, and most of the khanates were caught in the flames of war.

However, in terms of danger alone, this time it is lower than the last time.

Guo Kang's Greek teacher has studied this period of history. He believed that the various documents that followed showed that the various reasons put forward by the nobles were only temporary excuses. He also told Guo Kang that from his own personal experience at the time and the investigation afterwards, these nobles did not even have a unified slogan.

The various measures of the Empress Dowager Helena really could not eliminate the inherent contradictions between the Khan's court itself and these local nobles. But the Queen Mother was too familiar with these people, and without paying much price, she destroyed the traditional but very important way of organizing among the nobles.

Due to the haste of the incident, the aristocratic rebels lacked unified action and had no clear strategic goals. At first, many people thought that it would be good to protect themselves in the mountains, but after the number of nobles and soldiers who joined exceeded expectations, the crowd quickly swelled and decided to take the initiative.

Due to the chaos of the rebel organization, Guo Kang's scholars and teachers didn't know who came up with this idea, and even doubted whether this person was an undercover agent. However, the improvised Council of Nobles, in a frenzy, quickly adopted the proposal. This move also buries themselves just as quickly.

Unlike his mother, Basil III did have a reliable and large army at his disposal.

After the fall of the Queen Mother, he may have sensed that the situation was about to change, so he recalled Li Yinglin, who was forced to flee because he was accused of plotting to "surround the garden and kill the queen".

In order to get rid of the embarrassing identity as soon as possible, Li Yinglin is very active in this. He even suggested that although those local nobles now supported the Great Khan and opposed the Empress Dowager, they were actually opposed to the Khan's court itself, which was not trustworthy.

Although he should be the one who hates the Queen Mother the most, Li Yinglin admits that the Queen Mother's various methods have actually weakened the nobles' ability to war.

This rabble is the political legacy left by the Queen Mother. Rather than waiting for them to plan slowly and form an organization, it is better to start early, so as not to let them recover.

He also proposed a plan to send troops to the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea to attack the enemy from behind by supporting Venice. It's just that the development of things is more outrageous than the radical Li Yinglin plan. This is probably something that neither of them thought of at that time.

(End of chapter)