In the next few days, the special training of Little Jeanna by Wang Da Lama and others was still going on.

Theodora took the time to go again, but Guo Kang was over there, and he was really doing business, and there was nothing to blame. This made her breathe a sigh of relief, but there was an unspeakable unhappiness in her heart. After all, admitting that she was wrong in her judgment, especially when it comes to feelings, that her instincts were completely wrong, is something that she needs to make up her mind to accept.

Since she was a child, people around her have said that she is a smart and intelligent girl. Her mother had been nurturing her with all her heart, and she had invited the best scholars in Rome to teach her cultural knowledge.

Previously, the monks had tried to expel her on the grounds that "women were not allowed to enter the temple of philosophy", but she had completely ignored her. Because when she was a child, the teachers took her to the formal philosophy school to listen to lectures and debate with her brothers. She didn't even bother to refute these vulgar rules of the country church.

And she's not the kind of "contemporary Greek" nerd either.

Although she is not like Tuhuan, she has been playing in the military camp with her father and Uncle Guo since she was a child, but she has not only studied with her mother - her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, has also been in Dadu.

His grandfather, Basil III, may have been an outlier among the successive Khans. And his wife Elizabeth is actually an outlier among the queen mothers.

Her father was a well-known knight in Serbia, and she perfectly inherited her father's fighting spirit. Usually, her biggest hobby is not partying, chatting, and dancing, but practicing martial arts, and then finding someone to compete.

As for the scheme, she has no talent and lack of interest, and she can get by in the position of queen. As a result, due to inexperience, there were even jokes made during the temporary regent.

However, compared with most of the noblewomen who are also untalented, she also has one of the biggest advantages, that is, she understands that she is not good at this, and she is not taboo.

When Basil was alive, she was very reluctant to stay in the capital, saying that she couldn't do anything well in the city, and she was so idle that it was better to go out together. It's just that Basil didn't agree, saying that we are not Persians, what are we doing with our wives in war.

Elizabeth had no choice but to stay in the city. Because she really didn't want to worry about work, she threw most of the things to Guo Di and others, and then began to use her status in the Khan Court to look for fights everywhere.

Norwegian mercenaries recruited from the Khan's court, visiting Turkmen Gulam warriors; From the Iberian sword and shield veteran who came here with the merchant ships, to the wandering warrior monk who came from Seris...... All kinds of people, whether common or rare, have basically fought against her.

Later, Guo Di and others also persuaded Basil to take her to fight. Now visitors from all over the world are rumoring that when the mission and caravan arrive in Dadu, they must first choose the best one to fight, and then go head-to-head with the queen.

dignified Rome, she made it look like a cottage where a strong woman sits. If this continues, everyone will become famous in every sense......

Unable to withstand the pressure, Basil finally had to take her to participate in several military operations that were not very risky.

And the Greeks in the city have always had rumors that it was because Baselius and Baselisa didn't care about the rear affairs at all, and left everything from urban planning to logistics and transportation to Guo Di, and as a result, he died of exhaustion.

This statement is not too comprehensive, and the queen herself is actually trying to help. For example, she likes children very much, so when she sees that other people are busy and don't have time to take care of their children, she cares a lot.

In fact, the tradition of the Greek aristocracy was often that parents did not take care of their children themselves, but found a special tutor to educate them. The upper princes and generals of the Purple Horde were also often as busy as the husband and wife, and could not spare time.

But Elizabeth never trusted the Greek governesses, believing that she would not be able to learn well if she gave her children to them. So, she simply persuaded everyone one by one, gathered these children together, became teachers herself, and took them to study and train every day.

Therefore, Theodora's father's generation, including her father John, Guo Kang's stepfather Guo Daus, Li Xuanying's father Li Huawen and others, were all brought by her.

It's just that although the old queen mother has always been proud of this, judging from the results, what she taught may also be a bit biased......

By the time Theodora's generation, Queen Elizabeth's children's school had been formalized.

After Basil's death, she had little nostalgia and gave up the opportunity to fight for real power. He didn't even want to live in the palace where the Queen Mother Mary and Queen Helena had stayed, and was reserved for the Queen Mother, but moved into a convent in the city, and since then has lived a life of almost seclusion.

It's just that in the convent where she retreated, Queen Elizabeth still did not give up her previous habits. She opened a school, set up dormitories and took in homeless girls.

Generally speaking, the orphans of legion members will be arranged and cared for by the military government. But most of the cities, probably the cities with the largest number of people who are not in the legion.

Due to the long-term decline, the original number of Greeks in the city was actually not large, but there was an endless stream of outsiders who came and went to do business and work in various places.

Many people are engaged in hard and dangerous work. They either don't know each other well and don't have friends to help them; Either the friends and guilds are just as poor and can't afford to pay much money. So once they die, they often leave behind children who lack care.

There are people in the city who will adopt boys, such as the "Beggar Gang" and the "Tang Gate", and they are very fond of these new blood. But girls are often perceived as less valuable and are often sold directly as goods, making their situation even more miserable.

Therefore, in the name of the Sisters Society, the Queen Mother took in many people. After that, she couldn't stay idle and began to go into battle in person, training and educating these children.

When Theodora went to school, the old queen cheerfully told her daughter-in-law that she could also help with the children—all of Rome, from the most noble to the humbled. If you don't believe it, you can't bring your own granddaughter.

Empress Anna was quite worried about the direction of the old lady's "education". But on this issue, she didn't screw her mother-in-law in the end, so she could only let little Theodora work a little harder and go to her grandmother's place to "go to school".

However, although she was tired at the time, Theodora understood that it would also be good for her.

Nowadays, everyone thinks that she is a "Greek girl", consciously or unconsciously, but she is not the intelligent but poor Hypatia - thanks to her grandmother's training, if nothing else, in the monastery of the Holy Light, those monks who live in the dark of the house every day, pondering the light, really can't beat her.

Therefore, when she heard that Guo Kang and others were going to visit the Empress Dowager Elizabeth again, she immediately regained her confidence and decided to go to see it too.

(End of chapter)