Chapter 53: New Era No. 11: Suspicions of the Harem (Part 1)
Jaen is sick, and Abahai is sick too.
Jain is fifteen years older than Qitad, and is already sixty-seven years old this year. It is common for her to get sick from time to time, let alone her illness this time.
But Abahai has always been in good health, and this disease is a bit strange.
Since taking Istanbul, Qitad has lived here most of the time, and has broken the practice of letting the concubines be stationed in various capitals. Instead, they have all been placed here. This is the Khan Palace of the Ottoman Sultan. There are hundreds of palaces used for concubines, and even more people can be placed.
Qitade has been with Jaen, and when he learned that Abahai was also sick, he couldn't help but frown.
It’s not that he doesn’t love Abahai, she is her first wife, and the Khshuote tribe she represents is still the most part second only to the Turgut tribe. Getting married to her has also laid an irreplaceable foundation for him to consolidate the position of the Khanate Khanate.
The Weila tribe who followed and moved westward to Orlek have all except for the headquarters of Turgut, Choros, Dulbert, Hoshuot, and Whit. Among them, Choros and Whit have fewer people. Although Dulbert has a large number, it still has less influence than the Heshuot team.
There is nothing else, because the Hoshuote tribe is descended from Genghis Khan's younger brother, Kasar, and its leaders are all descendants of the Golden Family. In the past five hundred years, most of the nomadic tribes on the Eurasian continent respect Genghis Khan, and they also respect the Golden Family.
Although the influence of the Golden Family gradually declined later, it was still regarded as a facade. Even Haji Grey, the founder of the Crimean Khanate, claimed to be the descendants of the Badu family. Therefore, even near the Caspian Sea, the Hoshuot tribe was second only to the Turkut tribe.
Marriage with Abahai means that the basic foundation of the Turgut Khanate has been completely consolidated, and no matter how powerful Dulbert is, he is helpless.
Compared with Tolando and Jaen, Abahai lacks some "legendary" color, but she is serious about marrying Qitade as a virgin. Although the people of the grassland do not value these, they still value them very much in Qitade's heart.
Therefore, although he married her and Tolando at the same time, he still appointed her as the concubine without hesitation.
Qitade is a person who values friendship and friendship. Since he got married more than 30 years ago, he has given birth to three children with Abahai. In addition to the eldest son, the former crown prince Zahatai, there are also the third prince Toure and the second daughter Deng Yaosu, especially the Indian Governor of Toure, the jurisdiction of Toure, has now become the strongest overseas colony of the empire. Even if Zahatai goes far away to Australia, Abahai still has Toure.
As for Deng Yaosu, she married Chu Yu, the eldest son of Chu Huer, who is Chu Feng's younger brother. He did not join the army, but was the mayor of Bogda (Istanbul), the most important city in the empire. With the support of the second noble family of the empire, Abahai did not look like he was out of favor no matter how he looked.
However, the departure of the crown prince Zahatai has had a great blow to Abahai. Although the Truqin Empire is an enlightened and firmly controlled by Qitade, Zahatai's doing so and Qitade allows him to do so cannot make people think about it.
Moreover, after Zahatai left, Qitade had not confirmed his successor to the crown prince, which was obviously not a good signal for the imperial subjects.
At this moment, Qitad recalled Ashina. Although the main reason was that Ashina's qualifications were not enough to suppress the Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan, Shelen was more suitable than him, but when Zahatai left, he returned, which naturally deepened people's speculation.
Qitade trained children. In addition to teaching students according to their aptitude, he also had the habit of arranging their religious beliefs based on their mother's background. Needless to say, the children of Abahai and Turando were all believers of the Changchun religion, but Jiaen's children arranged for her to convert to the Islamic religion because Jiaen was the only daughter of the last Kuban Khan.
In addition to respecting faith, there are also political considerations.
And Anna's children are obviously Christians. Of course, all of Qitad's children are standard products produced by Truchen's schools at all levels. They know what their power is. Faith is just a sign of identity.
Qitad obviously took a fancy to this sign, which means a lot.
When Ashi came back, his subjects naturally thought he would become the new crown prince, but his mother's past that could not be looked back on and the identity of the Islamist was indeed a big obstacle that could not be overcome.
When Jaen married Qitad, she was nearly forty years old. She was stolen from Kuban by her ex-Turgut Khan Wangbu when she was fifteen years old. Wangbu always wanted to enthrone her as the eldest concubine, but she was strongly opposed by the tribe because she was an Islamic.
Wangbu forced his marriage to Jiaen, which greatly reduced his prestige in the tribe, and almost caused the entire tribe to split. However, he obviously loved Jiaen very much, and Jiaen gave birth to the most children for him was proof.
After Wangbu's death, Jaen took Wangbu's direct tribe to the middle reaches of the Volga River. It was precisely because of her Islamic identity that she gained the trust of the Kazan Tatars, Nogai people, and Bashkir people there that she saved her tribe under the oppression of Lash Khan.
Of course, under the strong pressure of Tsarist Russia, her whole family converted to Orthodox religion. That's another story.
Since then, she has wandered around Chalijin, Kazan and Tula as a socialite, and has fought fiercely with the hereditary Tatar Duke, which has made the Turkuts who believe in Lamaism despise.
However, when Qitade rose, Lash did not dislike her, and Qitade did not dislike her. They all took her into the harem one after another. Except for the tribe behind her, she was not without her own charm.
Qitad read that right. At this time, lovers and mistresses are very popular in Russia. It is a tacit secret that the entire upper class society has, but both lovers and mistresses may be useful talents. This is the case with Yekaterina's lover Bo Jiangjin, and Jiaen is also the same.
She has excellent eloquence and a calm aura of talking in public. If it were not for the invasion of the Russians, it would be very likely that she would become a female sultan as the only daughter of the last Kuban Khan.
Her illness was five days ago, and now there seems to be no sign of improvement. Qitad was very worried and stayed by her day and night. Although Truchen's medicine is relatively developed, it is also relatively and does not have the ability to cure any disease.
Jia En fell asleep in a drowsy day, and he woke up on the same day. When she woke up, she happened to see Qitad holding her hand and frowning.
"What's wrong?"
Her voice was very weak. She had been using the extremely boiled rice porridge and ginseng soup these days, but she had always maintained a hint of clarity - Qitade was there all the time!
Of course, her daughter Tana and son Ashina are also there, but in her eyes, Chitad, who is fifteen years younger than him, is her all.
It was Qitad who made her the independent figure of the empire, rather than a vase or a socialite in the harem. She had managed religion, education and medical work at the beginning of the empire and did a great job.
Qitade's approach of caring for every concubine and treating her roughly equally made her even more grateful. After all, she has no advantage in age, which is the only reason why she took huge risks to give birth to two children for Qitade in a row.
In her not too big world, Quitad is his all, the only thing.
"It's OK"
Chapter completed!