Chapter 108: Autocratic Fate Part 2 (2/2)

The highest administrative position, the Military Governor was a paramilitary official. The Governor was traditionally held by the army generals, responsible to lead the militias and regarded as quasi-military leader. The central government was disturbed that the empire were fragmented into dozens of small military groups, hardly to receive the central jurisdiction! Because there was an independent arable agricultural soldiers, these small paramilitary groups were almost entirely self-sufficient!

In the revenue and expenditure, they could be independent! This was a direct result of the military generals to be aristocratic! Imagined that every military governor had a free jurisdiction, a free and independent control of revenue and expenditure, land, horses anddid not need to get supply from the central to be completely self-sufficient. And even some particularly powerful military, the Governor could operate entirely within its own territory and formed the elite army troop! After a long time, they could even build up a separate military clique! These military cliques could be cancerous to the large body of the growing empire!

The aristocratic military generals and warlords had become the main reason of the Byzantine Empire, for being big but not strong. In one hundred years, there were dozens of rebellions throughout the region around the Imperial Government, of which there were six, occurred in nearly three decades!

The military had become the most direct beneficiary of this regime and therefore extremely supported on the mechanism. The emperors were aware of the situation and tried to cancel such a system. But the military after a hundred years of nourishment, had become a huge monster and even the imperial emperor could not completely neutralize the monster.

The military would make any attempt to protect their own vested interests and to remove any threat to the Tekma system. A Decades ago, the emperor tried to change the term of this situation and then the prime minister issued a text for restricting the Tekma system.In order to safeguard their own interests, the military had launched a small-scale coup that the prime minister was killed by the “rebellion” who broke into his home.And afterwards, under the military pressure, the emperor had to withdraw his command.

The compromise of the former emperors had resulting in a deep-rooted Tekmasystem, and the military strength had greatly expanded in one hundred years. When the Tekma system had been just established, there were just a total of thirty Tekma military. While in the domination of the Kontos, the emperor of lance, the Tekma military had reached forty-six in the entire Byzantine Empire! Forty-six Tekma military had comprising nearly half the empire’s land!

The rest of the lands were a considerable part of the territory belonging to the aristocracy. The actual land which fell under the central administrative jurisdiction of the Empire had been less than a fifth of the total area! The emergence of a new military dignitaries had often become a lifelong job.Once they had become a military governor in Tekma, they could be appointed at the position until death.Even for some of the forces which were exceptionally strong, the position would be inherited to the family as hereditary system.

The Tekma system was like a monster. The military had firmly united for the great benefits. They were originally become a national barrier, butthey had become the burden that leaked the imperial resources. The military empire, almost became another core central independent of the royal family. The forty-six national Military Tekma were directly deployed by the central military of the empire. The royal family could only seize the support from the ordinary empire army as much as possible in order to counter the increasingly large Tekma system.Only these people were the true soldiers, rather than the aristocratic warlord!

And the military was also divided into two different factions, with one of those was led by the military faction occupied by the majority which had been transformed from a real soldier into the warlord that only safeguarded their own interests. Unfortunately, the power of the warlord’s factions was much more powerful.The governor from the forty-six TekmaMilitary Region of the country were mostly included in this faction. The real military factions was only made up by a dozen of them while Adelaide was no doubt one of them forming the backbone of the thirteen Corps.

Carveslyver was once brought great ideas to the young Emperor of Lance and expressed his political stance.But his hostility toward theTekma system was disturbing the military. If others were holding such hostile political view, these leaders and chiefs from the military would scoff at most and even smiled in disdain. But Carveslyver was so famous even he was young as a rare genius from the imperial institution with a high reputation and the young emperor had anopened admirationtoward him.Someone who had such a close distance and relationship withthe emperorhad so much hostility toward the Tekma.So how could the people from the military felt at ease?

And the young Emperor of Lanceneeded the support from the militaryto seize power.He had to make a certain degree of compromise, which was a compromise of never appointed Carveslyver as a formal officer! And Carveslyver’stragedy was not only brought by the military for his hostility, even the other Empire veterans were expressed dissatisfaction toward his political views.

The Senate was the oldest system of government of the Byzantine Empire. A thousand years ago, during the establishment of the Byzantine Empire, the political ideas were encouraged on the consensus of the ruler and the people. It could be a form of democracy in the foundation of the Senate. In general, the Senate was formed from the elite representatives of the aristocracy, a number of outstanding generals of the army and some ordinary people from the industries or some people with a high fame such as some scholars, respected artists and other.