Is the palace political struggle in China the fiercest in the world?

Of course not. Do you know why the top political struggle is called "Byzantine court conspiracy"?

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The Byzantine court itself is full of intrigue, gouging out punishment, castration and other common oriental "etiquette" in Byzantine courts.

Since the Byzantine Empire split from east to west, countless emperors have been gouged out, and the struggle between the queen and the consorts in the court can easily confuse the ignorant Western Europeans at that time.

The most famous sayings are "Byzantine power game" and "Byzantine general problem". The former describes the extremely complicated system of Byzantium relative to Western Europe, while the latter is a computer term, which comes from the complicated command problem under the Byzantine military region system.

Read the history of Byzantium, and you will find that this millennium empire is like a purple phoenix. In the court conspiracy, it constantly moved from the brink of extinction to ZTE, then to extinction, and even finally was destroyed by Osman. It is not the strength of Osman, but the court struggle.

During Justinian's period, there was an example in which Queen Theodora gained the upper position through conspiracy and joined hands with Belisario's wife to set a trap for General Belisario. While writing Justinian, Prokobi wrote two books, a history of war and a secret history. The former was a eulogy for the emperor Justinian, while the latter was not published until Prokobi's death, and it was a secret story about the court of Justinian and Diodora. In this book,

Of course, Byzantium in Justinian was in its heyday, and all kinds of conspiracies were confined to the palace.

Morris, the last emperor of Justinian dynasty, was a victim of court struggle. He was a good emperor who was good at fighting, but he was killed by his rebels.

There were not many court battles during Chilarius' period, but there were also court incidents of incest between Chilarius and his niece.

After Byzantium lost Syria and Egypt, its territory was reduced to Asia Minor and Greece. At this time, with the reform of the military region system, the provincial governors changed their skins and became the head of the military region, with increasing power and the strength to challenge the emperor. At this time, the Byzantine court struggle was not limited to the Purple Palace in Constantinople. People in the military region all have ulterior motives and want to sit on the throne of the emperor.

Both Leo III, who provoked the iconoclastic movement, Irina, the queen who resumed idolatry, and Nikephoros I, who abolished Irina, experienced a unique bloody battle in the eastern court in Byzantium.

The Macedonian dynasty, which started from various ranks, rose to a new height in the court struggle. Vasily I, the pioneer, reached the peak by murdering Mikhail III, while the three Macedonian gods of war all legally obtained the throne by marrying the widow of former emperor Romanus II. Nikki Foros II was murdered by his nephew John I, John I fell halfway, and Vasily II succeeded to the throne. During the reign of Vasily II, there were three unprecedented civil strife in Byzantium, and Vasily II spent almost the first half of his life in counterinsurgency.

After the Macedonian dynasty ended, Byzantium began to decline. In the Battle of Manzkalt (the most familiar battle in Age of Empires II), Emperor Romanus IV was captured and released by Aslan, and was immediately gouged out after being put back.

This is the epitome of the court struggle in the early Byzantine Empire.

The Byzantine Empire, which declined in the later period, took on a new look with the revival of Komuning Dynasty, but did the power struggle stop there? Far from it, after the death of Manuel the Great, the greatest emperor in Byzantium, the battle for the throne intensified. Finally, in 1204, Alexius, who failed to compete for the throne, flew into a rage and led the wolf into the room. Crusaders captured Constantinople, and the small court of Byzantine Empire rebuilt the legal system in Nicia in Asia Minor.

126 1 after the restoration of Byzantium, the tradition of power struggle in Byzantine courts remained the same. Two wars in Androni and and two treaty wars exhausted the power of the small court in Vaglio, and the Ottomans occupied the original land of Byzantium and began the journey of destroying Byzantium.

Byzantium, Byzantium, the beacon of medieval Europe, accompanied by bloody court struggles. Such an interesting country also lost its right to speak with its demise. Compared with Byzantium, the power struggle between the British and French royal families is simply a matter of pediatrics. If the American TV series is shot in Byzantium, it will take decades.