Heroes in troubled times in Twodroth II

Twodros II was born as Kassa Haile Giorgis, but is usually called Kassa Hailu. Born in Kwara, northwest Ethiopia, a ruined feudal aristocratic family. Father Hailu Valleda Guiorguis died in Casa's childhood. At that time, Ethiopia was in a period of "feud between princes" that lasted for a hundred years, and the country was divided. 1In the 1920s, the biggest feudal princes in China were the Duke of Ali and the Queen of Monlon, and it was said that there was a northern Begdir area. Marquis of Wooby, occupying Tigray; Marquis of Goshu, who ruled the Gojam region; Haile Malakot, king of Shao 'a region. There are countless smaller separatists and rural camps.

According to the custom of the upper class, Casa was sent to a monastery near Lake Tana to study in her teens. A few years later, the monastery was looted in the war, and he followed his mother to the home of his slightly influential uncle Marquis Camford. When Casa came of age, Goshu, the strongman of Gojam, sent troops to seize the territory of Marquis Canfu. Casa and her son lost their livelihood and fell into extreme poverty. In order to make a living, my mother was forced to become a vendor selling herbal medicine "Koso". Soon, Casa took risks and gathered in the mountains with hundreds of local vagrants and poor farmers and herdsmen to become the leader of this team. A few years later, due to the participation of a large number of displaced farmers and herdsmen, this originally rogue team gradually became an army with strong combat effectiveness.

Casa's army is not only different from the corrupt feudal princes, but also different from the ordinary peasant rebels. In essence, it is a peasant army led by small and medium-sized nobles, and its operational objectives are relatively clear. Casa himself is both an aristocratic strongman and a leader of the peasant army. He received the so-called orthodox feudal education from the monastery and inherited some of his uncle's ruling experience, so he had long had the ambition to unify the whole country. 1848, he talked with several Europeans about his future vision. Afterwards, a European wrote that Casa "has infinite courage and fearless spirit" and "one day, he will become the duke of Ethiopia". Later facts proved this prediction.