up nor mentioned, the Hazarbashis replaced the Ghulam Khana, which did not go unnoticed by the Qizilbash. The officer corps was also reduced, with serving military officers having to apply again to the Janbaz or the Hazarbashi, essentially in effect sacking the entire Afghan military command. These humiliating actions did not top what was imposed by the British, as nobles now had to go to Lieutenant Trevor, one of the lowest in British command, to where they felt insulted as they had commanded their own tribal militias, and now they were being reduced to petition. Trevor even told the nobles that in a year or two their “kind” would be unemployed, and rewards after that point would be a pure act of charity. The biggest insult that enraged the nobles however, was the fact that the Janbaz and Hazarbashi forces had to swear a new oath of allegiance to Shah Shuja, unless they be exiled. The reason they found this insulting was due to the fact that they had already pledged allegiance when Shah Shuja and the British took Kabul. As a result, the nobles took this as Shah Shuja doubting their loyalties. The angry nobles demanded for Shah Shuja to remove the order, to which Shah Shuja called them cowards who uttered idle threats. He notified them that, since he was king in name only, the nobles should go to Macnaghten for their issues. As a result, on 1 September 1841, all but a handful of officers refused to take the oath of allegiance, to which, Shah Shuja responded by banning them from court and demanded they took the oath or face punishment. After around nearly a month of standoff, most of the officers took the oath, and in secret, some military officers planned to take revenge on Macnaghten and Burnes who had reduced them to this level of what they saw as humiliation. Macnaghten then proceeded to alienate the tribes which had brought Shah Shuja to power. In the Autumn of 1841, Macnaghten received Auckland's orders to reduce their spending, and find savings of hundreds of thousands of pounds within a matter of weeks. Convinced that much of Afghanistan was pacified following Nott's victories at the Helmand and Qalat-I-Ghilzai, he halved the payments of the chiefs of Tezin, Jabbar Khel, and the Kohistani pirs. In September 1841, Macnaghten summoned the chiefs who had their payments halved, justifying it