Konstantinos IX removed from the worthy troops of Iberia the public domains whose revenues they enjoyed, thus alienating his own allies. He sent Leon Serblias to disband the 50,000-strong army of Iberia by collecting taxes instead of soldiers from those regions, and invented even more unlawful ways of exacting money for dubious projects like the Mangana buildings. He turned allies into adversaries and benefited the Turks, his greediness leading to troubles in the east