WI: Emperor Maurice decides against staying beyond the Danube

Pretty much what it says above. What if Emperor Maurice decided against staying beyond the Danube and his troops don't mutiny against him?
 
Pretty much what it says above. What if Emperor Maurice decided against staying beyond the Danube and his troops don't mutiny against him?

They later mutiny against him being a cheapskate, one of his sons takes over, and...

Not to cut discussion short, but Maurice's pennypinching is almost certainly going to be his doom, though it may be more a matter of being personally deposed (as the troops were okay with his dynasty, just not him, personally and there don't seem to be any generals particularly eager for the purple at the moment) than what happened OTL.

Heraclius probably stays in Carthage.
 
He reigns for another few years before dying in his sixties. His rather cryptic plot to divide up the West into bite-sized fiefdoms between his younger sons goes ahead, with his eldest son Theodosius taking the East in its entirety. What happens next is anyone's guess. I suspect that the Persians will have a go the moment the news of Maurice's death reaches Ctesiphon, so Theodosius will have that on his plate for a few years. Presuming he's competent enough to hold them off, I expect he'll gobble up his remaining brothers.

Alternatively, Maurice is overthrown a year or two later, perhaps by Phokas, perhaps by Heraclius, perhaps by someone else entirely. He really was a paradox- a general practically undefeated in battle, who was hated by his troops.
 
Maurice being extremelly pennywise really had it coming... However if he allows the troops to withdraw for winter he could have survived some time before "being forced" to abdicate by some disgruntled General perhaps in favour of his son... But there is a slight problem here... Maurice was in friendly terms with Khosrau II since the former had helped him to regain his throne and Khosrau II was deeply indebted to Maurice... Any violent change in the throne of ERE would have given excuse to Persians to reopen hostilities...
 
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