Eagle Byzantium

The entire Roman court was in chaos. Beys who were unaware of the incident or angry about it began to gather out of the city, return to their respective Iqta fiefdoms to gather cavalry and slaves, and start fighting with factions loyal to the Grand Vizier or Danishmond in places such as Konya and Ankara.

Then, after recovering slightly from the defeat at the Cliff, Meric immediately sent his generals to lead 4,000 soldiers to "capture" Ankara and Konya Castle separately - the great emir Meric was very impatient.

But on the other hand, Gawain was very calm: he left the Red Hand Brigade to build the "Miliocephalon Fortress", without hesitation and quickly issued some instructions or diplomatic documents in the camp, and then returned to Seleucia with the guards.

At the turn of spring and summer, on the green slopes of the Mut River Valley, Kabe Amiya, wearing light clothes, rode on a mottled mare, crossed a canal, and then strolled up a hill, looking back at Gawain who had left, and the mighty soldiers of the Gimges Brigade. Surrounding them were wheat fields and orchards along the mountain, and the Sarlev River meandered through them. The "rebel trees" that once hung the bodies of Ginat were now sprouting again, lush and green, interlacing symbols of death and rebirth. The sun slowly fell along it, shining on the backs of people working in the hills and fields - her chest felt filled with sadness, but what right did she have to be sad? In the wilderness of Miliocephalon, the smoke mixed with the smell of gunpowder had just drifted to the Euksin Sea along the south wind, and the thousands of believers expelled by the emperor still needed tedious resettlement work.

"That princess must be happy, and I, the true believer's female archon, should also be happy. Marriage is a completely different concept for her and me." Cabeamia, with her Persian-style braids, said with some resentment and envy, but tears fell unconsciously.

Under the city of Seleucia, the Gimages Brigade temporarily settled down, and Gregor and Plagit waited for the two detachments to meet from Fort Alaman: then a mixed fleet of Amalfi and Venice bound for the port of San Simeon in Antioch would carry them there as a backup team and Gawain's representative to participate in the "Recovery of the Holy City".

Gawain himself came to the empty old palace of the Seleucia Acropolis. The furniture, scaffolding, cat house, bed, incense burner and carpet in Anna and his bedroom had been rolled up and sent to the new capital Tarsus.

At the edge of the terrace, Gawain saw the tiny figures of craftsmen who were like ants. They were sitting on four-legged or one-legged stools, with the legs of the stools wedged well into the gaps in the paving stones. They were preparing to expand the street from Seleucia to Tarsus - the materials were paving stones and asphalt, and the width was twice as wide as before, which was more convenient for merchants, troops and personnel of the six departments to pass - after the completion, Tarsus would have two main roads paved to the east, namely the cities of Sis and Adana, and Seleucia would also have one to the west, leading to Fort Alaman. In the visible plan, there are four or five secondary streets connecting the Mut Valley, Cilicia Gate, Caron Castle, Vanka Hill Castle and Kole Adiou Castle. The main road adopts the technology of the Archaic era, mixing lime, gravel, slate and pebbles to lay in layers, and the embankment is raised to prevent the erosion of coastal silt. As for the drainage canal, it is not necessary in Cilicia where the rainfall is not large. The whole road is also very straight, which is particularly in line with the characteristics of the mostly plain area from Seleucia to Cilicia. As for the secondary roads, their width is ten to twelve feet, about half of the main road, and they are mixed with a small amount of sand and gravel for easy paving.

Gawain looked to both sides, and there were groups of windmills on the hills and the seashore, some tower-shaped and some sail-shaped. They have been running twice the milling process under the careful maintenance of the Self-Reform Society and the Holy Benefactors. They performed very well, saving farmers a lot of money and bringing a lot of income to the treasury. But now some evil tendencies have begun to exist in Seleucia: some of the beneficiary farmers who already own private land have begun to reveal their cunning side. When they use the cattle, horses and farm tools of the beneficiary farms, they take the opportunity to secretly bring these things to their own fields for private use, causing great waste and damage to public assets; there are also profiteers in the Akum market, who are so bold that they even sell candles with large wicks and little wax directly to Gawain's scarlet tent.

Therefore, it has become a top priority to set up market inspectors and farm inspectors to cooperate with the riders of the militia.

This was also what Gawain had been planning when he conquered the Kingdom of Reuben in Lesser Armenia. He immediately signed a new order: eight market inspectors were stationed in each of the four fixed markets, thirty people were stationed in the recruitment office in Fort Alaman, two inspectors were stationed on each farm, and the militia riders were separated from the militia organization, with about two hundred people and three hundred horses. The self-defense riders of the Chamber of Commerce (fifty people) were also all incorporated (but the financial expenses were still borne by the Chamber of Commerce) - these people, local offices, and horses were all under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Government, and were stationed in various places to take on postal, secret reporting, monitoring, detection, and law and order maintenance work, which was the "police organization" that Gawain hoped for between the army and the Reform Society.

When Muzafiadin and Dim led the guards of the scarlet tent, they were engaged in various professions, such as carpenters, painters, gardeners, falconers, hunters, etc., but they were not the best in the industry. Gawain did not like to hire the best. He was too lazy to serve those craftsmen who were more arrogant than the master, and he did not want to let himself and Anna fall into luxury. At the same time, he liked to enjoy the pleasure of guidance and conversation. After the guards came in, they temporarily put in the wardrobe, writing table, camp couch, eagle scaffold and some elegant flowers. The two imperial ink officials, Hetomia and Little Sunfish, went to Tarsus with most of the members of the Six Departments, and Gawain could only write by himself.

An hour later, Muzafiadin knelt beside the writing table with a candle. Gawain had just written the order just now, that is, to establish the "Postal Riders Team". He picked up the order he had shown Hajib before, about the execution of Reuben's son Toros and three daughters.

After thinking for a while, Gawain held his forehead, unwrapped the letter with a paper cutter, took out the paper roll and unfolded it, used a small ivory Madonna statue to hold it down, took a reed pen and made a few strokes on the original text, then simply rolled it up again, held it to the candle held by the military servant, watched it burn into a black slag, and changed the instructions on the paper again:

"Toros's two sisters can marry my holy cavalry flag officers to increase their door lintel. One sister will be temporarily placed in the palace to be raised, accompanying Reuben's wife, and none of them will be killed, but their freedom will be restricted; as for Toros, he will continue to be imprisoned in the dungeon of Vanka City as a prisoner. Food and drinks, especially fine wine, can be supplied first. The Ani people like this kind of thing very much, until he is drunk into a waste. This matter is fully handed over to Branas to deal with, showing my mercy of not killing." (To be continued ~^~)