Eagle Byzantium

A week later, Emperor Irene asked the emperor's coffin to accompany her. Escorted by a huge funeral procession, she boarded a ship in the Gulf of Nicomedia and sailed to the magnificent imperial capital.

"The queen finally got her husband forever after his death."

All residents of Constantinople have the right to cry for three days, but they are only allowed to cry once a day. This is also a long-standing tradition of the dynasty. People here always abide by it and enjoy it. They believe that it is these things that make There is an essential difference between myself and all "country people".

While they were crying, they also felt that the crowned John was a pretty good emperor. He restored the new bureaucratic organization and calmed down the soaring prices after panic in the five squares of the capital. The property of the old bureaucracy was used in exchange for peace with the Normans, which was also praised by people.

"Meat-eaters seek it out" is the common aspiration of the people at home and abroad. No matter what the purpose of John's attack on the old bureaucracy, he can look at "his building is rising and his guests are having a banquet" and then see "his building is collapsing." ", all people can obtain the mysterious "pleasure", regardless of whether they have received substantial benefits or not.

In addition to Burrill and others, the most valued eunuch of Emperor Alexios during his lifetime also suffered. He was blinded and exiled to the island of Samothrace. The golden edict issued by John said angrily, " ...The former Imperial Wardrobe Manager Nick Demia has always been disrespectful to me and is very angry. The hatred is no longer a day or two..." However, Nicodemya's nephew Mikhail was promoted to the Imperial Stabler and was in charge of the palace guards in the imperial capital, so everyone rumored that John did this. , nothing more than wanting to restore the alliance with the Ducasse family and control the armed forces of the capital.

Soon Mikhail's wife was also awarded the purple dress and could travel around the palace.

In addition, the new emperor John kept going to his mother to greet him and sincerely consulted his mother for opinions on state affairs. It is almost a known fact that the Dukas family regained power and once again joined forces with Comnenos to govern the empire.

"His Majesty has sent an envoy to propose a marriage to Prince Magyar (King of Hungary). The other party is a fourteen-year-old royal princess named Piloska. His Majesty hopes that through this sacred and ingenious marriage, he will win over many barbarians in the west. Kingdom's support, so that he can get help against the enemy in the east. In addition, Your Majesty. I also sent an envoy to the old city of Rome to discuss with the Western Patriarch there the church's restoration of the rift." In the chief lady's palace, when the maids lowered themselves to report the news, Marlena was in a daze. Lying on the couch, she put her hands on her forehead. After hearing this, she felt no joy at all, but panic and worry.

"Why why, why didn't that child come and tell me his martial arts skills in person? For a whole month, he never came again. I was forgotten, forgotten..." Marlena sobbed, "I have raised him for so many years, given him everything I had to give him, and even betrayed the emperor for him..."

"Master!" Before these words could be finished, many maids knelt down in panic and begged their master to stop speaking so arrogantly.

Then Marlena began to weep and wail. Suddenly she jumped up from the couch and asked hysterically, "Look, is there a mass of black gas on the ceiling, dripping with blood?"

The maids were all panicked. They hurriedly explained and comforted them, saying that it was just an illusion of light. But Marlena's face became even paler, and her facial features were distorted. She looked at the Zhongtong-style dining room outside the dormitory, and the study room on the outside against the back garden, and couldn't help but scream, "Hold the door for me." All the doors and windows going there were walled, sealed, and blocked. I didn’t dare to listen to the wind coming from there, as if it was the miserable moaning of my child Constantine.”

Outside the pillars, several servants were staying in the dark corner, listening quietly...

News of the emperor's death soon reached the court of Tarsus.

Anna was stronger than she thought. She was going to give birth in two months, and she heard the news while lying on the bed with Gawain.

"It is impossible for my father to die from an inexplicable poisonous arrow. This is completely a murder." For a long time, Anna just said this sentence, and then she looked up and closed her eyes. Her breathing was a little disordered and restless. She still felt sincerely sad. .

Gawain patted his wife on the arm, stood up, walked between the bedroom and the closet twice, then turned to Anna and said, "Anna, what do you think of the secret letter sent by Mr. and Mrs. Mikhail?"

"I think my father should have entrusted the empire to me before he died. Because it is impossible for my father to give up the throne to anyone while he is alive, and now John's behavior is tantamount to regicide and usurping the throne. So the barbarian, only Only you and I, as well as our children, are left with the qualifications to seize the throne of the imperial capital."

Gawain asks where are Dido and Breenus?

"What are they two, rivals? Even the mention of their names feels like a stain on my lips. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be arrogant or uneducated in any way, but they and the whole Thracian pine I think we can easily annex the region through future diplomacy, and then send both of them to the monastery to recuperate. You know, my sister is still obsessed with you, which makes her crazy, and she always does stupid things that are not in line with her abilities. But after success, I don't mind retaining her honor and status. "Yes." Anna replied disdainfully, holding her chin on the couch, as if she was talking about an extremely easy task.

Hearing these words, Gawain could only nod in agreement. In fact, he had always felt guilty about Dido, "So Anna, now we attack Constantinople and truly put the crown on our heads. What obstacles do you think are there?”

"If we don't go west, only Raymond's Laudesia area is left. It is like a wedge between the Brenus couple and our territory. As long as we capture this place, the Brenus couple will have no resistance to us. , most of them want to surrender directly, and in the north, there is Theodoro and him. The Imperial Capital and the Georgians behind us will pose a threat to us. If we want to break through the Imperial Capital, we must defeat them. Finally, the Armenians of Marash, Apsomates of Cyprus, and Antioch and Atlantis. These forces will also pose a threat to us."

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"Then let's improve the plan mentioned by Grandpa Little Sunfish. I think... it won't be a big problem to seize the imperial capital within three to five years." Gawain thought of the map sand table and the After thinking about various strategies and data carefully for a while, he said to Anna, "I will officially put Romana's crown on you at the original Grand Palace."

"Same for you." Anna's eyes suddenly became firm and sharp, and she rubbed her abdomen carefully, "Only the two of us can carry forward my father's legacy - child, how I wish you could be called Christopher. "