Eagle Byzantium

Dido recognized the tone of her sister's words, and immediately stood up, grabbed Anna's hand in front of her knees, admitted her mistake, and begged her sister to spare her.

"So, if you and Gawain were together, how could he achieve what he does today?" Anna said with a tone of victory, touching the hair on Dido's head.

"I have given up my wild illusions and am willing to bow down as your servant. I will take Theodore to live in the new house in Tarsus tomorrow, but please don't let Brenus go to Crete." Dido burst into tears.

Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Anna changed her tone to a gentle one, "I understand what you mean. That's good. Breenus will no longer take up military duties. I will appoint him as the herdsman of Mysia and Lydia to concentrate on his work." To adjust the internal affairs, his men merged with the troops of Acropolites and Bekus, and seven thousand people formed a new brigade to besiege the enemy fortress on Lesbos Island. I, the commander of the brigade, will specially Arrangement of candidates. Do you think this is okay?"

"Leave it to His Majesty Caesar's disposal." Of course Dido would not refuse.

"Very good." Anna touched her sister's cheek lovingly, "Don't paint me like a succubus in the future. I am a wise and generous holy apostle!"

Dido lowered her head in horror, said yes repeatedly, and said that she would spend all her money to sponsor the murals of the Orthodox monastery in the entire Calle Adio Mountain, and paint her sister's portrait on it, with a golden ring on her head.

"No matter what, it is a very appropriate arrangement to let Brenus take over the civil affairs." After a while, Gawain pretended not to understand anything and walked out as if he had just woken up. He waited until his wife told him what had just happened. , decided not to cause trouble, and complimented Anna, "It's just that the Crete side is really tricky."

Hearing this, Anna was a little ashamed.

After all, the Cretan rebels rose up based on her promise, but they were defeated by the Venetian interventionist army as Gawain expected.

Now even Rhode Island can't be conquered.

However, Gawain didn't mean to continue blaming her now. He just said to her, "Actually, it would be better if the Cretan uprising failed in the end."

These words made Anna think. She stood up and walked to Gawain's side. She thought about it and seemed to understand, "Big Barbarian, what you mean is that only land and people are needed, no nobles..." "

Gawain stood under the tapestry, caressing the bronze incense burner. The top cover was an extremely finely carved little lion. He nodded and said, "The new Roman Empire in the future really does not need such a great nobleman who occupies the mountain and becomes the king. Isn't this the same lineage we have?" Is it a policy? So let Venice temporarily occupy Crete... and the nobles on the island will slowly fight, so even if 50,000 people die in Crete in the bloody war , it doesn’t matter if a hundred thousand people die, but it’s actually better. Crete, which is full of riots, will become a poisonous bone that the Venetians can’t bear to swallow, and it will destroy the blood of this city-state. When the time comes and our own fleet is fully established, we can reap the benefits. When our flag is established, foreign merchants and immigrants will come and make this big island prosperous again."

"Aren't you afraid that the Venetians will use it as a springboard to threaten Samos and Mysia?"

Facing Anna's worry, Gawain chuckled, "The pigs in the City of San Marco are just showing off their power in the sea. In my eyes on land, they are just pigs waiting to be slaughtered. What's more, now The wise and insightful old consul Feleyer made a mistake. Instead, I took advantage of the past two years to throw some meat to these pigs. Take advantage of it and ask them to continue to support the greedy Piero Corner. Anna, we will go into battle lightly and focus on pacifying Greater Armenia, Trabzon and Georgia. Then I will use the island of Cyprus as a springboard to use the new fleet to capture it. The whole of Tripoli, isn’t this our predetermined plan?”

"What about the imperial capital?"

"The road to the imperial capital has been opened, but there is no need to be impatient. Maybe it will fall into your hands like a ripe golden apple in the future." Gawain said, turning around and holding his wife's hands, "I'm sorry, I predict There will be another expedition next spring.”

"I will take good care of the children and take care of this country." Anna stepped forward and hugged her husband's generous arms. "I have thought about it. Christopher's future surname will of course be Gawain. If I can be better than him in the future, As long as you live longer, you will be able to protect our empire."

"Then I'll naturally rest assured..."

At this time, Anna, whose hair was being stroked, rolled her eyes and said, "By the way, are the four thousand soldiers from Brenus's old army really not going to Crete but going to attack Lesbos?"

"No, we will continue to issue orders to Crete in three days." Gawain gave this answer.

Within three days of the official order being issued, Gawain sat in the city of Prusa and ordered fifty officers and soldiers each with outstanding service from the Hierapolis brigade, the Lydian border army and the Bithynian border army. , "Selected to further study at St. Michael's Military Academy in Tarsus."

Then he selected more than a hundred people from the newly transferred tax officials of the old empire and the supervisors of the Pulogna estate (in the previous golden age of the Byzantine Empire, the number of noble officials in the country was between 3,000 and 4,000) ), sent to St. Paul Study in a university or the Smyrna Law School. "In the future, you will all be the humerus and arms of Caesar's governance. You must not neglect your studies at all. I will consider formulating a reasonable and generous salary as soon as possible so that your families will have enough food and clothing." worry."

After completing this, Gawain promptly sent an order to the camp of the Lydian Border Army, "Your original commander, Grand Duke Brennus of Nanfihon, has gone to Mysia to take up his orders. So now, Count Lecapenus (the father of the fat lady Eudora) is appointed as the acting commander, and the entire army will immediately cross the sea to Rhodes to fight."

The order was very clear, but it aroused mutiny.

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Many border soldiers gathered around the soup pots in the camp and made noises and doubts: "We have also made great contributions in the siege of Prusa. Why now the Grand Patron not only did not grant us benefices and land like other brigades and border soldiers, but instead transferred the Grand Duke of Brennus and sent an outsider to govern us, and sent us all to the island with stormy waves?"

So some people started to make noises, "We want fairness and justice! We are willing to fight for the Grand Patron, but we don't want to be pawns and not get a benefices."

The word spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Many brutal people stood up and kicked over their soup pots with their feet.

Kicking the soup pot is equivalent to a sign of military mutiny.

Four thousand Lydian border soldiers began to occupy the camp, closed the internal and external roads, and detained half of the Gao Wen's guards who delivered the order, and expelled the remaining half, shouting the slogan "We also want benefices", officially announcing - mutiny.