Eagle Byzantium

The military judge at least did not give a negative expression, and finally he added, "I swore an oath in front of the Red Hand Military Code."

So Gawain turned around and talked to him about the plan for the next six months - experimental cultivation of rice in Cilicia, promotion of millet and wheat in the plateau, expansion of personnel and departments of the Seleucia Ordnance Department workshop, construction of citrus plantations, and of course the most important revival of Beirut and Jubail, and the first shovel and first furnace of the Tranzac Iron Mine.

Finally, what he was most concerned about was Anna's smooth delivery.

After saying this, Giovanni thought for a while and raised a very practical question, "Manpower will be a very serious problem."

Gawain nodded and sighed, expressing his agreement with the military judge's concerns: now the cultivation and reclamation of citrus, rice and millet alone has occupied a large number of holy salary farmers, and the border residents and militia are also in a semi-official state, dragging down a considerable proportion of the people's manpower.

After all, although his current vassal state has occupied two emerging areas, Kayseri and Iconium, the total population has only reached one million. In fact, this population was not small in the Middle Ages, and it was considered a regional power. The population of Britain before the Black Death was about four million (after the Black Death, it once dropped to more than two million). In addition, Gawain also took ruthless measures to isolate the existence of the middle class. In the former Reuben Kingdom, he almost executed all Armenian nobles, but there are too many things to do and too many things to take off in a short period of time. People with manual skills and experience are even more scarce. Therefore, as the military judge said, "manpower is still a big problem."

Rely on natural reproduction? It will take at least ten or twenty years to see some results.

However, the production of Khitan snow, the large-scale cultivation of new crops, the paving of roads, the excavation of canals, the breeding of plateau cattle and horses, the construction of new deep-water ports, and the large-scale manufacture of iron tools and weapons, which one is not a problem that needs to be solved in this decade? Gawain urgently needed some kind of accelerant, but some conventional moral issues still entangled him.

He walked to a document cabinet beside the column, took out several letters and handed them to Giovanni. The military judge was originally a small country gentleman, and he knew how to read and spell several languages. Giovanni frowned and unfolded the letter paper. Some of these letters came from the Grand Senate of Bari City, some from the palace of Anna in Tarsus, and some from the handwriting of Wright in Sis County, but the topics were unified, so Gawain put them together in a mezzanine.

After synthesizing the information, Giovanni's face changed unusually.

"I am cautious and reserved about such behavior."

"There is no better way..." Gawain was obviously a little worried, "In fact, Anna and Andeodate have expressed concerns about your idea in their previous letters..."

The implication is that the Senate and Wright in Bari City agree with this.

"I think we should hold another meeting of the six departments to gather all the powerful people for a frank secret meeting on this issue." Giovanni suggested.

Gawain nodded, "It will be held in the old palace of the Seleucia Acropolis in a week."

Before the meeting, the secret envoy of Brenus and his wife finally arrived in a dusty state. He first went to Fort Germanico, but when he got there, he learned that the battle was over. "Under the new thunder and fire attack, Danishmond has never suffered so many deaths. Their chieftain has fled to a place where even the wind can't reach." So he went down the Haris River again, and when he crossed Fort Angras, he was almost mistaken for a spy and caught, and finally came to the renamed city of Iconium.

"I didn't expect your master to be such a Penipasebastos." After reading the secret letter, Gawain said to Brenus's personal servant in a well-guarded room.

Then Gawain pondered for a moment, thinking that this should be the instigation of Dido Komnenos, but after thinking about it, he felt that asking was completely unnecessary, so he sent the secret letter to the current table, "I have understood the intentions of Penipasebastos and his wife, please report that I will not go back on my promise to him in the camp at Antioch Minor - both sides will maintain the current borders unchanged, not invade each other, and set up regular trade markets in Alaman, Miliocephalon, and Seleucia Port - my military operations in the East must not be attacked by His Highness Brennus, and on the contrary, His Highness Brennus can ask me for help in any danger, and I will do my best."

"As for the seal..." The servant whispered flatteringly, meaning that he could return to Philadelphia and ask Penipasebastos to send the secret agreement document with his name and seal signed.

With a slight but crisp sound, Gawain took out his seal, stamped the secret letter, and handed it to the stunned servant, "Just ask your Penipasebastos to give me a receipt. There is no need to be so shy. As long as there is integrity, I don't believe that Penipasebastos will hand this secret letter to the emperor. It should be said that even if it is handed over to the emperor, it will only inject a small river into the ocean of hatred of the emperor towards me." Gawain said, removing the seal and spreading his hands, looking indifferent.

After sending the servants away, Gawain slowly walked to the pillars with raised patterns and held them with his hands. He suddenly laughed softly, "My father-in-law, your seven golden edicts seem to be a well-thought-out reshuffle of the new and old forces on the plateau, allowing everyone to restrain each other and prevent any party from becoming too powerful, but this kind of political strategy is useless to me. I only see that the western part of Tarsus is full of people with ulterior motives, and this situation will only make me more comfortable in the future... It's sad that your son-in-law and daughter betrayed you again."

Thinking of this, Gawain couldn't help but sympathize with the emperor, but then Gawain suddenly felt fear and sadness in his heart - how could he avoid his father-in-law's old path?

That night, Gawain didn't ask anyone to accompany him, but thought quietly until he fell asleep on the camp couch in the room...

Within the specified time, everyone gathered in the familiar old palace in Seleucia, and even Anna, who was pregnant, came in a sedan chair.

At the edge of the forest garden in the backyard of the old palace, Gawain arrived one step ahead. In front of the gate covered with vines on the inner wall, Wright, who also arrived early, took two steps at a time and quickly came to the patron to salute, and then said to him, "According to your instructions, it has been prepared behind this inner wall."

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"Okay, I will personally identify and compare." Gawain hung the scepter and whip on his belt, and then covered himself with a black cloak and came to the stone wall battlement on the other side of the inner wall under the guidance of Wright.

There were three teams of people standing on the gravel ground there, all wearing the same coarse linen clothes, but with different skin colors and appearances.

In short, one team was white people with flesh-red skin, one team was very fair and beautiful, and the last team was purely black skin. (To be continued ~^~)