After Sophia's "wine" has passed three rounds and eaten five flavors, the waiters and maids carefully bring the second array of dishes prepared by the back kitchen to the table. And the little girl finally has extra energy, and part of her eyes are on the theme of today's banquet.

  If even the Serbian rebellion was mastered by Mehmed II behind the scenes, the recent series of decisions made by the Ottomans can be said to be interlocking and outrageously accurate. John wondered if Mehmed II had a change of mind after he was forced to withdraw from their Edirne, but such an endless stream of tactics would indeed make the empire exhausted. From Athens to Serbia, the empire's national strength was reduced to seventy-seven or eighty-eight, and when there was no time to look eastward, it would bite a large piece of fertile land.

  "In any case, this time Mehmed II can no longer let his wish, even if the empire can no longer send troops to Asia Minor to make the Ottomans unhappy, let him Ottoman know that the empire is not so polite, and he can let him jump up and down on both sides of the Aegean Sea!"

  "Your Majesty John...... Let's start by talking about what Serbia should do. The conquest of the Ottomans, neither for us Albania, nor for the Empire, nor for His Majesty Hunyadi, is unrealistic. Jerj smiled wryly as he slipped a slice of grilled chicken breast under Sophia's gaze, and the latter, holding a piece of freshly baked gingerbread with frosted sugar, chewed it in small bites.

  "Listen to my father." John slick the ball to the side rather competently.

  "We have given them peace and we have given them a gentle reward, but they have responded to us with arrows, guns and swords!"

  John took a sip of his wine rather happily. Such a grand opening will definitely bring about an ending that he admires the most.

  "The Patriarch of the world has received the grace of the Lord to judge against the vile wickedness of rebellion against God and declaration of war against people like God."

  "Thus for eternity, the title of secular lord of the Kingdom of Serbia is abolished......"

  Although he guessed this possibility, Jerj put down the wine glass in his hand with a little shock. It's a serious matter, and it doesn't seem to be suitable for the occasion. Evie Skanderbeg, who had been sitting quietly beside Constantine XI and had been smiling and silent, was the calmest one at the moment.

  "In their place, there were two secular dukes and counts. Dukedom of Kosovo, Duchy of Serbia, County of Niš and County of Shkodar. It is up to the current de facto controller of Serbia to honor God's will and divide it up. "This God's edict was written by Constantine XI a long time ago, and the partition of Serbia is a matter on the agenda.

  As it turned out, even if the rebellion was about to be put down early, Gregory III was already terminally ill. The real intention of this will of "God" is to justify this dismemberment and to bring this land under the control of the Crown. In the first partition contract, the disposal of Serja is practically unchanged, and the output of the gold mines in Kosovo will also be shared by the Triple Alliance.

  "Serbia and Niš were under the direct jurisdiction of Hungary under the title of Hunyati, Shkodra under the direct jurisdiction of Albania, Kosovo under the direct jurisdiction of the Reich......"

  Eat dry and wipe clean, without spitting out bones. John was finally heartily pleased with Constantine XI's decision. The stereotypes are outdated, and they should be eliminated. Interests should be the only thing that should be respected.

  The empire still made some concessions in this distribution, but the deal was still a good deal compared to cementing a firm alliance with a firm alliance for the future.

  So next, take advantage of some unnutritious prayers and toasts to each other. When the court musicians are also intoxicated, it means that tonight's "discussion of business" has passed. As for Brankovich, according to legal theory, after the title of the Kingdom of Serbia was officially stripped away, there was still the possibility of inheriting the Serbian dukedom and becoming a vassal of Hunyati, but Hunyadi did not let him live again, which is another story. The disposal of other rebel prisoners will probably wait until after this Christmas.

  As John became more and more immersed in the temptation of food, Sophia finally couldn't help but poke his arm. Such a move would have been selectively ignored by Constantine XI, and if Gregory III had lived one more year, he might have been able to make it in time for the marriage ceremony of the Holy Lord. It's just that Sophia doesn't mean affection at all now.

  "Oh yes...... Father, one more thing. ”

  "Say it."

  "In the next year, I'm going to Cairo again." After wiping his mouth with a napkin, John patted his chest on the front of the chest, indicating that his body had healed for a while, and this level of travel was not a problem.

  "Cairo?" For a moment, Constantine XI could not think of any value in visiting the Mamluk Burgi dynasty, which had been completely destroyed in the Ottoman war. Especially when the empire has attracted the attention of a large number of elite Ottoman legions in the Balkans, and the dynasty can still suffer defeats.

  "Yes, Cairo. Because I was in a hurry, I had to trouble Mr. Agrippa to go to Rhodes. After acquiring Cyprus, the knights should have lived a comfortable life. ”

  John didn't care if Cairo was in ruins or thriving, what he needed was for the Ottomans to have no way to complete the annexation of the Two Sheep Dynasty until the empire had regained some strength. After gaining Mesopotamia, the Ottomans invaded the Balkans again, dropping the difficulty by another level.

  John decided that even if the empire did not directly participate in a frontal war against the Ottomans, it would build a siege network sufficient to deter the Ottomans so that Mehmed II was forced to delay its expansion.

  Although the people in the Purple Gold Hall were still eating, they were obviously taken away by John, and only the court musicians were still immersed in the beautiful music that John could not appreciate.

  After uniting the Mamluk Bulgi Dynasty, the Knights of St. John, the Black Sheep Dynasty, and the Aries Dynasty, the military strength that could be formed in Asia Minor was already capable of fighting the Ottomans, and if the Komnenians in Pontus were added to the army in the capital and the naval threat that the empire could give, it was not impossible to dispel Muhammad's plans.