"The empire was once so beautiful, and our brilliance eclipsed the whole world, but we burned so fast that it was especially sad to age."

On horseback, young John Ducasse remembered his grandfather's words, which he had spoken when he had taken over the reins and commands from the emperor. The Ducasses family may be regarded as a traitor by many nobles, such as the Queen Mother's Daracena family, not to mention the Diogenes family, who have a deep enmity with Ducasse, but in the eyes of his grandfather, the throne was originally Ducasse's, and the empire was not that of the rude soldiers, she belonged to the real cultural elite. During the reign of Emperor Mikhail, his grandfather was regent as an uncle, and there were sages like Mikhail Pucelos in the court who personally educated the emperor, and it was the last era of the empire. In this way, Pucelos once expressed this idea in his letter: "The Celts and Arabs have come to listen to me, and to march in my name. My words are like the water of the Nile pouring over Egypt, cleansing the soul and bathing the spirit. If you ask all the Persia and all the Ethiopia, they will all answer: "The wind is in the grass, and it is for one person!" ”

I had to clear Dukas's reputation, even though I knew Caesar's expectations, Caesar's ambitions.

He feared only one thing now, and he could not prove himself worthy of being in command of the people in war. Therefore, even though he was wearing the thick scale cuirass of heavy cavalry, the leather burqa, the iron arm guards, and the baring round helmet, he still tried to act as calmly as he could, and from time to time he dusted off the ornate armor under the chain mail leggings.

When he heard the loud thud of iron hooves, John suddenly realized that the muscles of his limbs had become stiff as iron.

It was the first time he had seen Angus charge.

The Duchy of Saxony has long since grown tired of the landscape, and the English are munching on dried herring and rusks while watching the Teutonic princes come and go every day.

The news from the front was neither very good nor bad, and Meissenbeenberg Egbert was still in a stalemate with the Duke of Normandy, and due to some domestic changes, some Northumbrian reinforcements had just joined the ranks of these Mercians, replacing the army of Gerspatrick, Count of Cumbria, who was said to be leaving the kingdom.

The commander of the coalition forces, Count Rodrigo, finally got a satisfactory result from Robert Mallett, and then never gave any orders for battle, and even the messengers sent to the Norman camp were cut off for two days.

What is even more surprising is that, because there are no outposts, the British have heard that in some places they have even found that the envoys of the Teutonic princes have secretly crossed the battle line, and it is likely that they have entered the camp of Meissenbianber.

However, no one knows how Meissenbianber himself felt when he saw these emissaries.

"Say it to me again!"

"My lord said that he would like to choose you as king."

"Shut up!" Egbert drew his sword from the ground, and struck it three times in succession against the neck of the leading messenger, and finally stuck it on the ground.

The princes had come to elect themselves king after seeing the English, and they could guess with their toes who meant this, but until now the Normans were still bleeding their army, and the English camp was silent, let alone sending secret envoys to discuss cooperation.

However, after the Bishops of Cologne and Trier had already expressed their support, the Emperor could not spare himself.

Having seen Rodrigo's shamelessness, Egbert could only choose to accept the support of the princes, and when this opposing king went from being the royal precursor of the exterminating invaders to the number one thief of the empire.

And after he threw his army into the war, the English could choose to reconcile with the already exhausted emperor at any time, after all, Meissenbianber was not Rudolf von Rheinfelden with the support of the Holy See, let alone an ally of the English king.

The princes threatened by the invaders to rebel and the yellow-robed Egbert Bianbo will take over the rebellious throne in place of the barely surviving Duke of Welf and the people of Zehringen.

Of course, Henry's situation is also very delicate, after Egbert's rebellion, the main force of the empire will inevitably go north, and the British army is very likely to choose neutrality, but Mrs. Weil may resurrect and overturn the newly pacified Bavaria.

Count Rodrigo was certainly not completely idle at this time, and it was not easy to build a new court for the duchess and prince, and the Duke of Billon, the leader of the Wendes, and the Poles, consumed almost half of the duchy's inventory, and diplomacy was never cheap.

But it was not the Duchy of Saxony that he was worried about, although the prince himself did not know about it, as the most important minister of the kingdom and a member of the royal family, he had already learned about Westminster from the king, and although the negotiations between Lady Agatha and the Earl of Northumbria were over, the impact of the matter was far from over, at least for now, it had affected the fate of little Guspatrick.

Considering the contribution of the father and brother of the Count of Cumbria to the royal family, of course, Gaspatik Jr. would not be exiled by the king, but for the sake of peace in the kingdom, he had to leave temporarily.

The choice given by the king was not bad, to serve in King Malcolm's court for the time being, or as an envoy to the kingdom, he would lead an elite army back with the envoys of Constantinople to help Emperor Alexios.

This certainly solved the immediate worries, but in Rodrigo's heart, the hidden dangers of the future were still not solved, after such a thing, how could the two lords be expected to continue to support the Duke of Saxony, Edmund, to succeed to the throne?

Rodrigo himself could never go against the king's will, which meant he had to support the crown prince, but the Earl of Northumbria might not mind supporting Prince Alfred, and the divided Mercia could join in their favor - the unity within the kingdom was coming to an end and the struggle for the throne had begun.

He remembered the brothers Alfonso and Sancho, and the sons of the Duke of Normandy.

In any case, this time he could not escape, he was no longer a court attendant, he was the prince's uncle, and as Robert Mallett had reminded him, once that time came, he would either become regent or be doomed.