Chapter 145: The Eastern Roman Incident
"I told you, don't take Constantinople to the side of the broken leaves, you, why don't you listen" Sergio Prushak, who was deported, looked at the still unrepentant Heracronas is itching with hatred, this kid is too unaware of the height of the sky, even the allies dare to squeeze, if His Majesty goes to heaven in the future, his brother Constantine III is frail and sickly, and Queen Martina is an ignorant woman, hey, the future of the empire is worrying.
"If you are offended, what can I do if I persuade him to convert to God, that is to save him, since he is not willing to accept my kindness, then from now on we will be enemies," Heraclonas said disapprovingly.
When Heraclius learned that his son was arrogant and coveted other people's wives, he was so angry that he wanted to depose Heracronas's "Augustus" and set up his eldest son Constantine III as the only successor, but unfortunately his plan was known to his niece and his wife, Martina, and the vicious Martina poisoned Heraclius to death. A generation of heroes has come to an end like this, which is really sad and lamentable.
As soon as Heraclius took his last breath, Empress Martina seized the will and read it alone in the royal box in the Constantinople Arena, preparing to make her son Heraclonas the sole emperor of the empire, but according to the custom, the will is usually read by the heir to the throne or the patriarch in the Colosseum when there is no heir, and all those who are eligible to inherit the throne should be present, and there is never any talk of the queen reading the will.
Angry citizens of Constantinople chanted the name of Heraclius' eldest son, Constantine III, and Empress Martina had to declare the throne jointly inherited by Constantine III and Heraclonas, and the two brothers became co-emperors, just when the townspeople thought they had won, Empress Martina conspired with Patriarch Piros and Bishop Phokas of Constantinople to expel almost all of Constantine III's supporters, including General Valentine.
Constantine III was the only one in the huge Constantinople, although he was frail and sickly, but he knew that his stepmother Martina was not a good person, so he had already arranged for his cronies Valentine and Philagrius to take away his son Constans and his own sister Princess Irina, these military and political forces who refused to obey Empress Martina and Heracronas fled to Charsedon opposite Constantinople, including Heraclius's absolute confidant Sergio Prushak.
Martina and Heraclonas, the mother and son, did not know how to restrain themselves, after killing the old emperor Heraclius, they targeted Constantine III, Martina took out the poisoning methods that he was good at to make Constantine III die, and their perverse behavior caused the dissatisfaction of the Eastern Roman Emperor, so they supported Constantine to the throne.
Under the pressure of the military, Empress Martina appointed Constans as the co-emperor, and Martina was unwilling to fail, so she appointed Constans and her own sons Marinus and David as co-emperors at the same time, which completely angered Charcedon and the emperor. Under the operation of these two forces, the Senate of the Eastern Roman Empire held a meeting, announced the deposition of Heracronas, and split the nose of the paranoid Heracronas, cut off his mother Martina's tongue, and sent them to Rhodes, Martina's rebellion ended, so the ten-year-old Constans was elected emperor, because there was an emperor Constans before, so the little Constans was called Constans II.
Succeeded to the throne, Constans II was assisted by the new Patriarch Paul II, along with the military governor Valentin and Sergio Prushsac. As soon as he came to power, he accepted the advice of Patriarch Paul II to bring back all the Eastern Roman troops scattered throughout Egypt to Constantinople in order to preserve the vitality of the empire.
Subsequently, in order to show his reliance on the military, Constans II married Valentine's daughter Fausta, in order to stabilize his position, and at the same time, he was ready to re-send the old minister Sergio Prushac as an envoy to break the leaf to re-establish the covenant, to the little Constans was moved by his sister Princess Irina actually proposed that she personally go to the broken leaf to see if she could marry the legendary emperor in order to win the other party's assistance.
"Sister, I heard that the Great Khan has several wives, he will not convert to God for you, if you marry, it is so far away from New Rome is Constantinople, what should you do if you are bullied" Constans II has followed his sister Irina since he was a child, and several times that hateful witch wanted to kill herself, but Irina saved herself, and Constans II took her sister very seriously.
"Constans, you have to understand, now the Persians have taken advantage of our civil strife and taken away a lot of land, and the only one who has the ability to help us is the Great Khan of the East, not to mention that he is from the family of Emperor Seris, and I am also a good family when I marry, so I can help you blow the pillow wind" Irina said helplessly, if it were not for the moment of life and death of the empire, she would not be willing to marry a heretic thousands of miles away.
Princess Irina's plan to reconcile was supported by Patriarch Paul II and Foreign Minister Sergio Prushsac, but was firmly opposed by Valentine, who turned out to be a middle-aged uncle, who had just gotten out of the state of Lori.
"Your Majesty, the Great Khan of the Jiankun Kingdom is a heretic, if the princess wants to marry, then he must be baptized by God, otherwise our Roman prince will serve the barbarian king with those barbarians, isn't it shameful" Valentine said impassionedly, "Even without the support of the Jiankun people, we will definitely be able to repel the invasion of the Persians and want the princess to make peace, unless all our Roman men are dead"
Well, Valentine suppressed Paul II and Sergio with righteousness, and Prussia and the two of them planned to make peace, although Constans II was small, but he saw that Valentin seemed to want to stand up, so he said, "Then, dear General Valentine, I fully support you, and you can go and retake the Levantine province for me."
Valentine, a typical man of great ambition and talent, thought that his talents were comparable to those of Belisarius, so he confidently went to the eastern front of the empire and began to mobilize troops to prepare for an attack on the Persians.
With the full support of Constans II, Valentine led the combined forces of Rome and Armenia to launch the first counterattack of the Eastern Roman Empire against the Persians after the crushing defeat at the Battle of the Yamouk River, but unfortunately, Valentine is an embroidered pillow and has little real ability at all, he misjudged the battlefield situation, and he was fighting against Massoud, a super general with the title of "Sword of Ahula", Massoud seized a small strategic mistake of Valentine and launched a fierce counterattack, As a result, the 50,000 allied troops led by Valentine were killed in 35,000 and 10,000 captured, and Valentine led less than 3,000 deserters to flee back to Constantinople in disarray.
Fearing that he would lose his great power and even be held accountable for his defeat, Valentine gathered an army that was still willing to follow him, sent troops to the city of Constantinople, and demanded that Constantine II appoint him emperor. However, the Senate, the Church, and the citizens of Constantinople all supported Constans II, and the imperial team did not firmly support Valentine.
"Valentine, I'm not thin on you" Constans II looked at his father-in-law, not to mention how depressed he was, Valentin was his father's absolute confidant, he thought that many people might rebel, but he didn't think that Valentine would rebel, not to mention that he also married Valentine's daughter Fausta, and also gave Valentin great glory, but, but this Valentin was not only not grateful, but also came back from defeat, and dared to rebel, and wanted to ask himself to give him the title of emperor, which is simply ridiculous.
"Your Majesty, if you don't agree to my conditions, then don't blame me" Valentine thought that he was the leader of the army, and felt that most of the army supported him, so he was ashamed to say, but before he finished speaking, most of the emperor's ** team fell to Constans II under the leadership of another general of the army, Romrose, and only a few of his cronies were still following him, at this time Valentine found out that he was a traitor, and he began to flee for his life, Unexpectedly, the unlucky Valentine ran to the house of a loyal fan of Constans II.
"Hahaha, Valentine, there is a way in heaven that you don't go, and hell has no door, you should break in and send you to Satan" The man in this family was a veteran of Constans II who withdrew from Egypt, and he was very loyal to Constans II.
"Manstofel, if you let me go, I can give you a lot of money" Valentine, who had already been blessed, was the opponent of the other party, and in the face of the threat of death, he had to use money to confuse the other party.
"Hehehe, your money is very human, but I also have to have a life, don't talk nonsense" Manstofil stabbed him with a sword, ending the warlord's life.
After the fall of Valentine, Constans II took power alone, Princess Irina once again proposed to him about peace, the young Constans II thought twice, and finally accepted his sister's suggestion, but the young he felt deeply humiliated at the expense of his sister's happiness in exchange for assistance, but out of the royal family, he had seen many storms and waves, and chose to bury this humiliation deep in his heart.
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