Wherever they passed, the local people quickly revolted and cooperated with the Greek army to attack the Ottoman garrison, which was either a tired second-line army or a makeshift rabble, unable to cope with the blows of the regular army, and they were terrified and unwilling to fight in the atmosphere of the national uprising, and almost collapsed at the touch of a button.

Zhou Chenggong had already expected these situations, because the defenses in these areas were very empty, and the second-line troops left by the Ottomans had poor training and equipment, and although he sent only new soldiers, they were well equipped and had high morale, and they were all expatriate troops who took the initiative to join the army, and they were heart-to-heart with the local people, and they joined the army under the anger of the massacres of the same people, and it was normal to win the war.

But Zhou Chenggong didn't expect it to be so easy, in fact, the Ottoman Empire has long been an old house that will collapse at any time, and it will collapse if you kick it on the broken door panel, but it has always been in the balance of great powers, and he has been able to maintain territorial integrity, but his own ability to maintain integrity is close to collapse.

It was easier than he expected, which made Zhou Chenggong a little complacent.

He rested on his wife's lap and talked about it, but strangely enough, in the face of the wish that he had worked so hard for twenty years to fulfill, he did not talk much about it, but only talked about some things about his childhood.

"Connie, you know, when I was a child, I used to fight with Zhou Jitong. Never lost! ”

Zhou Chenggong and Connie have remarried, which is generally welcomed in Greece, because a king, a queen, and the prestige are very high. remarried Connie, not because she divorced Princess Louise, but because the French princess unfortunately died. Her health had not been good, and after the 45 Revolution, when her father lost the French throne, she was so worried that she died the following year. Two princes were left, but the crown prince has never been decided, and Zhou Chenggong has clearly announced that he will choose a more talented one instead of implementing the primogeniture system.

He has always had a good relationship with Connie, but he only has two princesses. At both ends of the royal palace road in the city of Athens, there are two royal palaces, one is called the Victory Palace, which uses the name of Zhou Chenggong, and the other is called Connie Palace, which uses the queen's name. There is a square in front of Connie Palace, and there is a statue of Zhou Chenggong's horse in the square.

For more than a decade, the King's carriage would depart from the Victory Palace every day and arrive at Connie Palace on time. The king's argument was that Greece was a dual monarchy, so the king and queen worked together. In the evening, return to the Victory Palace. He left the day for his ex-wife and the night for his current wife.

The Greeks said that the king was nostalgic, but in fact only Connie knew that her husband was really trying to handle his official duties, and he worked as hard as a civil servant. With his diligence, he supervised the whole of Athens, and directly handled a large amount of work that should have been handled by high-ranking officials, who were more like his secretaries, and who had to report to him on any important matters unless he was absent. Connie persuaded the king not to work too hard, saying that the province of Athens was no bigger than a county in China, and that people would be tired. With the dedication of a workaholic, he succeeded in creating an incorruptible, efficient, and concise administrative system in Athens, which became a model for Greece.

At first, Connie felt that her husband was so diligent because of a sense of crisis in the second son, and the second sons in Europe who could not inherit the family business had a sense of urgency to seek a future for their future. But Greece is a small country, after all, Connie slowly felt that her husband may have sought the Greek throne for himself out of a sense of urgency at first, and then he was not recognized for a long time, which inspired a sense of crisis. And this sense of crisis is the source of his action, and this sense of crisis is not because he is a simple second son, but because he is not convinced.

He felt unfair.

"But his mother is the queen, my mother is a concubine, his mother used to be the master mother, and my mother was a handmaid. My mother was always cautious, I wanted to learn martial arts from the palace guards, but my mother wouldn't let me live or die. Then we suddenly stopped fighting, do you know why? ”

Connie gently rubbed his leg and said, "I know, later he learned martial arts from others, and you can't beat him." ”

Zhou Chenggong looked with a hint of melancholy, and said with a wry smile: "No." I didn't tell you because something happened later. ”

Connie sighed, she had heard most of Zhou Chenggong's stories, but it seemed that she hadn't been told.

"What's the matter?"

Zhou Chenggong shook his head and smiled, seemingly a little embarrassed and a little hateful.

After a long time, he said: "Later, one time, he annoyed me, and I chased him and beat him. I chased him to my father's study, and I couldn't catch up with him, so I picked up a book and smashed him, and ended up knocking over the teacup on the table. ”

Zhou Chenggong paused, as if immersed in memories.

"The mother of both of us and a group of handmaidens were chasing after us, and we saw this scene. The queen was not very happy, and my mother was very angry, and she grabbed me and hit me on the head and covered my face, scolding and crying while scolding. She often taught me to be obedient to the prince, and said that I would have to rely on the prince in the future. The queen didn't persuade her, so she watched my mother beat me, and the harder she beaten, the harder she cried. ”

Connie frowned, "What a vicious queen, do you hate her?" ”

Zhou Chenggong smiled: "Don't hate." Actually, she was a good queen, a very generous person, and I only wish my mother would treat me the way she did to her son. ”

Connie sighed, "Do you resent your mother?" ”

Zhou Chenggong sighed: "It's not resentful, it's just grievance." Also, listen to me. ”

"At this time, suddenly my father came in from outside, saw my mother beating me, and scolded me. Everyone stood aside tremblingly. The queen went up and told the reason, but my father snorted and did not speak. Then he went into the inner room and took out a very beautiful porcelain vase. Put it in my hands, and he said smash. ”

"Did you smash it?"

Connie wondered.

"Smashed!"

Zhou Chenggong's tone was proud.

added: "Smashed in front of him!" Smash it finely! ”

Connie laughed, "You're so naughty, I'm afraid you're going to be beaten up again." ”

Zhou Chenggong sighed: "No, my mother never beat me again." I haven't fought with the prince either. ”

Connie didn't understand: "Just because of a porcelain vase?" ”

Zhou Chenggong said: "Of course, there are reasons. When I smashed the vase in public, everyone was terrified. It was a priceless antique porcelain vase, which was usually kept in the back of the study, and my father personally scrubbed it, and no one was allowed to touch it. But I smashed it, so everyone else was afraid that the emperor would lose his temper. But my father didn't lose his temper, he said in front of everyone, especially to my mother, 'What a big deal a child fights, but he smashed two teacups, and he deserves to hit a child like this.' It's my stuff and I'm happy to let my son smash it! Who's going to hit my son again? ’”

Connie exclaimed, "Your father is amazing, he has preserved the dignity of a little boy. You're grateful to him, aren't you? ”

Zhou Chenggong snorted: "No, I hate him!" I avoided him and didn't talk to him for years. ”

Connie was puzzled: "Why?" ”

Zhou Chenggong said: "He kept the dignity of a son, but he hurt the dignity of a mother." ”

"Your mother?"

Connie wondered.

Zhou Chenggong nodded, he was in front of everyone at the time, and seeing his mother being scolded by the emperor was more uncomfortable than being beaten himself.

Connie sighed: "So you will hide from the emperor in the future and dare not fight?" It's all for your mother. ”

Zhou Chenggong shook his head: "This matter is not over yet." Afterwards my father drove everyone away, and my brother and I called together, and he pointed to the porcelain tiles on the ground. Very sad to say that this is his favorite porcelain vase, and now it is smashed, and ask us what to do? ”

We all shook our heads. In fact, we are all afraid of him, I don't know why, everyone is afraid of him, but he rarely loses his temper with others. We shook our heads, and he said, 'Shouldn't we put it together?' and we nodded blankly. He brought some paste and asked us to pick up all the porcelain pieces, and then the three of us worked together for a day and finished the porcelain vase! ”

After hearing this, Connie pondered for a while and nodded: "Your father is amazing, full of oriental wisdom!" It's the same story you told about the chopsticks, he wants to unite you. So you won't fight anymore. ”

Zhou Chenggong snorted coldly: "Do you know what I think? ”

Connie shook her head.

Zhou Chenggong smiled bitterly: "I was very aggrieved when I went back, why didn't he let the prince smash the porcelain vase, and then we fought together." Why let me smash because I'm different? ”

Connie didn't dare to speak, his husband was sometimes very extreme, only extreme people are stubborn, she didn't like this kind of extreme, but she liked the blind confidence that her husband always showed because of his extremism! He blindly believed that he could build a vast empire and restore the Eastern Roman Empire.

Because of the relaxed mood brought by the victory on the battlefield, my husband told the deepest secret in his heart, and after telling the secret, he seemed to be more relaxed, and he actually fell asleep, he was so tired!

Connie didn't bother him, just watched him fall asleep.

Soon after, there was a knock on the door, and Connie gently lowered her husband's leg, and she was about to stand up, but she staggered, her own leg numb.

Holding on to the furniture, he slowly walked to the door, where the anxious Foreign Secretary and the War Secretary were outside.

He sent an urgent telegram, reported to the queen at the door, and hurried away.

"What's the matter?"

I didn't want to disturb my husband, but my husband woke up.

Connie also felt that things were troublesome, so she walked over with a telegram and handed it to her husband.

When the king read this, his brow furrowed.

"I'm in trouble!"

From the front, fierce ethnic clashes broke out in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and other places, and the arrival of Greek troops stimulated the massacre of Muslim communities by Orthodox and Catholic communities everywhere.

The Austrian Government expressed strong concern about this, and the Foreign Minister feared that the Great Powers would use it as a pretext for intervention.

The massacres of the Ottoman Empire had caused widespread condemnation in Europe, and now the trouble had been turned on Greece.