The Roman Emperor Alexioscomunen, the Roman Emperor Alexioskomnean, the lord of the old world, the most noble in Europe, the only supreme of the Eastern Empire, the commander of all armies, had returned to the imperial capital of Constantinople at this time. Fastest updates

During the time that the Supreme of the Empire was gone, a lot of great things really happened.

The newly arrived future harem master, Princess Agnes of France, who will reign in Rome with Alexios, has been welcomed into the imperial capital.

The nobles who were still alive hurried to come into contact with this future queen who could, nay, was bound to become their master.

Even if the regent Mary protected the lovely princess well, it couldn't stop the sycophants who wanted to climb the dragon and the phoenix from reaching out to Agnes.

However, it is really no wonder that those poor old magnates, the new emperor has never looked at them squarely since he ascended the throne, and he purged the royal family and the great nobles at every turn, breaking the customary killing ceiling.

The penal code against the rebels began to spread to their families, and entire clans were relegated as inferior pariahs and sent to distant frontiers.

Now the only thing that the trembling nobles of the imperial capital want to do is to find a stable backer to continue to live.

This time, some people bet on this French princess who came from afar.

Of course, there are also some people who are not open-minded, proudly maintaining the demeanor of the rulers of the imperial capital in the old days, and dare to speak out at the dinner with the royal family.

It seems that this alien princess will not be long in Constantinople before she will leave in disgrace.

However, these people are whimsical fools, fools who have been thinking for a long time from the top of the empire, even if the queen is a prostitute, as long as she is a French princess, the emperor will respectfully offer her.

The regent Mary, who had not yet retired from politics, quickly made these people aware of the power.

The ideological misdeeds of the old aristocracy were immediately reversed.

Don't forget that Mary of Antioch was also a foreigner, and she was also the object of ostracism in a country where the Greeks dominated the country.

So the regent who protected the calf taught these old nobles who had lost their power a lesson, and let them understand that respect is a necessary virtue for everyone.

Another big event is that the imperial exam is coming!

The composition of the Imperial Council strongly guided the direction of the imperial political situation, and the administrative team composed of the regent Empress Dowager Mary and the consul Condos de Phanos controlled the court situation well, so that the emperor could rest assured that he could fight abroad.

The rampant reform of the tax collectors was the most eye-catching event after the departure of the Imperial Supreme, but anyone with insight was already aware that a new round of changes had begun to move Rome forward.

Regardless of those in the countryside, in the army, in the court, the old aristocratic bigwigs can only watch this curtain being slowly opened, and those who want to go up and pull their hind legs are all knocked into the dust.

Bloodline will no longer be the only law that determines the distribution of power!

Like a great wave of sand, all the buried gold will shine in this new screening mechanism, the old ideas of blood will be discarded, and the talented will embark on a career and be drawn into the imperial bureaucracy.

In the bloodline of the nobles of the continent, no one is glorified by the noble blood that flows in his own body.

It can be traced back to hundreds of years ago that the glory has never dimmed, but correspondingly, the common people and even the serfs at the bottom are struggling.

More than sixty percent of the bureaucratic system that existed for a long time in the Eastern Empire was also controlled by the descendants of the nobility, and the emperor was only able to promote one or two talents with the support of the army, perhaps still belonging to the old aristocracy.

But the new first ** exam soon revealed a cruel reality, the dignity of the imperial officials made everyone flock to it, and the old nobles who had been beaten down to glory only accounted for 30% of the selection.

The first ** test was successfully conducted under the auspices of the emperor's secretary general, Betak, and the exam questions were not difficult, and the requirements were only literacy and reasoning.

Agreeing with the great politics of the empire and the royal family is the preferred criterion, and those who have three wrong views (including the fanatics) are all losers.

Three thousand six hundred new imperial candidate bureaucrats stepped into palaces that most of them would never have been able to reach in their lifetimes.

The majestic palace may have left a deep imprint on their hearts, reminding them all the time that only by constantly climbing can they dominate the future of Rome with the great imperial supreme in this palace.

"I've kept you waiting for you!"

"I am the only Lord of Destiny in Rome!"

"And you are the shepherds chosen by the Empire to assist me in spurring the citizens forward!"

"In the future, the era will belong to me and to you!"

Jubilant Greeks crowded into a crowd in front of the palace and shouted: "Hooray! ”

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"How's my performance?"

The tired Emperor Alexios took off his robe and the richly decorated crown as soon as he returned to the inner palace, and the heavy dress could give the Imperial Supreme the illusion of being on the battlefield.

"Perfect, Your Majesty!"

The Secretary-General Bertak was cautious when he was alone with the Emperor, and he praised lightly, but it was not vain, as long as the Emperor could continue to maintain it, perhaps he would be the next Basil the Great, the man who laid the foundation for the great cause of Rome.

"I've never been so tired of escorting Richard by sea!"

Alexios was actually very pleased with this eastward journey, the Seljuks were repeatedly weakened, and several Bulgarian settlements or new military districts along the Anatolian border soon sent new tips.

The Roma army was gradually abandoning some of the lands bordering the Imperial Army.

"It's surprising that Arslan is showing weakness!"

"Even the greatest heroes can't bear the pain of losing their sons, not to mention that the Seljuks have lost too many troops, and they have no successor!"

"And how is the liaison with the last descendants of Danishmander doing?"

"Your Majesty, there are few commendable heirs left of that shattered dynasty, and the few remaining princes were hunted down by the Seljuks and lost their lives, and the minister's mission has failed."

Betak was entrusted with the important task of the emperor, and when the emperor was advancing eastward, he quietly contacted the ghazzi rebellion among the pagans who did not submit to the Seljuks, and waited for an opportunity to contain Arslan's forces, especially the annexed Danishmande.

However, the Turkmen's exhausted will to resist made them less confident of fighting the Seljuk conquerors, and in the end, the Armenians, who were already on the verge of being defeated, pulled the expeditionary force along.

"It seems that we will have to deal with the difficult Seljuks ourselves, so that the warriors can raise enough strength, and when our peasant army in the east is full, it will be almost time to destroy Arslan."

Quietly set up a plan to destroy the Seljuks, as long as Rome did not strife internally, these foreign enemies would sooner or later be destroyed by the emperor ** one after another.

Facing the east, Alexios' expression became solemn, what that Tianjiao was doing at this time, I am afraid that he was slowly accumulating strength to annex the surrounding tribes.

The Emperor did not desire to survive the terrible First Expedition to the West, but at least to preserve the Empire's victories in the East.

Invisibly, Alexios is silently competing with that Tianjiao, the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, and the strong take everything.

"Next up is Anatolia!"