"This is God's most perfect masterpiece!"

The disillusioned Italian aristocratic knight Boniface wandered aimlessly through the great city built by the Romans, and his mind was too exhausted to support him. Ｘ

Berniface and his brother Conrad went to study in the imperial capital of the Eastern Empire, where they spent a prosperous time.

"If only time could be turned back!"

The Italian lamented the ruthlessness of time, and in the blink of an eye he was thirty years old, and his admiration for the elegant life of the Romans and the desire for wealth in the place made him slow to leave.

As the heir to the Marquis of Montferrat, Boniface was destined to inherit his own estates in the Apennines in the future, and write his own chapter in Europe as a great nobleman.

"But that's not what I want!"

Having seen the extravagant lifestyle of the Romans, the magnificent architecture of the city, and the beauty of the Greek girl, the future Marquis of Montferrat stayed in Constantinople.

There are few people who will not be captivated by this magnificent city!

Whether it is the merchants of the Italian republics, the exotic barbarian curiosities, and the beautiful porcelain of the ancient Oriental countries are gathered in this city of ten thousand cities, the pearl of the Mediterranean for the Romans.

"My brother!"

"Foreigners are not reused here, even if we are Italian and speak Latin fluently, but what is the use of that?"

"The current Roman emperors only speak Greek, and their courtiers are all children of nobles from this place, do you think they will use you?"

"Böniface, you should be glad to have been born into a noble family, and we can still return to Italy to inherit our own inheritance, and we will not have to stay here and endure the eyes of the Greeks!"

Berniface gave a wry smile in response to his brother, who was too old and it was time to return to his hometown, and his travels in Constantinople would soon be gone with the wind.

But this Montferrat Marquis, who was born in Italy, actually had a great dream of serving the revival of the Roman Empire, and he was afraid that even his brother would laugh at him.

The recalcitrant bureaucrats of the recalcitrant Imperial government forcefully rejected Berniface's repeated requests to see him, and turned away the ambitious Italian aristocracy.

If anyone could have predicted the future, they would have been shocked to find that the man who had been expelled from the imperial capital by the Greeks would lead the Crusaders to destroy the economic center of the Eastern Mediterranean twenty years later, leaving the city so proud of the Romans in ruins.

"Then it's time to leave!"

The frustrated Berniface must now admit his defeat, he pleaded in Constantinople with no recourse, and his desire to serve the Roman Emperor was also rejected as a spy of the Italian Pope, so go back!

"Damn!"

Clenching his fists, Berniface became enraged, blaming the Greeks for all the years of uselessness here.

Conrad had actually made an agreement with the Venetians that they would leave on the fleet of the Republic, and that, as Italians, they would return to their homeland to reproduce their descendants and die by the sea.

This is the most perfect script!

"Please wait!"

Beniface was stopped moments before boarding the ship, and when he looked back, he was shocked to find that it was actually a court eunuch, and the Roman Janissaries were following him.

"What is the matter with you, noble lord?"

Although he did not look down on these Greek court eunuchs, in the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, Berniface and his brothers and a group of retinues made a respectful gesture to avoid falling into the truth.

It's not a good thing to be a guest in prison before you get home.

"You're Lord Berniface?"

"Heir of Montferrat Marquis?"

There was some confusion about the questions posed by the Greek eunuchs, but Berniface answered his questions honestly.

"Yes, the contemptible is none other than Bernifas from Italy, heir to Montferrat Marquis!"

"On the orders of the Great Imperial Supreme to summon you to the palace, can you come with me to see His Majesty Emperor Alexios?"

Unbelievable!

During the days of Constantinople, Berniface had no chance of being summoned by the Roman Emperor at all, and the odious Greek aristocratic bureaucracy would not allow an Italian nobleman of heretical faith to meet the Great Supreme.

A barbarian is a barbarian, and it would be good to stay honestly in his stinky hometown, which can be said to be the common idea of Byzantine Empire officials at that time.

"Of course I do!"

"I can go to see His Majesty the Emperor immediately!"

Berniface was so excited that he straightened his clothes to make them look simple and clean, and the Italian nobles couldn't wait to meet the emperor.

In fact, the eunuch also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, one of the orders given by the Supreme of the Empire was that if Berniface refused to come, then the Venetian ship would be seized and the man would not be allowed to leave the imperial capital.

Outrageous order!

It even included that if Berniface resisted arrest, the Janissaries brought by the eunuchs would be dispatched to kill the Italian nobleman on the spot for violating the imperial ban!

Berniface accepted the summons without the use of swords, and the Italians probably never imagined that his group might have almost died at the hands of the Romans at the hands of a single thought.

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Magnificent palace decorations, beautiful landscapes, located in the sky of the Imperial Palace.

Every attendant who passed by carried gold and silver cups and plates, which was extremely luxurious.

When he saw the Emperor, Berniface was even more shocked.

The Roman emperor's clothes on the opposite side are adorned with countless gold gemstones, and the waist strap is also made of pure gold.

Dwarfed by!

Although Berniface was not satisfied with his outfit on the way here, he still thought in his heart that at least he should be considered a decent person, but the current scene, everything made him ashamed of himself.

The jewels set in the crown of the Supreme Emperor of the Empire made Berniface unable to take his eyes off it, almost dazzling his eyes, and when he entered the main hall, the Italian nobleman stumbled and almost did not fall.

It's a shame!

The future Montferrathou had lost hope in his poor performance, and his expression became more and more depressed.

Alexios' face was tense, but his heart was calm, and the grace and splendor of the imperial family shocked the Italian nobleman, making him realize that everything in his homeland was nothing more than dung compared to Rome.

It fully shows the abundant financial resources of the empire, and the emperor is inevitably tired, such a heavy dress, in fact, Alexios rarely wears it on formal occasions, and today he specially sent someone to bring it out from the imperial treasurer for the sake of this Marquis of Montferrat.

It's a testament to the hospitality! r