With heavy protection and martial law on the road, Wei Xi straddled a white horse, wore gold armor and was majestic, and took his warriors and soldiers into the city with a swagger.

Everyone's faces were full of excitement, Constantinople, here we come!

The road was roughly organized, and there were no dead bodies, but there was debris everywhere, the Byzantines had lost their armor, and the purple-black puddles of blood were densely populated with flies, and it was a mess.

Wei Xi first entered the "Golden Gate", which is the golden gate leading to the Roman Road, people think that it is made of gold, and some say that it is brass, Wei Xi went over, and found that it was gold leaf nailed to the white marble, and a huge statue was erected on the top of the door, and a person led 5 elephants, which was very peculiar.

Pass the Plaza de Arcadius, where the Emperor Arcadius Column sits, quite tall!

Also passed by the Bull Square, where there is a statue of a bull soaring, and now it has become the cow of the Tang people!

Take the Via Merse into Piazza Theodosius, the confluence point of several important Roman military avenues and the largest agora trade area in the city. There are many workshops and shops here, the business name Qian Zhuang is next to each other, the clothes and food shops are everything, the partitions are set up, and they are well organized, forming a commercial area within a radius of several miles.

This is the hardest hit area of the orderly robbery of the Tang army, and although the city has been besieged for a long time, there are still many goods that have been obtained here.

Enter the circular Constantine Forum, a center of commercial and political activity, as well as an important place for emperors to hold ceremonies or show off their martial prowess. To the north is the Imperial Senate, with dozens of wide marble staircases in front of its door, which serves as a forum for dignitaries to address the public.

In the center of the square stands a giant granite column tens of meters high, topped with a tall bronze statue of Apollo brought from Athens. In the center of the square stands a giant granite column tens of meters high, topped with a tall bronze statue of Apollo brought from Athens.

The majesty was magnificent, and someone flattered Wei Xi and said: "Apollo is a P, and he should be replaced with a bronze statue of the prince!" ”

Wei Xi shook his head and said, "I don't want to be exposed to the sun and rain every day, and often suffer from bird droppings!" ”

The people first burst into laughter!

To the east, there was the Plaza de Augustus and the huge Hagia Sophia, as well as the vast Grand Racing Arena, but it was not their destination, and they hurried to the Royal Palace!

There are three gates around the palace, one called the Hippodrome Gate, one called the Mankana Gate, and the third one called the Waterfront Gate.

After entering the waterfront gate, there is a 300-step long hall with red brick floors. Passing through the hall, one leads to an inner courtyard that leads to the emperor's inner court. On the left side of the courtyard is the emperor's private chapel, with a total of 10 gates, 4 of which are golden and 6 are silver. The altar inside the church is made of a single piece of cypress wood, inlaid with pearls and precious stones. The ceiling of the church is all vaulted and made of gold and silver.

The church is surrounded by four courtyards, each 200 steps long and 100 steps wide. In the courtyard there is a 5-meter square pool dug out of marble, towering over marble pillars 5 meters above the ground, with a lead dome above it, and another silver dome towering above it, supported by 12 pillars, the top of which are statues of various animals.

The palace where the emperor went to court was called the Jinluan Palace, or "Golden Palace", and the emperor's throne was set on the altar at the semicircular apex of the palace hall, and this long hall looked like a church, but it was actually designed according to the style of the church. The throne is located on three porphyry steps, made of ivory, gold, pearls and precious stones, topped by a canopy, and has a fine mosaic of the symbol of Jesus on the back of the throne. The throne was wide, covered with cushions, and it was a double seat,

In front of the throne hung a purple curtain adorned with jewels. Next to the tent was a gilded brass tree, and all kinds of birds landed on its branches, also made of gilded brass, and they vied with each other to play a gentle song. Flanked by two gilded bronze lions, these mechanical beasts "can roar with their mouths open, stick out their tongues, and strike the ground with their tails."

It's truly beautiful and incomparable!

Even if you are a Tang person from the East, you have seen the world, you must know that Luoyang is the capital of the gods!

The capital city that dares to claim to be a god is naturally unusually huge, especially in recent years, with each passing day, and the changes are extremely fast.

But when everyone saw the beautiful scenery of Constantinople, they had to obey that many places were better than the gods.

Tang generals and ministers surrounded Wei Xi and stepped up to the Jinluan Palace, and when they reached the throne, Wei Xi stepped forward alone, and the others all stopped!

Wei Xi approached the throne step by step, he didn't know that everyone behind him was holding his breath!

People were ready to kneel and shout those two words, and everybody was even ready to discuss them.

But unexpectedly, Wei Xi just held on to the throne and turned to face everyone, he didn't sit down!

"Europa is not peaceful, the kings and this king still have to work hard!" Wei Xi said this calmly.

All the people admired the five-body bow to the ground, and bowed together: "I wish to follow the king Jiwei, and I will break the European Rome!" ”

Wei Xi did not take the seat, and ordered the palace to be sealed, and no one was allowed to trespass except for the necessary maintenance personnel.

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He did not occupy the palace, let alone the women in the palace, but he distributed several beautiful princesses to his children, for concubines and not for wives!

There were no beauties, but there were goods, and he got countless jewelry, gold and silver utensils, leather, perfumes and even silk porcelain tea from the Tang Dynasty.

In the treasury, the Tang army seized 20 million pieces of gold and silver!

This is the wealth that the royal family has accumulated for many years, and it is cheap.

Then I went to check the various prefectures and business districts, and the property obtained was only gold, silver, copper, silk fabrics, leather and other materials, which was roughly estimated and worth 100 million yuan! It is equivalent to the total fiscal and tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty for three years, of course, the Byzantines have accumulated 368 years from the construction date of 330 AD to 698 AD this year.

The Byzantines occupied the central passage of Eurasia, through which the Silk Road had to pass, through taxation and their own trade, through the east and west, and the city had not been breached for hundreds of years, and the savings were unusually rich.

100 million yuan!

What is the concept of unprecedented wealth? Suppose a war of 100,000 elites is launched, and the average consumption and reward for each soldier mobilized before the war is 100 guan (not a lot, 25 guan for a horse), and a war only needs 10 million guan. It can be roughly calculated, Wei Xi can use the resources of this city alone to launch ten large-scale wars.

Rewarded, Wei Xi generously ordered to reward the soldiers with one-half, 50 million!

This is a super record reward!

There were more than 400,000 troops attacking Constantinople, with an average of more than 100 per capita, and they earned four horses, which is equivalent to four cars at the end of the year, while the previous wars mostly earned one horse, which was a windfall.

Of course, when dividing, you can't score evenly, for example, the former enemy attack troops, many times as a blade to rush forward, they are injured by the oil oil, and they will be rewarded! Warriors can be ten times heavier. The families of the fallen soldiers should also be heavily compensated.

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The rest of the money, which continued to be used as construction funds and military expenses, was obtained from the 20 million yuan of gold and silver in the palace, which Wei Xi was ready to use as a deposit for "paper money"!

The war has entered a deep level, and the financial situation will also be a deep development, and the future will be better and better.