On the first Sunday of mid-April, Pera, the "city within a city", surrendered. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

10,000 Venetian expatriates, including nearly 3,000 regular citizens of San Marco, had to meet the ruthless execution of the new emperor of Constantinople.

In the large circular square of Constantine, all the captives included the Consul General Molito. Russell, including many women and children, was surrounded by tyrannical soldiers. Many of these women were originally Roman women in the capital, and they were the first to suffer from their greed for the wealth of the Venetians—the townspeople threw stones at them, others were torn from their clothes, their buns were cut off, they cursed loudly, and they wept in horror with the young children born in the Venetians—and the mobs of the capital soon forgot the blood stains on the racecourse, the horse stadium, and the Almshouse of St. Paul, and vented their flesh and anger on the suffering foreigners.

The merchants of Amalfi and Pisa were triumphant and gloating, dressed in festive silk cloaks, standing on the buildings of the street next to them, as if watching a grand comedy, toasting each other. Two of the city-states even put aside their old suspicions and entered into an alliance with the city of Barry on the other side of the coast, "vowing to protect each other from the siege of a mighty enemy on the horse, and relying on Baseleus. Gawain's power", and wanted to join the hot duck, although Pisa was traditionally a papal city, but the wealth of the East had long since made it abandon its faithfulness and how happy it was to be able to squeeze out a formidable rival in Constantinople.

Of course, the enemies of the two city-states were the Norman kingdom of Sicily and the Tuscan Holy See and the Lombard Cities Alliance.

And Amalfi hopes to squeeze out the Venetians in Egypt as well!

The scorching sun shone on the chaotic and mournful square, and the soldiers waited impatiently for the edict from the Gallipoli palace: if the emperor told them to slaughter, the canals around the square should be covered with blood.

Molito showed great courage by calling on all the men to keep the women and children out of his back and arguing angrily with the besieging citizens, the consul general, covered in prostration and sweat, standing in the scorching sun with his voice almost silent, but still holding on to his duty.

Half an hour later, Gao Wen, who was living with his family in the palace, sent the "Simen Official" Muzafiadin (and then in charge of the key to the dormitory and the gate tower, which can be said to be a very trusted official position, although the rank is not high) to send the Xuan:

"Henceforth in the edicts of the Empire of Venetian were to be stripped of the title of Grand Nobleman of Dalmatia, and John was to be called 'Tyrant of Crete,' Constantine. Berdin will be called a 'Slavic traitor', the King of Hungary will be demoted to a 'Turkic chieftain', and Sicily will be seen as a 'Syracuse bandit'. All the Dalmatian rebels in the city of Pera who have been captured will have all their property confiscated, deprived of all security and legal guarantees, they will no longer be protected by the Roman civil law, and the church of St. Mark in the neighborhood of Pera will be razed or used for other purposes. Of the three thousand Venetians, half were sent to the military workshops of Seleucia as slave laborers, and half to work in the silver mines of Great Armenia. The rest of the women and children were all sent to the silk weaving workshops, leather workshops, and docks in the imperial capital as slaves.

Consul General Molito, with whom I had befriended and admired his conscientiousness, could not be forgiven by me, for he was to be held accountable for the failure of the Empire's negotiations with Venice, and I would deprive him of his liberty, but give him the rank of a nobleman with a sword, and ensure that he would be fed and fed, and exiled to the port of Medea and imprisoned. ”

After the edict was read, the whole square was half thunderous cheers, half wails of descent into hell.

"Blessed be George!"

"Consecrate Nicholas!"

Seeing this scene, the two merchants of the city-state who were watching comfortably became even more satisfied, and collectively toasted each other, "Go to hell, Venetian pigs." ”

After drinking their drinks, they walked to the ornate round table made of teak in India, and each draped in a red smock that symbolized their status, both city-states were now part of the "Red Party Order", which shows that the new Gawain Emperor did not treat them as outsiders, but there were also strict restrictions on the routes and types of merchants: Pisa could go through the Theloponnesian route, Amalfi on the Samos and Cyprus routes, and the hot ducks, which were about to join in, had access to the Gulf of Tarsus and Alexandria (Tarsus, Adana to Antioch), they were all under the supervision of Bill Leoni. Zhao Zhao of the Red Party, on the other hand, oversaw the land and sea trade routes of Ikonium, Trabzon, and Fahis, and prepared to open up the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea) in the future.

As for the Blues, Gawain assigned them several important river routes between Thrace and future Macedonia, as well as the ports of the entire Western Yukchen Sea, and the entire Danube shipping route, and called on them to actively engage in business and shipbuilding, and revive the commercial atmosphere of the former empire.

After dark, Gawain stood quietly in the porch of the Monastery of the Savior of Ponte Poptus.

The masked nun Daracena sat across from him, looking at him coldly.

The hatred between the two was inevitable, Daracena devoted her life to building the Komnenos Empire, which was her commitment and responsibility to her son, and when Alexios was still young and had not yet ascended to the throne, this energetic and skilled woman was constantly roaming between the various families of the empire, weaving the best and most stable web for the Komnenos like the best weavers. Therefore, during the civil war of the four Caesars, no matter how the positions of other families changed, the Komnenos would always reap the benefits.

However, this ingenious "Comunenian conspiracy" was ruthlessly pierced and torn apart by Gawain with a burning sword (cannons, firearms, new field siege tactics, and the new military system in the territory) - on the battlefield of Philomeron, Alexios was defeated, and the conspirator who played all his life finally died in vain in another shameful conspiracy.

Darasina's dreams were completely shattered when her life was about to come to an end.

"You Varyag barbarian, your reign will not last long." The old woman gritted her teeth, "You kill my son now, and with the support of the two traitors, Erin and Anna, you think you can keep the crown safely?" No, you have sinned against the Holy Church. ”

"I can start a new church." Gawain paced two steps and interrupted her, "A new type of church that can persuade the people, preach the faith, and lift the spirit and morale of the people." Then he looked at Daracena with some contempt, "Maybe this is hard for you to imagine, because you are forever afraid that sinning against the religion will lead to the salvation of your soul, but I am not afraid, I only care about the merits of the world, and do not care about the afterlife. ”