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On the couch, John lay on the young queen's body, moving back and forth mechanically, and Pyroska did not even take off the overall, her eyes were a little painful, her legs were slightly apart, she actually put her palms together on her chest, her fingers twisted the amulet pendant, and she was actually praying to the Virgin and Jesus.

But it was already a good night for Piloska after her marriage, because she knew that the Patriarch would give her an Orthodox name soon, which would mean that she had truly become the queen of the empire, so she was still in a good mood at this time, otherwise she would have gone to the prayer room to meditate and then go to her bedroom to rest.

The continuous whispering of scriptures, the dull faint sound of the bed, combined with the dryness and pain in the queen's interior, and her silent and uninteresting expression, made John gasp with his head down, and look away in pain, and he even wondered how long he could last this marriage.

But at the last moment, Piloska suddenly looked at him, his eyes were a little shining, his hand was rare to hold John's arm, and his voice was a little hoarse and asked, "Husband, you will grow old with me, right?" I know that some books blame women for always trying to use sweet words to pull men back from the battlefield of fame and power so that they can be by their side, but I really can't be that selfish. ”

John thought to himself, like you, I wish I could be out all year round.

But considering the alliance between the empire and Hungary, he spent words to coax his little wife to say that of course, that you and I have been approved and blessed by the religious head of the empire, Masdas, and that this marriage is the most holy.

When this Puritan enhanced bed was over, John was so painful that some of his legs could not be put together, and he put on his coat with the help of the eunuchs, and hurriedly said goodbye to Piloska, saying that he still had some military affairs to attend to, and that the two would not rest together tonight.

After John lifted the curtain and strode away, Piroska slowly sat up from the couch, and with a somewhat dull look in her eyes put her dress and jewelry in order, and then came out too, sitting on the little throne with a mournful expression, watching her husband's back as he departed from the door.

At this moment a handmaiden with a turban carrying a kettle came to the little queen and whispered to her:

"This is the third time he has deceived you, and you need not doubt the Empress Dowager's previous warnings to you—every time he leaves in the middle of the night, he will go to the chief lady of the court to do unspeakable deeds."

Tears slid down Piloska's face, "What should I do, Belia...... I'm still young and don't know this, but I just know that my husband's behavior like this is the greatest insult to my kingdom! ”

"Everything will end on the feast of the Nativity." The maid Belia said in an affirmative tone.

In the city of Prussa, the heralds ordered the cavalry to gallop into the courtyard of the palace, bringing a crucial message from Italy to Gawain and Anna, who had been waiting here, that "in this bitter cold season, Surian Caesar Henry the Fifth arrived in Rome with a large procession over the Splügen Road (the road connecting Germany and northern Italy via the Alps), and negotiated the coronation with the Lateran Palace and St. Peter's Pope. ”

"O father of Henry the Fifth, it is said that his coffin has been sent back to Liège, so his father's ghost has returned to the land of Alemania." With a knowing smile, Anna said, "The coronation of the Iron Crown of Lombardy will be haunted by this specter. ”

Gawain, who was sitting in another chair, was also determined not to hesitate, and he went to the map table, while the tutor Maglendius stood beside him, and told Gawain: "We must be good at deducing the other side of the coin from one side of the coin, and now we can get the news from Constantinople that the great priest is to hold the whole city of the feast of the Virgin Mary, both to name the Hungarian queen who married in, and to perform the baptism of the Virgin Mary - the puppet emperor John, whom we have been overwhelmed by the Thracian invasion, It was inevitable to choose before and after this ceremony to allow foreign ships to pass through the Bosphorus. We have to do it, my majesty. ”

"Everything in the Lateran Palace is entrusted to the Rehabilitation Society and Anselm of Bari, and all we have to do here is to take risks, adventures, and adventures! And braved the wind and snow to march towards Constantinople in earnest. Gawain stared at the map table and made up his mind.

"The dice have been rolled." Anna also got up and said the famous words of her predecessors, "The Marimara Sea at this time is the Rubicon River of the past!" ”

In the cold night around the city of Prusa that night, thousands of torches were raised: the Nika Brigade, the Ephkin Brigade, the Hierapolis Brigade, the Bithynian Frontier Army of Marinus, and the Miscian Marines of Brennus rushed to assemble in the cities of Abydos and Nicomediaa on the coast, and prepared to cross the sea in a big way.

On the other side, a large number of skua light ships began to go out frantically, shuttling through the inland sea, with light cannons set up on the bows, constantly reaching under the coastal defense walls of Gallipoli and even the imperial capital, and frequently shelling them, creating a tense and urgent atmosphere.

In addition, at the castle of Kartalimon, the soldiers and horses of the six remaining detachments of the Red Hand Brigade and the Guardian Brigade, as well as the attached muskets and cavalry, also arrived here, and began to make a gesture of moving on to the port of Media at any time.

In the Brachna Palace, where he got the news, John clenched his fists, "Gawain, sister, in the end, you still can't hold it back and show your fangs?" Go and tell Molito. The great ships of Russell, Venice and Sicily were ready to march ahead of schedule. Also, send messengers to gallop to the city of Rome to complain to the patriarch there about Gawain's treachery! ”

What John did not know, however, was that the Pope Cardinals were now in the small town of Sutri, and were engaged in intense and arduous negotiations with Henry V, who had arrived.

Henry the Fifth, a tall, high-cheeked, energetic but somewhat gentle young king, with a velvet cape, a huge ruby inlaid with gold buttons, and his hair was a soft grey color. Eugene maintained a kind and courteous attitude, but it was clear that his final decision was influenced by his confidants, a local archbishop of Deutschland, and court bureaucrats.

The young king made three demands:

1. To be crowned by the Pope himself, and to put the Lombard Iron Crown on his head;

2. Dissolve the anti-Salian alliance throughout northern Italy;

3. He wished to inherit the other party's domain after Matilda's death, and if Matilda passed the domain to her husband Welf, then Welf should owe allegiance to him and become a vassal of the Salian dynasty.