Before the completion of the new Omiya Castle, Gawain and Anna and their children officially lived in a small palace outside the fortress of Gallipoli, which was a great place for safaris, and Hristopher and Helena began to ride their foals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Anna, who was expecting to give birth, was a little worried about the children, but Gawain said that it would be enough to let Theognis teach them equestrian, so Barcelissa was reassured: the catcher was gentle, old-fashioned, stubborn and loyal, and he was best suited for the position of "Taifu".

The new garrison cavalry began to be recruited from all sides, and the hunting grounds, woods, and mountains outside the Gallipoli palace soon became their training grounds, and soon the cavalry soldiers and red hand cavalry would form a large hollow rectangular formation, and enclose the ponies of Helistopher and Helena in the center, cheering incessantly—Helena was especially sassy, with her brown hair braided, who seemed to have inherited her father's fine genes, and the falcon handbag was tied to her little shoulders, and the "captain" was especially obedient to her. Always revolving around her.

Hristover was more stable, interested in geography than a safari falcon, and he bred a faithful Caucasian retriever named "Dores", with whom he liked to explore the mountainous terrain around the palace, and his mother Anna commented that he would be more of a "naturalist" in the future.

In late spring, Anna gave birth to a boy in the palace, her second son, the fourth son of Gawain.

After the news reached Asia Minor, various cities such as Prussa, Atalia, Seleucia, Caesarea, Tarsus, etc., held celebrations of various dates. In the cave monastery of the Corlegadeo, where the clergy were particularly active in private, several representatives approached the widow Inglina and said to her: "The Patriarchate of the capital has been abandoned by the Lord and punished by His Majesty the Emperor, and now the two Majestys (Anna and Gawain) have been greatly blessed, and Barcelissa has given birth to a third healthy child. ”

It turned out that most of the members of the Cave Monks were from the Orthodox priests who had been expelled from Gawain in Cappadocia, Amasia and Sebastian, but they also often had a lot of doctrinal differences with the Patriarchal Church of the capital, so they all took this opportunity to gather around Inglina in the hope of rekindling glory on the peak of Calleadiono.

On the one hand, they secretly attacked Gawain and Anna (after all, they were the ones who cut them off) by writing private histories and diaries, but on the other hand, they cooperated with the authorities to flatter them, constantly collecting ancient manuscripts and translating them, and such work has always been funded by Ingridina.

Hearing this, the widow "wept with joy" (the cave monks' account is unknown), and she thanked her for the blessing of Anna's heirs in front of the portrait of the Virgin, and then she accepted the suggestion of the cave monks to pay five hundred Byzantine coins to move the "Black Madonna" from Trabzon to St. Paul's Cathedral in Tarsus, where it could be worshipped by the city's people.

The prototype of the Black Madonna is actually a sculpture of the "Mother Earth Goddess" in ancient Asia Minor, which later circulated in the Christian church and became the "Virgin Mary" by false rumors. And the Holy Mother complex of the entire Eastern Empire in history actually originated from the ancient "Mother Goddess Worship" in its territory.

But why not send it to Constantinople? Inglina also had good reasons, now that the riots in the capital had just been extinguished, and the order was still unstable, she was afraid that the statue of the Black Madonna would be destroyed by the villains there.

In reality, however, the cave monks were learned and shrewd men, and they secretly persuaded the widow that in Gawain's empire, Tarsus would be the center of the East, Thessaloniki (though still in the hands of the rebel Zezes) would be the center of the West, and Constantinople would be the center of loyalty—once Gawain was in the capital, it would be difficult for Ingrid to stay with him for a short time, because according to the rules of court etiquette, whether the Purple Lady could see Barcelus or not depended entirely on Barcelisa's eyes.

Gawain's attention had to be drawn back to the East, and the Black Madonna was part of the plan: once the treasure of St. Paul's Cathedral in Tarsus was in possession, it would rise again, and it would not be impossible for the city to be on a par with Constantinople.

By that time, the widow would be able to exert more influence and affection on Gawain by pleasing the burghers of Seleucia and Tarsus, and Caleadios's status would be elevated—now Khlistopher was a "nobleman", and Calleadeus was still a "white-robed nobleman".

The monks and the widow hit it off and immediately began to implement the plan, and several sophisticated monks wrote a petition to the Gallipoli court, wishing to name Anna's second son "Menelik", the son of the great ancient king Solomon and the wise queen Sheba, who would later succeed the throne of the ancient kingdom of Abynesia.

When the letter reached Anna, who was recuperating on the bed in the palace of Gallipoli, the imperial Barcelissa was furious, "Queen Sheba is a dark-skinned Abyssinian queen, and her original **union with Solomon is even more of a sin**, and since then she has sinned against the Lord, and Solomon's kingdom has gone from prosperity to decline." Ingrid is trying to make me Sheba, obviously mocking me, how can my skin be so dark? It's about the same thing about your wild sister, and it's also a curse that you and my country will decline in the future. ”

Gao Wen, who was accompanying him next to him, smiled, "Ingridina has never had much literary background, how can you be well-versed in the past and the present?" She said that this was an unintentional mistake, and I suspect that most of the letter was written by the clergy of the cave. ”

But Gawain soon fell silent, and his heart suddenly flashed, and he muttered "Sheba".

"Do you think I'm like Sheba?" Anna was even more annoyed.

But her husband looked up at the bay-loed capitals of the ceiling and asked, "It just so happens that Ingridina's mistake has given me a great inspiration." The assembly of the believers in Adrianople is about to take place, and I will be in control as the High Priest of the Empire, and I will read a very important resolution, and in this time I will have the printing and paper workshops everywhere secretly working at full strength, but to achieve convincing results, I will need an industrial feat, in addition to theoretical papers. ”

"What feat?" Anna became curious.

"Have you ever heard of a story about King John in the far and isolated East?"

"That ridiculous legend?"

"Wouldn't it be better to make absurd legends come true! Then believers all over the world will be obedient to us. Gawain clearly took a keen interest in "King John." (End of volume)