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"The queen, finally got her husband forever after his death."

All the inhabitants of Constantinople had the right to weep for three days, but only once a day, a long-standing dynastic tradition, which the people of the city always enjoyed and believed to be the essential things that distinguished them from all the "countrymen".

While they wept, they also felt that the crowned John was a pretty good emperor, and he was praised for restoring the new bureaucracy, calming down the soaring prices after the panic in the five squares of the capital, and confiscating the property of the old bureaucrats, including the Imperial Zaifu, in exchange for peace with the Normans.

No matter what the purpose of John's attack on the old bureaucracy was, if he could coldly see "his house rise and his family banquet guests" and then see "his house collapsed", all the people could get a mysterious "sense of pleasure", regardless of whether they had received substantial benefits.

In addition to Beriel and others, the most important eunuch of the Emperor Alexios' life also suffered, and he was blinded and exiled to the island of Samothrace, and John issued a golden edict with resentment, "...... Nikdemia, the former head of the Imperial Palace's wardrobe, has always been disrespectful to me, and his resentment is no longer a day or two...... "However, Nikdemia's nephew Mikhail has been promoted to the head of the Imperial Warden and is in charge of the palace guard in the imperial capital, so it is rumored that John did this because he wanted to restore the alliance with the Ducasse family and control the armed forces of the capital.

Soon Mikhail's wife was also granted purple clothes and could travel within the court.

In addition, the new emperor John constantly went to his mother to ask for peace and consulted her very sincerely on state affairs, and it is almost a well-known fact that the Ducasses family regained power and once again joined forces with Komnenos to govern the empire.

"Your Majesty has sent an emissary to propose marriage to the prince of Magyars (King of Hungary), a fourteen-year-old princess of the royal family, named Piloska. His Majesty hoped that through this sacred and ingenious marriage, he would be supported by the many barbarian kingdoms in the west, so that he would be able to gain help against his enemies in the east. In addition, His Majesty sent an emissary to the old city of Rome to consult with the Western Patriarch there about repairing the rift in the Church. In the chief lady's bedchamber, while the maids bowed down to report the news, Marlena was lying on the couch in a demented state, resting her hand on her forehead, and feeling not the slightest joy but horror and worry when she heard this.

"Why why, why didn't that kid come and tell me about his martial arts in person? For a month, he never came again, I was forgotten, forgotten......" Marlena sobbed, "I have raised him for so many years, I have given him everything that should have been given, and I did not hesitate to betray the emperor for him......"

"Master!" Before he had finished speaking, many of the maids bowed down in fear, begging their master to stop talking.

Then Marlena wept and began to cry. Suddenly, she jumped up from the couch and asked hysterically, "Look, is there a black gas on the ceiling, dripping with blood, dripping with blood?" ”

The maidens were flustered, and they hurried to explain and comfort them, saying that it was only an illusion of light. But Marlena's face became even paler, her facial features were distorted, she looked at the Zhongtong dining room outside the dormitory, and the study room next to the back garden on the outside, and couldn't help but shout, "Give me all the doors and windows leading there, all the walls, all sealed, all sealed." I did not dare to listen to the wind that flowed from there, as if it were the miserable cry of my child Constantine. ”

Outside the pillars, several handymen were in the dark corner, listening quietly......

The news of the emperor's death soon reached the court of Tarsus.

Anna was stronger than she had imagined, and she was about to give birth in two months, and she heard the news while lying on her couch with Gawain.

"It is impossible for my father to die from an inexplicable poisoned arrow, this is a total murder." After a long time, Anna just said this, and then she turned her back and closed her eyes, her breathing was a little disturbed, and she still felt sincerely sad.

Gawain, on the other hand, patted his wife's arm, stood up, walked between the bedroom and the closet, and then turned to Anna and said, "What do you think of the secret letter sent by Mikhail and his wife, Anna?" ”

"I feel that my father should have entrusted me with the empire before he died. For it was impossible for a father to give up the throne to anyone while he was alive, and now John's actions were tantamount to killing the king and usurping the throne. Therefore, the great barbarian, only me and you, as well as our children, are qualified to seize the throne of the imperial capital. ”

Gawain asked what about Dedot and Brenus?

"What are the two of them, opponents? I felt like my lips were stained even by the names of them. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be arrogant and uncultured in any way, but they and the whole Thracenian region feel that they can easily be annexed by future diplomacy alone. Then both were sent to the convent to be recuperated. You know, my sister still has some obsession with you, which makes her stunned and always doing stupid things that don't match her abilities. But after that, I don't mind continuing to keep her honor and status. Anna replied disdainfully on the couch with her cheek propped up, as if to say something lighthearted.

Hearing this, Gawain could only nod in agreement, in fact, he had always felt guilty about Dedor, "So Anna, now that we attack Constantinople and really put the crown on your and my heads, what obstacles do you think there are?" ”

"If you go west, only the Laudisia region of Raymond remains, and it is like a wedge between the Brenus and our territory, as long as we capture it, the Brenus will have no resistance to us, and most of them will have to surrender directly. In the north, Theodoro and the imperial capital and Georgia (Georgians) behind him will pose a threat to us, and we must defeat him if we want to get through the imperial capital. Finally, the Armenians of Maras, the Apsomates of Cyprus, and the forces of Antioch and Aleppo will also pose a threat to us. ”

"Then improve the plan that Grandpa Little Sunfish said, I think...... It is useless to seize the emperor in three to five years. Gawain's mind came up with the map sand table and various strategy data, and after thinking carefully for a while, he said to Anna, "At that time, I will officially put the crown of Romana on you in the original Grand Palace." ”

"The same goes for you." Anna's eyes suddenly became resolute, and she rubbed her abdomen carefully, "Father's legacy, only we can carry it forward—son, how I wish you could be called Hristopher." (To be continued.) )