Knowing that she was about to be deposed, Piloska wept profusely, she had to give up the position of empress before she even received her Orthodox name, and the entire defenders in and around the capital collapsed, and now the hundreds of Hungarian warriors guarding her could not stand up to Gawain's several brigades. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What's even more desperate is that the capital's bureaucrats and the empress dowager are all willing to allow Gawain's thoughts.

Gawain is a Varyag, a barbarian. But in the history of the Roman Empire, it was by no means unprecedented, and he had a strong armed army, which was the basis for him to ascend the throne, not to mention that Gawain's legal system and rule were guaranteed by his mother-in-law, wife and children. So he, a poor man from Hungary, can only accept the gloomy ending.

Eventually, the Empress Dowager Irene made an oath that if Piloska did not return to her homeland, she would keep a palace residence in Brachna with a generous sum of money - and her garrison would be reduced to 12 men, and the rest would be repatriated to Hungary by Kovin.

Next, the Empress Dowager and Eudosia took the guard of honor through the streets of the capital to the Senate, where she met with Berriel and other senators again, "Gawain's army guarantees that there will be no atrocities after entering the city, and promises to protect the lives and property interests of all the people and nobles in the fourteen administrative districts of the capital, and he will also announce a pardon, and he will not blame those who remain in the capital, and use them according to the materials." ”

Berriel was also very anxious, and he said to the Empress Dowager, "We have been able to do this a long time ago, but why hasn't the new emperor entered the city yet?" ”

Irene replied that of course it was the Church that was obstructing, and that Gawain was not willing to exchange Proskynesis power with Patriarch Masdas, who now occupied the Holy Mountain and called on all the Orthodox believers in the world to fight to the end.

Beriel is worthy of being the ruler of the empire, and he is completely clear in such a matter: "The previous church instigated the fanatics to revolt in Lydia, but was mercilessly suppressed by Gawain, and it is said that the number of those killed was 30,000, and now Lydia has all been built in Gawain's synagogue, and no one dares to resist anymore." Masdas is old and unconscious, and although he wants to inspire the protests of the cultists forever by playing the role of a martyr, Gawain is a brute, and he doesn't care to kill everyone who stands in his way - in the opinion of a servant, Gawain is just waiting for you and our formality, and once confirmed, he will definitely take the iron and bloody measures. ”

"I have promised Gawain and Anna that even if the capital is covered with blood, I will welcome the new emperor in."

After hearing the Empress Dowager's statement, Beriel pondered for a while, looked around the crowd, and said, "Then on behalf of the imperial court, the Senate, and the citizens, we will write to Gawain outside the city, proclaiming him the supreme 'Barcelus' (Greek emperor), and Anna the equally supreme." Barcelissa' (Greek for empress, can also refer to the regent), so that he can inherit the power granted by the people to ascend to the throne, anyway, the coronation of the original patriarch was only to put a crown on behalf of the senators and the people, never on behalf of the church! ”

As soon as the plan was decided, Berriel called the man who had been his assistant, and quickly drafted a letter welcoming Gawain into the city, and the two former assistants wrote very hard, because they were already dissatisfied with the original power rule of Komnenos - Alexios's rule was Western feudalism, and because his ascension to the throne was full of marriages and compromises between families, he did not like the "central government rule" of the previous dynasty, but urgently gave land and power to a small number of his relatives and cronies, in Alexios's eyes, The term "empire" is synonymous with "Komnenos' rule", and it is no different.

But now that a new emperor had arrived, and that Gawain had come from a Varyag aristocracy, and that there was no large family behind him who was eager to divide glory and power, all the scribes rejoiced, and they all thought that they could go back to the glory of the previous era, which began with the death of Vasily II and continued until the Ducasse dynasty, when the bureaucracy of the capital was in full swing.

In general, in the minds of the bureaucrats, even if Gawain would not hand over the power to them, after all, Gawain still had powerful clans like Ducasse (Irene) and Komnenos (Anna) behind him, and the military leaders on whom he relied for power (brigade commanders, generals of various border areas), but to re-cultivate and support a "clerical middle class" who made a living by pen and ink, laws, and taxes, who were loyal to the imperial power and had little to do with the army or local powers, to govern the new country for him, and then to assist his descendants, Such an approach is in Gawain's vital interests.

Because Gawain reminded everyone of the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, the Great Vasily (Vasily I), the groom emperor, there are too many similarities between the two.

Vasily I was born in Armenia, and Gawain was born in Varyag;

Vasily I had migrated to Adrianople as a soldier, and Gawain had served as a soldier in the Brachna Palace;

Vasily I had been a prisoner of war slave for the Bulgarian invading army, and Gawain had been a prisoner of the Turks on previous pilgrimages (of course, this was his nonsense);

When Vasily I came to the capital to beg for a living, he immediately verified the miracle that he would be the emperor in the future, and Gawain also received the gift of St. (A) Qiao (Jie) Zhizhi (He), and possessed some terrible magical powers;

There was a widow, Daenerys of Patras in the Greek Peninsula, who was fanatically infatuated with Vasily I before her birth and supported him with bankruptcy, and there was also a widow, Ingrid of Corinth. Mesadini did the same to Gawain;

Vasily I took over the mistress of Emperor Mikhail III, married her, and rose to prominence in the palace, becoming the head of the stables and the sleeping officer, while Gawain abducted the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexios, established himself in Cilicia, and enriched the country and strengthened the army;

In the end, Mikhail III was murdered by the Great Vasily and usurped the throne, and Gawain was killed (indirectly, at least he was not legally responsible for the emperor's death) to his father-in-law. The two are strikingly consistent, and there is nothing wrong with them.

And after the great Vasily usurped the throne, he reformed the law and the official system, forged ahead, and became the "Ming King of the Romans", so what could Gawain not do?

With such an idea, the requested letter was completed and was sent out.

After Irene returned to the palace, she was shocked to hear that the riots inside and outside the capital were even more noisy - on the one hand, Maastas in the holy mountain openly put on red boots and purple robes, and called on the believers of all Thessalonica and Macedonia to mobilize and fight to the death against Gawain, who had the "pagan devil's heart"; On the other hand, the clergy who remained in the city of Maastas instigated countless patrons of the St. Paul's almshouse and some lawless Greens Jimo to build barricades, kidnap and extort money, kill people and goods, and vow to "put on a good show" at the enthronement ceremony of the "puppet Emperor Gawain".

"Self-defeating." Irene said, "Tell all the soldiers to protect the palace and wait for Gawain to calm down the order." ”