One of the most shocking accusations was John's rebellion with his adoptive mother!

I have to say that after the current Irene became the queen mother, the level of struggle has skyrocketed, and she no longer offered the slogan "The grudge between Komnenos and Ducasse", which is inconvenient for the residents of the imperial capital to stand in line, but directly pointed to the "lower three roads" that the people are most concerned about. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It seems that John lost the legitimacy of his reign in just one day.

Originally, the people, the athletic party, the guilds, and the monasteries praised him as a "rising star", "lighthouse", "great man of the nation" or "holy apostle on earth", but now many chaotic parties have taken to the streets and taken the opportunity to do evil, they beat monks, young girls and even old women, drove away the nobles who came to maintain order, and wrote graffiti and slogans insulting John all over the pillars of various grand monasteries and squares, and the content denounced John as a "wild boar", "hedgehog", "crawling monster", "erotomania", "great virtuous emperor", " A boy who is devoted to his adoptive mother".

Many of the mob had a thorn in their eyes the big barn that John had built after his accession to the throne, and they were hungry and angry, and they came from all directions with torches, gathered under the building, and threw torches frantically into it, and the bureaucrats of the gate fled with their families, and the mob smashed open the heavy door of the barn with wooden stakes, and when they entered, they looted and burned as much as they could.

The nobles who remained in the city at this moment also cursed the bad luck, and in the extreme chaos, in order to protect themselves, some of them scattered their money to curry favor with their slaves, and armed them to protect their mansions; There were also many who were ready to flee to Western Thrace, or to Adrianople, or to Thessaloniki, and in any case to leave the imperial capital, because "it was as if it were at the center of an earthquake, crumbling and collapsing"—they and their families braved the night in great fear, and the servants either looted the property and slipped away on the way, or ran to join the mob, and the nobles and senators had to carry their children on their shoulders and on their backs, and the young and beautiful ladies or maidens were surrounded by men in the middle of the procession. Like lambs in a pen, they smear their faces and necks with dirty dirt to avoid notice, wear coarse cloth clothes, and remove all jewelry.

The Venetians bore the brunt of the merchant-district of Pera, and also fell victim to the violent clashes - armed men from the Amalfi and Pisa merchant districts took to the streets, and they all received a secret agreement from Gawain and Anna that the two city-states would "henceforth enjoy a trade concession in Constantinople", so they openly provoked the murder of the gatekeeper of Venice, and the corpses were hung upside down on the pillars of the tower in blood, and many of the capital's aticostics joined in, and the war broke out in the closed area of the Golden Horn! The Venetians guarding the churches and the walls of the gates rained down on the night sky of Constantinople, and from time to time fierce fires lit up the streets below, but there was no shortage of ruthless and ingenious men in the Amalfi, Pisa, and Metropolitan Athletic parties, who caused all sorts of improvised battering rams and ballistas, and also launched onslaught on the Venetian merchant port from all directions.

The gates were crowded with crying and scolding crowds, children trampled to the dead, pregnant women were crowded to the point of miscarriages, and countless ghostly cries seemed to sound from the dusty corner towers of this ancient sacred capital at the same time, which was especially terrifying in the cold night.

In the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Maastas sits dejectedly in front of the altar, and he also has to face the "problem of going and staying".

The people of the capital revere him, but Tarsus hates him because he has now been extremely insulted and attacked the "enemy of Orthodoxy" Stephen. Gawain, for this reason his name was also written on the other party's "public enemy list".

If he stays, he will inevitably be humiliated and even poisoned;

And if he runs away, then he will be defaulted to John, who has "murdered his father and had an adulterous relationship with his adoptive mother". Komnenos was a good man, and believers would mistake him for shielding John.

Finally, Maastas announced a very strange decision:

He first declared John to be a true sinner, and strictly forbade John to set foot in the Cathedral of the Wise again, and he wanted to condemn and protest John for the rest of his life. Komnenos;

Then he told the people that he would remain unchanged in his fight against Gawain to the end, and that he would go to the monastery of the Holy Mountain of Athos and lead all the Orthodox Christians in the fight until "the righteousness of the Lord returns to the world."

After saying everything, Maastas handed over the keys and seals of the cathedral and the Patriarch's residence to the two deputies, and fled from his post in a hurry.

At the south gate of the Brachna Palace, looking at the outline of the Abbey of Our Lady in the dark night, John rode his horse with a small number of guards over the woods and gardens, and rushed into the inner court.

By this time, the entire court had also been reduced to a place of death--Irene's dormitory was filled with Ducasse's private soldiers, and the commander was none other than Evraimius. Ducasse, and Pyroska's shoulders were also carried in through another small door by the Hungarian knights in the mess, and the other guards and soldiers were angry and rushed up to ask what was going on?

The Hungarians, who learned the truth, were angry like a volcanic eruption, and they thought that it was unbearable for such a well-behaved and beautiful princess to suffer such a great humiliation in the palace, so they drew their swords and rode their horses to join Evraimius, despite Pyroska's crying and dissuasion. Ducasse's team made their way to the bedroom of the chief lady of the court in another corner, killing anyone they saw along the way.

It just so happened that John had also returned with his own guards, and all parties were extremely red-eyed, scolding each other and waving their swords, and fighting together.

"Mother, Mother! Why do this to me, why? Are you just like that, for the sake of your favored sister, to put the real emperor to death? In this case, Komnenos's world will be extinct. John sat on horseback, raised his arms, and wept bitterly in spite of the arrows and darts flying around, and cried out as he looked at the Queen Mother in the corridor of the opposite dormitory, who was guarded by the family's private guards, and she was holding Alexios's young son, Adyoan, who was still looking at the soldiers fighting everywhere in front of him, and did not know what his brother was crying over there.

Erin closed her eyes in pain, then lowered her head and clenched her fists, gritting her teeth and angrily, "I'd rather see this country collapse and be replaced by someone else, rather than watch a rebellious person like you continue to be the master of this palace." Your father forgave you, Anna, and Gawain before he died, but I would never will! It's Marlena and you, it's Marlena and you who have taken away my husband, from spirit to life, I will never forgive you, never! ”

At the end of the Queen Mother's screams of excitement, Evraimius, beside her, raised his bow and arrow, and flew an arrow at John without mercy.