In the Brachna Palace, half of which had been destroyed in the previous turmoil, Erin sat upright on the small throne in her bedchamber, and Adjoan, the young son of the former emperor, stood beside her, and she received a group of representatives of the imperial capital, a group of people with active minds, including the Blue party representatives of the Athletic Party, members of the Senate, and the old bureaucrats of the capital, who considered it unnecessary to maintain resistance to the Tarsus side, "The generations have changed, O great queen mother, you have been in peace, After that, you will also extend your well-being, and grant the throne to your daughter and son-in-law! The handover and operation of this empire requires your approval. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Erin's still youthful face was hidden behind the veil, and she gently took her young son's hand and said to the delegates, "What did the former Imperial Vice-Chancellor Beril say?" ”

"The Father of the Imperial Capital (referring to Beriel) had the same opinion as we do. Now that the capital's defenses had completely collapsed, and the Patriarch had abandoned the Basilica of the Holy Wisdom and fled to the Holy Mountain, the Father of the Imperial Capital believed that if order and peace were not restored, even greater riots and famines would soon break out. The delegates said.

"Then I will be at ease, as long as Gawain can promise to give Adjoan a proper and honorable position, of course I am willing to approve such an order." Erin said, and then she paused, and openly said to the delegates, "Among you who are concerned, you can ask the royal jewel workshop to make the crowns that Gawain and Anna will really use to crown them." ”

The Empress Dowager's attitude was already obvious, so the delegates resigned happily.

Soon after, Gawain sent an envoy to the city to give a clear reply to his mother-in-law's own thoughts, which of course Anna fully agreed, "Your Royal Highness the Queen Mother, the great Empress Anna. Gawain's biological mother, you will continue to have ownership of the extremely attached monastery of Brachna Palace, enjoy the reverence of the whole empire, and watch over Alexios, the former Holy Apostolic Emperor and martyr of the Empire. Komnenos's cemetery. Adjoan will inherit the blood of the 'Prince of Kastamonu' and the Patriarch of Komunen, and he and his descendants will forever receive one-fifth of the tax of the Kastamonu region as a hereditary payment. ”

Soon, the Holy Monastery of Brachna Palace rang the bell of the Annunciation, indicating that the Queen Mother had reached an agreement with the besiegers.

The hungry people of the capital rejoiced, and then, at the appeal of Beriel, in the senate of the circular double arcades of the capital, the senators and bureaucrats who remained here gathered, many of whom had previously corresponded frequently with Macaulinus or Magrundius, and now naturally said to the queen mother's decision, "This is the best", "Of course I support it", because at this point, there is no need to make the people in the city suffer, and everyone is in dire need of food from outside, When the ice melts at the end of winter, fish from the ports of Trabzon, Bulgaria and Georgia are transported to the capital to fill their stomachs.

As for Daracena in the monastery, a shrewd and resolute heroine of her life, she remained silent, and she remained quietly in her dwelling, as if waiting for Gawain to come and see her.

The only open and fierce rebellion came from the Church of Constantinople, and although Maastas retreated, his remaining liaison officer (whose role was to be in charge of communication between the emperor and the patriarch) Lidus, who was in charge of the keys to the cathedral, openly stated to the delegates who came to persuade him: "The patriarch can come back and represent the Roman citizens of the whole capital as Stephen. Gawain wears a crown on his head, but Gawain has to sign an oath that he will never introduce reform into the Church in this country, that he will become a defender of the Orthodox faith, that he must renounce his membership in the Latin Catholic Church, and that he will remain of the same faith as his wife, Anna. ”

This demand was a blatant demand for Gawain to compromise with the Imperial Orthodox Church, and Lidus threatened Gawain that he should maintain respect for the Patriarch and that the two sides could reciprocate the title of "Proskynesis" to strengthen the covenant by recognizing both the Emperor and the Patriarch as the "supreme leader" of the empire.

Patriarch Masdas had also realized that the antagonism between him and Gawain was not just a battle for the throne, and he understood that Gawain would soon introduce the terrible degenerate religious theories from Asia Minor under the "evil influence of Saracen and Manichaeism" into the imperial capital and the western part of the empire, and that if the Orthodox Church did not resist, it would soon be destroyed in this battle for the spiritual world.

Gawain, who received a reply from the Church, scoffed, and asked the Patriarch Gottschalk and the High Priest Roland to write a rebuttal letter and send it to the city, saying that "according to the law, the Supreme Emperor of Rome originally held the position of High Priest Archiereus, and he was not responsible to any church leader except to obey God and the law, and he took over the heaven-given power on behalf of all the citizens of Rome, and on the contrary, any action and legal rule of the Church required his approval." Any view that the emperor could only enjoy secular power is an extreme error and an outright fallacy.

Because the Roman Empire and the Emperor received dominion over the world from God before Jesus came into the world, it can be said that the descendants of Augustus shared such a noble dignity with Jesus. Just as there is only one God, there will only be one emperor in the world, and if you dare to resist the difficulties, will the mistakes of Maastas continue? Will he still disobey God, the citizens, and the soldiers, and continue to follow the deposed puppet emperor? Then, once my anger is aroused, what I will do is not for you to hear or to see, but for you to bear.

I will enter the capital built by Constantine with my wife before the day of God's creation (the 21st day of the third month in the Byzantine calendar), and you will still have three months to think. ”

The day after Gawain's reply, two huge siege guns began to shoot heavy stone pellets from the camp of Jukuntina's palace at the walls of the Golden Gate.

In the midst of the rumbling cannons, the church in the imperial capital still stubbornly resisted, refusing to hand over the keys to the cathedral and anointing Gawain with the consecrated anointing oil.

But the people, officials, and guards in the imperial capital could not bear it any longer.

Especially in the Venetian expatriate area, which was still under siege, the consul general who was with them, Molito, spent almost all the money and bribed the guards of all the walls and sentry posts along the way, so that he was able to cover his identity, and out of the network of mobs and rivals, to the palace of Juquantina, and then arrived at the palace of Gallipoli and asked for an audience with Gawain.