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Following his previous experience in Tarsus, he divided the country's roads into three levels (more unrealistic, since Gawain could not turn into a highway, which is really a shame for the traverser), namely the "Jing Road" (Greek for 'the axle of the road'), the "post road" (Greek for 'rain or shine'), and the "country road" (Greek for 'connection') to form a network of roads to lay the country and meet the needs of the army on the march and the caravan trade.

Of course, the so-called Kyodo Road is the most important thing, and the rest of the post roads and village roads are radiating from it as an axis.

The old Kyo Road was identified as three, namely the Agnandia Avenue, the most famous in the Balkans, the "Tarsus Avenue" to Antioch, and the "Ukchen Seaside Road" to Trabzon, which were the most fundamental lifeblood of the Empire, and the core of the intersection was in Constantinople. And they are all along the edge of the ocean, which can be quickly maneuvered with the fleet. Now, in order to increase his control over Mosya in the north and Anatolia in the east, Gawain decided to establish two new "Beijing Roads" in the next five years, both of which also departed from the imperial capital, the first one was named "Donuvius Road", passing through Vize, Viklon, Dertuves, Tervono, Grand Preslav (the capital of Simeon), Pliska (the old capital of ancient Bulgaria), and finally to Silistra on the south bank of the Danube (of course, this fortress has not yet been captured); The latter was renovated and expanded on the basis of the former "Iconium Trade Road", crossing the Anatolian plateau, starting from the city of Iconium and connecting with the imperial capital by sea via Dorlilahem, Prusa and Tsarsiddon.

The construction of the five old and new roads required a lot of manpower and money, so Gawain divided the entire fiscal revenue into ten parts, and announced that "only one part should be used for the treasury storage", "four parts for the army" (after all, the most fundamental source of legitimacy), "one part for the synagogue and Greek language school", "two for the officials' money", "two for the construction of roads, bridges, and water conservancy", and that there were temporary major projects and wars, and that the government bonds could be issued or special taxes could be temporarily levied to make up for the shortfall. His Majesty the Emperor thought this was a more reasonable policy, and the most rational and scientific financial audit in the Mediterranean world was that of the Caliph Mansur of Córdoba, Spain, who divided the treasury into three parts, one for the army, one for the construction of the project, and one for the treasury, and now Gawain considered his division to be superior to that of the Spanish caliph.

After the prisoners of war, the garrison and the Jingdao were arranged, just as the Emperor was preparing to march from the city of Saldica, a tragic event occurred:

Constantine, who had long dominated Savoy, Za'tar and Dalmatia. Berdin, and his son Lalic, with their two bloody heads, were cut off by the Grand Duke of Niš, Tapan, and placed in a rough wooden tray to be delivered to the Emperor of Saldicka.

Looking at this "Great Earth King" who had been entangled with him for more than ten years and was defeated in two battles, Gao Wen had an abnormal feeling in his heart, he looked at the head of Uberding in the pool of blood, in front of the full house of generals and attendants, slightly covered his face with his sleeves, and turned his head to the dim place of the candle next to the seat.

I couldn't help but sneer.

It turned out to be nothing more than a first-class hyena with Prince Reuben and the builder David.

Compared with his rivals, Emperor Alexios, Sultan Giliki, and even the Emir of Merrick, they are far behind.

"O thy head, thou canst bear the weight of a crown." The Emperor finally made such a judgment on Berdin's head.

It turned out that when Berdin fled to Niš, a key transportation point north of Saldicka, there were only a hundred cavalry left with him, and when he entered the fortress of Niš, he asked to be bathed.

As for Archduke Tapan of Niš, he had previously abandoned the city and fled after being defeated by Gawain during the First Christian Crusade (see op. cit.). Therefore, he had been secretly observing while begging Berding before, and constantly sent people to maintain close contact with Emperor Gawain to prepare a way back for himself.

And Berdin's crushing defeat at Leswonor made it effortless for Tapan to determine the choice.

Tapan gathered the elite soldiers of the entire tribe, and took advantage of the exhaustion and horror of the father and son, and slaughtered them and their servants, and cut off their heads and sent them to Saldica.

"Let Tapan hand over the city of Niš again, and I will not treat him badly."

Three days later, when Bramson's detachment arrived at the city of Niš, Tapan surrendered the castle in fear, and Bramson's confidential officer brought the emperor's edict announcing that he would be awarded the rank of the first nobleman among the "illustrious", and all his descendants were selected into the inner palace attendants, and he spent the rest of his life in the mansion of Omiyagi.

After obtaining the key to Niš City, Bramsson's detour on the northern route was unusually smooth and swift, seizing Russ and other places successively, and soon approaching the Za'tar and Ragusa areas.

The Emperor's legion in the center passed through the city of Skopje and the army of Akro Borites on the southern front, and returned to besiege the Margolon Fort of the Grand Duke Vladimir.

The seven or eight thousand Serbian soldiers under Vladimir's command knew that the end was coming, and after there was no hope of breaking through, they could only surrender to the emperor.

Without hesitation, Gawain ordered a group of attendants to kill Vladimir in the city's monastery, throwing his body into a well and burying it, along with many of the great nobles of Zupan.

At the same time, Berdin's wife, Gia Quinta, was also named by the emperor as a "Norman bandit, the enemy of the empire", and was drowned in the bath by the court ladies who rushed to Saldica, so that the blood of Berdin's "Dukrian royal family" was completely cut off. Forty years later, Frangopoulos, the grandmaster of the Cretan School of the New Roman Empire, created a striking realist painting "The Tragedy of Dukria", a triptych depicting the murder of Berdin and his son, Gia Quinta and Vladimir.

Among them, Berdeen and his son, naked, were stabbed and killed with spears by the traitors who broke into the door, and they were drenched in blood;

And Giaquinta, whose face was blue and her hair was scattered, collapsed on a chair beside the bath and the court lady, who had just been suffocated and fainted by being pressed into the water, and was pulled out again, and sat down in a chair and swallowed her last breath;

Vladimir bravely knelt at the well and begged the Lord for the trials of Hell and his final confession, while the executioners stood with swords in their hands.

The triptych depicts the columns of the court, the omnipotent emperor Stephen. Gawain sat on a golden chair, holding a cross and a scepter in his hands, and his fierce eyes seemed to look down below, indicating that he had instructed him to destroy the royal family of Dukria.

Obviously, the small court of Crete, which was still overseas at that time, was still attacking Gawain, who had passed away for many years.

After the painting was created, the brilliant realist painter was exiled by the third emperor of the Varyag dynasty, who had just pacified Crete, but the emperor did not make it difficult for him and summoned him to serve in the imperial capital a few years later, after which the empire's magnificent Renaissance continued to roll forward.