Chapter 99: The New Universal Empire
Then, the army of the Nika Brigade twisted into a rope and began to frantically "attack" other types of estates throughout the fertile Lydian plain, claiming that they had obtained an edict and a contract from the Grand Patron to abolish all monasteries and Pronian estates and take them for themselves. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The soldiers of the new brigade marched in almost in full gear, using swords and clubs to seize all kinds of livestock, fields, farms, and mills, forcing the former dependent serfs to gather together and sign or put their fingerprints on the "salvage contracts" one by one, and divide their gospel sacraments freely and evenly.
This group was also very loyal, and when the needs of the 4,000 officers and soldiers were satisfied, they no longer continued to seize the land and manpower, and consciously regarded the rest as farms under the direct control of the Tarsus royal family, or as a homestead village community.
Now the monastery and the Pronian landlords were once again afflicted, and almost all of them were expelled, so they angrily came to Prusa to ask Caesar to theorize "why did the promise of fifty years change in three months?"
But by this time Anna had already slipped away and returned to the royal capital of Tarsus.
Another petition was sent to Brenus in the city of Abydos, but Brenus turned a deaf ear out of caution and fear.
The situation in Lydia below became a mess, and violent clashes continued, and many Plonian landlords were so angry that they took up their bows and arrows, mounted their horses, and rallied to the fortresses that had been built by Brenus, and resisted this change with arms; The Orthodox monks began to hide in the mountains or dense forests, inciting the Orthodox peasant believers to "defend their faith with blood and fire", many fanatical believers began to attack the brigade soldiers, and burned the pastures and villages occupied by the other side, poisoning livestock and children, and many people began to demonstrate under the leadership of the monks, rushing to Prussia, Smyrna and other big cities to intimidate and destroy.
But this chaos was what Gawain wanted, and after Anna left first, he remained in control of everything in Laudisia, and openly issued the "Edict of the Maharaja", announcing that seven synagogues of the Confession would be built around the Great Alum Mine in Smyrna, four in Prussa, and a different number of plans were planned in the rest of the country, and a quarter of the fields in the entire troubled area would be classified as "royal territory".
The whole of Lydia boiled in anger, and the "fanatical believers" of peasants and herdsmen, who of course called themselves the "Orthodox Salvation Army", swelled at once to thirty or forty thousand men, and began to advance towards the city of Philadelphiam, the capital of the Lydian region, under the leadership of the monks.
The Patriarch of Constantinople, Masdas, delivered a long speech in front of the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, angrily denouncing Gawain as an "enemy of Orthodoxy" and calling him "a brown-haired Satan, a gatekeeper of Hell, a man who screams like a boar or a hedgehog, a lewd donkey like a bazaar, a disciple who seduces a profane woman, an anti-Christ murderer who performs all sorts of evil rituals, a lackey of the city of Rome, a mongrel of Moors and Varyags, a bandit whom all good people would never want to encounter in the night." He also expressed disdain for Gawain's precedent of his inclusion in the "list of sinners", and wanted to lead all Orthodox believers to "rise up and fight for the faith and support the noble and righteous Emperor John", and in the future "to publicly behead Gawain in the arena of the Hippodrome, and tie his head to the tail of a leper dog, so that the dog can run straight from the execution ground to the gates of the Brachna Palace." ”
In order to carry out his vow to fight to the end, the Patriarch secretly sent a number of confidant monks to Lydia, Mysia, and Bithynia to incite believers to revolt against Gawain's new system.
At this time, the western territory of the kingdom of Tarsus, Mysia was garrisoned by the Hierapolis brigade and sailors, preparing to cross the sea and attack Gallipoli; In the county of Samos, there was a newly reorganized Apshikin brigade, which was besieging Massemna; The regions of Bithynia and Brasilon were guarded by the newly arrived troops of Malinus, which had also recently been in a state of great instability—the soldiers also wished to receive the holy men or become freedmen of the land, and Marinus was anxious whether to hold his ground or to comply with the clamor of the soldiers.
The elite of the three wings, the Red Hand Brigade, the Gemagis Brigade, and the Guardian Brigade, together with the artillery regiment and all the cavalry regiments, plus the newly formed "Tranzac Engineer Corps", have passed through the plateau valley and arrived at the central core of the city of Ikonium.
At this time in Laudisia, Gawain was accompanied by only about two hundred and fifty Praetorian soldiers, a thousand Nikitas, and two thousand Pisidian Border People, the latter of whom were led by Monomachus and Biller.
Both generals offered to go and put down the rebellion of the fanatics, but Gawain refused, and he was waiting for someone.
The man came from the valley of the Mut in a plain old cloak, and after receiving a secret order from Gawain, it took him only three days to ride a donkey all the way to Laudisia, and he was covered with dust.
This gentleman was none other than Roland, who had previously written to Gawain asking for religious reform. Brother Bandinelli, a member of the Catholic Church of Tarsus, was later expelled by Patriarch Anselm for his apostasy, but was actually protected by Gawain and Anna in the fortress of the Mute Valley.
Gawain was now very fond of these young, daring monks, such as Ander Odart, and the energetic Roland in front of him. Bandinelli, full of sensitivity, inquisitive spirit and a very ruthless and capable hand after a little tuning, will definitely be the pillars of the new country in the future, but only if they become strangers to Orthodoxy and Catholicism, so that they can not be affected by the outside world in the slightest.
"Send General Monomachus's frontier cavalry, and at the same time General Biller's chariot and frontier archers, and cooperate with the nika brigade of the city of Prusa to suppress this unrest of the fanatics with the most severe action - and then strike while the iron is hot, and take advantage of the establishment of synagogues and the accumulation of printing presses, and decisively carry out the reform of the faith at the right time!" Sure enough, Roland. When Bandinelli came here, he immediately gave a plan for disposing of it.
"Tell me about your specific timeline." Gawain continued to ask.
"In two to three years, the reforms were carried out throughout the islands of Lydia, Mycia, Bithynia, Brasilon, and Samos. Then we seized Constantinople, and in the name of the sinner, the present Patriarch Masdas, to destroy the old religion, and continue to push our new faith westward to Thrace, Great Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Dalmatia, and to the east and west with His Excellency Got Schalke in the city of Bari. Once you have covered most of the empire and Italy, and the two Sicilies, you can begin a majestic new holy war into Persia, Egypt, and beyond, with your Highness as the absolute power, and you will unite the Holy See and the Emperor, and liberate the religious and technological fervor from the monasteries and courts, and you will become the founder of the next universal empire! ”