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"I believe that for the fiasco in the Nicaea Gorge, His Majesty's Imperial Brother, His Excellency Sebastoprat, should bear the main command responsibility." Gawain then spoke very clearly.

Isaac's eyes grew red and bloodshot, and before his brother could speak, he yelled at Gawain, "You exiled ruffian, you dare to make unwarranted accusations against me!" How the hell did you get the command of the first part? ”

"It was I who made meritorious service when the chief of the pacification stables plotted against me, and His Excellency the Grand Governor of the palace promised me." Gawain was unhurried.

Then Isaac extended his hand to the great eunuch Nicodemia, who was standing on the periphery, and everyone present, including Theognes and Eudohya, was shocked. Then, the eunuch looked at Gawain, and after a while, he let out two dry laughs, "You are really a Varyag barbarian, when did you treat the granting of the title of the empire as child's play, even if the old man agrees, without the golden edict of my lord, it will not count." ”

"However, just now in the competition field, even Your Majesty personally said that I am a nobleman with a sword and a Earl Commander."

"Shut up!" Almost all the court officials reprimanded sharply, but Alexios couldn't see the joy and anger at all, and Anna's palms next to her were already sweating, and her little face was even whiter.

"Say, Gawain, how did you usurp that soldier when you have no position at all, and what punishment are you going to accept?" Over there, Isaac intensified.

"Gawain and I were originally on a scout mission, and after seeing your army ambushed, he jumped off a cliff sixty feet high on horseback, and fought desperately with the Red Hand detachment at the back to stop the rebelled Sultan Konya and the heretics, and finally withdrew from the city of Nicaea, his loyalty and bravery, as the Grand Imam of Nicaea Desiderius can testify." The captor looked up again, took out the letter from the Grand Imam, and respectfully walked up to the little bird Nikdemia and presented it.

The eunuch took it without smiling, and then smiled indifferently, saying that he was old and illiterate, and this letter would be forwarded to His Majesty for reading after the matter was dealt with.

At this moment, even the Patriarch Mastas who was watching from the sidelines couldn't help it, and he took a step forward, "Why is Desiderius, who has lost the lord's domain and the believers, not even qualified to testify and describe the state of affairs?" Hearing this, the great eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to the patriarch to apologize, but at the same time, he also blocked the patriarch with his body and prevented him from approaching His Majesty the Emperor.

It was an obvious fact that everyone was covering up for Sebastoprat, and Marlena's face over there was also cloudy, and she pinched Constantine's shoulder with one hand, while looking at the back of His Majesty the Emperor with grief.

But Alexios still didn't say anything.

"I don't think this brute named Gawain is right!" Suddenly, Prince John, who was dark in the crowd and looked like nothing to match everyone else, shouted this sentence in a rough voice, so anxious that the maid and eunuch next to him kept gesturing and asking him not to make a sound.

But John shouted again, and added, "If you want me to say, then God will judge, and if Gawain can produce evidence that convinces his father, then he will interrupt all arguments and give him what was promised to Gawain as it is." ”

Although the prince's words were very simple and crude, and did not have the sophistry and judgment that the Byzantine Romans loved, no one could refute his words, and then John made another gesture, "If you can take it, you will end all this, and if you can't take it, you will end all this." ”

These words had a decisive effect, and the emperor finally spoke, "Then we will adopt the divine judgment, and it happens that the patriarch of the imperial capital is also present, and there will be no problems with this process." ”

Anna over there watched nervously, Gawain kneeling on one knee.

And Gawain slowly took out an icon pendant from the robe that was close to his chain mail, and the first sentence was, "This is a gift from the vice queen mother to the warden of George, and after the warden was punished, it was the eunuch himself who gave this pendant to me as a reward for meritorious service." ”

Alexios and Malena behind him suddenly felt a devastating thunder walking in the sky, and the sky swirled, and Marlena almost fainted, and Nikedemia, who was scheming and never expressionless, also leaned down and stuck to the emperor's boots in despair.

"When the eunuch gave me this pendant, he also said something to me!" Gawain picked the jewelry with his fingers and continued.

"Gawain, don't say any more." Alexios' tone became quick.

"If you keep talking about Gawain, why don't you keep talking?" At this time, Empress Erin, who was standing on the emperor's side, seemed to have been vented for many years, her eyes were full of infinite brilliance, her voice and hands trembled, and with those fierce excitement, she asked Gawain to continue.

"That's enough, Gawain, you don't have to say any more." Alexios stopped in a loud voice, then he closed his eyes and sighed in a low voice, "I believe that you are loyal, and now I have personally called the Imperial Ink Officer to come and issue you the Golden Book Edict, I am indeed in urgent need of military excellence, and it is enough for you to save 700 of the 1,000 people in the Nicaean Valley, and escort the Grand Imam and thousands of people to Gallipoli." I have given you all the duties I promised in advance, the nobles with swords, the Earl Commander, and the seven hundred soldiers under your command, and I have given you five hundred Tekopo archers and mercenaries to assist you, and three hundred war horses. ”

Then, Alexios walked up to Gawain with the battle flag of the Red Hand detachment, "This battle flag has been handed over to you since then, and I believe this is also Farov's wish." Next, His Majesty the Emperor walked up to Theognes and patted the captor on the shoulder, "You will also go with Gawain to rescue Amalfi and serve as his deputy." ”

After the two thanked His Majesty the Emperor, Alexios let them retreat, and then hung his head, holding the pendant that Gawain had just taken out, and then raised his head again, and his voice changed, "Go back to Brachna Palace." ”

In the main hall of the palace, Isaac was slapped hard and sat down on his seat in frustration, "There is nothing wrong with Gawain's accusation!" It's because you don't want to listen to the right advice of your subordinates, you took the risk of moving blindly, and you were ambushed by the Sultan of Konya, so you didn't want to shirk any responsibility, this is also for your own good, because only the enemy likes mediocrity, but the people and the army hate it. ”

"I am willing to gather my army and horses again, and in the future follow my brother's banner and defeat the Sultan of Konya." Isaac, covering his mouth, hurriedly spoke.

"It's useless, Erin already knows about this, and soon the impeachment of you by the officials supported by the Ducasse family will fly like snowflakes." The Emperor rejected the idea in a somber mood.