This time, Gawain did not have much of an old relationship with his old friend, and he told Molitor very seriously that he intended to pardon all the Romans in Constantinople, but he would bloody all the Venetians. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"None of them will be put back in your country!" Emphasizing this frightening remark, he went on to denounce the Venetians for "betraying my friendship, supporting the puppet emperor, and hindering my unification in Rhodes, Tripoli, and Crete." ”

Molito hastened to say that his state would immediately withdraw the naval blockade of Tyre and Sidon, withdraw the fleet to Crete, and as for the whole of Tripoli and Cyprus, Venice would fully approve of Gawain's right of conquest there.

"Crete is originally the sacred territory of the Empire, and I will revoke all the terms signed by the puppet Emperor John and the new consul governor of your state to cede the territory and interests of the empire, so you should withdraw all the warships from Crete as soon as possible, return to the states deep in Dalmatia, and continue to recognize the suzerainty of the empire as a dependent territory of the imperial governor."

Molitor said that such a request was too radical and harsh, and asked Gawain to put aside his excitement for a while and come up with a reasonable plan.

In addition, he whispered to Gawain that the Venetians had seized John and Roger in Gandhia, and that if Gawain could give them a favorable contract with the state, they could send them to Constantinople.

Gawain relented when he heard the exciting news, and he then laid out a "workable package" for Molitto:

The first was to withdraw the treaty signed between Alexios and the Venetians in 1092, but to retain his trade ports in Constantinople, Durazzo and Thessaloniki, and all merchants would have to pay the same special fees as the merchants of Amalfi, Pisa and the coming hot ducks. the 'Merchant Tenants' tax, and the direct tax borne by the merchant and his family members, fixed at four per cent of his family's property, which is levied annually, but the Venetians are more tax-paying, six per cent for them, and the same in the commercial ports of the rest of the cities;

Second, all Italian city-states were henceforth required to pay a toll tax equal to 10 per cent of the total value of the goods in the ports of the Empire, and then to pay a different operating tax on the goods entering the port and into the market, depending on the type of goods;

Thirdly, Venice must renounce its occupation of the islands of Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, etc., but as a sign of magnanimity, it may retain their commercial port and trade concessions;

Fourthly, Venice compensated Gawain with 1,200,000 Byzantian gold coins, to be paid over 12 years, and signed a treaty with the new empire recognizing Gawain's suzerainty over his city-state.

Fifth, Venice must hand over little Roger and John in the name of war criminals and endangering the interests of the Empire, and Gawain will be convicted after trial.

These terms are even harsher than before Gawain was emotional! It seems that this Varyag calmed down, and his knife was even more ferocious.

Molito was at a loss, he could only tell Gawain that he would faithfully convey these contents back to the city of San Marco, but whether the consuls and the Senate would approve it, and whether the nascent Roman Empire and Venice, the overlord of the Adriatic Sea, would break out into war, was not up to him.

"I would like to believe that your state will be responsible for the 10,000 expatriates in Constantinople." Gawain's tone was menacing.

At Christmas, in the mansion of the chief of the stables of the Constantinople cattle market, the hungry Yudohia and Gusyun sat together in chairs, their eyes half-open, looking at the sunlight shining in from the courtyard, the light mixed with the cruel scent, and at this moment several palace guards sent by the Emperor John were talking earnestly with the people in the street outside through the door.

After much talking, the soldiers finally believed that the imperial capital had compromised with the besieging enemy, that their allegiance to Emperor John had been deposed, and that a new emperor was about to enter the city in a grand way, and that the two generals on whom the new emperor relied were the husbands of the two ladies imprisoned in the courtyard.

Therefore, the residents outside the gate warned and admonished this group of unintelligent alien mercenaries, "Restore their freedom as soon as possible, no one can resist the power of the new emperor." ”

After the conversation was over, the soldiers hurried back to the hall, bowed to Eudocia and Gustyun and apologized, and then opened the door, and the fresh and cold winter air rushed in at once, and the curtains fluttered, and Eudohya only felt that the pain in her chest was blown away at once, and her golden hair fluttered slightly, "O Ingrena, I will be reunited with you soon!" ”

The market vendors outside the gate hurried in.

"Is there any dried fish from the Khazar Sea?" Eudohia asked eagerly.

Gu Siyun asked if there was any feta cheese and vegetable pie from Tuscany.

The peddler said they all had them, and of course he said that these things were now very rare food in the besieged city, and they were very expensive.

"At once I will give you four boxes of jewelry, together with the gold and silver ornaments in them, and send here all your goods, wine, bread, salt, honey, and all kinds of vegetables and meat! Not only do I want to eat it, but I also want to entertain this group of benevolent and generous soldiers. ”

Eudahia was a shrewd and savvy person, and of course she took the opportunity to take care of her soldiers, and then she not only entertained them with food, but also made her maids dance for them to laugh at, and gave them many valuable gifts.

The soldiers were soon transformed into Yudohya's "Temporary Guard", and no one was willing to die for the old regime, "Follow me into the palace!" With these words, the soldiers really escorted Yudohya to the Brachna Palace.

Now the palace here has been automatically divided into two areas, "Queen Mother District" and "Queen Quarter", each occupying several palaces and gardens, surrounded by Erin's private soldiers of the Ducasse family, and by Piloska is the Hungarian Garrison Knights, the two sides maintain mutual respect for the well water and the river water, but the latter is more worried about the possible disposition of the Hungarian queen after Gawain enters the city, and the evil luck is not yet known.

Eudohya drove into the queen mother's bedchamber - Irene was surprised to see her, "I thought you had long since regained your freedom and left the city to reunite with Mikhail." ”

"No, the city is still being held hostage by the selfishness of certain people and classes, and if you do not act decisively, your Highness the Queen Mother, then terrible famine and destruction will occur immediately. On the streets where I came, I witnessed a heart-stopping depression. ”

Erin thought for a while, and felt that she should really shoulder the responsibility of becoming the queen mother, she nodded, and said, "I should be responsible to all my subjects, and I must not let the great city of Our Lady be ruined in battle." Since men are timid at the moment, then leave it to us women to do a good job. ”

Soon after, in the atrium garden behind the Convent of Our Lady, the Queen Mother met with the Empress and said to her, "Poor Pyroska, though you will not be able to keep your position at once, you will be treated well, provided that you join hands with me to formally avoid the Church of the Capital and welcome Gawain and Anna into the army." ”