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The problem now is that hundreds of thousands of people in Thrace do not have food stocks in the spring and summer, and the people are panicking. And the grain brought from Asia Minor was only enough to support the population of Constantinople to be more than 100,000 today.

And news came from the border that many nobles who had fled from the imperial capital had taken refuge in John's side, and they had gathered in Thessali and Moria as if they had become independent kingdoms of their own, organized their governments and armies to echo Crete, and used the holy mountain of Athos, where Masdas was located, as a bridgehead, and constantly infiltrated and attacked Adrianople and Fort Philip with small armies imitating the tactics of the Callegos party in those years, and some actually went ashore from Atalia or Mysia by boat to set fires, and incited the local Orthodox peasants to continue to revolt against taxes - in generalGawain's reign in Constantinople was challenged.

At this time, the cave monks flocked to write letters, saying that Inglalina had invited several well-known Chaldean astrologers, and that the result of the divination was that Constantinople was not at all conducive to the rule of the state, and that Gawain's star fortune was rising in the east.

In short, the widow's hidden purpose is to hope that Gawain can move the government back to Tarsus.

Many of the generals also wavered violently, and some suggested that Gawain "leave two brigades behind, one here and the other at Adrianople, and the rest withdraw to Asia Minor for the time being, and return after the food problem is resolved."

So in the palace, when Gawain was presiding over the plan to deal with this matter, he said a very "explosive" idea to everyone present.

Here's what the new emperor said:

"The current population of the Imperial Capital, nobles, officials, merchants, guild craftsmen, servants, commoners, and soldiers, together is about 130,000, and there are 10,000 craftsmen who are building the Great Miyagi Castle. We executed about 20,000 people during the previous riots, but we didn't count their relatives and people who were in potential danger of becoming Greens and Whites. ”

Many looked at each other, not knowing what Gawain was trying to say below.

As a result, Gawain said, "I know that some of you are worried about the current situation and want to go back, but it is impossible, we will not leave here after all our hard work, because this is the real core of the Roman Empire, and if we leave, what will it mean that we are?" Is it a barbarian, or a tyrant, or a traitor! No, neither, I am Emperor Baselius who has been given the power to rule this empire, my wife is Barcelissa, and all of you are glorious nobles of the empire, and if you don't even fulfill your responsibilities to deal with such a matter now, then we will really lose our legitimacy. ”

Later, Gawain said directly, "Although there was no harvest last year, it is now the season of spring and summer, and many abandoned lands in Thrace will immediately grow rich grasslands, and can also be planted with buckwheat, millet, vegetables and vegetables that can be harvested in autumn, and even directly pick berries for consumption." I now issued an edict to free all the people and slaves whose property was below the qualifying line in the capital, and to move to all parts of Thrace to cultivate land for food, and I also promised that I would approve their right to occupy the land as long as they opened up the land of the fugitive nobles and paid the shield tax for three consecutive years. In addition, the Pronian landlords who ransomed and sold their land were bought by me according to the value of their land, half of which was paid in tasso silver coins and half in the currency of national debt, and all the land was collected into the Holy Farm, and their original tenant farmers were liberated into Holy Farmers. The Pronian landlords, all of whom were serving nobles, migrated to the capital with their families, and I provided them with food to survive the famine as a sign of love and mercy. ”

"Ten thousand craftsmen who built the Great Palace Castle will all settle in Constantinople when it is finished."

This is Gawain's plan.

Everyone was a little stunned, but only the Imperial Governor Beriel bowed his head and said nothing, knowing in his heart what the emperor's strategy was.

Gawain's actions were tantamount to completely purging all the rebellious people in the capital, driving them out of the capital, going to Thrace to open up wasteland, and eradicating the chaos of the Athletic Party; It was also equivalent to confiscating the land and property of all the fleeing nobles in Thrace and nationalizing it, which increased the tax revenue and power of the Gyeonggi region; In addition, all the redeemed and sold Pronian landlords were gathered in the capital, severing their ties with the local community. It's really a strategy to kill three birds with one stone.

It seems that this emperor who looks like a Varyag barbarian is by no means as rough as he looks on the outside, he is very shrewd.

Then the whole capital cried out - there were 30,000 poor people whose fortunes were below the passing line, who had thought that they could never be driven out of the city, but now they had to carry rations on their backs, and in groups of cavalry, they went to the land of the wilderness, and they had to fend for themselves for the remaining three months, and if there was no harvest after three months, they would really starve to death.

At the same time, hundreds of Thracian landlords and privates came to Constantinople, and they lost most of their fiefdoms, leaving only the shaded lands, and the rest of them were reduced to the fiefdoms, and then they accepted various titles of nobility at St. John's Basilica, and went to the fortresses and fortresses in the northern, western, and eastern Thrace according to the prepared schedule, and heard that they were about to be the backbone of the new brigades to be stationed at the frontier.

But before that, all the soldiers of Pronja were given horses and weapons, and together with the rest of the brigades, they completely swept away all the Venetian trading ports, warehouses, blocks, and floating docks in Constantinople.

The Venetians had been able to hold out in the previous siege with the help of the walls and spears, but when Gawain's army placed their artillery in front of the streets, they understood that there was no point in resisting...... Their entire neighbourhoods were occupied, and some were marked for distribution to the upcoming Raida Duck merchants, and the other part was given to Gawain for the Liberal Brothers, the Brotherhood, and the various government offices to use as future offices, and the warehouses and docks Gawain generously passed on to the members of the Blue Party, giving them the right to use them almost free of charge, and the money earned by everyone in the business activities was shared between the royal family and the Blue Business Group.

However, Gawain was not completely at ease with the Blue Party, and it was impossible for him to let it dominate after eradicating the Green Party and the White Party, so Emperor Varyag specially gifted Billeoni, Zhao Zhao and other Tarsus merchants with a grand mansion and storehouse, and designated them as the "Red Party...... In this way, the blue and red parties in Constantinople were divided again, one representing the traditional Greek merchant group and the other representing the newly emerging Eastern merchant group. They continued to obey the supervision and management of Beriel, the marketing director, and were responsible for the security and hygiene of the capital, and they also wore two different colors of clothing at the rally and celebration, one team had to sing "Our Emperor is as Great as Neptune, the god of the sea", and the other team had to sing "The Saffron Blossoms Bloom Red and Beautiful".