Many generals, clerks, and members of the Brotherhood gathered around, and Anna cited a public letter of condemnation from the Tuscan Pope. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, this letter was written when the "Four Popes" situation had just emerged in Italy. Eugene sent it in an angry impulse, but he later regretted it and withdrew it, but the original was kept by Gawain and Anna.

Sure enough, when Anna finished reading it, all those present were furious, and they asked His Majesty on the throne next to him, "Be sure to expose the abominable deeds of Patriarch St. Peter in the city of Rome to the whole empire." ”

Gawain played the role of a "calm" at this time, and when Anna raised a silk handkerchief to wipe away her tears, he raised his hand and warned you, "Now that the imperial capital and the whole Thrace are in starve, and most of the funds of the Anatolian counties are being spent on the siege of Tyre on the eastern front, we have encountered great difficulties this year, and to survive before winter, you should not look at distant Italy, but please turn your anger into fighting spirit for the time being......"

"For the sake of the success of His Majesty's presiding over the Adrianople Assembly in the month of the Property Registry (September), we must now take decisive action to punish His Majesty's enemies." Many generals threw their fists to offer blessings for future assemblies of believers.

In the end, the unified plan of action was that Androdart would continue to besiege Tyre in the east, and that we would send two brigades from Constantinople (the current situation in Thrace could not support even a large-scale operation), with capable cavalry and artillery, to the west along the Egnandia Boulevard, with the aim of the holy mountain of Athos east of Thessaloniki!

To put it bluntly, it is to take advantage of the famine in spring and summer, go out, well, rob Thessalonica and Macedonia, and expand its territory to the west by the way. The punishment of Maastas was established: "sedition, defiling of the Grand Palace and Cathedral, usurping the purple robe and scarlet boots of the imperial rank, refusing to surrender the property of the Holy Mountain of Athos." ”

Gawain's request was: "Destroy the holy mountain of Athos and capture Maastas to be tried at the Adrianople assembly." ”

In the month that followed, news of the crusade against the holy mountain of Athos spread rapidly along all military routes and seaports: the cave monastery of Koleadio Mountain, the churches of Patriarch Antiochus, the Apostolic Church of Armenia, the Church of Tarsus Reform, the mosque (?) of the Imperial Empire. The imams and the rabbis of the Jewish temple (?) They all spoke out collectively and expressed their resolute support for Baseleus. His Majesty Gawain's wise and decisive strategy, resolutely supporting the unity of the empire, and resolutely not allowing the Monastery of the Holy Mountain of Athos to split the country in any name and in any way, that is, the "three resolutes".

In the city of Bari, however, there was a lot of revolt, and many Greek priests sympathized with Masdas and strongly questioned the legitimacy of Gawain's siege of the holy mountain of Athos. Anselm, with the support of a group of henchmen, brazenly carried out a purge of the "Holy See of Bari", demanding that all the members of the Holy See swear "allegiance to all the actions of His Majesty Baseleus, for he is the messenger of the Lord, who upholds law and justice with the sword, and the Patriarch is the agent he has sent to shepherd the flock, and the agent cannot oppose the holy Baseleus." Just as a wife cannot rebel against her husband, and a child cannot disobey his parents, this is the truth that St. Paul clearly states in the anthology, and whoever forgets it is a sinner. ”

But a group of Greek clergy came up with a documentary of evidence, and this document is remarkable.

It is the Gift of Constantine the Great, or Donatio Constantini.

This gift document is of course signed by the dignified Emperor Constantine, and was later included in the "Fatwa" by the Holy See, and of course coincidentally the Patriarch of Constantinople also kept this so-called gift.

The content of it is also quite sincere: Constantine the Great had leprosy, and then was cured by a Christian priest from the city of Rome, and the Emperor sighed with emotion, "It's good to be a believer in Christ", and then took the initiative to ask for baptism, and also wrote this gift document, saying that "visible power, glory, dignity and vitality" would be given to Pope Sylvestre at that time, giving the Pope the power to rule the four major dioceses of Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem. The dominion of the dioceses of the Italian cities and almost the entire western part of the empire was also given to the Pope.

And the Patriarch of Constantinople also has a copy in his hand, but the content is slightly different, I believe everyone also understands: Constantine the Great gave him all the eastern part of the Roman Empire to govern, and gave him the same glory as the emperor, which is also the source and theoretical basis of the courage of the previous Patriarch to scare the emperor (at the end of the Macedonian Dynasty, there was a patriarch who brazenly wore the purple robe and scarlet boots of the king of God and fought against the emperor).

It is no exaggeration to say that this document is first and foremost the foundation of the secular power of the Holy See of St. Peter in Rome, and of course the Patriarch of Constantinople. So now a group of Greek clergy, who were close to the Patriarch of Constantinople, took out this document to fight against Anselm's oppression.

As mentioned earlier, Gawain has been seeking to suppress the spiritual weapons of the Holy See and the Patriarch of Constantinople, and this "Gift of Constantine" quickly led him to find a way to crack it - that is, "attack the shield of the son with the spear of the son". However, his instructions to Anselm were: "In the future, the whole eastern diocese will be given to you, and the rest will be done as I say, and everything will be decided at the Adrianople Congress." ”

Anselm summoned the Civilian Army of Bari and detained all the opponents who dared to oppose him and Emperor Gawain "pending the verdict after the Congress of Adrianople."

At the beginning of May, at the military meeting before the official departure of the army, Gawain suddenly uncovered the cover covering the table of the mercury map in front of everyone.

What appeared to everyone and Anna was a divided "map of the New Roman Empire".

The entire backbone is still based on the original military region system, but the attributes of the political regions are very different:

Needless to say, vassal allies Armenia, Shirvan, Haddadi, Georgia, etc.

The SAR consists of Thrace (the seat of the imperial capital), Samos (the capital Smyrna), Bithynia (the capital of Prussa), Seleucia (the capital of Seleucia. Alarman, West Cilicia (Tarsus), Chardia (Trabzon), Kastamonu (Sinop);

The counties consisted of Lydia (Philadofiam), Anatolia (Iconium), Cappadocia the Greater, Paphragonia (the eastern part of the place, Gangara), Amasia (Amasia), Sebastia (Sebastian), New Mesopotamia (Melitane), Phrygia (Aphion), Sith Great, Sith Lesser (Vanka), Eleven places in New Miletus (i.e., the area between Samos and Atalia).

In the last autonomous region, Gao Wen has a new change compared with the original plan on the small sunfish couch.