Chapter 88: The Ceremony (Part II)
Deduo had to be submissive from the inside out, whether it was her purple-clothed princess Rong Jue or her husband's family power, they were now all cunningly and skillfully absorbed into the "Tarsus System" by Anna, and now this system is going westward again, and it is going to crush and absorb the imperial capital of the entire empire. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
By what?
Dai Duo turned her face slightly, and the slight swelling of her shoulders and the curtains on the side of the curtain, the fire guns on the shoulders of the shooting corps lined up, and the bronze cannons erected in the carriage of the armored chariot, seemed to give her a potential answer.
Amid the rumbling and rhythmic footsteps, the honor guard at the front and the long queue of brigades behind arrived in front of the dome-shaped Golden Gate at noon.
Flags were unfurled, trumpets and drums were beating.
Behind the procession, the Zhukuntina Palace has turned into a fortress that advances, and the infantry of the two detachments that have long been stationed here are all standing in rows on the courtyard walls and terraces of the palace, chanting the slogan of long live, and the black muzzles of the siege guns do not spew out flames and smoke, but lie quietly in the earthen ramparts, staring at the golden gate city wall that has been bombarded, silent, as if exuding a great threatening atmosphere.
Gawain, riding a black horse, ran back and forth three times amid deafening cheers.
His confidential officer, Firactos, held the scroll in his hand, walked among the honor guards holding golden apple spears, and read it aloud to the Golden Gate, saying that "Gawain has received the power given by God, and has also been jointly recognized by the families of Komnenos and Ducasse, and has been unanimously supported by the court, the senators, and ......the citizens."
In short, on the day of the Palm Branch, Gawain was no longer willing to wait, and he wanted to enter Constantinople to wear a crown and "save" the city and all its inhabitants, and he had been fully embraced and recognized.
As for the church in Constantinople, and the group of diners and scoundrels of the Great Almshouse of St. Paul supported by the church, it was natural to settle them at once.
Slowly, after waiting for the confidential officer to finish reading, a curtain hung over the golden gate, and then the gate was rumbled open by the blue-clad members of the Athletic Party.
This quieted the ranks outside the city, and all the soldiers involuntarily raised their heads and looked at the magnificent and tall city gates, the pheasant moats that had been destroyed by the artillery, and the ribbon-like crimson masonry walls, which were the most powerful urban fortresses of the Middle Ages, which could not be broken by normal means, but now under the double attack of politics and famine, it succumbed to its new master, and the Virgin Mary taught all its ports, buildings, residences, and monuments to the hands of the new powerful.
A new era has begun.
In the distant roar of the tide, all the soldiers saw with their own eyes that a flock of black eagles flew away from the Golden Gate, but a few white eagles circled down from elsewhere.
Then the young military musicians in front of the honor guard stood on both sides of the city gate, turned the brass trumpet in their hands, pouted their cheeks, and the sound of beeping sounded. Then Sabina, under Gawain's crotch, took a solemn step, swayed with Gawain, and walked towards the deep interior of the city gate.
The rest of the spear-wielding warriors and heavy armored cavalry around them continued to march in a neat line, but instead fell silent with the brigade team behind them, and entered in an orderly manner.
Sculptures, streets, and monuments along the city walls, the people and officials who had come to surrender their allegiance were dressed in their best costumes, and stood in a crowd along the way, and one of the young men was about to squeeze out of the crowd with a basket full of crocus flowers, and was about to squeeze out of the crowd to throw it, but was immediately pushed by two armor-covered forbidden soldiers, and the basket fell down, and everyone retreated in horror.
Gawain, who was riding on a horse, scanned majestically with the sound of horses' hooves, and then he raised his iron hand covered with armor and made a pause gesture, meaning that he didn't need the worship and cheers of the people at all.
The two forbidden soldiers briefly searched the boy's body, then took two steps back with his sword in hand, and stood on the side of the street.
All the populace fell silent and did not dare to cheer.
Sitting on her shoulder, Anna also looked at the street she once familiarized, and just before her eyes was the church of St. John, which had been impregnated in her childhood study, and the former deacon and priest was none other than the erudite and benevolent Idorus, but was deposed by his father for his heretical thoughts, in order to appease the hearts of the orthodox sect.
After the church of St. John, several churches or monasteries passed by Anna's eyes, but all with closed windows and doors, and the welcoming crowd in the streets did not have a single clergyman.
"The attitude of the Orthodox Church is very tough." Her sister Daido seemed to have a bit of a gloating tone.
But then Natto's hand was seized by Anna, and she was immediately very surprised and frightened, thinking that Anna was angry at her attitude, and then saw her sister's eyes burning with something like fire - Anna, who was very familiar with the past of the Empire, would not forget, that it should have happened when she was seven years old, when the hostility in the north of the empire was urgent, and her father's plan to place patrons in the various monasteries was fiercely opposed by the church, and many people threatened to interfere in exposing his father's private life (referring to the scandal between him and Marlena, of course), Eventually, the father gave in, and he had to kneel on the floor of the Cathedral of the Prophet to confess and apologize to the Patriarch, hoping to regain the Church's support for his rule.
It's really not clear how Gawain should deal with the hateful Church of Constantinople?
When Gawain walked to the bull market, he changed to Quicksilver and went up, and then he saw Eudasia in the crowd on the side of the street, her blonde hair was exactly the same as her sister's, but her eyes were different, Eudasia looked at herself, but in an instant she tried to find her sister Inglana in the queue and on her shoulder, but she was disappointed: Ingrid did not appear in the ceremonial procession, she could only be Mrs. Calleadio, not Barcelissa like Anna.
Soon, however, Yudohya saw Mikhail on his horse, her husband, who was escorting her shoulders and riding on a steed, and she could not hold back her cheers, but tears welled up in her eyes.
Mikhail also saw his wife safe and sound, and a heartfelt smile appeared on his lips, and at the moment when the two of them missed, the former warden of the saddle stretched out his hand, hooked his wife's slightly outstretched arm and fingers, and then separated, and he went on.
"Gu Si Yun, Gu Si Yun!" In the entire queue, only Theognes stretched his neck loudly and shouted, without the slightest hint of the warden and his wife, and the pale yellow-haired Gu Siyun in the crowd was a little embarrassed, so he could only raise his hand and wave at the guard.
But Diognis seemed to be so happy that his mount had gone over, and there he kept looking back at his wife's name.
Eventually, the whole team came to Constantine Square.
The so-called square is actually a circular field between the old walls of Constantine, surrounded by high arcades, a passage to the racecourse as an entrance, and the other end to the Basilica Senate at the end.
In front of the square, the Queen Mother Irene, the former Zaifu Beriel, the former Caesar Macaulinus, Adjoan, the Bishop of Gallipoli, Desiderius, and many other senators and nobles were already waiting there.