For this reason, Gawain could not return to the imperial capital, but had to spend the spring of the New Year in the field camp. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When the valley of Moses was overgrown with bright March flowers, he grew a long beard and tied the reins to the beams of the royal camp, hooked his strong arms to them, and then landed on the saddle of Agthius, where he practiced horseback riding in the morning and dumbbells in the afternoon, or archery at the shooting range. All in all, he needs to vent his excess energy.

The whole barracks along the river were transformed into huge bazaars - many merchants, peasants and prostitutes from Telvono, Vibo, Dertuves, and Adrianople arrived at the designated barracks by boat, so that the soldiers could live comfortably, with wine to drink, meat to eat, and women to serve on their couches and wash their clothes.

But the emperor couldn't do this, and there were also Boye nobles who came to offer their daughters, but they were all rejected by Gawain, not because he didn't want to, but because he wanted to set a good moral example for soldiers, generals and local nobles.

Of course, there are...... Causes.

After dark, the emperor was also busy exchanging information with the imperial capital, Tarsus, Meritane, Tripoli and other places, and making overall arrangements for various affairs, such as the construction of churches, agricultural merchants, military salaries, workshops, and windmills on water-powered roads, as recorded by the confidential officer: "His Majesty Baselius worked hard and industriously for the empire. ”

When Gawain noticed that the allied forces of Hungary, Tuscany, Venice, and Sicily were not in a good state of mind, he decided not to wait for them to be coordinated, and "on March 20, our army marched on time. ”

There are still seven days left before the time when the whole army will be encamped.

During this period, there were two major issues that needed to be resolved, one was the resettlement of the 40,000 Thessali peasants captured by the Branasian Front, which Gawain entrusted to the confidential officer Firactos, "to be given priority to the resettlement in the cities of the Thracian coast." One more thing is Isaac. Komnenos's arrangement - the former imperial glory man came to the camp of the new emperor and personally asked for "forgiveness", but in fact came to ask for a "long-term meal ticket".

Gawain received him cordially, and talked with him very happily, during which the emperor issued an edict, "Your Excellency Macaulinus is very old, and there are only a few elders in the empire, including His Excellency Isaac, and Isaac will be the chief among the ministers in the opera house and the racecourse. In addition, from the market tax levied by the Imperial Capital, an amount of 800,000 tassos of silver was allocated annually for the retirement of His Excellency Isaac. At the same time, the palace treasury allocated 100,000 tasso every year for Darasena to die of her life. In addition, Gawain also ordered that the imposing mansion in Omiya Castle be kept and given to Isaac.

This is the end of the Komnenos family, "They are well protected by a cage made of silk and gold, and among the 'Agnes' who live on the ground, their family will continue to be glorified, as a banner of the new dynasty, carefully guarded by the Varyag Emperor and his descendants, pressed under a beautiful 'chest', and taken out at the right moment to shake and shout." ”

Not only Daracena and Isaac's mother and son, but even Queen Dowager Erin's visit to the monastery was also included in the itinerary.

In the Brachna Palace, when Anna took her children to visit her mother, she congratulated her bluntly at the feast, "A new monastery of St. Catherine has been built in the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Apostles. ”

Hearing this, the cup that Irene had originally picked up did not fall for a while because she was stunned.

In the candlelight, Erin looked at her daughter's beautiful brown eyes under the crown, but she couldn't explore her inner thoughts. In fact, there is no need to guess, after all, she has become Gawain's wife, and this empire is hers and his—Erin smiled lightly when she came back to her senses, and then her eyes turned to the couch by the feast, where her youngest son, Adyoan, was playing Zeno with Hristopher and Helena, and was very happy.

"How I wish they would still be like this in ten years, and the Gawain bloodline, the Dukas's bloodline and the Komnenos bloodline would be together in peace." Erin sighed.

"Mother, Adyoan will be protected by me from now on, and he will stay away from the battlefield and become a great nobleman of elegance and culture in the imperial capital." Anna looked at her mother, and after a long time she added, "If Gawain dies in many years, and I am still alive, I will spend the rest of my life in this monastery." ”

Anna's words rang out.

After settling Isaac, Gawain received envoys from two large Slavic tribes who had lived in Kastoria for generations, one named Maijilin and the other Ezeliti, who had come with him. These two tribes migrated there 500 years ago and now live in communities of tens of thousands of people each (in the true historical plane, these two tribes fought bravely against the Frankish invasion of Thessaloniki and Thessaly after the fall of Constantinople in 1204), and were assisted by these two Slavic tribes during Branas's previous attack on Thessaly. So Branas agreed to thread the needle for them, and came here to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

The envoys of Maijilin and Ezeliti wore antique clothes, white blouses with crimson crewnecks, short swords on embroidered gold belts, blue silk trousers like lanterns, and long boots of animal skins, and vied with the emperor's boots for a kiss, saying that the Slavs worshipped the powerful and that it was a great honor for the tribe to usher in the imperial power of a new empire to govern their own country.

The Emperor, of course, knew what the other party was trying to do, so he owed his body on the throne and promised, "Your tribe will not change its original village territory, and will be treated the same as the Anatolian Issurians." ”

The Slavic envoys hurriedly bowed down to thank him, and said that in order to repay the emperor, they were willing to provide "human tribute" to His Majesty Baselius and Baselisa, and that "two thousand excellent young men could provide His Majesty with soldiers and attendants." ”

"You don't have to wait to come to Miyagi for the time being."

The emperor's reply made the two envoys feel stunned, and then there was a little humiliation, could it be that the emperor disliked it?

But the Emperor continued, "You can go back and tell General Branass that he can command three brigades north to the valley of the Vardar in ten days, and cooperate with us in attacking Fort Sophia, so that the defense of Larissa, Thessaloniki, Macedonian Pera, and Kastoria will be entrusted to you." ”

The emperor's words were very calm, representing his deep trust in these two tribes.

When the two envoys heard this, their original suspicions instantly dissipated without a trace, and they bowed to the emperor again, indicating that the two tribes would do their best to protect the emperor's city, just like protecting the land of their own tribes.

After the envoy left, Gawain returned to the map table and pondered the route of the march.

At this time, the Imperial Mentor Maglendius submitted his "mature consideration" plan.