Chapter 1048. Wishful thinking

This question is a sensitive issue, after all, like Tofu Song, in order to retreat from the army and seek peace, the dynasty that gave the princess and lady of the Manchu Dynasty to the Jin people as slaves is too few and too strange, and the prince of Min has always been the master of protecting the short, listening to Narciss's sudden shift to Anna, even if the old Xiao Sheng, who secretly pushed him to the court, was chuckled in his heart, and secretly complained that the Byzantines were not things.

The civil officials who were still talking about it just now were also silent, but after a moment of silence, the military attaches were full of passion, pointing at the Byzantine goblins who were frightened by Li Jie's voice, and the old Li Ji, the secretary of the military department and the chief attendant of the Feng Pavilion, took the lead in roaring like a lion.

"The Westerners are insidious and cunning and do not understand etiquette, and they are trying to interfere in the family affairs of my King of Damin, this matter can never be agreed, the old minister is resolute, and he will immediately expel this despicable person from Damin!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Li Daozong, the general of the chariot cavalry and the king of Jiangxia, also stood up, pointing at Narciss, and the old clan was also angry, shouting indignantly: "The Byzantines are capricious, faithless and unrighteous, and should never stop their tributary road!"

"The old minister also seconded the proposal, the Byzantines have not been punished for betraying me back then, and now they are ashamed to say that the crime is unforgivable!"

Yang Wu, the left attendant of the military department, Zhang Da'an in the military department, and a series of officials who were related to military affairs almost all stood up clamoringly, accusing them with gossips, among them, the loudest Fengge Nayan Xu Jingzong.

However, except for this old man who caters to Li Jie's intentions, the other military officials really don't like Anna very much, completely because of the current war situation.

The presence of Arabs holding on to Antioch is actually a good thing for Min.

It is no longer the aggressive empire of the beginning, but now the territory of Arabia is divided, and the Hawarijites, Shiites, Sunnis, and Emigrants hate each other, fight each other, and in general, are basically a piece of fat to be slaughtered.

Today's Byzantines are hyenas coveted next to meat, the last time the Byzantines said betrayal, it can be seen that they are by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, if they cross the city of Antioch, Constantine IV, a ruffian, will definitely take the opportunity to infiltrate Syria again with his tentacles, and compete for power and profit with the Great Min.

In that case, it is better to let them stay in barren Ancatelia, and Da Min will not need these unreliable allies, and it is better to ignore them.

In the end, it was a crooked fruit, so many people stood up and criticized themselves violently, and for a while Narcis was speechless, muttering a few words in his native language, and then he suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Misunderstanding!" What a misunderstanding! ”

"Princess Anna is already the queen of King Damin, how dare His Majesty Constantine IV ask for it, and Princess Anna is the sister of my lord, she is married, and my lord is also happy with her, let alone say more! My lord has also prepared a dowry for Princess Anna in Constantinople, why would he want her to go back? ”

"And what do you mean?"

The goblin suddenly changed the topic, and almost didn't put himself in, for fear that Li Ji and the others would put on some big hat again, Lao Xiao Sheng hurriedly grabbed it in front of everyone and shouted and asked.

Those who were surrounded by Narsis were a little nervous, and when this question was asked, the red-robed and purple-robed officials of the Manchu Dynasty were also quiet, and they all paid attention to Narcis's back, and they were also curious, what was this Westerner barbarian going to do.

Lying on the ground with some grievances, Narcisse looked like he had been wronged, and bowed with a twist.

"That's the case, Your Majesty the King of Fujian, although Princess Anna gave way to My Majesty, but after all, Princess Anna has been a co-emperor for a period of time, and there are still some treacherous people who are ambitious and try to subvert the society of our Eastern Romans under the banner of Princess Anna."

Carefully looking at Li Jie's eyes pierced by a pair of needles on his body, his voice was unconsciously a little smaller, and Narsis kowtowed carefully with a smiling face and said: "Since Princess Anna has married Your Majesty, it is impossible to return to Rome, can you ask Her Royal Highness the Princess to write a letter announcing her renunciation of the inheritance to the Roman throne?"

"If Your Majesty agrees, my lord Constantine IV is willing to pay tribute every year, and come to the court every year, and the Great Min conquers the Arab barbarians, my lord is willing to send 50,000 ships to attack Damascus by sea and respond to the Great Min!"

Listening to the caution of this Byzantine dwarf, Old Xiao Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it turned out to be such a trivial matter! The loss startled the old man. Thinking of the benefits brought by the Byzantines, it was quite relaxing, and the old Ministry of Rites Shangshu held the wat board and bent down to Li Jie to pray.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks this matter is feasible."

"The old minister also seconded the proposal." Yang Yucheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also followed, and behind them, a large number of officials from the six ministries stood up piecemeal, and the ministers thought very well, with a letter, in exchange for an obedient ally, this transaction can only make money.

This time, the military attachés didn't have anything to say, but they didn't look at the Byzantine promise to attack Damascus, Li Ji and others seemed that the inheritance of women was really not a big deal, and they could drag the Byzantines to hang around west of Antioch, and give up if they gave up.

In a period of pandering and neutrality, no one noticed that on Li Jie's head, a few strands of green tendons were jumping and jumping, and the corners of his mouth were twitching, give up? Dear ministers, you are so generous!

The reason why Li Jie is enthusiastic about getting Anna in his hands, and is willing to praise her and connive at her to establish some small forces, on the one hand, Anna is indeed talented, understands Western politics, and is still a Mediterranean beauty, eccentric and likable. On the other hand, it is her status as a Byzantine princess.

Unlike the strict primogeniture in China, where women have no political voice, the succession to the throne in Eastern Rome is very scattered, and after the death of the old Constantine, Constantine IV, Anna, and the other two children of Constans, Mamanius and Tiberianus, all have similar opportunities for inheritance.

Because of this, Constantine IV, who had murdered his father's ascendancy, had just defeated Anna and immediately set about convicting his two younger brothers, brutally cutting off their hands and feet and imprisoning them in a monastery, and severely suppressing Anna's supporters.

In this way, Anna is still a big problem for Constantine IV, and because of Anna's inheritance, Li Jie has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of Byzantium with confidence, and even if Anna is put on the Byzantine emperor, Li Jie can also obtain the right to co-rule the emperor, and he and Anna's heirs can also inherit the Byzantine emperor.

With such a big benefit, he Constantine IV patted a dwarf over, sent some gold, and wanted to take it away when he said a few beautiful words, and his wishful thinking was too good.

It's a pity that the difference between the East and the West is fully reflected at this time, and he doesn't understand the gold content of this inheritance at all, Lao Xiao Sheng, Li Gang and a large number of civil officials are full of smiles that take advantage of it, for fear that it will be late Narcisse will regret it, and he can't stop begging Li Jie to agree, as an emperor, Li Jie can't ignore the requests of the courtiers, and in the depression, Li Jie has no choice but to use a procrastination trick.

"This matter can be discussed later, Lone still has to think about it, come here, bring the Byzantine envoys to Honglu Temple first, where is Lu Qing, the director of the Ministry of Works? Didn't you go to the book to be a rivermaker on the Tigris? The Manchu Dynasty is both civil and military, and repairing the river is a hundred-year plan, so take out your charter and discuss it. ”

Without waiting for the courtiers to react, Li Jie had already forcibly dragged the topic aside, and seeing that several eunuchs had asked Narsis to get the reluctant dwarf out of the court, in shock, Xiao Sheng and the others had no choice but to focus on the next government affairs.

However, many ministers have made up their minds, and when they go back, they must write to persuade the king of Min to change his mind and make peace with the Byzantines.

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The three-day pilgrimage meeting lasted until the afternoon, and Li Jie, who was tired and hungry without eating lunch and finally crawled back, was full of gas again before he could rest for a while.

"A bunch of short-sighted bastards! I was bought by the Byzantines with this little favor! ”

It was only more than half an hour after the next dynasty, and Li Jie's desk had already been persuaded to give up the inheritance by Anna, and the memoranda of advice was piled up, looking at the recitals as high as a mountain, Li Jie seemed to be able to vaguely see the appearance of the ministers rushing out of the homework.

There was really a feeling that everyone was drunk and I was sober, and Li Jie was annoyed and pushed a lot of Zhou Zhang to the ground.

"And the damn Byzantine dwarf, this liar, bastard, this, this health care seller!"

After talking incoherently for a long time, Li Jie could only put the word on the door of Narciss's head in the end, because this guy was indeed like those who fooled the old man and the old lady into buying health care products in later generations, and easily fooled most of his courtiers.

Just when Li Jie was angry, holding a book of musicals, a graceful figure in black gauze walked in.

After the start of the Second War of Li Jie's conquest of Arabia, Li Jin, as the prince of the prison state, had a lot more power and worked harder, so he had to run at both ends of the Beijing division and Bosistin.

A few months ago, a loyal ally of Damin, a generation of heroes Tubo Da Lu Dongzan finally swallowed his last breath and died on the battlefield of the conquest of the Dongnu Kingdom, Li Jin sent people to hang according to the custom, but the news brought back by the envoy was that Tubo was unstable.

There is danger of repeating!

The importance of Tubo to the Great Min is self-evident, the plateau directly swoops the Northern Tianzhu Low Land of the heart of the Great Min, the last time Mangsong Mangzan lent the way to the eldest grandson Wuji, and almost won the center of the power of the Great Min, it can be seen, especially at this juncture that the main force of the Great Min is still outside, and the Tubo is the top priority.

But around this, seeing Li Jie's irritable appearance, Wu Meiniang still didn't mention political affairs without opening her mouth, but put down the twists and turns, walked gently behind Li Jie, and pinched his shoulders for him.

The soft grip can also be regarded as making Li Jie's mood relaxed, he closed his eyes slightly, and leaned back on the chair tiredly.

After a while, listening to Li Jie's breathing was already even, knowing that he was a little angry, Wu Meiniang asked softly.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"