Although the Chinese civilization makes the descendants of the Tang Dynasty proud, sometimes we have to admit that there is still a civilization in the world that is not inferior to ours. {This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

Byzantium is one of them.

The magnificent Byzantine city walls, the exquisite and elegant Hagia Sophia, the majestic and magnificent Byzantine Grand Palace, the castle-like buildings are continuous into a large area, and the white palace is originally scheduled to shine in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Beginning with the construction of Constantinople by Constantine the Great in the third century AD, the white-roofed Senate Council of the Grand Palace once dominated the fate of more than 50 million Roman residents, and even if it lost territory one after another, it now dominates the future of nearly 20 million subjects.

Even after following her brother Constantine IV out of the carriage to the door of the Senate, Anna's little brain was still buzzing.

You're going to give up here?

Since Constantine the Great set his capital here, the city of Constantinople, known as the new Rome, has replaced Rome as the heart of this super empire for almost 400 years.

"The patriarch wants to question you, remember, don't admit that you are against any barbarian tribe in Fujian, and don't even admit that you have met with any king of Fujian, now the political situation is very unfavorable to our Heraclius family, and my father is very passive!"

Patting Anna on the shoulder, Constantine II gently pushed her shoulder and entered.

The empire was at war one after another, and even at this time, the Senate was still boiling, and the senators of all the empire's territories were eager to jump out of their seats and fight.

Since the Roman Republic, the Senate has almost been a symbol of Rome, maintaining the scale of 100 clans and 300 senators by the Tiber River all year round, even during the imperial period, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar did not completely dissolve the Senate, and even the first Augustus, Caesar's nephew Octavian, expanded the size of the Senate.

The original 300-member Senate was expanded to 900.

Hundreds of years later, although the Senate has lost the right to decide the fate of the empire, the senators, whose land wealth is spread across the country, still have a significant influence on the political situation.

Especially when the empire was defeated in successive battles and lost thousands of miles.

"Sydney Jialan must not be lost! It is necessary to organize an army to support North Africa, if Sydney Jialan is lost, the Viceroy of Afigali in North Africa is not in danger to defend, we have already lost Egypt, and if we lose North Africa, the whole empire will starve! ”

"Asia Minor! You can't abandon Asia Minor! Our homes are all there! ”

"Afigakya must be punished, if he hadn't been the first to break and flee, the Imperial fleet would not have been defeated!"

The upper and lower rows of seats surrounded the huge venue, and there were no more than 500 of the 900 elders, but almost none of them sat in the seats, either depressed, angry, or crazy, standing up and shouting, and the chaotic sound was almost inaudible.

However, in that position, the chief senator, the father of the nation, Augustus, the emperor of the Romans, the father of Anna, the sergeant Tans III, was cowardly like a child, trembling into a ball.

Anna's Heraclius dynasty relied on martial arts to start, in 602 AD, the Byzantine Emperor Maurice was killed by the rebellious imperial centurion Phocas, Fawkes became the emperor caused the anger of the entire Byzantium, taking advantage of the Byzantine civil strife, the old enemy Persia and the army to attack, the original Governor of Aficaly Heraclius I had a senator for the imperial throne and a civil war, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops led by Boskuslao II to invade Byzantium This crisis moment stood up, Through the navy, he went straight to Constantinople from North Africa, killed Phocas, and ascended to the throne.

Heraclius's exploits in Byzantium were comparable to those of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and internally, he reformed the army, promulgated the military district system, and suppressed the opposition with iron blood.

Under the leadership of Heraclius, the Roman army not only restored its former territory, but even broke through the Persian capital Ctesiphon for a time, forcing Cousin II to death, single-handedly crumbling the Persian regime.

As the granddaughter of Emperor Heraclius, Anna was very proud, but now in her cowardly father, she could not see a trace of her grandfather, and then listened to the chaotic senate still fighting for her own selfish interests, no one paid attention to how to repel the Arab army, and a different kind of anger could not be suppressed in this woman's heart.

Constantine IV could even feel the pent-up anger on his sister's trembling shoulders, and his heart chuckled, and before the co-emperor could reach out to hold her down, Anna had already walked to the red carpet in the middle of the senate in a rage.

"Quiet!"

The woman's shrill voice overwhelmed everything, making all the elders shut their mouths in astonishment, wearing red robes, both old and young looked at the princess who had escaped marriage and returned from a trip to the East, until a moment later, a sharp roar sounded.

"Traitor!"

"Shut up!" Anna's shrill voice once again shook the Senate to a quiet place, different from the previous hip-hop slaps, at this moment Anna's cheeks had a kind of majesty from the superior, and the Senator Konstantin, who was close to her, even lowered his head.

"The Arabs have taken Syria, Egypt, Armenia, Sinicalan is in danger, this princess has returned, passing by the Arab outposts, you can already spy on the Sea of Marmara, you elders, what is the strategy for retreating?"

It was silent again, if you wanted to get more than 500 people, you wouldn't be arguing here, seeing a group of well-dressed but dumbfounded veterans, Anna's smile became more and more cold.

After a long time, finally the elders in the back queue shouted unconvinced: "The army has finished fighting, what to fight?" ”

"The treasury is empty, and the treasury has no money."

"Yes, the army has already finished fighting in Asia Minor, and now the navy is finished again, what to do with the Arabian infidels."

Listening to the complaining roars of the senators, Constans II, who was sitting on the throne, couldn't help wrapping himself in a gorgeous royal robe tighter and shrinking it smaller, five hundred warships, almost 100,000 navies were defeated in the hands of the Arabs, but 200 ships and 30,000 people, and the navy that his father brought out from the Viceroyalty of Afigali was lost, which was no longer a shame to argue for the cowardly emperor.

The senators complained for a long time, and finally someone remembered to get down to business, that is, to the red-robed senator Konstantin who was not far from Anna, he suddenly stood up with his old body, pointed at Anna and asked loudly: "Anna." Princess Heraclius, you have used your reputation as an envoy to claim vassal to the Tianzhu Territory, which has seriously damaged the national character of Rome, you must know that even if Hannibal and Pilo's soldiers came to the city of Rome, the brave Rome did not compromise in the slightest, how do you explain this charge? ”

"Ben Caesar has already inquired, Anna has not been a subject to any Tianzhu barbarians at all, and she has not even seen any barbarian kings, these are all Arabs who are talking nonsense to shake the hearts of my Roman army......" Full of panic, Constantine IV hurriedly chased Anna to the center of the Senate, opened his arms and waved his arms to the surrounding senators and loudly argued, but unfortunately, before he finished arguing, Anna sneered again.

"That's right, this princess has never allied with any princely state barbarian king, because my alliance is a real emperor, the emperor of a civilized state, and the Min country is completely different from the princely state of India! The princely states of India were conquered by the Min State! ”

"This magical oriental country produces silk and porcelain, the clothing materials on the veterans are produced in Fujian, this country is tens of thousands of miles in radius, has its own thousands of years of civilization tradition, their country is seven times the size of Constantinople, the metropolis with a population of one million they have as many as two, their officials are civilized and polite, their army is brave and good at fighting, in order to prove their wealth, this time the Fujian delegation brought hundreds of thousands of dinars of silk porcelain and art."

"If I don't offer to be a vassal, the country will make an alliance with the Arabs, and it will sell the Uzi steel that makes the Damascus sword to the Arabs, and it will sell them weapons, armor, food, and the already terrible Arab army will be replaced by these, what will we resist? The only thing that can be redeemed is to be a vassal to Fujian. ”

"If we win an alliance between Fujian and us, even if it is a low-level alliance, Fujian will send an army of at least 100,000 people to attack from the Arab rear, relieve the pressure on Constantinople, give us time to replant grain and grass, recruit troops, arm the children of Rome, and throw them into the battlefield to defend the land left by our ancestors."

"As a Byzantine princess, I want my country to turn around, right?"

Bending over with her hands outstretched, facing the group of red-robed senators in front of her, including her cowardly father, Anna yelled hysterically, and after hearing her words, even Constantine IV next to him was dumbfounded, and a group of senators also bowed their heads and thought silently.

After a while, the embarrassed patriarch Konstantin coughed dryly, and his old face was full of stupidity and asked: "Everyone, what should we do about Princess Anna's proposed behavior, are we really courtiers of the Min State in exchange for the other party's assistance, or do we rule that Princess Anna is guilty of treason?" ”

After a moment of silence, the young senator next to Konstantin raised his thumb upwards and hesitated, the next patriarch raised his thumb downward, and the more than 500 senators present stood up in turn, raising their thumbs up or down, and after a few minutes, the voting was over.

"Your Majesty, out of the five hundred and forty-two senators present, three hundred and twenty think that Princess Anna is guilty, please ask Your Majesty to adjudicate."

The ball was lifted back to the feet of Constans II, and the Roman emperor cowardly raised his head, looked around and gave a dry thumbs down, tangled for a long time, and then stretched out his hand tremblingly.

Dry thumbs, face down!

"Guards!"

In the shouts of the patriarch, dozens of forbidden soldiers wearing the traditional armor of the Roman forbidden army and wearing a horizontal ponytail rushed in quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the heavy shackles were put on Anna's neck, hands and feet, and the cold and heavy shackles on the delicate wrists, Anna couldn't help but spit out a breath of turbidity in discouragement, and without saying a word, she followed the Praetorian Guard and walked out, and what greeted her would be a long prison life.

This result, before returning to Constantinople, she had thought about it.

Until Anna left for a while, there was a suffocating silence in the Senate, until the co-ruling emperor Constantine IV sighed and raised his head, and said gloomily again: "Ladies and gentlemen, the fleet defending Byzantium has been destroyed, and in Ancatolia, the emperor's * team will not last long, in the north, the Bulgarians are still invading, in the south, we have lost Egypt, the source of grain, and now, the Arabs have an irresistible Damascus sword, is it time to discuss the possibility of moving the capital back to Rome?" ”

In the midst of all the suddenness, a group of patriarchs once again muttered to each other.