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The backyard of the royal palace.

Empress Yevdokia was sitting in front of the bronze mirror and dressing up under the service of the maids, when a shouting came from far away: "Imperial sister-in-law, imperial sister-in-law, no, the emperor wants to marry his little niece to Aetius's son Gordontius!" ”

As soon as Yevdokia heard this voice, she knew that it was the emperor's sister Hononia, and Hononia's words surprised her, about the marriage of the princess Pracitia the Younger, Emperor Valentinian III also told her some time ago, saying that Aetius proposed to him, but he did not agree on the spot, but he did not expect that he agreed after only a few days, and the matter came too suddenly, Yevdokia immediately stood up and turned around to welcome him.

I saw a woman floating in like a gust of wind at the door of the dormitory, this woman was wearing a princess's gold headband on her head, wearing a long dress made of purple satin, the two meat balls on her chest were exposed, and her hair was filled with various jewelry, and her appearance was incomparable, this is the sister of Emperor Valentinian III, Hononia.

This Hononia is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is the initiator of the battle of Chalons two years ago. She is a typical passionate and unrestrained Latin girl, who was once discovered after becoming pregnant with the court guard Eugneuus**. Her mother, the Empress Dowager Placidia, wanted to save her daughter's reputation and chose a middle-aged Roman senator as her fiancé, but Honoria remained infatuated with Eugnios. Out of love and lust for power, she plans to put ** on the throne of the Western Roman Emperor. This naïve ploy was soon revealed, and an enraged Valentinian III executed Eugnius and exiled Honoria to Constantinople, where he asked Emperor Marcian and his cousin and mother-in-law, Pulcellia, to discipline her. Unable to endure the monastic house arrest in the palace of Constantinople, four years ago (449 AD), not knowing whether it was revenge or mischief, she wrote to Attila on a whim, enclosing her ring, that is, promising to marry her after being freed, she gave the letter and the ring to her confidant eunuch and secretly took them out of the monastery and handed them to Attila in the court of the Huns.

At that time, Attila, the king of the Huns, was worried that the oil and water of the Eastern Roman Empire had been drained, and he could not find a good excuse to blackmail the Western Roman Empire, after all, the two countries were still allies at that time, and Honoria's distress letter and ring were just the right excuse for his blackmail of the Western Roman Empire.

At the same time, she also sent a ring and a message to the Visigothic king Theodoric, expressing the same meaning. On this ground, Theodoric went all the way down more than 70 cities to Eastern Rome, sacked Constantinople, and retreated after being bribed with a lot of money. Theodoric didn't bother with the marriage contract, knowing full well that the emperor's daughter could not marry a barbarian like himself. Moreover, he was also very afraid of Attila and did not want to be jealous of him.

Attila was overjoyed after receiving the distress letter and the ring, and immediately sent an envoy to Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, to ask Emperor Valentinian III to marry his sister Hononia to him, and asked the Western Roman Empire to hand over half of the country as a dowry, Emperor Valentinian III was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, and almost lost his life, but he still sternly rejected Attila's rude request on the grounds that his sister Hononia had become a nun and had no inheritance rights, and Attila was so angry and ashamed, Feeling that his pride and practical interests had been violated, he declared war on both the Western Roman Empire and the Visigothic kingdoms. Immediately led troops across the upper Danube into Gaul and ransacked the Battle of Chalon.

In the same year, the Queen Mother Platitia died of illness in Ravenna, and Hononia and her brother Emperor Valentinian III were far from their mother Platitia, who was not only a devout Catholic, but also a strong politician. For decades, the ruins of the entire Western Roman Empire weighed heavily on her shoulders, and since the death of her second husband, Constantius III, there was no man to rely on. Look at the men she had to face: her father Theodosius I (the last great emperor before the Roman Empire was divided), her adoptive father Stirricus (commander), her brother Honorius, Alaric, her first husband Adolph, the usurper Sigrik, her husband's brother Valria, her second husband Constantius III, her nephew Theodosius II, the beloved general Bunifah, the disgusted but had to cooperate with Aetius, the Vandal king Gaiseric, and the Hun kings Urdin, Octa, Lua, Breda, and Attila. With the exception of the two Theodosius, these men had all had a history of endless trouble for her. She can only rely on her religious beliefs, love for her children, feelings for the empire, and her own wisdom to struggle in the treacherous and complex officialdom. The suffering in this is by no means something that ordinary men can bear, let alone women. Her tomb still stands intact in the city of Ravenna, and her body remained intact until 1577, when it was accidentally burned due to the negligence of a few children.

When Platitia was alive, Aetius did not dare to be too arrogant, but as soon as she died, the weak Emperor Valentinian III was no match for Aetius at all and was played with.

"Hononia, what did you just say? You say that the emperor has promised to marry little Platitia (the same name as the grandmother) to the son of Aetius, Gordontius (the same name as the grandfather)? Evdokia walked to the door, and when she saw Hononia walk in, she immediately asked anxiously.

Hononia nodded very angrily and said: "Yes, imperial sister-in-law, what I heard from the eunuch in the palace just now is absolutely true, I am sure that this must be the emperor's brother who was forced by this bastard Aetius to agree!" Imperial sister-in-law, you can't marry little Pradisia to Gordontius, once they marry, Aetius will be even more unscrupulous because he is the princess's father-in-law."

To say that whether little Pradisia marries Gordontius has nothing to do with Hononia, she is just the emperor's sister, and the succession to the throne has nothing to do with her, but she actually inserted a pole in the middle, which has to say that she has a grudge with Aetius.

After the adultery between Hononia and her ** guards was discovered, Emperor Valentinian III ordered her **Eugneus to be executed under the edict of Aetius, and it was also Emperor Aetius who sent her to the monastery of Constantinople to live the life of a nun, so Hononia can be said to hate Aetius to death, and she will oppose Aetius whenever she has the opportunity, and the reason for writing to Attila at that time was also in revenge against Aetius, because Aetius was in charge of the national military and political power at that time, What can block him, she is very happy to do.

After receiving Knonia's affirmative answer, Empress Yevdokia's expression suddenly became gloomy, she was the most reluctant to have her daughter as a victim of her marriage, because she herself was a victim of her marriage.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Hononia immediately encouraged: "Sister-in-law, we can't let little Pradisia marry Gordontius, we can marry the little princess to Aetius's subordinate Majorian, so that we can restrain Aetius, and I also heard that the little princess likes Majorian very much, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?" ”

Yevdokia's eyes lit up suddenly, "Yes, this is indeed a good way, I'll go and talk to His Majesty!" ”

The conversation between the two women here leads to the consequences of Aetius' dismissal of Majorian, which makes Aetius' relationship with the emperor even worse.