The Place of Constantine, just outside the walls of Severus in Constantinople, is a circular square with two huge gates on the east and west sides. At the center of the square is the famous Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, a Roman column built in 330 by order of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to commemorate the Byzantine renaming of New Rome.

The Column of Constantine is made of porphyry masonry, 50 meters high when it was built, divided into nine sections, and topped by a statue of Constantine in the image of Apollo. The ball he was holding was said to contain a fragment of a true cross. At the base of the Column of Constantine is a shrine where the holy relics allegedly kept: the cross of the two robbers crucified with Jesus Christ in Golgotha, the basket in which the miracle of bread and fish took place, and the jar of alabaster oil for Mary Magdalene, with which she washed the feet of Jesus with perfume. The wooden statue of Athena is from Troy.

In addition to the memorial column in the center, there are a large number of Romanesque stone columns and many ancient statues decorated around the oval officialdom, which are statues of the kings and gods of the ancient Roman Empire, each of which is lifelike and has a different appearance.

Now Constantine's Square was full of torches, and a large number of Hun cavalry had gathered in the square, because to the north of the square was the site of the ancient Senate, and the Hun cavalry was surrounding the Senate and attacking, and the front was already fighting with the Eastern Roman Empire soldiers guarding the Senate.

The cavalry of the Xiongnu Empire rode tall horses and rushed up the steps of the Senate with their snowy swords. There was a scuffle with the Eastern Empire soldiers guarding the gate on the steps, but in the middle of the night, there were not many soldiers guarding the Senate. In a panic, they were not the opponents of the Hun cavalry at all, and they were killed by the Hun cavalry in three or two strokes, and they lost their armor and fled, but these fleeing soldiers were shot by the Hun cavalry behind them with bows and arrows before they ran far.

Screams were heard everywhere, and in a short time, the surrounding Eastern Empire soldiers were slaughtered, and the Hun cavalry pushed open the door of the Senate under the order of a captain, and the captain ordered: "Rush into the Senate." Move out everything that can be taken out of a qiē valuable thing and put it in the square, especially those gold and silver utensils and precious decorations! ”

The Hun cavalry agreed with a bang, and many dismounted and rushed into the Senate. After a while, some of the soldiers came out happily with a pile of gold wine glasses, silver plates, silver lampstands, and other items.

The Senate was a deliberative body that played an extremely important role in the governments of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The Senate operates. Like the Council of Hundred and the Council of Clans. However, there are other plebeian councils, which are religiously religious. It could only be held in the sacrificial temple, usually at the Hostirius guild, after which the meeting could only take place after the prayers, sacrifices, and divination had been held. The Senate can only meet between sunrise and sunset each day, and cannot meet while other meetings are in progress.

If a senator is deemed to have committed an act contrary to public morality, he or she may be disqualified by the Ombudsman. Usually all magistrates - including the financial officer. Municipality (divided into two classes: seated and civilian), magistrate. and consuls can be members of the Senate, but not all senators have ever been in office, they are called non-voting senators, and they have no voice. This system gave the nobility and commoners control of the Senate, and they were able to gain a voice and promote their position in the promotion system more easily.

The consuls rotate monthly as president of the Senate, and the First Senate is the leader of the council. If both consuls are absent at the same time (usually due to war), senior magistrates, mostly magistrates, will play the role of chair. It was originally the responsibility of the consuls to plan in the Senate, either on their own motion or by asking the senators for their opinions on a particular issue, but in the absence of the consuls it became the job of the first senator. In the Senate, the First Senate was the first to speak, and all those who had the right to speak were to strictly observe the rule that the plebeians must speak after the nobles of equal status. There is no limit to the debate here, and in principle, the patriarchs are forbidden to engage in business outside the home that has nothing to do with land rights, but this principle is often overlooked.

All senators are eligible to wear the Ring of the Elder (first cast in iron, later in gold). Ancient aristocrats, such as Julius? The Caesar family, who continued to wear the Iron Ring until the end of the Republic), and wore a knee-length, short-sleeved tunic with a purple stripe 130 cm wide on his right shoulder. The non-voting senators wore white robes with no ornamentation. And the senators who used to be qualified to sit have the right to wear white robes with purple and red trim. Similarly, all the Patriarchs wore tight maroon leather boots, but only those who had a seat qualification were allowed to add a half-moon buckle.

The senators of the Senate belonged to the knightly class, and the empire also had legislation separating the knightly class from the plebeian class, and in the Roman government, members of the knightly economic class had a strong plutocratic power, and their commercial activities were not restricted. The sons of the senators, as well as non-senator members of other senate families, were included in the knightly economic class, and they were entitled to wear short-sleeved tunics with purple stripes as a symbol of their original membership in the Senate.

The Senate in Constantinople was independent of the Roman Senate, but compared to the Roman Senate, the Senate in Constantinople was only a façade, and it had nominal power rather than real power.

And now, this senate was emptied by the fierce Hun soldiers, all the valuable things inside were moved out, the chairs and other furniture were kicked to the ground, and finally I don't know who set a fire, this once empty senate was burned down, and a fire burned it clean.

The mission of the Fourth Regiment was to besiege the Imperial Palace, capture all the people in the Imperial Palace, and kill them in case of resistance, and now the Imperial Palace has been besieged by a battalion of the Fourth Regiment. The Imperial Palace of Porphyrogenitis is located in Fatih, which is now actually the old Constantinople, where there is not only the Royal Palace, but also the Hippodrome, the second generation church of Hagia Sophia, the Aqueduct of Valens, the fortress of Jedikule on the city walls, and the Columns of Marcian.

The elevated terrain overlooks the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara from Fatih, and the Byzantines built a large number of palaces here.

The palace of Porphyrogenitis, there is no such name yet, this name is called by later generations, it is now the palace, it is the place where the emperor lived, after a few hundred years, Emperor Porphyrogenitis was in charge of the Byzantine Empire, Porphyrogenetis is Constantine VII, people call Constantine VII Porphyrogonidis, which means "born in purple", to emphasize his royal status, because his father gave birth to him in the fourth marriage.

"General, all the enemies on the periphery of the palace have been slaughtered by us, and only the enemy on the Yedikule fortress near the sea wall is stubbornly resisting, but we are stepping up our attack, and we believe that the fortress will be occupied in two quarters of an hour!" A battalion commander reports to a battalion commander.

The fortress of Jedicule was built by order of Theodosius II, and its walls are shaped in a triangular coordinate system. There was only one gate on the edge of the city, and there were no buildings near the city walls, but this building housed 1 city guard, assistant city guards, 6 officers and 50 soldiers, and there was also a city guard officer's house and 12 guards' houses in the city.

The battalion commander ordered: "Take it down for me as much as possible!" ”

"Yes, General!"

"Report - General, the priests of the nearby Hagia Sophia are blocking the street to prevent us from arresting the officials of the Eastern Empire, please show me what to do?" Another group leader came to report.

This is not only the location of the imperial palace, but also a large number of officials live in this vicinity, and the commander of the Fourth Regiment has already ordered that all the homes of officials in this vicinity be searched, and all the officials, their wives and concubines, and property will be taken away.

The battalion commander was very annoyed when he heard this, this was not the first time that his subordinates had reported to the priests that they had stopped them from acting, and he was furious and said: "It's Hagia Sophia again, pass on my order, all the priests who stop us from acting will be arrested first, and then say, General Balhan's order is only that we are not allowed to harm those priests, but it does not say that they prevent us from acting, and we can't arrest them, arrest them first!" ”

"Yes, General!" The captain took the order and left.

The current Hagia Sophia is a second-generation church, inaugurated on February 15, 360 AD during the reign of Constantius II, and built next to the Imperial Palace, which is under construction. The nearby church of Elena was built earlier and served as a cathedral until the Hagia Sophia was built. These two churches are both the most important churches in the Byzantine Empire.

In 404 AD, the then Patriarch John I of Constantinople and the Empress Alia Acais, wife of Emperor Arcadios? Eudosia was exiled on June 20, 404, and the first church was destroyed by a series of riots. Later, Theodosius II ordered the construction of a second generation of churches, inaugurated on October 10, 415, with a wooden roof, built by the architect Rufrius. In January 532, a fire caused by the Nika Rebellion burned the second Hagia Sophia to the ground.

After the order was issued, including the Patriarch of Constantinople Anatorius, all the priests were arrested by the fierce Huns, originally Anatorius saw that these Hun soldiers were very orderly and disciplined, and did not break into the houses to loot, so he became bold, and organized the teachers to come to find the Hun soldiers' theory, and put forward their own requirements, requiring the Huns soldiers not to kill, not to burn buildings, not to loot, the Hun soldiers laughed angrily when they heard this, what are we doing if we don't kill people and rob us? Are you here for sightseeing? Now that all the priests have been arrested, Anatorius and others know that the Huns are not easy to mess with, and their demands seem to be a bit excessive. (To be continued......)