"May God protect you, Your Majesty."

Ferdinando is saying goodbye to Constantine, it is a few days before the treaty is signed, Constantine is also preparing to return home with Laszlo, the situation in the country is not good, and Constantine does not plan to stay any longer.

"Take care, too."

Ferdinand looked at Laszlo again, the two sides had formed a deep friendship in this war, Ferdinando admired Laszlo's bravery, and Laszlo also liked Ferdinando's simplicity.

After a brief farewell, Constantine and Laszlo boarded the ship, and the puffed sails led the ship away, Ferdinando sighed lightly, he had to go back to deal with the affairs of Cyprus, Alfonso was already in poor health, and a large part of the work was done by Ferdinando independently.

……

"Your Majesty, where did we land from?"

The captain came to inquire about where Constantine wanted to land, and he could make preparations.

Constantine thought for a while, but decided not to go directly to Constantinople, but to another place,

"Landing from Athens."

He was going to cross the Thracian plain from Athens through Thessaloniki to Constantinople, which was also a disguised tour of the empire's territory.

Having nothing to do, Constantine called Laszlo and asked how he felt,

"Do you feel it?"

Laszlo thought about it carefully,

"Life in the army fascinated me so much that I didn't think about anything else."

Perhaps because of his long house arrest in his early years, Laszlo was fond of lively activities, and he never hid it.

Constantine did not know whether to be relieved or disappointed by Laszlo's point, Constantine had already regarded Laszlo as his junior, and his preference for outstanding young people with no children and no wife was obvious to all.

"Laszlo, as a king, the people are your base, and the feelings of the people will affect the success of your policies, and you must learn to observe the people."

Constantine was very seductive, he really wanted Laszlo to be a talent,

"Why was Julius Caesar able to defeat Crassus and Pompey? It is because he has the support of the people. Why did Alexander the Great stop in the Indus Valley? It's because he lost popular support, and I want you to always remember that. ”

No one knows the specifics of Julius Caesar's success and Alexander the Great's withdrawal, but Constantine preferred to tell Laszlo that the people are the foundation of the state, which is meaningful for the current situation.

Looking at Laszlo's eyes that seemed to understand whether he understood or not, Constantine directly said the phenomenon he observed,

"The Near East was originally the territory of the empire, the empire was second only to the Balkans in terms of its popular base, the Nile and the two rivers were fertile, Damascus was rich in ores, Antioch was close to Persia and was a center of trade, Aleppo was the same, and Jerusalem was the spiritual support of the people, and these places alone were enough to support an empire."

"From Zeno to Emperor Anastasiaus I, they all recognized the importance of the East, and the current empire has lost these places for too long, and now these places, where Arabs, Crusader remnants, Orthodox Christians, Turks, Turkmens, Persians, etc., occupy the territory of the former empire, and among these people, if you still have a distinct religious and national ideology, you will only run into a wall and bruise."

"The Mamluk country is old, although his soldiers are still brave and good at fighting, but the corruption of the superstructure is irreversible, you have to be wary of the Ottomans, this emerging country has greater fighting power."

Laszlo silently took Constantine's words to heart, and with Constantine's life experience, every word he said was something Laszlo had never heard before, and these words also had a great impact on his life.

As for the western territories of the empire, Constantine did not mention it, it is too early to think about recovering the west, since Constantine the Great moved the capital to Constantinople, the western territories have become marginal territories, and almost every emperor is the first object to give up when he encounters danger, of course, the greatest influence of the pope in Western Europe is also an important factor.

Seeing Laszlo take these words to heart, Constantine smiled slightly,

"Okay, let's go back and rest, and don't rush to understand it."

After this day, there were no more waves on board, and the fleet reached Athens without any problems.

Stepping on the land of Athens, Constantine only felt a moment of relaxation, and Laszlo directed the ships to dock behind him, and it took a while to follow,

He didn't go far when Radwan, the governor of Moria, came over sweating profusely.

"I have seen Your Majesty, Lord Laszlo."

Constantine interrupted Radvan's salute with a wave of his hand, and said with a smile,

"Radwan, how are you doing with Moria's affairs?"

"All the best, Your Majesty, after you granted the commoners Roman citizenship and encouraged them to reclaim the wasteland, the arable land of the whole of Moria has increased considerably."

Radwan nodded his head, without the appearance of a governor,

"Nothing against it, right?"

Constantine was a little uneasy, and being suspicious might be the instinct of the monarch.

"No, no, everything went according to plan."

Radwan immediately denied it again and again,

It seems that Constantine really believed Radwan's words and didn't ask any more, which also made Radwan's heart relax a lot, in front of officials like them, Constantine's power is still quite heavy.

"You have to work hard, Moria is a good place, when I was the prince, I was the governor of Moria for a short time, now that I think about it, time flies so fast."

Constantine was a little emotional, and Radwan was also laughing next to him, constantly complimenting Constantine, after all, Constantine controlled almost everything about him,

"Alright, while it's still early, let's go to the Parthenon."

Constantine was no longer new to the Parthenon, he used to come here often, this time mainly to take Laszlo to see,

"Oh, Radwan, you don't have to follow us, go about your business."

Radwan hesitated a little, and cautiously said,

"Isn't that okay? You finally came once, how can you let me leave? ”

Hearing this, Constantine was very angry and immediately reprimanded,

"Your task is not to accompany me, but to appease the people, do things honestly, and make me happier than anything else, why don't you go quickly?"

Radwan hunched over and laughed again and again, and then left slowly.

"Let's camp near the Parthenon today, and you certainly haven't experienced the night in Athens."

Constantine smiled at Laszlo, his tone was full of pride, Athens did have an extraordinary status for the empire, Plato, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Socrates, Diogenes, etc., writers, politicians, orators, philosophers, linguists, jurists, so many outstanding figures in history, it is no wonder that the people of Athens always have a sense of pride, which is the heritage accumulated by history.