On the road he came, Matthias was running with his head buried in his head, his whole body lying on the back of his horse, and from time to time he looked back to see if any pursuers were coming, looking very nervous.

"How long will we have to wait, Lord Earl?"

In the forest, the soldier who had been waiting for a long time couldn't help but ask, the forest was full of mosquitoes, biting people's bodies, itching unbearably.

"Don't be in a hurry, boy, Margash will appear before us as God sees fit, and we will capture Margash in one fell swoop with the power of God to accomplish the great deed."

Ulrich was a little unbearable, but when he thought that fame and fortune were in front of him, he could get through it no matter how unbearable he was.

"Did you hear that, boy, someone's coming."

With his ears close to the ground, Ulrich could clearly feel the shaking of the ground and hear a low rumbling sound, all of which indicated that a cavalry force was about to arrive.

"Pass the order, the lasso prepares, I'm going to catch him alive, if anyone kills someone, I'll kill him, do you understand?"

Ulrich was going crazy with joy, not everyone could remain indifferent in the face of a great victory.

From a distance, Ulrich could see a figure lying on his horse and turning around, surrounded by a dozen people, and his status was not low at a glance.

"Hula~"

The lasso, accompanied by the shouts of Margas, marked the end of the war, and it was clear that after the capture of Margas, there was no longer any force in Hungary to fight against Laszlo, and Laszlo was firmly on the throne.

……

Somewhere in the Balkans, at night, in a quiet little village, the village that should have been pitch black has a glimmer of light today, and there are many more makeshift tents in the village.

"Old man, how is your life lately? Did the Patrol Officer put my directives in place? ”

Constantine took the hand of an old man, his tone was amiable, and the old man was also sincerely afraid, such a big man they had never seen in their previous lives,

"It has been put in place, Your Majesty, the Patrol Officer organized several villages near us to dig canals together, and distributed cattle and grain seeds, spring ploughing is going very smoothly, as long as there is enough rain this year, I think it will be another bumper harvest year!"

Speaking of this, the old man's face was full of joy, the more grain they produced, the more they could eat, this year, everyone's life is not easy.

"Well, what the state can do has been done, you can't be lazy, you have to put your energy into maintaining the fields, don't let them go waste, as long as you put in enough effort, no matter what industry you are, you can make everyone rich."

"Eh, eh, I heard you, Your Majesty, I understand, Your Majesty."

The old man just nodded incessantly, and Constantine, who had been busy all day, was also a little tired, and in view of this, Louis hurriedly took the old man away and returned after a while.

"Louie, the civil magistrates are already useless, from them, I can't get any local information, I hope the civil inspectors can hold on longer!"

Constantine's tone was very tired, in a short period of time, the civil officials set up by Constantine were in the same stream as the nobles, especially after the nobles entered the civil service system in large numbers, although the local forces were basically swept away, but the central government's decrees began to slowly become extremely difficult to reach the localities, and the civil inspectors were also founded by Constantine to implement Constantine's policies in the local area, according to the current point of view, their actions are okay, but I don't know how long they can last.

In fact, from ancient times to the present, from the west to the east, all countries are facing a very serious problem, that is, it is difficult for the central government to reach the localities, there is a scene in "Don Quixote", a tax collector comes to collect taxes, after a while, an old herdsman leads a sheep, saying that we have no money, you take this sheep away, even taxes are so difficult to collect, how much control the central government has over the localities, that is almost none,

Spain has local councils such as the Council of Aragon, France has provincial and municipal councils and local princes, the Holy Roman Empire is even more fragmented, England's Magna Carta, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Sem Parliament, the Nordic European Kalmar Union, the Rus region has not yet been unified, and the Hanseatic League is still world-famous, which government dares to say that it has absolute control over the locality? As Thomas More said in his book Utopia, secular kings only thought about how to get more land, not how to govern their land better, and this is the true portrayal of the time.

"Your Majesty, why don't you want to change people? Knowing that the Fumin officials have already been in the same league with them, and still letting them sit in that position, doesn't this further fuel their arrogance? ”

Louis wondered, isn't this a laissez-faire?

"Louie, do you know about war?"

"A little bit of it"

"What is needed in the war is not that brute force, in the face of the bait thrown by the enemy, if you directly press the whole army, it will only expose your details, I can replace them, and then what? If some of the more cautious people continue to be in the league with the nobles, it will be more difficult for us to catch them. ”

Louis was not angry, and said in a muffled voice,

"Then we'll let them do their bidding? Infringement of national interests? Don't we do it because it doesn't work? Isn't this a compromise, isn't it a kind of nest? Isn't this a tacit acquiescence to unhealthy practices? The greatness of Rome is not reflected in these people, they are not worthy of being Romans, and you, as the Emperor of the Roman Empire, Augustus, do you not have the slightest responsibility for allowing this evil to grow? Isn't the situation today affected by you in the slightest? ”

The more he spoke, the higher Louis's tone became,

"As the Emperor of the Roman Empire, you are the heir of the universal empire, and you are supposed to protect the people of the empire, and this group of people not only do whatever they want, but also treat human life as a mustard, and the officials protect each other, the citizens die miserably, the property is deprived, the goods of the merchants are robbed by the robbers they employ, the workers are forced to work for them 'voluntarily', and even the ploughing cattle sent down in some places are robbed, don't you know that these are all this?"

The laws of the Roman Empire do explicitly prohibit these acts, but you must understand the current background of the times, Constantinople is not so strongly binding, the civil system has long since collapsed, before Constantine XI, the decrees of the Roman Empire do not say that Constantinople cannot be said, it is simply not out of the Grand Palace, the emperor can't even manage Constantinople, even if Constantine XI is the incarnation of Christ, it is impossible to make everyone obey in just a few years, to be honest, Letting the nobles move to Anatolia has exhausted Constantine's prestige and energy, and in this way, the nobles in the country have already complained a lot, and if they are not careful, a civil war will break out again, and in this case, even if God himself descends to earth, he will also be beaten back by the united nobles,

In the Confucianism of the tongue war group, Prime Minister Zhuge gave a good example, in the face of seriously ill patients, it is often necessary to recuperate the other party's body first, and then attack it with fierce medicine, and make up for it with meat, now Constantine is doing the stage of recuperating the body, the Roman Empire is too old, Constantine wants to return it to the state of his youth, how dare he rush it?

"I know, Louie, I know all this, and I want to tear them all to pieces, but can I do that? The Ottomans fell, and the Avars, the Arabs, the Slavs, the Persians, it is more difficult to maintain a country than to take it, the enemy can appear at any moment, how can I act rashly in such a situation, I have given everything I have to the empire I love the most, I can no longer watch it fall. ”

Constantine yelled too, trying to calm Louis down.

"Oh, really... What a wreck. ”

Louis angrily hammered the wall, and then left the house where Constantine was without looking back.

Constantine clenched his fists, standing alone in front of the table, raising his head to look through the window at the moon in the distance, was there a time when Caesar, Constantine the Great, Justinian and Heraclius were looking at the same moon as him, and what would they have done if they knew that the Roman Empire was in such a stormy time?

"Oh God! Please guide me! The Roman Empire must not perish at my hands, what I did... It's not enough. ”

Facing the moon and praying silently, Constantine sat down at the table, opened the "General Treatise on Warfare" that he had written a lot, he wanted to finish this work, Constantine's life has lasted for a long time, busy with official business during the day, patrolling around, writing books at night, writing down his own opinions, he feels that he does not have the deep philosophical skills of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, but he not only has experience in war, but the memory in his head can also provide reference for his writings.

"A country that is keen on war will be weakened, because as the country expands, the resources of war will be greater than the resources obtained by war, and the land acquired will not be able to provide us with food and other products that will help the country for a short time, and the people of the other side will not be able to agree with our rule for a short time, so our strength cannot be increased immediately, and the enemy is endless, so those who feel that war is beneficial will be infamy..."

"Between heaven and earth, the most important thing is people, war will inevitably lead to a decrease in the number of citizens, if this problem cannot be solved, then war is harmful and unprofitable, there are no people, no amount of weapons and armor can make the enemy feel invincible, no amount of food can make the enemy feel invincible..."

Constantine opened with a clear meaning in the "General Theory of Military Science", and then wrote "General Theory of Military Science, Tactics", "General Theory of Military Science, Logistics", "General Theory of Military Science, Topography", "General Theory of Military Science, Weapons and Equipment", "General Theory of Military Science, Customs and Customs", etc. Directly became one of the greatest military theorists in history.

And Constantine, who is now working hard, doesn't know what will happen in the future, he just wants to finish his job now,

"But I will never let them go, absolutely, the Roman Empire will not fall into the hands of these insects, absolutely not."

As he wrote, Constantine muttered to himself, his calm tone full of murderous intent.

After a long delay, the wedding of Constantine and Anna finally arrived, this wedding can be said to be a great joy for everyone, it is what everyone wants to see, the wedding was held in the Hagia Sophia, the principalities of the Rus region and the countries of Eastern Europe sent envoys, Laszlo and Ferdinando attended in person, because of Constantine's tense atmosphere for the nobles, he was finally able to take a good breath.

Some people died, but not completely......