The war in the Near East had attracted close attention from the trading countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, some rejoicing, some sorrowful, some saw this military operation as a continuation of the crusade, and many knights from the Italian Apennine Peninsula came to Constantinople to go with the army, which on the one hand seemed to indicate the general trend of the operation, but it silenced the whole cabinet.

"There is a steady stream of knights from all over Christendom, trying to join in our army, and Alex, the governor of Morea, has received more than a dozen groups of knights these days, and for these 'compatriots' of ours, we cannot beat or scold, but also provide good food and drink, which is a great burden on our finances."

"How's that going to work? You can't let them stay forever, you have to send them away! ”

After listening to Calvo's general speech, Chavez almost jumped like a cat that has been stepped on by its tail.

"Yes, this group of lawless people is not bound by our laws, relying on their status as foreigners, they are doing mischief in our territory, mocking our subjects, and they have brought a great burden to the empire, and we should find a way to send them away."

Even Flores, who had always been opposed to Chavez, rarely agreed with Chavez's opinion at this time.

"Your Majesty arrives !!"

The eunuch's singing interrupted the deliberations of the cabinet, and Constantine walked into the hall in a hurry, stopping the process of the cabinet greetings.

"It is easy to win land, but it is difficult to win hearts and minds, have you all heard of the question of the recent Christ Knights?"

"I was trying to report this to Your Majesty."

"Okay, it's good to know."

Constantine nodded, this matter is indeed tricky, but it is not impossible to deal with,

"Regarding these foreign knights and nobles, we must do two-way restraint, both to restrain our people and to restrain their people, any knight who mocks our religion can be punished with fines and other punishments, and we are the same, but in the process of local handling, such things should be minimized, and religious disputes should not appear in a country like ours."

"At the same time, preach our policy to any foreign knight who enters the country, let them know our basic laws, and let them go into battle, but do not let them mingle with our lads, for those who know and obey our laws, Constantinople can provide them with military rations, and those who kill their compatriots and our people must be punished by just laws, and our men must be treated equally and without favoritism, which is the most basic requirement of justice."

"Put us in the right position, guys, we are a universal empire, we are going to build an empire of merit that will last forever, fairness and justice are the foundation of all victories, in the face of a just result, if there are still people who don't know each other, our swords and guns can make them sober, okay, you guys go on, I have to go to a meeting."

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!!"

Another chant, Constantine had quietly disappeared.

Correct, to the point, to the point

The doubts of the cabinet were not worth mentioning in the mouth of Constantine, and all problems were easily solved.

It doesn't matter what the original intention of all good intentions will become, but it must be able to alleviate the contradictions in the early stage, and Constantine wants to occupy a 'reason' word, as long as there is this word, any riot can be resolved justifiably.

"Just do it according to Your Majesty's words, we are not the existence that allowed others to slaughter at the beginning, if someone still wants to make trouble, you can arrest it, I am ready to draft a document and send it to the eight major provinces, the cabinet should not be in a hurry to leave, and when we all stamp it, it will be a joint resolution of the cabinet."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

A small episode in the past, Constantine didn't care about the result they discussed, the current empire is considered a powerful country in the entire east, several years of accumulation, the current Eastern Empire, not to mention anything else, the war is still not worthwhile, as long as the surrounding crowd does not rise up and fight it, the enemy along the way can be dealt with.

Now he is still more concerned about another problem, and it is also the problem that he wants to solve now.

Religious disputes

To this end, he specially brought together the five justices, the three patriarchs, and all the prominent figures of the legal and theological circles of the whole country to discuss this issue.

There was only one argument at the conference, whether it was necessary to force the pagans in the territory to proselytize, and how to deal with the unconverted infidels, and finally the outcome of the conference should be determined in the form of law.

This is Constantine's wish, of course, this does not involve the relationship between the Western Church and the Eastern Church, in the current view, the Eastern and Western churches are Christian, everyone is a brother, so there is no need to discuss it.

Some people may say that the Eastern and Western churches are about to hit the dog's brain, and both sides are eager to destroy each other with weapons in person, what kind of brother is this, even the Eastern Church does not treat Sunnis with such a serious degree,

That being said, but subconsciously, people will still think that the two families are one, and the attitude towards the Western Church and the Eastern Church is probably that we were brothers a long time ago, but I can't wait for you to die, and even I am willing to help outsiders beat you, but subconsciously, if you are willing to submit, I can still accept you.

"The pagans have existed for a long time, and it is our duty to spread the glory of God throughout the world, but in this process, we must take into account the consequences of the existence of the infidels, because the existence of the infidels is inevitable, and for the disposition of the existing pagans, we need a way to stabilize the political situation of the empire at the same time from outside interference, and to nail it to the memory of the empire for eternity with divine laws, The meeting hereby convened is to be attended by the wisest and most talented men of the whole Roman Empire, and I have summoned you to seek your advice..."

For a long time, there were Sunnis in Persia and Arabia, and the nightmare of the Arab Empire and even the European world was nothing new in the whole of the East.

Throughout history, you can find a very interesting phenomenon, a series of large empires in the East, the attitude towards paganism rather than heresy seems to be relatively tolerant, to a certain extent, it can be said that a policy of religious tolerance has been implemented, but the countries in Western Europe do not seem to be very familiar with infidels, so their attitude towards infidels is very resolute, perhaps on the one hand, because they did not face the powerful pagan forces, so they are so capricious.

For thousands of years, the Eastern Empire, as the frontier of Christendom in Europe, has almost completely blocked the power of the pagans for the entire European world, and the Iberian region on the other side, when the Arab Empire was flourishing, was even beaten all the way to the city of Paris, and the Iberian Peninsula is not a traditional Christendom area, and there is even a Sunni holy place on the peninsula, which is as famous as Cairo and Baghdad, so it can be seen that in the eyes of people at that time, the Iberian Peninsula was the territory of the YSL world,

This is why the series of wars waged by the Kingdom of Castile and its predecessors, the Kingdom of León, the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdom of Navarre, etc., is called the Reconquista, which has been lost for too long, for hundreds of years.

And in the East, Constantinople has endured storms for a long time, so many wars, several sieges, the Eastern Empire has risen and fallen, and in the eyes of the European world, Constantinople is eternal and will never fall, and the successive wars have shown this with facts.

"Paganism has existed for a long time, according to the tradition of St. Paul, it is our tradition to respect paganism and emphasize faith, to a certain extent, we must be tolerant of pagans, and the believers of God should persuade people to join us with a gentle attitude, but they should not force people to do so with a strong attitude, and the impiety of faith will be a disaster. And the flames of such a calamity will consume us completely. ”

The dean of the seminary of Constantinople, a renowned professor of theology, began with a clear statement that represented the orthodox doctrine of Christianity, which was the result of discussions at several synods.

Respect for heresy, but strict judgment of heresy, this is a long-standing tradition, like the Arians, as early as the time of Constantine the Great, there were heresies,

Since we are talking about this, let's talk about several mainstream denominations in Christendom, first of course, the Western denominations and the Eastern denominations, which are called Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity in modern times, and then several denominations that have broken away from Orthodox Christianity, namely the Alexandria Orthodox Church in East Africa, also called the Coptic Church, the Indian Church founded by St. Thomas and the Syrian Church, etc., which are relatively secondary.

"But we cannot say that there is no difference between the pagans and us, after all, we are a Christian country, our land is the land of Christians, and the pagans cannot live in our land without paying a price."

This was a famous theologian in Athens and the dean of the Athens Theological Seminary.

"Yes, yes, we have to make distinctions, but we must not be too oppressive, God loves the world, even if that person is Leo IX, of course we must have a certain tolerance for the infidels."

The dean of the Constantinople Theological Seminary was very kind, spoke very slowly, spoke and acted in an orderly manner, which made people feel very good.

Due to the weakening of the national power of the late empire, the influence of the people in the Eastern Empire in the church deepened, because the superstructure, that is, the rulers were constantly changing, and the bishops in various places had to get the support of the people to sit firmly, so the historical Orthodox Church has not been too corrupt and mediocre, compared to the Western church.

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