Chapter 30: The Emperor
"Your Majesty?"
Across from me stood an old man with white silver hair, dressed in a high-necked cloak that was too large for his slightly aging body, and a crowned double-headed eagle embroidered faintly on the side of the cloak identified him, the Emperor of the Roman Empire. He was the emperor of the thousand-year-old empire, Dido I, Dido Croralius.
"I've seen Your Majesty!"
"I have seen Caesar !!"
Behind Dido, the palace guards wore iron wide-brimmed semi-masked helmets, a bunch of light and fluffy red feathers on their heads, beige court guard uniforms, a steel plated brass bust of the Constantine double-headed eagle insignia, a Byzantine eagle claw double-gun epaulette, black leather gloves in both hands holding a new standard smoothbore gun, and a fancy handguard swords at their waists, but also handcuffs that ordinary imperial armies could not match.
The entire empire has troops with similar luxurious equipment, and the Imperial Guard Corps alone has between 3,300 and 3,500 men.
When these guards saw us, they raised their hands in the air!
"Long live the Empire!!"
"Viva Rome!!
As the emperor of the empire, Dido is entitled to such privileged treatment, but this army is not managed by him but is directly under the responsibility of Daddy Cheap.
Speaking of which, as the emperor of the empire, Dido is quite tragic, after all, the cheap daddy is in power, he is an ornament, a decoration in name only.
But being a nominal ornament doesn't mean that this gray-haired, old man who dragged my grandfather to death will later be unknown in the annals of the Roman Empire or be a foil to my cheap dad. A life can only be described in terms of mediocrity and the pathetic of fate, paving the way for the successful seizure of the throne in the Seofano family.
Well, although this old man is indeed paving the way for our Theofano family. But he himself, by his deeds, without relying on us, the Theofano family, was enough to occupy a place in the royal history of hundreds of emperors of the Roman Empire.
I have seen at the beginning of his ascension to the imperial assembly to the people and nobles of the whole country to send a voice that probably all Roman emperors want to say, "As the emperor of the Roman Empire, the master of the thousand-year empire, the king of kings, and the guardian of faith, how can I have only one queen!"
And then in order to show the superiority of our Roman Empire, this guy also came up with a plan in a serious manner. In view of the superiority of our Romans and the fact that pagan sultans could have at least four wives, it was suggested that the Empire should amend the Laws and the Ecclesiastical Law to legislate to give the Roman Emperor the legal right to marry five wives. He stated at the convention that, as a Roman, he would in any case show a sense of superiority over the pagans.
Such a bizarre idea, although there was some support, was of course rejected by the righteous people represented by the cheap daddy and the imperialists who adhered to tradition. Alexander was spared the danger of having to deal with five women in the future. Events spread throughout the empire. This emperor has since become the joke of the empire. The army was originally disdainful of him, and since then it has been even more despised. However, Dido, the emperor, apparently did not care. Unable to marry a wife, he had to attack the female officials and maids in the palace, and the palace spread rumors that a certain beautiful maid was murdered, so that the most beautiful maids in the palace became more than forty aunts, so that the old man had to apply to the cheap father to take the guards to the brothel to play, so that the cheap father approved to bring the prostitute into the palace for the night, although the latter was unsuccessful. But the former allowed him to do it anyway.
Daddy Cheap didn't abuse the old man who was closest to Alexander's biological mother. He thought that the emperor should stay in the palace and return to the palace. Cheap Daddy came in and opened the palace to him. He wants to expand the harem maids, and the cheap dad also made it for him, he wants to repair the palace and change the palace, and the cheap dad still has no problem, anyway, except for the fact that he wants to marry five wives, basically, the cheap dad will agree to the old man's application.
Over the decades, Dido was a golden gun, and although he was not sick, he was evaluated as mediocre, lustful, boring, not doing anything serious at all, and having an evaluation that was equal to nothing, and the army directly ignored this emperor, for whom this kind of emperor was far inferior to the Ceofano family.
In short, it is such an emperor, he is speeding up the process of the previous dynasty passing over to our Theofano family, although this acceleration process has no effect on the big aristocratic class that once occupied the interests of the past, but the people eat this set, do not see that the people only know the official documents of the United Front Work Department and do not recognize the edict of the imperial court, and the army swears allegiance to our Theofano.
Well, what I want to say is that in fact, our family's relationship with this emperor is not so dire, at least not like the relationship between the hard-pressed Emperor Han Xian and Cao Pi, the Wei Taizu, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
"I'm back. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty. ”
"Is Germany fun?"
"I've got an interesting person, and maybe I can introduce him to you. ”
"Oh, tell me about it. ”
"It was a Saxon. His dream is to have a kingdom of his own, and then to have the maids of the court in his own little court with suspender stockings...."
"Suspenders are just stockings, and seven years ago, the palace maids I ordered must wear the low-cut skirts I prescribed. ”
Dido's words made Alexander roll his eyes.
"It was the servants of the court who wore skirts that were short to the base of the thighs, and he was determined to extend them to his kingdom. ”
Dido's eyebrows fluttered when he heard my words: "Who is that young man? so talented! Don't say anything, I'm sure to sponsor him, no, I'll go back tonight and transform the maids and officials in the palace according to his ideas, haha ”
"What about Caesar?" Alexander interrupted his thoughts.
"Caesar is outside, I'm old, I can't stand the wind and cold, so I came in first. ”
No sooner had Dido's words been uttered than my cheap dad walked in from the wide balcony outside the hall.
Cheap Daddy was relatively tall among the leaders of the Roman Empire with an average figure of 1.65 to 1.7 meters, and today he wears a dark gold-rimmed black silk robe, because this robe imitates the ancient Roman two hanging ribbons, Alexander and I privately call this dress Caesar's robe, his black hair is trimmed neatly, and his deep eyes are now flashing with an inexplicable light.
Cheap Daddy, Caesar's eyes often twinkle with this kind of light, but today in my eyes with a ghost in my heart, this light scares me like a sharp look that pierces all my thoughts.
"I've seen Caesar!"
"You're finally back. ”
Cheap Daddy groaned softly and asked the palace guards around him to leave, and only after the guards pulled the door and walked out of the room did he ask, "How is it?"
What how?
Was he asking me what I thought about this trip to Europe?
"What about Germany and France?" said the cheap old man, turning and walking towards the map of the hall, "Nikis, you can talk about France first, I want to hear what our great enemy describes from you and the information we have given Assasin. ”
"Caesar, shouldn't you talk about the old days when your father and son get together? Dido interjected.
"Your Majesty, we are father and son, but we are also kings and ministers. In the future, they will stand in the same position as you and me, and become the masters of the destiny of an empire with a population of tens of millions, and everything must be done in a measured manner. Now that we have declared war on France, all the strategic arrangements are only the last step, and it is more important to listen to information than to catch up with father and son. ”
"Caesar, I also think Your Majesty is right, now is the time for Nikis to rest, knowing that he has been fighting outside for two years. Alexander was inexplicably a little emotional.
"I don't have a problem, in fact, I also feel that military intelligence is more important. (To be continued......)