Eagle Byzantium

It should be shortly after the completion of "The Road to Augustus", a friend suddenly said to me on Q one day (I really can't remember): Prince Ma recommended your work on ****!

So I quickly went to see it, and the evaluation given by the prince was quite good, inspiring and heartwarming. Sura was very proud and excited at the time, thinking that if he could get the favor of the prince, he would have the confidence to start a new book in the future, and the old book would also be able to increase its popularity, so he immediately plunged into the pile of materials for the new book, drafting the outline, finding jokes, grasping the characters, and communicating with the editor of Huya. He was very busy and happy. From time to time, he would take out the prince's ** from his mobile phone to read it, and he felt very happy.

Then, less than a month later, "The Road to Augustus" was blocked.

Ahem, this is really a sad (xiang) (rui) story.

Okay, let's get back to the point. In "The Road to Augustus", Sulla's core themes are "conquering", "splendid chaos", and "power and conspiracy". I hope it fits the style of the classical empire era. Well, you are a time traveler, so you can't use the native thinking to do things? Then why did many time travelers go to the Tang, Song, Ming and other dynasties and work hard to take the imperial examinations and climb the official ranks? You can't just blame Lepidus for seeking citizenship, joining the army, and slowly climbing up the official ranks in ancient Rome, right? In short, Sulla remembered a joke. Japanese housewives think that Fukuyama Masaharu's dirty jokes in public and on TV shows are not annoying at all. Haha, it's really funny. So Sulla is not a god, nor a popular theme author. Maybe in some people's eyes, he is the same feeling as Kagawa Teruyuki telling dirty jokes.

However, let it go.

After all, "The Road to Augustus" brought Sulla quite a lot of enthusiastic and real readers. They may feel that they need to change their taste after reading too much Tang X and Ming X. Ancient Rome is good, and the Middle Ages is good, so they also noticed Sulla's works. So although it is a niche and the results are not high, Sulla is very happy to write. Even if it serves a small number of people, writing is no longer a burden. "Want to hear a story? I'll tell you." This is the mood, so "The Road to Augustus" is written more and more, and it is getting longer and longer. After finishing the story of Calapis and Calapia, Sulla seems to be standing on the palace terrace facing the blue ocean, smiling and gratified to see the characters in his writing leaning on each other. They still love each other, very good.

The next book is the current "Byzantine Eagle". It is no secret that Sulla is a loyal fan of the Total War series. He fell in love with this purple empire since the paper man's "Medieval Total War 1". He still remembers the massive and cheapest elite infantry "Byzantine Infantry" in the first generation, the slow but amazing "Byzantine Armored Cavalry", the Trebizond Archers and the Nordic Varangian Guard. This mysterious empire that is both powerful and fragile no longer exists. The oceans and cities are still there, but where does the echo of that empire belong to?

So there is the feeling of saving this empire in the novel. In Sulla's eyes, the Eastern Roman Empire of the Komnenos dynasty was heading for irreversible decline under the surface prosperity. Since the tragedy of 1204, the whole country has no room for rebound. So at this point, Gawain broke into the purple world and started another story of Sulla. The core theme of this book is "courage", "decisiveness" and "unyielding". Gawain is a man with a high head, but he actually does not love Byzantium. This old empire seems to be incompatible with him in all aspects, but he may like all kinds of people in this empire (all kinds of people, of course, there is also Princess Anna), so he shoulders the responsibility of revival, but Gawain will not be locked in the weird and conservative Byzantine system, because destroyers and revivalists are not contradictory.

Although Sulla has done a lot of preparation, there are too few books on Eastern Roman and Byzantine studies in China (even so, Sulla still collected five GB of e-books and more than twenty physical books), so compared with many hardcore enthusiasts studying Byzantium, Sulla may have many mistakes and fictions, so I also ask for forgiveness in advance and welcome corrections. After all, Sulla just wants to tell a story.

So, "The story of Gawain and Anna begins, let me tell you!"

PS: Sulla is preparing for the simple encyclopedia information of this book. Some friends asked if "The Road to Augustus" can still be released? At least Sulla does not have the energy to revise the old book now, so I will put it aside for the time being. I also ask readers to support Sulla's new book.