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For this reason, Gawain could not return to the royal capital, but had to spend the new year's spring in a wild camp.

When the valleys of Moesia were covered with bright March flowers, he grew a long beard, tied a rein to the beam of the royal camp, hooked his strong arms on it, and then fell on the saddle of Agtilius On the morning of each day, he practiced horseback riding inside, and in the afternoon he exercised with dumbbells or went to the shooting range for archery. All in all, he needs to vent his excess energy.

The entire military camp along the Denje River turned into a huge market - many merchants, farmers and prostitutes from Tervono, Vibo, Deltuvis and Adrianople all took boats along the river to the designated camp market. Let the soldiers live more comfortably, with wine to drink, meat to eat, and women to serve on the couch and wash their clothes.

But the emperor couldn't do this. There were also surrendered Boye nobles who offered their daughters, but they were all rejected by Gawain. It was not that he didn't want to, but that he wanted to set a good moral example for soldiers, generals and local nobles.

Of course there are reasons...

After nightfall, the emperor was still busy exchanging information with the imperial capital, Tarsus, Melitene, Tripoli and other places, and coordinating and arranging various affairs, including church, agricultural and commercial affairs, military pay, workshops, hydraulic road windmills The construction was exactly as recorded by the confidential officer: "His Majesty Basileus worked hard for the empire and worked as hard as a bee."

When Gawain discovered that the coalition forces of Hungary, Tuscany, Venice, and Sicily were not in the same mood, he decided not to wait for them to coordinate, "Our army will march on time on March 20th."

There are still seven days before the time for the entire army to break camp.

During this period, there were two major issues that needed to be resolved. One was the resettlement of the 40,000 Thessalian peasants captured by the Branas Front. Gawain entrusted the confidential officer Philactus to solve the problem. Sri Lanka's coastal cities." Another thing is the arrangement of Isaac Komnenos - the former glory of the empire came to the camp of the new emperor and personally asked for "forgiveness", but in fact he came to ask for a "long-term meal ticket" .

Gawain received this man cordially and had a pleasant conversation with him. During the dinner, the emperor issued an order, "Your Excellency Macaulinus is old, and there are only a few elders in the empire such as Isaac. From now on, Isaac will be the first among the ministers in the opera house and racecourse. He does not need to salute when he sees me. He can be the first to stand up when reciting hymns. You can be the first to applaud. In addition, an amount of 800,000 taso silver coins is allocated from the market tax collected by the imperial capital for His Excellency Isaac's retirement. At the same time, 100,000 taso are allocated from the palace treasury every year. So that Dala Senna can live her whole life." In addition, Gawain also ordered that a magnificent mansion be kept in the palace city as a gift to Isaac.

This is the final outcome of the backbone of the Komnenos family. "They were well protected by cages made of silk and gold, living among the 'Agnes' on the ground. Their family will continue to be glorious as a new dynasty." A flag that wins people's hearts is carefully protected by Emperor Varyag and his descendants. It is placed on the bottom of a beautiful box and can be taken out to wave and shout at the appropriate time. "

Not only Darasena and Isaac mother and son, but also Queen Mother Irene's visit to the monastery was included in the schedule.

In the Brachna Palace, when Anna took her children to visit her mother, she congratulated her directly at the banquet, "A new St. Catherine's Monastery was built in the courtyard of the Holy Apostles Church."

Upon hearing this, the cup that Irene originally picked up was stunned for a moment and did not drop it.

In the candlelight, Irene looked at her daughter's beautiful brown eyes under the crown, but could not explore her inner thoughts. In fact, there is no need to guess, she became Gawain's wife after all, and this empire belongs to her and him - Irene came back to her senses and smiled lightly, and then her eyes turned to the couch beside the banquet, where her youngest son Adyoan was playing Zeno with Christopher and Helena, and was very happy.

"How I hope they will still be like this ten years from now, and that Gawain's blood, Dukas' blood, and Comnenus' blood can live together peacefully and harmoniously." Irene sighed.

"Mother, I will protect Adyoan from now on. He will stay away from the battlefield and become an elegant and cultured noble in the imperial capital." Anna looked at her mother, and after a long time she added, "If Gawain passes away many years later, If I am still alive, I will spend the rest of my life in this monastery."

Anna's words were ringing.

After settling Isaac, Gawain met with envoys from two large Slavic tribes who had lived in Kastoria for generations, one named Megilin and the other Ezeliti. These two tribes migrated there five hundred years ago and now flourish into communities with tens of thousands of people each (in the real historical plane, these two tribes fought bravely after the fall of Constantinople in 1204 The Frankish invasion of Thessaloniki and Thessaly), these two Slavic tribes had assisted Branas in his previous attack on Thessaly. So Branas agreed to go through the trouble for them and came here to see His Majesty the Emperor.

The envoys of Megilin and Ezeliti were dressed in ancient style, with crimson round-collared white blouses, daggers on gold-embroidered belts, lantern-like blue silk trousers and animal skin boots, competing to face the emperor. Kissing the boots, they said that the Slavs worshiped strong people, and it was a great honor for the tribe to usher in the imperial power of the new empire to manage their own country.

Of course, the emperor knew the other party's intention, so he bowed on the throne and promised, "Your tribe's original village territory will remain unchanged, and it will receive the same treatment as the Isaurians of Anatolia."

The Slavic envoys bowed in thanks and said that in return for the emperor, they were willing to provide "human tribute" to the two emperors, Basilius and Basilisa, and "two thousand outstanding young people can provide warriors and attendants for your majesty."

"You don't need to come to the palace for the time being."

The emperor's reply surprised the two envoys, and then they felt a little insulted. Did the emperor dislike them?

But the emperor continued, "You can go back and tell General Branas that he can lead three brigades to the north of the Vardar River Valley in ten days to cooperate with me to attack Sophia Castle, so - the defense of Larissa, Thessalonica, Macedonia Pella, and Kastoria will all be entrusted to you."

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The emperor's words were very frank, representing his deep trust in the two tribes.

After hearing this, the two envoys' original doubts instantly disappeared without a trace, and they bowed to the emperor again, saying that the two tribes would fight with their blood to protect the emperor's city, just like protecting the village and land of their own tribe.

After the envoys left, Gawain returned to the map table and pondered the marching route.

At this time, the imperial mentor Maglundius submitted his "mature" plan.