Eagle Byzantium

"Long live the little daddy and the little mother!" With such loud shouts, on the steps covered with gorgeous Persian carpets and erected with Corinth gauze curtains, Gawain leaned down and hugged and kissed Anna intimately.

Soon there was a huge craze for marriages in the New Church throughout the empire. When they met again, many clergymen would joke and ask each other how they felt about their newlyweds. One of them, a shy young priest, said, "When he saw the braid of the woman next to the pillow, it was hanging down." "It's really a wonderful feeling on the edge of the Bible" became a classic, and even spread to the palace, causing the emperor to personally approve, "I felt the same as you at the beginning."

Because the "Axum Bible" revealed that Jesus also had his own wife in order to better save the world... The "high-quality clerical celibacy" of the Catholic Church was immediately ridiculed as false doctrine.

But later there was also a joke. A profit-seeking Anglican priest in Meisembria reported to the emperor, saying that on his wedding night, he and his wife sat at the table and copied the King James Bible by hand throughout the night. The emperor in the palace was furious and wrote back to the local scribe Thomas, "There is a printing press and I still copy it by hand, and I also copied it by hand on the wedding night. Dear Thomas, I have to worry about the purity of the team in your diocese. This is what I hope I will do in the future." It’s become embarrassing in the hearts of the people.”

As a result, the flattering priest was severely criticized internally and was so frightened that he no longer dared to act.

During the rest of the time, the entire empire was peaceful, trade further prospered, farming gradually revived, the population began to dwindle, and the "assimilation" of churches and education in Mosia, Serbia, Dalmatia and other places was steadily carried out. Among them, Augustus personally went to the Mosia area to pay close attention to local work. Not only did he learn from political experience, but he also built Mosia as a "New Rome Model District." In the city of Travono, Christophus personally requested that Greek schools are divided into junior schools and colleges. Junior schools must learn seven arts, including mathematics, as well as swimming and fencing. Colleges are further subdivided into physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, and physical education. Then add horseback riding, archery, boxing, sumo wrestling, etc.

Christopher also sent a letter of advice to the imperial court, requesting that in addition to the revival of rhetoric and the University of Law in Constantinople, it was also necessary to build a new seminary, academy of sciences, naval academy and military academy to integrate Educational resources across the empire.

As for the women's college, Gawain also delivered a considerable sum of money to Agnes in accordance with his original promise to Agnes and built it on Lesbos Island. After the emperor's death, Little Sunfish traveled between his son's Prince Kherson Principality and the island of Lesbos, where the academy is located. She spent almost all of her second half of her life in a study. She also enjoyed an advanced age and witnessed and participated in the empire's development. Renaissance and scientific pioneering, and also wrote many works on military equipment. Agnes not only became the "Mother of the Steam Engine", one of the chiefs of the Academy of Sciences, and the "Flower of Women in the Empire", she also proposed a new idea in her remaining manuscripts, that is, using "artificial thunder and lightning" to serve as a new source of power. , after Agnes passed away peacefully, The residents of Lesbos also erected a sculpture for her. The image of Agnes is a combination of Minerva, Sappho and Hypatia. On the sculpture, she holds a spear-like torch, wears an elegant robe, and looks out. Looking at the vast ocean and the imperial capital at the end.

What was she thinking about?

Of course, it was not until many, many years later that electricity was used in the New Roman Empire. The first user was a seminary doctor named Chebahad Jiyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He built a machine that could be powered by electricity. He sent frantic calls to people who were addicted to smoking New World tobacco and Persian hookah, claiming that they had achieved extraordinary curative effects. For this, they even received a patent bonus of 10,000 tasso silver coins from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

This is all a story later. When the letter from Crown Prince Augustus arrived, Basileus and Basilisa were receiving the envoys from Caesar Henry V of Salian in the audience hall of the New Palace, and the envoys from the ocean. Envoy of the Caliphate of Cordoba.

Henry V's idea was very straightforward. He had no heirs for the time being, but in order to continue to coexist with the New Roman Empire, he proposed to marry Mathilde, a girl from the Welf family of Bavaria and Swabia, to be his heir. Christopher's wife, she was little Welf's sister, she was only twelve years old at this time, and the entire Welf family was eager for this marriage.

According to previous common sense, the aloof Constantinople rarely intermarryed with foreign royal families, but Gawain made the decision, because in the future, his strategy in Italy must coordinate with the Salian Kingdom. In addition, the envoy proposed Gawain also agreed to his request to introduce printing press technology to print the German version of the Bible.

The Caliphate's envoy from Cordoba came across the ocean, hoping to restore the traditional friendly relations with the empire. Gawain was also very happy to sign the contract immediately, hoping that Cordoba could import slaves, shield makers, city architects and Other specialties, and the Roman Empire also promised to support Cordoba’s military technology and products. Since he was dispatched to the Chamber of Commerce and the embassy, ​​Gawain's idea was to "firstly let Cordoba suppress the Christian countries in the north of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Aragon) and even France, and secondly make it able to withstand the horsemen" The invasion of the Moorish Crescent Puritans of Grebe left a road to the Atlantic Ocean for themselves.

At the same time, the Empire sent the Gemegis Brigade to Antioch to assist the new King of Jerusalem, Gervais, in suppressing domestic unrest. According to Christopher's previous proposal, "there is no need to fight Crete in a big way, but a small one can be fought", so 10,000 county and border soldiers were assembled, led by General Monomachus, carrying siege cannons, crossing the sea to Rhodes first, and began to besiege the fortress built by John on it. After resting, the Guardian Brigade, the Red Hand Brigade, and three large brigades began to gather on Cyprus by boat, led by Andeodate, to attack Egypt.

The entire Fatimid court in Egypt, as well as the Coptic Church in Alexandria, was in panic.

Because everyone knows that the previously fanatical and violent Cairo reformist soldiers looked glamorous on the surface, but they couldn't even defeat the Aksumite new army that started to march north...

Nine years later, in St. Stephen's Castle in the New Nicaea Province of Sindh, India, the governor-general Kossos, who had been re-elected for three consecutive terms, had to report to the imperial capital after completing the handover ceremony and then rush to the Sicily Province to serve as the new governor-general.

Because Emperor Gawain had destroyed the Palermo court in Sicily, which was equivalent to the extinction of the Norman royal family of Treville that originally ruled the Two Sicilies and Apulia (Tuscany was also conquered by the emperor and Caesar Salian, Duchess Matilda died of illness before, and Roger the Younger was defeated and killed in battle. Most cities in Tuscany belonged to Henry V. As for the son of Bohemond and Constance, who was left by Gawain, he was just a nominal ruler in the court of Constantinople), "the king's palace was completely deserted, and only foxes and owls were left there, acting as nobles in the old days", and then the emperor appointed him to take up his post in the new province.

Cursus announced his farewell to this place in front of the Governor's Palace in St. Stephen's Castle.