In the Middle Ages, people drew cards to be promoted to nobility.

The war was temporarily extinguished, and the army of Basileus from Aegyptus was already marching on the streets of Constantinople.

The Winged Hussars with feathers on their backs took the lead and marched in the front. Behind them were the armored archers and iron pagoda cavalry who were armed to the teeth and wrapped from head to toe. The rumbling sound of their horses' hooves frightened the Greek citizens.

An informed Greek citizen exclaimed: "God, I seem to see the armored cavalry under the command of Emperor Romanus. I didn't expect that they were rebuilt by a group of Franks after the disaster at Manzikert."

At present, the main cavalry forces of the empire have changed their tactics to imitate the Latin knights. On the contrary, Georgia and Sassanid Persia still retain a certain scale of armored cavalry.

When the knights from the three major knightly orders, wearing surcoats of various colors and crowned as the Knights of the Order of Saint Lazarus, came over, they all held their breath again: "Ah, such a holy and orderly army, not at all like those Frankish barbarians who are scattered and disorderly. The Holy Land is indeed full of God's power, which can transform a group of barbarians to this extent."

"Brothers, please stop using the word barbarian. They are all celibate knights who are dedicated to God. They are true believers, otherwise they would not help us deal with those Latin barbarians."

Although there were many people who understood, there were still many people with good intentions who wandered among the onlookers and set the pace.

"Didn't they say the Latin barbarians had been defeated? How did they get into the city?"

"Idiot, don't you see that they are waving the flag of the Empire? This is the army of King Egupstat. He has been appointed as the Vice Emperor of the Empire by Her Majesty the Queen, and is in charge of the Eastern Region and the Egupstat Region."

"Vice-Emperor? An Alemanni barbarian? Isn't he in league with those Latin barbarians?"

"You ignorant fellow, have you forgotten that General Lothar fought for the Empire in the last competition?"

"How did he become Basileus?"

"Who knows? Maybe they were already doing it at that time? Hey, after all, our Queen has been celibate for a long time, and that Frank barbarian is strong and healthy. The two of them are like dry firewood, so it's natural that they will catch fire at the first touch. If they had a bastard, what a shame."

Others were a little worried: "If there is a bastard, I don't know if Her Highness will still have a chance to ascend the throne."

Although there were emperors of barbarian origin in the history of the empire, the citizens of Constantinople undoubtedly preferred to support the Greek emperor who believed in Eastern Orthodoxy.

"Who cares if he's a barbarian or not? It only took the new Basilius a year to defeat Saladin and recover Egypt. He can control dragons and has dozens of powerful witches serving him. In my opinion, if he becomes Basilius, we can recover Aegyptus without any soldiers. In the future, restoring the territory of Justinian the Great will be a piece of cake. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

Many citizens showed hesitation. They were worried that a barbarian emperor would bring Latin habits to Constantinople. Since the Latin massacre, the relationship between Greeks and Latins had become increasingly worse. Many Greeks would spit when passing through the Pella district where Latin expatriates lived.

In the eyes of many people in Constantinople, these Christian brothers from the West were even more hateful than the Saracens and the Turkish barbarians who occupied Asia Minor. After all, the latter did not threaten the safety of their citizens.

In the eyes of many Komnenos members, Lagaia was merely a temporary custodian of Komnenos power. As Princess Ira grew older, she should have returned the power long ago.

The situation in the empire was also turbulent because of this.

But all this came to a standstill after the reinforcements from Aegupisto entered the city.

Originally, they had been colluding with each other almost openly and had semi-publicly criticized the Queen's rule, but now they dared not be so blatant, and their dissatisfaction only intensified.

In their eyes, Lagaia's intention was very clear, which was to find an ally outside the empire - the new King of Aegupstadt. By then, the two would combine and the throne of the Komnenos family would fall into the hands of outsiders.

"That damn bitch from the Ducas family actually colluded with the barbarians outside the empire and would rather grant the sacred title to outsiders than take control of the government!"

Not only the Komnenos family was dissatisfied, but the Ducas family was the same.

According to the alliance between Ducas and Komnenos, after Princess Ira ascended the throne, a male from the Ducas family should have been found to serve as co-emperor. If Lagaia looked for a husband abroad, it would be a loss for both parties.

"My Lord, I feel a lot of hostility. I don't understand. Didn't we just save them?"

Cherinina followed closely beside Losa, her eyes like a knife, sweeping through the crowd, remembering those hostile looks in her heart. When she met them again, she was sure she could tell them apart.

“They were afraid I would never leave.”

Lothar sneered. "The Queen's rule is obviously not so popular. She is subject to too many constraints. She has great ambitions, but if she wants to make any internal reforms, she has to cut her own flesh. Between offending her own people or offending external merchants, she chose the latter, but this obviously did not win her much support."

This was the reason why he didn't want to be someone's son-in-law.

Inheriting a corrupt old empire, there were too many constraints, and many times she couldn't even lift the butcher knife - because the supporters behind Lagaia, the Ducas family and the Komnenos family, were the biggest obstacles to her wanting to implement a new policy.

The reason why Lagaia sent troops to Sicily was to gain some prestige for herself so that she could implement her new policies, right?

But she had never expected that the war would become so protracted.

Cherinina nodded, not quite understanding: "So we are supporting the queen now?"