Eagle Byzantium

Of course, later in the Isfahan palace surrounded by myrtles and fairy trees, Gawain did not directly ask the governors Bachyanuk and Kobuha for the city of Hormuz. At that time, the castle was still called Ormuz. Almoz.

Gawain learned from the cunning Venetian methods. He told Bachianuk that in the future, Eastern Roman merchants and armies would only need a transit port for ships to berth, and our country would not occupy the city of Ormoz. "I just hope to build a dock on the island called Yellen opposite the castle."

Bacyanuk was like all the kings of that era, short-sighted. The court minister who was secretly bribed by Gawain told His Highness the Supervisor, "Yelun Island is a very small island, and the temperature on it in summer is extremely high. Meats and eggs can be cooked on rocks and there is no freshwater river.”

"Then, Your Majesty the Emperor, how will your merchants and crews get water?" The supervisor was particularly worried. Gawain had made great contributions to his power. Just sending it out to this deserted island would be a bit difficult. Sorry for the other person.

The Greek and Armenian merchants who accompanied the emperor said that we would buy fresh water and food from the residents of the city of Ormoz on the other side of the sea at the prescribed price.

Saying this, Bacyanuk readily signed the treaty, leasing Yellen Island "permanently to the Chamber of Commerce of the Roman Empire at a rent of three thousand tasso silver coins per year." It can be said that it was half sold and half given away.

Of course, what Bacyanuk didn't know was that fifty Greek merchants soon crossed the land and came to this seemingly hopeless desert island, and there were ships in the province of New Nicaea. A large amount of wood, bricks and earth came from India. This group of businessmen used a sum of money to hire They recruited local people and built trestles, cranes, cisterns, lighthouses, wooden fences and trenches to form a small wooden fort. Two years later, there were a large number of ships from Arabia, India, Persia, and Chola. All kinds of precious goods were resold here, and Yellenburg grew rapidly. It prospered. Five years later, the number of permanent chambers of commerce and personnel from various parties reached 5,000. The city gradually transformed from a wooden fort into a masonry fortress, and began to build powerful forts. Ten years later, Jellenburg was almost as big as The old town of Olmoz on the opposite side is integrated into one, which is full of "St. The church of "Paul's Universal Imperial Church" has 30,000 residents, a triple city wall, 1,000 garrison soldiers (mostly hired from Axum, Sind or Sistan and other places for training), 300 retired and resettled veterans, and a self-defense fleet of twenty warships. In addition, Jellenburg also built several large pastures in the wilderness north of Ormoz City, which can produce one thousand to two thousand excellent horses every year, which are used to feed the colonial armed forces in the province of New Nicaea. Strengthen their strength.

Fifty years later, Jellenburg has grown into a powerful Roman colony that can stand side by side with New Nicaea. Its army is dispatched independently and can destroy any emirate in Arabia without the help of the imperial regular army. The Roman Empire can use It gradually encroached on the entire Ormoz Islands and strangled them. Defending the straits of the Persian Gulf and squeezing out the interests of Arab merchants to dominate the waters, of course, all these achievements were soaked in blood: Yellen fought fierce battles with Arab pirate fleets many times, and even landed on the coast of Arabia or Yemen. Destroyed and exterminated many tribes, and in Eastern Rome After the opening of the canal in Egypt, the empire colluded with the Axum allies to plunder and trade slaves further south in Africa, and sent them to plantations and factories in Egypt, Tripoli, Anatolia, Thrace, Crete and even Sicily, especially It's the sugar mill - and finally it's Jellenburg In this core colonial city, there were 10,000 black slaves engaged in various trades. Although Emperor Gawain said during his lifetime that private individuals were not allowed to keep slaves, after his death, the prosperous big industrial owners had no reason not to use them. These cheap labor resources and the emperor's decree have long been sealed in the old paper pile.

This is a story later. When the emperor's team returned to the city of Taulis, he and the holy sister Cabeamiya parted ways.

After that, the Holy Sister migrated out almost all the Pauline believers from the areas of Melitene and San Sebastian, and then established a state in the eastern lands of Georgia and Silvan. However, she still violated the original Pauline teachings and settled in Taoli. Before the separation, Si and the emperor had sex several times, and under the conditions of "the mountain is high and the Anna is far away", a boy was also born, and he was also named Gao. Wen (Little Gawain), and announced the conversion of the Paulist Republic to the inheritance system, brutally purged a group of Paulist fundamentalists, and established a hereditary kingdom called the "Black Dynasty" (the country advocates black), which dominated the Ba It has important castles such as Library and Derbent, has 30,000 soldiers equipped with elite firearms, and has become a satellite state of Constantinople in a sense.

From then on, Cabeamiya would often come to the palace in the imperial capital, where she also had her mansion. After that, she gave birth to several children for Gawain. After the emperor's death, she gave up her power to little Gawain and lived in seclusion. In the manor in the Caucasus Mountains, she would sometimes let her servants play shadow puppet shows for her. Of course, she wrote and directed the plays, and she was the only audience. Of course, the content was... ...Immersed in the atmosphere of sweet and sad memories, she lived to the advanced age of seventy-seven. It is said that before she died, she stood on the terrace of Foothills Manor, wrapped in a blanket and always looking at the sky, where there was a male and a female hovering The eagle said, "How wonderful it would be if the soul could become like that! Unfortunately, the person he came to find was not me in the end." After sighing this sentence, she sat back on the armchair and passed away peacefully.

Diogenes also led his own Bellerophon Brigade in Tauris and left the emperor, heading north to Tiflis. When he became the commander of this team, the emperor never doubted him. Gusuyun also came to live with him in the beautiful mountain city of Tiflis. Although he and Gusuyun were on different paths, they respected each other all their lives. When his and Gusuyun's children got married, Anna arranged the ceremony in the courtyard of the palace. The wheels of the carriage carrying the gifts were gilded, and Diogenes walked behind. He walked like this four times (four children ), and enjoyed all the glory in the world - in his later years, Diogenes crossed the Caucasus Mountains many times, went on expeditions to the north to the barbarians, and led his army across the sea to the east to the Khwarezmian steppes, fighting against the rebellious "Western Song" regime there, and won many victories - in the fifteenth year after the emperor's death, Diogenes was killed in a small-scale battle in the old land of the Khazars in the north. He received a state funeral, and then his body was transported to the city of Tbilisi. The residents of the city erected a bronze statue for him, and his deeds were compiled into a grand epic opera.

As for Diogenes' loyal and brave heart, it was buried next to the tombs of Basilius and Basilisa in the Monastery of the Holy Apostles.

After all, he was the closest friend and comrade of Gawain and Anna. The three of them first met in the imperial capital, so it's better to leave the heart here.