Eagle Byzantium

"But Your Highness the Grand Duke, this hospital cannot just be shelved..." Before the director could finish expressing his importance, Gawain took a money bag and hung it around his neck, and then He took him out and said, "Go quickly, go quickly, these money are your headhunting fees. If you still stay here, then this big hospital will really be put on hold indefinitely - soon, the local farmers will put the pigs away." Come in with the dog and ask your men to castrate it.”

"Don't be so cruel. Everything has to be done step by step." After Gawain pushed and shoved the dean out, Anna said angrily, "Just the completion of this big hospital is already quite remarkable. Achieved."

Gawain, who was standing under the arched door with his back to Anna, suddenly laughed, "That's right. Let me ask you Anna - are you ready?"

"Well!" Anna stared at the tall figure and nodded firmly and firmly, "I have entrusted Hertomia to draft a letter to be sent to the palace in Nicaea."

By the vast Lake Nicaea, surrounded by white city walls, in the Green Palace where the Sultan originally lived, Dido received a letter from Seleucia, which was stamped with Gawain's large red hand seal and Anna's small seal of seven ridges. It was the most formal official document. The little purple-clothed princess suddenly felt that her heart was being oppressed and couldn't help but She had to adjust her breathing, took out the paper knife from the reading table, opened the envelope, and then took out the smooth Seleucia paper, looking at the tadpole-like words on it, and then Dido suddenly covered her forehead with her hand, With the screams and support of the maids, she panted and sat on the chair. It took a long time before she said this:

"Hurry up and send this letter to your father on the front line! I, I am really embarrassed to say that there can be such shameless and shameless men and women in this world!"

The messenger cavalry who put the letter into a leather bag hurriedly left Nicaea and passed the Castle of Doliaraim. After a full day and night of exhaustion, they finally saw the emperor's camp with the purple-bordered royal flag flying - A A month ago, Lexius defeated the Konya Turks through surprise tactics in the canyon under Filna Castle: Sultan Giliki took only 800 Danishmund mercenary cavalry, lost all their tents and baggage, and fled back to Konya in embarrassment. Then Brenus, the "chief engineer", took the opportunity to build many camps. , sealed off the inside and outside of the mountain fortress Ferna, and forced the Isaurian chief Nikitas who was trapped inside to surrender.

The emperor held the riding whip and looked at the target castle on the top of the mountain with contentment. His tents and banners were all over the canyon, and they also passed through the pass and extended to the hot water lake in the south of Ferna. There were fully 20,000 people there. The majestic soldiers relied on the solid fortifications to surround this group of fortresses guarded only by bandits, and their morale was extremely high.

"My dear son-in-law, after capturing Ferna, you will separate five thousand elite troops from my troops and follow the main road to the south of the mountain to take the important place of Miliocephalon; I will then send orders to Bithynia and Cacia. All the reserve troops in Lipoli come to join me and head towards Konya, the last place of Giliki. March on. Once the city of Konya is solved and you occupy the land of Miliocephalon, we will join forces and use strong force as the backing to force Gawain to hand over Seleucia and Cilicia. Come." The emperor stood under the royal flag and spoke to his honest and simple son-in-law.

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty." Brenus took out the brown paper respectfully, rustled his pen, and diligently recorded his father-in-law's deployment plan.

Under dusk, the out-of-breath messenger cavalry came to Weng's son-in-law, "Your Majesty, this came from the palace of Nicaea, and was ordered by Her Royal Highness the Princess in Purple. Please take a look at it." After saying that, the cavalryman put the leather bag in his hand. He handed it into the hands of several palace guards, then took out the paper, inspected it for no poison, and then sent it to Alexios.

Was the letter written by Gawain or Anna? It doesn't seem to be important, or it can be said that the two of them have a common tone:

"In the past, His Majesty appointed his servants as the Commander-in-Chief of the March in Asia, and then he was promoted to the position of Grand Duke of Anatolia. The servants were grateful and worked hard, never forgetting to repay the emperor's favor. In the previous oath, The servant once said that in the third month of this year, the Seleucia and Sicilicia would be returned to His Majesty's throne. He had vowed to do so and would never dare to tamper with it.

However, since March, the John the Baptist and St. Paul Hospital, which our servants had previously promised to build, has been completed. Hundreds of millions of believers across the country and mainland were delighted to hear this. The top priority of this large hospital is to aid and relieve pilgrims... (Omit two thousand words below. The emperor was impatient, so he skipped the nonsense and went straight to the core content.) The hospital was just started, but it was full of waste. The hospital is in dire straits and is in dire straits. It urgently needs the full help of heroes from all walks of life. Now the Duchess of Tuscany, Matilda, has generously increased the annual tribute of two thousand talisman from the manor and entrusted it to the accounts of the big hospital. Since then, nobles in Lombardy, Calabria, Hungary, and Antioch have donated their estates of varying sizes to large hospitals. There are now a hundred and thirty hospitals.

Who is this servant alone? Dare you not be the first to make a contribution and be the first to do good?

Therefore, all the lands in Seleucia and Cilicia have been donated to the big hospital to help the pilgrimage and bring glory to His Majesty's name. St. Gerald heard of His Majesty's benevolence and renamed the hospital as the 'Great Hospital Hospital of John the Baptist and Holy Apostle Paul and the Thirteenth Holy Apostle Comnenos', where His Majesty's icon is enshrined day and night... .”

"Ah~~~~~~!" There was no need to read it anymore. Alexios was furious. In front of all the guards and even his son-in-law, he tore the letter into pieces and threw it on the soil under his boots. , and then stamped hard on it, roaring, " There is no more father-daughter bond between me and Anna. She is a monster that the devil gave birth to through Irene's belly, a succubus, a succubus! Finally, Gawain found a shameless excuse and brazenly Refuse to return Seleucia and Cilicia to me."

Next to him, Melais waited quietly for the emperor to finish venting, and then he knelt down and calmly picked up the fragments of the letter. "What else do you want with these shameless lies?" the emperor resented.

"Your Majesty, you should read the following things, which were also sent by Gawain." Melais said, handing another sealed document into the emperor's hands.

It was heavy, and inside it was the official title seal symbolizing Gawain's status as Grand Duke, and an additional letter, "Seleucia is not the land of the empire, so there is no need for my servants to keep this thing. I dare not use it as a great prince from now on." The Duke declares himself, and returns his seal to His Majesty. Stephen Gawain is very frightened and speaks with caution. "

The emperor holding the seal adjusted his breathing, suppressed the hatred and anger in his heart, and then said to all the generals and guards, "Mobilize all the soldiers from all over the territory. I still need 20,000, no, 40,000 soldiers." After taking down Ferna, I will temporarily recruit Angeliki, and then use all my strength to conquer Seleucia, destroy the hospital, skin Gawain alive, and castrate him... .”

Since then, the "First India War" has broken out. (To be continued ~^~)