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Chapter 6 Triumph

When the Venetians had gradually noticed their existence, Justinian naturally did not relax at all. He led his army back to Nafplion from the sea and then turned to Argos and finally went to Tripolis. Justinian deliberately did not choose land. One was because it took a shorter time, and the other was to prevent the passage through Corinth from provoking the sensitive nerves of the Latins. After all, if he just chose to surrender, he would inevitably cause the other party's suspicion and cause unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, although there was some turmoil after Justinian returned to Tripolis, no changes occurred to the entire Peloponnese.

When Justinian led the army back to Tripolis, he was immediately warmly welcomed. Before he arrived outside the city, there were already people coming to reward the army in the surrounding villages. They were the farmers around him. Although the gifts he gave were crude, they showed their wishes. Justinian naturally accepted this with pleasure, and in contrast, he also gave a generous reward - one gold coin for each person.

At this time, Tripolis had become the new capital of Molia under Justinian's deliberate construction. Due to the influx of large population and resources, the city's economy not only recovered quickly, but even surpassed the pre-war period. With the support of the merchants of Genoa and Pisa, the former imperial silk handicraft workshop was able to recover and put into production, and it made a big profit in this war-torn era.

However, all this was not all due to Justinian's credit, but was attributed to Princess Odosia who moved here. During this period, it was precisely because she came to take charge of the overall situation that refugee resettlement and Italian merchants were properly resolved. With her status as a princess, she suppressed the hawks among the Moria nobles who were absolutely excluding the Latins.

The woman made great contributions to the people of the whole city being able to live and work in peace. After learning that Justinian returned with his army, Odosia also held a grand triumphal ceremony for this.

However, Justinian, who had just arrived outside the city, was not surprised by this, but the crisscrossing fields outside the city. He felt that the land problem that was too big was arranged in an orderly manner. Under the urge of Odosia, the farmers who had fled due to the war walked out of their hiding places. Both the Latins and the Greeks were treated fairly and immediately put into production. The land that had been confiscated was quickly distributed, but it was not like the investigation.

As Stinian expected, he turned into a military public land directly. A large part of the land of this wise princess was rented to peasants who were wandering in other places. This was also a kind of emergency method, but it was effective enough to quickly solve the problem of the army commander of Tripolis, which was once faced with an embarrassing situation due to population expansion. It was precisely because of Odosia's identity that after she made this decision, although the original Moria nobles were very dissatisfied, they had to abide by this fact in the end.

This was originally what Justinian was most worried about. Because of the urgent military situation, he did not care about Tripolis's problem. Justinian had to put his previous plan aside. He had always been worried that the old nobles would take advantage of the situation when he was not in the counterattack. However, Princess Odosia solved this problem for him, and even handled it more perfectly. How could Justinian not feel happy?

At this moment, I have to say that Justinian's view of this Princess Odosia has greatly improved. Before learning about all this, he always thought that the other party was a gentle and kind imperial queen, but now it seems that she not only has a noble soul, but also inherited the outstanding abilities of her mother, Queen Ofrosene Dukalina Kamatra.

It can be said that the greedy and mediocre old guy in Alexa III was able to sit on the throne and sit firmly on the throne, which was largely inseparable from the help of his queen. Unfortunately, even the most outstanding woman who had such a husband was exhausted and ultimately exhausted, she was completely helpless with the decline of the empire. But thankfully, she had a truly excellent little daughter who helped Justinian, who was in trouble with internal affairs.

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Finally, he led his army Justinian to the city of Tripolis, and the guard of honor that had been arranged in an orderly manner outside the city had been waiting for a long time.

In front of the cavalry array, the leader of the rider raised his head and looked at the arrival of Justinian with respect. He could not suppress his excitement and said, "Send eternal blessings to your triumph. Lord Justinian, you defeated the evil Latin invaders in Athens and recovered our sacred land. God bless Rome, we won - long live the empire!" After speaking in one breath, the rider's face filled with joy and reverence kept shouting loudly, and the excitement soon infected the masses gathered behind him.

The heat waves of cheering, one wave higher and another, all the people climbing by the city wall wanted to see the legendary governor, but they saw the sound of excitement in the crowd, "Justice Justinian's victory is a triumphant!"

"Long live the empire!"

"God bless Rome!"

"Long live, long live!"

At this moment, this scene seemed to be welcoming an emperor's triumphant reign. Although there was no solemn golden Arc de Triomphe, nor the solemn principal and the priest prayed before the True Cross, the welcome to Justinian and the victorious army behind him was beyond words. This had not been seen for a long time after Emperor Manuel's death.

Especially Princess Odosia, who stood among the nobles, felt this feeling even more profound. In fact, when she was born, the entire empire had already sunset. Her father had always been a scheming and intoxicated by power. Even though her mother was devoted to making up for her bad policies, Alexa III, who was so ignorant, eventually did the scandal of assassinating the Minister of Finance, which made her face lose all her face. At that time, the four realms came.
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