"Roman Caesar" Blinnius is a very bookish man. He was dressed very casually at home, but he wore a purple Dalmatica headdress. The only decoration on the clothes was two purple-red strips of decorative "Crabi". The silk used to make this Dalmatica headdress was produced by the Eastern Roman Empire around the 6th century AD. The Eastern Romans obtained silk pupa smuggled from the East, thus opening up the history of the Eastern Roman Empire's production and processing silk. The silk industry has thus become an important source of wealth for the empire and has driven the development of the imperial textile industry. After losing control of the maritime trade route, the Eastern Roman Empire still has some wealth to hire foreign troops.

He was sitting on a throne in his study, looking at his young and beautiful, ambitious wife Anna Komunina with a somewhat depressed look.

Anna was also wearing a purple Dalmatika headdress, but it looked very gorgeous. The surface of the clothes was covered with embroidery of gold and silver threads, and she was a little confused under the sunlight shot from the window. However, what made Blinius feel depressed was not the gold and silver threads on his wife's clothes, but a fine brushwork sketch in her hand. This was drawn by a Yuntai Academy professor who was good at painting following Li Gang, according to Zhao Ji's military oil painting. He handed it to Joselin, the general of Baldwin, the "Prince of King" in Jerusalem, brought Constantinople and presented it to Anna Komunina's father Alexus I.

I don't know what happened, but this fine brushwork sketch, which reached an amazing level of realism, came to the hands of Princess Anna Komunina.

Then the 24-year-old princess of the Komuning Dynasty deliberately acted like a nerd in front of her husband...

"Dear Caesar, Tengri is the real knight. I heard that the 10,000 upper peach blossom stone knights and 30,000 mercenaries led by him have already attacked Bukhara, the capital of the lower peach blossom stone! The warriors of the lower peach blossom stone were eliminated by him than the entire Crusader..."

Anna Komunina looked at her husband with a look of regret, and looked more like a gentle scholar than Caesar's Blinnius.

In fact, Blinius was a scholar who was proficient in literature, history, and military. He was not very interested in fighting and power. When he was free, he liked to read books or write something on a parchment scroll. His collection of books undoubtedly exceeded all the Eastern Roman noble families, and the degree of richness was probably comparable to that of the Alexander Library.

And his wife, Anna, who is very beautiful and intelligent, far more than her beautiful appearance, is actually an outstanding scholar... Perhaps he was the most outstanding scholar in the Eastern Roman Empire of this era, proficient in Greek philosophy, literature and science, and has great achievements in history, medicine and mathematics.

In terms of knowledge, Blinius and Anna Komningna are still very compatible. The couple can discuss the history of Rome, Aristotle's philosophy and Pythagoras' mathematics for a long time, and even talk about Emperor Morris's "Strategic" and Emperor Leo VI's "Tactics".

Therefore, the relationship between the old couple is still very close, and it can be seen from the fact that they have three children ten years after their marriage.

But what makes Blinius feel painful is that the ambitions his wife possess can also match her wisdom. Anna Komunina is determined to make her husband Blinius the next emperor! Although the emperor cannot be the job he thinks about, Nikifruz Blinius can still work hard in this regard.

He was the leading military aristocrat of the Eastern Roman Empire. He already possessed the title of Caesar and was also the chief deacon of the imperial congress. He was powerful! He also had a large number of private soldiers!

In addition, his wife Anna Komunina has been involved in the government affairs of Constantinople for a long time, and she also has a very attractive political proposition to implement feudal system in the Eastern Roman Empire! That is, to imitate the feudal states in Western Europe and transform the empire that still maintained a centralized authority in name into a feudal state that was feudal.

This proposition undoubtedly caters to the tastes of a group of great nobles and mercenary leaders!

But Anna's husband Blinius had no ambitions and did not want to be an emperor at all. He just wanted to be his scholar peacefully. This matter became the biggest difference between the couple.

If Anna is in trouble, she will stimulate her husband by "obsessed with" the knights and kings of the Crusaders, hoping to arouse his ambitions, but it is useless.

And in the past few days, because Joselin brought the news of the Peach Blossom Stone Mission and a portrait of Zhao Ji, the object of Anna's "fascinated" became the knight king Tengri who was on the peach Blossom Stone. She had no idea that the handsome man in armor and majestic riding on the war horse on the portrait was named Zhao Ji, but instead regarded Tengri as his name.

"Anna, our empire is different from the Tengger Khan's country. It is not a vibrant country of youth, but a dull old age. Your father and brother John are the most suitable leaders of the country, not you. They are very flexible and never expect the revival of the empire, so they can gain some room for development for the country in the gap between the Normans, Italians and Turks."

"But his reforms are not positive," Anna Komningna put down Zhao Ji's portrait and sighed slowly, "You should understand this point... the foundation of the empire has long been decayed and must be completely rebuilt. Neither the citizens of Constantinople, nor the farmers of Greece or Anatolia, they have no ability to defend the country. The only thing we can rely on is the knight!"

Blinius looked at his wife with appreciation, and he knew that Anna's opinion was correct. The current Roman Empire could not rely on the citizens of the "New Rome" to defend Rome, which was actually an empire developed from a city-state. The citizens of the city of Rome were the basis of the prosperous period of the Republic. But today's empire could no longer count on citizens.

The empire could only use money to buy foreign mercenaries, but the empire's finances were unable to afford a sufficient number of mercenaries to resist the invasion of the Turks, Normans, and perhaps the Slavs. Because Constantinople has long been no longer the center of East-West trade, and the trade line has long been controlled by the Tianfangists and merchants of the Venetian Republic.

So feudalization is the only way out...

However, although Alexius I had excellent political skills and military talents, he did not have the determination to carry out a complete reform of the empire.

Although Anna is determined enough, she is a woman after all, and she is impossible to ascend the throne without having two younger brothers. If she works with her, it may trigger a civil war.

Rome...there can't be any more civil war!

Just when Blinnius wanted to persuade his wife again, his mercenary Stephen had already arrived at the entrance of the study and reported loudly in Greek: "Caesar! A Venetian merchant ship under the banner of x has arrived, and is still firing fireballs into the air!"

"Ah, it's the mission of the Peach Stone Kingdom!" Blinius stood up from the throne covered with soft silk cushions, "Anna, let's go to the Blachna Palace together."

"Okay," Anna Komunina smiled, "I also want the mission of the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom to live at home so that I can learn more about the situation of the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom."

"Okay," Blinius nodded, "I don't know how far the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom is from us? If it's not too far, we can return to the capital of Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom as ambassadors of Rome."

...

The Venetian galleys had sailed into the Golden Horn Bay located in the north of Constantinople. Ji Yi and Li Gang, who were standing at the bow, had already changed into the Song Dynasty's official uniforms. Behind them, a hundred specially selected "Iron Man Warriors" had already put on the shining green Tang armor, carried the Mo Dao with a cold light on their shoulders, and formed neat formations on the deck.

The black warrior O'Hara did not stay in Basra with his comrades in the new selection group. Because their stature was too short, it would damage the power of the Song Dynasty, but instead wore a chain mail, standing in front of the Iron Man Warriors, responsible for carrying the flag.

The emperor Alexius I of the south bank of Golden Horn Bay, the crown princess John, the princess Anna Corinina, Caesar Brinius, the Patriarch Nicholas III and others also wore gorgeous purple robes and appeared on the dock under the protection of the heavily armored Valachian Guards.

When the Venetian galleys approached the dock, the most powerful people in the Eastern Roman Empire noticed Ji Yi's "Iron Man Guard".

Just the regiment guards have so many iron armored infantry... The power and wealth of the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom can be imagined!

At the same time, Ji Yi was also shocked by the magnificence and majesty of Constantinople. The wall near the Marmara Sea is about fifteen or sixteen miles long, and on the Golden Horn Bay, the length of the wall is more than ten miles. The height of the wall is about four meters, not a rammed earth wall, but built with carefully cut limestone blocks, which looks very solid.

In addition, along the city walls, there are dense towers, some square, some octagonal and hexagonal. The height of these towers is about six to seven feet!

Obviously, the country that can build this city must have, or once had a brilliant civilization!

Ji Yi said to Li Gang beside him with some emotion: "Bo Ji, if we don't come to the West for a trip, we don't know that there are such strong cities in the world, and we don't know that there are actually ancient countries like us in the West!"

Li Gang nodded slightly, "The city of Guan is still there, but the country has become weak... It can be seen that the rise and fall of the country is in virtue but not in danger!"

"What is in virtue but not in danger?" Ji Yi smiled, "It's all because of no money... But now, we're here, and Rome will soon be rich!"

"Much? How much money do you bring?"
Chapter completed!