"I told you, don't take the Constantinople set and put it on the side of the broken leaves, you, why don't you listen?"
Deported Sergio.
Prussiac looked at the still unrepentant Heracronas is itching teeth, this kid is too unaware of the height of the sky, even allies dare to squeeze, if His Majesty goes to heaven in the future, his brother Constantine III is frail and sickly, and Queen Martina is an ignorant woman, hey, the future of the empire is worrying."
What if you are offended?
I persuaded him to convert to God, and I was saving him..... and since he would not accept my kindness, then we would be enemies from now on...", Heraclonas said disapprovingly.When Heraclius learned that his son was arrogant and coveted other people's wives, he was so angry that he wanted to depose Heracronas's "Augustus" and set up his eldest son Constantine III as the sole successor, but unfortunately his plan was known to his niece and his wife, Martina, who was ruthless and vicious, and directly poisoned Heraclius to death.
A generation of heroes has come to an end like this, which is really sad and lamentable.As soon as Heraclius took his last breath, Empress Martina seized the will and read it alone in the royal box in the Constantinople Arena, preparing to make her son Heraclonas the sole emperor of the empire, but according to the custom, the will is usually read by the heir to the throne or the patriarch in the Colosseum when there is no heir, and all those who are eligible to inherit the throne should be present, and there is never any talk of the queen reading the will.Angry citizens of Constantinople chanted the name of Heraclius' eldest son, Constantine III, and Empress Martina had to declare the throne jointly inherited by Constantine III and Heraclonas, and the two brothers became co-emperors, just when the townspeople thought they had won, Empress Martina conspired with Patriarch Piros and Bishop Phokas of Constantinople to expel almost all of Constantine III's supporters, including General Valentine.There was only one person in the huge Constantinople, Constantine III, although he was frail and sickly, but he knew that his stepmother Martina was not a good person, so he had already arranged for his cronies Valentine and Philagrius to take away his son Constans and his sister Princess Irina, these military and political forces who refused to obey Empress Martina and Heracronas fled to Charsedon opposite Constantinople, including Sergio, Heraclius's absolute confidant.
Prussia.Martina and Heraclonas, the mother and son, did not know how to restrain, after killing the old emperor Heraclius, they targeted Constantine III, Martina took out the good poisoning method to make Constantine III die, their perverse behavior caused the dissatisfaction of the military of the Eastern Roman Empire, and they supported Constans to ascend to the throne.Under the pressure of the military, Empress Martina appointed Constans as co-emperor, and Martina was not willing to fail, so she appointed Constans and her own sons Marinus and David as co-emperors, which completely angered Charcedon and the imperial military.Under the operation of these two forces, the Senate of the Eastern Roman Empire held a meeting, announced the deposition of Heracronas, and split the nose of the paranoid Heracronas, cut off his mother Martina's tongue, and sent them to Rhodes, Martina's rebellion ended, so the ten-year-old Constans was elected emperor, because there was an emperor Constans before, so the little Constans was called Constans II.After his accession to the throne, Constans II was succeeded by the new patriarch Paul II and the military governor Valentine and Sergio.
Prusack assisted.As soon as he came to power, he accepted the advice of Patriarch Paul II to bring back all the Eastern Roman troops scattered throughout Egypt to Constantinople in order to preserve the vitality of the empire.Subsequently, in order to show his reliance on the military, Constans II married Valentine's daughter Fausta to stabilize his position and at the same time prepared to re-appoint his old minister Sergio.
Prussia was the envoy and went to Broken Leaf to re-establish the covenant, and to the little Constants, he was moved by his sister Princess Irina, who actually offered her to go to Broken Leaf to see if she could marry the legendary emperor in order to win the other party's assistance."
Sister, I heard that the Great Khan had several wives, and he would not convert to God for you, what if you marry and are so far away from New Rome (that is, Constantinople) and are bullied?"
Constans II has followed his sister Irina since he was a child, and several times that hateful witch wanted to kill herself, but Irina saved herself, and Constans II took her sister very seriously."
Constans, you have to understand, now the Persians have taken advantage of our internal strife and taken away a lot of land....The only one who can help us is the Great Khan of the East, not to mention that he is from the family of Emperor Seris, and I can be regarded as a good family when I marry....I am over there, so I can help you blow the pillow wind...."
Irina said helplessly, if it were not for the fact that the empire was at the moment of life and death, she would not be willing to marry a heretic thousands of miles away.Princess Irina wanted to make peace with the intention of getting Patriarch Paul II and Foreign Minister Sergio.
Prushack's support was resolutely opposed by Valentine, who turned out to be a middle-aged uncle, who had a lot of thoughts about Princess Irina, who had just escaped from the state of Lori."
Your Majesty, the Great Khan of the Jiankun Kingdom is a heretic, if Her Royal Highness the Princess wants to marry her, then he must be baptized by God, otherwise our Roman prince will serve the barbarian king with those barbarians, isn't it shameful?"
Valentine said impassionedly, "Even without the support of the Tenkun people, we will definitely be able to repel the Persian infestation......
If you want Her Royal Highness the princess and kiss, then unless all our Roman men are dead....."
Well, Valentine suppressed Paul II and Sergio with righteousness, and Prussiac and the two of them planned to make peace, although Constans II was small, but he saw that Valentine seemed to want to stand up, so he opened his mouth and said, "Then, dear General Valentine, I fully support you, and you will go and retake the Levant Province for me...."
Valentine, a typical man of great ambition and talent, he thought that his talent was comparable to Belisarius, so he confidently went to the eastern front of the empire and began to mobilize troops, Prepare to attack the Persians.With the full support of Constans II, Valentine led the combined forces of Rome and Armenia to launch the first counterattack of the Eastern Roman Empire against the Persians after the crushing defeat at the Battle of the Yamouk River, but unfortunately, Valentine is an embroidered pillow and has little real ability at all, he misjudged the battlefield situation, and he was fighting against Massoud, a super general with the title of "Sword of Ahula", Massoud seized a small strategic mistake of Valentine and launched a fierce counterattack, As a result, the 50,000 allied troops led by Valentine were killed in 35,000 and 10,000 captured, and Valentine led less than 3,000 deserters to flee back to Constantinople in disarray.Fearing that he would lose his great power and even be held accountable for his defeat, Valentine gathered an army that was still willing to follow him, sent troops to the city of Constantinople, and demanded that Constantine II appoint him emperor.However, the Senate, the Church, and the citizens of Constantinople supported Constans II, and the Imperial army did not firmly support Valentine."
Valentine, I'm not kind to you....."
Constans II looked at his father-in-law, not to mention how depressed he was, Valentine was his father's absolute confidant, he thought that many people might rebel, but he didn't think that Valentine would rebel, not to mention that he also married Valentine's daughter Fausta, and also gave Valentine great glory, but this Valentin was not only not grateful, but also came back from defeat, and dared to rebel, and wanted to ask himself to give him the title of emperor, which is simply a big joke in the world."
Your Majesty, if you don't agree to my conditions, then don't blame me for being ruthless....."
Valentine thought that he was the leader of the military, and felt that most of the army supported him, so he said unashamedly, but before he finished speaking, most of the imperial army fell to Constans II under the leadership of another general of the army, Romrose, and only a few of his cronies were still following him."
Hahaha, Valentine, there is a way in heaven that you don't take, and hell has no door for you to break into!
It's time to send you to Satan....."
The man of this family was a veteran of Constans II's withdrawal from Egypt, and he was very loyal to Constans II, and as soon as he saw that it was Valentine, he took up arms and aimed them at Valentine."
Manstofil, will you let me go?
I can give you a large sum of money...."
Where is Valentine, who has already been rich, the opponent of the other party, and in the face of the threat of death, he has no choice but to tempt the other party with money."
Hehehe, your money is very tempting, but I also have to have a life, don't talk nonsense...."
Manstofil stabbed him with a sword, ending the warlord's life.After the fall of Valentine, Constans II took power alone, Princess Irina once again proposed to him about marriage, the young Constans II thought twice, and finally accepted his sister's suggestion, but he felt deeply humiliated when he sacrificed his sister's happiness in exchange for aid, but he was born in the royal family and had seen many storms and waves, so he chose to bury this humiliation deep in his heart.