Constantinople sent people to negotiate peace again.

This is not a big or small thing and it is also a heavyweight news, for this reason, the Eastern Roman Empire also deliberately sent a heavyweight, the great pastor of Constantinople, who represents the divine right, but unfortunately, it did not cause even a little wave at the top level of Damin.

Li Ji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, only smiled coldly after hearing it, and then picked up the map of Macedonia and studied it, Xiao Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was simply not in the city, and Yang Xiong, the secretary of the Honglu Temple, simply picked up the report and threw it into the trash.

On the one hand, Constantine IV has betrayed the alliance too many times, and he is the one who stabs the knife secretly under the banner of what to talk about on the surface, on the other hand, the king of Min has sworn to be the emperor in Constantinople, as long as he wins this battle, everyone can become the founder of the country in the future.

However, neither the Honglu Temple nor the Ministry of Rites received it, but Qin Guifei Anna still recommended this great shepherd from across the sea to meet Li Jie, because this person was really an acquaintance, and he could even be regarded as his own person.

In the side hall, listening to Anna's whispered introduction, Li Jie's eyes were really round in surprise.

"You mean, you are the new Hangu priest who followed Hou Jie to Constantinople back then?"

"King Shengming of Min is exactly the smallest."

found the organization, and Paul's old face of a profiteer really smiled like an old chrysanthemum.

When Anna was imprisoned in the Galatian fortress by the dead old Roman emperor Constans, and later coincided with Muawiyah's large-scale attack on Constantinople, in order to unite with Eastern Rome to attack the Arab Empire, Li Jie sent Hou Jie as a commander, with Li Yuer and a group of capable personnel to Constantinople to rescue Anna, this Paul was Hou Jie recruited outside the Xinhan Valley Pass at that time, and fled there from Syria, specifically to deceive fools and fools for a living.

This person has some ability, after arriving in Constantinople, Hou Jie used him as an entry point to incite the citizens of Constantinople to riot, and finally this old boy was raised by Anna to become the Great Pastor of Constantinople, and later Constantine IV coup Anna stepped down, and thought that this old boy had been killed by Constantine IV, but I didn't expect him to be alive, and he actually turned over, or the Great Pastor of Constantinople.

This position is extraordinary, the original Christianity had seven pastoral districts, the Archpriest of Constantinople is second only to the Roman Archbishop, but later the birthplace of Christianity Jerusalem, Edessa, Antioch, Alexander and other holy cities all fell, Constantinople also parted ways with Rome, which made Rome Xiaode

It would become a unique religious center in the West, and for centuries the Grand Priest of Constantinople was a figure who could stand afront the papacy.

"I said, how did I lose so quickly! The feelings are that you betrayed me behind my back! Seeing Paul's ill-fitting hemp stick figure shrunk in the wide archbishop's robe, seeing the old man, Anna couldn't help but laugh and joke about it.

"Your Majesty, Anna, you have wronged the little one, God, his old man can testify, the small one is a red heart towards Your Majesty, you and Your Majesty the King of Min! After the villain Constantine usurped the throne, he almost didn't kill the little one, and then fortunately thanks to a few good men and women as a guarantor, the little one saved a life, but he was also locked up in the seminary, and he only released the little one three days ago, gave me a set of clothes, and the coronation ceremony was not there, so he sent it out to the little one. ”

In order to prove that he has had a hard time all these years, Paul was eager to pull away the ill-fitting robe and let Anna see his rib fan that was thin into ribs, but he gave up in the angry eyes of the officer on duty in the forbidden army, Gar Xiangling, and it was enough to make Anna cover her mouth and laugh skillfully.

However, Li Jie was slightly disappointed when he heard it, such a warehouse Archbishop of Constantinople, how much sincerity can Constantine IV's peace talks be this time?

Immediately, Li Jie was dumbfounded, anyway, he was bound to win Constantinople, and he didn't have the heart to talk to Constantine IV, and it didn't matter if Constantine was sincere or not.

However, since Paul came, he couldn't let him come in vain, thinking of this, Li Jie also said with a smile: "Since Father Paul is a meritorious minister of my great Fujian, after the widow takes Constantinople, he will officially canonize you as the Grand Priest of Constantinople."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! The little one is smeared with His Majesty's liver and brain, and he will not hesitate! Paul was really overjoyed, and he didn't care about his status as an ambassador, he knelt down and kowtowed, and surrendered to the enemy so completely that Li Jie couldn't help but laugh dumbly again, and hurriedly waved his hand.

"Okay, okay, Paul Qing's loyal widow already knows, get up!"

Paul rubbed his head and stood up with a smirk.

Although he didn't expect to get anything out of Paul's mouth, and it was better to know something than nothing, Li Jie still stretched out his hand and asked: "It's not easy to come by, so let's tell the widow about how Constantinople is doing now, isn't Constantine going to fight to the death with the widow?" Kill all the messengers of the widows, and talk about peace. ”

As soon as he heard this, Paul actually slapped his thigh again: "Your Majesty King Min, what you said is so right, Constantine, this kid can make Rome suffer, and now everyone in Constantinople is gnashing their teeth at him, eager to eat flesh and skin, if it weren't for Constantine's Janissaries composed of Bolgars and Rus' in his hands, the citizens would have overthrown him a long time ago."

Paul's words are not bragging, in history, the citizens of Constantinople rioted, but many emperors were killed, and even the famous martial emperor Justinian in the history of the Byzantine Empire was almost driven out by the citizen riots, and it was also from Justinian that the Roman emperors strengthened the Praetorian Guard to prevent the rebellion of the citizens of the capital at any time.

These words moved Li Jie, the recent locust tactics of the Great Min, the overwhelming Arabs from the Buddha to Europe, deep into the Balkans, the farthest tribe even ran to Athens, although they did not come back alive, the poor and frightened Arabs still robbed almost everything they could in the Eastern Roman countryside.

Who really ruled in Eastern Rome? Those local aristocratic senators who owned large estates, Da Min's hand dealt a serious blow to their interests, and the Roman nobles must be dissatisfied, and this anger will either be vented on Da Min or on their own lords.

However, even if they resented the Great Min, the Roman Senate was helpless, and it seems that these senators have aimed sharp contradictions at Constantine on the throne.

Although it is certainly impossible to be as exaggerated as Paul said, it is inevitable that Constantine IV's throne is unstable, perhaps because of the two months of looting in the countryside that forced him to want to negotiate peace with the Great Min again, and he was afraid that the Min State would cut off his envoy and send the head back, so he temporarily arrested Paul from the monastery and temporarily installed the title of the Grand Priest of Constantinople, so he sent him out.

Maybe we can do something about this! Thinking about it, Li Jie calculated how many resources he still had in his hand, but he didn't say anything for a while.

At this time, Li Jie was already quite adaptable to his identity as a self-respecting man, the emperor was so willful, he could speak if he wanted to, and he would stop when he wanted to, Li Jie stopped talking, and Paul had to stare and wait, but Anna on the side then opened his mouth to ask.

"Da Mu Shou, since my brother asked you to negotiate peace with Da Min, what conditions did he offer? It can't be that you want to pay a sum of money like sending those barbarians to get Damin out of the army, right? ”

In fact, this is the main business of Paul's visit, but Li Jie has no intention of negotiating with the Romans, and this matter is thrown to the end, and even Anna is a little happy with ridicule, wondering what kind of crazy actions her brother will have when he is at the end of his life, rather than really wanting to negotiate with Constantine IV.

She has been robbed of too many things, even if she is living well in Damin now, the revenge of killing her father and the hatred of being driven out of her homeland still make the brother and sister who used to have a good relationship not share the sky, every time she gets close to Constantinople, Anna has a sense of revenge, as long as she can see that Constantine is not good, Anna is fine.

Listening to Anna's inquiry, Paul seemed to remember his real mission this time, this goods is really not a negotiation messenger, touched it from his pocket, and actually took out the bottom line of the Roman Empire's negotiations directly, and elegantly saluted like a Western gentleman and offered it with both hands.

As a result of carelessness, at first Anna still looked at Constantine's destitute delusion with a kind of vengeful pleasure, but just at the beginning of the negotiation, her big ethereal brown eyes suddenly widened.

Li Jie also planned to use the black capital to sneak into Constantinople and then fill in the blockage for Constantine, but Anna pulled his shoulder suddenly, hurriedly handed the negotiation letter brought by Paul to Li Jie, and shouted excitedly.

"Husband, maybe this time you can really take Constantinople without blood!"