It seems that the plundering of the Arabs really forced these Roman landlords and old wealth to be in a hurry, Paul went for less than half a day and came back, this time, the requirements of the Senate were lowered by one level, King Min, your old man wants to bring as many soldiers into Constantinople as you want, you can bring as many soldiers into Constantinople as you want, and let the Patriarch crown your wife on the same day, is it not possible?

Unfortunately, Li Jie was not in a hurry at this time, and refused to continue the negotiations on the grounds that it was too late today, and threw Paul into the mansion prepared for him in Caesarea again, and this time, the number of beauties of all ethnic groups serving him increased to forty, and the number of silk and satin and delicacies was also doubled.

However, he was anxious in his heart, even if he was accompanied by mountains of gold and silver, and beautiful immortals, Paul was also tasteless, like sitting on pins and needles.

Early the next morning, Paul begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to enter the palace, but this time Li Jie didn't go around in circles with him, and told him bluntly that he couldn't! What's the matter, after the coronation, after Constantine IV went to Rome, it was easy to discuss, otherwise it would be useless to break the sky.

I don't know what benefits the Roman Senate promised Paul, or what threats were given to him, this kid didn't have a position at all and didn't grind with Li Jie for half an hour, and finally Li Jie was annoyed and sent someone to drive him out.

Standing on the jumping platform of the city wall of Caesarea, watching the aggrieved boat return to the Golden Horn, Li Jie picked up the glass with a relaxed face, and smiled like a fox.

"In these years, robbers are not in a hurry, but they are in a hurry to be robbed!"

"Your Majesty, how can you be so ugly as you say."

Anna gave him a blank look, but Anna still happily filled him with a glass of wine, thinking about the last time she had made it difficult for her to put her in the Galatai Castle in a hurry, and the corners of Anna's mouth showed a little fox-like smile.

Every day from the tidal flats of Constantinople, there are groups of Arab cavalry with trophies to show off their might, and even Bedouin reckless men led a series of Greek slaves, showing off their strength to the city wall under the city wall, and also showing off to the defenders of the city to greet the hand.

Hundreds of captured Macedonian slaves, Thracian peasants wept and looked at the city walls, but unfortunately the Roman heavy infantry at the head of the city hid their faces and avoided them, and they did not dare or bear to look down, and the defenders of Constantinople now plus the Bolgars and Slavic guards were only 20,000, and some of them were still wounded soldiers who had returned from defeat on the tidal flats, and they were no longer able to go out of the city to fight.

In order to express his contempt for Constantinople, Sheng Lianshan even found someone to write a banner in Greek, on which was written in red pen to thank you for your hospitality, a group of Roman captives passed through the city of Constantinople crying and hoping to be rescued, from the head of the city to the end of the city, from hope to despair, their court did not even shoot an arrow down, and in the end everyone was extremely resentful and confused about the future, and was pushed onto the ship of great fortune by the fierce Arabs.

This scene is really similar to the scene when the Qing army entered the pass and plundered the Central Plains several times in later generations.

It's just that these peasants who were plundered didn't know that the moment they got on the boat, their ownership had been transferred from the Arab tribes to the Great Min Household Division, where they were ransomed by the Great Min, and then released from slaves to civilians by Yang Yucheng, the Shangshu of the Great Min Household Department.

It's not that Li Jie is generous and humanitarian, but the labor and pioneering nature of the slaves is really low, and in order to monitor them, Damin also has to pay high management costs, almost ten people have to use one person as an overseer, and the little surplus labor created by the slaves is not much left except for the silver and grain for the overseers.

Rather than this, it is better to be released as civilians directly and generously! If part of the harvested goods are their own, in order to be rich and fed, not only the Chinese peasants, but also the peasants everywhere will be willing to use themselves as cattle to work, so that these Balkan peasants can have more enthusiasm for labor and reopen the barren Asia Minor into a center of civilization, so that the value of the surplus labor squeezed by Li Jie, the rich man, can be much more, and the administrative costs will be saved.

This account has been calculated by many historians, and Li Jie doesn't even need to think about it by himself.

As soon as the prisoners of war came ashore from the naval base near Rhode Island, they were immediately registered according to their families, tall, short, fat and thin, who was the head of the family, a few people in the family, a few acres of land, a few cows in the field were clearly registered, and even a few moles on the faces of the people were painted, and before these stupid captives were glad that they did not have to be separated from their relatives, they were orderly divided into the southern part of Ancatolia under the control of the Great Min, and were also distributed with farm tools and clothing.

Dozens of families are organized into Lijia, dozens of Jiajia are formed into counties, and some of the original handicraftsmen are arranged to live in the county to provide handicraft tools and products for the countryside.

However, these Balkan peasants must not be the same Chinese people, to manage them, the Great Min still has to use some means, so before these new Balkan peasants in Tuntian can get used to it, they settled in Lijia, and there are priests wearing robes and hanging crosses.

In this era, most of the peasants were illiterate, and in the East, except for the officials and some local members, they often got a hundred responses, just because people thought that they were literate and more knowledgeable than the mud legs who did not know one of their big characters, so they were willing to listen to them, and in the West, this equivalent role was the priest.

Sure enough, although they didn't know each other, the Balkan peasants, who were still apprehensive when they heard these priests who had been cultivated by the Great Min carrying the cross and opening their mouths about our Lord and closing the Bible, were obviously much more relieved, and they did not realize that when they were preaching the Bible, the priests had unconsciously instilled in them a lot of the rules of the Great Min.

In addition, the Great Min also selected the chief of the Romans from among them, let these Greeks and Romans manage themselves, and lowered the resistance, and the tenant rent and taxation of the Great Min in the rising period were much lighter than those of the Roman Empire in the declining period, and gradually, these peasants settled down.

Of course, there are also those who escaped, but this is thousands of miles away from the Balkans, not to mention, there is also a sea, hundreds of thousands of troops, if you really can't think of it, you will not care if you jump into the sea and swim back to Damin.

In this case, from the forced landing in March to the short period of two months from May, relying on this banditry, at least nearly 120,000 people from Damin migrated to Asia Minor, and towns began to spring up on the originally empty and barren land along the coast of the Ancatelian Mountains.

Every day, these Arabs plundered at the same time to continue to replenish the population of the empty Asia Minor, with the populated land is not barren, the footsteps of the Fujian army stand stronger, every day, the Great Min is from the blood of the Roman Empire to feed themselves, in addition to the factor of saying big things themselves, Li Jie is really not too anxious to take Constantinople so early.

If it were to drag on for a year or two, perhaps the Balkans would be in ruins as they had been in the case of Attila, the whip of God, four hundred years earlier, and Asia Minor, which had been occupied by the Great Min, would have become a land where hegemony could be established, as was the case with the Ottoman Turks in later generations

However, Li Jie is not in a hurry, the ministers of Damin are in a hurry, even if they are in a hurry, the senate of the Roman Empire, those big landlords are still anxious enough, every minute their own industry in the countryside, land, and the hard labor force working for themselves are sluggish, and the grange that has been operated for centuries has become a mass grave, you must know that the rights of feudal society come completely from the land, and if you lose the financial resources and military strength on the land, then the senators and noble knights will have no political voice.

On the third day of Paul's second mission, the cheap shepherd of Constantinople returned in disgrace, this time with a new narrative.

Caesarea Palace, the main hall, and Paul, whose face was bruised and swollen, bowed three respectfully and bowed nine times, and bowed to the ground with five bodies, and his voice even reached a slight trill.

"Your Majesty, the senators of Rome have promised that as long as you can stop the Arab plundering of the Roman lands, the senators are willing to come to Caesarea to crown you, and the current Augustus Constantine IV will also be exiled at that moment, and he will go all the way to Rome with his cronies' army!"

The core of this period of negotiations between Great Min and the Eastern Roman Empire lies in two questions, where to be crowned! When to stop looting! Now it seems that the Roman Senate would rather have a change of sky above its head than tremble under the iron hooves of the Arabs, and it seems that this is also the bottom line of the Roman Empire, and it is probably impossible to lower the price again.

Li Jie, who had been a little cynical for several days, finally became a little more serious this day, his eyes fell on Anna's cheek beside him, Anna nodded approvingly slightly, and Li Rang, the king of Hezhong County below, simply looked like he was obedient to his father's orders, and was ignored by Li Jie.

The prime ministers sitting on the futon below, even if Wang Fangyi, a general, wanted to end the war as soon as possible, he and Laiji, Di Huaiying and other more than a dozen prime ministers, the deputy prime minister also nodded yes, hoping that King Min would agree.

However, Li Jie is most concerned about Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, he is a figure killed in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, from the Tang Dynasty to the Great Min, he has experienced the most stories, and he has experienced countless ups and downs, and he is still the commander-in-chief of the current war, and his opinion is now very important to Li Jie.

After pondering for a long time, it seemed that Lao Li Ji really couldn't think of any drawbacks and reasons for opposition, and he finally bowed his head slightly, seeing this, Li Jie's fingers lightly tapped the chair twice, and then said with a majestic business.

"In the name of my ancestor Emperor Gao and my father Emperor Taizong, I, the King of Min, and Li Jie, accept the submission and coronation of you and others!"

Finally, with a complete sigh of relief, Paul sat down on the temple with his ass limp.