Riding and slashing the stars of empire civilization

As the date approached, the banquet held by Queen Gaia gradually overtook the price trend of honey among the residents of the Imperial City and became the most talked about topic.

Although this was not the first time that Queen Gaia summoned many senators and tribunes in the imperial capital in the name of a banquet, almost everyone on the street knew what the queen had in mind.

Since Lu Song, the former chief of the Senate, proclaimed himself emperor and reopened the Senate in his territory.

Although the Senate in the imperial capital has not been dissolved, it can be said to have been suspended.

After all, those who had some money had already gone out to become local lords, and those who stayed in the imperial capital were all the same crooked melons and jujubes whether they had them or not.

However, even if things go wrong, the empire's elders and the Senate are still one of the empire's legitimations.

The residents of the imperial capital speculated that Queen Gaia had not opened the Senate before because she wanted to maintain a certain balance with the other two emperors.

For example, Lu Song, who represented the Senate, could convene a new Senate in his own territory, but Galios, who represented the border guards, did not do so.

Now Queen Gaia seems to want to reopen the Senate in the imperial capital, which most likely means that Queen Gaia wants to break the current deadlock in the empire.

So what is it that makes Queen Gaia, who is actually the weakest among the three emperors, willing to do this?

"Admiral, do you know that people in the imperial capital are discussing you like this?" Aila, who was getting dressed under the service of several servants, said to Milin.

"Anyway, there's nothing nice to say." Milin, who had put on his ancient Roman high-ranking officer-style clothes earlier than Ella, said.

"Some people say that you, Admiral, are the illegitimate son of Queen Gaia."

Compared with Milin, the clothes on Ella are much more complicated.

According to Ella, she only wore this outfit a few times when she ascended the throne and went to church to pray to God to bless Constantinople.

"Ha, that's really unimaginative. If it were me, I would wonder if the queen sold the empire in exchange for the help of a Cathay native like me."

Milin said as he looked up and down Ella's new skin...oh no, new clothes,

Unlike the Western Roman Empire, which was so simple that in many cases it was just a toga draped around the body, the Eastern Roman Empire's clothing was much more tightly wrapped.

The reason why she was wrapped so tightly was not to keep warm, but to show off the gorgeous golden embroidery on the clothes and the jewels inlaid on each strand of embroidery to the greatest extent possible.

On the surface, this look of wearing gold and silver seems very nouveau riche, but if you take a closer look, you can see that every embroidery piece on Ella's outfit, which is no more than three fingers wide, has a different pattern, and the inlays are different. The jewelry on top is also completely different.

Just like the elegance hidden in simplicity in Eastern culture, the Eastern Romans put this elegance that belongs to their own cultural characteristics into extreme luxury.

It takes a certain degree of vision to see what is contained in it. If you can't see it, I just feel that it is too nouveau rich and looks like a country bumpkin.

Speaking of which, how did Ella get this look? No more corruption.

"I asked Gray Wind to do it!" Aila, who didn't expect Milin to suspect that he had enriched himself, immediately defended himself.

"Oh." Milin nodded. The purely manual production cycle of this kind of clothes takes almost years. If Gray Feng were to make it, it would probably be calculated in minutes.

"And these jewelry are actually glass beads." Ella, who seemed to be trying to clear herself of suspicion of corruption, explained.

"Glass beads? With Gray Feng's ability, it's okay to get some real ones, right?"

Milin feels that for Hui Feng, jewelry and glass are the same thing.

"No need, the one I had before was always covered with glass." Ella looked down at the glass on her body and sighed.

"Let's make it real." Milin thought for a while and said.

"Hey, it doesn't matter actually." Ella said: "Speaking of Admiral, am I going to wear this to the banquet?"

"Isn't it great?" Milin smiled.

"Isn't it a little too showy?" Ella thought for a while and said, "I always feel that if I wear this outfit, I will be shot like a hedgehog when I show up."

According to the news sent back by Attila, Queen Gaia prepared a three-digit number of crossbowmen for this Hongmen Banquet.

"It's not exactly flamboyant, but you're right to worry." After thinking for a while, Milin took out the robe that a Force practitioner wears daily from the storage space and put it on Ella.

"..." After putting on her robe, Ella felt like a fool for having just spent nearly an hour getting dressed.

After getting dressed, the two came to the courtyard.

In the classical era, formal banquets like this not only had certain requirements for dressing up, but there were also certain rules for how to travel.

Even the palace is only a few blocks away from Yonebayashi's mansion.

"It turns out it's true!" Looking at the carriage in front of him, Milin said with a somewhat unnatural expression.

According to Ella, the carriage she bought herself perfectly met the travel specifications of the senators in the ancient Roman era.

But in Milin's eyes, this carriage is more like a pavilion pulled by horses than a carriage.

Moreover, it is a pavilion with ventilation from all sides. There are no chairs for sitting in the pavilion, only a layer of soft bedding and a few cylindrical pillows.

"Because this thing is not for sitting on, but for lying in."

Ella, who was put on a robe by Milin, stepped onto the carriage and seemed to want to lie down and show Milin how to use the carriage.

After getting up there, I realized that my clothes were a little bloated, and it felt like I was lying on a wooden board.

Milin, who also felt that lying on the carriage like this was a bit suspicious of parading around the streets, immediately refused.

"Admiral, if you don't like it, just change it." Ella pointed to the carriage parked on the other side and said.

Compared to this horse-drawn pavilion for lying on, the other carriage was simpler, changing from pulling a pavilion to pulling a cart.

"This vehicle looks more like a chariot." Milin complained to Ella as he looked at the vehicle with several shields and redo defenses.

"Because they were originally chariots." Ella, who came down from the horse-drawn pavilion, pointed at the two vehicles and said:

"The lying one is used to show the noble status, and the standing one is used to show military merit."

"Then I'd better use this "station" car." Milin concluded.

"Okay, I guess no one will say anything." Ella said without objection.

"Are there any taboos?" Milin asked Ella as he stood on the carriage.

"Generally speaking, only when you return victoriously from an expedition, you will take this kind of reward that symbolizes triumph." Ella said.

"Triumph ceremony? Do I still want you to hold the ax...that axe?" Milin thought of something that was much talked about in the ancient Roman Empire.

"Yeah, but I don't know if there is a similar ceremony in the Roman Empire in this world. At least I haven't seen a building similar to the Arc de Triomphe." Ella took out a beam stick from the not spacious carriage. Said, it seems that she has been ready for a long time.

"I don't care, just use this car, but what about the flag?" Milin said, thinking this was very interesting.

"Here..." Aila, knowing that Milin was in high spirits, sighed and ordered an armored cavalry who was already in harness to hand over the prepared flag.

Looking at the Roman Empire symbol drawn by himself on the flag, Milin raised the flag and said:

"Set off!"