In the late autumn of 2010, with the restoration of Athens, Epirus' autumn offensive on the southern line announced a great victory. The Kingdom of Thessalonika, which was originally trying to spy on the south, finally gave up his intention to intervene in the Molia region. The Latin cavalry, who was originally eyeing him, had no choice but to return to Thessalonika in shame.

This made the passive situation of the northern front, which had been defeated in the previous attack on Macedonia, and the originally victorious Latins were undecided. Because invisibly, as Molia and Athens fell into the control of Epirus, they had fallen into the vast sea of ​​Greeks, and the rebellion and riots in the territory were one after another. The insuffering Latins now had to focus all their energy on how to deal with the rebellious Greeks in the territory, and their plans for the next march were left to stand. This allowed Epirus in the west and Nicia in the east to get some chance to breathe. After all, no matter what, the remaining power of the Byzantine Empire was still too weak. Even if it could deal with those Latin countries, they were still unable to meet the Venice behind them.

Similarly, Justinian was in Athens and gained valuable time to digest the results he had achieved. Because Justinian issued strict orders before, although the city had experienced a bloody battle, it was able to avoid major damage. As soon as he entered the city, at Justinian's instructions, the commander of the Rio, who was responsible for the arrangement of the city's affairs, comforted the Latin civilians in the city and made three rules. As long as he was not a Venetian and had no bad crimes, the safety of anyone's life would be fully guaranteed, which also prevented the loss of a large number of people in Athens.

As for the prisoners of war surrendered by the former Principal of Athens, Justinian could be released after handing over the ransom, and this amount of money was naturally used as the military expenditure that Justinian urgently needed at this time.

Although this was criticized by some people, Justinian still did not compromise at all, and even rented the Piraeus Port to the Pisa people in exchange for no hesitation. The reason is very simple. The war relies on money and food to the people who can serve, not anything else. Especially now, blindly excluding the Latins will only cause the empire to decline, so in the end, under Justinian's opposition, there was no large-scale retaliatory bloodshed in the areas under his control, and the panic of the Latins before the Latins was temporarily calmed down.

In the sunset outside the city, Justinian, who was riding a few followers around the city on horseback, was satisfied with the city of Athens, which had gradually recovered under his rule. In just one month, the scene here was very different from before. Especially the entry of the Pisa people, the prototype of the trade transactions here gradually formed, and the vendors were thriving in the past. Although the economic center of the original Greek region had moved south to Corinth and Coroni, for Justinian, Athens was still of great value as a trade point for cooperation with the Pisa people. More importantly, once the war with the Venetians in the future, it would be a very important maritime stronghold. However, the only troublesome thing is that the Attica Peninsula is too barren, and the grain output is pitifully small, and the supply of the thousands of troops in his hands was a little helpless.

So Justinian decided to handle everything here in the shortest time, and then left and returned to Molia to handle other matters.

"After I leave, you will take care of it all here, Leo." Looking at the garrison commander Justinian in front of him, he said. Arslan and Neuski were good at charging forward, and Leo's garrison commander had a civil servant's resume before joining the army, so only by entrusting him with management can Justinian feel at ease.

The governor of the Rio who was following beside him nodded and said, "Don't worry, Lord Justinian, I will definitely live up to my mission."

"Well, of course I believe you won't let me down. How is the land counting and measuring done now?" Justinian suddenly remembered something and asked.

The Governor Leo immediately replied: "It has been registered and it has been almost done. Please rest assured, Lord Justinian!"

Seeing this, Justinian nodded calmly, "That's good." Although Attica's land is barren, the production of wine and olive oil is still commercially competitive. Therefore, the first thing he did when he asked the garrison to take up the figure was to confiscate all the land that originally belonged to the Latin nobles and make it state-owned.

This war undoubtedly helped Justinian a lot. Due to the invasion of the Latins, the original owners of the land were basically either dead or fled, so he was able to easily obtain large tracts of land and tenant farmers on the fields, without encountering the difficulties and fierce opposition from the old nobles he had encountered in Moria before.

However, all Justinian did not do it for his own selfishness, but to eliminate the ills of the previous dynasty. Since the Komuning Dynasty, in order to cope with the crisis, the already collapsed military system turned into fiefdom, which directly led to the imperial military's irreversible decline and the country's finances were severely damaged. So Justinian understood that if he wanted to revive the empire again, he had to hold the land firmly in his own hands.

In Justinian's idea, the income generated by the land controlled by the state is used to pay military wages and state expenses unless the lord has no power to allocate land in important military border areas. At the same time, the fiefs obtained by the military nobles have no hereditary power. When they die or die, their fiefs will be directly reclaimed by the central government of the empire and handed over to other brave and warworthy meritorious people as rewards to inspire him to kill the enemy. In fact, Justinian is restoring the past military system to eliminate the hereditary powers that led to the decline of the empire. However, this is still a stopgap measure, but for now, this is the best solution that Justinian can choose. With sufficient military resources and wealth, it can support future military operations.

At this moment, the rapid sound of horse hooves came from afar and attracted the attention of Justinian and others. A scout on horseback came from the south and rushed to the horse. Obviously something urgent happened to report. Suddenly, Justinian and everyone around him couldn't help but feel nervous, because they had been waiting for news from the south for half a month and were very nervous about it.

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