Heraclonas, wearing a purple robe, walked towards Hechao with a smile.

The emperor of the Great Hua Empire was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and stood on the imperial steps and opened his hands to him.

The two hugged each other.

"I was very happy to hear that His Majesty ascended the throne in Constantinople and wished I could come and celebrate immediately. Congratulations, this is my belated congratulations."

After they parted, Herac bowed to Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao said with a smile, "Congratulations, Augustus!"

The two of them laughed together.

Augustus, this is a title that originated from the title of Octavian, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. At this time, this title was equivalent to the title of emperor.

Rome has always been the only empire in Europe. The King of Kings of Persia is also considered the imperial emperor, but Persia is not Europe.

In fact, there has always been no one emperor within the Roman Empire system.

In the Central Plains, the Han people believed that there was no day and no two masters in the people. But for the Romans, this was not the case.

Octavian established the Roman Empire and led Rome from the republic to the empire. Later, Octavian's title of Augustus also became the title of Roman emperors in subsequent dynasties and was regarded as synonyms for emperors.

However, Augustus has always been just an honorary title. The title that the Roman emperor relies on for power was the head of state. The political system of the early Roman Empire was actually called the head of state. Strictly speaking, the head of state should not be a real monarchy.

Therefore, the early Roman Empire should actually be called the head of state rather than the emperor.

The real monarchy of the Roman Empire should have been established during the era of Dericky-Constantine. Dericky used the title of master and was considered to have the characteristics of monarchy. Constantine went further. During his reign, the name of Rome changed from the 800-year-old "Senate and Roman People," abbreviated as the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire that was very familiar to later generations.

Therefore, it can also be said that Constantine was the real pioneer of the Roman Empire.

However, the Romans had a tradition of holding multiple people with the same position and power, so since the Republic era, there were actually two consuls every year.

When we arrived at the empire, the huge empire was also quite heavy to rule, and for the needs of the imperial heirs, there was a situation where many emperors governed together.

In theory, the imperial emperor was also selected by the Senate, so he had to help his intended heirs first during his lifetime.

Diocletian was the rule of the four emperors.

Later, he divided the empire into different areas, and was managed separately by multiple emperors, each in charge of one area, which was considered innovation.

This innovation has indeed improved administrative efficiency a lot.

This is also the reason why later generations like to call the split between East and West Rome, but this is only called by the habits of the people in the Central Plains. In fact, East and West Rome had not really split, and there was not even an Eastern Roman Empire.

Rome has always been unified, but there were two emperors who divided the East and West at the same time. They even had four emperors who ruled together before, so the co-governance between the East and West is nothing.

This is like some countries in later generations have dual capitals.

For the Romans themselves, both emperors recognized each other's legitimacy and believed that the other was part of the unified Rome.

This was simply incredible to the people of the Central Plains, but in Rome, it was indeed a fact.

Many people later called Eastern Rome the Byzantine Empire, but in fact, Eastern Rome has been passed down for more than a thousand years, and they have never claimed to be Byzantine Empire or Byzantines. They have always ruled Rome autonomously.

During the East and West Rome, the two emperors of the East and West jointly issued a code to spread the entire empire.

There has never been a country like the Western Roman Empire, nor a country like Byzantium in the world.

About two hundred years ago, after the barbarian leader Odoak deposed the last Western Roman emperor, he sent an envoy to send the emperor's token to the Eastern Roman court and expressed his allegiance to the Eastern Emperor.

It was also said that Rome only needed one emperor.

This is actually equivalent to returning the power of the Western rule to the Eastern Emperor, and from then on, Rome ended the situation of East-West division.

Of course, this is just on the surface. In fact, the west has been divided up by the barbarian kingdom. They nominally recognize Rome as the sect leader, but in fact there is nothing left for the emperor to govern.

Therefore, before the barbarians destroyed Western Rome, Rome was always a unified empire, but was ruled in the east and west. It was not two countries, but two parts of a country, divided by two emperors, but it was still a unified empire.

The barbarians deposed the Western Emperor and divided the Western Rome, and then expressed their recognition of Rome as the sect leader, but there was no need for another emperor in the west.

Therefore, Rome returned to an emperor and returned to a situation where only the actual control of the east remained.

The barbarians nominally surrendered to Rome and received Roman official positions, and were regarded as vassals and princes of the Roman Empire.

All the kings under the world are the kings, and there is only one Rome in the world.

This is actually the Tian-Dynasty system in the Central Plains is similar. There is only one emperor in the East, that is, the emperor of the Central Plains dynasty. The barbarians around them surrendered to the Central Plains emperor and accepted the emperor's canonization, such as the past King Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Khitan Khan, etc., and there were many rebellions and invasion wars, but overall, this vassal system is relatively stable.

There is only one emperor.

The second emperor in Europe in history was Charlemagne of the Frankish Empire.

However, Charlemagne won the title of emperor as the Roman Emperor. This title is also quite originated. At that time, Eastern Rome was the period when Empress Irina was in power alone, and there was only one emperor in Rome.

Charlemagne helped solve the Lombardy invasion of Rome many times, so the Pope of Rome chose Charlemagne as the new Roman emperor.

Their logic is fine.

Because in history, most emperors in Rome were in power at the same time, and there were several empresses in Rome. At this time, there was only one empress in the empire, and the Franks did not recognize female rulers. The Pope also believed that Irina was a killer, and her legitimacy was somewhat lacking, so she established another emperor.

This is not to replace the queen, but to traditionally govern multiple emperors.

However, the Queen refused to admit it because Charlemagne was a barbarian. Although Charlemagne was indeed a Roman nobleman and was also the ruler of the Gaul region. But it was like the Khitan king wanted to be the emperor, and of course the Central Plains refused.

Charlemagne later proposed to marry the queen. In history, the queen's husband was often given the title of Roman emperor, but the queen refused.

The Khitan Khan wanted to be the emperor and wanted to marry the queen Wu Zetian to increase his legitimacy. How could Wu Zetian dare? A barbarian also wanted to be the emperor and wanted to marry the queen?

However, the Queen was not lucky, and Charlemagne was not very lucky. Before his envoy arrived at the Roman court, the Queen was overthrown.

The new emperor and Charlemagne had a long time to get involved with each other, but in the end they could not do anything to each other, so they had to admit the legitimacy of Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor, but refused to admit that he was the Roman emperor.

However, Charlemagne still always believed that he was the orthodox of the Roman Empire and regarded himself as the Roman emperor. In history, the title and imperial emperor of Germany later passed down from Charlemagne.

This is the imperial rule of the Shenluo Empire, although they have never been recognized by the Romans.

It is precisely because of this unique system and tradition that even after the Western Roman emperor was abolished and almost two hundred years after the Western Romans disappeared, Eastern Rome still implemented the tradition of multi-imperial co-governance.

However, after Western Rome, they no longer divided the differences.

For example, now, the Eastern Romans call themselves Romans.

Prince Heraclio's father, Heraclio, was the founder of a new dynasty, but they were still the Roman Empire, but they were just the Heraclio dynasty. Then Heraclio was the emperor, but there were two emperors, one was the eldest son Constantine, and the other was the second son Heraclio.

Constantine became emperor earlier than Herak, and with the help of his mother, Herac first won the title of Augustus and became the co-governor emperor.

Of course, although he was a co-governor emperor, he was definitely not as good as his father when it comes to power.

“Thanks to the last loan and ordnance order.”

Emperor Herac, wearing a purple robe, said grateful to Zhang Chao that he had been responsible for contacting the Eastern Empire in recent years, forming alliances with the Eastern Empire, guaranteeing trade with them, and also receiving loans, arms and even the support of the army. This made Emperor Chiraclio, who was now very embarrassed by the Abbots, also refreshed.

Especially the huge arms order brought back by the prince last year made the emperor extremely happy. His mother blew the pillow next to him again, so Chiraclio finally added the title of Augustus to Herac and gave him a purple robe.

In the Roman Empire, purple robes were extremely noble and only the emperor could wear them. This was the same level as the bright yellow dragon robes in the Central Plains.

After becoming Augustus, Herac was not idle and immediately rushed to the Central Plains again. Because he heard that his old friend Zhang Chao actually became the new emperor of the East and established a new empire.

He hopes to meet Zhang Chao earlier, reaffirm his friendship with Zhang Chao, and establish more alliances and cooperation.

"The Arabs have been in great force recently. Their offensive against Armenia has made us and the Khasa coalition forces unable to withstand it. We need the support of His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Dear Augustus, what kind of support do you need?"

"Arms, a lot of ordnance, and warships. We need more warships, and we also need artillery!"

"It would be even better if His Majesty the Emperor could send a fleet into the Mediterranean to support us. If His Majesty the Emperor could send troops south from the Arabs' north, it would be of great help to us."

Zhang Chao smiled.

The Romans wanted arms, warships, and even wanted Dahua to send troops directly to intervene in the war, which was quite good.

"Dear Augustus, I think you should know that the Great Hua Empire also has many enemies and is currently under many expeditions. Da Hua does not have the ability to send an expeditionary fleet deep into the Mediterranean, or send troops to the Arabs in the direction of the river or Da Xia."

Herak's face was filled with disappointment.

"But that's it." Zhang Chao changed his mind.

Herak was excited and looked at Zhang Chao with anticipation.

"Augus and I are old friends. My Central Plains and the Romans were also excellent trade relations. Dahua inherited the Tang Dynasty, so we are willing to abide by the Three Emperors' Agreement and continue our alliance."

"We can't get out the soldiers, but we can support warships, armor, weapons, etc. to the Roman brothers."

"It's easy to negotiate."

Herac smiled helplessly. He knew it would not be free assistance, "Can you get a loan?"
Chapter completed!