This man's finance minister Peter Barsymes broke the Sassanid silk monopoly by establishing the silk industry for this ruler's empire. This man fought the Lazic Wars with Khosrau I after the failure of his Perpetual Peace, having earlier reconquered 
This man's finance minister Peter Barsymes broke the Sassanid silk monopoly by establishing the silk industry for this ruler's empire. This man fought the Lazic Wars with Khosrau I after the failure of his Perpetual Peace, having earlier reconquered Gelimer's Tunisian kingdom in the Vandalic War. A revolt led by the Greens nearly replaced this ruler with the senator Hypatius, but he and his supporters were massacred by this man's generals Mundus and Belisarius in the Hippodrome. For 10 points, name this Byzantine emperor, who suppressed the Nika riots and was blasted by Procopius in the Secret History, the husband of Theodora.
This man's finance minister Peter Barsymes broke the Sassanid silk monopoly by establishing the silk industry for this ruler's empire.