Eagle Byzantium

"No, Cabea Amiya, as long as my country can master the power of the devil, it will be able to do anything." Gawain rejected Cabea Amiya's conjecture, then turned around and looked into her eyes, "This devil's Name, called money.”

"Money, after the end of the Holy War, rises in this ocean?" The female consul became more and more confused.

"Yes, this is my prediction, but it will eventually turn into reality quickly. Holy sister, I have spent a long time in Italy and have a deep understanding of the conditions of the entire ocean. Why is Frankland So barbaric and backward? Is it because the Crescent Cultists and Danish pirates have ravaged the ocean for a long time, bringing the maritime trade to a standstill, and the powerful churches and monasteries are trying to prevent it? In order to prepare for plunder, they also began to cast gold and silver into magic weapons and hide them in cellars without seeing the light of day. The previously unified area was also torn apart - the circulation of money was seriously insufficient, trade returned to the level of barter, and gold and silver coins became nothing more than a mere memory. But now, once the pilgrims' expedition opens up the passage between Asia Minor and the Levant, the maritime trade will resume, and a large number of Franks will When they come to the Holy Land, they will envy everything here, and eagerly hope to bring the luxurious goods and customs back to their distant hometowns. With such coming and going, the ocean city-states will rise with the help of the east wind, such as Venice, Pisa, and Amal. Businessmen and fleets from the Philippines and Japan will flock to the Levant. Once shipping resumes, the demand for luxury goods will be strong. The Frankish and Norman lords who gained huge wealth quickly transferred their money to the merchants of these city-states. Money, a yellow and magical thing with great magic power, will shine and make everyone who owns it become a wealthy person. Be in demand - faith will soon give way to money, and what will determine the competition and fighting in the Levant ocean will be the demons behind it - gold and silver."

"Then, what should we do?" Even though Cabernetia is very smart, she still half understands Gawain's prophecy.

"Get a share of the pie first, and use the power of the devil as well. We will use money to divide the armed lords, and we will use arms to deal with the wealthy merchants. In this case, there will be no disadvantage." Gao Wen was confident.

"Where's the soup?"

Gawain held the Holy Sister in his arms, who was murmuring the question, "It's chaos now, and I don't have a clear answer..."

"As for the placement of true believers..."

"I have my own judgment, but Holy Sister, regarding your teachings, I have been neglectful recently." In fact, what Gao Wen originally meant was that he really needed to understand the Pauline letter, because he had recently obtained Anna's With excellent genes, you can read any teachings and classics without any hindrance. But Kabeamiya's face was red to her neck. Her slanted eyes were watery, and she pointed at the huge and warm bear fur blanket spread inside the tent, hummed twice, and then held his hand. , walked in front of it.

This was a gift from Cuman Khan to Gawain, and was later given to Kabeamiya. This blanket was spread on the ground, still in the posture of a mighty bear, with its limbs spread out and its mouth stretched out.

"This looks similar to you." After pointing at the dead bear skin and blaming her, Cabeamiya hugged her slender feet and sat on it. It was obvious that she had a misunderstanding about the topic of "doctrine discussion". .

Gawain did not refuse, and indeed imitated the dead bear's posture, but in reverse, lying on his back on the warm surface, resting his head on his hands, "Holy sister, sit on top of me, and read your teachings while moving." Tell me the essence."

The holy sister was really angry now, these are such shameless requests!

But after a while, the military servant Muzafi Adin outside heard the intermittent and disordered reading of the golden-handed female consul, accompanied by the flickering candlelight inside the scarlet tent. He sighed and sat further away, Sa Bina stuck her head out and sniffed him intimately. Dim, who was gnawing on pieces of bread over there, shouted and asked, "The Grand Duke and the Consul are really hardworking. I seem to have heard a discussion on the essence of theology, but there seems to be something wrong with the shadow of the Consul. What new etiquette is she doing?"

Muzafi'adin rushed up and slapped him, "Do you want to go in and discuss it with them?" Goliath, who was a little stupid now, looked at the shadow's movements and finally realized that something was wrong, so he He hurriedly squatted over the fence and continued to chew the bread.

About two days later, a group of thousands of pilgrims from Marash came along the west bank of the Falfa River in overwhelming smoke and dust.

Now all the pilgrims gathered again in the wilderness under the city of Ata, with ant-like tents covering the entire land.

At the meeting of cardinals accompanying the army, Bohemond began to face each other and accused Gawain and Baldwin of their crimes:

Unreasonably refusing to allow injured believers who are short of food to enter the city of Adana;

Suspected of killing believers during previous raids on Tarsus;

He acted recklessly, occupied Cilicia, and attacked Prince Reuben, an ally of the Ecumenical Church.

However, Gawain and Baldwin directly displayed the letter from the Holy See, pointed to the words "I am greatly relieved", and vigorously counterattacked and ridiculed Bohemond.

The whole situation was once again in chaos, but thanks to the hard work of Ademar, Peter and Flanders Robert, the situation was not aggravated.

What is even more strange is that this time Bohemond was furious, but Raymond, Robert Curtis of Normandy, and Stephen of Blois stood by and watched. Gawain keenly felt that "on the previous march, Among them, they must have conflicts and estrangement with the Normans."

So after returning to camp, Gawain learned from spies that all conflicts originated from precious war horses: the Normans kept all the horses in Armenia for their own use, even those that could not be ridden on the battlefield were given away. He went to pull heavy supplies and gave no support to his companions.

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Now there are only two to three hundred horses left in Raymond's army, and the two Robert and Stephen have less than a hundred horses each. Especially Lord Robert of Normandy, who was already heavily in debt and extremely poor, and now his The mount also contracted the disease and died, and he could only walk around the military camp all day long, begging from his companions: Lend me your mount on the battlefield in the future. The majestic Robert Curtis, a descendant of William the Conqueror, will never do it. Fight on the battlefield barefoot!

"If it doesn't work, I can only ride a mule, a donkey, or even a bull." Robert made the worst plan. He begged Stephen and Raymond, but the other parties also had no money and were helpless.

But that night, Gawain sent thirty Cappadocia horses and handed them over to the stunned Earl of Normandy. (To be continued ~^~.)