Eagle Byzantium

However, the patron only took out a bag of silver coins and handed it to the hostess. "When your son comes of age, you can send one to join my army and he will soon be promoted to a flag officer, so that your property will increase. As for your daughter, she is very healthy and strong. You can marry her off in two years. This will be my dowry. She is a good girl and can contribute many equally healthy children to our country. As for the husband to leave her, because I heard that virgins are always valuable-if her future husband despises and abuses her, or drowns her daughter, report my name to the circuit court."

Then the patron got on his horse, left the wooden tray and cups, said hello and goodbye to the hostess's family, and walked back to the waterfront surrounded by the guards and the brotherhood.

As a result, a civilian rider hurried over from the bridge, "Please forgive my abruptness, but the female doctor just landed from the naval port and hurried to see you."

"Oh, it's Granaai who's back. Let's put our trip on hold and return to Seleucia." Gawain pulled the bridle and stroked Sabina's ear hair in the opposite direction. Sabina turned around obediently and went back to the starting point.

Accompanying Granaai were, of course, the brothers Jocelan and Galilean. Gawain arranged a banquet in the meeting hall of the Acropolis Palace and entertained the knights.

"I think it's better to let this uncle Jocelan tell you about the situation of the entire Eastern Expedition war." At the banquet, Granaai smiled and stretched out his hand, sitting far away from Jocelan, and said to Gawain in the host's chair.

Gawain also laughed, "Grana, please hurry up and bring some good dishes to the Armory Mansion on the other side of the city to reunite with Samuelfa. He has asked me for beautiful maids from the palace several times."

"Of course this is your responsibility, and you didn't agree to my husband, which shows that you and Her Royal Highness Princess Purple are both stingy." The female doctor joked amid the laughter of the waiters. Of course, she also understood the "seriousness of the problem", so she hurriedly left home after paying her respects under the escort of several guards.

"I think this lady's husband can spit out gunpowder at night, hahaha!" Jocelyn immediately started to perform dirty jokes after the female doctor left. After he finished, he probably thought it was too funny. He kept eating caviar and hammering on the table, making a humming laugh.

But soon he found that the waiters and warriors around the table were silent, and even his brother Galilan was indifferent and just focused on eating, so he coughed awkwardly at the host.

"You are also very knowledgeable about gunpowder?" Gawain crossed his hands and asked in a deep voice.

Jocelyn put his fist under his nose and sniffed a few times, "Respected patron, I have been lingering in the Taranto area this year, waiting to set out on a pilgrimage, but I have never gathered enough money. Of course, I am also paying special attention to the news from the East and Anatolia. Gunpowder is something that the Venetians and Saracens use. I think it will sooner or later pose a terrifying threat to all warriors."

"What do you think of the situation of this Eastern Expedition? Don't be restrained. I am also a close friend and ally of the Baldwin couple."

So Jocelyn repeated what he had said to the female doctor before, and Gawain nodded continuously, "You The analysis is very thorough. I will write a letter to recommend you as the military commander of the County of Adana.

Who would have thought that Jocelyn would smile bitterly and shake his hand, "It is better to send your letter to Godfrey, the patron. Baldwin has hated me since he was a child."

"Is it because you, the cousin of Earl Burke, once secretly served Salian Caesar and tried to occupy Godfrey's territory and replace him as the Earl of Bouillon?" Gawain suddenly leaned forward and said this. Although his voice was not loud, it was like thunder. The wine glass in Jocelyn's hand immediately spilled scarlet wine, splashing along the fine linen tablecloth.

This guy sitting on the chair like a bear was originally thought to be a brave and vulgar character, just like Lucerne who revolted against the Greek emperor in Isauria, but he didn't expect that his intelligence network would spread to people like him.

That's right, recently many places donated manor properties to the Seleucia Hospital, and at the same time, many Brocade Brotherhoods and Seleucia caravans wearing red cross sword robes took ships to travel from Aragon to Lower Lorraine, then to Savoy and even Lombardy, to these donation places to supervise and manage them - I guess this group of people also has a function, which is to collect intelligence from all over for the "uncrowned king" of Seleucia.

Jocelan felt his face turn pale and blue. It was ridiculous that he just talked to this person in a high-spirited manner about the pilgrims' marching route, who the leaders were, and what impact it would have on Seleucia, Cilicia, and the Paphlagonia region in the north. This information should have been in the hands of this bear long ago, so Gawain's smile of polite listening just now, now thinking about it, is simply a ruthless mockery!

And he did go to Henry IV, the Salian Caesar, who preferred to promote people of humble origins. Once he was favored and used by the other party, he might really have the opportunity to seize Eustace's reputation and the fiefdom of Bouillon. But in the end, Josselin failed. He could only retreat to his small and poor fiefdom in Courtenay, where there was no stone castle, only a pavilion leaning against the fields, which looked like a shabby gray barn from a distance.

And he and his brother were like gray mice living in the barn.

However, when Godfrey set out, he had no grudges and invited him and Galilean to join the army with him, and promised that "after recovering the Holy Land, I will return to Bouillon and will definitely give you a rich city in Syria, Aleppo or Tripoli."

Jocelan did not follow, on the one hand because he knew that Godfrey's brother Baldwin hated him and would definitely exclude him everywhere; on the other hand, he also had his pitiful self-esteem and wanted to gain a foothold in the East by his own skills instead of relying on others.

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But after a while, Jocelyn could not stay in his hometown any longer. The land in the entire West Francia region was depreciating wildly. The wealth of the monasteries and royal families was soaring, while rural knights like him were getting more and more embarrassed. Finally, he knew that his younger brother, Galilean, would pretend to be a bandit to rob the monastery at night, or go to the village to steal cattle for food. He felt that if he continued like this, there might be a disaster. So he had to leave his hometown with his brother and walked all the way to Rome, preparing to participate in the second pilgrimage to the east and seek refuge with Godfrey. But when they arrived in Rome, they had spent all their money on the trip: they could only wander to Taranto, and they couldn't even be a bodyguard for merchants. People would rather hire younger people. It was not until they relied on a female doctor that they drifted to Seleucia and became a standard "Eastern drifter".

At this moment, seeing Jocelyn was silent, Gawain suddenly laughed, "What does it matter! Here, the stars and the earth to the east are shaking violently. Even if you were just a shoemaker before, you can seize the opportunity to become rich. This is a legendary and wonderful era. How about this, I recommend you to be Godfrey's military chief, how about that?" (To be continued ~^~)