Chapter 108: Justice is shameless
Does this work? Arin said, 100% useful. As long as these Mamluk soldiers performed this simple ritual, they could surrender to the Mongols, the Crusaders, any power, but they would never have anything to do with Islam again. Because they are already regarded as the greatest enemies of Islam, as long as they are followers of Islam, they can put aside their father's enemies and get rid of these apostates. There are so many Islamists here, the fact of apostasy cannot be hidden, as long as they are not stupid, they will never return to the Arab world, and can only follow the flood of water, unless they find other forces that are more worthy of refuge.
So will these Mamluk soldiers perform that ritual? This question was left to Carl, a crusader knight who had never killed a pagan and who had a great interest in how to torture infidels. As soon as he heard that he was going to torture the infidels, the green eyes turned into dazzles, and beckoned to a few of his ship's dead friends, and with a sharp row they slipped into the still smoking harbor, where the Mamluk soldiers had been escorted ashore.
As for what means Karl used, Hong Tao was not interested in asking, and he could figure out with his toes how Medini had succumbed in the first place, and how these Mamluk soldiers had succumbed at this time. Not to mention that the people who know you best are your worst enemies, and those who don't know you don't know what you are most afraid of, and naturally it is not easy to hit your sore spots.
"This is the Damascus scimitar?" With the loss of a few sailors, and in the blink of an eye a few hundred disloyal cavalrymen, Hong Tao's mood began to improve, and he was also in the mood to play with those captured items. Among them, the variety of knives interested him the most. Especially the famous Damascus scimitar.
"These are all of them. All were built by Persian craftsmen and were only equipped for the best Mamluk cavalry, and the price was extremely high. "Alin is much more courageous than his fat brother, and he rarely swears to the heavens and the earth, and he will say whatever Hong Tao asks him, and there is very little nonsense.
"Well, put all of this with you and sell it for me. It's kind of compensating for the losses on some of your ships. Hong Tao picked a few daggers with relatively small sizes and strange shapes to keep, and returned the rest to Al Yin. Their family's ships are basically burned down, and they should be compensated to some extent, although there is no reason for this money to be paid, but there is a gesture that is heartwarming.
These Damascus scimitars are sharper than the steel knives made in Jinhewan, but they are not too obvious, and if they meet on the battlefield and compare the weapons, it is really difficult to say whether the repeatedly forged Jinhewan steel knives are powerful, or these Damascus scimitars are powerful. Ultimately, it's up to the people who use them to decide. Moreover, the Mamluk cavalry will be the armed force of the Golden River Bay in the future, so you can't let yourself go to the Arabian Sea to change weapons for them. Use whatever knife you have, at most make the weapon into the shape and quality they are familiar with, so why bother pursuing preciousness.
As for learning the technique of building a Damascus scimitar, it is even more unnecessary. This thing is not so godly, it is nothing more than a low-temperature crucible smelting method that circulated in ancient Iran, coupled with repeated forging, Uzi steel is not a mine, but a very special smelting method. In addition to making knives, Uzi steel does not have any characteristics, but also very labor-intensive and material-intensive, according to Hong Tao's pragmatic character, will never learn this thing, for nothing to make do with it, don't spend a penny!
In Hong Tao's opinion, no matter how powerful the knife is, it is useless, and he does not plan to play with a large-scale army. In a skirmish, dozens of crossbows are stronger than anything else, even if you hold Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick in your hand, you will still be shot into a hornet's nest, but you can't even get close to the enemy's side, and it doesn't matter how good the weapon in your hand is. There is the kung fu to make these luxuries, it is better to think more about how to strengthen the power of the crossbow, if there is a three-shot crossbow, you use the whole body to the Uzi ladle, Lao Tzu also shot through you!
"If the master can sell the captured ship to my family, they will be grateful......" Alin didn't intend to leave just like that, he made another request.
"Oh, by the way, don't sell those ships either, except for a few for Prince Taba, the rest is for you, it's my gift." Hong Tao really forgot about those boats, mainly because these boats were too useless to him, so he simply sent a favor. Regardless of whether it is friend or foe in the future, everyone has to cooperate in the short term, and the right to use it as waste.
As for what to do with the other captives, the ship slave Hong Tao wants to take them away, these are all slaves who have been domesticated, and changing masters is common for them, so don't worry too much about what threat they will have. The most troublesome are the ordinary Arab sailors who can neither exchange the ransom nor bring back as slaves, Hong Tao does not dare to let them go to any ship to be sailors, this Nima may not want to see Allah one day, and by the way, he has to pull someone else, why bother.
"I regret that I can't give you ships for nothing, and these hundreds of sailors will give you too. What to do with them has nothing to do with me, I suggest it is better to click, a hundred deaths, what do you say? In the end, Hong Tao couldn't come up with a suitable solution, so he blamed the trouble on Ayrin and his people.
“…… I see......" A twinkle flashed in Alin's eyes, then he nodded in agreement with Hong Tao's orders and exited the captain's room.
"Lao Mai, I finally know where your younger brother is not as good as you, he is not as shameless as you, and he still insists in his heart. This kind of person doesn't live long, especially when he encounters a living ghost like me! Hong Tao felt that he understood the light in Alin's eyes, and he hated himself, hated himself, this heretic who was hostile to their religion.
Hong Tao wanted to screw his head off at this time, but after thinking about the black fat man who was guarding the supply point for him at the Cape of Good Hope, he still held back. You can't be too realistic, and sometimes it's more comfortable to be a little confused. Doesn't Martini hate himself? Not necessarily! Maybe he hates more, more than Alin, but he can control his heart and expression, and calculate every pros and cons, such people Hong Tao attributed them to those who don't hate.
After dealing with this group of Arabs and pacifying Prince Taba, Hong Tao's fleet once again embarked on the route back to the east. It's been too long since I've been away from home, it's time to go back, and after this blow, those big cannibals who have been scheming should be honest for a while, and if they want to touch their own territory, I'm afraid it will take a year or two to touch their own territory. Soldiers can borrow from other places, but ships and sailors have to be rebuilt and trained, and although it is not as troublesome as training one's own sailors, it is not something that can be done overnight. In terms of sea power, the Great Cannibal of the Red Sea really hurt his vitality this time.
This time, Hong Tao didn't ask Bo Jiao if he was willing to go back with him, he was an adult, and when he wanted to go back was his private matter, it seemed that he was already planning to settle down in Port Cabalan, and he was really a colt. But that's fine, at least it's not bad for Hongtao and Jinhewan. With this relationship, the trust between Prince Taba and Jinhe Company and Strait Company can be slightly higher, which is still very meaningful for consolidating the relationship.
However, Hong Tao didn't let Bo Jiao be too idle, even if he went to Europe to settle down, he was still a member of Jinhe Company, and he had to serve the entire Jinhe Bay. Hong Tao gave him the task of opening a school in Port Cabaran, and all the courses were formulated according to the specifications of the former Jinhewan Primary School, and the students enrolled were the children of the aristocracy and the wealthy class in Port Cabalan. The purpose of this is to carry out cultural aggression, when one side has the advantage in science and technology, military power and national strength, other forces that are in close contact with it are bound to have feelings of admiration, which is very normal, and human beings have the plot of worshipping the strong.
Hong Tao planned to take this opportunity to develop a new style of education in the port of Cabaran, starting with the aristocracy and the wealthy, and then slowly influencing the rest of the class. If it goes well, ten years from now, Chinese will be the official language here, at least one of them, and maybe Hanfu and living customs will become the mainstream here. At that time, the Kabalans and Han Chinese will be able to mingle, and the port city will become the sphere of influence of the overseas Han Chinese, in later words, called the Greater China Circle.
In fact, what Hong Tao did was exactly the same as the eastward expansion of the Great Cannibal, all of which were to grab living space for his own race. The big cannibal did it, and Hong Tao was anxious, and he had to wipe out all the people, and he also identified them as mortal enemies from the bottom of his heart. But in a blink of an eye, he made it more explicit and ugly than the big cannibal, and he was able to say with peace of mind, I am thinking about the future of the nation. Look, that's human nature! Is there a true sense of right and wrong in the world? There is none, not before, and never will be.
Standing on different standpoints, we often look at problems from the opposite angle, especially on the issue of nation and state. What you feel is appropriate must be to hurt others, and there are no exceptions. Right and wrong are only relative existence at a certain time and place, for example, at this time, Hong Tao stood on the port of Cabalan and said that the great cannibals of the Red Sea were invaders and that it was righteous to kill them all, and he would immediately win a round of applause, because the applauding people had common interests with him; If Hong Tao had stood in Mecca and said this, he would have been stoned to death, because that place was the holy city of the Ayyubids.
What is Justice? Justice is to step on the neck of the opponent, and then do the thing that the opponent has always wanted to do but did not succeed in doing again, and can still shout it loudly, and have to make everyone shout along with the. The louder you shout, the more righteous you are. (To be continued.) )