In the beautiful city of Mamistra in Adanabe, beside the gently flowing river, under a pomegranate tree that blooms in summer, Gawain sits upright, squinting at the sparkling water, while Baldwin leans against the shade of the tree roots, his hands on his knees. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the distance, the two shoulders stood silently, and Anna and the somewhat sad Mrs. Goetheheard sat in front of them, whispering comforting each other.

On the side, Agnes, Hetomia, Fuss and other female officers lined up in a line.

The Turkic military servant with a quiver on his back, half-kneeling beside Gawain, holding a long iron gun with a curved wooden handle in his hand, this is an improved model, and added a fire lid next to the medicine room, Gawain got up and took it, and then picked up the long gun, pulled the trigger to drive the hinge, and the dog's head hook that clamped the burning rope at the back end turned down with a "snap" sound, sparks shot out, "bang", with a long echo wafting on the Adana River, and a group of birds that originally inhabited the aquatic grass were startled in the pungent smell of gunsmoke.

Then Gawain raised the other two long guns, and shot them out one after the other, and after the rolling sound, he threw the long guns on the ground, crossed his waist and whispered, and said to Baldwin for a long time, "I have read the funeral letter from Jerusalem. It says that Godfrey had a dream before he died, and he dreamed that he was sitting on the throne of King David in the Holy City, and then a door was opened in the sky, and a golden light shone down from it, and a soft ladder was thrown down, and countless black crows flew and gathered around King David's seat, forming a passage between it and the soft ladder to climb up. Then Godfrey climbed up in the dream, how he longed to see the true Lord, and told him that he had returned the immortal Jerusalem to the Lord's true Son. Then Gawain paused for a moment, "but the crows soon scattered in all directions, and Godfrey could not make it up the ladder, and fell, and the golden gates of heaven were closed—and when he woke up, he understood everything." The Ravens were knights and lords from all sides during the Crusades, and when they fled after a bloody battle to take the Holy City, your brother, before he died, he must have felt the deplorable situation of the new kingdom of Jerusalem. ”

"Shall I go and reunite the crows?" Baldwin asked Gawain directly, "Because now that Patriarch Sambel has publicly declared after my brother's death that the entire city of the Holy City, including the surrounding fiefdoms, should belong to the Church of Rome. All the free lords and knights of the entire kingdom will henceforth owe allegiance to him as the patriarch. ”

"Isn't that obvious?" Gawain lifted the earliest long fire gun, Muzhaf Adin had refilled it with Khitan snow and loose lead pellets, Gawain raised it and aimed it at the river, and after a burst of gunfire sprayed, "Oh - actually hit a water bird." My plan, my dear family, is roughly like this, in response to the perverse actions of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Tarsus and Adana will remain silent and save for a year to two years for the time being. Why? Because I have just defeated my father-in-law, and now my father-in-law, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, and my father-in-law's adoptive mother's brother-in-law in the entire Roman Empire have their own chess games, and future tears and civil wars are all expected, but I will not take the opportunity to snatch it too much, because the consumption of the country of Tarsus is also very large, and it needs to be restored. When will you recover, the crown of the Archon of Jerusalem will of course be yours, and of course it will be the future Jervi's, and I hope that my daughter will be in the temple of the Holy City. Anna and I have already agreed that the direction for the next three years will be East. Help you take Jerusalem, and I will take Marash, Great Armenia, and Cyprus ......."

After expressing his determination, Gawain continued to analyze, "The Iconium trade route, which had previously brought great benefits to our two countries, although it was broken in wartime, will soon be restored, and all the Italian city-states toiled and tossed on the sea with their sails, not just to share the trade treasury of the Levant?" And in the West, your original homeland, in the future, the gold rush and migration tide in the East will flourish for at least a hundred years. None of this is subject to the will of any one person. Baldwin, your and my mutual brother Godfrey may be gone, but a new era beckons to you and me, and we will continue to climb into the golden gate of heaven. ”

Upon hearing this, under the canopy of fiery pomegranate flowers, Baldwin was deeply encouraged, and generously stood up and took Gawain's hand, "Brother, I have taken your words to heart as if they were gospels!" But I'm a little confused, can we repair the Iconium trade route and replenish our coffers in just one year? ”

"No, but now Tarsus already has a population of two million, even if most of the trade tariffs are lost, relying on the internal inter-regional transportation and trade, the collection of salt tax, commercial tax, shield tax and other pillars can support the needs of my five brigades for half a year." Gawain was confident, "In addition, we lack a reason to turn against Patriarch Sambel and support you to raise your flag and march to the Holy City. ”

"According to information from Amalfi merchants, the ruler of Babylon (the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt was called by the Westerners at the time, and Sulla had previously said that the name came from the Jewish community that had come to Cairo to do business, but now a review of Hiti's general history of Arabia seems to be wrong, and a more reliable source seems to be the name of the river fortress of Alexandria, Babylon), the Grand Vizier Evdler, was gathering his army and horses, and it seems that he was going to unite the Turks along the coast to besiege the holy city."

Gawain nodded, and now the Turkic servant carried the waterfowl that had been "killed by accident" to the low table next to the tent, "Of course it's one, but it's not enough...... So I am ready to donate a thousand Byzantian gold coins to St. John's Hospital in the holy city of Rigerald......"

After saying that, Gawain picked up the long fire gun again, and swayed at the verdant grass by the river.

Hearing this, Baldwin was stunned for a moment, then understood, and said "Very good".

Then the whole river seemed to shake, and Gawain shot another fireworks, then craned his neck to look, "Oh, oh, hit another one." ”

"What to do with Antioch, now the regent there Tanfred is completely a dog of the patriarch."

"It doesn't matter, once you ascend the throne of King David, will the tiny Duchy of Antioch still be able to use its mantis arm as a chariot? Destroy it, and my rights and interests are the entire land and port of the Tripoli coast, and the Duchy of Baldwin and Antioch is of course yours, and you can place a relative of Eustace there to take over power, so that the whole Levant will be completely in your hands and mine, and you will always be safe. Gawain held the long fire hammer and planned it very clearly and calmly. (To be continued.) )