Chapter 25: A Conversation with Joselan (I)
However, the chief guarantor only took out a silver coin and handed it to the hostess, "When your son is an adult, you can send one to join my army, and he will soon be promoted to the rank of flag officer, so that your estate will increase." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 As for your daughter, who is healthy and strong, and can marry her off in two years' time, it shall be my dowry, and she is a good girl, and may contribute many equally healthy children to our country, and as for the one to be left to her husband, for I have heard that a virgin is always valuable—if her future husband despises her, or drowns her daughter, report my name to the Circuit Court. ”
Then the chief guarantor got on his horse, left behind the plates and cups, said hello to the mistress and the family, and walked back to the side of the road, surrounded by the guards and the brotherhood.
As a result, a cavalryman of the People's Army hurried over from the side of the bridge, "I beg your pardon for being abrupt, but the female doctor has just landed from the military port and hurriedly asked to see you." ”
"Oh, it's Grana's love, so let's put our trip on hold for the time being and return to Seleucian City." Gawain pulled his bridle and touched Sabina's ear hair twice, and the other party meekly turned around and headed back towards the place of departure.
Along with Grana, of course, the brothers Joselan and Galirand, Gawain arranged a feast in the council chamber of the Acropolis Palace, and entertained the knights by the way.
"I think that the whole situation of the Crusade War will be told to you by this Uncle Joselan." At the feast, Granay smiled and stretched out his hand, sat down in a seat far away from Joselan, and said to Gawain in the master's seat.
Gawain also laughed, "Grana loves you, hurry up and bring some good dishes to the Ordnance Division's mansion on the other side of the city to reunite with Samuelfa, he has already asked me several times for the beautiful maids of the court. ”
"Of course, this is your responsibility, and you didn't promise my husband, which shows that you and Her Royal Highness the Princess in Purple are both misers." The female physician quipped to the laughter of the attendants, and of course she understood the "seriousness of the problem", so she hurriedly left for her home after the salute was completed, escorted by several guards.
"I think this lady's husband can spew out gunfire at night, hahaha!" Immediately after the female doctor left, Joselan began to perform meat jokes, and after finishing speaking, he thought it was so funny, and he kept eating caviar while constantly hammering the table and making a chirping laugh.
But soon he noticed that the waiters and samurai around the table were silent, and even his brother Garilan was so indifferent that he coughed awkwardly at his master.
"You're also very knowledgeable about gunfire?" Gawain crossed his hands and asked in a deep voice.
Joselan put his fist under the bridge of his nose and sniffed a few times, "Honorable Lord Guarantor, I have been hovering around Taranto for the past year, waiting to set off on the pilgrimage, but I have never been able to gather all the resources, and of course I am also very careful about the news of the East and Anatolia. Gunfire is something that is used by both the Venetians and the Saracens, and I think sooner or later it will pose a terror threat to all the warriors. ”
"What do you think of the situation in this crusade? Needn't be inhibited, I'm also a close friend and ally of the Baldwins. ”
So Joselan repeated what he had said to the female physician before, and Gawain kept nodding, "You have analyzed it very thoroughly, and I will write a letter to nominate you as the military governor of Adanab." ”
Who would have thought that Joselan smiled bitterly and shook his hand, "Your letter is better for Godfrey, Baldwin has been disgusted with me since I was a child." ”
"Is it because you, the cousin of the Earl of Burke, once secretly surrendered to Salian Caesar, trying to take possession of Godfrey's domain and replace him as the Earl of Bouillon?" Gawain suddenly bowed and said these words, although the voice was not loud but like thunder, and the wine glass in Joselan's hand immediately spilled scarlet wine, splashing along the fine linen tablecloth.
This guy who sat upright in a chair like a bear originally thought that he was a brave and rude character, just like Lusail, who had entrenched Isuria in the rebellion against the Greek emperor, but he did not expect that his intelligence network would spread to a person like him.
Yes, many localities have recently donated estates to the Seleucian hospitals, and many brocade brotherhoods and Seleucian caravans in red-handed sword robes have traveled to and from Aragone, to Lower Lorraine, to Savoy and even Lombardy, to supervise and manage these donations, presumably for another purpose, to gather information on behalf of the "uncrowned king" of Seleucia.
Joselan felt that his face was blue and white, and it was ridiculous that he had just turned to this man with a smile on the route of the pilgrims' march, who the leaders were, and what effect it would have on Seleucia and Cilicia, and Paphragonia in the north. This information should have been in the hands of this bear for a long time, so the laughter that Gao Wen politely listened to just now, now that he thinks about it, it is simply a merciless ridicule!
And himself, who did go to Henry Fourth, this Salian Caesar prefers to be promoted to a figure from a humble background, and once he gets the favor and reuse of the other party, it is really possible to seize the reputation of Eustace and the fief of Bouillon. But in the end Joceland failed, and he retreated to his small, poor fiefdom in Kurtenay, where there was no stone castle, only a building on the field, which looked like a gray barn from a distance.
And he and his brother are like gray squirrels living in a barn.
When Godfrey set out, however, he did not hesitate, and invited him to join him in the expedition with Galilland, promising that "when the Holy Land is restored, I will return to Bouillon, and I will surely find you a city of abundance in Syria, Aleppo, or Tripoli." ”
Joselan did not follow, partly because he knew that Godfrey's brother Baldwin hated him and would ostracize him at every turn; On the other hand, he also has his poor self-esteem, and wants to stand in the East with his own skills and not fake others.
But after a while, Joceland could not stay in his hometown - the land of the whole West Francia was depreciating wildly, the monasteries and the royal family were soaring in wealth, and the country knights like him were becoming more and more embarrassed, and finally he knew that his brother Galiland would pretend to be a bandit to rob the monastery at night, or go to the village community to steal the cattle to eat, and he felt that if this continued, he could only leave his homeland with his brother, and went all the way to the city of Rome, ready to participate in the second pilgrimage to Godfrey, But the cost of the journey to Rome was also spent: he could only go to Taranto half-wandering, and he could not even work as a merchant bodyguard, and people were willing to hire younger ones, until he became a female physician and drifted to Seleucia, which became the standard "eastward drift".
At this moment, seeing that Jocelan didn't speak, Gawain suddenly laughed, "What's the matter! The stars and the earth in the east are shaking violently, and even if you were just a cobbler in the past, you can seize the opportunity to prosper, and this is a legendary and wonderful era. Well, I'll nominate you as Godfrey's military governor, how about it? (To be continued.) )