It is not surprising that the Crusades cost people and money and caused great harm to both warring parties. But there are two sides to everything, and war destroys everything at the same time, it will also stimulate scientific and technological progress, which has been proven by history, and almost every time the great development of science and technology and culture in human society seems to be inseparable from the catalyst of war. From this point of view, human desire is the greatest enemy of human beings, and at the same time the greatest motivation, which is the main one, it is difficult to define.

For example, shipbuilding was originally divided into three schools in Europe, one was the Nordics, that is, the Viking shipbuilding. Their boats were slender and long, with their ends raised high, and they hung a large square sail with a mixture of oars, generally made of fish-scale lap technique. One is the shipbuilding of the Mediterranean basin in southern Europe, which is relatively short and stubby, suitable for sailing in inland seas such as the Mediterranean, and does not pursue seaworthiness too much, preferring increased load capacity and tall bow and stern. The last group is the A-La Bo, most of the Mediterranean is occupied by the A-La Bo, their hull is a bit similar to the Norsemen, it is also long and thin, the oars are mixed, but the sail type is a spinnaker.

But through the Crusades, the Nordic ships also came to help the Crusaders transport the army, the A-La Bo people saw the power of the square sail in the downwind, the Norsemen also saw the spinnaker, a sail type that is more adapted to the wind direction, and the Southern Europeans looked at the Nordic Viking ship on the left, and then looked at the A-La Bo pulp ship on the right. No one is stupid, they all know to learn from each other's strengths, so everyone began to use their imagination to add all kinds of technologies to their own boats, and the Mediterranean Sea became a melting pot, smelting several cultures and technologies together. The final refinement. It's alloys. It is a technology that combines the advantages of all parties.

For example, this hot and sub-Asian schooner, its hull construction technology is obviously from Northern Europe, and the sail type is learned from the A-La Bo, and it still retains a high bow and stern, which should be the first batch of smelted technology. Hong Tao felt that he had come at the right time, if he let them refine for another hundred years, then his own ship might not be able to completely crush them, even if there were artillery. But in terms of numbers, it must be which side will be overwhelmed, and once the fight starts, it is really impossible to say who will win in the end. Compared to shipbuilding technology, artillery technology is much simpler, and if you have used it, you can probably imagine what it is. If one is seized again, after a large-scale investment test at the national level, one or two years is too fast, and it will always come out after a few years or ten years.

"My cousin is still the Emperor! We can enter the port of Palermo with dignity, and anyone who dares to be rude to us is an enemy of the Empire! Carl didn't talk much about that ship. Soon he ran back in a dinghy, and his feet had not yet stepped on the deck. began to shout at the top of his voice, for fear that someone would not hear that he was royal! If you want to talk about people, it is not reliable to completely eliminate classes, and the pursuit of honor is also part of the desire, but once you get it, you don't want to let go. After nearly ten years as an ordinary person in Jinhewan, it still hasn't erased the pursuit in Carl's heart, once the sun and water are sufficient, it will sprout immediately.

"Honorable Emperor's cousin knight, go and change into your knight's dress first, and leave the rest to your faithful captain, do I follow it or does it follow me?" Hong Tao despises Carl's virtue very much, to be precise, he is envious, jealous and hateful, hating himself for why he is not a royal family!

"That's right! I'm going to change my clothes, the new clothes you made for me! I want to stand in front of His Majesty the Emperor in style, I ...... My wife remarried...... She married a German! She betrayed me! Carl couldn't hear the ridicule in Hong Tao's words anymore, he was in a state of excitement, and he couldn't even find the hatch. After two circles on the back deck, he suddenly looked like a deflated ball again, squatting on the ground and covering his face and crying.

"Yes, see it, the emperor's cousin is nothing good, what should I do, don't look at the excitement! You two dragged him to my cabin, and if he was a captain, he couldn't go back to the house and cry again, what a shame! "This is homecoming syndrome, just like staying in a prisoner of war camp for a long time, and when you go home, you will cry and laugh uncontrollably, or you will go insane. This disease was not conceived by Hong Tao himself, the Europeans studied it after World War II, and the Americans also specifically mentioned it after the Vietnam War.

"Don't forget, old card, that you are a knight, a warrior of Christ! You went to the East to preach the love of Christ and to save the persecuted Catholic brothers, this is your love for Christ! You're not going to betray the church, are you? Hong Tao entered the captain's room alone and enlightened Carl, who was still crying in his chair. His way of enlightening people is really unique, and what he said has nothing to do with Carl's loss of his wife and children.

"I'm still a Christian, and I pray every day!" Carl was also confused, and trotted all the way along with Hong Tao's train of thought, and then forgot to cry for a while.

Then you did not lose your wife because you were defeated and captured, but because you loved Christ and achieved your salvation through jihad. Congratulations, you've made it, and you're doing it well. You see, you have joined the righteous in the far east, and the infidels who died at your hands are not a thousand, but five hundred, right? Then Christ redeemed you and gave you a beautiful Mia and a new child, in our words, called Seon, a blessed one! Now that you are back with Christ's best allies, it should be your great gain, not a loss. The whole of Christendom will cheer for you, your name will be written into the epic, and you will be revered by all people like the Emperor, this is the honor of your family, the honor of your entire Hohenstefen family! Your cousin will treat you like a hero, not a down-and-out knight who has fled from afar, lost his family and possessions. "As long as the other party follows their own ideas, then Hong Tao has a lot of rhetoric waiting for him, and there is always one that suits you. For a while, you still think it makes sense, as for saying that you have pondered the taste when you go to bed at night, that's a later story, at least the immediate problem is solved.

"Are you an ally of Christ? You're not saying you hate ...... Is that him in the sky? Karl didn't believe Hong Tao's words, how could a man who didn't believe in any gods and scolded God all day long suddenly become an ally of Christendom?

"I'm your friend, you're a loyal Christ's people, you're a friend or a friend, then I'm not an ally of Christ! It doesn't matter if you believe in religion or not with cooperation, I can not believe in Christianity, but I can respect all Christians, you say? Hong Tao used the conversion method to explain to Carl the origin of his identity as an ally of Christendom, which was so heartwarming to hear.

"I'm not going to lose my reputation? But my home and fiefdom were gone, and they thought I was dead, even my cousin. "Carl is a little concerned about it, most people will be like this when they catch up with themselves, usually when they talk about others, they are very chic, such as the current state of Hong Tao.

"Of course not, your reputation is my and Jinhewan's reputation, and it must not be damaged! The fine silk clothes, silverware, and perfumes in the cabin are your honor, and you have brought them back from the Far East, and they are worth more than your lost possessions, and you might as well think about how much you should exchange them for. I don't know much about the price in this area, so I have to listen to your opinion. "Fooling people can't just say nothing, when necessary, it is better to match the actual benefits, and the simplest actual benefits are just one word, money!

"Right...... I still have Mia and the kids! And allies! There is also a cabin of cargo...... But I don't know how much they cost...... "Carl's tears had long since dried, and his eyes were now full of red light.

"Your cousin's ship is a cargo ship, isn't it? No matter what it pulls on it, there should always be merchants, merchants of the Holy Roman Empire, and it will be clear if you ask them? If you really don't succeed, ask your cousin, he must have someone who knows how to do it, and we are not in a hurry to sell, we can wait! Hong Tao showed a bright smile, he was worried about how to get these test items to Karl's cousin's court, this time it was easy to save trouble, he didn't need to be with Carl Zhangluo, the merchant on the ship would do it for him. How to say that they are also imperial merchants, it doesn't matter what they are called here, that's probably what it means.

Re-energize the disheartened Carl, Hong Tao can be lazy again, this guy is different from his own cheekiness, he has no face and no skin. Five minutes ago he was crying on the deck, and now he is calling him the Emperor's cousin like no one else. Then he returned to the ship in a dinghy, and soon brought with him an old man in a dress, and talked about the price of the goods directly on deck, without the slightest regard for the fact that most of the crew knew Latin, and could understand the quarrel between the two of them over a frith.

What is Freese? The smallest denomination of the Holy Roman Empire, copper, and the copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty have a meaning. Through Karl's bargaining with the Imperial merchant, as well as Carl's previous casual conversation about the Holy Roman Empire and Europe, Hong Tao probably figured out the monetary system of the Holy Roman Empire at this time.

In fact, the whole of Europe is similar, this is not what Hong Tao heard, but the author found out by checking the information. If you don't get annoyed, I'll simply talk about the monetary system of medieval Europe, there is very little information about this, I checked several books, and checked it on the Internet, and I probably summarized it a little bit, right? What? You're annoying! Then bear with it, I spent so much effort to find the information, and I won't be allowed to say it, it's very inhumane!

(To be continued.) )