"It's easy to do, I have a lot of Saracen friends, through whom you can go to find oil, just exchange whale oil for oil, and they will surely be happy. But how to get to Sun City, you have to take me again, I don't know the specific route, it's all you navigate. Carl thought it was a big deal, and after listening to Hong Tao's explanation, he shrugged his shoulders and expressed his disdain.

"Don't be too busy promising me, I'm not asking you to send it for a year, three years, but forever. It's not for nothing, according to the cost of your exchange, plus your profits to sell to Sun City, only in this way, your castle and territory will have the resources to grow and grow. In addition, I need your Saracen friends to inquire in this area, where there is a place where I sell my own oil, and if they are willing to sell it, at any price, they will help me buy that land, and then hire someone to mine it, only in this way can we ensure an uninterrupted supply. If you can, it's better to buy a nearby port, but I think it's going to be very difficult, and it's easy to rent it. The funds for the purchase of land and the hiring of soldiers will be provided to you, do you think it is difficult to do so? Hong Tao's plan is far from being as simple as trading oil, he needs a place that can provide oil for a long time, and will not be affected by anyone or country except for war and natural disasters.

“…… So troublesome! Your Majesty, I suggest that you go and talk to William about this matter, and he has many Saracen friends, even the king. He should be of greater help to you in this matter, and I will be a worker. But he did a stupid thing, a big stupid thing! The Papal States were expelled from the peninsula, and even Rome was occupied. Now that he is almost a public enemy of Christendom, the German lands to the north are basically no longer worshiped as emperors, and if Louis and Henry are not trapped here, I am afraid that they will have to attack him. Carl is two years older than Hong Tao, and he is no longer the impulsive young man, who has independently supported Carlburg here for many years, so that he has some more strategic considerations in his mind, and did not directly agree to Hong Tao's request, but measured his own ability, and then gave Hong Tao a suggestion that he thought was the best.

"Is he going to get beaten up or not? I don't have the power to save him at the moment! I'm just a bare-bones emperor, don't you want me to go back and ask the Imperial Council to send the Royal Navy to help your cousin fight, do you? Even if I will, can the Imperial Council pass it? "There are not so many polite words between Hong Tao and Carl, you can say whatever you want, this is a fateful friendship, and it will not affect the relationship between the two parties because of one or two sentences.

"It is not yet time to fight a war, and the Church does not have the strength to attack Wilhelm, and the German dukes are pushing the boat with the flow, and they will not be the first to send troops south. But if this stalemate continues, it will be very bad for his country, and he needs an opportunity to ease the conflict with the Church, but without allowing the Papal States to return to the peninsula. William was stubborn on this issue, and he would rather the lords around him slowly move away from him than let the church set foot on his peninsula again. Your Majesty, you are the wisest man in the world, and if you can help William through this crisis, I think William will certainly help you find a suitable piece of land on the east coast. He was much closer to the Saracens than I was, and I knew only merchants and small chieftains, with whom he had always exchanged letters. Carl went around in a big circle, and he still planned to let Hong Tao help his cousin, but this time it was not pure help, but an exchange of interests.

"Good, that's fair, I accept it!" Hong Tao stared at Carl with slanted eyes for a long time, and then agreed to Carl's suggestion categorically. Carl is ripe, too, and if he is not ripe, he will not have a chance to be ripe. Hong Tao likes this way of exchanging benefits the most, because this method is the most stable, and it is a hundred times stronger than making promises to each other.

"Hey, hey, great, you got an idea?" Carl couldn't help but laugh when he heard Hong Tao answer so crisply. This is to be happy for William, with Hong Tao's help, he believes that there is no problem in the world that cannot be solved, at least he has not seen it.

"No...... Let's go prepare the boat, and then I think slowly on the way, I can come up with ten or eight solutions for this kind of trivial matter by going to the toilet, and it is not worth the trouble in advance. "Hong Tao can be regarded as forcing this to the realm of no higher level, as if he is the head of the earth.

"I will go now, and personally sail His Majesty to Naples, where William's new capital is." But Carl still ate this set, and the fatigue of the journey was gone, and he strode out.

"Do you really have a way to help William? He's in a lot of trouble, and I don't think there's anything more than that. Jiang Zhuyi didn't trust Hong Tao as much as Carl, she felt that this matter was difficult to solve, because she thought she was a smart person, and she couldn't think of any good solutions.

"What if I fix it? Do you want to bet? The stakes are you! Whatever I say in the future, you have to do it, and you must not be perfunctory. Hong Tao could hear Jiang Zhuyi's voiceover, and he just took this opportunity to completely succumb to this woman who thought she was very smart and indeed very smart. Sometimes it's not a good thing for people to be too smart, and it's easy to get into trouble for themselves.

"I'm willing to listen to you without betting...... But I'd like to make a dozen. If you don't solve this big trouble, then you have to give me a piece of land, so that I can be the queen like you or something, dare not! Sure enough, this woman already had an idea in her heart, and she had just heard the name Tu twice, and she remembered it firmly.

"No problem, wait for me here, see if your man has the ability to control you, and don't cheat when the time comes!" Now even if William is not in trouble, Hong Tao has to find some trouble for him. For himself, Jiang Zhuyi is much more important than the Pope, and he must completely conquer her, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

In the more than three years since Hong Tao left, not only has East Asian history deviated from its original trajectory, but Europe has also been fooled and lame by him. The Crusader expedition on the Iberian Peninsula was a pot of porridge, and the knightly armies organized by the French and British not only did not drive the Saracens south of the peninsula into the sea, but also suffered two major counter-attacks, pushing the battle line more than 100 kilometers north, which was larger than the original territory.

At the beginning, the Crusader knight army of the western expedition was overwhelming, starting from the middle of the peninsula, with the cooperation of the armies of the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Kingdom of Aragon, advancing southward from the western, central, and eastern directions of the peninsula. After a year or so of fighting, they recovered Lisbon, Córdoba, Valencia and many other cities occupied by the Saracens, and once compressed the peninsular country of Is\Lan into a narrow area less than 100 kilometers from the southern sea, and it was about to win a great victory.

Beginning the following year, however, the Saracen resistance suddenly became stronger. They crossed north from several ports south of the Channel with many Berber reinforcements, and these black-skinned warriors were dressed in thick whale skin armor, and in addition to scimitars and spears, they were armed with a large number of large hand crossbows, the same ones that Karl had sold to the Crusaders, made of baleen and whale bones, but larger, more ranged, and more powerful.

Now the knights' army can't stand it, as soon as the two sides look at each other, they throw spears over, this thing can easily pierce the armor of the knights, and even the chain mail inside can't stop it. When the two sides approached a certain distance, a large number of crossbow arrows were fired, whether they were steel or wooden, and they were the natural enemies of the knights. There is no way to dodge at close range, and as long as you are shot, there are very few that you can't shoot.

What are the knights? It is the elite of the fighters of the European countries, and it is the elite of the expensive training. If the elites can't have an absolute advantage in the confrontation with the opponent's ordinary soldiers, then this battle will not be fought. Not to mention whether human life is worth anything, this expensive fee alone can make all the monarchs of all countries die poor.

The Berbers, on the other hand, are fine, and their soldiers, although they also need to be trained, are much cheaper. The poor are so good, they dare to go to the battlefield with you if they have enough to eat, plus they have a firm faith, in the face of these European coalition forces, they don't care whether the opposite side is a knight or a ragtag army, throw guns, crossbows, and shoot at one shot, and then they fight in close combat.

This style of play hits the soft underbelly of the knights, who can't afford to consume it, and they can't even afford to swap it. Several cities that had just arrived were lost one after another, and four months later the city of Córdoba was recaptured by the Berbers. Taking advantage of this enthusiasm, the entire Saracen army began a Jedi counteroffensive, no more, no less, and it took more than a year to push the battle line back. Then he collected some interest, and captured the city of Toledo, which had been used as a base for the Crusaders, and captured the younger brother of King Castile, who was holding on here.

Louis IX was furious at where the Berbers had gotten so many large crossbows, and he had come to Karl Fort in a rage to settle accounts. The crossbow used by the other party was almost identical to the one that Carl sold to the Crusaders, but the size was different. It's enough to sell arms on both sides, and even sell the best ones to the enemy, this Nima is simply a traitor to Christendom! The king, who was extremely loyal to God, was already anxious, and if Karl could not have a reasonable explanation, he was ready to stop fighting the Saracens first, and send troops to destroy Karl Fort first.

However, Karl did not give Louis this chance, nor did he give Louis any explanation, only gave Louis a few Berber prisoners, and then told Louie that he had caught it at sea, and that the ship was full of large crossbows. Even if Louie doesn't come to him, he will go to Louie and Henry, and Karl asks Louie to thoroughly check the inside of the coalition army, who has spread the technology of making crossbows, and also have to compensate for his own economic losses!

(To be continued.) )