The arbitration agreement not only recognized the present power of Bohemond over the Syria Gate, Latakia, Tartus and the lower river plains of Antioch, but also condemned Tantared in harsh terms. Morality. Tver's previous acts of "blasphemy against the Catholic Church", including his marriage to his wife in Armenian church rites, were in fact nitpicky speeches, but in the end, the ultimatum of the Arbitration Legation was very clear: by next year's Resurrection Day at the latest, Tancred must surrender the entire city of Antioch and return to the countryside of Apulia with guilt. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Poor and angry Tancred now has only Antioch itself and the fields around Lake Antioch, but this is the elite of the entire realm, so he has not given up his stoic resistance.

At the same time, Bohemond never gave up his oppression and attack on his nephew, and he imitated Gawain's "holy system" on the land he occupied, and established a military system called "Althing" (the ancient Viking national assembly, which often relied on the name of the retro), which was an almost incredible innovation for the Normans who were accustomed to feudal fiefdoms: but Bohemond still insisted on it, and he measured and counted all the territories, divided them into pieces, and recruited Syrians, Saracens, The Armenians came to plough and share the harvest with them; In the city and port, Bohemond also hired Syrian Greeks as tax collectors and bookkeepers, and drew up a detailed and elaborate "Great Book of Oshing", part of which was distributed among his 10,000 soldiers, including archers. Great spearman. The ratio of musketeers is 1, hoplites. The ratio of light cavalry was 3, while the ratio of Norman sergeant cavalry was 4, and the proportion of nobles was 10.

In fact, there were not many pure Normans among Bohemond's subordinates, and most of them were recruited by him, so there was much less resistance to the implementation of the "Oshing Caiyi" reform. Bohemond then instructed Ostu to help him reorganize and train his army, and to prepare to follow Gawain's example in forming an artillery regiment after the city of Antioch was restored. In this situation, Bohemond successfully used the method of bribery to occupy the city of Edessa behind Antioch, and the local defenders surrendered, leaving Tancred to be alone.

In order to expand his financial resources, Bohemond cordially received the Consul General of Venice in the Orient Molitor in the port of Latakia. Russell.

Molitor had been frustrated for the past two years, as the two most important coastal cities of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Azul and Jaffa, had been taken under the control of the Relaya, and Amalfi, with the strong support of Gawain, had expanded his power in Egypt; After the recent conquest of Lydia, Gawain continued to give the Gera and Pisan merchants the right to the port of Smyrna in the form of a charter—and in general, the whole of Venice in the Levant was unable to exert its maneuver and obtain a benefit commensurate with its efforts.

Bohemond's proposal to Molitor was to open Latakia and the port of San Simón to the Venetian Chamber of Commerce and give it exclusive rights, but Venice must provide him with large quantities of sulphur and nitrate; In addition, if Venice can send a fleet to help him capture Tripoli, Sidon, and Tyre before Gawain, he will also give Venice a favorable advantage there.

This tempted Molito, but he did not dare to take matters into his own hands, so he wrote a secret report to the elders of the Venetian city-state and sent it to the distant city of Lagoon.

As a result, Molito's secret letter set off two opposing arguments in the "Venetian pig herd", which has always been called unity.

The controversy was first enraged in the chapel of the consuls, and the old consul Félaille. Mochenigo advocated accepting Bohemond's idea of giving priority to the projection of colonial and ship power to the Levant, which would not only comply with the call of the Holy See of Rome, but also use the power of emerging princes such as Bohemond, Baldwin or Gawain to gain a foothold and rights in the cities on the coast of the Levant as soon as possible, "Otherwise, in a hundred years, we will lose the future!" ”

But the consul's contender for this term was another prominent Venetian nobleman, Pierrot. Kona was aggressive, saying that he should sympathize with the request of Emperor John (who had now sent a secret envoy to help him suppress it), and that the city-state should give priority to organizing a capable army of mercenaries to be sent to Crete to help the Emperor put down the rebellion, and in return the Emperor promised to cede several key ports of Morton and Crete to us, "Henceforth we will control the trade routes of the entire Sea of Arches (Aegean), and of course we will be invincible against Hot Duck or Pisa, and there is no need to run to fight them in the Levant." ”

"The riots in Crete now involve too many big countries, at least Gawain and his wife of Tarsus are behind it."

"So what? Tarsus' fleet was so weak that even the pirates besieging Rhodes had to resort to ships begging for hot duck and pizza—and if we established fortified forts in Crete and Moria, Gawain would not be able to do anything at sea. "Pierrot. Kona is very confident.

It is no wonder that the entire Chapel of the Archons was attended by an old captain, and their minds and eyes could automatically conjure up the entire eastern seas, islands, and shipping routes: once Pierrot's goal was achieved, the galleys of Venice would first arrive in the city of Zara to replenish supplies, then to Corfu, and then bypass the Peloponnese headland from the transit point of Modon, and as long as the port of Modong was sheltered, the number of ships lost to the headland storms and reefs would be reduced by at least seventy percent. Ships could then sail directly to Constantinople, or they could sail directly to the Levant, Egypt, or Cilicia via the northern ports of Gandhia and Chania in Crete for trade, and a two-week round trip.

Therefore, in the minds of most people, Pierrot's suggestion is more tempting, not to mention that once he helps Emperor John to quell the rebellion, the Venetians will not only get Crete, but also get more privileges and benefits in the Holy Sea, and gradually seal down the old enemy Relaya, which is really good.

In contrast, the proposal of the old consul Fleille felt dull and unenterprising.

However, Félaier remained stubborn.

Pierrot in the prime of life. Turner replied politely and confidently, "The upcoming election of consuls will put an end to our arguments." ”

In the end, the consulship election of that year, as Pierrot had expected, fell into his hands, and he put on an embroidered shawl, a hat symbolizing status and power, stepped on a long yacht, and surrounded the palatial Piazza San Marco to receive the earth-shaking cheers of the nobility and the populace, becoming the "new husband of the Adriatic".

In the mansion by the sea, Félaier, dressed in civilian clothes and squinting at the crowd of people in the square, watched the crowds of people celebrate in the square, when his sons leaned over to comfort their elderly father and said, "You must give a chance to a family like the Kona family." ”

"But I feel that the times will no longer give the ship Venice a chance to intervene in the Cretan counterinsurgency war, which is the beginning of its capsizing course." Fellaier said slowly.