Originally, this royal palace was the "old palace" and "raven palace" as Fatima usually said. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the Fatimids, who were still based in Mahdia (now a seaport city in southeastern Tunisia), launched a series of conquests against Egypt, and their commander was a standard Greek from Sicily, Chohair. Surgiri, a slave in his childhood, was promoted to the rank of general in the army, and when he and his 5,000 men were stationed in the wasteland four centuries away from Fustat, the Berbers, Saracens, and Greeks came to him, and the original camp was suddenly insufficient. So he had his men burn bricks and stones, and the camp was greatly expanded, and he named it Mansur.

When the foundation stone was laid, it was traditionally to shake a string of bells at the auspicious time of divination, but a black crow flew to the foundation of the city wall during the "Martian ascent" - four years later, when the fourth Fatimid caliph al-Muiz moved his capital here, he thought the arrival of the crow was a good omen, and ordered the city of "Mansur" to be renamed "Ghahira", which means "triumphant victory".

Later, the Venetian merchants mistakenly pronounced Gahira as "Cairo", a mistake that later became the most resounding name of the medieval city, but the original "Gahira" was completely forgotten.

But people have not forgotten the magical crow, so it is also said by word of mouth that the Caliphate's palace in Cairo is called "the palace of the crow".

Later, with the passage of time, a magnificent and huge mosque "Azhar" was built on the south side of the Raven Palace (also called the Old Palace and the East Palace), and the northeast of the Great Mosque of Azhar was built by the fifth caliph Aziz, that is, the "West Palace". The vast area between the Raven Palace and the West Palace is paved with a large square with a fountain, called "Baynal-Kasrayn" (Between the Two Palaces), in which stands the Praetorian Guard barracks, the bazaar, and many official residences.

The Raven Palace has nine gates, and the most important of them all, the Hadab Gate, is in charge of the most important one, because there is a window in the tower of this gate, and the caliph often stands here for a short time on the day of Juri, meeting his subjects through the iron fence, so that the crowd can see his dignity and show that he is still alive.

In the darkness of the night, Ashot snatched the burnt letter in the Hadab Gate Tower, and in it the Grand Vizier warned the caliph in the tone of the division commander: We will definitely not win the battle with the army of Tarsus, did you know before? Gawain swept through all of Greater Armenia with four brigades, destroyed the Kingdom of Georgia, and slaughtered the Persian Ismaili vultures (deserved!). Who told that the sects there were no longer subject to our rule), among them the great general of the Kingdom of Georgia, Mahad Zeli, was captured and killed......

"Brother, brother!" Aschot's eyes darkened when he read this, and as a younger brother, he couldn't suppress the fire in his heart.

When Everdler's father sent people to recruit men in Greater Armenia, you and I agreed in our hometown that I would cross the sea to Egypt to start a business, and you would go to the Kingdom of Georgia to borrow troops, and we would work together for the restoration of the country in the future, but why did you die in the hands of the traitor Gawain like this?

As he continued reading, Aschott's eyes bulged out with blood, "What, Everdler is still an Ani kid, and you talk about appeasement and peace, and you still talk about this against a jackal-like enemy?" It's unreasonable, I'm going to kill these number one thieves! ”

So in this dark night, the commander of the Armenian forbidden army in the palace, in order to avenge his brother who died on the plateau thousands of miles away, or to vent his anger, wanted to tie the entire Egyptian national fortune to a bloody butcher's knife.

In the early morning, Ashot led a group of armored forbidden soldiers through "between the two palaces" to the audience room of the Western Palace, where he asked to see Caliph Musta Ali.

Mustali was about twenty-three years old, wearing a white prophetic head, and though he was white and tall, but with a weak blood, he slowly walked out of the door and sat on the ivory chair in the center, his eyes were blue, very beautiful, like jewels, like the sky and the sea, and darker than Gawain's eyes, because his ancestors (i.e., the sixth Fatimid Caliph, al-Hakim) had intermarried with the family of the Patriarch of Christ in Alexandria (the two daughters of the Patriarch), And the other party actually has Ross blood.

"What's the matter, my dearest squire?" Mustaali, who had just woken up, was weak.

Ashot respectfully presented the letter.

"Oh, it's a letter from the teacher." Mustali said with joy that there was a blood-colored line under his eyes, which made him look not very strong, but he had a poignant beauty.

After reading it, "I wrote a reply letter, saying that I miss him very much, and I hope to talk with him in the palace about future state affairs on the next feast day." The caliph then had the confidential secretary write a reply requesting that Everdror return from Ashkelon and that he would meet him at the Grand Mosque of Azhar.

At this moment, a cold and strange smile appeared at the bottom of the steps.

Of course, he had already altered the letter.

He knew that the young and beautiful caliph in front of him had grown up under the tutelage of the vizier teacher, and had already developed an abnormal infatuation with each other in his heart - in the two years since Evdler left the palace, the caliph was simply ashen and crazy about it.

When the matter was done, the caliph was overjoyed, and while telling Ashot to step down, he took out a steel round mirror to look at himself, hoping to give the most elegant impression of the returning teacher.

Turning to leave, Ashot stepped on the long tapestry carpet between the arcades of the palace, step after step, his hand clutching the hilt of his sword, and a sneer on the corner of his mouth from time to time.

A few days later, in the harbor of Ashkelon, in the temporary residence of the Grand Vizier, Everdler was surprised to unfold a letter from the court, "This boy said that there are 100,000 urgent matters, and he told me to go back to the court to discuss?" What exactly is the reason. ”

However, because it was a personal request from the caliph, Everdeler could not refuse, so he asked the commander of the fleet in the port, Al. Rumi prepares the ship and "sends me to Cairo."

When Everdler entered the streets of Cairo a week later, he rode his horse, surrounded by attendants and clerks, through the straight avenue leading to the Raven Palace, and walked slowly towards the Great Mosque of Ezhar, where on either side of the cistern in the vestibule stood a tower of light (Huzata), white as snow, with iron roosters hanging from the top, constantly shaking to indicate the direction of the wind.

Suddenly, among the towers of light, a bird the size of a black grain of rice swept up, and in an instant flashed in Everdler's eyes, it was a crow, shouting in a mournful tone, flapping its wings, and flying towards the dense civilian settlement like an anthill, and soon disappeared without a trace between the rows of roofs and towers.