Gawain's concern is not unreasonable, now in Seleucia, although the Iqtar fields of the warriors under the former Sultan of Konya have no owners (most of the Bey and Ghazi have either been killed and fled in battle, or have been captured and sent to Tarsus), but due to the lack of professional bookkeepers, it is impossible to accurately measure and register, "Many of these fields and villages, including tenant farmers, have been seized in advance by local noble landlords and soldiers"

"Quickly divide the soldiers of the brigade and garrison them in the fortresses of the towns, and call your brotherhood of the Brotherhood of Garganus, to act as inspectors and judges everywhere, and if you find out about such behavior, you will immediately investigate and correct them severely, and whoever dares to get your hands on this kind of property will be put to death, and all your property will be confiscated! The law is in effect all the way back to the date of the Battle of Tarsus. Anna's tone was unhesitating.

"I'll take care of it, immediately send a fast horse, summon Anderodat back, and ask him to lead the entire Brotherhood to quickly inventory all the fields, starting with the two cores of Seleucia and Zephilim! In addition, I will ask Gotschalk to gather more civilian pilgrims from my brother-in-law, and the rest of the armed regiments of the old and weak, to gather together in Seleucia, and we will cultivate our own forts and granges. ”

After the plan was decided, Anna turned around, stood on tiptoe, and put her arms around Gawain's neck, "Believe me, great barbarian, this Seleucian city is the diamond in my heart, even if my father comes to stir up the trouble, I will fight alongside you and repel him and his army!" ”

"Well, but the Paulicians?" The "gold medal undercover" of this sect took the opportunity to inquire.

Anna sneered, "You really care about your holy sister." ”

Ay! Is Anna already secretly aware of the inside story and procedures of the Paulician sect? Even the title of "Holy Sister" is understood, and it is estimated that she knows more than herself now, and Gao Wen became sloppy in a hurry. "What does the holy sister mean, it seems that Kabeamiya once mentioned it to me, but I didn't take it to heart"

"Don't blow it, in the past, during the Sinop peace talks, you and Kabeamiya spoke to each other in fluent Turkic dialect across me, and there was the pronunciation of the word 'Holy Sister' in it"

According to Goethehild's situation: The recent battle with this little girl has been a series of defeats! Always counted by her. Riding on the neck to spread the prestige, if she hadn't shot an "arrow" in time last time, forcing her to flee in the wilderness, I'm afraid that a razor would cut off her face. Except for the proposal to her in the city of Caron to divide his forces with Baldwin and occupy Seleucia westward after capturing Tarsus, it was not a victory, at most a joint victory for him and Anna. But Anna eventually made a promise: the Paulineites were a barrier and would not fall out with them. In addition, relying on the farming and gardening skills of the believers on the other side, more German civilians will be attracted to work in the territory in the future, which is inseparable from the cooperation of the Paulians, "If the Paulines perform well in the future, I can also expand their fiefdoms." Anyway, Anna said so.

In the palace of Nicaea City, Alexios smashed all the documents sent back from the front line on the ground, "Branas, this bastard, why what kind of scum and **** madness." Have they all gathered under my command? He actually abandoned the pride and great future of the warriors of the Roman Empire, and ran away with a pagan woman! Harold and Theodoro are also waste. Thus withdrew from Paphragonia without consciousness and energy. I wanted to save all this, and immediately spread the word throughout Anatolia that Branath had an affair with the Sultan's wife, at my behest, and that Branath was now taken in by Gawain; Also, call that group of pilgrims as soon as possible. Surrender the city of Konya to me, and now that Gawain and Apate have fled to Seleucia, it will be in danger for them to gain a foothold - and send a small servant of the Imperial Ruler to Panphyria, Seleucia, and Phrygia to buy off any local Pronian landlords. and the warriors of Jinat, and told them to swarm against Gawain, and to deprive Gawain of any rank and position that I had given him beforehand—and to be well versed in Bohemond, and to incite his Norman bandits to fight against Gawain's red-handed bandits. ”

After scolding, the Emperor sat back in his chair, the mirror on the desk in front of him, reflecting his increasingly emaciated countenance, and his increasingly worn gray hair on his temples, if Alexios knew the modern term "midlife crisis", he would have related.

Also grieved for His Majesty, the faithful Imperial Ink Officer Meles knelt down and shook the hand of the king and friend, Alexios smiled bitterly at him, then closed his eyes tremblingly, breathing hard, "Melles, when I was in Constantinople, dealing with the most dangerous moment of the empire, when the Norman bandits, Zahas bandits, Pechenegs, and Cumans attacked from all sides like a frenzy, and the rebellion in the country continued, I held the twin swords of the Holy Sea and Athos, and turned the tide, and fought in the east and west, and I never felt tired, Now—and it stands to reason that the situation should have improved, with the Thracian Valley, Macedonia, and Moria providing an endless source of money, and the two richest plains and barns of Asia Minor being reclaimed by me with a sophisticated diplomatic strategy—but Anna had run away with the shameless brute, and Irene was hating me in the deep palace, and no one could comfort me. ”

"Your Majesty, for Gawain's strategy, the servants should still focus on entrapment, including Branas." Finally, the Imperial Ink Officer mustered up the courage to make this suggestion.

"Oh" The Emperor pushed his fingers into the mirror, clasped it, and then touched the wrinkles on his forehead, as if he was not annoyed by the Imperial Ink Official's proposal, "Tell me my dear friend, before the official and the secret envoy are released." ”

"Give Gao Wen a higher official title, as for Her Royal Highness the Princess, please forgive the servants for being bold and presumptuous, I am afraid that now that the wood is already in the boat, no matter how distressed it is, it is useless, it is time to calm down Your Majesty."

"That's right—what I'm most proud of is my calm and brutal diplomacy, and wasn't that how we fought side by side, defeating one enemy after another?" The emperor's mind seemed to have cooled down a little at this time.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the so-called official title is nothing more than a purple ink edict, but it is a chain, so that Gawain can contain and break other more dangerous forces for His Majesty in Cilicia, and absorb Gawain into the system, it is safer than the Normans, Franks, Turks, or Armenians."

"You say, what kind of official title should I give to Gawain?"

"The servants think that the rank of Grand Duke is good, and that Gawain is given the right to pacify Cilicia at his own discretion, and once the Emperor's army recovers, Gawain will either go out to Antioch and the Holy City, or confront the Armenian enemy, and our army, which has completely occupied and digested Anatolia, Bithynia, and Lydia, will attack the exhausted Gawain in several ways, and when the time comes, on the battlefield where Cilicia will destroy him, we will not lack secret helpers and servants, and all of them will admire Your Majesty's majesty."

"It's good!" The Emperor exclaimed, "Bohemond is the commander of the march in Asia, and Gawain is the Grand Duke of the Navy, very interesting, I heard that now in Cilicia, all kinds of pilgrims have broken out in internal strife and conflict, I can burn this fire more vigorously, and let the pilgrims fight in Cilicia and Antioch - I will clean you up one by one sooner or later!" "Soon, Alexios was in front of the horseshoe-shaped arch of the palace, and several court officials immediately fell to their knees, accepted the contents of the order that the emperor had changed, and sent it out by the fast horse post, "Also, tell Prince John to come to Lydia, which has just been recovered, and I will appoint him as the Grand Duke of Thracepine (the military district in Lydia, and Thrace, named after the Thracian soldiers who were stationed in this military region before), and it is time for John to have some practical experience in dealing with military and political affairs, Anna, no, it is Apate, At the age of twelve, he was able to manage an orphanage of 1,000 people. ”

The Emperor's messenger soon reached Little Antioch in the region of Heraclia, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims were resting: Nearly 10,000 people had lost their lives again in the crossing of Anatolia because of the heat and hunger, and many women had given birth without shame in front of the marching procession under the scorching sun, and the babies born were hardly alive, often with their mothers who had died in childbirth, and could not even be buried, and were turned into piles of indistinguishable carrion under the swirling of vultures and flies, and many lonely men and women, They were also attacked by scattered Roma light horsemen or fierce Isuriya mountain people, and since then they have disappeared, whether they were killed or plundered and enslaved, no one knows. The entire stretch of plateau canyon leading to Konya is covered with the remains of pilgrimage martyrs.

After the capture of Konya, the whole expeditionary group was better off: in the Sultan's palace and hunting garden, whether it was the oxen that came to plough, or the sheep and horses that came to graze, or all kinds of exotic animals, all swimming in the water, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and drilling in the ground, were eaten by the pilgrims, and the whole camp was covered with animal bones, and many people ate without even salt, and they tore the meat and ate it in this way, and many died for it.

In the city of Little Antioch, the urgent council of cardinals was presided over by the priesthood of Upper Admar and the hermit Peter, and the theme of "resolving the feud between the strikers Tanfred and Baldwin" naturally set off a round of quarrels at the meeting, and when the pilgrims worked together to make their way out of the long valley of death, the struggle for power became the norm again: in front of them was the rich plain of Cilicia, and the land of the Levant, each of whom wanted a piece of the pie, and no one was willing to be left behind the others, lest they would have no one of their own.

While they were arguing, the news of the return of Gawain's army came with it, but many people did not feel joyful, because they also knew that Gawain had openly aided Baldwin by seizing the city of Tarsus, which was supposed to belong to Tantarred, forcing Tancred away, and then arbitrarily sweeping the entire area west of Cilicia and occupying the fortress of Seleucia.

In this way, Gawain and Baldwin greatly violated the taboo, a taboo that everyone longed for in their hearts, but did not dare to express it publicly, naturally became the target of public criticism. (To be continued.) )