"I don't have to hide my true thoughts, I'll just say it. The five of us will now make a division of the entire sphere of influence, so that the hearts of the people will be united, and it will not be a problem to deal with just Kobha. Gawain grabbed his chest with his hand, "Whoever called me an upright man, for the sake of the great cause of the pilgrims, I feel that I must do this!" ”

Bohemond's forehead was covered with fine sweat, his hands pinched the seam of the riding pants, his back was a little rickety, and his throat was nervous and rolled up and down, "This kind of words, this kind of words" He who had always been shrewd actually became a little incoherent.

Outside, there was a muffled thunder, and in the holy and polished frescoes, Jesus was talking with the shepherds and peasants, and Gawain's hand was pointed directly at him, "After the defeat of Kobha, the city of Antioch and the hundred market towns of the surrounding kingdom will all be yours!" ”

"Okay, okay, of course," Bohemond involuntarily agreed, very quickly, and then he looked left and right, lowered his eyes, and retreated to the door, and nervously tilted his ears, just to judge whether Gawain's words just now, and his answer, could be spied on by others.

Then Gawain turned and stretched out his hand to Raymond, "The thirty-five market towns in the port of Saint-Simon up to the fortress of the Iron Bridge on the Orontes River belong to the Marquis de Provence. Then he saw that Bohemond suddenly became emotional, and understood what he meant, so he immediately made a gesture with his other hand to block stability, "Rest assured, all ships entering the city from the port, Lord Raymond shares the toll and surcharge with you, and he divides you into seven points." ”

So Bohemond shrank back and stood still.

Raymond squinted his eyes, aligned them, and then shook hands with Gawain heavily, indicating that the matter was settled.

"Aleppo, east of Antioch, in the name of the Duke of Godfrey."

At this point, Godfrey stood up, "I don't try to take possession of these places, but I want to extract the taxes from these places to support my men and horses to go to the Holy City. Once the Holy City has been restored, I vow before the Lord to return it to Lord Bohemond, or to the Emperor of Greece. ”

"But the Aleppo area, we didn't take it." Bohemond wondered.

"So when Kobha is repulsed, everyone must fulfill their covenant and draw some of their troops to help Lord Godfrey seize this area." After Gawain said this, several people around him nodded their heads in agreement, "And take it, take the forty market towns in the Azaz area (the border between Aleppo and Mosul) and drive the forces of Kobha back to Mosul, so that we can sit back and enter the Holy Land south." ”

After finishing speaking, Gawain slowly put his hands back on his belt, "Of course, the thirty market towns around the Syria Gate belong to me, and I will pay half of the taxes I earn, and give them exclusively to Lord Robert and his team. ”

"What about the Count of Blois?" Robert of Flanders, too, was cautious, for he understood that it was this man who Gauvin was allowed to live there.

But Gawain shrugged his shoulders and said that the siege of Kobuha was now very urgent, and that it was estimated that the Count of Blois had fled further away with his wife and brother, and that I was still waiting for news from the Cilician side, but in any case, "this meeting in the secret room, he and Robert . His Excellency Curtis is an outsider. ”

"From then on, the situation in Antioch was so settled that all of us had to follow it as a guideline, and we had to move forward and retreat together in the face of any resistance. This treaty is not merely verbal, for that would not be justified at all, and I have drawn up an affidavit for you to sign and seal. Eventually, Gawain stretched out his arms and held in his hands the so-called affidavit made of calfskin—but this "grand affidavit of the secret chamber signed by the Grand Duke of the Romanian Empire, the Duke of Lower Lorraine, the Duke of Apulia, the Marquis of Provence and the Count of Flanders" completely bypassed all the superiors, the emperor and the pope, and became the personal conferral of the lord.

"Render to God what is God's, Caesar's to Caesar's, now we have to do something Caesar's do!" Bohemond made up his mind to grasp the other end of Gawain's affidavit, and then the two looked at each other, carefully unfolded it, laid it on the stone-footed reading platform in the center of the transept, held the small candelabra and the majolica to press down the four corners, and the five heads formed a circle in the shape of a circle, correcting whether there was any discrepancy between what Gawain had just said and what was recorded in the paperwork.

After the proofreading was completed, the five heads parted again, and their breaths were about to be stopped - the most "courageous" Gao Wen took the lead in taking out his "big red hand seal", signed his name first, and then poked the sound of the seal fluttering in the most eye-catching position of the oath paper scroll. Then Raymond did so, followed by Bohemond and Robert, and finally Godfrey.

After it was over, everyone trembled for a while, as if they had experienced a fierce and ecstatic ****, although this is disrespectful to the virtues given by the Lord, but it can only be described as such.

"On the passage of the future, in Tripoli, Caesarea, and Jerusalem, we will follow this system, and we will sign new affidavits and public affairs—but we will not go beyond the existence of the secret room and tell others." Gawain wiped his sweat away and spoke to the others, and everyone nodded.

The following topics are starting to get out of the way:

First of all, everyone decides to recognize Gawain's occupation of Seleucia, Baldwin's occupation of Adana, and Tanrred to Marash. Edessa occupation is henceforth not to encroach on their respective spheres of influence, but to trade with each other and interact peacefully;

After repelling Kobha, everyone marched into Aleppo and Azadze, and after finishing their work, they each rested for half a year and entered the Holy Land;

Negotiate with the Emperor of Constantinople as soon as possible, and at least release Wenmoha and his sailors and ships, and open the port of Latakia, so that the Italian city-states can change their anchorages and deliver grain to Antioch.

"What do the Pisan people do?" Bohemond asked wistfully as he thought of Monigny and the ramparts and granaries he had built in the arena area and in the Falfa River, and asked with worry and hatred.

As a result, Gawain walked up to him and put his hand on his shoulder, "It's also two sets of policies." First, we exchange money for his food, and Moniqueni must bid a black price to plunder all the soldiers' assets, so that everyone will hate the Pisa. ”

"Yes, yes, I must hate them to death." Bohemond seemed to understand something, and replied to Gawain knowingly.

"Then, if we get the port of Latakia, and we can transport grain, and when the price of grain is settled, we will instigate the soldiers to ask Monnikini to return the money they have earned."

"If we don't pay it back, won't we be able to use force?"

"Why not, take out the fortress of the Pisa, destroy their black-hearted granaries, confiscate all the money earned by Monigni, and return it to the soldiers, and everyone will treat us as impartial hosts, this is the second set. As long as you can defeat Kobha, the city of Antioch and a hundred market towns are yours, and all the Apulians will be loyal to your glory, and we will support you behind your back—so" Gawain put his other hand on Bohemond's shoulder, his gaze became gloomy, and then his words were as sharp as a knife, "What are you afraid of in the city of Pisa, a small commercial consul, and a few tens of thousands of gold coins?" Are you still afraid of people who have not done business? (To be continued.) )