However, after nearly ten days of waiting, when the Seleucian peasants began to harvest the grain, and were still milling flour using the simple stone mortars of their homes, and the tax collectors of the brotherhood began to carry the land books to reconcile, collect the taxes of the peasants on the lease of large livestock, and prepare to hand over a portion of the profits to the royal treasury of the city, the archbishop of Pisa, Suffobel, finally landed at the anchorage of the military harbor, with many monks and merchants dressed in modest luxury. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is just his transit point, the archbishop came from the prosperous and infinite Constantinople, the division went very smoothly, and he received a big order as soon as he arrived in the imperial capital, "His Majesty the Emperor, who commanded the war against the Turks in the city of Nicaea, specially granted the Imperial Chief Zacian Beriel and the Chief Scholar Maupulos, opened up a trading port area for the Pisan people in the capital, and also enjoyed the right to import and export goods tax-free with the Venetians. ”

In addition, Suffobel also received many precious gifts in the name of the emperor, including ivory miniature carvings, enamel reliquaries, agate communion cups, etc., of course, these have been very low-key by the archbishop in his own box, humbly unwilling to be publicized in the eyes of the world, but His Majesty gave him another precious gift: a very beautifully embroidered cross purse, but Suffobel deliberately wore it, he knew that after crossing Rhodes, what he saw along the way was no longer the noble and elegant Greek noble princes, And the vulgar pilgrim lords, the Grand Duke of Gawain, nicknamed "Lusail", were no exception, and his notoriety was known from the seashores of Curitai to the desert of Antioch, and he was said to have lion-like ambition, wolf-like ferocity, and fox-like and eight-clawed spider cunning.

Therefore, it is very important to dress majesticly, as a special envoy of the Holy See, and Saphobel thinks that he can suppress this brutal samurai-type power.

Moorish guards, dressed in coarse cloth turbans and leather and iron armor, hired by the Pisan Chamber of Commerce, carried swords in front of the archbishop. And the hanging cloth embroidered with the "Red Cross Sword" logo was everywhere, dangling on the flagpole of the fort, on the entrance to the acropolis and on the pheasant moat, against the heads of the group, "Maybe that Lusail did not expect that it was you, Your Excellency, who was appointed by the Holy See as the Patriarch of Seleucia." The welcoming horn sounded, and in the crowd of people who walked slowly and solemnly, Suffebel was refreshed and smiled at the famous high priesthood beside him.

"Of course, this group of pilgrims has been making a lot of trouble lately. If the Holy See were to sit idly by, they would soon anoint themselves and proclaim themselves kings, and then give the ring and scepter to the winekeepers at will, and let these lowly men occupy bishops all over the East. At least as far as I know, Gawain, a bastard, would definitely be able to do that. The high priest who had spoken to Suffobel also smiled fiercely, and it seemed that this person and Gawain were old acquaintances.

But when he stepped into the hall of the Acropolis Palace, Suffobel looked into the middle of the opposite wall, and the sight before him made him speechless:

Under each of the pillars, stood the famous warrior with a terrible beard and scars, clad in heavy armor, with an axe on his shoulders and a sword with both hands, and behind them stood a narrow and high carved high chair, the top of each of which stretched out a bent handle, tied with a small soft and bright purple draperium, on which sat a little girl of beauty, noble and majestic as frost, with her hands apart and pressed the armrests of the lion's head of the chair, and her black hair was divided into two braids, hanging down on the chest of the same purple summer dress. He wore a golden crown of seven serrated teeth on his head, and his eyes were haughty; On the left side of the girl was a dark-haired, thin Greek aristocratic woman, holding stationery in her hand, with a low stool and a high table at her feet, and on the right was a fat man dressed in gorgeous clothes, the flesh of her face was coldly falling, and she was looking at herself with slanted eyes.

On either side and behind the girl, there were beardless and bearded silk cloaks, armoured warriors, all with horned bows and quivers, and long swords or sabers with cowhide sheaths in their hands, all of them with black or brown curls, no doubt from Anatolia and Greece.

He looked at this girl who looked like a painting, suspecting that she was a fairy or a witch at all, but reason was still reminding him, "Suffobel, before you went to Seleucia, you already had detailed information, this should be the concubine of Gawain, the eldest princess who was abducted from the Greek emperor, but has been revoked by Emperor Komnenos, and her current status is equivalent to that village girl, which is equivalent to village girl." ......”

The Archbishop of Pisa muttered, but soon the girl uttered a solemn and standard Latin language, "Guest, where are you from?" ”

Even though many of the Moorish soldiers and pizza merchants behind the archbishop did not know what the girl was saying (very few understood Latin), they all felt that she had made sense, and they all fell to the ground with trepidation, trembling and not daring to say more.

The fat man snorted coldly, and repeated Anna's words in a language that everyone could understand, "Archbishop, don't bend your knees!" The senior clergyman just now hugged Suffobel, who was also about to kneel and kowtow in a trance.

"Are you a high-ranking clergy from the city of Rome, or are you a nobleman?" The princess then spoke skillfully in plain language, but with disdain in her tone, "It is astonishing that when Rome moved its capital, all the noble senators, clergy, and generals went to the new capital, and those who remained in Rome were, as far as I know from the papers, are the fishermen, the coopers, the bakers, and the country robbers. Is there any proof of your nobility from the Imperial Palaces and pedigrees? You know, without the official recognition of the Romanian Empire, where are there any nobles in this world. ”

"We just want to meet with His Excellency the Grand Duke and get the passage to Antioch City." Knowing that there was a "paranoid and arrogant" Greek princess in front of her, Suffobel eagerly gave up the idea of theory, and could only avoid the serious, and directly said his intentions, signaling to let Gawain come out to receive him, instead of this former princess who was adulterous and lived in concubines.

"The Grand Duke has been ordered by me to go to Tarsus to prepare for the expedition, and there is only one person in this country who wears the crown of a king, and that is I, Anna. Ducasse. Anna on the high chair, with an angry expression, then pointed her small finger at Suffobel very impolitely, "If you want to pass through the paperwork, you must ask for my permission." (To be continued.) )