Chapter 16: Impeachment and Public Opinion Warfare
Hearing this, Gawain pointed to the gray-haired girl over there very easily, "The dredging work of Newport has all been handed over to this Agnes. Miss Plani, Undersecretary of Ordnance of Tarsus and Vice-Chancellor of the Imperial Court. She would design www.biquge.info excavate the tributaries of the Sidenus River, select the latest and most convenient estuary, and then use new equipment to remove the clogged silt. β
Hercules looked at the gray-haired girl in amazement, with an expression of disbelief on her face.
"Do you look down on women?" Gawain seemed to be deliberately sowing discord.
But Marash's envoy quickly shook his head vigorously, even out of diplomatic courtesy.
"In Tarsus, the internal affairs and diplomatic documents of the court are in the hands of a group of intelligent and capable female officials. Women are not just a rib for men, they will prove their worth more and more. How Hercules, find my country interesting? β
When Agnes heard Gawain's words, she couldn't help but have an unhappy expression on her face, and she thought to herselfβ"I was obviously vetoing and ridiculing the issue of equal rights between men and women in the stable, but in the blink of an eye, I pretended to be generous in front of outsiders, and I had no principle of moderation. Oh, this young Ani, what kind of expression do you have, what kind of expression do you have? You shouldn't be impressed by this brown bear again, wake up, I can even tell you that your thoughts and reactions are dangerous! β
But Hercules, who was here, bowed his head and admitted, "Yes, your honorable highness, your kingdom and your way of governing it have been an eye-opener for me. β
"Three years later, you come back to the port of New St. Paul. The Marash Chamber of Commerce, like many other chambers of commerce, will be able to occupy a commercial port here, and soon the new port will be developed. Gao Wen cordially stretched out his hand, indicating that the other party had successfully completed the mission of this trip.
"By then, we in Marash will be doomed, right, under your horses' hooves?"
These words made Agnes's eyebrows move in the back, and the forbidden soldiers of Tarsus quietly clenched their respective sword hilts, they did not expect that this young man of Ani would suddenly refuse to shake hands with the Great Lord Patron, and said this sinister sentence.
"But Armenia will not perish, they will only lose the land of Marash, but they can get more." In the wind, the reply of the great patron appeared very clear, and he did not mean to deny it, but added, "Hercules, I like you very much, how is it?" Thou art young and bold, and hath the ambition to be motivated, and together with other men of insight in Armenia, do not resist me any longer, and for the restoration of your true kingdom, and not in Marash, in the midst of all powers. Do you live in a mountain fort, and what is there? Boundless ravines, timeless stale ideas. The aristocracy, who only knew about alcoholism and war, and the large number of poor, poorly clothed people, even a beehive could become a legacy to boast of. Your merchants long to see the sea of plenty, and your farmers want to marry their daughters in dignity, but should the voice of the people be ignored by the rulers? Follow me when it's right, and I'll take you to a newer and more interesting world. β
"So you are not afraid at all that after signing the peace treaty, the original armed regiment will flee across the border, because if you only give them a piece of land and suitable benefits, they will completely abandon Marash emotionally and settle in your land with an iron heart. I finally figured it out. But if you can, can you talk about what you think of Romana as your heart? β
"It's over...... This young Ani's brain is completely finished. The little sunfish has seen the ending, hiding his face and thinking.
"Romana, it is not achieved by force alone, by magnificent architecture, and by majesty. I can only say that if God had been in my time, I would have the whole people in every pot, and every week there would be a fat chicken. I think that's Romana. Gawain said this, very simple and unpretentious. Then he tilted his shoulders slightly, stretched his slender fingers closer, and his pale blue eyes sparkled with enthusiasm and sincerity.
Hercules slowly stretched out his hand, and then quickly shook hands with the Grand Patron, "I am no longer confused about the Grand Patron, I will add a piece of my own strength to your Romana." β
Hercules, who had relieved all doubts, returned to his own country, and when the Council of Nobles asked him what he thought, the young man said with ease: "I have brought you peace as much as I canβthe king of Tarsus has agreed to our request that the garrison brigades in the city of Vanka no longer oppress us, and that a free trade field be erected on the border, and that the merchant port of Marash be accepted in the city of Tarsus." β
"Hooray!" The nobles at the meeting chanted enthusiastically.
As a result, Marash flatly rejected the alliance with Antioch.
Tanfred was angry, but he was helpless: the biggest threat compared to the little Marash was his uncle Bohemond, who was now in close proximity to Cyprus, and Gawain and Baldwin could join his uncle's accomplices at any time. In the end, after discussing with his henchmen, Tanfred felt that the crux of the problem was the ownership of the holy city of Jerusalem, whether it belonged to St. Peter's Church or the Godfrey family.
If Patriarch Sambel succeeded in turning the Holy City and the entire realm into a papal domain, then he would be saved - Baldwin would lose any reason to claim war against Jerusalem under the pressure of the Holy See, and his kingdom of Antioch would be preserved in a chain reaction.
While Tancred was in the city of Antioch day and night, his uncle Bohemond took the lead, but did not mention the ownership of Antioch, but directly accused the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Sambel, in a letter sent to the Council of Cardinals of the Holy See, Bohemond called Sambel "greedy" and "unjust", "embezzled the donations of Christians from all over the world to the Holy City and St. John's Hospital, and locked countless amounts of money in his private chest as his own squandering".
Before the Pope and the Council of Cardinals could conduct an investigation and ruling, Anselm, Gawain's "Patriarch of Tarsus", suddenly unanimously proposed an impeachment petition against Sambel, saying that he was insatiable, "occupied several gates of Jerusalem, set up checkpoints to exploit pilgrims", "extorted the knights of the banner who had been enshrined in Godfrey", and had the evil behavior of secretly peddling his divine duties.
Before the successive impeachments, Pope Eugene could not afford to take it lightly, and he summoned a cardinal named Maurice and gave him the task: "It will take about ten days to sail from Rome to the Levant, and you will be given another twenty days to produce a fair report of inquiry, plus time to return the letter." Forty days later, I will get the truth about what happened to Sambel. β