Chapter 17: The Twelve Brigades

After the signing of the Treaty of the Mountain Boundary, the whole of Tripoli was declared to be under the scepter of the new Roman Empire, and was transformed into the colors of Gawain's territory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Many "county assistants" and "graduates" from Asia Minor began to be assigned to this district, and they carefully distributed the land, prepared the sea and land trade routes, the most important of which was to buy Maronite tapestry fabrics and Druze pottery, and they themselves began to build farms and warehouses on the land set aside for the sacred, to grow flowers in Beritus, to grow grapes in Jubail, to grow mulberry trees in Sidon, and to grow oak and cereals of all colors in Tripoli. The most important thing is the cultivation in Tyre of a cash crop, the "Zucre", or sugar cane, in large quantities.

Many of the soldiers of the Crusades had eaten this "zucre" before, and they were amazed at the sweetness of the crop, and said that even a tiring saddle horse would be able to regain energy after eating a small section. However, neither Antioch nor Jerusalem, or because of the short-sightedness of the rulers, or the constraints of climate and soil, did not allow the cultivation of sugarcane in the territory to form a scale.

The plateau land on the mainland of Tyre was the most suitable for growing sugar cane, and an experimental sugar mill was built.

But soon Syrian and Lebanese workers refused to work there, and an angry Andedat learned that the liquid in the iron pot in which the sugar was boiled would become unusually viscous when stirred.

How sticky it is - three workers have already died and seven others have been crippled - if the worker is careless, a hand, foot or a part of the body sticks into, and it is completely finished, so that the hand can only cut off the hand, and the foot can only cut the foot......

Anderodat was ready to hire strangers to do the work, but soon the aliens did not do it, and they were not willing to face this dangerous work that could lead to death at any time, and "would rather raise pigs in Lebanon against the teachings than in Zucre in the city of Tyre!" Many pagans wrapped in turbans openly said so.

Helpless, Androdat had no choice but to temporarily close the sugar workshop, and he expressed his confusion to His Majesty in the capital by letter: "Zucre's workshop needs a large number of people, but those who know it are reluctant to take risks, and if the wages are raised, it may be possible to recruit the right number of people in Anatolia or Cyprus, but the cost of production will soar so much that the sales of Zucre's products will be seriously affected." ā€

Soon Gawain sent a succinct reply, "Then buy slaves in large quantities from Yemen, and remember that the kind of slaves that do not need to be bought for a thousand gold, for the garrison or pleasure of the caliph or sultan, and that we will only be worth five or ten gold coins or even cheaper black slaves." The Crescent Religion in Yemen has been going deep into the interior of Africa for many years, taking prisoners and buying a large number of slaves, and we will be their most stable and bold guests, and we will also take the opportunity to strengthen ties with the Abynesian Empire, which is a transit point, and invite the Abynesian Emperor to send envoys in due course, to discuss with us how to strengthen the good-neighborly relations between the two countries. ā€

Anderodat was a little resistant to such an act, but - he was about to return to the capital with his army, and the motherly Barcelona announced that he and his wife would be given more prestigious rank and honor, and that he would also take up more important positions in the center of the capital, and that he would succeed to the throne of Beriel if nothing happened - the Jubail Governorate was established in Tripoli, with Prajit the Armenian as the overseer, and the rest of the territory as a royal precinct to administer the government. The merchant port and port will be the squire of Gawain's inner palace, and the future slave trade will not have much to do with Androdart, at least that's what the young man with the mushroom head thinks.

After the seaworthy wind blew in April of the following year, Anderodat finally led the army from Tripoli to Constantinople!

What remained in the Tripoli area were the 4,000 old frontier people of the Governor's District, as well as the Maronites and Druze, who would also provide a large number of lightly armed mercenaries to assist in the defense.

The border armies of Marash and Samosata successively took advantage of the land route of Antioch to return to their respective defense areas with booty and rewards.

Anderodat was taken to the imperial capital by the Gimaggis, the Ferro Melloon Brigade, and the soldiers of the Civilian Army from several counties, and at Gawain's behest the Deutschland's poor army was enlarged into the "Alemanni Brigade", while the previously surrendered Norwegian soldiers were renamed the "Midgard Brigade", and their sacred fields were concentrated in the newly occupied areas of Cyprus and Tripoli. Midgard means "boundary wall", and in ancient Viking legend, this wall and mountains lie across the frozen wasteland, shielding humanity from the fierce giants in the bitter mist.

Ships with sails hoisted from the ports of Tyre and Sidon to the far west, and the first division of Andodat to attack the island of Cyprus was only a few improvised groups of civilian troops, and now he returned with him a full four brigades.

Now there are twelve main field brigades in Gawain's hands.

In addition to the veteran brigades of the Red Hand, the Guardian, and the Guimegis three-wing, there were also Philomeron and Hierapolis (these two were the emperor's troops incorporated after the Battle of Philomeron), and Bellerophon and Yefanduni (one was the old division of Diognis and the other was the surrender of Marash Armenia), as well as the two brigades of Optimkin and Nika (the old division of Brenus was split), and the "Bulgarian brigade" was formed with the old Plonian landlords of Thrace as the core in the city of Vize, Together with the two new brigades of Alemanni and Midgard in the east, Anderodart, it was exactly the number of twelve.

Two months later, Anderodat's four brigades entered the imperial capital, and the entire capital was boiling!

By this time a third of the renovation of the imperial capital had been completed, and both the empress and the empress showed great restraint in demanding that the craftsmen give priority to the old palaces, churches, and monasteries as the cornerstones, and build large markets, large barns, and various official residences, while their families still lived in the Gallipoli palace. But now Gawain has announced the construction of a magnificent triumphal arch between the Strasse de Metz and the Hippodrome, "in the name of Ander Odart, whose wife will be promoted to the rank of the third rank of the inner palace, and will be able to wear a purple robe and enter and leave the palace freely." ā€

Representatives of the Blue and Red parties, as well as the celebratory populace of the capital, stood on both sides of the streets, shouting and cheering for the great exploits of the soldiers in Tripoli and Cyprus, and the sacred tradition of imperial unity was revived in the hearts of all strata.

On the square of Constantine, Gawain and Anna, who personally awarded the medals to the generals, also announced:

"Thereafter, for the sake of the pleasure of the capital and the people of the empire as a whole, I will permit the cities and towns of the country to host six tournaments, namely, Roman horse races, Cyris, Delhi cricket, Baghdad pollo, Seljuk archery, and Cretan bullfighting, and the Imperial Capital will host the grand finals of these six events."