"What? It is better for you to give up two rich fiefdoms and go with Conrad to the holy city for the Hajj. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After listening to the plea of the two, Tetisius patted the wooden fence in surprise and asked.

The guard stood aside, and he didn't know what to say. In the eyes of this group of Frankish barbarians, the restoration of the Holy Land is entirely based on their own courage, and there is no centralized leadership like the imperial government, and the advantages and disadvantages of the gains and losses are really not something that can be judged by the guards.

There, Tetisius wrinkled his flattened nose and smiled flatteringly and horrfully, "Why bother...... Sooner or later you will go to the Holy Sepulchre. So why turn a blind eye to the Emperor's gifts now? Then he politely pointed to Robert. Curtis's collar, "What a beautiful silk, remember the Counts of Normandy?" When you came to Thessaly, you didn't even have a well-fitting robe, who gave you food and clothing, Your Majesty, Your Highness. ”

"I also know, but our ambition on the road is to reach the Holy City. Now all the pilgrims are fighting there, but we are enjoying it in Anatolia, and I can't say anything about it. Stephen, Count of Blois, stopped his brother, who was in need of an expression, and replied preemptively, "As for the grace that the prince has given us, we have helped him to train a very strong cavalry army. ”

"But now that this cavalry of the new army has been placed here by His Majesty, they will not go back to Thessaly, and you must continue to repay His Royal Highness." Tetisius shot a terrifying light from his eyes, and after a few rounds, Stephen and Robert raised their backs and couldn't help but hold the hilt of their swords under their cloaks, knowing that this Greek general with Turkic blood was a character that they could not fail to watch out for compared to the simple and regular guards.

"But even if we don't leave, my fiefdom with Robert is far away from the prince's territory."

"It doesn't matter, you and the lancer detachment just remember that you have received the grace of the prince. In the future, if there is any change in the emperor, you must not hesitate to stand on the side of the prince, so in the future, not to mention the little Pveral and Germanico, it will not be difficult for your righteous brothers to control the whole of Antioch and Aleppo. Tetisius slowly raised his hand to show that he had no intention of using force to attack.

And Theognes over there also relaxed the hand holding the iron flail, and the mood of contradiction and wondering, and lightened a little nervousness in his heart.

But the words of the general below made him thunder, "Then your righteous brother suddenly made such a request, it was instigated by Tarsus's Gavin, right?" ”

Although Stephen and Robert initially denied it, in the end they also acquiesced - Gawain did send a secret letter, hoping that they would also break away from the Byzantine Empire, not to be mercenaries of the emperor and prince, and to go to the Holy City, he was willing to provide the passage of the Holy City, and promised in place of Godfrey and Bohemond that they would have a share of their fiefdom in the Holy City in the future.

After persuading these two to leave, Tetisius sighed, looked at the bloody sunset on the other side of the wooden fence, and pressed his hand on the shoulder of the guard, "To be honest, I was just speculating just now, but the truth is that this is really the case - Gawain instigated these two to break the siege network that the emperor had built against him. But there is nothing unpredictable about Diognis, now Gawain is not what it used to be, when he was still a small earl commander, he dared to rob the emperor's soldiers and horses, and cut off the empire's cities, so it is wishful thinking to expect him to sincerely assist the emperor. ”

"I didn't think of it that way."

"That's the best, what I just said was actually to you, the ship of the real revival of the empire in the future must also be in the hands of His Royal Highness, don't hesitate to go down to Diognes and become the chief warrior under His Royal Highness! In the future, we will face many, many enemies, and it will be worth the loss to mix with empty personal emotions here, and your arrows will not be able to hit the target because of their sluggishness. With that, Tetisius turned and prepared to leave.

"But, Anglas?"

Tetisius walked knee-deep in the long grass toward his tent and waved his hand with his back to Theognes, "Only dogs will turn back to eat the food they have chewed, and since Your Majesty has given it to His Highness Brenus, then we will obey, remembering that the prince is in Moria and Thessaly." ”

However, at this moment, one of the emperor's officials rode on horseback, escorted by several Pecheneg cavalry, and galloped to the camp under the Anglasburg.

"What, the Emperor painted the independence of Anglasburg as a 'border area', and let me be the Earl Commander and Catcher here?" When he heard the order of the Brachna Palace read out by the officials, Diognis was shocked.

"Yes, Anglas is equal to Lauriticia, Germanico and Peveral. Please be extremely conscientious during your tenure of office and do not fail to live up to the trust and trust of Your Majesty. With that, the officer in the round hat handed over the edict of appointment to the captor.

After the official left, Diognis was still stunned by the clear lines of words on the edict, but the words, paintings, and seals on it were all true......

"That's good, too, Diognes." Behind him, Tetisius smiled and sat down in his chair and said, "But wherever you go, don't forget your choice." The revival of the empire in the future depends entirely on the wise and wise Royal Highness. ”

Three days later, Tetisius returned to the west with the rest of the new army, and on horseback, the general with a blank face on his face, said to the confidential clerk beside him, "Draft letters, one privately to the Palace of Brachna and one to the city of Corinth, telling the recipient to stop playing in secret in the private garden, for the gatekeeper has noticed that the flowers he is tending to are broken." ”

And on the castle of Anglas, Diognis stood behind the stone towered battlements, looking at the great rivers and plateaus below, and he did not know when he suddenly became so important again: Gawain wanted to win him over, Tetisius wanted him to remain loyal to the prince, and His Majesty entrusted himself with this important frontier.

"Is it danger and war that is coming soon?" The guard's heart was full of anxiety and confusion.

A few days later, a procession of 40,000 pilgrims, Martilda, the youngest husband of Matilda, Duchess of Tuscany, and Ida, Countess of Austria, crossed the Lydian plain to the city of Fiam, where the Brenus received the third wave of pilgrims with great enthusiasm.

During the banquet, Dai Duo, who was sitting in the housewife's seat, dressed in precious purple clothes and smoked with elegant herbs, carefully observed the leader of this team:

Welf was young, but utterly lacking in energy, and he must have been suppressed and controlled too harshly by his older and more aggressive wife, and now almost misogyny, and drank with his head bowed;

Mrs. Ida, now in her forties, was still well-maintained and dignified, and beside her was her youngest daughter, Adelaide, a blonde girl of German-Hungarian blood, of lovely appearance and plump figure, about sixteen years of age, and her eyes were full of enthusiasm and activity, especially when she saw the handsome waitress.

"This Nizi must be thinking of a strong and handsome man, and she is full of desire to find a good man on the pilgrimage." Dai Duo put her hand on her chin and laughed. (To be continued.) )