Chapter 23: Open the Net

The entire court of the Romani was thrown into disarray, and the Bey, who were already unaware of or angry about the incident, began to gather out of the city, returned to their respective fiefdoms of Ikta, gathered cavalry and slaves, and began to fight in Konya, Ankara, and other places with factions loyal to the Grand Vizier or Danishmund. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Then, after a slight recovery after the defeat at the cliff, Merrick immediately sent his generals with 4,000 soldiers to "capture" Ankara and Konya castles separately - the Grand Emir Merrick behaved very impatiently.

On the other hand, Gawain was very calm: he left the Red Hand Brigade to build the "Fortress of Milio Sepharon", and after quickly issuing some instructions or diplomatic documents in the camp, he returned to Seleucia with his guards.

At the turn of spring and summer, on the verdant slopes of the Mutt Valley, Kabeamia dressed in light clothing, rode on a variegated mare, crossed the canal, and then strolled up a hill, looking back at the departing Gawain, and the mighty soldiers of the Gimagis Brigade, surrounded by wheat fields and fruit groves along the mountain, the Sallev River meandered through, and the "rebel tree" that used to hang the corpse of Jinat was now sprouting and lush again, intermingling the symbols of death and rebirth, and the sun slowly sprinkled down with it, Shining on the backs of the people who toiled in the hills and fields—her chest felt filled with sorrow, but what right could she be to grieve? In the wilderness of Miriosephalon, the smoke and dust mixed with the smell of gunfire had just drifted down the south wind to the Yukexing Sea, and the thousands of believers who had been expelled by the emperor still needed to be resettled.

"The princess must be happy, and I, the Archess of the True Believers, should be happy. Marriage is a completely different concept for her and me. Kabeamia, with her Persian-style braids, said with some resentment and envy, but she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Under Seleucia, the Gimagis brigade was temporarily stationed, and Gregor and Pragitte waited for the two detachments that had arrived from Alalmanburg to rendezvous: a mixed fleet of Amalfi and Venetian bound for Port San Simon of Antioch, which would carry them there, as a backup and Gawain's representative, for the "Reconquest of the Holy City".

Gawain himself arrived at the empty old palace of the Seleucian Acropolis, where Anna and the furniture, scaffolds, cat house, beds, incense burners, and carpets of his dormitory had been rolled up and sent to the new capital of Tarsus.

On the terrace, Gawain saw tiny artisans like ants, sitting on four-legged stools or one-legged stools, the feet of which were well wedged into the gaps in the paving, upside down to prepare and expand the Seleucian street leading to Tarsus—the material was paved with stone and asphalt, and was twice as wide as before, making it easier for caravans, armies, and the personnel of the Six Divisions to pass through the caravans, the army, and the personnel of the Six Divisions—and when it was soon completed, there were two main roads in Tarsus facing east, the one leading to the cities of Sith and Adana, and one to the west of Seleucia, The way to Alalmanburg. Among the visible plans, there are four or five secondary streets, connecting the valley of the Mut, the Cilician Gate, the castle of Karon, the fort of Vanka Hill and the fort of Koleadio, the main road is paved in layers with a mixture of lime, gravel, slate and cobblestones, and the embankment is raised to protect against the erosion of the coastal silt, and the drainage canals are not dug too deep, because it is not necessary in Cilicia, where the rainfall is not great, and the whole road is very straight. It is especially in line with the characteristics of the Seleucia to Cilicia as a mostly plain area. As for the secondary roads, they are ten to twelve feet wide, about half the width of the main roads, and are conveniently paved with a small amount of gravel.

Gawain looked to both sides, and on the hills and seashores, groups of windmills, either tower or sail, had appeared, which had been carefully maintained by the Zixinhui and the Shengfeng peasants in two milling processes, and performed very well, saving the peasants a lot of money and bringing a lot of income to the treasury. But now there are some unhealthy tendencies in Seleucia: some of the peasants who already own private land have begun to expose their cunning side, and when they use the cattle, horses, and farming tools of the Sacred Farm, they take the opportunity to secretly bring these things to their own fields for private use, causing great waste and damage to public assets; There were also profiteers in the Akum Bazaar, and they were still very bold, and they actually sold candles with large cores and little wax directly to Gawain's scarlet tent.

Therefore, the establishment of market inspectors and farm inspectors to cooperate with the riders of the people's army has become a top priority.

This was what Gawain had been planning when he conquered the kingdom of Ruben in Lesser Armenia, and he immediately signed a new order: eight market inspectors in each of the four fixed bazaars, thirty men in the al-Armanburg office, two inspectors in each farm, the independence of the militia cavalry from the militia organization, about two hundred men and three hundred horses, and the self-defense riders of the chamber of commerce (fifty men) were all incorporated (but the expenses were still borne by the chamber of commerce) - these people, the premises, the horses, Unified under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Affairs Department, separated from various places, responsible for the postal, secret, supervision, detective, and law and order work, that is, the "police organization" between the army and the reform association that Gawain hoped.

When Muzafiadin and Dim guided the guards of the scarlet tent, they were engaged in all kinds of occupations, carpenters, lacquerers, gardeners, falconers, hunters, etc., but they were not the best in the trade—Gawain did not like to hire the best, he was too lazy to serve the craftsmen who were more arrogant than his master, and he did not want to let himself and Anna fall into luxury, and at the same time preferred to enjoy the pleasures of guidance and conversation, and when the group of guards entered, they temporarily placed themselves in the wardrobe, the writing table, the marching couch, the eagle stand, and some elegant flowers--Hetomia, The two Imperial Ink Officers of Little Sunfish went to Tarsus with most of the members of the Sixth Division, and Gawain had to write it himself.

An hour later, next to him, Muzafiadin was kneeling at the writing desk with a candle, and Gawain had just written the instructions for the establishment of the "Postal Riders". He picked up the order he had previously shown Hajib about the execution of Reuben's son Torus and his three daughters.

After thinking for a while, Gawain supported his forehead, opened the letter with a paper cutter, took out the paper roll and unfolded it, calmed it with a small ivory statue of the Virgin, picked up the reed pipe pen and crossed the original text a few times, and then simply rolled it up again, stretched it out to the candle held by the military servant, watched it burn into a black slag, and then changed the instructions on the sheet of paper again:

"The two elder sisters of Taurus may marry my Saint Cavalry Banner Officer and increase their lintels. a younger sister, who was put into the palace for the time being, accompanied by Reuben's wife, was not killed, but her freedom was restricted; As for Taurus, he continued to be imprisoned in the dungeon of Vanka City, where food and drink, especially wine, could be served first, and the Arnies loved it until they drank him to waste. Leave the matter to Branas as a sign of my mercy not to kill. (To be continued.) )