Chapter 78: The Earl's Diary
PS. Present today's update, by the way, pull a vote for the "starting point" 515 fan festival, everyone has 8 votes, and the vote will also give the starting point coin, kneel and beg everyone to support and appreciate!
Count Ryanstein had a good habit of taking notes, a habit that was rare among his contemporaries, but it didn't matter, because Count Ryanstein was an outlier in their eyes: he clamed for a better life for the serfs, and for their servitude, and he did not go to the local churches and monasteries, nor did he occupy moats and ponds, and the serfs in his domain often swaggered out into the waters of his dilapidated castle to fish and catch frogs, But the lord could not find a piece of lard or butter on his own table, and in order to improve the mode of production, he borrowed money everywhere, and finally the castle and the land were taken away by the creditors, and the serfs did not sympathize with him at all and scattered in a hurry.
His wife rolled up the dowry and remarried, and Ryan Stein rushed to chase him, only to be beaten by his wife's relatives on the way, and almost taken to a convent almshouse, where he was in the company of lepers, who lived next to the madmen.
The bishop of the local diocese sighed, and then asked people to hang a bell for lepers for him, and rang wherever he went, even if it was a well-known local villain, he would avoid it when he heard this bell, which was also a "special way" to protect the down-and-out lord - otherwise the bishop was worried that if Ryan Stein walked on the road one day and shouted some absurd slogans, he would be killed on the spot by other lords or knights, which was not good.
So, before embarking on the Crusade, poor Ryanstein had to take shelter in a forage field on the edge of the fort. After the spring thunder of the Eastern Crusade sounded, this lord was wrapped in a blanket. Riding a long-haired horse, he continued to wear a leper's bell around his neck. "Duangduang" along the valley of the Rhineland, all the way to Bohemia, Hungary, all the way shouting to go to the Holy Land to see the true sacredness and righteousness, the common people along the way to see that even such a figure is going to win salvation, their hearts are very moved, and they also joined his team, and Ryanstein preached everywhere that "salvation is not only for individuals, but for everyone, including you serfs." get a better life", and in the end, there were as many as 40,000 people gathered around him.
So, why did Earl Ryan Stein take notes? Because he now has to write down the journey to the Holy Land and what he saw and felt, so that he can refer to and revise his ideals at any time, and can leave to future generations a glorious and elegant work of the "great Christian pilgrimage age", so that he will have no regrets when he goes to heaven to face God in the future.
When he accompanied the fiancée Prince Sven and Florena, he was escorted by the army of the priesthood of Gawain. After arriving in the Mutt Valley, the diary reads:
You can see the purple princess of the Roman (Greek) Empire, very beautiful (how beautiful, the count suffers from lack of vocabulary. indescribable, the same below);
The princess in purple is very smart and very hospitable. Very elegant, but a little arrogant in attitude;
Me and the Prince of Denmark. Attend the Grand Duke and Princess Reception Banquet, topped with fine food and game. A lot;
Along the way, many hanged people were seen, and the peasants were ploughing beside the corpses of these demonstrators;
The crops are growing well;
It was useful to learn some Greek words, such as "hungry", "delicious", "sleep", and "is there a woman";
Today I talk to the legendary Pauline women, many of whom are very beautiful;
(adding), and asked the two of them, who had the most ruddy faces and slightly brown skin, who had just learned Greek, and were beaten;
The city of Seleucia was very large, and I was very happy to see the great hospital and college that had been built;
In the post house in the city, the princess in purple sent a maid to teach me to play backgammon. ", it is said to be something from hundreds of years ago, the rules are not quite the same, but it is fun;
Zeno is a lot of fun;
I can't play Zeno anymore today, because the princess in purple has sent an encyclopedia dictionary, I want to read and study, and give the manuscript of my diary to the princess in purple, so that she can revise and polish it on her behalf, and the princess is very interested;
(to add to the day), the three beautiful maids came again, and they played Zeno again;
(the next day), Zeno was a lot of fun;
(Day Again), Zeno is fun, so fun;
No, you must study the dictionary today;
(and again day), played Zeno again, this time the handmaidens let go, whoever wins can play pranks on each other, it is said that they learned from the Grand Duke and the princess, it is fun, it is simply funny!
The princess returned the manuscript of the diary, and asked the maid to write to me, saying that my writing was impeccable, and that she needed no more polishing for me, and was so happy that she played Zeno with the maids for another day
(Supplement), I went to the banquet in the Acropolis Palace, and I was very happy, but during the banquet, the Grand Duke said that he was going to attack a city, and I forgot what it was called, anyway, not far from the west side of Seleucia, sandwiched between the seashore and the hills, Prince Sven also vowed to participate in order to repay the Grand Duke's life-saving kindness - it is said that in the dungeon under the palace, the Princess in Purple imprisoned many people, most of whom were women, interesting and interested
The Count's elegantly and delicately written diary was recorded here for the time being, and it may have been some time before it became immortal, for then he suffered the same fate as the Danish prince: he was hired by Gawain as a "senior advisor", was presented with fifty Byzantian gold coins, changed horses, and carried the manuscript of the diary, and after the mighty Red Hand Brigade, he drove into the wilderness on three sides under the Alalmanburg Mountain, and began to besiege the fortress with great speed.
The Count's remaining 30,000 plebeian pilgrims, when they saw the prosperity and tranquility of the valley of the Mutt, and many of the Germans greeted them warmly, telling them to stay and build the Little Kingdom of Heaven, the proportion of those who joined the military government was very high: about 24,000 men, even if they signed a "contract for the cultivation of the holy estates".
But this did not concern Reinstein for the time being, and at this moment he looked at Gawain's army: twelve galleys half-sold and half-sent by the Italian city-states, and many light self-built warships, from the military port of Seleucia, bumped out of the waves, blocking the entrance to the sea at Alalmanburg; Then, the well-trained soldiers and servants of the brigade began to dig trenches, cordon off the castle, and set up barracks tents behind the trenches, as if they were being directed by the same brain.
Behind this army, and the coming war, the work and trade of Seleucia and Western Cilicia continued as usual, as the six simple offices commissioned by Gawain, including the two groups of urban and rural self-government, were in operation.
Then, when everyone surrounded the Grand Duke's tent, a gray-haired girl who looked no less intelligent than the princess in purple came to the siege equipment field where the craftsmen gathered, dressed in elegant robes and holding a box containing drawings.
[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )