Two hundred and thirty-two Jews
A white hat with a patterned trimmed shawl, two strands of curly black hair hanging down from his ears, brown deep eyes and a high nose, a black beard, his eyes always drooping respectfully, and two overlapping triangles and an inverted triangle were sewn with yellow thread on his chest, and the overlapping triangles together were the Star of David.
"Jews?" Arold exclaimed in surprise, he didn't expect to see the Israelites here, and Duke Abel looked at Arold's reaction and felt strange.
"These are the people of Heblai, Arrod, my friend, do you know them?" Duke Abel asked, this group of Heblites came from the south, they liked to do business, it was said to be an ancient people, and their representatives came to the court of Duke Abel and often dealt with some commercial and transportation matters, and these Sibelays were very rich and intelligent, but it was a pity that they always kept their religion alone, and Duke Abel did not want to reuse it so as not to offend the church.
"Oh, it turned out to be a Hebler." Arrod nodded.
"Your Excellency the Duke, Your Excellency the Earl." The representative of the Jews walked in front of Duke Abel and Arold, he quickly knelt down in front of the two great nobles, although Christianity was born out of Judaism, but because the Son Jesus was said to have been betrayed by the Jews and crucified, so Catholicism is very unkind to the Jews, and what is worse is that the Jews are smart and good at business, and they have no protection of their own country, so they can only live in the lands of various kingdoms, which is like a young child walking among robbers with gold. He was persecuted from time to time.
"Soros, you've always wanted to build a community for your people in Mason Common, and now here's your chance." Duke Abel did not let Soros stand up at all, but sat in his seat and said to Soros.
"Oh, did the honorable Duke really agree? My people and I will be grateful for the mercy of the Duke for the rest of our lives. "The most important thing that the adrift Jews want is to have a foothold, and Soros is one of many Jewish communities, and if the promise of community building is not given in the Duchy of Mason, it will be like duckweed.
"That's right, but there's one thing you need to do for me, and if you can do it, you'll get permission to build your own community." Duke Abel smiled slightly. Let Soros stand up. But even if he stood up, Soros only dared to bend down and stand aside.
"Willing to serve the Duke." Soros hurriedly replied to Duke Able.
"Together with the Count of Mecklenburg, I am going to attack the Danish territory, but we are not able to mobilize food and grass for our army, and we need you and your people to help us." Duke Abel said to Soros.
"Oh." Soros raised his eyes to look at Arrod, who was also looking at the Jew in front of him. The Jew in front of him had nothing but his hair hanging down. The robes on them were traditional Jewish dresses. The same Germanic personality is incompatible.
"We have an army of 5,000 men, you can mobilize military rations to the port of Mecklenburg, and I will have people build large warehouses in the port of Mecklenburg to store grain." Arold said to Soros. He knew that if it were someone else, it might not have this ability, but if it was a Jew, it would definitely have this ability.
"Well, five thousand?" Soros lowered his eyes and thought about it, and silently calculated the manpower and material resources that needed to be dispatched in his heart, but after half a sound, there was no sound, and Duke Abel became a little impatient.
"Whether it will work or not, I will answer the Earl." Duke Abel said impatiently.
"It's okay, Soros must be planning it." Arrod touched his chin, and slightly praised Soros in his heart for his calm and calm speech without planning clearly, so he said gently.
"Lord Earl, I have already planned, the southern provinces have recently had a bumper grain harvest, and there should be surplus grain that can be purchased and mobilized, but the price is ~~~." Soros whispered to Duke Abel and Arold that in this day and age there is nothing more precious than grain, and no one will sell grain unless it is a grain merchant in Tongguò.
"Buy the grain first." Duke Ebel's brows furrowed, and he said in an aggravated tone, in his opinion, the lowly Siberians still dare to bargain with him, I really don't know how high the sky is, many lords and dukes are very wary of these Jews who always stay together to maintain their own unique culture, and they are afraid that they will engage in some kind of conspiracy together to threaten their rule, which is much more realistic than religion, so in Duke Ebel's opinion, it is already a great favor that he can take them in.
"Yes, Lord Duke." Seeing that Duke Abel was a little angry, Soros shrunk his neck and said resignedly, it seems that the taste of being under the fence is really uncomfortable, he only has Duke Abel to let him and his people pay this huge amount of money by themselves, but looking back, it is a good thing to think that it is a land that can be bought with money to settle down and avoid wandering around.
"Wow~~~~." At this moment, there was a commotion from the arena, and it seemed that another wonderful game had begun, because the army of the Duchy of Mason was stationed outside the castle, so many Mason knights would also join the game, making the game in the arena colorful, hearing the commotion, Duke Abel couldn't sit still, he craned his neck and looked out.
"The Duke asked me to take Soros to Brother Elvet to discuss how to gather food and grass." Seeing that the Duke of Abel had no intention of talking about it, Arold said to the Duke of Abel.
"Well, I'll leave this matter to you, my friend." Duke Abel was attracted by the fight between the two knights on their horses in the arena, and waved his hand without looking back.
"Then I took my leave." Arold took Soros out of the arena and walked towards his castle, along the way many people looked at Soros's strange dress and laughed, they had never seen this kind of robe from the Middle East, it looked like a woman, but Arold didn't care, it was strange that the people of the Celestial Empire seemed to be very friendly to the Jews, it seems that there was a group of Jews who wandered to the Song Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty also allowed them to live in Kaifeng Mansion, so that they could maintain their religious beliefs and life characteristics, In the end, the Jews, who had never integrated with any ethnic group, were integrated into the Han people, and their descendants did not recognize the characteristics of the original Jews at all, which made the later Israelites very strange.
Along the way, Soros looked curiously at Arold who was walking in front of him, he already knew that Arold was the ruler of this land during this period of time, it is said that the land here was taken by Arold from the hands of the Slavs, but he looked very young, the Frankish nobles were usually very arrogant and hated Jews, thinking they were weird and dirty, so they rarely treated them kindly, but just now, the Count of Mecklenburg, who was valued by Duke Mason, spoke for him unexpectedly, This made Soros keenly aware that the earl actually had a good impression of them Siberians.
"Come on, Soros." When Arold walked into the main tower of the castle with Thoros, dressed in national costume, he walked up the stone steps and beckoned to Soros, letting the Jew follow him, not to Brother Elvet's room, but to Arrod's own room.
"The Earl." When Arold walked to the door of his room, the two maids who were guarding the door hurriedly curtsied to Arold and reported to Princess Josie in the room.
"Arold." When the door opened, Princess Josie, dressed in new clothes, saw Arold walk in, and said with a shy face.
"Your Highness Princess, my wife." A smile appeared on Arrod's face, and he stepped forward to take Princess Josie's small hand, put his arm around the princess's thin waist, and kissed the princess's lips.
"Ah, Lord Count." I didn't expect Arold to suddenly kiss herself in front of everyone, and I couldn't help but feel a little shy, which made Arold laugh, and a warm sense of happiness came to my heart.
"How? Is it still a habit to stay in Mecklenburg. Arro took Princess Josie's hand and asked intimately.
"My lord, I am already the mistress of this castle, and what is there not to be used to staying in my own home." Princess Josie winked playfully and said to Arrod.
"That's good." Arold nodded in satisfaction, he turned around and pointed behind him, and stood behind Soros awkwardly, "This is the messenger of the Heblites, Soros." ”
"Soros see Her Royal Highness the Princess." Soros hurriedly saluted Princess Josie, looking at Soros in front of her, who was dressed differently from the Germans, Princess Josie looked up and down, and then looked at Arold in front of her, and didn't understand why she called a Heblay to her.
"You're a Hebler, aren't you?" Princess Josie looked at Soros curiously and asked him.
"Yes, my people are Siblai." Soros nodded in reply.
"Soros and his people will help us mobilize military rations, he and his people are a very wise and intelligent people." Arold said to Princess Josie with a smile.
"Oh, the Count is surprised to praise a man and his people like that." Princess Josie knew that Arold himself had the title of wisdom, and it was not easy for a person with the title of wisdom to be able to praise others.
"Earl, Earl." Hearing Arold praise like this, Soros was shocked on the spot, this was the first time that a Frankish nobleman praised him and his people, and tears overflowed in the corners of his eyes in shock. (To be continued......)