What's more, in addition to wine, Genaya's grain trade also made the merchants in southwestern France very passive, after all, they produced a lot of food, and Italy has not been a suitable place to grow food since ancient times, and the large area of mountains makes Italy very much in need of foreign food to fill the local gap, which is why the commercial civilization of the Italian Peninsula will be so developed, that is, because if no one transports grain from outside, it is impossible for Italians to thrive on this land and give birth to civilization. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And Italy's original traditional grain import areas are France and other parts of the empire, among which France is the largest trading country, which is also very simple and understandable, France is very close to Italy, and France, as a plain country, except for a few mountains on the border, a large number of territories are plains, which are very suitable for grain cultivation, and the places suitable for grain cultivation within the empire are either in the Prussian region or in the middle of the empire, and the transportation of grain to Italy from these places is of course not as fast as directly from France, so it is understandable that France became the main trading country for the import of grain from the various principalities of Italy.

Therefore, because of this grain trade, the French lords from the various city-states of Italy, The principality took back countless gold coins and valuable luxury goods in its pockets, and it can be said that in the trade, the Italians made a lot of money, but as the merchants of Genoa began to change their business routes and put the source of grain from France to the entire Mediterranean countries, many merchant ships set their sights on Egypt, which was more abundant in grain than France, and the cost of labor and shipping was nearly a quarter lower than that of French grain.

Since ancient times, Egypt is the most abundant place in the whole Mediterranean, skilled farming skills and the natural fertilizers brought by the great Nile, so that the Egyptians enjoy the most fertile land in the world, and the ancestors of the Egyptians did not abandon the virtue of industriousness, they spent a lot of time on studying how to produce more food, creating a great agricultural civilization, this move, naturally the entire Egyptian grain production expanded on a large scale, and the price of grain naturally fell, becoming much cheaper than that of France。

But Genaya did not open this channel at that time, one of the important reasons is that because of the problem of faith, Egypt at this time has become the world of Islan, he and Christianity are incompatible, and it is impossible to get food from their hands, and later after Andreas came to power, he did not believe in evil, he never felt that stupid religious problems would become an obstacle to trade between the two regions, so he sent a mission to Egypt for three consecutive years, and after being rejected twice, the sultan of Egypt was finally willing to meet their people。

It was said that he was now the king of the whole of Egypt, handsome, and burly, Chinese New Year's Eve years old, he was a vassal of the original Seljuk Sultan, and later usurped the throne successfully, and he shared the inheritance of the Seljuk Empire with his co-conspirators, and became the Sultan of Egypt, and was a very benevolent and righteous man.

Of course, adding the words mercy and justice in front of the rebels is really a bit of an eyesore, but Saladin is indeed a benevolent person, and he is also a person who attaches great importance to justice, which is not directly related to whether he rebels or not, he is a king, and he is also an excellent politician, and he should not be judged by ordinary people, at least in dealing with national issues, he is indeed very good, and it is through him that Genaya can finally import grain from Egypt smoothly, thereby reducing the dependence of the whole Italy on France, and also making the entire Italian principalityThe city-states were finally freed from the large annual cost of purchasing grain.

Of course, Genoya also obtained a large amount of income through this initiative, and based on the above two points, it is unreasonable for the French not to hate them, so under Jonas's judgment, he naturally feels that Genoya is more dangerous, as for another reason, Jonas did not say it explicitly, that is, even if Turin City is occupied, there is no loss for the Ruger family, and if Genaya is lost, it will be more harmful to the Luger family than Bierro and Ruger are lost, so to keep the control of Genaya, Jonas will value it so much。

Although Jonas didn't say it explicitly, Andreas was not a stupid person, so he naturally understood the meaning of Jonas's words, he nodded cautiously, and then promised Jonas: "Don't worry, I will always let the soldiers be careful about the movements of the French army on the border, with me, Genoya will not be lost from the hands of the Ruger family." ”

"Well, I'll leave the matter of Nagenaya to you, I'll go pack up now and prepare to go to Turin. Seeing that Andreas had made such a solemn promise to himself, Jonas was relieved, and as soon as he had gone out of the door, he went to his room to change his clothes for riding, and at once he gathered his army together and headed in the direction of Turin.

From Genoya to Turin, Jonas walked for about half a day, because he walked too fast, and even the letter to Turin was not delivered, Jonas had already arrived at the city of Turin, which made the defenders of Turin City a little flustered, although the number of Jonas's army was not much, but he was also an army, and it was really frightening to rashly appear under the city, which was really frightening, and the entire city wall suddenly caused a burst of noise, and many low-level officers shouted at their voices and shouted at the soldiers to stand up and be vigilant, Jonas saw that the people on the city wall were so flustered, and smiled in his heart, so that the knights around him raised the flag, and slowly marched towards the city of Turin.

After a short period of panic, the soldiers on the city wall finally calmed down, after all, Jonas did not bring many people, and there were six hundred soldiers in the city of Turin, the reason for the panic just now was completely because they were not prepared, and now as soon as they calmed down, they immediately lay on the battlements of the city wall, waiting for this unknown army to approach them, in addition, the officers hurriedly sent a soldier to the city to inform the knights, everything was in order.

Soon, Jonas's army arrived at the area that was about to enter the city's firing range, Jonas looked at the city wall was still in a state of alert, and his brows couldn't help frowning, this karst army has regressed too much in ten years, and he has been walking for ten minutes, just to give the defenders of Turin time, so that they can quickly notify the people in charge of the city to come up to the city wall to see, as long as it is a knight or a knight or something like that, they will definitely recognize the banner of the Ruger family he played, and they will definitely recognize him, but he didn't expect that he was walking so slowly, and the entire city was still on guard, which made Jonas indeed a little disappointed。

He thought to himself, if the army that defended Turin ten years ago was in its current state, perhaps Il would have taken the city of Turin by that time, and there would have been no need for any political marriage at all, and would the whole of Susa be more harmonious than it is now?

This is actually Jonas's fault for the defenders of Turin City, compared to ten years ago, their strength is not actually weakened, on the contrary, because of the existence of Genaya, the income of the karst treasury is even increasing year by year, and a war maniac like him, in addition to spending part of the money on women, the rest of the money is naturally used to form an army and strengthen training, so the current garrison is more advanced than ten years ago, the soldiers' physique is also stronger, and in terms of combat ability, there is definitely a great improvement, definitely not as Jonas thought, more and more weakened。

As for why, in Jonas's opinion, the defenders of Turin are not as good as ten years ago, in fact, it is mainly because Karst brought a large number of troops to the middle of the empire, those soldiers are elite, although the remaining ones are also very strong, but compared to the elite, the reaction is naturally sluggish, plus in recent years, the Duchy of Susa has been prosperous for eight years due to the unification of the Principality of Susa, as well as the reform of the economic system, and the economic prosperity has naturally brought unprecedented population growth, which is the law of nature, and Turin is not exempt from vulgarity, and the whole of Turin is compared to ten years agoAt this time, two districts have been added to the original foundation, and it has become a city with a population of 60,000.

Of course, it is not only Turin that the city is expanding, in addition to this city, the population of many cities is also growing rapidly, when it was just unified ten years ago, the population of the entire Duchy of Susa was about 1.1 million, which is not very large among all the principalities, but in the past ten years, with the baby boom and the mass purchase of slaves, as well as the influx of many untouchables into the city, the entire Duchy of Susa, according to the statistics of the administrative residence, has about more than three million people living in this 200,000 square kilometers of land.

This number is naturally nothing in modern times, a 100,000 square kilometers of Jiangsu has a population of more than 80 million, a 100,000 square kilometers of Zhejiang also has a population of 50 million, three million in front of them, naturally nothing is nothing, but this is in ancient times, there is no era of industrialization, in this context, the Principality of Susa can definitely be called a model of people's wealth and national wealth.

Such a large city naturally has a longer city wall, and this naturally also creates an obstacle to the flow of information, the distance between the two places, and then want to notice, naturally it will take more time, these two points combined, and Jonas will have a feeling that the soldiers are not as good as ten years ago.

Jonas was standing in the distance and sighing to himself, at the head of Turin City came a group of gentlemen who were obviously more elaborate than the officers, there were six people in total, they were the knights left by the karst in Turin City, two of them practiced to become knights by themselves, had their own estates, and looked richer, and the other four were knights who relied on the red pill to become a knight, and did not have their own fiefdom, and the monthly salary was paid directly by the karst, and they looked a lot poorer, and in the standing position, there were also two people who became knights through self-cultivation standing in the front, and four who became knights through the red pill stood in the back, all of which invisibly represented their status。

They stood at the head of the city and looked at the position of Jonas in the distance, and soon saw the unique family crest banner of the Ruger family, and then looked down, just in time to see Jonas also looking at them, the distance between the two groups was about a few hundred meters, but in an instant, they recognized each other, the two self-cultivated knights looked at each other, and then one of the knights named Kohler said: "Viscount Jonas, what is he doing in Turin?"

"I don't know, but since we're here, we should open the door for him. Another knight named Franz shook his head, saying that he was also confused, the two of them had always been well water and did not interfere with river water, and they did not often contact, except at the dinner party in Il, they would only meet once in a while, and there was no particularly deep friendship, and this time they came suddenly, which really caught the two housekeepers a little off guard.

At this time, Kohler and Franz did not know that Savoy had been occupied by Marshal Petain, the cultivation and placement of spies were not like knights, only through unremitting efforts, and Karst's intelligence network was wiped out in the war ten years ago, although Karst later began to rebuild its spy network, but the original person in charge was all dead, and it was very difficult to rebuild, even now, the construction of the intelligence network was only completed in his own territory, and outside the territory, it was much weaker than other nobles, so Kohler and Franz did not know about it, and it was understandable。

But after all, Jonas is not an enemy, Karst also once said that one more friend is always better than one enemy in the Duchy of Susa, so Franz opened his mouth to put forward his own ideas, Kohler on the side looked at the four knights standing behind, although these knights are lower than them, but compared to the soldiers, they are obviously still very high, Kohler must also respect them, seeing Kohler looking at them, three of them nodded, Kohler understood the meaning of a few people, and then said to the city guard beside him: "Open the city gate." ”

"Yes, General. Kohler stood at the head of the city, looked in the direction of Jonas, smiled, and then said to Franz and the remaining four knights beside him: "Let's go down too, I don't know what this viscount is doing here?" ”