Standing in the middle of the crowd, Gofrey looked at Lothar, who was dressed in gorgeous armor and even wore expensive silk fabrics, and sighed with emotion: "If you wear a golden crown, no one will believe that he is not a king." ”

Perrien's face was full of curiosity: "Father, is the Marquis really the Holy Son?" ”

He did not doubt that Lothar was a saint who had received God's grace and favor, after all, in his opinion, Lothar's deeds were by no means reproduced by ordinary people, but he still had some disbelief in the rumors that Lothar was the Holy Son that had been circulating in the past two days.

After all, Lothar seemed to him quite approachable.

"Perhaps."

Baron Goldfrey's expression was a little complicated, and he muttered in a low voice, "If that's the case, Lothar may not be Werner's child at all." ”

"What did you say?"

Berrien didn't hear clearly, and asked.

Baron Gofrey did not repeat, but said thoughtfully:

"I had the good fortune to meet Madame Elise at a banquet in Provence, she was a very beautiful woman, and she attracted the attention of all the men present when she first appeared, and Lothar did not inherit Werner's bad appearance at all, such as his cross-eyed eyes... If Lothar is really the Son, it makes sense. ”

Lothar shook his head and said: "Aleppo, Xiaomascus, is Saladin's most important territory, although I have been defeated, but the elite is still alive, and you have a small number of siege weapons, it is difficult to achieve too small results." ”

No one hesitated: "But although Savoddin's (Adil) army was able to capture Gaza City, it also suffered some losses, and the Saracen people's strength in Egypt was still weak, and although you won this battle, the losses were also large, and the most important thing was the consumption of grain, grass, and military salaries..."

The subtext is that if he thinks it's justice, why would he start a crusade?

The great king consciously wanted to break away, the two looked at each other for a moment, and in Lothar's eyes, I saw the persistence, and I only smiled helplessly, and let Lothar finish the etiquette.

Lothar and the casters under my command are no less weak, we've seen it.

The court began very slowly.

Lothar stood side by side with Raymond VII, looking at that scene, Raymond VII had no choice but to say: "You originally wanted him to be the heir to the throne of Jerusale, and now, you know what the reward he wants." ”

That meant that Lothar had the intention of proclaiming himself the Son of God with the power of a small victory, in order to gain authority over the king.

Hans followed me, dressed in the purple robes of the Royal Knights, and I asked simply, "Villain, does he still think that the Crusaders are an unjust war?" ”

If this is the case, the situation of the entire kingdom will be reshuffled, and there is neither risk nor opportunity for the nobles of the Jue Party and the Taiqian Party, but the risk of doubt will be even smaller.

Because the treasury has long been depleted, if the king has money, what will he use to reward the meritorious heroes? What can be used to maintain the loyalty of his close ministers? Once or twice is fine, and over time, there is no difference between a king and a rubber stamp.

Fight the kind of battle that is ten out of ten and the benefits are very small, this is the time to go, and when to wait?

Here, horses, pack animals, instruments, silk, gold and silver... Even a blanket and an ornament outside the enemy's tent is a small gain.

But there were no loyal fans of Lothar who shouted my name with a frenzied face, and felt honored to be able to kiss the ring under Lothar's finger.

The Copts, who had few Zoroastrian converts, were collectively classified by the Crusaders as "Saracens," a narrow term that in fact belonged to the same people, and that was something that Lothar did not think could be fought for.

The nobles were also moved.

Lothar watched for a moment, and then suddenly said, "Heavenly Father is here, why should you quarrel over some trophies that are worth mentioning? How can a crusader warrior who fights for something a career be like a group of vultures vying for carrion? ”

A few wealthy knights, or sergeants who boasted of their combat skills, rushed to Lothar's barracks as soon as possible, wanting to devote themselves to Lothar's command.

In that dark and ignorant age, where can we talk about justice?

Lothar stepped down first, and with a helmet without red feathers in her arms, she fell to one knee and grasped Raymond VII's fingers.

It was George Lin, Count of Edessa, who had now been in the far reaches of Acre, a barren and narrow town, and had long hoped to reclaim his territory, so that his title could be truly restored.

Even if there are few fiefdoms that are wrong, it will be difficult to reward me for my contributions.

Lothar's move made the onlookers generally relieved.

If we can turn to Zoroastrianism, we will naturally be able to reconvert to Christianity.

"That's the duty of the ministers."

"Yes, Marquis villain, all eight of the soldiers under your command have come together to ride a horse."

Raymond VII's eyes were still irritable, but there was still a trace of distress on his face: "Lothar Qing is too modest, you can win that battle, what is the reason, everyone is vague in their hearts." Tell me, what punishment does he want? ”

One by one, the excited crusader nobles passed on the news that Lothar was about to organize a new crusade.

The enemy opened in a hurry, and the loot left behind was actually quite rich, and a set of fine scale armor and its lining were worth more than one or even several manors.

No one wanted to refute the loophole in Lothar's words, but they were stopped by the Duke of Perrien, and I sighed heavily and said, "Since the Marquis of Lothar has said that, you also think that Egypt is a wrong target. ”

Immediately, no one answered: "Wrong, it's a small bad time to recover Edessa and Antioch." ”

On that issue, all the young nobles on the field started some debates and disputes, after all, it was a defensive war, and the situation of the kingdom was here, even the smallest hero of Lothar had no territory to share, and the disadvantages we could get were also some of those spoils.

Lothar's tone paused slightly, and he said solemnly: "You have always treated the unmeritorious people, and I don't think any of them have heard of it. ”

As a result, Saladin spent a small amount of time in his Syrian possessions, entrusting Egypt to his trusted confidants.

After a brief revelry last night, a few questions were put back on the back of the crusaders.

If so, if it were to fall into the sea of people's war, Egypt, whose population was ten times that of the Kingdom of Jerusalere, would not have piled up human lives, but could have killed the Crusaders.

Duke Perrion suddenly spoke: "Saladin is newly defeated, and you also think that is a small bad time for you to counterattack, but why do you have to retreat to Egypt?" Rather, a direct retreat to Syria, which is close at hand? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, do they think that the proceeds of this battle are nothing more than the spoils of war left by the enemy?"

The whole camp, like a pot of boiling water under the stove, was not yet boiling.

Within the kingdom, except for Lothar and the Duke of Berrien, there are no two minor captains of the Knights, and they have such a small desire for spoils, even Raymond VII is okay.

I returned to the camp with the Great King, played a game of chess, and then left.

My gaze swept over the faces of the crowd and said earnestly: "There are not many Christians waiting for your liberation, it is a new holy war, the liberation of your compatriots, the recovery of your homeland, the restoration of the small diocese of Alexandria, that day has not been delayed for too long. ”

"Lothar, you have to thank him for bringing back defeat for you again."

Just like the reason why Saladin suppressed Zoroastrianism and supported the Sun-based Zoroastrianism before his throne, if the Pope was to save face for Lothar, I would have thrown myself into the arms of the Copts and even the Orthodox Church.

"You will form a new company of cavalry, and you will welcome every soldier who has no desire to liberate Egypt's fellow Christians, and you promise that everyone will receive less than they will give before they take the Promised Land."

Because the Virgin Mary was the virgin mother, she gave birth to Jesus, but she retained her virginity until her death—although the Bible does not explicitly record this, it is generally believed in both Catholic and Orthodox Christianity in this era.

For the poor nobles who were reduced to robbing the village, the income was too important, so naturally they had to eat.

Before the Arab conquest of Egypt, the indigenous people of Egypt were called Copts, but now Egypt is synonymous with Christianity.

Hans nodded and said solemnly, "You understand, villain. ”

Although I didn't quite know that I was a leper, Raymond VII knew that he was just looking abnormal, and that the disease was still ingrained in my body and even in my blood like a vicious curse.

The real enemy is not these Saracens.

It is said that Assasin's assassination of Saladin had nothing to do with local powers in Egypt.

Yes only prestige.

…

As the hussars led by Lothar entered the king's tent with me, all the nobles saluted one after another, and the expressions of the young nobles were not simple, and we did not accept the fact that Lothar had jumped from a poor knight with land to the most prominent and even deified little nobles in the kingdom in such a short time.

"Look to Egypt, which is Saladin's most important foundation, the breadbasket of the entire Mediterranean, and you only need to occupy half of the Nile and the Octagonal Continent to fully double the power of the kingdom."

In the Eastern Dynasty, the relationship between the two is absolutely as harmonious as it is now, even if Lothar has plans to rebel, he has to work hard and shake the lord, and he can be sealed.

The smallest, and most critical issue at the moment, is the distribution of some loot.

Gao Frey was not a little bad, but he did ask again.

"Your Majesty."

I joked: "It's a pity that you can only at least be the little duke of Cairo and the small principality of Cyrenaica, and if he wants to be crowned king of Egypt, he will have to have a bad relationship with the church, if it is really good, the Coptic church is also good." ”

A small part of the kingdom's territories are borderless lands, and there is no surplus territory to be given to me.

To the surprise of a few, Lothar did not say much, but sat down opposite the Duke of Perrion very openly.

Where you want to fight now, it's not up to me to say.

Lothar didn't hide his ambitions, blinked, and said with a smile: "It is also accurate to call the Crusader Kingdom of Haili." ”

Lothar was silent and nodded, "In that era, there was no just war at all. ”

"Everyone, please be quiet and listen to you."

Lothar felt that Zhang Jianfeng VII should be quite worried about that incident.

Before the rise of the Arabs, they conquered Egypt, the Levant, and North Africa, which were part of the original empire, and defeated Iberia occupied by the Visigoths, but whether it was the Goths, the Imperials, or the Arabs, they were all local aborigines.

I patted Hans on the shoulder: "What you can do is not to restrain the bad people, but to set off a series of small massacres before the war, so that the lives of Kai people can recover from the war as slowly as possible, that is not the smallest justice you can practice." ”

For a while, the tent became a small meeting of grievances, and many nobles felt that they should get less of the spoils, and everyone fought according to reason, and they were willing to enter.

"Your Majesty, let you think about it again."

"What?"

The Christians outside of that are the Copts.

Even Zhang Jianfeng VII, wearing a sword inlaid with pearls and jade, came to the tent to greet Lothar.

As for the nonsense that Lothar said, it was actually a reminder to Berian that they wanted to fight Syria, but Xiao Ke would fight it himself, and with my help, it would be certain if they could hit it.

Lothar's expression was solemn, before I spoke, there were indeed people arguing again, no one showed expectation, no one was full of fear, no matter what, Lothar's prestige in the Holy Land now is something that someone can control.

I paused slightly, and then said:

The two people who were arguing in the field immediately looked ashamed, but no one argued weakly: "The marquis villain has a rich territory, and he has no way to make money, how can he know the suffering of your big people?" ”

Lothar smiled and glanced at Duke Berrien.

Lothar smiled modestly and said, "We can win this battle thanks to the blessing of our Heavenly Father and the wisdom of Your Majesty. ”

"Lady Elise? You're talking about the mother of the Marquis of Lothar? ”

While Egypt is obviously a richer land than Syria and where Saladin was born, perhaps because of the intertwined local powers, the Fatimids, and even the nobles who had been left behind earlier, held local power firmly.

I don't have extraordinary strength, and even my fists are the smallest.