Eagle Byzantium

Seeing Bohemond kicking the ball over, no one had a unified opinion. Guy and Clarey preferred to side with Constantinople. They felt that Huang Song's promise was a bit illusory, so they decided to follow Gawain and fight. Later, with your title of "Duke of Apulia", you returned to Italy. It is most cost-effective to own the key cities of Taranto and Antioch at the same time; Reynold and Richard's ideas are more radical. They say that even if Apulia is regained, it will still be a vassal of Constantinople. Now The arrival of the Emperor Song from the East is the time for us to take advantage of the situation to make peace with it and establish a great empire.

In the end, the two sides were at a stalemate, but everyone in the debate also said: This is just our personal opinion. Once you make a decision, we will follow it to the end without hesitation.

Bohemond finally set his sights on William Grandmenil.

He and the other party were once brothers-in-law and enemies, but since Grandmenil accompanied Hugh, the king of France, and was in danger in Anatolia - Grandmenil managed to escape, but Hugh unfortunately died. ——The two men reconciled, and Grandmenil now served as Grand Marshal of the Court of Antioch, fully responsible for the conquest.

Key figures always wait until they are important to speak. In the end, Grandmenil held a blood-red wine glass and said, "Following Gawain is just fulfilling the obligation of a vassal, but surrendering to the powerful Emperor Song is enough to reverse our destiny. Everyone When our ancestors set sail on adventures in various oceans, what did they have at that time? They only had opportunities and determination. Now we are decisive and put our bets on Huang Song. It is rare that they choose us as their agent. "

Bohemond held the wine cup tightly and put the fingers of his other hand on his beard, making a gesture of silence. Then, with red eyes like a gambler, he said, "Emperor Song also went to win over Aleppo." , Damascus, and promised that if it succeeds, Isfahan and Mosul will be given to the two Tutusi respectively, and we will get Cilicia, Syria, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Cyprus and even more territory."

"We also want Marache, Melitene and Caesarea!" Grandmenil was so passionate that he successfully aroused people's ambitions.

Only then did Bohemond smile happily and raise the wine cup, "I'm afraid a new pattern and order will come, but the blood of our adventurers will not change. When our ancestors came to Italy, they were only four years old. With a foundation of ten people, we are now much stronger than our ancestors who started from scratch, so go ahead and seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”

"Breaking in, breaking out!" All the Norman lords who were trusted to participate in the secret meeting also shook their fists, echoing the monarch's lofty ambitions.

They did not tell Estu about the decision discussed at this banquet, because the Turkic mercenary was only responsible for training the team. When the time comes, Bohemond will just ask Grandmenil to take over the army.

And everyone also did not inform Antioch Patriarch Maurice, who was a staunch supporter of Rome. If he knew that Bohemond was secretly colluding with the pagan empire, he would probably cause unnecessary trouble in advance. "When the time comes, Just imprison or deport this guy."

Jinghang left, the banquet was over, and the Principality of Antioch returned to its original peace, with small ripples and waves disappearing in an instant.

In addition, Gawain's envoy also reached an agreement with King Baldwin in Jerusalem: Baldwin was also willing to send 5,000 soldiers, with Joceland and Deem as commanders, to follow Gawain on the expedition or to ensure the safety of the army's flanks. Among them, Captain Dim Yin of the Holy Sepulchre Guard was very excited to fight side by side with his old master again.

In the hall, Patriarch Sambel expressed his opposition to the king's policy. He also encouraged the king to abandon his marriage to Gawain, but he was angrily scolded by Queen Gottschild who was sitting behind the curtain, "I didn't expect you to have so many I'm the one responsible for the crime In their hands, do you dare to make baseless accusations against such a beautiful and righteous marriage as Helena and Gervi? Is it true that, as St. Augustine said, many people are condemned in hypocritical repentance, and you are one of them, Patriarch? molecular!"

These words made Sambell speechless and ashamed to death. He could only shut up and retreat to his mansion, resenting the domineering king and queen and sighing at the decline of the patriarch's power.

Then Queen Gothichilde bravely encouraged her husband to go to the distant border of the Oxus River to fulfill the glorious obligations of a Christian king and a holy warrior. "As for the conflict between the Holy See and Gawain, it was only a conflict in the palace, far less than The salvation of believers is important.”

Baldwin then accepted Gawain's diplomatic gift of gold coins, and also promised that "the offensive against Egypt will be postponed, and after Joceland's expedition, I will personally sit in the Holy City to monitor the possible invasion of the pagans in Egypt."

Towards the end of the year, Constantinople's "Helmets Palace" was really erected on the Commemorative Pillar Square. Thousands of helmets and helmets of the enemy's dead were piled into a round pyramid shape, with soil mixed in the middle. and sand and dust, walking up and down the stairs in circles The top is covered with helmets of various colors. Although there are no dead bodies and skeletons in the traditional Beijing view, the scene full of black iron and bronze helmets can give people a more intimidating and oppressive feeling - making enemies and subjects alike. Dare not question the throne of the defiant emperor.

Even in the guard palace, you can see the peak of the "Helmet Jingguan". The guards, carrying bows and swords and wearing blue robes, stood in the closed courtyard, staring at the towering Jingguan in the clouds of the skylight with many falcons hovering above. They didn't know what to say. "According to the emperor, he will soon return from the Oxus River in triumph and build a bigger Jingguan like this one." A guard from the noble family of Mosia Boya led a horse and said to his colleagues, then he shrugged, "But this is more merciful than making cups with the enemy's skull, isn't it?"

"You should be glad that you didn't become one of them and surrendered to my father in time." At this time, a tall young man walked out of the doorman's room, holding a saddle and installed his mount.

"Kaleradios is worthy of being a prince. At this age, he is qualified to be your majesty's guard knight." Everyone half-jokingly started to make a noise.

Kaleadios, who inherited his mother's golden hair, laughed cheerfully, "You can envy them all!" After that, he mounted his horse wearing a narrow and slender Norman-style sword and a robe lined with armor, and hummed a few times before walking briskly out of the front yard of the Guard Palace, where many young people were coming and going, busy with official duties in the inner court or the army.

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And Kaleadios's responsibility was to escort his father to Mesenbria, where a new hall of the Reformed Church was built, and his father had to personally go there as the high priest to arrange the candidates for the hall's altar.