Eagle Byzantium

"What!" Hercules was very surprised. When did they plan this horrific and radical "magic"?

But then his father continued to brag to many nobles, "Gawain now has three brigades, one of which is isolated in Tripoli, which means that his troops in Melitene are at most two main brigades, plus some of his direct cavalry. Once we start fighting, can we not beat him? Of course, we have to prepare for the timing of the surprise attack."

The so-called "preparation" means that Archon Fel will regard Reuben's son Toros and daughter Lolita, who were imprisoned in Vanka City, as the banner, "punish the traitor Gawain and revive the Reuben Dynasty in Armenia."

Anyway, after he left, these people would not care about the life and death of the two children.

In addition, the secret envoy Portrufis, who was sent here by the emperor before, also became a useful chess piece. This group of people decided to confuse Gawain by "expelling him from the country to show sincerity", but in fact they sent Portrufis to Amasya City to serve as a liaison with Theodore.

As a result, Hercules strongly opposed again, "After Gawain's trade route was unblocked, Theodore's attitude was ambiguous, and we couldn't contact him rashly, otherwise it would expose our plan."

"Don't worry, Portrufis is the envoy of His Majesty the Emperor, and the other party dare not do anything to him."

After the calculation was made, Marash Castle sent another secret envoy to the south to contact Ridwan.

At this moment, in the court of Tarsus City, Anna held the scepter and walked side by side with Gawain, surrounded by many maids and guards, and walked out of the gates one by one, and finally received the Billleoni merchant group who came to sign a business contract.

The merchants bowed hurriedly, and then Anna tapped the steps with her scepter.

The other party was confused, "Please come forward and kiss Caesar's scepter and the back of his hand to show your obedience." The fat eunuch standing in front of the seat explained with full energy.

Helpless, Bieleoni thought that this girl was more ostentatious than the Pope, but he could only smile and bow up three steps. Anna extended the tip of the scepter and let him kiss it, then quickly and coldly took it back, "Forget about kissing my hand."

Then she smiled and put her slender hand in Gawain's hand, and the two sat down side by side, "I understand your intention. Of course, we can sign a business contract, but there are only two conditions." Before Bieleoni could answer, Gawain turned sideways and continued, "First, any trade settlement must be made using Saffron copper coins, that is, Seleucid copper coins (Gawain can use the rich copper coins in the territory to exchange for foreign gold and silver); second, I can reduce the toll and additional tax for you, but you must take out 15,000 Byzantine gold coins at one time and inject them into the "Light Chamber of Commerce" in the County of Sis. "

"Light Chamber of Commerce?" Bill Leoni was a little confused. In fact, he had heard of this chamber of commerce. It was actually the royal chamber of commerce of the Tarsus court. The leather, honey and "Light Brand" cheese previously marketed had posed a serious competitive threat to Marash.

"Yes. Of course, the dividends of the shares are indispensable to you." Gawain opened his mouth. Of course, the money would be transferred to the local iron mine.

Bill Leoni did not object, because his intelligence showed that Gawain's iron mine was still very profitable, and it would also allow Pisa to occupy a corner in Tarsus: businessmen are always profit-seeking, and having many friends is always a good thing.

"Then let's sign it. We can lift the ban on the border and set up a trading market. This will be a great thing for the people of both sides. I can immediately disband the armed group in the east of Vanka City and let the Ani people there live a free and peaceful farming and settled life." Gawain's enthusiasm and straightforwardness touched the shrewd Bill Leoni a little.

Then Anna also smiled and her attitude was no longer arrogant. She ordered the court to hold a grand banquet to keep Bill Leoni and entertained him for three days.

By then, Conrad, Welf, Guillaume and other lords had already gone to the Holy City. As for Prince Sven and Florina, although the Kingdom of Jerusalem invited the couple to settle down with a castle fief, they still stayed in the court of Tarsus and officially became husband and wife: Sven became Gawain's privy advisor and general, hundreds of Danish soldiers were absorbed into the Guards, and Florina became another close friend of Anna. They often invited Godhild to play backgammon for fun - Lady Ingridna of Colleardio also often joined the battle, but the strange thing was that the winner was often the giggling Ingridna.

After the successful signing of the trade agreement, Bill Leoni excitedly returned to Marash Castle along the mountain road in a carriage.

However, as soon as he returned, he was stopped by several Armenian warriors. "I want to see your Archon Fer!" Before the big merchant finished shouting, the leader searched his backpack and leather box for documents with the official seal of Tarsus, and announced his "crime" in a stern voice: betraying the interests of the Great Armenian Empire and colluding with the traitor and murderer Gawain Lusser in private, and was punished with confiscation of property and imprisonment.

Then, Bieleoni, who was a big shot in the Roman market, was thrown into the dungeon by the wolf-like soldiers. There, under the dim firelight, he lay on the damp and moldy mud, looking at the shadowy figures sitting around him.

"You are here too?"

"You are all arrested, and there are local merchants?" Bieleoni looked around and was shocked.

"There is nothing we can do. The nobles used their swords to confiscate one-third of our property and use it as military supplies." The local Armenian businessman sighed.

A hot-roasted duck businessman next to him patted the other party on the shoulder and said comfortingly, "If you want to be funny, brother, I should let you out after the war is over. I still have two-thirds of the property in my hands. Aren't you going to be happy in the future?"

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At this moment, Bill Leoni, who was lying on the ground, sat up and smiled bitterly, "What two-thirds? What do you think the purpose of arresting you is to use you as long-term meat tickets and slowly force your family to take the rest?" All the property will continue to be handed over, and in the end not only will you die, but your family will be ruined. "

It was then that everyone suddenly understood, and then they hugged each other and cried, saying that this was too cruel, "It's best that that stupid bitch in my family is smarter and doesn't give money to these gangsters, just let me die here."

"Idiot, aren't your stupid bitches going to run away with some housekeeper or servant in the future?"

"It's all my fault for being careless. Why did I think of coming to this barbarian country to do business in the first place?" Bill Leoni looked at the light coming from the dungeon window and felt full of regret.

The same faint morning light shines through the window and shines into Gawain's newly opened eyes. He turned around and looked over. Anna was sleeping soundly with the infant Helena on the other side of the bed, so Gawain crept down quietly, feeling in his heart I thought, "It's time to say goodbye to my wife and daughter and go on an expedition to Melitene." (To be continued~^~)