Chapter 8 The Future
From Gehris's own point of view, the stew that the Franks are accustomed to has nothing to do with soup if you consider it Chinese.
After all, it is customary for Chinese people to drink soup as the main source of soup, while Frankish stews can often be used as a staple food.
There is no fixed recipe for stew, and the production process is too simple. It is nothing more than throwing all kinds of food you can find into the pot, adding seasonings, and then spending time stewing it.
During the stewing process, you can also add bread, cereals, etc. to increase the viscosity of the soup and provide more satiety.
In terms of the cooking result, Garris felt that it might be closer to porridge than soup.
But with this kind of haphazard simmering and simmering cooking process, you can imagine the taste of the final food.
In the absence of spices to remove the fishy smell, even though there was a lot of meat in the soup, Garris found it a bit hard to swallow. However, he was really hungry, so he could eat a few more mouthfuls.
But now that the troublesome guy is here again, Garris has lost his appetite and doesn't want to eat more.
After quickly swallowing a few mouthfuls and finishing up the thick soup on the plate to avoid wasting it, Garris pulled the girl away from this crowded place.
During this process, the girl was silent, but did not resist. The expression on her face was a bit complicated, and the hand grabbed by Garris subconsciously became harder, trying to grab it back.
When Garris led the girl to the river bank some distance away from the village, the two stopped and each found a stone to sit down on.
"So, you are indeed avoiding me, right."
The girl lowered her head slightly, not looking directly at Garris. Her eyes wandered around in a scattered manner, and her hands kept opening and closing in front of her chest. Sometimes her fingers were spread open, sometimes her hands were clasped together. Her shoulders were curled up, which more obviously revealed her state of mind.
"Brother passed away not long ago, grandma, Pierre, and Jacques all died two days ago, and Balian and the others are far away in Jerusalem. You are still with me, but you don't want me anymore? ?”
Random words poured out from Isabella's mouth.
Garris was a little hard to answer. Faced with the girl's complaints, he couldn't respond directly emotionally for a while. He could only stand up, came behind Isabella, put his right hand on the girl's shoulder, and gave him a hug. A little bit of comfort.
Having had many years of experience with the girl, coupled with the fusion of memories from previous lives, Garris actually knew very well what Isabella was missing. After peeling off those glamorous skins, in the final analysis, this was the story of a broken family. Just a child.
Isabella lost her father before she could remember, and then her mother remarried. Although she had half-brothers and sisters to take care of her, her brother, the Leper King, was doomed to have a short life and no descendants because he was suffering from leprosy.
In this case, Isabella was regarded as a potential heir to the throne, and she was involved in the political wave as a child, and had to engage in an inexplicable struggle with her own sister over the royal power.
Who could she trust? Those who could be trusted died one after another, or were separated by disputes over royal power.
In the end, I can only act like a drowning person trying to catch something in panic.
Time passed by minute by second, and there was silence between Garris and Isabella, but this was not the solution after all. After Garris organized his words for a while, he said directly: "When I die, I see the future. ”
"Huh?" Isabella slowly opened and closed her hands, subconsciously crossing her fingers quite forcefully, and the expression on her face looked surprised. This was a response she had never thought of.
"One year later, the Holy City and Jerusalem will be captured by Saladin. No matter how hard Balian tries to defend the city, he will not be able to wait for reinforcements."
"At most, try to get a chance to use money to redeem the people of the city to avoid being massacred or sold into slavery, because your brother-in-law, the future new king, will easily destroy the entire kingdom's army."
Saladin was the target of a joint crusade across Europe during the Third Crusade.
The reason why he was announced as the target of the Third Crusade was because in 1187, one year later, he swept across the entire Kingdom of Jerusalem and regained the Holy City that the Muslims had lost for ninety years. Saladin was the sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty. At its peak, the territory under his command included Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Hijaz and Yemen, with a population of over ten million.
Indeed, compared with the Celestial Empire, there are actually only tens of millions of crickets, but as for the Kingdom of Jerusalem...the most sacred country in the Christian world, its population cannot exceed one million no matter how it is calculated.
The difference in size of more than ten times, if it were not for the fact that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was more brave and skilled in fighting, then the Kingdom of Jerusalem would have been destroyed a few years ago during the Battle of Mengisa.
But now that Saladin has regrouped, the kingdom is facing a formidable enemy, and there are ongoing internal disputes over the succession of royal power.
Anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see that the situation in the Kingdom of Jerusalem is now extremely critical, but just like those who fall into quicksand, it is difficult for those in Vanity Fair to save themselves.
This is also one of the reasons why Gareth is unwilling to go to Jerusalem to participate in the king's election. Even if Gareth really reverses the situation and allows Isabella to win the king's election, so what?
In just one year, he was able to get a group of scum who were constantly fighting among themselves to put aside their old grudges and jointly fight against the enemy? What a joke.
Garis knew that he could not abandon Jerusalem, but why did Jerusalem need to be the Jerusalem of those princes and nobles?
As for Balian, Garris had watched the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" in his previous life.
Different from the artistic processing in the movie, Balian is not the illegitimate descendant of some Crusader nobles who returned to France, but the second son of the wealthy Ibelin family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
In the movie, the protagonist Balian and the Leper King's sister Sibylla love each other, but in reality, Balian is actually the father figure of the Leper King and Sibylla.
He married Isabella's mother, Maria Comnenus, and was Isabella's stepfather. He was also one of the few people who could be trusted by Isabella, regardless of political interests or personal feelings. .
"So, you have indeed received divine revelation?"
"Yes."
"So, can it be changed?"
"Can't."
"So? Where are you now?"
"Now, I hope to sow a seed to unite the people's power. After the Holy City is captured, there will be a base to regroup and wait for the arrival of the Third Crusade."
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Why does Jerusalem need to be the Jerusalem of those princes and nobles?
There are some ambitions that Garris has never made clear to others, but he knows that if he wants to prevent the people on this land from experiencing war, he must embark on an unprecedented path.
Let’s talk about the update issue. Because of the high pressure in my life, I am currently working three jobs, one is my own job, one is delivering food, and the other is writing articles...
I need to try my best to coordinate the time of these three jobs, so the updates in the past few days are as inexplicable as convulsions.
Starting today, I have been trying my best to adjust my writing time.
Future update times should be mainly in the afternoon.
(End of chapter)