Chapter 69: Escape and Contract
Is there actually a small language in the world that is so similar to Arabic?
For a moment, Zaid couldn't tell whether the savior Jesus mentioned by Qairis was the Jesus in his memory, nor could he tell whether the Imam mentioned by Qairis was referring to the Imam in Sunni Islam. Mam is also the Imam in Shia Islam.
The word Imam means "leader" or "guide" in Arabic. Anyone from the leader of prayers in a mosque to the head of state can be called an Imam. The word itself does not refer specifically to it. The size of leadership authority does not matter.
It's similar to the Chinese words "chief, adult, leader".
But he, Zaid, is not an ordinary mainstream Sunni Muslim, but a Shia Muslim.
When the word Imam is placed in the context of Shiite Islam, it refers specifically to the political and religious leaders of the Islamic State...
It can even be said that the Shiites of Islam believe that the Imam is the medium through which God favors mankind, and is the guardian of all things in the world. He can know knowledge that ordinary people do not know, and can communicate with angels or elves...
All in all, in the context of Shia Islam, the term Imam is almost transcendent and holy, and is actually a "demigod".
Such a holy person naturally has a lofty status in Shia Islam, and the inheritance of his identity must be very cautious, which will inevitably lead to some succession struggles.
According to the determination of the number of certain common Imams, Shias can be divided into factions such as the Twelve Imams, the Seven Imams, and the Five Imams.
Among them, the Twelve Imams and the Mustariya sect among the Seven Imams refused to acknowledge the death of their last imam, but claimed that their imam had entered "reclusion".
To put it simply, although their Imam can no longer be found, he is definitely still alive and will return from [reclusion] before the end of the world to reshape the order of the earth.
But now a Frank stands in front of Zaid and says that he is the Imam of thousands of peoples on the earth.
And just now, he, Zaid, witnessed a scene of extraordinary sanctification. This Frank was as unstoppable as the ancient Greek demigod hero on the battlefield.
This caused his brain to fall into a state of near shutdown.
Even if the Gairis in front of him was a fake imam, he, Zaid, would not attack him in person. After all, the previous Bedouin leader had been cut in half in public.
After a long time, in order to return to normal, his mind, Zaid, chose to automatically ignore the second half of Garris's words.
It must be that Zaid's ears were hallucinating, or he was forcing himself to believe that what Garris said was actually a small language similar to Arabic.
People, you can only live a carefree life if you ignore the elephant in the room.
After sorting out his chaotic mind, Zaid began to communicate normally with Garris.
As a businessman who passed through Alexandria from Cairo, Egypt, Zeid brought a lot of information to Qerris.
The information about commodity prices in Cairo and Alexandria was particularly valued by Gellis.
From Zaid, Garris got a rather unexpected information. In the past year, the prices of iron ingots, camels, horses, grain... and other commodities have not changed significantly compared to previous years.
Everything was extremely calm, and there was no atmosphere of impending war.
Of course, this statement is actually quite strange. After all, in the past hundreds of years, war has never been far away from Egypt... Peace is the exception.
It should be said that businessmen like Zeid had no idea that a war led by Saladin would break out next year and directly destroy the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
This is actually quite strange. Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet, the precursor of war, must first cause waves in the market.
Garris hid the relevant doubts and instead invited them to Skal Village after learning about the goods in Zaid's caravan. After all, many of the products in Zaid's caravan are currently in urgent need of Garris and his group.
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In the evening of that day, Zaid's caravan, led by Galis and others, left the original trade route and turned into the river valley.
There are camels, carriages, merchants, clerks, guards, pilgrims in the caravan...
They looked at the river valley where Skaar Village was located with great curiosity. In the past, they had not realized that with just a divergence in the road, they could enter a peaceful river valley that was almost like a paradise.
After all, the river valley where Skar Village is located is not on the original trade road, and it is not convenient for caravans to pass here because the river here is too deep and there are many hills.
The arrival of this caravan is also an unexpected surprise for Skar Village.
Even Gellis, at first he never thought that a simple patrol would actually run into a caravan that set off from Cairo, passed through Alexandria, and headed to Jerusalem.
Yes, patrol.
More than a month has passed since the previous battle with Eric's army. It seems that Alhadi Town has been forgotten by Leonard and has spent a relatively peaceful period of time.
Over the past month or so, Gairis has completely integrated the surrounding villages and the town of Alhadi.
Of course, this integration does not mean what officials Gehrys appointed or what top-down administrative system he established.
As far as the cultural level of the people around him is concerned, not to mention the per capita illiteracy, it is also appalling.
For example, apart from himself, the person with the highest level of mathematics around Garris is actually the tax collector Ahmed...
But this guy Ahmed is about to die soon, and no one can save him.
As for doctor Abdullah and mosque imam Khalid, although their cultural level is not low, one of them is a doctor and the other is a religious figure.
Doctors treat illnesses, save lives, and promote medicine.
Religious figures explained the scriptures for Gelis and appeased the people.
These two people each have their own majors, and they are not cross-field talents. Even if they really cross fields, they don't have enough energy.
Excluding the Arabs, the cultural level of the Franks is even more difficult to describe...
John is a talented person, but that is limited to leading troops in battles. His level of civil management can only handle a men's camp and a women's camp at best. He is really using the military to control Skaar Village.
As for the other knights, that's even worse. At most, they are all good at blacksmithing and building repairs.
Let them manage the village?
Don't force things on others.
Therefore, Garris's integration of surrounding villages and towns was achieved by relying on a "feudal" contract with a bit of "social contract theory".
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