Chapter 134: Unscrew it and hang it on the spear!
Balian was too lazy to wait for Leonard's reply. The reason why he made a special trip to Fort Karak was that he had tolerated Leonard for a long time.
Now I can't bear it anymore and there is no need to bear it anymore!
As far as the public is concerned, if Leonard hadn't repeatedly violated the peace agreement and provoked public anger in the Islamic world, how could things have reached this point!
Personally speaking, Humphrey is Leonard's stepson and Isabella is Balian's stepdaughter. They should be regarded as in-laws, but according to the information obtained from Isabella, Leonard's Scumbag is not worthy of being a son of man!
Collude with the heretics to attack Isabella! Not just once!
If Isabella hadn't told him, he would have thought that his daughter's disappearance had nothing to do with Leonard!
"This is how you treat Isabella! What do you think of her! This punch is for the Leper King! This punch is for Isabella!"
Compared with Balian, who seemed ten years younger, Leonard was indeed an old man. He was hammered to the ground by Balian, then rode on him, punching him one after another.
It wasn't until the guards outside the door heard the screams coming from the hall that they rushed in, and then saw an incredible scene.
The most noble people in the kingdom were fighting like gangsters. No, to be precise, Leonard was the only one who was being beaten.
Just when the guard was at a loss for a moment, Balian stood up and stopped beating the old man.
Leonard, who had regained consciousness, moved his neck, and then stood up with the help of the guards.
His cloudy eyes looked at Balian with a crazy smile. Even though he received several punches all over his body, he still felt that it didn't matter.
"Balian, OK! OK! OK!"
"As long as you can figure it out, let's fight together!"
"Tear off the head of that shitty pagan king and hang it on a spear!"
"We want to break into Damascus! We want to break into Alexandria! We want to break into Mecca!"
"Ahahahaha!"
Leonard clenched his fists with both hands, hammered the sky, and cheered loudly.
Seeing Leonard's crazy gesture, Balian's fist hardened again. This guy really didn't care about the fists he punched, but was happy from the bottom of his heart.
"Madman." After spitting out these two words, Balian turned and left.
Leonard didn't care about Balian's evaluation.
Now he is sixty-two years old. In a few years, he will not be able to walk the road of old age. Instead of lying in bed and unable to take care of himself in the future, he can only regret the mistakes of his life.
It would be better to make a grand exit. Even if he dies, he will be buried with the corpses of tens of thousands of people!
And if he wins, he will join the ranks of the greatest people in the Christian world!
Even after a thousand years, the world will still sing his name, and he will leave his mark on this world in a different way.
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February and March in Palestine were tumultuous.
The war is about to begin. This is the consensus of many people, and the month when the war breaks out should be roughly May or June.
Because the harvest season in the Holy Land is about to end, the granaries will be filled with grain, and the farmers can no longer hold the sickle.
But before that, it doesn't mean nothing will happen. The mercenaries need time to assemble, the knights need to strengthen their martial arts training, and seek messengers for allies to travel around the world.
All forces were making intensive preparations, but what many lords and nobles in the kingdom did not expect was this.
Even Balian, who had always advocated peace, actually no longer objected to war with Saladin. For a time, all the lords in the kingdom clearly realized that the war was really about to break out.
However, unlike other lords who strengthened their own armies, Balian made a request to the current king Guy, hoping to take over the city defense of Jerusalem.
King Guy agreed to this after discussing it with Gerald, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
For their faction, as long as Balian does not stand up and actively oppose the war, it does not hurt to give the other party a few positions in exchange.
The disturbances from the outside world have nothing to do with Garris.
Now, he is busy teaching every day, and discussing with the blacksmith knight Walter and others on how to make better farm tools.
Unlike other feudal lords, the relationship between the Order and the peasants was not a simple zero-sum relationship.
It does not mean that if the farmers eat less food, the cult will get more food. In this traditional feudal model, the so-called benevolent government essentially means that the court or the lords decided to grab less grain this year for some reasons, and then let the farmers eat more.
But in the actual process, it is difficult to say whether it can really be passed on to the grassroots. After all, for tax collectors, if the lord grabs less grain, doesn't it mean that he gets more?
But in the view of the religious order established by Garris, the previous methods were foolish and sinful.
The prophet once said bluntly: "Man is created in the image and likeness of God. The voice of the poor who want to live is the voice of God. God is not the God of death, but the Lord of life who can hear the cry of God's people." 】
As the Lord of life who can hear the cry of God’s people, every poor person can actually be fed and should not be hungry
It is only because of human ignorance and the various sins committed by the world that humans are unable to truly understand the world and use God's wisdom to cultivate the world.
Now that the prophet has brought God's wisdom, we can use this God's wisdom to increase the yield of the land and cultivate more people to understand what God's wisdom is (natural science).
For example, land that could only produce 1,000 pounds a year could be irrigated by water conservancy projects and produce one more crop of grain. With better farm tools, we can dig deeper into the map, and with sharper sickles, we can harvest efficiently.
In the end, the land that originally could only produce 1,000 pounds of food a year became one that could produce 1,500 pounds of food a year.
what does that mean? This means that there is no need to increase tax, and you can get an extra 50 pounds of tax.
This means that there will be an additional three to four hundred pounds of commercial grain circulating in the market.
This extra three to four hundred pounds of commercial grain can feed a non-agricultural population!
A non-agricultural population will produce ironware, cloth, sugar, salt, soap...
The external sales of these commodities are the bulk of the money earned by the cult.
During the entire process, farmers' taxes were reduced, non-agricultural jobs increased, everyone had enough to eat, and the sect's cash income increased.
Even if an economic crisis or other forms of famine break out in the future, it will still be better than the current absolute scarcity of food, which will inevitably lead to people starving to death.
Many time-tested warriors of feudalism went their entire lives unable to understand what this was all about.
Sima Guang, a long-tested fighter of feudalism, once criticized Wang Anshi: "If you don't go too far, you will collect the people's wealth in order to drain the people's wealth; the people are all thieves, which is not a blessing to the country"
Wang Anshi said: "Those who manage money well will make enough for the country without adding any gifts."
Sima Guang finally replied to him: "This is the world. The wealth and goods produced by heaven and earth can only be limited to this amount. If it is not among the people, it is with the officials."
This dialogue clearly shows that in the eyes of the feudal fighters, they themselves know that the relationship between the rulers and the ruled is a zero-sum relationship.
They simply do not view the world from a developmental perspective.
As for Wang Anshi, although he was aware of the problems and tried to reform through reforms, in terms of results, he still failed.
Many people know one sentence when reading books: The economic base determines the superstructure.
It seems that if the economic foundation is not accumulated in place, no changes can occur.
But those people often forget the last sentence: the superstructure reacts on the economic base.
Garris did not create a progressive society out of thin air. He was using medieval religious organizations to guide farmers so that they could produce more food and prepare in advance for various changes in the future.
In a blacksmith shop in Alhadi Town, the blacksmith knights Walter and Marwan took out a few farm tools and introduced them to Garris.
"The sandwich steel you mentioned before has really worked well after I tried it. It is much better than traditional iron farm tools, but the problem is, don't you think the cost is too high? After all, steel is used."
With that said, the blacksmith knight Walter handed a sickle to Garris. Compared with the traditional sickle, this sickle is actually thicker and obviously uses more materials.
After inspecting it, Garris found that Walter's craftsmanship was indeed good and he really achieved the effect he wanted.
The so-called sandwich steel is a technology that combines different types of metals to produce agricultural tools or weapons.
Typically, high carbon hard steel is sandwiched between softer wrought iron or mild steel to form a "sandwich" structure.
During use, through polishing, the high-carbon steel with high hardness and wear resistance becomes the exposed blade, so that the blade can stay sharp for a long time.
At the same time, the main part of the farm tool or weapon, which is the outer layer sandwiching the high-carbon steel, is usually made of softer iron or mild steel, which makes the tool tougher and less likely to break due to impact or bending.
The weapons or agricultural tools produced by this technology can take into account the sharpness of high-carbon steel and the toughness of wrought iron. Compared with purely using steel to make iron tools, it can save a certain amount of cost.
(End of chapter)