Chapter 137 Holding the torch in the wind and going against the tide
A candle lit himself up, and behind him, like a thin line of small towns, lights also lit up one after another.
The night is long and wild beasts are rampant. He will hold his torch in the wind and swim against the tide.
Just like a harbor, it attracts ships sailing on the sea, and even eagles trying to soar in the sky will look for a place to settle down.
The young man turned around and walked back.
"What's your name?" Garris asked the young man who had left and returned.
Then Garris realized a problem. What he had just said was in vain for this boy, because this child could not understand Frankish and did not understand the Latin family at all...
Through the Orthodox priest, Garris conveyed the meaning of his words.
After the Orthodox priest translated it into Greek, the other party understood it and replied: "Alexandros Alp Karis."
This is a mixed Greek and Turkic name, reflecting his ancestry.
The name Alexandros means "protector of the people", and Arp is derived from the Turkic word meaning "warrior" or "hero".
"It's a good name." Gareth liked the meaning of this name quite a lot.
Then turning his head, Garris told the priest: "I think it shouldn't be difficult for you to translate what I want to say later to this child."
As soon as Garris opened his mouth, the Orthodox priest knew what Garris was talking about. It was a book in the Old Testament "Isaiah", but many details of what Garris said were adjusted by him. Showing different thoughts and styles.
"Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; so that the former things will no longer be remembered, neither will they be recalled."
“I will build a Jerusalem of joy, a joy for its inhabitants.”
"Let the world rejoice in Jerusalem, rejoice in the people of the Lord, for weeping and wailing will no longer be heard in it."
"For there will be no infant among them who has died in a few days, nor an old man who has not reached the end of his life;"
"For whoever dies at a hundred years old is still considered a child, and any sinner who dies at a hundred years old is considered a curse."
"Build houses for yourselves to live in; no one else may live in what you build;"
"You shall plant vineyards to eat for yourselves, but no one else shall eat what you plant."
"Your days will be like the days of a tree; you will enjoy the fruits of the labor of your hands long."
"Your labor will not be in vain, nor will any evil come to your fruit, neither will your descendants."
"Before you call, the Lord answers; while you are still speaking, the Lord hears."
"The wolves and the lambs will pasture together, the lions will feed like calves, and the dust will be food for serpents."
"On the entire Holy Mountain, no one does evil anymore, and no one harms anyone."
Every word of Garris's words is exquisite and shocking.
He kept these people, and these slaves stayed here after they were freed and freed by Gerys.
Because they were all Christians, and Garris described a new heaven and new earth to them.
Because outside this town is an endless wilderness, an ocean made of loess, without any human habitation.
Ingelis offered a high monthly salary to adults, and promised education, food, clothing, housing and transportation to children and teenagers.
Garris did not ask these people to redeem themselves, because slaves redeeming themselves was also an acknowledgment of slavery.
What he had to do was to completely reject the institution of slavery and make it unnecessary to exist from its very foundation.
Gareth handed over the minors of various ages to the order's warriors.
The reason why Zaid was asked to find these children is that one candle cannot light up the world, and more and more candles are needed.
The malleability of minors makes them particularly important to Garris.
[There are no children who have ever eaten people, or are there any? Save the children...】
The older ones among them will be exposed to some crafts while receiving literacy education, while the younger ones will go to school peacefully. If any of them are willing, they will also have the opportunity to become a new warrior of the order and become a Paladin.
Garris personally took the four adults into the town. He did not put himself in a superior position, but acted like a warm and hospitable host, introducing the town to them and taking him with him. They walked into the Grapevine Inn and asked the waiter there to bring four sets of clean clothes and told the four of them to take a bath.
Unlike those minors who are abused, slaves in highly technical professions such as doctors and accountants are usually not treated particularly harshly.
After all, these are all civilized people, even if they are pagans, they do not have to be considered human beings. But in the final analysis, if the other party genuinely hates their work, the damage caused to the slave owner will be very serious.
It is different from those specialized slave-catching teams that travel to various parts of the world to capture slaves.
Most of these highly skilled and educated slaves come from wars or debts.
Because they had specific skills and cultural values, such as translation, education, medicine and other professional abilities, these slaves may have been used as tutors and palace advisors.
They are said to be slaves, but if they do well, they can actually become the favorites of the emir or the sultan. It really lives up to that sentence: It is a great honor to be the Sultan’s dog.
Although Greek doctors or Orthodox priests are relatively rare in the Damascus market, due to the wars between Muslims and the Eastern Roman Empire over the years, they are also frequent visitors to the slave market.
On the contrary, the two Italians were a new product that had only appeared in Damascus in the past hundred years.
In the past, there were no Italians in the Damascus slave market. However, due to the Crusades, the Turks now have more Italians as targets for slave hunting.
After all, in a sense, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Frankish colonization of the Middle East.
Then the Italian city-states are conducting commercial colonization of the Kingdom of Jerusalem...
The Italian city-state communities in the Kingdom of Jerusalem are actually not much different from concessions. They have their own courts, their own laws, and even enjoy customs rights at various ports.
The Orthodox priest's full name is Archos Sofia Demetrius, he is about 35 years old and his hometown is Cyprus.
Due to an accident a year ago, he offended his boss's boss and was sent to Antioch to handle matters. As a result, he was arrested by the Turks not long after arriving in Antioch...
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Normally, a priest like him would be asked by the Turks to seek ransom from the church.
But he offended his boss's boss, the Emperor of Cyprus, so naturally the Turks could not extort a penny.
Aljos had already expected that the Turks would not be able to extort money.
After all, it is obvious to everyone how stingy the emperor of Cyprus is. Even the ransom of his daughter was delayed for more than ten years...
Archos told the Turks about this, but the Turks not only did not appreciate it, but also beat Archos severely.
It was only after those letters from the Turks extorting ransoms fell into the sea that the Turks realized that the Emperor of Cyprus was really cheating.
As for Archos's family, they were all dead long ago. If it weren't for the church's support, Archos wouldn't have survived to adulthood.
There was no way around it. Even if Arthos was killed, he wouldn't be able to get his money back. He could only be sent to the slave market in Damascus for sale.
In this way, by chance, Aljosi came to Garris.
One thing to say, considering that the Damascus slave market is actually quite similar to the talent market, Archos is not opposed to being bought.
After all, he is a 35-year-old middle-aged man. Apart from memorizing a bunch of scriptures in his head, what else can others think of him?
Even if there is a guy with good masculinity, he will not be as good as him.
Therefore, if someone buys him, it must be to take him back as a teacher or some kind of consultant.
Maybe life won't be easy, but at least I won't starve myself.
After arriving at the place, Aljos realized that his new boss had some courage.
He looks like a young Frankish barbarian, but actually he has more ink in his belly than him.
As soon as he spoke, he crushed himself in theology and literature, and then he turned around and let himself go with one sentence.
Of course, Archos knew that this freedom was not that freedom.
The new boss lets him go free so that he can work better in the future, not to plunge himself into the wild. After all, the Franks are also Christians, and it is indeed not easy for Christians to use Christians as slaves.
The Greek-Turkic kid on the side didn't understand what the new boss said, so he turned around and ran away. If he hadn't realized something was wrong after running for a while, he might have gone to feed the wolves tonight.
Then he turned around and the boss came up with a passage from the Book of Isaiah. His ability to quote scriptures was so strong that for a moment Aljos couldn't tell who was the real master between himself and that young man.
"Nicholas, I think this new boss is good, at least he is willing to spend money."
When taking a shower, the hotel waiter specially gave them a piece of soap for them to use. In terms of smell, it was no less than the Aleppo soap that Aljos had used.
"It's hard to say. I always feel that the people in this town look at that young man wrong."
Nicholas was the Greek doctor. These days, Greek doctors were not as popular as Arab doctors in the Middle East, and slave merchants were asking for high prices, so they couldn't sell them for a long time.
It happened that the three of them, Archos, were packed up and bought by Zaid.
"What else could be wrong? This is already the case. Don't worry, it won't get worse."
Archos was so comforting.
After everyone took a hot bath and put on clean clothes, they felt as if they were alive again.
When they returned to the hotel lobby under the leadership of the waiter, they saw a bizarre scene.
Because they saw Muslims, they came to this Frankish hotel to pray to Garris.
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