Chapter 149 Let him come in any way, I will only go all the way!
The beginning is the connection between people. They form a family, and then a village community is formed from the family. The village community then elects representatives to participate in the constituency assembly to coordinate the relationship between their own village community and nearby village communities.
These two levels of structures are almost pure rural autonomy, with no rights or obligations bound to each other.
At this level, the religious order actually plays more of an advisory role, providing services to believers.
The Paladins and priests of the order should bring advanced knowledge, answer everything for them, guide them to develop productivity, cure their diseases, and lead the believers on the right path.
They are not superior nobles or officials, but people who serve believers.
But this kind of autonomy has its limits. People in the village community rely on their familiarity with each other to understand each other. There is more coordination between village communities.
And when you go up further, that is, at the county level, you can't expect the leaders of the village communities to achieve self-governance.
The Muslims are fine. Their average cultural level is relatively high and they have sufficient experience in self-government.
Many of the leading figures in the village community, such as the Imam, are even said to be knowledgeable, and Tariq also has sufficient business experience. They can well understand that a food, drink and sell business involving tens of thousands of people What does it mean?
The Franks can’t do it here, so why can’t they do it here?
It’s so bad that I can’t even find a gentry or a wise person...
Russell's father, the Cardoso who initially invited Garris to dinner and the night, was already the most culturally competent Frankish farmer.
However, that level of education...is no longer as good as his son's now.
Generally speaking, the early parliamentary self-government system will essentially evolve into the gentry controlling local power. However, at present, the Franks do not even have a gentry group, so they are primitive.
Therefore, at the county level, although there is still a county council, it is used to coordinate and communicate with various villages. But Gareth still arranged for John to serve as the county guard.
Avoid the Franks, because the cultural level is too low and they will be led by the Muslims.
The mountains in the distance stretch like dark green, forming an endless arc, connecting the distant sky with the earth.
Under this clear blue sky, Gareth took Old John and Simon to have a heart-to-heart talk.
When they left the town of Alhadi and walked out of the Arnon Valley, they were the two people in charge here.
Old John serves as the county warden, coordinating administrative management and tax collection. He will slowly build a county-level government of civil servants.
Currently, there are only two people in the religious order who actually have the status of priests, that is, the status of high-ranking priests. One is Simon and the other is Archos.
Simon is currently the only official Paladin. According to the hierarchy in the order, the official Paladin has also received the divine seal, resembles Christ, is qualified to hold ceremonies, and has the status of a priest (priest).
Aljos had just arrived. Although Garris recognized the other party's identity as a priest, it was obviously impossible for him to be responsible for the affairs of the order.
Therefore, Simon, who has followed Garis for a long time and has received the teachings of Garis, will be responsible for the affairs of the order after Garis leaves.
As for the Jerusalem Kingdom Army, for now, they still regard Isabella as their nominal supreme leader, and Garris also trusts Isabella to stabilize the situation.
Therefore, in this wilderness, he wanted to explain the last few things clearly, hoping that John, Simon, and Isabella could work together.
"John, Simon, you must remember that only by completely destroying the current feudal order, completely transforming the lord ownership, and carrying out a social reform can feudal dependence be ended. Only in this way can there be a transition to the Kingdom of Heaven, or at least make this country This transition becomes possible.”
"From now on, no feudal lord will occupy the land and force the people under his rule to be loyal to the lord."
"In fact, as citizens of the country, they will only swear allegiance to the country itself, and the country must also provide citizens with public services that match their tax service."
"As for the situation in the Muslim Sultanate, I have already told you that the so-called 'Holy Lord' and the tyrant must be two sides of the same coin. Only by creating a system of tyrants can we create a 'Holy Lord'."
"The Arabs have outstanding performance in culture and technology, but you also know their political and military standards."
"These sultanates today are not worthy of being called countries at all, and the country of the Franks is just a country of the Frankish aristocracy."
"When both Franks and Muslim Saracens firmly believe that they are citizens of the state of Jerusalem, the foundation of the kingdom of heaven will be there."
"We must replace the country of the aristocracy with a country of citizens, and we must prioritize identification with the country over identification with the nation."
"Because only when a country becomes a country for the majority of people, will this country issue the word of God in the mouths of all peoples, announcing to the world: The kingdom of heaven is near, you should repent!"
Garris stood in front of Simon and John, looked at their expressions, talked to them, and answered their questions.
[The Pharisees asked, “When will the kingdom of the Lord come?” Jesus answered, “The kingdom of the Lord does not come with visible eyes; nor shall they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘Here it is! There! 'For the kingdom of the Lord is within you."]
——"Luke" 17:20-21
The wind is blowing, and the old age is coming to an end.
As the armies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem gathered, a war became inevitable. By then, the entire Holy Land will be filled with killing, crying, famine, and war.
This war will provide Geris with an opportunity to get out of Arnon, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem will have no energy to focus on itself.
He has set his sights on the south, where Leonard's hometown, Fort Karak, has opened its door to Garris.
……
Leonard naturally didn't know what Garris's plan was. Now he had more pressing problems to deal with.
Food has been replenished by looting villages, and there is no shortage of water sources because they are marching north based on the Jordan River.
But the problem is that the Tukobo light cavalry he sent out brought back bad news.
The so-called Tukpo refers to the Turkic people who have accepted the Christian faith. Many of these people are of mixed race and accepted the Christian faith from their mothers.
Because they are not tolerated by traditional Turkic tribes, Tukpo people often choose to leave their hometown and become mercenaries.
Of course, quite a few Tukopo actually converted to serve as mercenaries for the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
After all, it’s time to eat.
Basically, the light cavalry of the Kingdom of Jerusalem are composed of these tukobos.
"More than four thousand troops?"
The news brought by Tucopo made Leonard a little unbelievable. Did Saladin react so quickly?
While Jerusalem was still gathering troops, Saladin's vanguard had already broken into the Kingdom of Jerusalem and wreaked havoc on nearby villages.
This kind of behavior of directly burning the flames of war on the opponent's territory is undoubtedly destroying the enemy's war potential, and is actively helping the opponent to strengthen the wall and clear the country.
The news reported by Tukobo also brought clearer details to Leonard.
"Coming from the northeast and heading due west?"
This movement direction obviously starts from Damascus, and if it extends in a straight line, it will definitely pass through Nazareth...
But will the enemy's target be Nazareth? Leonard, who had lived for more than sixty years, thought carefully about it.
Although Nazareth is the childhood home of Jesus and is considered a relatively sacred place in the hearts of Christians, it is meaningless in terms of strategic value.
Therefore, it is unlikely to be the first target of attack.
In this case, it is more likely to be roundabout.
roundabout? The purpose of the detour was to avoid the city of Tiberias, and now the location where the kingdom's main forces were gathering had become Tripoli.
So? Aka has become a vacant space? !
Indeed, only important cities like Acre were worthy of Saladin's first attack.
Leonard made his own judgment almost immediately. As a battle-hardened veteran, perhaps at a strategic level, he was far inferior to a figure like Saladin.
But he has a strong talent for his sensitivity to the tactical details of war.
The fact that he was able to lead hundreds of knights to penetrate Saladin's 30,000 troops and directly attack Saladin was proof of this.
It can be said that the confrontation between him and Saladin was like micro-managing against operations.
Then Leonard realized a more dangerous possibility. If the Earl of Tripoli really reached a secret agreement with Saladin and made it public to eliminate other people's suspicion of him, wouldn't it be even more dangerous?
At that time, it became: the Earl of Tripoli jumped on the spot and attracted the Kingdom's army to gather. Saladin's vanguard troops divided into several groups and directly took advantage of the situation, causing the Kingdom's army to be attacked from the front and back!
Various possibilities are turning over and over in Leonard's mind, and all the worst possibilities are being anticipated by Leonard.
Leonard licked his lips, and then he made a decisive decision.
"No matter how many ways he comes, I will only go one way!"
Second update, and two additional updates, also before 12 o'clock, and now there are more than 10,000 updates per day, which makes me a little dizzy, ε=(ο｀*))) alas
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