Chapter 317 Natural Allies
What David Southlan wants to admit is that although when he first met, he felt that Gerris was not as famous as meeting.
But Gellis is not an ordinary farmer after all. Even though he was still fertilizing in the vegetable garden, after seeing David Southlan, he took the initiative to wash his hands and specially changed into a clean, white and simple dress. clothing.
Wearing clean clothes these days is actually a representative of identity.
Real farmers do not have the financial resources to buy a flawless outfit for themselves.
Therefore, David Southland still put down his contempt, maintained his demeanor, and walked into the wooden house at the invitation of Garys.
This wooden house should be newly built. Many of the woods are still fresh in texture. The overall decorative layout is not gorgeous, but it is inexplicably warm. It can be seen in many places. It took some thought to come out.
For example, the clothes hanger at the entrance, the tables and chairs that were specially polished with wooden thorns, the well-made kettle, and the silver knife and fork...
The nobles who wanted to judge a person in this era Levels can actually be seen from their living habits and home decoration.
No matter what aesthetic style it is, there is actually a premise, which means that you should spend a lot of energy and effort in places that are of no benefit to life.
In David Southland's view, this kind of calmness that can only be separated from the pressure of survival is the standard for distinguishing different classes.
It can be seen that Gerris is not a vulgar person, but should be a nobleman and knows how to appreciate what beauty is.
After David entered the house, Garys did not rush to speak, turned around and ordered Arslan to go to the kitchen to clean up and prepare dinner for him.
After Arslan left the somewhat narrow living room, Garys signaled David Southlan to sit with him at the dining table.
"You said you were Gerris, that Gerris in Jerusalem?"
"Yes, it's me."
"You still say that you are the saint of Jerusalem and the head of Cyprus?"
"Yes, that's right."
" Then you say that you are an Imam of thousands of tribes and peoples on earth, and the supervisor of the human order for your father? "
"Yes." "
Gerris did not refuse at all when faced with these titles calmly.
The two words David asked before actually don't matter. After all, the title of saint is not an exaggeration. As for the identity of the head of Cyprus, it is a position, and David actually listens to it. It was said that Gerris held this position.
When talking about the third question, David was already a little angry.
The word Imam, no matter how you look at it, can be divided into the category of paganism, and the word Father, in Gerris's mouth, obviously refers to the Father of Heaven.
In other words, the person in front of him thinks he is the Son of the Heavenly Father and the Brother of Jesus. He has taken over the mission of heaven and came to the earth to redefine the order of the world.
This is to place one's own identity above royal power and above secular power.
David would never believe such a transgressive person, if it weren't for the scene described by the Horvanis's Hundreds, and the personal experiences of dozens of soldiers.
But those things did happen, so David could only come here to verify with the attitude of believing in it rather than believing in it.
If Garys is a wizard, he will find a way to chop this guy up.
If Gerris really said as his words...
Some of this said.
After David confirmed the other party's identity, he did not hide it, but asked directly, trying to gain the upper hand in the conversation and turn this exchange into his gale's Cross-examination.
"You look for me, is there anything wrong?"
"I know there is a pair of brothers who are now in your court. One of them is Alexus Komuning and the other is Called David Komuning, and you will use them soon."
Geris did not directly answer the other party's words. After all, he took some effort to deal with the big two times in succession. The subordinates of the Guards wanted to create such a scene that David came to see him and gained dominance.
Just as Garys thought, David was quite surprised when he heard Garys' words.
Geris's news seemed to be too well-versed. Normal non-Georgian nobles should not understand this matter at all.
Alexus Komunen and David Komunen, the Komunen brothers, were the grandsons of Andronica, the last emperor of the Komunen dynasty of the Eastern Empire.
After Andronica was deposed and executed for the uprising of the Constantinople, the brothers went into exile to Georgia for asylum from their mother, Queen Tamara's sister.
At the same time, the next sentence of Garys was even more amazing, as if Garys had insight into something.
David Southlan saw Gerris's gaze and couldn't help but become more cautious.
As for Geris, he was more calm, not because he had insight into some things, but because he was standing in the downstream of history, he guessed the strategic policy of the current Georgian Kingdom.
This matter will return to the geopolitical landscape of Anatolia.
Due to the massive westward advance of the Seljuk Turks after the Battle of Manchikot, large areas of Anatolia have now become territory of the Roman Sultanate.
Although the Roma Sultanate often split, every time it is unified, it shows a clear attitude of aggression towards the surrounding countries.
Now in its golden age, Georgia, which is particularly powerful, is not afraid to fight against Rom.
But the war itself is extremely dangerous, and no one can calculate the details on the battlefield, so many generals have to place their victory or defeat on the gods.
No matter how advantage or strength is, we have to worry about the possibility of failure on the battlefield.
Georgia's overall size is not as good as that of the Sultanate of Roma. In addition, even in peacetime, it will face frequent border plundering operations by the Sultanate of Roma, which seriously undermines Georgia's economic development.
As a result, Georgia has long been committed to setting up buffer zones around its core territory.
This is true whether it is to conquer the Islamic Emir, or to help the Armenians regain their territory.
Now, after the Fourth Crusade, inexplicably directed his target to Constantinople, Queen Tamara realized that there was another chance.
She thought she could use her two nephews to cut another piece from the Eastern Empire territory at the dusk of the west mountain to help herself isolate the threat from the Turks.
Because Georgia is the Greater Caucasus Mountains from north to east, it is a natural barrier, and its passes leading to the Eastern European prairie are relatively easy to control. In addition, Alania does not have to face Eastern Europe north of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The harassment of the Khanate. The Black Sea is directly west and the Caspian Sea is relatively safe. Therefore, we only need to sort out the geopolitics in the three directions of southwest, southeast and south, and the Kingdom of Georgia can be in a long-term peace without worrying about other things The state of aggression by the believers.
As far as Gerris knows, before Constantinople was captured, Queen Tamara had assisted Alexus Komunen and David Komunen, the Komunen brothers who seized Tray Bisong City.
Now, although the outbreak of the Fourth Crusade is relatively advanced, Gerris thinks that Queen Tamara will not let this opportunity go easily.
Especially, Georgia is now defeating the Rom Sultanate, and they should have more effort to complete their plans.
This actually overlaps Garys' own plan to a certain extent.
Georgia needs to isolate the robbery and attacks of the Rom Sultanate on them. Antioch actually has this need, and everyone needs to establish a buffer state in the Eastern Anatolia area.
Therefore, Georgia and Jerusalem have a foundation for cooperation.
But cooperation belongs to cooperation, and who is the dominant power in cooperation belongs to it, it has to be fought for. At the same time, how to establish this buffer country and in what form, and which side of both sides after establishment is even more so There is a problem.
In the interests of the Georgian side, it may be to use the Komuning brothers to cut a piece from the Eastern Empire and extend it to the south, and then add a group of Emirs that have turned against Georgia to complete the plan. .
But for Gerris, Georgia's method of handling is too rough.
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It can be said that Georgia only forced the Emir Lords of Eastern Anatolia to change their loyalty from the Sultan of Rom to the King of Georgia who was a pagan.
For the differences in military power, those small emir countries will naturally not disobey Georgia's orders in a short period of time.
But due to the lack of economic model, these small Turkic countries still need to make up for their lack of productivity through plunder.
Even if the plunder of Georgia will not be systematically launched, the scattered attacks will not disappear.
At the same time, since it was impossible to launch a large-scale invasion to the north, the main plundering directions of those Emirs would naturally shift southward, that is, to target the Syrian region under Jerusalem.
Although it is easy to defeat those small Turkic robbers with Jerusalem's military training level, advanced weapons and equipment.
But this is only a thousand days of thieves, but there is no way to defend against thieves in a thousand days. If there is a gap in the defense line, it will be extremely destructive to the economic construction of the Syrian region.
Only economic development in the peace era can be rapid and powerful, and farmers who are troubled by war cannot work hard to farm.
Because the main energy of the Kingdom of Jerusalem is now in the south to confront Egypt, it is difficult for Gerris to directly withdraw a large number of troops to go north, so he had to come here alone.
As Garys gained the dominance of this dialogue through various previous preparations, David Southlan gradually understood Garys' purpose.
As an excellent commander, he temporarily put down the magical things in Garys and turned to the politician's mindset.
After he determined Gerris' identity, he thought about it and determined that Georgia and Jerusalem were not enemies. Due to geopolitical reasons, both sides should be natural allies.
After all, there is an Anatolia separated from the two sides, with no territory, no border friction, and at the same time, they both have to face the harassment of Muslims. "You mean, not only do you want to force the Emirs to turn to Georgia here, that is, on the land of Armenia, but you also want to change the living habits of the residents here so that they no longer need them. Go and rob? ”
When David Southlan summed up Gerris's thoughts, he subconsciously smiled sarcastically.
Reforming the Turks?
What's this called whimsical?
In David Soslan's view, this is like asking the wolf to give up eating meat, which is a correction to the Turkic nation. In fact, it is not the same as creating a new nation from scratch. the difference.
The difficulty can be imagined. The difference between the Turks and them is not only nomadism and farming, but also Islam and Christ!
Different religions mean that they have difficulty in direct rule, and local Turks will subconsciously resist the direct rule of Christian rulers.
"Then what about us?"
Faced with David's doubts, Gerris did not refute. He needed to speak with facts instead of having useless debates here.
"What to trade?"
"I will help you take down Erzurum City, and you will hand over the governance rights of this area except the city to me."< "Next year my Paladin group will come here, and at that time, I will prove to you that no matter what nation or belief it is, they are the people of the Father and the Lamb of the Earth, Not only can you repent, but you can also bring a better future.”
"You help me take down Erzurum City?"
After hearing Gerris' words, David did not care about the latter part, but focused on the front.
As a strong city, Erzurum City has housed the remnants of the Rom Sultanate, and now there are many troops in the city.
Because of the host of Sultan Rom, the whole country was working together, and David had already planned to withdraw his troops.
But if the city of Erzurum was not conquered, so much land obtained by the previous victory would not take much time to re-master the Rom Sultanate.
Therefore, David is quite distressed now.
He could not allow the Rom Sultanate to continue to control Erzurum City, but he really couldn't conquer it for a while.
Compared with the radiation from the Rom Sultanate to the surrounding areas through Erzurum City, he actually didn't mind who the lord of this territory was.
It can be said that Erzurum City is not important, but it is very important to make the Rom Sultanate lose Erzurum City.
Even so, David still subconsciously said, "Why are you? You only have one person."
In response, Gerris raised a silver spoon on the table and showed David that there was no special afterwards.
In the silent silence, the silver spoon bent on its own.
David opened his mouth for a moment and was surprised, but the more magical one was still behind.
After bending at a right angle of 90 degrees, the silver spoon began to return to the right side by itself and cracked into a fork. "I said that I am the supervisor who sets the human order for the Father. As long as I want, I can do it."
Reference diagram of the current political landscape, from CK2.
(This chapter ends)