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Chapter 718: Little People and Big People

Chapter 718: Little People and Big People

"Hans, why are you looking at me like that?"

After hanging up the "phone", Losa looked at Hans with some confusion.

The atmosphere that had been brewing seemed a bit hypocritical if it was said here again. Hans calmed down his emotions, grinned with white teeth, and said with a bright smile: "It's okay, sir, I just feel that I am a big shot now."

Losa felt a little puzzled by this.

Speaking of big shots, Hans, as his right-hand man, had already been one in the eyes of many Crusader nobles. Why was he feeling sentimental now?

"Of course, big shot Hans. Let's go, the ceremony will begin soon."

The ceremony he was talking about was an execution on a grand scale.

In addition to the coronation ceremony, city tour and banquet on the first day, Kurth also brought a team of people to eliminate the resistance forces in the city, including many diehards.

These people were much more steadfast in their beliefs than the Saracens who fled by boat. They were diehards and not worth reforming, so they were made into an example of others.

According to the interrogation, most of these people were actually pilgrims from outside the city, with only a few locals.

After all, the commercial atmosphere in Alexandria is very strong. Every year, there are endless Latin merchants, Greek merchants, and Persians coming here to trade. It is the largest port in the entire Mediterranean except for Constantinople.

Compared with it, Port Ella is just an emerging successor, with a population that has barely exceeded 50,000 so far, which is far behind.

It was really difficult for a fanatical Zoroastrian to live in this city full of Greeks, Jews and Coptic heretics.

In addition to these diehards, there are gang members who took advantage of the chaos in Alexandria to commit crimes and robbery, or big businessmen who hoard goods and drive up prices. In short, the worse a person's reputation is, the more likely they are to be targeted.

Killing the chicken to scare the monkey is one thing, and appeasing the people is another.

There is never a shortage of fools in this world who cannot see the situation clearly. Merchants who wanted to make a fortune in the chaos originally thought that when the Crusaders arrived, they could rely on their accumulated assets and their own ability to make money to join new masters and replace the positions of those big merchants who had fled.

However, they never imagined that Lothar wanted not only the small amount of wealth they offered, but all the assets they had accumulated over the years, including their heads that had aroused public outrage.

...

Aleppo.

Ivan and Baron Fulk, sweating under the scorching sun at noon, were waiting outside the palace gate with some anxiety.

A whole week had passed since they had sailed out of Egypt.

They had no plan to return to Aleppo, but unfortunately, things are unpredictable. The ship they were on encountered a storm halfway through the journey, and the mast was broken. They were discovered by a Saracen coast guard patrol fleet and towed back to the port of Suweidiye.

This made Ivan start to doubt whether the will of the holy fire was taking effect.

Ivan was forced to return to Aleppo, but he never expected that the first person he saw was not his master Takieddin, but he was summoned personally by King Saladin who was supposed to be in Damascus.

Inside the palace.

Saladin's face looked very bad, and even after drinking a magic potion, it still looked a little sallow.

The coalition forces suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Bululus, and the Crusaders ravaged Egypt, capturing cities and territories at will. Without Adil as their leader, the governors in various places acted on their own and it was difficult to organize an effective resistance.

Although resistance was useless, the fall of Egypt was only a matter of time after the failure of that battle.

But at least the later Egypt falls, the more time it can buy for the dying Ayyubid dynasty.

The defeat of Egypt and the death of his own brother Adil dealt a heavy blow to this heroic leader, who was already in poor health.

As the two Mamluks of Takieddin walked into the hall, he subconsciously propped up his tired body.

The older the lion gets, the less he should show any signs of fatigue.

"You two were originally planning to flee to the territory of King Rom and then go to Sassanid, right?"

Sweat broke out on Ivan's face. It was normal for the plan to be leaked. The sailors would know the destination by just asking the captain. But it was leaked so thoroughly that it could only be the betrayal of his so-called "confidant".

He knelt on the ground with a look of fear on his face, but was smart enough not to refute. If Saladin wanted to execute him for this crime, he would not have given him the opportunity to meet him.

Saladin's expression was gentle: "I can understand your actions. In Galilee and Bululus, you fought hard and without reservation. Now you want to jump off this sinking ship, which is also human nature."

The face of the black eunuch serving on the side changed drastically. If this kind of news were to spread, the already turbulent people's hearts would probably be shattered into pieces.

The Kasaji guards standing in the hall were still like statues, not moved at all by Saladin's words.

Ivan said quickly: "I was confused for a moment. I swear in the name of the Holy Fire that I will fight to the death for you to atone for my sins."

Saladin waved his hand and said, "I said, I am not going to pursue you. On the contrary, I am going to order you to lead an army to Sassanid to help our King of Kings to deal with the nomadic tribes coming from the east."

"This shouldn't conflict with your original plan, right?"

Ivan hurriedly thanked him with tears of gratitude.

"Your mission is to escort the envoys I sent to Baghdad to meet our King of Kings. When the time comes, you don't have to return with the envoys."

In the end, Ivan, with a grateful face, left the palace of Aleppo happily.

But when they were alone, the smile on his face quickly disappeared.

Baron Fulk looked relieved and said, "King Saladin is truly a benevolent and wise king. It is hard to find a monarch as kind as him in the whole of Europe."

Baron Fulk found that Ivan did not show any joy on his face. He could not help but wonder, "Why, isn't this exactly what you expected? His Majesty has also given us an army. I'm sure the Sassanid king will pay more attention to us, right?"

Ivan patted his shoulder helplessly. Going to Sassanid as a mercenary or as an escort of an envoy group was not a simple matter.

The former was a traitor of the Ayyubid dynasty. In Ivan's view, as long as he showed outstanding talents, there was a high probability that he would be entrusted with important tasks. The latter was deeply branded with the Ayyubid dynasty and was destined to have an additional barrier.

Although he will have an additional army under his command, it will also be subject to scrutiny, and it will be unclear who will command this army.

...

The black eunuch watched the two rebels leave and couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, why are you so lenient to these rebels?"

"Don't force those who should leave to stay. In the current situation, killing a small Mamluk general is not enough to deter anyone. Every talent has his or her own use. It all depends on whether you know how to use it."

"Besides, those Tatars are not so easy to deal with."

Saladin had a complicated expression. The purpose of the diplomatic mission was to exaggerate the threat from the Franks, call on the religious forces of the Sassanid Empire to fight against the pagans together and recover the Holy Land, in order to urge the Sassanid king to send troops.

This would certainly not please the Sassanid king.

Sending an old, weak, sick and disabled army to help the Sassanid king resist the pagans from the east is tantamount to putting the Sassanid king, the leader of the Zoroastrian world, on the fire - after all, I am in this situation, but I still have to send troops to help you deal with the pagans from the east. As the leader of Zoroastrianism, don't you also have to show your appreciation?

In addition, the envoys sent by themselves will carry a large amount of money to lobby various forces of the Sassanid Empire. It can be predicted that in Baghdad, there will definitely be calls for sending troops to retake the holy land in the future.

No matter what the final result is, the Sassanid king will definitely not be happy about something that is beyond his control. In retaliation, he will most likely send Ivan to the most dangerous battlefield.

The end of rebellion is still death, the difference is that he was able to exert some energy before he died.

Of course, there is still a way out.

It depends on whether this Russian slave named Abdullah is lucky enough.