Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 239 Rum

Is there really a God? Are all our actions arranged by God?
For Gillis, this is a question that he will probably never be able to answer in his lifetime.

Garys had to admit that he had felt inspired.

However, this inspiration is not some sudden enlightenment in meditation, but a negative distance contact with suffering.

If it is God who is giving the call, then we can only say that God is in the suffering, in the faces of those who have experienced the vicissitudes of life.

God is not holy, but rather dusty.

It was this dusty god who summoned Garys, making him extremely obsessed and eager to change the world.

He didn't want to look back on the past, regretting for wasting his years or feeling ashamed for doing nothing. He wanted to devote his entire life and all his energy to the most magnificent cause in the world.

Garys calls himself the Son of God, and the former Garys might have felt uncomfortable.

But now, he is very open and honest. He is the Son of God.

This is the Son of God who is covered in dust, fallen into the world, and covered with ridicule and filth.

Those who are united as one are God, and those who are scattered and dwell in the four directions are the Sons.

Who says this God is not the creator of history?

History was conceived in His arms!

【We were once united in the tragedy of sin and death, and now we are united in Him.】

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Aaron felt that he had met a very strange guy. Indeed, very strange.

He took the man around the city for a week and earned a full 3 gold dinars.

After deducting the two gold dinars for the medicine, there was still one left.

If it were at the beginning of the year, this gold dinar would make Aaron happy for a few days.

After all, this means a month's expenses for their family.

But at the end of the year, this gold dinar can only make Aaron happy for one day, because according to the current prices, within 1 days, his family can spend all the gold coins.

In fact, if the other party hadn't said a lot of inexplicable things at the end, Aaron would have wanted to stay with him for a while longer.

Aaron felt at peace being with Garys.

But this kind of guy who speaks incomprehensible words must be a very troublesome guy.

Aaron was a sharp lad, so he didn't want to get into trouble.

How can this world change? How can the new heaven and new earth be new?
In the new heaven and new earth, will there be no need for people to serve as apprentices or to carry bags at the docks?

This society and this world cannot change.

No matter how Gillis describes Aaron's misery, as a person living in misery, it is difficult for Aaron to have passion.

But as soon as Aaron walked away from the street, he couldn't help but look back and take a look at the ordinary house of Garys.

These days, he was not without gain.

At least numbers, addition and subtraction, and simple multiplication and division were taught by Gellis in the intervals between investigations.

These knowledge, which should have been learned by paying money, became something given away casually by Mr. Gellis.

"If Mr. Gellis wasn't such a weird guy, maybe things would be better..."

In the end, Aaron ran to his home without looking back. This time, he had at least a pair of shoes on his feet, so his feet were no longer frozen. Unlike the young man Gailis had met in the pub, Aaron, as the eldest son of the family, could at least inherit his own house.

Without having to pay a lot of rent, Aaron was sure that he could support his family just by carrying bags...

Who knows, he might even let his child try to be an apprentice in the future...

Even though the life of an apprentice is extremely torturous, it is also a way to move forward.

The world is miserable, but Aaron still has hope for the future.

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Garys was in a bad mood, and it was difficult to simply try to reason with him and get him to join the gang without performing a "miracle" or revealing his identity.

There is no need to analyze it in detail, this world is just very bitter.

Pointing out the causes of suffering is not enough to make people resist. They will just ask, “So what?”

Even if Garys proposed some reform plans and explained to the other party how they could live a better life.

But the 12th century is the 12th century, and Aaron never went to school.

These things cannot be achieved overnight, we can only change them slowly.

However, the depressed mood was difficult to resolve, so Gailis chose to indulge himself once.

So he went back to the tavern that had previously operated as an inn and ordered a few more drinks.

Around him, there were many drinkers.

Today, Tyre's port and wharf area is extremely prosperous.

For the heroes who make a living on the ships, going to the tavern to have a drink, eat a fish, chicken, pork chop, and then pinch the waiter's plump buttocks will make people salivate and become sexually aroused.

Sailors always rely on wine and women after they come ashore, and if they can have a hearty dinner rich in fat, protein and salt, it will be easy to take large sums of money out of their pockets.

Especially now, because of Guillis, rum was born hundreds of years earlier.

Now, drunkards in the Levant are in luck.

Historically, rum was first invented in the Caribbean in the 17th century.

At that time, colonial sugarcane planters found that molasses extracted from sugarcane was sometimes discarded as waste, but some farmers discovered that molasses could produce alcohol after fermentation, so they began to produce alcoholic beverages.

These early spirits were called "kill-devil" and would eventually evolve into modern rum.

Coincidentally, before the Caribbean region began to produce sugarcane, Europe's main sugar supply actually came from the Levant or some islands in the Mediterranean.

Whether in Transjordan, Cyprus, or Tripoli, there are actually a large number of sugarcane plantations.

Therefore, it naturally has a unique advantage in brewing rum.

The brewing principle of rum is actually quite simple.

First, pre-process the raw material of rum, which is sugarcane juice, adjust the sugar content, internal ingredients and impurities, and then add yeast for fermentation. Different yeasts can bring different flavors.

After fermentation, it is distilled again and again. The rum produced in the workshop in Transjordan is distilled twice using a tower still, and some fruit flavors are added from time to time to further enrich the taste.

After distillation is completed, the next step is aging. However, the rum industry in Palestine is just emerging now, even though it has been sought after by sailors and has become their favorite.

But the output is still small and the price is relatively expensive.

　Second update. Let’s see if I can add two more before going to bed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)