Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 279 Guy? Ugh!
Keeping the crown but giving up the right of inheritance is actually not an uncommon practice in Western European culture.

Richard the Lionheart's father, Henry II, was a beneficiary of this operation.

The cause of the incident is actually the background of the book "The Hour of the Holy Temple", but the matter is more troublesome than the story in "The Hour of the Holy Temple".

In short, in order to compete for the throne of England, Richard the Lionheart's grandfather and grandmother, Isabella's uncle and aunt, fought for about 15 years with King Stephen who usurped the throne at that time.

All parties involved in the dispute over the throne were beginning to feel overwhelmed, so they reached the Treaty of Winchester.

King Stephen retained all his royal powers but acknowledged Henry II as his adopted son and heir.

This agreement meant that the ruling power of England truly fell into the hands of the House of Anjou.

The reason why Jeffrey made this suggestion was still a test. Compared to directly discarding the crown, as long as the crown was kept, everything was possible.

Even if we say now that Isabella's inheritance rights are recognized, what about the future?
The future is uncertain.

Who knows what kind of accident will happen and cut off the last line of Jerusalem-Anjou?

In short, Jeffrey needs time to connect.

But when many Franks learned that Guy still wanted to occupy the throne, they also began to join forces.

At first, the suggestions were fed back to the councillors, then there were various discussions on the streets, and later, when Aaron was delivering newspapers to the pub, he could hear the citizens' heated discussions.

"Where does Guy have the nerve to wear a crown? I thought he was dead a long time ago!"

"That's right! That's right! Three years ago, he was able to be crowned shamelessly, and now he's still lying there?"

Such shouting can be heard one after another in the pub. After work, there is no other entertainment. Like men in any era, they need alcohol and insults to express their feelings.

The only difference is that in the past, they often discussed some gossip that was true or false and came from nowhere.

After newspapers were invented, although the price of newspapers was still unaffordable for ordinary citizens, tavern owners would still get a few copies to attract customers, and then find someone who could read to read aloud to everyone.

The business of this pub became very popular in a short period of time.

Because the content in the newspaper provided these drinking men with a lot of more convincing and well-founded information.

At least, with the advent of newspapers, when people talked about the political situation in the kingdom, they were no longer like blind men touching an elephant or eunuchs chatting about brothels, but could imitate others and talk about something more practical.

It can be said that the emergence of newspapers has brought about a qualitative leap in men's entertainment.

"I also heard that when Guy was in Europe, he married a half-snake, half-human witch!"

"Not only that, you all don't know, his past experience has long been embellished! If it weren't for that, with his family background, how could he possibly marry Her Majesty Sibylla!"

As they talked, they revealed some expressions that all men understood, and for a moment, the pub was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Aaron didn't care much about the conversation between the adult men. Instead, he quickly took off a few newspapers and handed them to the tavern owner, then waved and left.

Newspapers in places like pubs are all pre-ordered, and the money never goes through the hands of the newspaper deliveryman.

On the one hand, in addition to discounts for long-term subscriptions, there is also the protection of newspaper delivery people.

Cities these days are barbaric and desolate, and the so-called order is only slightly more stable than outside the city walls. Young people wandering the streets with bags of money are undoubtedly giving potential criminals opportunities to catch them.

Today's newspapers are completely different from those in later generations. The paper size is actually not very large, only one double-page, 42 cm x 60 cm. Due to the poor quality of the paper used, the ink is not very clear, but because of the poor craftsmanship, the font size on the newspaper is quite large.

A newspaper like this, which is not printed well and has a small paper size, naturally does not have much content.

But those two or three thousand words already cover the kingdom's recent important affairs, the war situation on the front line, a new interpretation of church doctrine, and even the fight in parliament.

It is enough to make many people excited.

Then when the tavern owner opened the newspaper and saw the headline, he was stunned.

It clearly says:

The Lusignan family proposed in the parliament that they hope to reach the Treaty of Tyre, which stipulates that Guy will hold the crown until his death, and then Isabella or Isabella's heirs will inherit it.

The MPs had a heated discussion on the proposal, and nearly half of them were in favor of reaching the treaty to avoid civil war caused by the English and French Crusaders interfering in the kingdom's affairs.

"what?!"

The tavern owner lost his voice for a moment, then slammed the table hard and shouted to the drinkers in the tavern:

"Oh no! Something has happened. Guy really wants to continue to be the king!"

For a moment, the atmosphere in the tavern became tense. This matter of suffering twice was not something to be joked about.

When the battle took place three years ago, Guy had gathered nearly all the adult male Franks fit for combat from every town in the kingdom, and had only gathered an army of 30,000.

In other words, many of the Franks drinking in the taverns today are old soldiers who had fought with Guy. Some of them escaped by luck, some were redeemed after being sold as slaves, and some were released because of Saladin's kindness.

But no matter what happened, the Franks who had experienced that catastrophic defeat were all scared of Guy becoming king.

Of course, in a moment of journalistic glamour, the newspapers essentially wrote that nearly half of MPs were in favor of the treaty.

There was no mention of the voting results, nor was there any discussion about whether the treaty would be extended. In short, when the tavern owner subconsciously shouted that Guy would continue to be king, the atmosphere in the tavern became wrong.

Without even waiting for the tavern owner to continue reading the newspaper, the more martial Franks, after drinking a few drinks, suddenly stood up, raised their fists and started shouting at the people around them.

"Let's go! Let's smash up Lusignan's house!"

"Okay! Let's go! Let's go together!"

The tavern owner wanted to catch a few people who didn't pay, but he couldn't do it at all, so he just followed them out.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, a dozen drunken guys gathered from the tavern near the dock, shouting slogans and rushing towards Lusignan's mansion. Along the way, many Franks saw how brave they were and joined them.

After a while, by the time the Paladins received the news, hundreds of people had gathered.

And it wasn't just the Franks who were like this. Quite a few Greeks also mixed in. Even some people with ill intentions were prepared to take advantage of the situation.

When it seemed that the situation was about to turn into looting and smashing, a few Frank veterans who were still relatively clear-headed immediately stood up and stopped the hundred-plus people.

I didn't say much. In short, I just divided everyone into teams according to the habit of shield wall training, and got to know each other a little bit.

The Franks were certainly quite capable to survive in the Levant. In theory, all adult male Franks in the city had the responsibility to take up arms and participate in defense.

Any Frankish freeman had the right to carry weapons with him, which was completely different from Europe where class solidification had begun.

Just over a decade earlier, Barbarossa had begun issuing decrees prohibiting non-knights from carrying swords.

Since it is essentially universal military service, training on shield wall formations is conducted every year.

Although they have not yet escaped the level of a mob, they are at least a mob that can organize its personnel freely.

Those who were divided into teams stood at the four corners of the parade, restraining the crowd inside and ensuring that the procession developed in a controllable direction.

As the parade moved forward, the number of people in the team increased. The initial dozen people became more than a hundred people, and later on there were several hundred people and nearly a thousand people.

The Paladin of the Police Department mobilized quickly, but they could only watch as a huge crowd shouting "Guy, get out" passed by them.

"Are we just going to do nothing about it?" An ordinary police officer who had just joined the job asked Paladin, who was leading the team.

"Do we have the ability to manage it? Besides, do we need to manage it?"

The Paladin who led the team shrugged. Although he was now a silent public tool of society, it did not mean that he did not have his own preferences.

Guy?

Nonsence!

In short, the parade passed in front of many police officers from the Ministry of Police, and then the proposal from the Ministry of Military Affairs on whether to mobilize troops into the city was also suppressed by the minister.

The seemingly efficient government agencies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem all tacitly acted as if nothing had happened that night. At most, the Ministry of Police contacted personnel to prepare for special situations such as firefighting.

This is not an exaggeration. Because of the weather, some people in the parade actually held up torches!
……

Garys gave a strong push on the boulder called Time, and the boulder began to roll by itself.

More than a year ago, Gérice began to build momentum to a certain extent, arranging for Isabella to attend more public occasions to make the Franks familiar with her.

At the same time, some ambiguous news about Guy was also arranged, which was actually a rumor, but it was in line with the cognition of people of that era.

All we can say is that the Frankish old farmers have their own unique worldview.

Gellis stood on a building some distance away from the parade crowd, accompanied by a number of Paladins.

After such an accident, Gaillis naturally could not sit idly by. This kind of mass incident could easily lead to tragedy in the Middle Ages.

Fortunately, so far, the group of people marching have strong self-discipline, and if there are occasionally some guys who want to take advantage of the situation, the Paladins who follow them can stop and deal with them in time.

Purdock on the side looked a little worried.

"That's not good. Isn't this against the law?"

“Do we have laws in place to do this?”

Garys spread his hands.

Puldock thought about it and it seemed to be true.

There is no written legal system in the Second Kingdom today. To be precise, it is still in the state of customary law.

Although the kingdom issued many decrees to establish the kingdom's institutions and determine administrative taxes, there were no restrictions on the gathering of the people.

Of course, in fact, in this era, there is really no way to restrain them unless cavalry is sent.

"I think that's pretty good."

Because power cannot be obtained through charity, someone needs to demonstrate his or her own strength in order to fight for it.

Garys was calm and composed, more of a bystander watching the fun and making sure things didn't turn out badly.

But the situation in the Lusignan mansion was different. Guy was really panicked. He once again felt the dilemma of being ambushed and besieged on all sides.

The only difference is that last time they were surrounded by Saladin’s tens of thousands of troops, while this time they were surrounded by thousands of mobs.

This mob is not an ordinary mob, but a well-trained mob!
I won’t say anything about those holding torches, but why did some of these guys in the mob take out shields and spears and start to form a shield wall!

They really treat King Guy as an enemy and are coming to fight him, right?

Even if he wanted to fight a war, he had no troops around him now. His house was surrounded by three layers of enemies, and he couldn't send out messengers to call for help.

And Jeffrey in the mansion was also pacing back and forth in the room. As the oldest of the three brothers, he had seen all kinds of storms.

But this kind of situation where a house was surrounded by thousands of mobs and could be broken into and set on fire by the whole family at any time was the first time I had seen it.

It's not that Geoffrey had never encountered dangerous situations, but he never thought that Guy, who held the crown and was considered a king, could be surrounded by the Franks? !
What kind of king is this?

"What should I do? What should I do?"

Guy asked again and again.

"The solution now is to appease those people outside. It would be best if you personally come forward."

"If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. If you don't face up to your responsibilities as a king, how can you possibly sit firmly on the throne in the future?"

Faced with the rebuke from his third brother, Guy took a few deep breaths, but he really couldn't think of any other solutions.

This mansion was built temporarily and there is not even a tunnel. Unless the mob outside disperses on their own or is driven away by other troops, there is no way out.

As for the other armies?

You're thinking too much. You don't have any hope. Those troops are in cahoots with Balian!

After analyzing the pros and cons, Guy kept comforting himself and convincing himself that the explosive people outside were nothing to be afraid of.

As long as he put on his armor and crown and his knights acted as powerfully as possible, it would be enough to calm the situation.

Mainly, there is nothing much to do other than this.

If you continue to stay in the house and someone throws a torch on the house, you will be dead!
(End of this chapter)