Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 30 Finally found the civil engineering cattle and horses

Garys lay on the bed, his muscles aching all over. Isabel followed Garys' instructions and pounded Garys' calf and thigh muscles hard, each time very hard.

For an ordinary person, the force would be considered a beating, but to Garys it was still a little light.

"Why don't we change Simon? He's stronger..."

Although the daytime outburst only lasted for a few breaths, even a brief opening of the human body's restrictions is a very heavy burden for Garys today, and will cause a large amount of lactic acid accumulation in the muscles.

During the day, whether he was selecting young disciples or witnessing Cardoso being elected as the village chief, Gailis was actually forcing himself to stand there.

Only after everything was over could he show his weakness in front of the people he trusted the most and reveal his more human side.

Of course, Isabel's strength was indeed a little weak, and Garys' muscles were now stiffer than steel. After a few minutes of continuous and painless beatings, Garys only felt a little better. If it were Simon, his hands would be strong enough to make Garys scream out in pain.

Perhaps because of Garys's complaints, Isabel increased her strength and speeded up her movements.

After sensing Isabel's dissatisfaction, Garris no longer mentioned the idea of ​​finding someone to help him relax his muscles.

Then he reviewed the current situation in his mind.

During the day, because of physical fatigue and the fact that he had been too passionate in his speech on the podium, which had consumed a lot of energy, Gailis's thoughts were not very coherent.

Only now, during his break, was he able to take stock of his gains.

First of all, in Monterey Village, Garys's preaching has come to an end. To be honest, what he did these days cannot be considered a very systematic preaching. It just established the villagers' trust in Garys and inspired the villagers' courage to fight.

Of course, for Garys right now, this is already the limit.

Then in Monterey Village, Garys got six cows, two houses, and some fields from the village chief and the herbalist.

After capturing the village chief and the herbalist's family, Gailis distributed the floating wealth to the villagers who followed him at the time, but he did not deal with the other property.

As for the village chief and the herbalist, after explaining everything, Gairis handed them over to Cardoso and let the villagers deal with it according to their own customary law. It was not appropriate for him to interfere too much now. After all, no matter how advanced the judicial concept is, if it does not match the level of productivity, it will only be a castle in the air.

According to Frankish custom, the herbalist himself would basically end up at the stake...

As for the families of the village chief and the herbalist, they were indeed the beneficiaries of their fraud, but Garys felt that their situation was not yet to the point where they deserved death. However, if they continued to stay in Monterey Village, it would not end well...

Why not move them to Skarr Village?

Anyway, the Scar Village is in great need of soil, wood, cattle and horses to dig the soil... Just consider it as these two families atonement for their past lives.

As for the fields and houses of these two families, Garys asked Cardoso to divide them among the families whose people had died because of the herbalist's false medical practice over the years, as compensation to the families of those who had died in vain.

As for the six cows from the village chief's family and the herbalist's family, Garys left four to Cardoso, asking him to lend them to farmers who had no cows during the busy farming season, and he hoped to send the other two to Skarr Village. Garys had long-term expectations for the river valley where Skarr Village was located. It was a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it also had farmland and rivers, which impressed Garys. As long as the water conservancy could be developed well, it would not take long for it to become a small piece of heaven's chosen land.

In addition, the five young men selected by Garys from Monterey Village also need to join Garys' rural investigation team. Of course, now that I think about it, this so-called rural investigation team will have a strong missionary color.

While conducting rural surveys, we will also preach the ideas in Garys' mind to expand Garys' influence and win more support from the people.

However... relying solely on Garys's preaching is still too inefficient. Garys needs a scripture compiled by himself, or a booklet that records his core ideas.

When he thought about the fact that he couldn't even find paper to write some pamphlets, Gellis couldn't help but complain about the poor productivity in the Middle Ages.

I can’t say, I can’t tell you, that in order to write a pamphlet, Gérice had to personally restore the papermaking technique and build a papermaking workshop…

It’s not that the technology of papermaking is complicated, but the time, energy and manpower required during this period are all ridiculous.

After Garys has restored the papermaking technique, mastered the papermaking process, built a papermaking workshop, and carried out experimental production... he will then write the booklet and prepare for missionary work.

It is possible that Saladin had already won the Battle of Hattin and began to besiege the holy city of Jerusalem.

Time waits for no one. Garys must at least gain influence over the nearby rural areas before Jerusalem is conquered, so that he will have the strength to expand after the total collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Just as Gailis was worrying about how to speed up the process, Isabel suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about how to get the tax money that the tax farmer received this year?"

When Isabel mentioned the tax farmer, a light flashed in Gaillis's mind, and he suddenly realized something that he had previously ignored because he was too tired.

After killing the heavy infantry and capturing Ahmed during the day, he also subdued the followers who followed Gairis to Monterey Village. At that time, he thought that he finally had people to send to Skar Village to serve as laborers and cattle.

But now he realized that he had overlooked the two most important things.

One is the account book of the tax farmer!

It must record all kinds of information about the surrounding villages, from population, fields, to religious beliefs. It is essentially equivalent to a household registration!

As long as he has that information, Garys's understanding of the surrounding rural areas will leap forward by several levels.

Another reason is that since tax collection requires account books, the tax farmer Ahmed must have a lot of writing tools in his home! There must be a lot of paper.

Otherwise, how would that guy keep accounts, how would he count every penny? How would he calculate how much wealth he had taken from the peasants, and how much tax he had to pay to the lord?

Regardless of where Ahmed bought the papers, he must have a large stock of them at home. They are enough to be used for emergency writing of pamphlets and to speed up the progress of the missionary work.

(End of this chapter)