Chapter 820 Crusaders Civil War (Happy New Year's Eve)

"Ms. Eve is here."

The sharp-sounding palace chief, a white-faced eunuch, loudly informed him, and led a witch into the hall.

The person who came had long weed-like messy hair, and his body emitted an unpleasant smell. I don’t know how many days I have been staying in the library and haven’t taken a shower once.

Even though Barcelona had already heard of the woman from Anna, she still felt dark when she saw her.

The palace chief general said with a sad face: "Sorry, Your Majesty, Ms. Eve is determined not to take a shower before coming to see you."

Ms. Eve obviously didn't like dealing with outsiders very much. She looked around a little crampedly, holding her fingers at the hem of her skirt, hoping to leave this gorgeous palace and return to the dark library immediately.

Barcelona feels like she is facing a homeless man. She resists discomfort and compliments against her conscience: "I heard that Ms. Eve is wise and natural, and she is not careful about the details. Today, she sees this really. Now the Latin Crusaders have betrayed the covenant. , and was in love with the Venetians, and Anna was not close to her, so she asked Ms. Eve to teach me how to get rid of the enemy."

"Ah, are the Latins going to call? When will we run away? Ah, no, the Empire Library still has so many books. If we run away, what should we do if those books?"

Ms. Eve asked in a bit of silence.

Barcelona felt that she was dark again. If Anna had not given the instructor, she would never have been able to entrust the important task of protecting the imperial capital to such a person who seemed to be unreliable at all.

"Ms. Eve, the empire is in a critical survival, but we are not without a trump card. Anna has invited the King of the Crusaders of Egypt, the general of the Limassol Military Region I have conferred to help, and the governors from all over the country The reinforcements are already on the road. As long as we firmly defend them, we will reverse the outcome once the reinforcements arrive."

Eve breathed lightly when she heard this: "Hello Losa, Losa is a reliable helper. Both legends died at his hands. It would be no problem with him. But I'm afraid I can't help you. busy."

"We need time, Ms. Eve! With the style of the Frank barbarians, after they conquered Constantinople, all the collections of the Imperial Library will be burned by them. Do you really want to sit back and watch all this tragedy happen?"

"How is that possible!"

Eve seemed to have heard something unbelievable: "Did you say that the Latins attacked Constantinople to plunder the collection of the Great Library?"

"The Franks are vulgar, how could they understand the importance of those precious classics?"

Eve's face turned red. Even though she was cowardly, she felt extremely angry when she heard someone wanted to burn her cherished books.

"I... I will take charge of the magic circle left by Anna, and never let those Latin people get closer to the library!"

Wearing a golden crown with more than 200 pearls inlaid, Lagaia enthusiastically held the other person's hand: "Then please."

…

In the Eastern Mediterranean, more than ten transport ships were escorted by two galloping warships, slowly sailing on the calm sea.

Losa rubbed his drowsy head, walked out of the closed cabin, took a deep breath of fresh air outside, and just now, he had just completed his promotion.

The process was also quite thrilling. He participated in the Japanese turmoil in the Renchen, that is, the Wanli war to aid Korea, and he experienced the various strange magics of the Fusang Kingdom.

However, just like before, the war that could have won in history was not difficult for him. It was nothing more than just based on the national sentiment of the previous life.

In fact, he found a place to squat and could still pass the level perfectly.

"That's... a colossus of Rhode Island?"

Losa looked at the end of the sea level from a distance and could vaguely see a giant statue spanning two islands looming in the mist on the sea.

The Rhodes Colossus in this world has not been damaged, but is still a wonder in the Mediterranean.

He frowned and said, "It seems that our journey is very smooth. At this speed, we should be able to arrive in Constantinople in three days."

Jeanna nodded and said, "Along the way, I encountered some ships that transported supplies to the Crusaders, but they did not attack us. After all, we were also under the banner of the Crusaders."

She paused and asked, "By the way, if you want to fight a naval battle, why don't Captain Hogg be recalled?"

Losar said helplessly: "I don't know where Captain Hogg has sailed now. He had previously said that he wanted me to send some people to take over the Sarasen Commercial Port on the East African coast, and I didn't think I had no more energy."

On the coast of East Africa, which was looted by Captain Hogg, some time ago, undead sailors drove small boats full of treasures.

Hog probably ran too far, beyond the scope of the communication emblem given by Anna. According to the information he had sent back before, it was around the coastline of Madagascar and crossed the Indian Ocean.

Compared with the East African coast, if he could open a commercial port in Indonesia, especially the Strait of Malacca, it would be obvious that he would benefit more, but in the short term, he would still be out of reach.

"Anna's communications emblem is centered on herself, and it's already great to be able to connect from Sicily to the Horn of Africa."

Jeanna explained: "The communication array that Frelin studied has a transmission radius of only fifty kilometers."

This is the technology learned from the Texans in the giant ship world yesterday, but the Texans' technical level is already low and it is impossible to communicate across the Pacific Ocean like the British.

That has already utilized the latest wireless telegraph technology, which belongs to the category of magic technology.

"We are almost entering the Aegean Sea, but we haven't encountered the Venetian fleet yet. Didn't the merchants in Cyprus inform the Venetians of our intelligence?"

Jeanna was puzzled and said, "It's normal that they didn't. The Venetians were not the main force in the siege of Constantinople this time. As creditors, it would be abnormal for them to fight the whole game in person, right?"

Lothar shook his head and said, "But the Venetians are the masterminds behind all this."

No mistake, one sentence, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one forum!

The conflict between the Venetians and the Greeks has a long history, which can be roughly traced back to the Komnenos family, Alexius I, who led the First Crusade. In order to get the help of the Venetians, he granted them a series of tax exemption privileges.

Although this emperor has made many achievements and his political skills are also first-class, he is obviously not familiar with economic affairs.

From then on, the cause and effect were planted.

Even if the successors of the empire did not understand economics and trade, their increasingly sluggish purses were a painful experience, which no monarch could tolerate, and defaulting on debts became an inevitable choice.

However, the emperors who were keen on playing tricks rather than being dignified and upright were too shady in their style of doing things.

If Losa were the emperor, although he would not recognize the Venetian trade agreement, he would rather declare war on it and abolish these clauses through a war, rather than letting the Latin massacre happen and inciting hatred between the Greeks and Latins.

In the final analysis, the empire was too weak, and the rulers of the empire regarded the Western Latins as barbarians, wanting to manipulate them to fight for themselves, and always being smart, thinking that they could use tricks to play with the Latins in their hands.

Little did they know that for the "barbarians", conspiracy and intrigue would never win their respect.

If the Empire had won the war in Sicily with overwhelming force, it would have been useless for the Venetians to instigate the Crusade.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter whether Venice takes action or not. After we enter the Aegean Sea, even if we abandon the ships and march from land, they can't stop us."

Lothar paused and smiled, "Now my only worry is that when we get to Constantinople, the flag on the top of the city has been replaced by the Crusaders' flag."

Historically, Constantinople faced this crisis and performed quite poorly. It was easily captured by the Crusaders twice.

The Theodosian Wall, which the Greeks were proud of, did not play any role at all. The Crusaders broke through the city from the sea with the help of the Venetian ships.

Jeanna asked curiously, "What do you plan to do if Constantinople is really captured by the Crusaders?"

"If Lagaia is still alive, help her take the throne and then fight back."

Lothar's tone was quite relaxed. The power comparison between the enemy and us was already a rich battle compared to the battle he had actually experienced, where only the lonely city of Constantinople was left.

"If the queen is dead, support Anna to take the throne."

As he said this, he looked up at the three-headed dragon flying with the fleet.

"Anyway, I don't think I'll stay and become the emperor of the Latin Empire."

I don't know if the vice emperor of the empire is an imperial title in the system.

To verify it, we still have to wait until the enthronement ceremony to see the result.