Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 69: Seclusion and Contract

Is there a small language in the world that is so similar to Arabic?
For a moment, Zayd could not tell whether the savior Isa mentioned by Gairis was the Isa in his memory, nor could he tell whether the Imam mentioned by Gairis was the Imam of the Sunni Islam or the Imam of the Shia Islam.

The word Imam means "leader" or "guide" in Arabic. Anyone from the leader of prayers in a mosque to the head of state can be called Imam. The word itself is not specific, nor does it indicate the size of leadership authority.

It is similar to the Chinese words "chief", "adult" and "leader".

But Zayed is not an ordinary mainstream Sunni Muslim, but a Shiite Muslim.

The word Imam, in the context of Shia Islam, refers specifically to the political and religious leader of the Islamic State...

Even the Shia sect of Islam believes that the Imam is the medium of God's grace to mankind, the guardian of all things in the world, who can know knowledge unknown to ordinary people and can communicate with angels or spirits...

In short, in the context of Shia Islam, the term Imam is almost transcendent and is actually a "demigod".

Such a sacred person naturally has a lofty status in Shia Islam, and the inheritance of his identity must be handled with great caution, which is bound to lead to some struggles for inheritance rights.

Based on the recognition of the number of certain common Imams, Shiites can be divided into Twelver Shiites, Seven Shiites, Five Shiites, etc.

The Twelve Imams and the Mustaliyya sect of the Seven Imams refused to acknowledge the death of their last Imam and instead declared that their Imam had gone into seclusion.

Simply put, although their Imam can no longer be found, he is definitely still alive and will return from [seclusion] before the end of the world to restore the order of the earth.

And now a Frank stood before Zayd and said that he was the Imam of all the peoples of the earth.

And just now, Zayed had witnessed a scene of transcendence. This Frank man was as unstoppable on the battlefield as an ancient Greek demigod hero.

This caused his brain to almost crash.

Even if the Gairis in front of him was a fake Imam, Zayed would not confront him in person. After all, the previous Bedouin leader had been cut in half in public.

After a long time, in order to restore himself to normal, Zayd's brain chose to automatically ignore the second half of Garys' words.

He just assumed that Zayd was hallucinating, or forced himself to believe that what Gairis said was actually a minor language similar to Arabic.

People, only by ignoring the elephant in the room can you live a carefree life.

After sorting out his confused mind, Zayd began to communicate normally with Garys.

As a businessman passing through Alexandria from Cairo, Egypt, Zayed brought Gheris considerable information.

Among them, the information about prices in Cairo and Alexandria was particularly valued by Gellis.

Gailis received a rather unexpected piece of information from Zayd. Over the past year, the prices of commodities such as iron ingots, camels, horses, grain, etc., have not changed significantly compared with previous years.

Everything was extremely peaceful, without any hint of impending war.

Of course, this statement is actually quite strange. After all, in the past few hundred years, war has never been far away from Egypt...peace is the outlier.

It should be said that merchants like Zayed had no idea that a war would break out next year, led by Saladin, which would directly destroy the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

This is actually quite strange. A duck knows first when the river water warms in spring. The precursor to war will always be to cause waves in the market first.

Garys hid his doubts and invited them to the village of Skarl after learning about the goods in the Zayed caravan. After all, many of the goods in the Zayed caravan were what Garys and his group urgently needed.

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In the evening of that day, Zayd's caravan, led by Gairis and others, left the original trade route and turned into the river valley.

The caravan contained camels, carriages, merchants, servants, guards, pilgrims...

They looked at the valley where the Skarr village was located with great curiosity. In the past, they did not realize that just a fork in the road could lead them to a peaceful valley that was almost like a paradise.

After all, the river valley where the Scarr village is located is not on the original trade route, and it is not convenient for caravans to pass through here because the river here is too deep and there are many hills.

The arrival of this caravan was also a pleasant surprise for the village of Skarl.

Even Gellis had never thought at first that a simple patrol would actually run into a caravan setting off from Cairo, passing through Alexandria and heading to Jerusalem.

Yes, patrol.

More than a month had passed since the previous battle with Eric's army, and it seemed as if the town of Alhadi had been forgotten by Reynard, and it had been a fairly peaceful time.

Over the past month or so, Gelis has completely integrated the surrounding villages and the town of Al-Hadi.

Of course, this integration does not mean that Gellis appointed some officials or established a top-down administrative system.

As for the cultural level of the people around Garys, it is terrible, not to mention that everyone is illiterate.

For example, the person with the best math skills around Gillis, apart from himself, is actually the tax farmer Ahmed...

But this guy Ahmed is about to die, and no one can save him.

As for the doctor Abdullah and the imam Khalid of the mosque, although they have a high level of education, one is a doctor and the other is a religious person.

Doctors treat diseases and save lives and promote medicine.

Religious people distinguished the scriptures for Gerris and appeased the people.

These two people have their own expertise and are not cross-disciplinary talents. Even if they really go across fields, they don't have enough energy.

Apart from the Arabs, the cultural level of the Franks is even more difficult to describe...

John is a talented person, but that is limited to leading troops in battle. As for his civil management level, he can only manage a men's camp and a women's camp at best. He is really managing the village of Skarl using military methods.

As for the other knights, they were even worse. At best, they were all good at blacksmithing and repairing houses.

Let them manage the village?

Don't force others to make things difficult.

Therefore, Gellis' integration of the surrounding villages and towns was achieved based on a "feudal" contract with a bit of "social contract theory" color.

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(End of this chapter)