It is true that the Crusades were exhausting the people and causing great harm to both sides of the war. But everything has two sides. While destroying everything, war will also stimulate technological progress. This has been proven by history. Almost every time science and culture develop greatly in human society, it seems that the catalyst of war is the greatest enemy of mankind and the greatest motivation. Which one is the main one and it is difficult to define.

For example, shipbuilding was originally three schools in Europe. One was the Nordics, that is, the Vikings shipbuilding. Their shipbuilding was thin and long, with both ends raised high, and a large sail was hung on one side. The sail pad was used in mixed use, and was generally made with fish-scale overlapping technology. The other was the Mediterranean basin of Southern Europe. This kind of shipbuilding was relatively short and thick, suitable for sailing in inland seas like the Mediterranean. It did not pursue sailability very much, but prefer increased load capacity and tall bow and stern staircase. The last school was the Arabs. More than half of the Mediterranean were occupied by the Arabs. Their hull was a bit similar to the Nordics, and they were also long and thin, and the sail pads were mixed, but the sail type was spinnade.

However, through the Crusades, Nordic ships also came over to help the crusaders transport troops. The Arabs saw Fang Fan's motivation when they were on the wind, and Nordics also saw the spinnaker-sail, a sail type that is more adaptable to the wind direction. The Southern Europeans looked at the Nordic Viking ship on the left and the Arabian pulp boat on the right. No one was stupid, they knew how to learn from their strengths and weaknesses, so everyone began to use their imagination and add various technologies to their ships. The Mediterranean became a melting pot, and several cultures and technologies were put together to melt them. The final thing was alloy, which was a technology that integrated the advantages of all parties.

For example, this Genoa schooner has obviously built a hull from Nordic Europe, while the sail type has learned from the Arabs and retained the high bow and stern, which should be the first batch of smelting techniques. Hong Tao felt that he was at the right time. If they were allowed to refine for another hundred years, his ship would probably not be able to completely crush them. Even if there were artillery, it would definitely be one side that was overwhelmed in terms of quantity. Once it was fought, it would be hard to tell who would win in the end. Compared with shipbuilding technology, artillery technology is much simpler. As long as you have used it, you can roughly imagine what it is. If someone seized another one, after a large national investment, one or two years will be too fast. A few years, or more than ten years will be made.

"My cousin is also the Emperor of the Empire! We can enter the Port of Palermo with dignity. Anyone who dares to be rude to us is the enemy of the Empire!" Carl did not chat on the boat, and soon ran back in a small boat. Before her feet were stepped on the deck, she began to shout at the top of her voice, for fear that someone would not hear that he was the royal family! If you want to talk about humans, it is not reliable to completely eliminate the class, and the pursuit of honor is also part of desire. If you get it, you don't want to let go. After being an ordinary person in Jinhewan for nearly ten years, it still has not wiped out the pursuit in Carl's heart. Once the sunshine and water are sufficient, it will sprout immediately.

"Dear Emperor's cousin, Knight, go and change into your knight's dress first. Just leave the remaining questions to your loyal captain. Should I follow it or it follow me?" Hong Tao despised Carl's virtue. To be precise, he envied, jealous, and hated himself for why he was not a royal family!

"Yes! I'm going to change my clothes, the new clothes you made for me! I want to stand in front of His Emperor in a glorious manner. I... My wife remarried... She married the German! She betrayed me!" Carl could no longer hear the teasing smell in Hong Tao's words. He was in a state of excitement, and he couldn't even find the cabin door. After turning two rounds on the back deck, he suddenly looked like a deflated ball. He squatted on the ground and covered his face and started crying. A man was crying.

"Okay, see, the emperor's cousin is nothing good, go whatever he should do. Don't watch the fun! You two drag him into my cabin, at least you are a captain, so you can't go back to the house and cry again. It's so embarrassing!" This is a return syndrome, just like staying in a prisoner of war camp for a long time. When you go home, you can get rid of control at the worst. The disease is not something that Hong Tao thought of himself. Europeans specifically studied it after World War II, and Americans also mentioned this disease after the Vietnam War.

"Old Ka, don't forget, you are a knight, a warrior of Christ! You went to the Eastern Expedition to preach Christ's love and to rescue persecuted brothers and brothers. This is your love for Christ! You don't plan to betray the church, right?" Hong Tao entered the captain's room alone and enlightened Carl, who was still crying on the chair. His way of enlightening people is really unique. What he said at the beginning has nothing to do with Carl's loss of his wife and children.

"I am still a Christian, I pray every day!" Carl was confused and trotted along with Hong Tao's thoughts, and then forgot to cry for the time being.

"Then you did not lose your wife because of defeat and being captured. You love Christ and achieved salvation for yourself through holy war. Congratulations, you succeeded, and it was very successful. Look, you joined the righteous group in the far east. There are not a thousand pagans who died at your hands, but five hundred, right? Then Christ redeemed you and gave you a beautiful Mia and a new child. In our words, it is called "Seun's loss"! Now that you are back with the best allies of Christ, it should be your great gain, not your loss. The whole world of Christ

The world will cheer for you, your name will be written into an epic, and will be admired by thousands of people like the emperor of the Empire. This is the honor of your family, the honor of your entire Hohenstein family! Your cousin will treat you as a hero, rather than a down-and-out knight who escapes from afar, loses his family, and possessions." As long as the other party follows his own thoughts, Hong Tao will have a lot of words waiting, and there is always one suitable for you. You will feel very reasonable for a while. As for the taste that has been thought about when you go to bed at night, it is a later story, at least the problem in front of you has been solved.

"Are you an ally of Christ? Didn't you say you hate... the one in heaven?" Carl didn't believe Hong Tao's words. Why did a person who didn't believe in any god and scolded God all day long suddenly become an ally of the Christ world?

"I am your friend, you are a loyal people to Christ, friends or friends, then I am an ally of Christ! Believing in religion or not has nothing to do with cooperation or not. I may not believe in Christianity, but I can respect all Christians, right?" Hong Tao used the method of transformation to explain to Carl the origin of his identity as an ally in the world of Christ, which sounded so warm.

"I won't lose my reputation? But my home and fief are gone. They thought I was dead, and even my cousin thought so." Carl was a little concerned and confused. Most people would do this when they had something to do. They usually say that others are very casual, such as Hong Tao's current state.

"Of course not. Your reputation is the reputation of me and Jinhewan, and it must not be damaged! The exquisite silk clothes, silverware, and perfume in the cabin are your honor, you brought back from the far east country. They are more valuable than the property you have lost. If you have time to cry, you might as well think about how much they should be exchanged for. I don't know much about the price in this regard, and you have to listen to your opinions." You can't just talk about it. It's better to use actual interests when necessary. The simplest actual interests are just one word, money!

"Yes... I still have Mia and the children! I also have allies! There is also a cabin of cargo... But I don't know much about their price..." Carl's tears had already dried up, and his eyes were full of red light now.

"Your cousin's ship is a cargo ship? No matter what it is pulled on, there should be merchants, merchants from the Holy Roman Empire. Isn't it clear if you come to ask them? If you really don't succeed, go and ask your cousin. He must have people who know the professions, and we are not in a hurry to sell them, so you can wait!" Hong Tao showed a bright smile. He was worried about how to get these test items into Cousin Carl's palace. Now it's easier to do it. He doesn't have to arrange it with Carl himself. The merchants on the ship will do it for him. It's said that they are also imperial merchants. What does it matter if they call it here doesn't matter, that's what it means.

After reinvigorating the discouraged Carl, Hong Tao could be lazy again. This guy was different from his cheeky skin. He was shameless. He was crying on the deck five minutes ago, but now he was fine. He was like no one else. He called him the emperor's cousin everywhere. Then he sat on the boat again, and soon brought an old man in a dress and dressed clothes. He talked about the price of goods directly on the deck, regardless of the fact that most of the crew members understood Latin, and could understand that the two of them were red in a fight for Fries.

What is Fries? The minimum face value currency unit of the Holy Roman Empire, copper, and the same meaning as the copper coins of the Song Dynasty. Through the bargaining of Carl with the merchant of the empire, and the situation about the Holy Roman Empire and Europe that Carl told during the chatting, Hong Tao probably understood the monetary system of the Holy Roman Empire at this time.

In fact, the whole of Europe is similar. This is not what Hong Tao heard, but what the author found out about the information. If you don’t bother, I will simply talk about the medieval European monetary system. There is very little information about this. I have checked several books and checked it online. I roughly summarized this point, right? What? You are annoyed! Then bear it. I have tried so much effort to find the information, but I didn’t let me say it, it’s very inhumane!
Chapter completed!