"This is easy to deal with. I have many Saracen friends. Through them, I can find oil. They will be happy to use whale oil to exchange oil. But you have to take me there again to go to Sun City. I don't know the specific route, you are all guided by you." Carl thought it was a big deal. After hearing Hong Tao's explanation, he shrugged and expressed his disdain.

"Don't rush to promise me that I'm not asking you to give it to you for one year or three years, but forever. It's not for free. It's sold to Sun City according to the cost of your exchange and your profits. Only in this way can your castle and territory have the resources to grow and grow. In addition, I also need your Saracen friends to go to this area to inquire where there is a place to buy oil. As long as they are willing to sell it, no matter what the price, they will help me buy that piece of land and hire people to mine it. Only in this way can they ensure uninterrupted supply. If possible, it's better to buy the nearby port, but I think it's very difficult, and renting it. You can do this. The funds for purchasing land and hiring soldiers will be provided to you. Do you think it's difficult to do this?" Hong Tao's plan is far from being as simple as trading oil. He needs a place that can provide oil for a long time. Except for war and natural disasters, it will not be affected by anyone or the country.

"... So troublesome! Your Majesty, I suggest you go and talk to William about this matter. He also has many Saracen friends, even the king. In this matter, he should help you more, so I will just be a worker. But he did a fool, a big fool! He expelled the Pope from the peninsula and even occupied Rome. Now he is almost the public enemy of the Christ world. The German territory in the north basically no longer regards him as the emperor of the empire. If Louis and Henry were not trapped here, they would have to attack him." Carl was two years older than Hong Tao, and he was no longer the impulsive young man. He supported Carlborg here independently for many years, which gave him some strategic considerations. He did not directly accept Hong Tao's request, but measured his abilities and then gave Hong Tao a suggestion he thought was the best.

"It's all my business to be beaten or not? I don't have the ability to save him at the moment! I'm just a bare-headed emperor. You don't want me to go back and ask the Royal Navy to help your cousin fight, right? Even if I'm willing, the Imperial Council can pass?" Hong Tao and Carl didn't have so many polite words, so I can say whatever I think. This is a life-long friendship, and it won't affect the relationship between both parties because of a sentence or two.

"It is not yet time to fight a war, and the church has no power to attack William. The German Dukes just follow the flow and they will not lead the way to send troops south. But if this stalemate continues, it will be very unfavorable for his country. He needs an opportunity to ease the conflict with the church, but he will not let the Pope return to the peninsula. William is stubborn on this issue. He would rather the lords around him slowly leave him than let the church step on again.

His peninsula. Your Majesty, you are the wisest person in the world. If you can help William through this crisis, I think William will definitely help you find a suitable land on the east coast. He has a much closer relationship with the Saracens than me. What I know is just a merchant and a small chief. He has always communicated with the kings of those people." Carl went around a big circle and planned to ask Hong Tao to help his cousin, but this time it was not purely for help, but for the exchange of interests.

"Very good, this is fair, I accept it!" Hong Tao stared at Carl with a slanted eyes for a long time before he firmly agreed to Carl's suggestion. Carl is mature, and he is also, no matter how unfamiliar he is, he will not have the chance to be familiar with it. Hong Tao likes this way of exchange of interests the most, because this method is the most stable and a hundred times better than promises to each other.

"Hehehe, it's great, do you have an idea?" Carl couldn't help laughing when he heard Hong Tao's answer so simply. This was to be happy for William. With Hong Tao's help, he believed that there was no problem in the world that could not be solved, at least he had never seen it.

"No... go prepare the boat. I will think about it slowly on the way. If I go to the toilet, I can come up with ten or eight solutions. It's not worth brainstorming in advance." Hong Tao pretended to be able to reach a level that could not be higher, as if he was the size of the earth.

"I'll go now and take Your Majesty to Naples by myself, which is William's new capital." But Carl still took this trick, and he lost all his hard work on the journey, and rushed out with great strides.

"You really have a way to help William? He has caused quite a lot of trouble. I think there is no bigger problem than this." Jiang Zhuyi did not trust Hong Tao as much as Carl. She felt that this matter was difficult to solve because she considered herself a smart person and could not think of any good solution.

"What if I solve it? Do you dare to bet? The bet is you! You have to do whatever I say in the future, and you are not allowed to be perfunctory." Hong Tao could hear Jiang Zhuyi's voiceover, and took this opportunity to completely surrender this woman who thought she was very smart and indeed very smart. Sometimes it is not a good thing to be too smart, and it is easy to cause trouble for herself.

"I would like to listen to you if I don't bet... But I still want to play this bet. If you don't solve this big problem, you have to give me a piece of land, so that I can be the queen like your picture, dare not!" Sure enough, this woman already had an idea in her mind. She had just heard of the name Picture twice, and she remembered it firmly.

"No problem, wait for me here to see if your man has the ability to control you. Don't be fooled then!" Even if William is not in trouble now, Hong Tao has to cause some trouble for him. For himself, Jiang Zhuyi is much more important than the Pope, and he must completely conquer her, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

In the more than three years after Hong Tao left, not only did East Asian history deviate from its original trajectory, but Europe was also deceived by him. The Crusaders on the Iberian Peninsula became a mess. The knight army organized by France and Britain not only did not drive the Saracens on the south side of the peninsula into the sea, but also had two major counterattacks, pushing the front more than a hundred kilometers north, which was larger than the original territory.

At the beginning, the Crusaders' army of the Western Expedition was unstoppable. Starting from the central part of the peninsula, with the cooperation of the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Kingdom of Aragon, advanced southward from the west, middle and east directions of the peninsula. After about a year of battle, many cities occupied by the Saracens, including Lisbon, Cordoba, Valencia, etc. were recovered, and the Islamic countries on the peninsula were once compressed into a narrow area less than 100 kilometers away from the southern seaside, and were about to win a great victory.

But from the second year, the resistance of the Saracens suddenly became stronger. They crossed north from several ports south of the strait, many Berber reinforcements. These black-skinned soldiers were wearing thick whale leather armor. In addition to holding scimitars and spears, they were also equipped with a large number of large crossbows. Like those sold by Carl to the Crusaders, they were also made of whale baleen and whale bones, but they were larger in size, with higher range and power.

Now the Knights' army could not withstand it. As soon as both sides glanced, they threw spears over to the side. This thing could easily pierce the knights' armor, and even the chain armor inside could not be blocked. When both sides approached a certain distance, another large number of crossbow arrows shot over, whether made of steel or wooden, they were the natural enemies of the knights. They could not dodge at close range. As long as they were shot, there were few that could not be shot through.

What are the knights? They are elite soldiers from European countries and elites with expensive training costs. If the elites cannot gain an absolute advantage in confronting ordinary soldiers on the other side, then this battle cannot be fought. Not to mention whether human life is worth it, this expensive fee alone can make all the monarchs of various countries die of poverty.

The Berbers are fine. Although their soldiers have to be trained, the cost is much lower. This is how poor people are. They dare to fight with you on the battlefield if they give them a meal. In addition, they have a firm belief. Faced with these European coalition forces, they do not care whether they are knights or miscellaneous soldiers on the other side, throwing guns, crossbows, shooting, and then they fight in close combat.

This style of play just hit the weakness of the Knights. They could not afford to consume it, and they could not even afford to exchange. Several cities that had just been obtained were lost one after another. Four months later, the city of Cordoba was snatched back by the Berbers. Taking advantage of this heat, the entire Saracen army began a Jedi counterattack, with no more or less. It took more than a year to push the front back. Then they also collected some interest and captured the city of Toledo, which was originally the base of the crusaders, and also captured the younger brother of King Castile who was defending here.

Regarding where the Berbers got so many large crossbows, Louis IX once ran to Carl's fort angrily to settle the score with Carl. The crossbows used by the other party were almost the same as those sold to the Crusaders, but they were of different sizes. Selling arms on both sides was enough to be fucked, and he even sold the most powerful one to the enemy. This traitor in the Christ world! This king, who was extremely loyal to God, was already anxious. If Carl could not have a reasonable explanation, he would not attack the Saracens first and mobilize troops to destroy Carl's fort.

However, Carl did not give Louis this opportunity, nor did she explain it to Louis. She only gave Louis a few Berber prisoners, and then told Louis that he had caught it at sea and that the ship was full of large crossbows. Even if Louis did not come to him, he would go to Louis and Henry. Carl asked Louis to thoroughly check the internal forces of the coalition, who spread the manufacturing technology of the crossbows and also had to compensate him for his economic losses!
Chapter completed!