At the Damascus port, groups of Mongolians were sent onto the ship. The escorts were holding horse whips in their hands. They were not polite when they saw disobedient Mongolians. They just had a few whips on their way up. The poor Mongolians grinned. Such a arrogant attitude did not inspire the resistance of the poor Mongolians. In addition to insisting that their whole family should be together, thousands of Mongolians quickly succumbed to violent management and even rule.

As the only overlord of the Eastern Mediterranean today, these fleets were transported by the Song Dynasty ships. Compared with a few months ago, the number of ships doubled. However, the tonnage has obviously not doubled, because the new ships are basically about 1,000 tons. In addition to the tonnage, the sailors on the ship are no longer all Eastern populations. Many Mediterranean faces also appear on the ship.

Looking at such a huge number of Mongolians, the crew felt very stressed. The solution to the pressure was to quickly sail out to sea and transport the Mongolians to their destination. The relay station proposed by the Yuan Dynasty was Cyprus. Yang Congqing, director of the Eastern European Division of the Song Dynasty, felt that Cyprus was not suitable for being a relay station. The population here is too small and it is too far from Athens, a new center of power. If the Mongolians see through their hands and feet, it is difficult to defend. The fleet transported a large number of Mongolians to Rhodes, which is closer to Athens.

Rhodes Island was once the absolute ruling center of the Song Dynasty in the Mediterranean. A large number of Song people were on Rhodes Island. With so many Mongolians passing through, the Song people retreated to Athens. Only a small number of people were left. Even this small number of people, their report to Athens also described the spectacular immigration scene.

‘There are more than a dozen ships unloading numerous people every day, with a total of more than 20,000…There are not much water sources on Rhode Island, and these Mongolians almost have to drink all the water…both men and women are forced to take a bath, and the beaches for them to take a bath were stinky…If Zhao Guan’s family saw that more than 300,000 immigrants in such a short time, he would be very happy…’

Yang Congrong, director of the Eastern European Division of the Song Dynasty, was always worried about the problems that would arise when the Mongols were migrated on such a large scale, so he emphasized the problem of ship disinfection. Because of the lack of manpower, he had to recruit more Athenians to be sailors. Although there was no plague on the ship, the new sailors lost about 5% due to fatigue or other reasons. About half of these 5% were missing.

Yang Congrong didn't know that six missing people appeared in the Venetian City Council through secret transportation lines. As the overlord of the Eastern Mediterranean not long ago, Venice has now been forced into a desperate situation. In the desperate situation, Venice has not fallen apart, and they are still trying their best to seek self-rescue. Inquiring about the reality of the ships in the Song Dynasty is one of the self-rescue.

"Dear members of the Song Dynasty, we already know why the ships in the Song Dynasty are so huge. Their ribs are not wood, but iron." As spies, the sailors who mingled into the Song Dynasty fleet talked about his experiences.

Iron Ship Rib. This news made Venetian MPs take a breath of air conditioning. Venice has the best shipbuilding industry in Europe, and MPs are no strangers to shipbuilding and sailing.

"Those people from the Song Dynasty were able to produce ship ribs worth more than ten meters long, as big as those made of the largest tree?" Some members of parliament asked in confusion. The members could understand the significance of the iron ship ribs. What they did not understand was that someone could process such huge iron parts. Venice was not only powerful in the shipbuilding industry, but also gave birth to Venice's prosperous iron smelting industry and metal processing industry during the two hundred years of the Crusades. Shipbuilding required a large number of iron nails and other metal parts.

"Yes. Honorable MPs, although we were unable to go to the sealed compartment on the bottom floor, the ribs we saw were more than ten meters long, thinner than the wooden ribs made of big trees, but denser than the wooden ribs made of big trees. So we guessed that the keels of the Song Dynasty ships were also iron." The spy sailor decisively answered the question of the MPs.

As a great expert in shipbuilding, when the Venetians had to accept the possibility of using metal parts in large quantities, they understood that the Mediterranean ships could only build up to six or seven hundred tons, but the Song Dynasty ships often started at 1,000 tons. They were harder and more flexible, and the wood was not as good as iron. Moreover, the wood would deform in water absorption and dry states. Therefore, the ship ribs had to be trimmed after two or three months of use, otherwise it would be likely to be misaligned or even fall off.

The Venetian sailors who were mixed on the Dasong ship were all proficient in shipbuilding. After seeing the shape of the Dasong ship's ribs and so many huge screws fixed on the ship's ribs, they could probably infer that the Dasong ship's ribs did not need to be adjusted frequently. This is why the Dasong ships have been sailing on various seas and do not often enter the dock for preparation.

After learning about the characteristics of the ships of the Song Dynasty, the Venetian parliamentarians asked the hard-working spy sailors to go down and rest first. The next question was discussed. The leader of the parliamentarian group who made a tough statement last time was low, "Milan was massacred, and Florence was also massacred. We are now surrounded. The Mongols, like the earliest crusaders, did not leave any prisoners."

When the MPs mentioned the "earliest crusaders", the Venetian MPs looked very bad. After the earliest crusaders conquered Jerusalem, they would kill people when they saw each other. No matter whether the residents in the city of Jerusalem believed in the true God or the Cross, no matter whether they were men or women, old or young, they would be killed as long as they were living creatures.

Now this group of Mongolian troops with the "earliest crusade style" has arrived outside the city of Venice and has begun to prepare for the siege.

"The Pope convened a meeting, were there no reinforcements?"

"We can't afford the money they want." The chief of parliamentary leaders looked even more painful.

"What should I do? Do I need to surrender to the Mongols?" asked a member of parliament.

No one answered. The Mongolians' massacre of the city did scare the Venetian MPs, but it also strengthened the Venetian MPs' mood to never surrender to the Mongols until they were at the end of their journey. In such painful silence, suddenly some MPs stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, let's just surrender to the Song Dynasty."

This statement is very alternative, which makes the Venetian MP a little excited. The MP who proposed to surrender to the Song Dynasty actually had no special reason. His face turned a little bit shameful red because of the surrender. However, he still expressed his own reasons, "They must understand the importance of Venice when the Song Dynasty can build an iron-ribbed ship."

The Venetian MPs probably understood the internal logic of the MP's speech, "Even if it is to sell oneself, you must sell yourself to the strongest and most knowledgeable one."

The parliamentarians discussed for a moment, and some of them couldn't help but scold the dead priests who only saw money. The so-called meetings held by the pope were held for several months, but no country sent aid from a soldier.

If you hear the curse of the Venetian MPs, those who are convening a meeting in Marinburg will definitely feel very wronged. During the two hundred years of the Crusades, the Venetians may have the only two forces that really benefited. Another force is the Knights Templar.

The Venetians provided great benefits to the Eastern Expedition Crusaders by providing weapons, equipment and ships. When the money on hand was not enough, the Eastern Expedition Crusaders also attacked the Eastern Roman Empire for Venice and plundered the Eastern Roman Empire. Almost integrated the Eastern Roman Empire into the kingdom. In addition to providing transportation, Venice also purchased spoils at a low price and made money from both ends.

He sucked blood on the crusaders for two hundred years, and now he let Venice vomit a little. The forces participating in the meeting did not feel anything wrong. The forces representing the Marinburg Conference all had their own flags, and more than a dozen flags were hung on both sides of the Great Hall of the Knights of the Marinburg Order headquarters. Compared with the aristocratic flags of the Italian Northern Alliance that were destroyed a few months ago, these flags were much smaller. Secondly, the patterns on these flags were much simpler.

The most complex pattern on the flags are naturally the flags of England, France and the Holy Roman Empire. Even so, the flags of these kingdoms and princes are much simpler than the so-called dukes, earls and other medicines. As for the flags of the three major knights and several German dioceses, they are even simpler and bright, with cross patterns.

However, these crosses, kingdoms and great nobles are the sources of the complex badge patterns of the nobles. These badge patterns are the ancestors of the badge patterns of the nobles of the Northern Italian coalition forces, and the glory of the so-called northern Italian nobles comes from the forces represented by these patterns.

The Holy Roman Empire borders Italy and the Balkans. They know how difficult it is to go through the mountains and attack Italy hundreds of miles away. And intelligence shows that the number of Western Roman soldiers in Italy is hundreds of thousands. Everyone is not as strong as they are with so many enemies. Even if they are engaged in a large-scale war with Mongolia, they have to start in plain areas where they can exert their strength.

The Pope was a sacred spiritual leader, and even Urban II, who incited the First Crusade, had only described it.

The Turks have been ravaged in the "kingdom of God" in the East, and "all people of the rank" must "get up quickly" and "eliminate this evil race from the land of our brothers", otherwise they will be conquered by the "lowly, degenerate race, slave to the devil", which will be "what a great shame"!

The Pope called on the participants to "mount the journey of the Holy Sepulchre" and made a wish: "If anyone who set out to lose his life on the journey, on land and on sea, or in the war against the pagans, their sins will be forgiven in that hectare."

In order to drive farmers and urban poor to join the crusades, the Pope told the believers that the land in the East "flowers milk and honey everywhere", and Jerusalem is another "a paradise full of joy and joy". "Everything here is nothing but sorrow and poverty, while others are joy and abundant." He also announced: Those who participated in the crusades will ascend to heaven directly after death and do not have to be tempered in purgatory; farmers and urban poor who are unable to repay their debts can be exempted from interest on debts, and those who are exempt from taxes for more than one year.

The subsequent Crusades were carried out by the incited "Brothers of the Cross Cult", and the Holy See was hidden behind these people. If the Holy See was personally directed, it would lose its transcendent status.

This time the same is true. After the Holy See made a declaration of jihad against Mongolia, it was hidden behind the scenes. The powerful people in the secular world carried out and promoted jihad. Marinburg is the capital of the Teutonic Knights. The secularization requirements of the Teutonic Knights are very simple. The Grand Head said: "Everyone, Poland must become a vassal state of the Teutonic Knights. Look at the appearance of those nobles in Poland, they want to surrender to the Mongols. This is to hand over the soul directly to the devil in hell."

All the forces present knew the Teutonic Knights' ambition to annex Poland. If it were the past, they would probably have expressed their opposition directly. Now no one of the forces is willing to speak for Poland. Because many Polish forces are unwilling to let the coalition forces pass through their territory, nor are they willing to organize their own troops to attack Mongolia. This shows that these Polish men have a big problem in their loyalty to the Cross World. Faced with the jihad, the Polish men hope to stay out of the matter.

After the speech of the leader of the Teutonic Knights, the envoy of Albrecht I, the new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, said: "It is better for each force to divide the occupied areas in Poland, so that everyone can occupy these areas first and integrate the forces of these areas to fight against the Mongols."

As soon as this suggestion was released, representatives of England and France nodded one after another. The coalition forces of various countries would sooner or later fight with the Mongols, and this matter would not seem so urgent. How to deal with Poland is a major event that has to be made on the string. The division of Poland by various countries is much better than the Teutonic Knights' family who have eaten Poland.

After hearing the speech of the representative of the Holy Roman Empire, the Teutonic Knights was very angry. Before the leader could speak, the Swedish king said, "I think this method can be used to deal with Lithuania."

Not only did Poland not come to attend the meeting, but the Kingdom of Lithuania just sent a representative to attend the meeting. Not long after the meeting began, the Teutonic Knights State stated that Lithuania would accept the leadership of the Teutonic Knights State and could not allow the Kingdom of Lithuania to fight alone. The Kingdom of Lithuania did not expect to be suppressed by the Teutonic Knights State. Seeing that other countries did not mean to support the Kingdom of Lithuania, the representative of the Lithuania Kingdom left angrily and left loudly told the countries attending the meeting that Lithuania would never surrender to the Teutonic Knights State.

Sweden in the north knew that it could not get involved in Poland, and it would be great if it could bite a large piece of meat from Lithuania.

Not long after the meeting began, the Teutonic Knights State said that Lithuania would accept the leadership of the Teutonic Knights State and could not allow the Lithuanian Kingdom to fight alone. The Lithuanian Kingdom did not expect to be suppressed by the Teutonic Knights State. Seeing that other countries did not mean to support the Lithuanian Kingdom, the representative of the Lithuanian Kingdom left angrily and loudly told the participating countries that Lithuania would never surrender to the Teutonic Knights State.

Sweden in the north knew that it could not get involved in Poland, and it would be great if it could bite a large piece of meat from Lithuania.

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