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Chapter 1618: Westerners Enter the Grand View Garden (Part )

“Maybe I can’t even afford the price!”

Baldwin IV smiled bitterly and said that the leprosy was under control, which should be a great joy, but apart from the initial relief, he felt helpless afterwards. His body was getting better, but the shackles on his neck were becoming more and more solid.

“Can leprosy really be cured?”

  Saladin looked at Baldwin IV and whispered that he didn't believe that the disease that God punished mortals with could be cured by mortals. Only God can fight against God!

"If you ask me, then it is possible! God's curse has been lifted!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"This is impossible!"

  Saladin growled in a low voice. Although he did not believe in any God, he respected the gods, even if they were gods from other churches. God was God!

"In Eastern terms, this means that Western gods cannot control Eastern affairs. Neither God nor Allah can do anything to Eastern people."

Baldwin IV spoke.

Saladin looked at Baldwin IV in disbelief. He couldn't believe that a devout Christian king would say such a thing.

"Don't look at me like that. Believing in God devoutly does not conflict with analyzing problems rationally. You know very well that the glory of our God cannot reach the East!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

Saladin remained silent. His beliefs did not allow him to say such words, and even having such thoughts should be punished by whipping. However, he unconsciously agreed with Baldwin IV's blasphemous words.

The two men led the army eastward and encountered many masked sand bandits along the way. The two sides met but did not fight, and the sand bandits turned around and left.

"It's chaos! It's chaos!"

Saladin gritted his teeth and said that the whole desert was in chaos. Merchants didn't want to do business, herdsmen didn't want to graze, and even bandits didn't want to plunder.

“Everyone is thinking about Taurus, everyone is thinking about gold!”

Baldwin IV said.

"Why did those Manicheans suddenly appear? Shouldn't they have all died?"

Saladin said viciously.

Baldwin IV did not say anything, but just observed his surroundings.

"This place is close to the bay. According to legend, this is already the territory of Qi."

Baldwin IV spoke.

"What do you mean?"

Saladin asked, frowning.

"What else did you see besides bones and dead bodies?"

Baldwin IV looked at Saladin and asked.

"You mean the local civilians didn't flee?"

Saladin quickly realized that although he saw many corpses along the way, the civilians in the towns near the sea had not left at all.

"Not only that, you came here sick, but these people didn't come out to welcome you. Don't you think it's strange?"

  Baldwin IV said, Saladin is now the most famous person in the Caliphate. Wherever the believers go, how dare they not go out and kneel to greet him?

"These... these people actually rebelled!"

Saladin's face turned pale. Apostasy was far more hateful and intolerable than paganism.

"no doubt!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

The soldiers behind Saladin were furious. They swung their scimitars to chop open the wooden doors of the houses and kill the apostates.

But at this moment, the earth began to shake, and a large group of cavalry came galloping, led by a bald fat monk.

"What are you guys doing here?"

Lu Zhishen waved the Zen stick in his hand and shouted, and the cavalry behind him also surrounded the person in front of him.

"General, we are here to pay our respects to His Majesty the Emperor of Qi today!"

Baldwin IV bowed and spoke.

"Are you guys annoying? We see each other every other day! Do you think my brothers have lots of free time?" Lu Zhishen looked at them unhappily and said this. He was annoyed just seeing these two guys coming over again and again.

"Please inform the general!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"Come with me!"

Lu Zhishen waved his hand.

Baldwin IV and Saladin followed Lu Zhishen to the port.

The closer they got to the port, the more surprised they were. Everything was in order at the port. The civilians in the port were not affected at all. Flags of Qi had been raised everywhere in the port, including many yellow flags with the word Qi embroidered in seal script.

"These people have all converted to the Imperial Religion!"

Saladin looked at the flags flying on every household and knew that these people were no longer his believers.

Although he was angry, Saladin could not help but fear the speed of Qi's missionary work.

A golden bull stands on the square of the port, and many people are worshiping it.

“Is this the Taurus?”

Saladin was also surprised when he looked at the huge golden bull. He was familiar with gold, but it was the first time he saw such a big golden bull.

Baldwin IV was also shocked. He already knew about the existence of the Taurus Bull, but when he actually saw it, he was still a little surprised.

"It's just an object!"

Lu Zhishen snorted coldly.

At this moment, a Taoist priest came on stage to cast a spell. After a while of dancing, the bull's horns were bent and gold coins sprayed out of the golden bull's ass.

“Really…really possible!”

Saladin rubbed his eyes. He couldn't believe what he saw. He thought everything was fake, but now his cognition was overturned.

"This……"

Baldwin IV looked at the falling gold coins unwillingly.

There were more believers kneeling in the square. They kowtowed continuously and chanted "May the Golden Bull bless you".

"gone!"

Lu Zhishen was too lazy to watch these supernatural tricks, so he said something and left.

Baldwin IV and Saladin immediately followed with their men.

All the way to the port terminal.

"This is the fleet!"

Saladin felt a chill in his heart. The huge ship gave him a very strong sense of oppression. It was a force that was beyond human power.

  And there is more than one such force, there are dozens of them parked at the port!

"That is……"

Baldwin IV did not look at those ships, but stared at four huge ironclad ships emitting white smoke.

“Iron… iron!”

Saladin also saw the four ships and spoke in surprise.

"Iron ship!"

The soldiers who followed him almost fell off their horses. They had all seen ships before. Ships made of wood were not uncommon. They could build a giant wooden warship as long as they spared no expense.

But they dared not even think about an ironclad ship. Iron could not float on the water, so how could an iron ship not sink?

Baldwin IV and Saladin exchanged glances, and saw shock and fear in each other's eyes, the kind of fear that came from the heart, the kind of fear that was powerless to resist. The ironclad ship had given them too much of a shock.

Neither of them is a simple person. It is impossible for an ironclad ship to be built here. The iron alone cannot be produced here.

So these ironclad ships were all built by the State of Qi, and they sailed all the way across thousands of miles to reach the Persian Gulf. The fact that the ironclad ships could reach this distance shows that they were definitely not toys.