Eagle Byzantium

After Gawain changed his original plan for the Reuben royal family, he asked the military servant beside him, "How old is Reuben's little daughter?"

"Even if you ask me, how can I know? It was mentioned in General Branas's document before. Although I am illiterate, I still care about it. She is about two years old."

"Adopt her and Alemannia in the court of Tarsus, provide them with a Greek-speaking wet nurse, and let Hetomia take charge of the children's education in three years." After Gawain put the letter back into the envelope, it was already light. He stretched, lay back on the camp couch, and began to sleep.

It was not until the second hour of the afternoon that Gawain got up. Several militia riders had already taken his orders and headed for Tarsus. Gawain called his military servants, "We will also follow the Seleucid Coast Road to the new capital."

Outside the city, the tents of the Gimages Brigade and their instruction and training flags were clustered in the suburbs and barracks. Gawain was lightly dressed and soon, because Sabina needed water, he entered the door of a farmer's house shaded by trees and stayed there.

Muzafiadin walked in first, followed by two sturdy guards carrying axes with ribbons tied to the handles of the axes, while Dim was responsible for leading the horse for the patron.

This farmer's residence, together with other benefactors' farmhouses, formed a semicircle around the hillside, facing a large barn on the gentle slope opposite. The paths between the wheat fields and the woodlands all led to the barn, where there was an inspector (newly appointed) who served as the supervisor and cashier, and looked after the farm's livestock and large farm tools. There was also another inspector, who was the male owner of this residence. He had not abandoned his faith in Germany and was still called Kindschwart. In fact, it was not difficult to understand, which meant "the father of the child" - Inspector Kindschwart was responsible for inspecting the windmill, water wheel and two mills on the farm. After taking office, Kindschwart was very conscientious and responsible. He worked until the specified time every day and came back. He often wore a whip made of firecracker willow on his belt, so people on the farm often did not call him by his name, but called him "Firecracker Willow".

Firecracker Willow. Kind******'s annual salary is four solid gold coins. Although it is not much, his fields are already managed by two half-grown young sons, so the male owner has no complaints. He originally planned to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but he found along the way that not everyone has the enthusiasm and perseverance to persist in going to Jerusalem, so he accepted the persuasion and settled down in Seleucia.

Gawain stopped his horse and saw that in this large farmland, the fallow land was dark and gloomy, and it was arranged in vertical strips facing the barn. Now one of the male owner's sons was planting clover and cattail grass in a fallow land, and another son was using a wheelbarrow to transport manure in the stable (they had not used this kind of cart before coming from Germany, but now they are very good at it) - this grass can not only clean the soil and maintain fertility, but also can produce a lot after fertilization, providing excellent feed for mules and horses.

"Don't disturb them. Let's ask for a drink and then continue on our way." Gawain, who had dismounted, walked to the door. The hostess, who was about fifty years old, hurriedly threw down the hemp rope in her hand and extended her hand to salute the patron. Gawain shook hands with her gently, and then held her hair to express his blessing to her.

Then the hostess scolded her three daughters at home in the voice of a German aunt. When they saw the tall lord coming, the two youngest daughters, who were wearing a one-piece linen robe (the adults' clothes were old and modified), ran away with bare legs. In the end, only the eldest daughter, who was about twelve or thirteen years old, with short golden brown hair, was very tactful and skillful. She took out pottery cups and cups from the small courtyard with various flowers, wiped them clean, took out a small jar of honey from the partition of the rough wooden rice box, evenly poured it into several cups, and then put them on a wooden plate and brought them out, kneeling in front of Gawain and his entourage who were sitting on the saddle.

The girl was pleasing to look at, with a plump figure, but not in an unpleasant way, with the unique plumpness of a German woman, and she must be a "cute and beautiful dragoon" when she grows up. There were faint and sparse freckles on the tip of her nose and both cheeks. Gawain, who was drinking from a cup, saw that she had tied her hair with a printed ribbon after entering. Her cheeks were a healthy apple red, and when she saw Gawain, she lowered her head and her face became even redder - obviously she had not had much contact with tall and noble men.

"What industries does your family cultivate?" Gawain said to the hostess, and then the messenger next to him began to translate.

The answer was: the two sons would cultivate the beneficiary property, the male owner would serve as an inspector, and the eldest daughter and the female owner could twist hemp ropes and cut scraps of cloth to sell to the merchants in Seleucia, who were willing to buy these things at a generous price; when the purple princess allowed, the female owner could also take her three daughters to help with farm work in the fields, or carry baskets to the woods to peel bark, or deliver reeds to the paper mill - the remuneration was calculated on a daily basis and there was no arrears.

Later, Gawain learned that after paying the profit tax, all the gains of this family, including cash and physical goods, were about fifteen to twenty Byzantine gold coins. Of course, under the control of Seleucia, they could not store gold coins. There were only copper coins and a small amount of silver coins in the money box at home, as well as some silk and light goods. Large gold coins were only used for rewards to military meritorious persons by the great patron sitting on the saddle, or for diplomatic secret purchases.

Gawain felt guilty after hearing this. "Now we are constantly fighting, and most of the remuneration can only be given to you in kind. Even light goods like saffron are only sold to pilgrims and lords outside. But when the situation is peaceful, I will open up the internal circulation of gold coins, because gold is valuable only when it is spent and invested. If you always use it only for rewards like me, you will soon encounter a financial crisis of inflation." Of course, most of what the patron said was not only unknown to this farmer, but also to his guards and the accompanying brotherhood members.

Then, the hostess was unwilling to talk to the patron anymore. She touched her daughter very cleverly. The chubby beauty with freckles understood and turned back to the yard with a red face. "May the Virgin Mary bless the Princess of Purple. All the people of Seleucia wish her a smooth pregnancy and childbirth during the eight months." The hostess continued to lead Gawain to the yard enthusiastically, implying that she fully understood the "male depression" that Gawain might suffer.

Inside, her eldest daughter stood in a corner, somewhat excited and somewhat panicked, lifting her skirt to reveal her plump, white, tender lower body. Then, with a red face, she placed her hands on the wooden stand with the pottery basins, breathing rapidly, and turned her back to wait for Gao Wen to come in from the courtyard gate. (To be continued ~^~)