Bai Zhou was waiting for this sentence from Vito. To be precise, the so-called ten tasks mentioned by Bai Zhou were just casually said, and the purpose was to prevent Vito from returning to Cyprus before the Crusaders left.

Now that Vito proposed this, that is of course the best. After all, Bai Zhou has no intention of bringing him back to Switzerland to play.

If Vito only threatens the Crusaders but has no use value, then Baizhou actually doesn't mind stifling all threats in the bud. However, there is no need for this - Vito is just a general who can fight, not a nobleman with deep-rooted influence in Cyprus. As long as he is imprisoned and does not allow him to lead troops, he will have no threat at all; second, he does have a considerable use value for the Crusaders.

The first thing Bai Zhou asked him to do was to open his identity and announce his high profile to join the Crusades to conquer the pagan Saladin. At the same time, he conveyed through his mouth that no matter who it was, as long as he cut off the head of a Muslim soldier, the generous crusaders would give him at least one silver coin reward with this head.

It has to be said that although Vito has no influence on the nobles on the island of Cyprus, in fact, he is just a civilian noble with a knight title, but among ordinary soldiers, his influence is very huge, just like Winkrid and Tuier's influence among Swiss civilians. With him, it will save the Crusaders a lot of trouble.

For example, if the reward of that silver coin is announced by the generals in the crusade, then the Byzantine soldiers will definitely have some concerns, fearing that the crusaders will deceive them or that they will be rewarded by someone. But when Vito joined the crusade, the thought in his heart was that at least they were not exactly like the vassal army. If they were bullied, Vito could reason with it.

The temptation of a silver coin on one head cannot be said to be very great. In fact, these soldiers from civilians cannot save a silver coin salary in a year. It must be more profitable than being a soldier on Cyprus Island, and of course, it is much more dangerous.

However, the current situation is that they have to go. Even if the crusaders don't send them even a copper plate, they have to go. But now that they have money to get it, their enthusiasm is higher and their desire for human heads is higher.

Vito understood this, but he didn't say it, because he looked at it, he was just good to these Byzantine soldiers. After all, he was not so arrogant that he could rely on his influence to prevent these soldiers from fighting the Egyptians and losing their lives.

Since you have to go, it is better to have money than to have no money.

This idea was proposed by Bai Zhou, and Wolfgang and Joan of Arc agreed, but Leopold and Yarman opposed it because of that reason. Since these Byzantine soldiers had to serve without money, why spend that in vain?

However, when Wolfgang decided to bear the money, they didn't have much.

Within half a month, he received more than 12,000 soldiers, including more than 3,000 cavalrymen. There were 2,000 war horses, not a good war horse, just passing the passing line. In addition to the armor and weapons worn by these soldiers, there were more than 15,000 sets of leather armor, but most of them were unbearable. The comforting significance of soldiers wearing them was far higher than the practical significance; there were more than 600 sets of iron armor, more than 1,000 sets of crossbows, countless arrows, and more than 15,000 weapons of various types. Of course, like leather armor, Bai Zhou suspected that the hoes used by the farmers were sharper than these weapons.

The Crusaders wanted these extras, and they didn't have much effect except those war horses. However, with the idea of ​​weakening the combat effectiveness of Cyprus as much as possible, the Crusaders accepted them all. Even if they couldn't use them, they could be equipped with new recruits to be recruited. If they couldn't use them, they could also sell them to Duboan. If they wanted to occupy such a large island when they came to the Principality of Jerusalem, it was certain that they would expand their troops. Since they wanted to expand their troops, they could use these weapons and armor.

It took about ten days for the Crusaders to wipe out several "unbehavior" Byzantine nobles. Batos was saved from the disaster because he was very good at giving Vincent treasures.

Everyone knows it well, but no one points it out.

After doing this, the Crusaders received a total of 15,312 gold coins. I have to sigh at the wealth of this land. Since the Western Qin Dynasty was in Switzerland, it has always been the one who made money with his left hand and spent money with his right hand, Bai Zhou had never seen even more than five thousand in his hand.

They scattered the private soldiers of these nobles, with about a thousand people.

Next, we are recruiting new recruits. For this part, Bai Zhou advised not to recruit too many soldiers. The number of soldiers in the Crusaders is less than 25,000. Too many recruits are not only unfavorable to management, but also limited combat effectiveness increases. It may be a drag and just a waste of logistics burden.

No one else made the suggestion of Bai Zhou. In fact, these nobles have different visions. Although the nobles such as Vincent have not brought many soldiers, they are actually the same as Bai Zhou. The large group of people are left in the territory. Their elite soldiers are naturally reluctant to take them to the battlefield.

Due to this reason, coupled with the limited number, the Crusaders recruited more than 10,000 new recruits, which increased the number of Byzantine soldiers in the army to 30,000, roughly as the original number of the Crusaders.

However, in this way, the weapons were not enough. Everyone discussed it and decided not to buy weapons and equipment for the time being, so that the recruits could bring their own weapons - anyway, they were cannon fodder, so there was no big difference in use.

Finally, the tax was charged. Surprisingly, the Byzantine nobles did not object, but Vito came to Baizhou several times, but Vito still understood the positioning - if the Crusaders asked him to come forward to collect the tax, they would not agree, but now the Crusaders are forced to collect the tax, he has no choice. At most, he can only protest a few words.

As for the amount of money received, it was far beyond the expectations of the Crusaders. It was only more than 3,000 gold coins. I have to sigh that no wonder the nobles had little opinions. Leopold, who was standing by, directly suggested that he would not go to copy the old nests of the nobles.

For this boring attention, everyone just thinks he is complaining.

At the same time, news came from the Principality of Jerusalem, expressing that it was willing to buy Cyprus. In the end, the two sides reached a deal with a total of 100,000 gold coins. Duboan also expressed his responsibility to bear all the food and supplies for the Crusaders' trip. Soon, they would send people to receive it.

If you buy such a large island with 100,000 gold coins, even if you add the subsequent food and fodder supplies, it will be all profitable for Duboan. You must understand that the Liechtenstein sold by Baizhou at that time was already nearly 10,000 gold coins. However, for the Crusaders, they really couldn't keep it in their hands. It would be better to sell it to Duboan. The amount of money sold is equivalent to being profitable for nothing.

Two months passed in a moment. If this section of Baizhou was laboring, then the next step was to work hard.

Because everyone started to divide the spoils...

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ps: The second update is coming, it's a little late...

Listening to the series of Three Kingdoms Singings by Yu Xiaoqiao in the past two days, I concluded that the master is indeed hidden among the folks. This girl is really good at singing, and the lyrics she fills in are even more amazing.
Chapter completed!