OBS Chapter 723 Taming the Dragon
Chapter 723 Taming the Dragon
Chapter 723 Taming the Dragon
Jeanne was delighted to hear this: "This Bourbon kid who is in power is really capable of defeating the British. After this battle, his prestige may surpass that of Napoleon."
The prestige of the Napoleon family was originally the highest among all French royal families, but unfortunately Napoleon III emerged and became a stepping stone for Francis the Great to unify Germany.
Viviana hesitated to speak. As the eldest daughter of the Hohenzollern family, she couldn't help but worry about her family and her motherland. After all, the war was a disaster that caused tens of millions of casualties in Lothar's words.
Standing on the crater.
Lothar opened his hand, and the gold stored in the king's ring on his finger fell out in batches.
These beautiful golden elves immediately attracted the attention of the magic dragon Ladon. It pretended to be indifferent and hummed: "A greeting gift? Then I will gladly accept it."
As he spoke, the head in the middle opened his mouth eagerly. The poisonous head next to him was not to be outdone. He hummed and opened his mouth quickly: "Pour it over to me, pour it over to me!"
However, these gold coins quickly lost their color when they fell into the air.
The gold color faded, replaced by lead gray, and then turned into flying ash.
"Hey, hey, what's this?"
"My money!"
The dragon, whose face was filled with grief, suddenly swelled up and shouted excitedly, "I'm back, I'm back! My power is back. Praise you, great Lord of the Old Ones!"
His body continued to expand as the gold coins fell, and soon it expanded more than ten times from its original one meter length.
When the last gold coin fell, a huge beast over ten meters long appeared in front of everyone.
"Why did it stop now?"
The happy face of the dragon was now filled with astonishment, and the three heads looked over unwillingly.
"What, you're not convinced?"
Losa's tone was a little unfriendly. He upgraded you to the maximum level as soon as we met, but the intimacy was still "cold". You have to know that he is not rich now, and this little money was earned by collecting "junk".
The flame dragon head in the middle snorted, "It's not that I'm unconvinced, but I feel that with my current strength, I'm afraid it's difficult to help you, my Lord. If I can recover to my peak, I promise to serve you wholeheartedly."
The Toxic Leader beside him gritted his teeth and said, "Captain, do you really have to force me to kneel down and beg you?"
The Head of the Curse looked helpless and didn't want to pay any attention to his two stupid brothers.
Losa sneered: "It's good enough that you can recover this much."
"Okay, I understand."
The Flame Head snorted two flames from his nostrils: "You have to work hard to get the benefits."
The Curse Head showed a somewhat flattering smile. It was hard to imagine that a dragon could have such a subtle expression on its face: "If we can recover our strength with just gold, Captain, how about the three of us go out hunting by ourselves?"
Losa shook his head decisively and said, "Not really."
God knows whether this guy will rob his own vassals.
The Flame Head was furious when he heard this: "This is not allowed, and that is not allowed either."
The poisonous leader next to him hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Well, if it's not possible, then it's not possible. Captain, why don't we talk about our future treatment? How about this, you pay tribute of two cows and five sheep every month, don't use big animals like camels to make up the numbers... And every month you have to pay tribute of one pair of human beings, regardless of gender."
"Human sacrifice?"
The smile on Losa's face turned a little colder.
"Everyone, please make way. I'd like to have a good discussion with this new colleague."
Even after recovering to its full level, the three-headed dragon's strength was still far from the hundred-meter-long giant at its peak. Lothar could easily subdue it without even having to transform into a true dragon - of course Lothar still transformed into a true dragon.
With just one dragon claw, he grabbed the more than ten-meter-long three-headed dragon, making it unable to move at all.
"No, don't do it!"
The Poisonous Chief exclaimed, compared to the treatment he had received from the Ottoman family in the past, what he had just mentioned was nothing.
Especially human sacrifices. Every year it deals with countless losers in power struggles, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks, Slavic rebels, and enemy prisoners.
If it weren't for its gastric juice that could melt even bones, the corpses in the Dragon Garden would have piled up like a mountain long ago.
The Fire Dragon Leader was furious: "Let me go! Even if you are our new contractor, you cannot humiliate a noble real dragon like this!"
The Curse Master watched coldly: "Dear old Lord, please feel free to teach these two fools a lesson. I only ask that Your Majesty not harm the innocent."
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Early the next morning, the shrill dragon roar that had been heard all night prevented many citizens from sleeping well.
The municipal government quickly posted a notice to spread the news that there was a dragon's nest outside the city and that the dragon living inside was a giant dragon tamed by His Majesty the King.
The Crusaders were no longer surprised by this. Although Losa had not acknowledged himself as a miracle worker, many Crusaders and pilgrims had already implicitly regarded Losa as the new Son of God, the incarnation of Christ.
Lothar's territory is regarded as the legendary "Kingdom of Heaven".
The same goes for the Copts. During the few days when the Crusaders entered Alexandria alone, five giant building complexes sprang up outside the city. What else could this be but a miracle?
During this period, the Crusaders and the residents of the city generally got along peacefully. After all, they had the prestige of Lothar. However, small conflicts still occurred frequently, especially in places like taverns, and street fights were the most frequent.
The best outcome between the two is that they don't interfere with each other.
The differences among the Franks are huge enough, not to mention the differences between them and the Copts, but no matter how big the differences are, they are not bigger than the differences between the Franks and African blacks.
Most Copts have brown skin, which is a common skin color in the Mediterranean region.
It's not like the black people. Even in the 20th century, there were special zoos for black people in Europe to display these precious "animals" in the eyes of Europeans.
We are all Christians, with religious beliefs as the bond, and with policy support, the gap between us will be greatly reduced within a generation. The key lies not with the Copts, but with the Saracens.
Losa wanted to create a country in Egypt based on religion, and the first thing he faced was religious conflict.
Nowadays, religious conflicts in the territories under Lothar's control are relatively mild. After all, they are all big cities with a strong commercial atmosphere.
But as many Crusaders marched inland in batches, religious conflicts would soon become more acute. After all, those who made a living from the land were always the most conservative. Egypt had been occupied by the Saracens for more than 500 years.
Many Copts have been completely converted to Zoroastrianism. Although they still make up the majority of the population, their civilization has gradually been assimilated into the Saracen civilization.
To solve this problem, Losa thinks we should start with the land.
Dividing the land is always the best way to win the loyalty of farmers.
Perhaps the land owned by the big landlords was not enough for distribution, but Lothar still controlled two sparsely populated "fertile" lands - Transjordan and the Sinai Peninsula.
The development of the former has been very good. With the thriving growth of the two trees of life and the power of faith provided by more and more pilgrims, the current hydrological conditions in Transjordan have been greatly improved.
But Losa has never had the time to transfer a large number of immigrants there.
As for the Sinai Peninsula, although several batches of liberated white slaves had been sent there before, the development was still late, and the Tree of Life did not receive a large amount of nutrients like its mother plant.
Therefore, the only area that has been improved so far is the land near the Fraima Castle. Thousands of white slaves and Bedouin captives who migrated there have built a series of hill farms around this area, forming a large town that is even more prosperous than before and can accommodate 5,000 people.
Although there is hope for the future, it won’t be of much use in the short term.
At the cost of conversion, he carried out a large-scale land distribution movement, and combined it with vigorous local propaganda to highlight the Crusader King's god-killing feat in the Battle of Lake Brutus. With these two measures, Lothar was confident that he could recover all of Egypt and quell the civil unrest in the country in the shortest possible time.