In the Middle Ages, people drew cards to be promoted to nobility. - Chapter 728

c725 Captain Hogg’s maritime career

As the Crusaders entered Alexandria, the forces of Catholicism and Orthodoxy were also rapidly filling the missing ecological niche of Zoroastrianism. The Catholic forces were normal, and the Orthodox forces were sent from Constantinople.

The two forces brought a large number of civil servants, and Losa did not hesitate to requisition them all, such as the follower next to Andreas who was once a church clerk.

The fledgling Egyptian Crusader Kingdom lacked a large number of administrative talents. Not only Losa lacked them, but also the Eastern Empire, the only one in medieval Europe that had a centralized bureaucracy. When the military district system collapsed and was replaced by a variant of the fiefdom system such as Pronia, the Eastern Empire’s original system of training and selecting bureaucrats was also difficult to rebuild.

This is also the reason why a large number of free cities appeared in Europe later, because the lords did not know how to govern a city at all. It is better to issue a charter to the merchants, give out the right to manage the city, and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

When the power of the upper class in the city continued to grow, and then kicked away the original lords, it became a so-called free city.

Therefore, Losa would never entrust the three important coastal cities of Alexandria, Damietta and Semanude to others. Even if there would be many difficulties, he would definitely bring them under his direct jurisdiction.

Among them, Alexandria is particularly important. Now, simple public security agencies have been set up in its four urban areas. Each agency has up to 100 mounted police and a larger number of local militias responsible for public security issues.

Locally, the heads of each block have also registered with the public security agencies. On the one hand, some public security management powers have been delegated to them, and they are ordered to form a “joint defense team” to manage daily trivial matters.

On the other hand, once someone commits a major crime, these local snakes can quickly assist the patrol police in locking the target. In addition, since it is a joint defense and mutual protection, citizens naturally have the responsibility to report and supervise each other. Those who know but do not report will be sentenced half of the penalty. In serious cases, even joint responsibility regulations will be introduced.

When Lavinia formulated these laws, she was very hesitant and felt that they were too harsh, but she was soon persuaded by Losa on the grounds of “extraordinary times”.

At present, although the trust between the citizens of Alexandria and the new ruler has been initially established, it is still very fragile. It is possible that someone will incite a rebellion. If troops are sent to intervene at that time, the death toll will not be just one or two.

At most, he is the legalist rule of Han Feizi, not the legalist rule of Xiao Huzi, which is already very mild.

The grassroots system has been established, but it will take a lot of time to perfect it.

The population of Alexandria is too dense. Only one city accounts for more than twice the population of the entire Transjordan Earldom. It is not easy to govern properly and fill the vacuum period of the collapse of local forces.

As for the drastic reforms in Transjordan and Damietta before, they are neither powerful nor feasible. Let’s stabilize the current situation first.

In the short term, the biggest changes after the Crusaders entered Alexandria are that several Zoroastrian holy fire altars in the city have been transformed into churches, and the ascetics of the Order of Saint Lazarus have begun to carry out small-scale public welfare activities.

In addition, a large number of public toilets were set up throughout the city, and laws were issued to strictly prohibit urinating and defecating in public. This did not encounter any resistance. Alexandria already had a similar tradition. Mules, horses and livestock would be fined if they urinated and defecated in the street. Otherwise, with the dense population of the city, there would be a plague every few days.

Under a series of measures, coupled with the blessing of angel statues and the characteristics of destiny, more and more citizens began to get used to the arrival of the Crusaders. When Losa traveled, many Coptic citizens began to pray devoutly.

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The coast of the Horn of Africa.

Captain Hogg hummed a little tune and watched his crew members digging for pirate treasures from an island.

He was in a good mood recently, which can be seen from the mummies hanging on the mast of the Ocean Disaster.

Business is booming and life is prosperous.

Although Hogg’s own strength cannot be further improved due to the threshold of eliteization, the Ocean Disaster has become more and more powerful as it harvests more and more lives.

The entire Red Sea is dotted with the corpses of fierce beasts, narwhals, halberd dragons, black-scaled sea snakes…

They have all become food for the Ocean Disaster. At the bow and stern, two halberd dragons’ halberds are loaded into the crossbows. The side of the ship is inlaid with irregular black scales, which looks like a bunch of barnacles gathered together, which makes people’s scalps numb.

In the sea where the Ocean Disaster sailed, the black shadows were left, and there were the ghosts of the giant beasts, shadowy.

Compared with the lives of ordinary people, these sea beasts are really a big supplement. In the past, in the world of yesterday’s giant ships, Captain Hogg did not dare to be so arrogant. The Iberian lighthouse keeper, the deep-sea lord entrenched in the center of the Mediterranean, and the heir of the sea god are not easy to mess with.

The Barbary pirate king Hayreddin, who once threatened to compete with him for the title of Mediterranean Pirate King, was killed by a deep-sea lord similar to his Norwegian sea monster Paul on a stormy night, and his entire fleet was destroyed.

Everyone thought that the deep-sea lord was his Norwegian sea monster, so they attributed this victory to him.

As the heavy treasure chest was transported to the shore, Captain Hogg whistled, and a broken galley came from behind, and the sailors were all undead sailors on the Ocean Disaster.

“Ship all the treasures accumulated during this period to the port of Ella, and find the old man named Muller. Also, I have a sea chart here, and I will give it to him as well. Let the old man tell the adults that I plan to leave the Red Sea for a while.”

After explaining the matter clearly, more than ten undead pirates drove the pirate ship that they had looted and sailed north. The ship was infected by the breath of the Ocean Disaster, and it was considered half a ghost ship in a short period of time. It could sail independently, and more than ten undead pirates could drive it.

“Okay, guys, set sail, set sail, we are going to open a new route!”

Captain Hogg personally steered the rudder, aiming directly at the coast of East Africa.

During the day, their group of undead crew members can also disguise themselves as normal people. Only under the moonlight or touching the sea water will they uncontrollably reveal their true appearance as undead, so he plans to have a serious trade.

The pirates on the Red Sea have been almost cleared out. Now it has become a pirate forbidden area. Due to Lothar’s order, he can’t attack those legitimate merchants. It’s better to take this opportunity to find other sources of income.

Compared with the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea is too small. In fact, when he was in the world of giant ships yesterday, even Captain Hogg in the Mediterranean Sea thought it was just a small bathtub. It’s better to compete with those legendary pirates in the seven seas.

Unfortunately, just after sailing out of Gibraltar, he met the Iberian lighthouse keeper and almost confessed. After that, he dared not mention “competing for the seven seas”.

Captain Hogg has been itching to come to the new world.

This time, opening up a new route is just a beginning. Doing business and making money is just a pretext. In the future, he can legitimately drive the Ocean Disaster to more distant places.

Ordinary people are restricted by the epidemic and cannot go deep into Africa, but it is still no problem to trade with the natives along the coast.

He felt that as long as he could continue to bring endless treasures to his master, his master would not mind where he went.

Thinking of this, Captain Hogg, who was used to robbing with swords, guns and cannons, could not help but sigh: “Captain Hogg is going to be a serious businessman!”

“Boss, aren’t we going to cheat?”

“You know nothing, what kind of businessman are you if you don’t cheat?”

Hogg put on his captain’s hat at an angle and sneered: “Don’t let down the chain when the time comes. We are here to do business, not to be robbers! In the future, this route will have to be handed over to the next generation to operate.”

Robbery is to kill the pond and catch fish. It is impossible for the undead sailors on the Ocean Disaster to go to East Africa to mine? If the natives along the coast are scared away, who will mine at that time? Who will rob the natives inland for these undead sailors?

Anyway, he knew that his master was not interested in these distant overseas lands. Under the premise of not occupying land, trade is the fastest way to make money.