The investiture ceremony was held in a church.
The ceremony went smoothly. Jiang Yang became an esteemed baron of the Holy See and received a small fief.
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was not very large, so a small fief was only to be expected.
Afterward.
Jiang Yang returned to that fief and began his life as a medieval noble lord.
His fief lay at the northernmost edge of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and had actually started out as a tiny village.
Even so, his fief was still on the front lines of the war.
A little farther north lay Asia Minor.
Farther north still was Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
It was already late winter then.
Here, Jiang Yang began developing his territory, preparing to experience a mortal life as a Western noble lord.
At first, the territory had few inhabitants, and the villagers could barely get enough to eat, leaving them without any strength.
Jiang Yang's plan to have his subjects build a castle fell through.
For although Jiang Yang, a divinely favored knight and baron, had been granted this fief, he was a poor noble.
So Jiang Yang could only find a solution himself.
When he felled his first great tree himself, then lifted it and carried it to his chosen castle site, he suddenly came to his senses as he set it down.
This wasn't work a lord should be doing!
As luck would have it, a band of Turkic Cavalry came to plunder the place.
Delighted, Jiang Yang captured all fifty-odd Turkic Cavalry single-handedly with one sword, turning them into workers to build his castle!
Solving the problem of building materials was even simpler.
He made a trip to Venice and captured a few dark creatures to bring back and help build his