Yes - these guys, of course, owned the information. And the interest of all three stakeholders is the same, well, or about the same. And even if it is not so, then having received information about the interests of at least one of the parties, will rely on that for further investigation. The only point of entry into this isolated couple of informers was the wife of Baldwin and the daughter of Thibaut - Maria Champagne, a very colorful and sweet nature for 25 years. After some thought, he, nevertheless, decided to bet on her, and therefore the next two weeks, all the forces of the agency were directed to clarify all the details about Masha, absolutely everyone, even very piquant. The task was not difficult, because the lady was well known and kept in sight. Little of this, our girl turned out to be a man with a subtle spiritual organization - a poetess. Conversations about beauty, literature and poetry were for her like air, but, alas, the husband could not give them to her. Equal and father - they were both representatives of their time - strong, strong, showy and not very clever butchers. Married when she was 12, Maria was not happy. And after she gave birth to two girls, and her husband cooled to her, disbelieving that she was capable of giving birth to his son, completely lost heart. And it was a kind of parody of a decadence character. As for the direct predilections of the physiological plan, the spouses were never delighted with the choice of their parents and tolerated each other out of necessity. Therefore, for the last 5 years she had no affinity with a man, from which she was terribly racked and forced to direct all unclaimed sexual energy into the channel of sublimation. In this case it was poetry, and indeed any fine art. Purely visually the lady was pretty compact, with a sweet, spiritualized face and in a neat figure that almost did not deteriorate after giving birth. So - the information is collected, the goal is set, the tasks are defined, the resources are clear and accessible. Therefore, on December 7, 1198, when he was at the next reception in the house, which Thibaut rented, he decided to catch her on bait. It took quite a while to search for the cause, as the conversations were all about a major military campaign, which was being prepared in the next few years. The case turned out completely unexpectedly. Pierre noticed a small scroll of parchment in her belt and decided to joke about a businesslike wife who responsibly treated the duties of her husband's secretary. But that scroll was a record of several of her poems, and therefore de Chamon had, out of politeness, to ask them to read. Then a small discussion ensued on the complete uselessness of poetry, where it was called an empty and muddled business. But at the very end, when smug muzhiks and a sad lady, were already ready to move on to another topic, Erik got in. And very original - he began to recite from memory Odysseus, who, in his time, learned the first song. Of course - recited in ancient Greek, which no one knew, but because they listened to the melody of the text. Fragments of phrases were understood only by Pierre, who tolerantly spoke in Byzantine. He recited beautifully, for chanting, with the correct longitude of sounds and intonation, and therefore already on the second verse all cute shut up and began to listen. When he had finished, there was a pause and only a minute later Maria asked, slightly agitated: "What was that? " In general - the rest of the evening they talked about this poem, about heroes, mythical creatures and so on. Eric managed to convince all those present that poetry is not simple chatter, it allows people to remember heroic deeds and carry them through many centuries. In general, another stupid meeting about "who they are where and how" our baron turned into a small discussion club and achieved his goal - he drew attention to and expressed interest in further communication with the one whose attention he was looking for. Bingo! The goal is struck from the first call.
Such a bold and successful maneuver could not avoid close attention, it was too unusual. So, a couple of days later, Pierre somehow accidentally decided to probe him a little. He did not know that the legend and the move itself had been thought out beforehand, and so Eric quite calmly reacted to the tricky question and gave out to him quite a slender legend about how he beat off the old hooligans who was a wandering musician. The payment for food, shelter, treatment and protection offered a variety of rare songs and interesting stories. Alas, he would have learned more, but in the spring the old man said goodbye, thanked for help and went on traveling further. In general, de Chamond was satisfied with the answer, since there were quite a lot of such strange old people in Europe at that time. But back to our Mary. Another couple of meetings and conversations have finished her completely, for her our baron became something of an idol, who was allowed to do with her whatever he wanted. So many years of complete misunderstanding from men and suddenly such a bright and striking phenomenon. In order to move on to the next stage of subordination, it was necessary to resolve the issue of hygiene, which was traditionally launched. Here it should be said that this situation with body care was stimulated by the Roman Catholic Church with all its might. It reached a completely incomprehensible delirium, for example, washing more than twice a year was considered a sin and no small. But in this case, the lady's will was akin to a plasticine, and therefore a couple of stories related to the wash, told with some erotic overtones, did their job. And so, on December 18, 1198, at another meeting with Maria, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the voice of reason is not alien to her, and she not only washed herself of all kinds of filth, but also put on fresh, clean clothes. The smell from her sharply became much more pleasant, and so he did not pull and on the same day they retired for a more intimate conversation about modern poetry. Strange they turned out a couple of lovers - an adult woman of 24 years and a young guy of 16 years. But for all her strangeness, after a month Eric had all the information about the Capetians' house, because through her fragile hands there was all the correspondence of her father and her husband. And now, far from their native possessions, this gave a lot of useful information. As for Philip's interests, everything turned out to be quite primitive, and to the point of ridiculous. It turns out that he was interested in the one in whose interests our baron acts. Our gallant king somehow decided that they were digging under him, wishing to destroy the influence in southern Germany and northern Italy. Stupid, stupid and not professional. Such a volume of the most curious information and such an indistinct conclusion! Apparently our hero overestimated the analytical abilities of the "big brother", which he decided to follow. Too primitive, we need to double-check, since they can deliberately disinform it, noticing, through whom he decided to probes them.