Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

The streets are full of lights and entertainment. It is obviously in the early stage of economic development, but it already has a bit of the bright neon lights and drunkenness of the 1980s and 1990s.

Standing on the top of a high-rise building, you can overlook the intertwined streets of Edo and see the brightly lit night view, which already has the prototype of a modern city.

Cordelia picked up the red wine glass and took a sip of wine, leaving red lip marks on the wall of the glass. She smelled a bit of wine and her face turned red.

“Is this a true experience of Fuso’s traditional culture?”

From five o'clock in the evening to eight-thirty at night, she was led into the largest restaurant in Edo City, the Night Night.

The decoration style of this restaurant is completely Japanese style, but the contractor is an infrastructure group from Daxia. It took two years to complete the project. The sponsor behind it is naturally the top leader of the shogunate. It only opened for one month, and it created an extremely terrifying scene. The revenue and the amount of money attracted even exceeded the imagination of the shogunate. The net profit in the first month was close to the entire tax revenue of the shogunate in the Yoshiwara area.

Afterwards, a huge publicity campaign was launched. Within two years, most of the poems related to Edo were related to this "Nevernight" building.

It is both a romantic place and an entertainment venue. It is praised as being like a palace in the sky, with top-notch services, flawless beauties and ultimate enjoyment.

The people who can come and go here are either high-ranking officials, swordsman masters, talented and wealthy people...or they are the children and grandchildren of the above people.

The Chang Lotte run by Shiromine Naomi is already very powerful, but the one here is still conservative, and there is an absolute gap in size.

And Bai Yu is very sure that before he weaves his own destiny, this building that never sleeps does not exist at all.

He indeed changed a part of history silently, causing the shogunate's economic development to be at least ten years faster than expected.

One result of this is that he has one more good place to eat today.

Although it is a romantic place, both men and women can enter. As the ultimate form of the entertainment industry, it is more advanced than ordinary brothels. It integrates a series of needs such as negotiation, entertaining, banquets, communication, conspiracy, and gift giving. comprehensive place, and PC is only one of the insignificant components, and cannot even be regarded as the main source of revenue.

The real revenue mainly comes from the rich entertainment activities, various dishes, and the premiums brought by various top-notch services.

Since you are leaving Fuso, you might as well experience the customs of Fuso before leaving.

Cordelia didn't know what agreement she had reached with Mahiru Amamiya. After being taken back and put on an exquisite kimono, she came to the Evernight Sky.

I watched various performances, including shamisen, geisha, Noh drama, taiko drums...

In just two and a half hours, there was a dazzling variety of performances, all of which were extracted from various local populism.

The Holy Girl and even Bai Yu read it with great interest. Except for the middle paragraph which was completely incomprehensible, the rest were considered top-notch.

During the performance on the central stage, various dishes were served continuously.

Naturally, what we were eating was not the roasted bird that pretended to be high-end but was actually poor food; it was palace cuisine.

The shogunate really spent a lot of money. The propaganda slogan even directly shouted, "As long as you can afford it, you can eat whatever the general eats here." This once aroused the fanatical pursuit of some merchant groups. What I ate in that bite was not tuna or salmon, but the taste of purchased power.

Cordelia had stayed in Fuso for a long time and had already eaten enough of all kinds of seafood and fish, but the cooking style this time opened her eyes. She lamented that she was not tired of eating seafood, but that she was not tired of eating seafood at all. Had enough good seafood.

The hard dishes at the back are even more heavyweight, and A5 grade beef is considered a piece of cake here. The most outrageous thing is probably that a kind of ghost produced in Huangquan has been made into a dish, and it is still in limited supply. The raw material of this dish is called Pig ghost, also known as pig demon.

The taste is so amazing that while eating it, one feels how miserable the death of the second senior brother was.

Bai Yu thought of a short story about Journey to the West in the manga Hiyori, and suddenly became even happier.

After dinner, there were other entertainment programs, but I was too lazy to go, so I just lay in the guest room and took a look at the night view.

All the entertainment today was paid for by the two rich ladies of the Nan family.

Cordelia patted her round belly. It was difficult to maintain the image of a nun. After eating a state banquet at Fuso, she lamented that her trip was not in vain. Fortunately, she had been frozen in sleep for three years, otherwise she would have gone back three years ago. , how can I get this good meal?

With the beautiful scenery in front of him, Bai Yu swung the wine glass in his hand and looked at the people in the room. His eyes fell on the back of Mahiru who was pouring the sobering soup.

"We will leave Fuso by boat tomorrow."

Mahiru looked back and looked at him quietly, waiting for the next step.

"No need to send us away."

He reached out and gently stroked her cheek: "Because your time has caught up with me."

Chapter 638 Hex Technology

Life at sea is quite boring.

Especially on the ghost ship.

Ordinary passenger ships or cruise ships need to consider food issues, fuel issues, weather issues, route considerations, and avoid other ships.

But Ghost Ship has less complex considerations.

It doesn't even require stocking up on food.

Ghosts don’t need to eat or drink, so do passengers?

The answer is no. Once you board the ghost ship, you will be affected by the power of the ghost ship and become immortal.

The advantage is that you don’t need to eat, drink or have diarrhea, which saves you a large portion of food expenses.

The disadvantage is that this ghost curse will cause one's own perception to decrease, the sense of touch to be greatly weakened, and the physical vitality to be greatly reduced.

Ordinary wounds can heal in one day and three days, but it takes several times longer on a ghost ship.

It can be said that ghost ships are not suitable for carrying various living animals.

Even if there is a cold storage, once live animals with time limits such as fresh food are transported, even if they are stored for only one day, they will be the same as dead fish and rotten shrimps that have been stored for seven or eight days. All dead organisms will rot quickly, leaving only skeleton.

Some people may be curious, what would happen if you died on a ghost ship?

There are two outcomes.

One is to throw it into the sea to feed the fish, so that the soul can be liberated and enter reincarnation;

The other is to become a ghost and watch your body rot while your soul becomes a member of the ghost fleet.

It's true that many people have had this kind of experience in the past. There were about five or six people on this fleet who ended up like this.

One of them was about him turning over and falling in his sleep and breaking his neck; another was about him eating too much and eventually choking himself to death. Although people could eat on the ghost ship, the digestion speed was very slow; another was about him drinking with ghost pirates and ended up dying of alcohol poisoning; and the most amazing one was that he died of laughing after hearing a joke told by the ghost captain... Later, Captain Edward sealed this joke and never told it again, so two hundred years later, no one knew what the joke was.

It is precisely because there is nothing on the ghost ship, and there are no entertainment activities related to body functions. There is no desire for words. The most is drinking some wine, and most of that kind of wine is poured to death by ghost sailors, and the passengers drink like this There is a high probability that the bladder will explode.

It is rumored that a newlywed couple once boarded a ghost ship to go on vacation to a foreign country. As a result, the two went through the divorce procedures at the speed of light after getting off the ship. Because their vitality was suppressed, the relationship between the two quickly cooled down, and even the harmonious life of the couple was lost. There was no piston movement at all, and there was no worldly desire, so she got divorced.

Therefore, when high-end cruise ships cross the sea, there will be all kinds of celebrity escorts, but they are not available here.

Even if there is a very good-looking girl standing next to you and teasing you in every possible way, you will probably not be interested at all, like a cat whose eggs have been disassembled.

This is how it should be...

Bai Yu couldn't help but look at the holy lady aside, and really didn't understand why she could still maintain so much vitality despite the debuff of the ghost curse.

Although he was not greatly affected, he could clearly feel that he had been debuffed by an EMO.

Even if you stand on the deck and blow the wind, you will feel melancholy at a 45-degree angle. I just want to say with emotion, "The wind is very noisy today."

In contrast, Cordelia seemed not to be affected at all, and her mood remained quite exciting all the way. Even if she didn't eat or drink, she was still full of energy, squatting next to him for almost ten hours a day.

This saintly lady is already in her twenties and has been sleeping for three years. Why does she feel like she has rejuvenated her youth?

Or is it that the nature of the orc girl has begun to awaken?

Although Bai Yu cursed in his heart, he didn't show any impatience.

Facts have proved that if a person is full of energy but annoying, there are most likely two reasons. One is that the person is completely KY; the other is that the other person is ugly.

If he is good-looking and has sufficient emotional intelligence, then this kind of person must have a wide range of friends and be a social expert.

Cordelia's appearance is outstanding and her speech is pleasant. These two points alone are enough for Bai Yu to not feel bored listening to her nagging.

He would rather be a listener and listen to Cordelia talk about the many customs, customs and changes of the times in the Roman Empire.

The Rome that Bai Yu knows is the Rome of five hundred years ago.

Five hundred years, the Ming Dynasty was less than three hundred years old.

It is really surprising that Roma can continue until now.

However, the history that people in this world understand is not the type where long-lasting unity must separate and long-lasting division must unite. Long-term peace and stability are the basics.

It's like Daxia.

Several regime changes have occurred internally, and the time span can be considered long.

The same is true in the West. Although within 500 years, Rome also experienced a period of division that lasted for 100 or 200 years and became the East and West, but it was reunited more than 100 years ago.

If you want to talk about why Europe has not been able to unify in the past many centuries, the main reason is that the area is too big, there are too many forces, and there is a troublemaker who likes to engage in offshore balancing... and these conditions are not available in Rome. existence, the reason why it can become the only powerful empire in the West, superior to the United Kingdom such as Midwinter, and other principalities, is because on the one hand, a miracle came from God, clearing the way for unification, and on the other hand, the founding emperor was a real man. A macho man descended from heaven.

The former unified language and beliefs, and created the Holy Church, a religious organization that integrated extraordinary power; the latter used extraordinary military talent to conquer from south to north in just over ten years, from the warmth of Iberia to The coast, to the cold canyons of the Eastern European plains, from the fortified fortresses on the banks of the Elbe to the wealthy trading towns of the Apennine Peninsula, either became Roman territory or surrendered to Rome.

No one in history has ever been able to build an unprecedentedly powerful empire with such outstanding and huge military talent, but the founding emperor of Rome was an exception. Therefore, he was given supreme power in the citizens' assembly and became the first consul of Rome. He was crowned emperor just seven years later, completely abolished the Roman Senate, changed the republic to an empire, changed the title of 'Augustus' into his own surname, created a constitution, broke the monopoly of feudal lords, and started The era of constitutional monarchy.

This happened eight hundred years ago.

The Roman Empire has been in existence for more than 800 years, and its rule remains as strong as ever without any challenge, so no one doubts that its rule can last for more than a thousand years.

From the perspective of a political economist, this is indeed a very strange thing. There are many reasons why the history of most countries cannot last long, but in the end, the economic base determines the superstructure, and changes in productivity bring about production relations. of change.

The historical changes in the East are due to land annexation, the rise of wealthy families, the aristocratic families did not pay taxes, the court was unable to collect the tax burden, and eventually died due to internal and external troubles. Then someone came to power, took over the land, distributed it, and reshuffled it; in the West, it was comparable to the Warring States Period , all the heroes have risen together, and there are many princes. They have never been unified. If they fight, it will be a chaos. There are too many reasons for the war to be described in detail.

Bai Yu was really curious about a powerful empire like the Roman Empire that had lasted for eight hundred years, so he couldn't help but ask Cordelia a few more questions.

Men like sex.

In his view, Rome was already a hegemonic power in the West.

There have always been many regional hegemons in history, but most of them could not last long and would inevitably collapse due to various reasons; for example, the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, most of them were internally rotten.

Real hegemony only emerged in the real sense after the rise of sea power. Take Daiying as an example. The reason why it was able to drag France and Napoleon to death was because it was too rich and had a very powerful fleet. As long as the fleet is still there , the world trade system led by Britain will continuously plunder the wealth of the world for its own use, and then find a fool on the European continent to take a bullet for him. However, there will definitely be someone who will do this business, because the amount given is too much. many.

But there is no so-called maritime hegemony in this world.

If it is impossible to plunder foreign wealth, how can Rome here feed its domestic people and solve the problem of class consolidation?

Even the other Roman Empire in BC that Bai Yu knew of relied on conquests in the east and west and the slave trade to fill the needs of domestic citizens. Once the scope of its conquests exceeded its management capabilities, it also plundered wealth and slaves. If it wasn't enough, the Roman Empire, which was unprecedentedly powerful, would be close to collapse.

After hearing Bai Yu's question, Cordelia's eyes flickered as she asked in surprise, "I didn't expect you to have such a deep understanding of social politics and history... Is there anything you don't know?"

"I am also the first in the literary test after all." Bai Yu waved his hand: "Let's talk about the main point. How did Rome do it? Could it be that like the shogunate, it was also trying to plunder the wool of the film world? But the film world in the West is not based on Does it exist in the form of a 'dungeon'?"

Cordelia straightened her back: "If you ask me, a top student who graduated from the Royal Academy, you are asking the right person. Even ordinary nobles will not study history too thoroughly. As far as I know, in order to solve this problem, Rome The problem also took hundreds of years and many years, and it went through a total of three stages."

She raised her index finger: "The first stage is the simplest and sloppiest. The Roman Empire had just been founded at that time, and the country it conquered was huge, but difficult to govern, and there were a large number of sub-human races... So the first stage is Slavery, capturing subhuman species as part of the wealth, creating wealth by exploiting slaves.”

Bai Yu subconsciously thought of Elysee, and he said: "However, this method cannot last for a few decades at most. Once the slaves have been captured, it will naturally not be possible to continue, and the subhuman species cannot be slaves forever."

"Yes, with the implementation and implementation of a series of bills such as the Racial Protection Law and the Declaration of Human Rights of Sub-races, three generations of emperors took two hundred years to completely abolish slavery. At this time, we have entered the second stage..." Cody Leah raised a second finger: "I call it the period of division...Rome at that time could be said to be in danger. The empire was divided. Two Roman empires, the Eastern and Western, appeared. Each of them summoned allies, fought against each other, and fought against each other. , lasting only one hundred and fifty years.”

"It is feasible to divert conflicts through war, but it will also greatly consume national power." Bai Yu shook his head: "It is not a once and for all solution, but it will easily cause further divisions."

It's just a last gasp, but it's still great to be able to survive.

Isn’t that what the Song Dynasty was like?

Although he pulled hard, he still managed to beat Jin Liao.

"Isn't it? In fact, this civil war consumed the Roman Empire's foundation for hundreds of years, but in the end, the two Romes of the East and West merged... Because they were divided for too long, the bloodline of Augustus in the East and West has been very different. , and two hundred years ago, a crown prince from each side accidentally lived among the people, and they shared a period of adversity and studied in the same swordsmanship academy." Cordelia narrowed her eyes and smiled.

"I smell something like dog blood. Don't tell me that these two people happen to be a man and a woman."

"Yes, that's it!" Cordelia clapped her hands: "After going through all kinds of things, these two people became the emperors of the Eastern and Western Empires, inherited the throne, and then got married and ruled Rome together for a long time. Thirty years, and then several decades later, Rome was reunited. Isn’t it amazing?”

Bai Yu interrupted: "Regardless of love or not, could the civil strife in the Roman Empire be calmed down so easily?"

Cordelia shook her head: "The greatest achievement of these two emperors, the most talked about, apart from their great feat of peaceful merger, there is another thing... that is the crystallization of their love."

"Perhaps the latter is no less important than the former."

Bai Yu: "The crystallization of love? Isn't that a child?"

"You're right! This heir who inherited the blood of two emperors is the orthodoxy among orthodoxies. He is also second only to the founding emperor Augustus in history. His greatest feat is that he created The 'World Network'." Cordelia said with emotion: "You can't imagine what a great invention this was in that era."

Bai Yu raised his eyebrows. He seemed to be getting closer to the core of the truth. Could it be that Rome's way of solving problems, like Daxia's, was also through technological development?

He looked at me blankly: "You guys also surf the Internet?"

"Of course I will." Cordelia said with her head held high.

Bai Yu asked again: "Then do you know this?"

He took out his cell phone and waved it in front of the other person's eyes.

Cordelia shook her head and said: "When we use the world network, we don't need these. Ordinary citizens need to borrow magic instruments, but extraordinary people don't. We use this."

She opened her palms, and a light curtain floated in her palms.

[Connecting to the world network...]

[Connection failed...unable to receive signal]