Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 11 Jing Luo's Fury Pot
"What are you talking about? Constantinople!" Pierce standing next to him stood up excitedly.

As a European who deals with antiques and ancient history all day long, it is normal for Pierce to have some special feelings for the only country in history that unified the Mediterranean coast and had a huge impact on modern Europe.

It turned out that Jing Luo was by my side!

Seeing Pierce's excited reaction, Liang En showed an embarrassing expression.Then in a slow tone, he told Pierce some kind of bad news.

"That's right, this word does mean Constantinople. But the problem is that this word is written in Ottoman Turkish." Liang En said, tapping the words on the bottom of the pot lightly.

The so-called Ottoman Turkish is actually Turkish written in the Arabic alphabet, which is a member of the Turkic language family.

When Kemal reformed in the early 20th century, this script was abolished as an obsolete symbol and replaced by the modern Turkish language based on the Latin alphabet.

"And don't forget, Constantinople is what outsiders call that city, and they often call that city New Rome." Liang En said and raised his head to look at Pierce. "That's what we teach in our college classes."

"Then could this thing be a relic left by the Turkic merchants in the Eastern Roman Empire?" Pierce thought for a while, and then put forward his own guess.

As an admirer of Rome, finding an artifact that is both Ottoman and Constantinople is not exactly a joy.So he quickly floated another possibility.

"This is possible, because in ancient times, merchants throughout the Old World had the habit of writing or engraving the place name of that place on something they carried with them whenever they went to a place."

Regarding Pierce's conjecture, Liang En felt that it was possible.But the specific situation can only be determined by cleaning up the entire bottom of the pot.

In order to avoid destroying possible traces, two people cleaned the bottom of the pot very slowly.

Finally, after more than an hour, they successfully cleaned up all the ashes that had accumulated on the bottom of the pot for centuries, and revealed more than a dozen Ottoman Turkish words engraved on the bottom of the pot.

"What is written here?" Looking at those ancient characters that were written very similar to Arabic, Pierce looked at a loss. "I only know the Arabic numeral 62 inside."

"The top line contains place names. It can be seen from the handwriting that these place names were written by different people at different times." Liang En pointed to the top line of text and translated them one by one.

"Constantinople, Belgorod, Aleppo, Redania, Cairo, Rhodes, Mohachi, Wyn."

"Then what about the following line of text?" For Pierce, who studied archeology at university, these place names are enough to remind him of many things, but his Spirit of Essence hopes to struggle one last time. "It's the line with the Arabic numeral 62."

"Kermatt, Sorak, the 62nd Regiment." Liang En translated this line of text that could prove the identity of the pot. "This is a pot belonging to the new Ottoman Turkish army, and it is likely to be an important symbol of the army, Kazan."

The so-called Kazan is a huge copper cooking pot, which is regarded as a treasure by every soldier of the new army. In addition to serving as a cooking utensil, this pot also serves as an eagle flag similar to the ancient Roman Empire.

The early Turkish new army had 196 regiments in its complete state, and each regiment had such a pot for cooking porridge for the whole regiment as military rations.

Of course, this regiment is not the same as the regiment of the modern army.In the earliest days, a regiment of the New Army was about 30 people. It was not until the late Ottoman Empire that the number of regiments expanded to hundreds of bloated people.

According to records, this pot is considered to be the epitome of the friendship between soldiers of the new Turkish army, a social center, and an irreplaceable mascot.

During the march, the cook will carefully transport the pot, and every soldier and officer passing by will stand solemnly to show their respect.When triumphant, they will also parade with this pot.

If the battle is tense, this pot can boost everyone's morale just like the horn. On the same chaotic battlefield, soldiers will also use Kazan as a gathering point to seek refuge from their comrades-in-arms.

Even if the new army launches a mutiny, they will rush into the kitchen while cooking and overturn the pot as a symbol, similar to the cup throwing in Dongfang Huaxia.

If this pot is lost in the battle, it will be regarded as a great shame for the team.The unit will also be deprived of the right to participate in various triumphal ceremonies.

"Then, this thing might be a treasure." After hearing Liang En say that this pot was a symbol of the new army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Pierce suddenly became excited.

After all, Jingluo belongs to Jingluo, but business still needs to be done.

"That's right, this thing is definitely a treasure." Liang En nodded, because after he recognized the pot just now, a new silver card and three black cards immediately appeared in his mind.

According to the characteristics that the black card is an N card and the bronze card is an R card, this card should be an SR card that I have never seen before.

And according to the rules that Liang En discovered several times before, the higher the historical value and the more cherished the things it finds, the higher the level of the cards it will produce.

Of course, the method of identifying the value through gold fingers is not suitable as a reason to inform Pierce.Fortunately, the writing on the bottom of the pot clearly expresses the preciousness of this pot.

"Look, the kermat in this originally meant the crowd, um, put it here to refer to the regular recruits. And in the regular recruits of the 101 regiments, the 60th to 63rd regiments were the elite units , known as the Sorak Regiment, are usually elite marksmen."

Liang En said and left the line of text below, then pointed to the text above and said. "As for the information contained in the above line of text, it is even more important. If I guess correctly, these place names represent the large battlefields they passed through."

"You mean a large battlefield?" Pierce cheered up at Liang En's mention.

"In other words, the first battle of this pot following the new Turkish army was to capture Constantinople, and then went through the Wallachia offensive, destroying the Mamluks in Egypt, and conquering Rhodes Island , annexed Hungary, and finally fell at the gates of Wyn."

"The capture of Constantinople can be seen as the real rise of an empire, and the failure of the city of WYN was an important turning point for the Ottoman Empire from expansion to defense, and the most precious part of this pot is that it has experienced the entire era of great expansion. "

As a professional, after being mentioned in this aspect, Pierce quickly read enough information from the translated text.

The reason why this pot appeared here is also very simple, because the army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire discarded most of its weapons and supplies after the disastrous defeat at the city of WYN, and a pot is naturally nothing in it.

Maybe this pot was picked up by some people near the battlefield and used as their own pot, and after passing through several hands, it became a cooking utensil for the servants in the manor, and was finally discovered by Liang En.

(End of this chapter)