Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 348 Knowledge of Rome

"How do I feel, you guys always like to come up with weird things? And each one is scarier than the other."

"This is not what we 'like' to do. The foundation of Rome is 'knowledge'. Rome divided itself into six to explore knowledge in six fields, but these are the fruits of knowledge-of course, knowledge also has its own The price. There are only 1000 million people in Rome. We have no way to build a heaven within the Great Wall like Cathay. We can only find ways to use as little manpower as possible to control as much "knowledge" as possible. Such problems have only recently gradually Get exposed. Look at that alarm clock."

She pointed to this national gift:

"It actually has very terrifying power, but it hasn't happened in the warehouse for more than ten years, and it doesn't need to be taken care of at all. Because the ethical locks compiled by the Muse Palace are very strict, these things Vulcan The engine is limited by its own performance. Once it is in motion, it will limit itself due to overcooling. Even if it is running at low power, it will automatically stop because no one winds it. It will generally be fine.”

"What about the Dragon Tooth Soldiers from before?"

"Dragon Tooth Soldiers, they didn't run around before—until Thebes appeared. You can see that we didn't use Dragon Tooth Soldiers so cautiously before. We went to Nemi Lake and picked up Dragon Tooth Well, it doesn’t matter if you throw it away casually. But since Thebes came into being, as long as the Dragon Tooth Soldiers get out of control, they will find ways to go to Thebes.”

"Thebes, when did it appear?"

"I don't know either. Because we don't know where Thebes is, and we don't have any reliable information, so we don't know the specific time point. We can only lock in a time point—probably not more than 50 years."

[I also want to know where Thebes is, so I made a deal with those Dragon Tooth Soldiers before.But they disappeared after that. The trace of Amon Zeus is really elusive. 】

"By the way, why is your population so small? So that you have to rely on mitosis to increase your population?"

"What does mitosis mean?"

"It's still broken, isn't it mitosis? The Ripper hasn't been caught yet because he didn't commit any crimes."

"Well, do you want to know the reason? I guess, it may be because of the spirit world. Since the Romans began to indulge in the spirit world, as the time spent at night increased, the fertility rate gradually decreased. This even Nothing to do with the mystical factor, just less reproductive behavior. After all, you can eat ice cream at night without getting fat, and it's even less likely to have children."

"Is it because of this? How is it similar to what happened in the past?"

"You mean, lead sugar? Indeed."

Lead sugar, the poison that marked Rome's first decline.Although the decline of Rome at that time was largely due to external factors, the widespread symptoms of lead poisoning among Romans was also an important factor.

Lead is an easily shaped and stable material.The Romans used lead in various places. Among them, the use of lead to make water pipes was not a big problem, because the Romans had no way to purify the water at that time, and the calcium carbonate deposited in the water pipes could be used as a coating.

But the Romans prefer to use the same durable lead jug to hold wine, and even like this lead-added flavor.Such a large amount of lead intake caused the Romans—especially the drunken Roman elders to be in a superimposed state of lead poisoning and alcohol poisoning, and seriously affected their reproductive ability.

Thinking about it carefully, the current Rome seems to be no different from the original Rome.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Phaethon covered his forehead, "It seems to be really the same."

"Didn't the Romans themselves discover it?"

"Someone already discovered it at that time. However, this issue is more complicated. Latin and Greek Romans had different performances on this issue. In fact, many doctors in Greece have always raised the poisonous effect of lead—because This is very obvious. The Greeks still invest a large number of barbarian laborers in the lead mines every year. These laborers die one after another just like consumables. Anyone who takes a look at it will know that the lead must be poisonous.”

"Then why didn't the Greeks remind them?"

"Because lead is one of the pillar industries in Greece, and the lead industry is also an extremely important industry in the entire empire. It is precisely because there is profit that the Greek side doesn't take it seriously. It's so similar, so similar. The Oracle, the Palace of the Muses and the Senate are all on the Greek side, and they still do exactly the same things as before. The history of the Romans is constantly repeating the tragedies of the past. I am afraid that the current decline has long been It must have been predicted by a knowledgeable person. However, luckily.”

She breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, we learned a history lesson this time, and this time it declined in a planned and batched manner, just like trees in autumn resist the harsh winter by falling leaves. Rome should be able to deal with its own problems, It won’t cause too much trouble for Cathay.”

"Needless to say it's troublesome or not, you've already paid for it."

According to the deal he negotiated with Victoria last time, Daming will help Rome in its recession, but the deal with Pure Land is two separate deals.

The Romans were responsible for establishing the Pure Land and helped the people of Ming Dynasty to enter, and Ming Dynasty reincarnated them with spirit stones at the right time. This was a deal between the Qing Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

The other is that Da Ming helped Rome retreat, and the reward he got was the other half of the world, which is reasonable for the time being.Of course, neither side wanted to do the deal if they could.The Romans also want to live in the sun, but since ancient times, Daming has been too lazy to manage such a distant territory, and the administrative cost is too high.It's just that the situation is forcing, so I can only bear it like this.

"Okay." Shang Luo looked at his watch, "I won't bother you with your part-time job, and I'll find you when I go to Alexandria to open the lock—oh, by the way, I haven't asked yet, are you going or not?"

Shangluo still doesn't know whether Phaethon is willing to go back at this time.Because she had said before that now is not the time to go back.Her hair and her lost strength made her reluctant to face the past.

"I'd better go back. I still have something to take."

"Oh? Do you need my help?"

"It's not anything specific. My character card for playing Hero Tour is still there. I want to transfer it to Zhendan to play. It will take several months to process it by mail. I just go back and go to the branch in Alexandria to do the line. I'm done. Do you want to go today?"

"Tomorrow, at noon tomorrow, I'll go right after school."

(End of this chapter)