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Is this my sister’s mistress?
Happy New Year’s Day In fact, the travelers who are able to collect wealth worth 3.8 billion yen from the current Roman city are thanks to the fact that this place is, after all, a historical capital that has carried the glory of the Romans for thousands of years.
It can be relatively easy.
Get some antiques from Greco-Roman civilization, such as emperors and goddesses Marble statues and relief panels, and even the "Trajan Column" in the square were dismantled and taken away by the travelers.
But the problem is, not to mention that there are far more fakes in these antiques than genuine ones, just like Modern tourists in Anyang, Henan always buy souvenirs of oracle bones baked in a microwave oven.
Even if they are genuine goods, the pawn prices identified by the automatic pawn machines for these antiques are all super cheap.
For example, the automatic pawn machine only gave the extremely low price of 150 million yen for the "Trajan Column", which is thirty-eight meters high, four meters in diameter, and covered with exquisite war reliefs.
The cost of Emperor Trajan's construction of the Gongzhu Column was more than this amount, right?
As for other smaller or more damaged ancient Roman statues, frescoes and relief panels, the estimates given by the automatic pawn machines are even more disastrous.
Moreover, at this time in 1348 AD, after all, nearly nine hundred years had passed since the collapse of the Roman Empire.
The remaining ancient cultural relics in the city of Rome had been constantly being lost.
Some were purchased or plundered by the arty Western European dignitaries, and some were It was regarded as an evil relic of a heretical god, and was destroyed by fanatical Christians, so the number of cultural relics eventually recovered was not as many as expected.
"In fact, in order to help us raise funds, the church has really tried its best to scrape the land, and even brought over the ancient Roman statues decorated on the nearby papal tombs."
Paladin Levi broke the news , suddenly aroused a look of surprise.
"Ah" Ma Tong blinked in disbelief, "It's so shameless to even dare to dig up the Pope's tomb."
Hey, among all the people here, I am afraid that you, the black-hearted Lily slut, are the only one who is least qualified to say that others lack moral integrity.
"We didn't dig out the coffin, we just appropriated the decorations on the ground.
What's more, those statues were originally stolen from ancient temples and even tombs in the Roman era.
Now it's normal to demolish them again."
Li Vee explained with a shrug.
All in all, no matter how you look at it, the oil and water in the city of Rome has been drained, and the nearby satellite towns and monasteries have also sent as many offerings as possible.
If you want to extract more oil and water from the territory of the Papal State without resorting to violent plunder, then you can only rely on the farmers in nearby villages.
All travelers have expressed an extremely pessimistic attitude towards this.
No matter how you look at it, the life of European farmers in the Middle Ages was very difficult and difficult.
They live in dilapidated thatched huts, sleep with pigs and goats, work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
They often don't have enough to eat, and may never be willing to make new clothes in their lifetime.
Even if you finally have some spare money, it will be plundered by the church and lords under various unimaginable names, and this is true no matter which country you are in.
In addition to heavy labor, these farmers must also meet the demanding requirements of their lords and often endure poverty and plague.
When war broke out, peasants had to join the lord's army to fight.
At that time, there were countless attacks and criticisms between the princes, and wars were frequent.
If the situation of free people is like this, the situation of serfs can be imagined.
At that time, more than two-thirds of the rural population belonged to the serf class without freedom.
It is said that farmers at that time were considered "longevity" if they lived to the age of forty, and it was considered rare to live to the age of fifty.
It can be said that "life is rare in the past fifty years." .
Heavy labor and insufficient nutrition led to widespread stunting of people.
The average height of farmers at that time was only about 1.5 meters.
In general, in medieval Europe, there were few rich peasants in the true sense, and few middle classes in the modern sense.
The gap between rich and poor in the entire society is extremely extreme, and the extremely limited wealth is gathered in cities, castles, churches, and monasteries.
After these places have been squeezed clean, even the most greedy people will be unable to squeeze anything more out of the hands of farmers.
Stuff: They are already so poor that they have nothing.
Fortunately, there is not only one city of Rome in Italy.
During the Renaissance and modern times, the northern Italian city-states north of Rome were the real gathering places of wealth, and they were also the places where travelers who had become "destroyers of monuments" in Rome , the scheduled next key search target.
"From this point of view, there is no potential to be explored in Rome for the time being.
Fortunately, Venice, Florence, and Genoa in the north seem to be richer.
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Our goal is to collect at least 10 billion yen from these places.
Of course, It’s better to have more, the merrier” Doraemon concluded the fundraising meeting, waving a stubby stick and pointing at the map of Italy hanging on the wall.
The travelers who also lacked moral integrity suddenly responded.
Only Li Wei was still muttering secretly: "Isn't the goal to save as many people as possible there?"
Next, regarding the willingness of these "appetite" angels to leave Rome to save and plunder other cities, Pope Clement VI naturally supported it with both hands and feet.
He knew from the beginning that even if the entire Papal State was drained, With his wealth, I'm afraid I won't be able to collect as many gold coins as the angels want.
However, given that the situation in the Papal States has not yet been completely stabilized, and patients are coming to seek help one after another, Clement VI hopes to leave one or two angels to help the Holy See calm down the situation, or simply use the "divine magic" to treat diseases. priests imparted to the church Unfortunately, neither of the above two requirements of the Pope have been met.
First, the time travelers are generally unwilling to disperse in two places, lest they cannot all escape in an emergency when danger arises; secondly, after collecting Doraemon, Before Meng needs a huge sum of money, they will not dare to easily leak the spells in the magic encyclopedia dictionary to outsiders.
Then you will be able to cure diseases and eliminate disasters yourself.
How can we collect money?
Of course, in view of the fact that the Pope has been working hard and cooperating with the search very hard recently, Doraemon still left a random door connecting Avignon and Rome, so that church members can take patients from Rome at any time.
Move to Avignon and wait until the time travelers are free to come to the rescue.
Doraemon took out another random door to travel from Avignon, France to Florence.
On this rescue and blackmail trip to Florence, Her Majesty Queen Joanna of Naples volunteered, claiming that she was familiar with the upper class society in Florence and could serve as the angels' guide and introducer.
She just asked the angels to help her solve a " Little Trouble" is like a future American Wall Street banker controlling much of the Third World Like the country's finance, as a "backward country" in this era, the finances of the Kingdom of Naples have always relied on the support of the Florentine financial community.
Over the years, they have owed an unknown amount of debt at a compound rate.
In view of the fact that the Kingdom of Naples now has no living people.
There are only a few left, and this debt can no longer be repaid even if Her Majesty sells her flesh.
Hearing that the young queen was in huge debt just like him, Doraemon, who shared the same problem, was deeply saddened, and immediately bought her with a huge package.
Wang Qiu also came together to "comfort" Queen Joanna, saying that the Black Death epidemic in Florence was probably not much better than in Naples, and the bankers who had lent money to the Naples royal family were probably dead as well.
If these bankers are really lucky enough to survive, the angels will "well" persuade them to be merciful and not to compare old accounts with Queen Joanna, who is favored by God.
Even if some of the bankers have granite heads and refuse to listen to the angels' advice to reduce the debt of the Kingdom of Naples, and are addicted to the dirty world and are unwilling to ascend to heaven and enter the paradise world, the angels will let them quickly receive the Lord.
Those who call and go to heaven to enjoy blessings are just like the way the British immigrants on the "Mayflower" immigrant ship that founded the United States "thanked" the Indians who entertained them.
Well, with the loss of all kinds of moral integrity, now the hearts of these time-travelers are all black.
Next, the random door leading to Florence was finally slowly pushed open by Doraemon's Dango palm.
Then, the first time she stepped into the city of Florence, Queen Joanna was very surprised to meet an unexpected acquaintance.
Northern Italy, Tuscany region, Florence city
During the Renaissance, the city-states of Northern Italy were pioneers throughout Europe.
It has the highest degree of urbanization in Europe, the most prosperous urban agglomeration in Europe, the earliest sprout of capitalism in human history, the earliest modern diplomacy, finance, science and technology and maritime trade, as well as the earliest humanism.
Art and literature gave birth to the crystallization of wisdom that would make Europeans proud of the world in the future.
Among these Italian city-states that are as bright as morning stars, Florence, a city translated by Xu Zhimo as "Emerald Cold Green", is the most artistic among them.
It is also the European cultural center of this era and the birthplace of the European Renaissance movement, including Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Galileo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli's The Prince The author's series of famous and world-renowned romantic figures all have a deep connection with the city of Florence.
If Silicon Valley in the United States symbolizes the information age, then Florence is where the essence of the Renaissance gathers.
It was not until the rise of Paris, the capital of flowers, and French romantic art in modern times that Florence gradually lost its crown as the "Art Capital of the World."
In addition to being a historic art capital, Florence is also a famous financial center, the Wall Street of the Renaissance.
The Medici family, which has ruled the city for a long time, is known as the most powerful banker in the Renaissance era, and no future Rothschild family can compare with it.
However, at this moment in the early summer of 1348, Florence, like all cities in Italy, was also shrouded in the haze of the Black Death.
Unlike those cities that were shocked until death was imminent, the Florence city authorities received news of the plague last year and knew that the plague was approaching them step by step, but they were still helpless and could not come up with any solution: all the people in the city Every dirty place was cleaned up, orders were issued prohibiting patients from entering the city, and devout believers prayed to God again and again, but the Black Death still came.
In an instant, the bells of bustling Florence were ringing, corpses were piled up, and ten rooms were empty.
People were panicked, rumors were flying, and trade was cut off.
A shocking and terrifying scene appeared everywhere, as if the end of the world had arrived.
Faced with the epidemic that devoured the city in an instant, Rich...
People loaded their property onto the carriage one after another and lifted Families fled to the countryside; the poor could only stay in their shabby huts, desperately waiting for death; doctors were thinking about all kinds of whimsical treatment methods, but they couldn't even cure themselves; devout believers spent day and night He prayed like crazy and became insane before he even got sick.
And in this miserable atmosphere of despair, the literati picked up their quills In Europe in the fourteenth century, there were three cultural superstars, known to later generations as the "Three Masters of the Renaissance."
They were Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and they all happened to be Florentines.
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When the Black Death came, Dante, who wrote the Divine Comedy and suffered a lifetime of bitterness and hatred, was already dead.
Petrarch, the laureate "Father of the Renaissance", was now in exile because of his involvement in the coup of the Roman Republic last year. , whereabouts unknown.
Only Giovanni has the most gossipy personality and loves street jokes.
Boccaccio still stayed in this city filled with corpses, and tried to use the quill in his hand to leave a record of this living hell.
Of course, at this time, Boccaccio had not yet begun to write his story.
The Decameron, which will go down in history, is just a vague idea in my mind.
His current reputation in the literary world is supported by various erotic poems and poems.
He is mainly famous for his bold scale.
In other words, this guy is a person who specializes in writing pornographic books and pornographic jokes.
He held public office in the Florentine government.
In a dusty study in the Florence Town Hall, Giovanni, an incompetent financial official and an outstanding erotic literature writer.
Boccaccio was lying on a table with a haggard expression, writing furiously using official stationery: "This is a world of disaster that is dying day by day.
This is a plague era of darkness and sorrow.
The invisible disease has engulfed every country.
Howling storms are attacking the barren coast.
Crazy robbers and bandits are pouring out from the wilderness.
Pillaging and slaughtering our towns.
Merchant ships and trade disappeared from the seas, and all law and order became lost in the face of death.
God has forgotten the people of Italy, and the orderly old world we are familiar with has come to an end without warning.
Those noble souls born with glory had to start struggling for survival.
The precarious and short life makes the rich no longer have long-term plans, they just want to enjoy themselves in the moment and squander the wealth they have accumulated throughout their lives; the ignorant poor are heading towards death step by step in ignorance, poverty and fear.
The old years have passed It's over, a new era is beginning, and everyone must learn to survive in this new era.
For this ruined land is our home and the terrible new world we must face.”
As he wrote this, he suddenly stopped writing and frowned, not knowing how to continue.
After reading the written text again, Boccaccio, who still couldn't find any ideas, had to put down his quill, stood up, spread out the paper, grabbed a handful of dry fine sand from the sand jar next to the desk, and carefully put it on the paper.
Sprinkle a layer on the paper and let it absorb the ink on the paper.
Then he opened his mouth to blow away the fine sand, and finally rolled up the paper and carefully put it into a delicate wooden box.
After finishing writing for the time being, he sighed and stretched, turned around and looked outside through the window of his study.
The scene on the street seemed to be still the same, but the noisy stalls and vendors of the past had disappeared, and even the beggars were gone.
Can't find one.
Within the field of vision, there were only extremely dirty streets, abandoned houses with open doors and windows, a handful of slovenly men leaning against the walls waiting to die, and countless bones that had been discarded haphazardly, making this city baptized by the plague , appears more empty and desolate.
He still vaguely remembered that earlier, before the collapse of the city hall and the church, there were corpse collection carts going back and forth on the streets, transporting large quantities of corpses to various churches in the city, and then Some long and wide deep pits were dug there, and hundreds of corpses were buried there, just like the cargo in the cabin.
Although there was no sense of mourning, at least the minimum dignity was maintained. .
But now, even the corpse collection teams organized by the government have all died of the disease.
The dead people can only rot and stink in the streets and homes, but no one is willing to clean them up, lest they themselves may also be infected by the plague.
What’s even scarier is that there are some half-human, half-ghost things wandering the streets of Florence.
They call themselves foundation diggers, deal with dead bodies every day, and no longer care about their own life or death.
During the day, they wandered around the cemetery like vultures, and at night they became devils.
At first they just stole and robbed, but later they became a group of crazy monsters.
These gravediggers often come in groups, bursting into random homes and demanding large sums of money.
If you can't pay, use women to compensate These lawless atrocities often succeed during this special period.
Because they are not afraid of death and have the ability to spread plague.
Everyone is afraid of them.
And the municipality of Florence was already in disintegration.
So, sometimes they extorted money, and sometimes they extorted money from women.
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This catastrophe turned some living people into dead people, and some living people into devils.
Some disasters bring people together, but not the Black Death.
It belongs to another category of catastrophes, the kind that only unleash the evil in the human heart and make people darker and alienated.
Hey, staying in this living hell, watching everything familiar gradually being swallowed up by corpses and darkness, is a kind of torture almost every day.
Next, he felt hungry.
At this time, the order of the city had long since collapsed, and no shop selling bread and cakes dared to open its doors.
Many citizens' livelihoods were in trouble, but this did not stop Boccaccio, who had been prepared for it.
On the eve of the final collapse of the Florence municipal government, Boccaccio, who had already foreseen the disaster, used the last power at hand to use public funds to secretly hoard a large amount of bread, biscuits, bacon and wine in the cellar of the city hall, enough for him to eat and drink for a whole day.
More than a year.
If nothing unexpected happens, I can probably survive this catastrophe.
However, just as he was humming a tune in amusement and walking downstairs, shaking the key, he stopped at the door of the hall in astonishment.
Because, he was originally alone in the Florence City Hall, but a group of uninvited guests suddenly broke into it.
What made Boccaccio even more confused was what kind of incredible group of uninvited guests they were.
There are several suspected "angels" with wings on their backs, several priests and nuns in robes, several knights in bright armor, and a young lady in a luxurious purple dress who looks familiar.
What is so strange about this?
combination Even if it happened that I had falsified accounts and embezzled public funds, there would be no need for such a group of strange guys to come and examine me.
What's more, nowadays, everyone is alive and I don't know if there will be a tomorrow.
Who else can care about such a trivial matter?
In an instant, Boccaccio's mind was spinning in confusion, and he stood on the stairs speechless, not knowing what to do.
At the same time, the lady in the purple dress looked up at him for a while, but she seemed to recognize Boccaccio's identity, "I didn't expect there was a living person in the city hall of Florence.
Why is it you?"
Not dead yet?”
"Uh, is this guy an acquaintance of yours?
Your Majesty," an "angel" with wings on his back asked curiously.
Then, Boccaccio heard the lady in a purple dress say a thunderous introduction to the "angel": "Well, yes, Lord Angel, this guy was once the mistress of one of my sisters, and he was very good at writing all kinds of lewd poems." s: On the last day of 2014, I wish everyone a fruitful year and a happy new year.
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