Chapter Ninety-Four, The Dream of the Empress of the Empire (Part 1) Fantasy world, Falmat continent, imperial capital Urabianka city With a bright rosy glow quietly leaping out of the sky, the bright sun rises again as usual, bringing the warmth of spring to the world.
As usual, the imperial palace is located on a high and steep hill, overlooking the vast and wind-swept plain below.
The imperial city of Urabianca is located in the south-central part of the Falmat continent, about thirty or forty kilometers away from the coast.
It can not only enjoy convenient shipping and abundant seafood, but also be protected from pirates like port cities.
A direct surprise attack.
Although the climate here is relatively hot and the sunshine is very strong in summer and autumn, it is generally quite comfortable thanks to the cool breeze flowing down from the ice and snow mountains in the north.
The imperial palace is located on the easternmost of the five hills in the city, on a hill called Satile.
Among them, the easternmost palace against the city wall was the residence assigned by the late Emperor Morte when Pinna was still a princess.
Since the ventilation here is quite good, the aroma of cypress trees in the forest outside the city can be heard in the wind at any time.
Ping Na really liked this kind of breath that could restore clear thinking, so even after she was promoted from princess to queen, she did not move out of this old palace, but continued to use it.
At this moment, the refreshing morning breeze was slowly blowing into the bedroom, and the printed fabric curtains behind the floor-to-ceiling windows were fluttering, indicating that a new day was about to begin.
The bright sunshine shone in, filling the room with light, causing Queen Pinna to slowly wake up from a deep sleep.
“Not too dazzling” Under the bright morning light, the half-awake and half-asleep Queen Pinna mumbled in this way on the bed, turned over in a daze, and planned to continue sleeping.
But because of this, the brocade quilt that was originally covering her body suddenly slipped from her body to the outside of the bed, causing Queen Pingna's white neck, smooth jade back, plump buttocks, round shoulders, and the breasts to...
A pair of heavy peaks, all exposed to the morning breeze In the early days of civilization when the textile industry was underdeveloped, most people were accustomed to sleeping naked as long as the temperature allowed and they would not get sick from the cold.
The chill that followed instantly drove away the remaining tiredness in the Queen's mind, causing her to wake up completely and sit up suddenly.
"Your Majesty, you went to bed too late last night.
If this continues, your body will not be able to bear it."
Reaching out to grab the slipping quilt, she wrapped her delicate body again.
Through her still hazy sleepy eyes, Queen Pinna saw her personal secretary Hamilton, instructing the maids to open the windows of the palace one by one, and at the same time worriedly He sighed to himself.
"Hey, there is no way.
The country is in a difficult situation.
There are bad news of famine and war everywhere.
How can anyone sleep well?"
Queen Pinna rubbed her eyes disapprovingly and replied, then grabbed her long disheveled hair and stretched herself completely towards the sun, feeling much refreshed immediately.
Next, she looked around the bedroom that doubled as an office.
She saw the same situation as when she fell asleep last night.
All kinds of documents were piled up on the table, plus a large number of letters sent by local nobles. , making the palace look even more messy.
Since the group of aliens from Arnus Hill arrived on the Falmat continent, the cheap paper they made from plant fibers quickly replaced the expensive parchment and became the best-selling product on the Falmat continent.
One of the exotic products.
Next, relying on the technical support of people from other worlds, the royal family and many princes and lords also successively had their own small paper-making workshops and even small movable type printing factories.
The price of producing each sheet of paper soon fell to one-hundredth of that of parchment of the same size, making it affordable even for the poorest people.
Although this change has greatly reduced the price of paper and books, more people can afford paper and pens and learn to read and write.
But it also brought about an undesirable consequence.
Because paper is no longer expensive, there is no need to work hard to save and streamline words.
Clerks' writing soon becomes more and more verbose, making it necessary to review a large number of memorials and reports every day.
Queen Pinna, who wrote letters, felt increasingly troubled by this.
In fact, just looking at the unsightly piles of documents and files in the palace gave Queen Pinna a splitting headache and made her extremely irritable.
In the fantasy world of Falmat, there is no standard format for official documents.
They are all freely developed by a few intellectuals.
In the past, because parchment was too expensive, one sheep's skin could only be used to make twelve pieces of parchment, and the process took two or three months, so these literati had to streamline their sentences and be concise and concise.
Today's paper The price suddenly plummeted, and those who originally wanted a word The scribes who were counting the length of each letter naturally started to have fun like wild dogs on the loose.
They competed with each other in stacking up rhetoric, quoting scriptures, and making long arguments.
Things that could be written in one sentence had to take a page, as if If they don't waste it like this, they won't be able to show off their literary talent.
However, Princess Pinna suffered from the sudden increase in her reading volume.
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She was dizzy every day and no matter how much she was scolded, it had little effect.
Hey, when will the imperial court, like the aliens on Arnus Hill, use "computers" to conduct daily government affairs?
In fact, she actually discussed this issue with diplomats from other worlds.
But after thinking about it, the other party came to the conclusion that it is not difficult to develop an input system using the imperial language.
Organizing a group of imperial civil servants to learn how to use computers, well, if they are willing to work hard to learn, they should be able to do it.
It can be done.
But laying an Internet system throughout the empire, even just a local area network within the imperial capital, is an almost impossible project.
There is no technical problem, but the cost is absolutely beyond the reach of Queen Pinna.
In addition, there are also problems of power supply and daily maintenance and repairs, which cannot be solved by the imperial subjects themselves.
What's more, if computers are used to achieve paperless office, official documents with reduced costs will become even more lengthy.
Queen Pinna obviously has no intention of asking for trouble, so so far, in the entire imperial capital, only the queen herself and a few dignitaries have privately collected a few tablets from other worlds.
Their main uses are to watch movies and play games, relying on the power of people from other worlds.
Solar or hand-crank charger for charging
Just as Queen Pinna was sitting on the bed holding the quilt, thinking endlessly, another chilly morning breeze blew towards her from the window, causing her to tremble slightly, and there were chicken skins all over her fair skin.
Pimple, "A sneeze" "Your Majesty, although it is spring now, the wind in the morning is still very cold.
Please put on your clothes quickly."
Two middle-aged maids with kind faces came over, lifted Queen Pinna from the bed, helped her put on a white cotton petticoat, and poured hot water into the enamel basin. , helped her wash up briefly.
Then, she looked at the rising red sun outside the window and gently squinted her eyes, seeming to be thoughtful or just in a daze.
"Your Majesty the Queen, seeing that you are not in good spirits, would you like to take a shower before having breakfast?"
Hamilton asked while helping her pack up the documents scattered on the table and on the floor, "This will help her wake up a little bit."
"You're right, let's do it this way" Ping Na listened carefully to her subordinates' advice, and was immediately pushed into the bathroom by the maids.
She took a hasty shower, tied her red hair back up, combed her hair into a loose bun, put on light makeup, and put on her coat.
T-shirt and long skirt.
It wasn't until an hour later that the newly refreshed Ping Na returned to the palace and sat down at the small dining table set up on the terrace.
Judging from the daily dressing process of most ladies, this was already quite fast.
Breakfast had not been served yet, but the maid had already placed a cup of coffee from another world on the table.
Pingna took a deep breath of the unique aroma of this refreshing drink, and then with a small sense of joy and satisfaction, she stood by the railing of the terrace with the coffee in hand, overlooking the entire city below her feet, trying to survive the exhausting In this tiring life, looking for a little bit of relaxation.
The throne of the empire has never been a position that can be enjoyed easily, but requires astonishing effort and struggle.
At this time, the imperial capital city of Urabianca was shrouded in a bright and bright spring light, like a golden city bathed in holy light.
But if you look carefully, under this bright sunshine, you will see a large number of dilapidated abandoned houses, dirty alleys filled with garbage, deserted streets with few pedestrians and horses, and even the royal palace on the Satile Hill.
Inside, you can see the ruins of collapsed palaces, overgrown gardens, and broken statues and murals everywhere.
Outside the walls of the imperial capital, there are also sparsely populated areas and desolate fields.
The manors abandoned in the turmoil have become a paradise for weeds, shrubs and wild animals.
Many once-fertile cultivated lands are still covered with a layer of white flowers.
Salt frost.
It is obvious that even three years after Queen Pinna ascended the throne, the once prosperous imperial capital of Urabianca City has not recovered from the dual catastrophes of the "Alien Flood" and the Imperial Civil War.
And the empire, which was once extremely powerful, is still struggling in decline.
"Oh, how difficult the country's affairs are."
Looking at the decaying imperial capital, Queen Pinna couldn't help but sigh again. s: Fukuyama, who wrote the theory of the end of history, recently said: What is wrong is not my theory of the end of history.
What is wrong is that this world is indeed a Japanese.
Are you a middle school boy or a Showa staff officer?
But he put the current chaos in the Middle East Comparing it to the Thirty Years' War in Europe, it makes sense to think that after the Thirty Years' War ended with the death of two-thirds of the population, religious superstition should be effectively eradicated.
Then, a colleague went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Osaka, Japan, and said that the most impressive thing was that there really was a Myrtle in the women's restroom who could scare people at any time.
Isn't it afraid of scaring tourists into peeing their pants or skirts?
And she acted in the women's restroom.
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