Vinegar blood soup is a favorite dish of the Spartans, and it is a soup made from animal blood, vinegar and other ingredients. This soup can quickly replenish a person's physical strength after intense exercise. The Spartans attached great importance to physical exercise and insisted on taking cold showers in the winter. They often jump into the Evrotas River in their hometown to bathe after exercising, and when they come out, they drink a big bowl of vinegar and blood soup to warm up and refresh their minds.

A tyrant of Syracuse admired the strength of the Spartan military, and he wanted to find out the secret of the Spartans' strength through food, so he hired a Spartan chef to make this dish. As a result, after tasting it, I found it difficult to swallow. He asked the chef why the dish was so unpalatable, and the chef said, "That's because you haven't bathed in the Evrotas River."

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The Evrotas River flowed here for millennia, giving birth to the powerful city-state of Sparta and witnessing the gradual weakening of the Laconian plain.

At the mouth of the fertile river, Andrew Lee and a group of Greeks translated and wrote dozens of proclamations for the cavalry, which they sent to the villages and towns north from there. According to incomplete statistics, there were nearly 100,000 Greeks in the Laconian plain. In this way, there should be hundreds of villages, dozens of towns, and several big cities?

No, in fact, apart from the city of Mystras (which is the capital of the province of New Island), there are hardly any slightly larger towns in the area, and there are rural villages everywhere. And in the mountains on both sides, there are also a large number of villages. This is a place with a big head and a big tail, but a very thin waist.

After Li Anshi left 100 cavalry to protect him, he sent 460 cavalry all the way north. They did what Andrew Lee did on Kythirra, announcing new policies and then waiting for an opportunity to clean up the old governor.

By the time he arrived in Mystras in November, the mountain town had already been swept away. Just in response to what Chen Jia said, this peninsula is quite easy to conquer. The local Greeks were docile, and the Italian merchants left the Duchy of Morea under the expulsion of Lee.

For Li Anshi, the current Xinzhou Mansion is like a perfect white land.

Fiercely suppressing some of the untimely thoughts in his heart, Li Anshi breathed a long sigh of relief and drove the horse into Xinzhou. Li Anshi knew that the Italian merchants left to give face to the Genoese and their king, not to themselves.

Mistras, it's a city with a lot of bad luck. The French built the walls on the hill and built the Byzantine palace. After the Eastern Romans recovered Mystras, it continued to expand and eventually became a good city.

Going up the mountain road, Li Anshi can clearly see that the city is divided into two floors. The lower walls surround the hill and are where the commoners and the like live, while the upper walls are opening their doors to themselves, there is a nice-looking palace, as well as dozens of comfortable houses, plus a cathedral.

It seems that this is where the original prince and his officials and nobles lived.

Mystras was the capital of the Duchy of Morea. The Duchy of Morea, on the other hand, became the seat of the prince after it was recovered by the Eastern Roman Empire, and was generally governed by the prince, which was equivalent to de facto independence. Constantine XI was the former lord of the Duchy of Morea.

After settling the personnel, this new world became Li Anshi's picture, and the power that Qin Cang handed over to his Fu Yin was his paintbrush.

Li Anshi first went to inspect the silk industry of the Greeks. There is no doubt that the silk weaving capacity of the Greeks has not only not made new progress with the progress of time, but has become more and more degraded by the backward production situation. The olive oil and wine factories under the city are clearly even more dilapidated. Many of the former factories were abandoned. The workers also disappeared without a trace.

This was the revenge left to Li Anshi after the withdrawal of the Eastern Roman nobles. They didn't dare to complain about the emperor's sale of Moreah, but they wouldn't treat the barbarians who took over in such a good way.

"It doesn't matter. It just so happened that our people didn't have a way out yet, so these people gave it to us! Let our men accept that piece of workshop! Those who are willing to stay stay, and those who are unwilling to get out of here as soon as possible! Li Anshi was in a comfortable mood lying on the bed of the former Eastern Roman prince and giving orders.

"Oh! By the way, issue orders to the village chiefs in various places. Starting next year, each village will hand over a sturdy male to be stationed in Xinzhou. This man is exempt from taxation and becomes my soldier. Those who are unwilling to hand over the men will either die or pay three times the tax! ”

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After Li Anshi left, the territory continued to operate as usual.

The trade volume of the whole month successfully reached the peak of 30,000 Haiperun, but the various expenditures of up to more than 20,000 Haiperun still made Qin Cang unable to do so. You must know that it is recorded that in 1380, the city of Florence alone had an income of 230,000 florins a year. It is conceivable what kind of status the small Chizhou is still in.

"How's coking going? Does it work? Qin Cang rubbed his forehead and asked Sophia, who helped him pack up his papers. After the consultation, Sophia and Qiao Su helped Qin Cang pack up all kinds of documents together, basically for a day, and Baoyin, who had no idea about administration, had to choose to watch from the sidelines.

"Chu Jing and the brick kiln preliminarily made a round kiln with a vault, and initially thought that this could produce three tons of coke." Sophia picked up the stack of reports and read them out in Chinese.

"Yes, yes. Tell him that when the coke comes out, I must see the development of the two-pounder cannon successful! We've made so much effort for the two-pounder gun, and it's finally coming to fruition......."

Fourteen days later, the entire Great Iron Prison was in a stir. All the craftsmen gathered around the test site outside the city.

In half a month's efforts, the craftsmen first improved the process of making iron fans, and strived to make the iron fans more standardized and smooth; Later, after installing a wind blower, Chu Jing used coke to burn a purer molten iron.

Then it's exciting time to cast the cannons. The iron fan is connected together with mortise and tenon joints, inserted into the iron stamen wrapped in mud, and two craftsmen pull the rope to pour the molten iron into the iron fan. After the molten iron is poured in, the sediment is cleaned up while it is red, and then it is time for the craftsmen to perform. They needed to grind the bore of the cannon diligently in such a scorching time, grinding it until it was smooth.

In fact, the iron fan cast cannon only saves cost and time, and does not greatly improve the quality of the cannon. Especially when the mud is not cleaned well, the artillery will be scrapped entirely. Later, after the steam engine, people used lathes to drill the inner chamber directly, but now, Qin Cang did not have that ability.

There was a dull cannon sound, and the craftsmen knew that the cannon was finished.