Chapter 26: The Trojan Horse of Li Bida (Part II)
The three generals stood in front of the shoulders to receive the order, and then the four thousand soldiers and slaves toiled, Pop and Gable were in charge of the implementation of the project, and Sabo was in charge of the dispatch, holding in his hand the Trojan imagination that Libida had already sketched: first digging the foundations and moats, then using the excavated mud to build and ram the walls, and then building the palace and temple, the stone and wood required from the "tail" of Libida Fort. *,,
"Amphorae clay pots, human hands don't seem to be particularly sufficient." Adiana was a little worried about whether the project could be completed within a month.
"It doesn't matter, I have three hundred talents from Caesar, my Majesty, I will give you this money at once, and you can lend me some more, and hire craftsmen, muralists and antique dealers from all over Asia to come!" Li Bida looked nonchalant, "As long as you have enough money, manpower, and excellent technicians, it is not very difficult to build an 'ancient city of Troy' out of thin air." ”
Adiana was a very clever queen, and immediately understood, so she also held the scroll of Homer's epic poem, and fell into the ear of Lybida, and said: "I will immediately tell the slaves of the court to open up a special room in the camp, and divide the main features of the book about the castle of Priam (i.e., the city of Troy) into detailed memo entries, since so much money has been spent, it must be done perfectly, right?" The two men were completely intoxicated with the joy of pranks, and could not extricate themselves.
The two fellows did what they said, and soon in the camp they erected a number of stands, each of which was divided into two pieces, and on which papyrus was hung for easy reading. A slave who knew Greek. On the table and stool next to him, he first analyzed the things in the whole epic. Then it was divided into items and transcribed on a paper roll, and then the architect entered, arranged all the brackets in order according to the progress of the whole project, and then directed the whole team to complete it step by step.
After digging the foundations and ditches of the city, Li Bida said, "The Scamendelos River must be there." Because it is recorded in the epic that this raging river is the source of water that must pass under the city of Troy. So the soldiers and slaves dug a trench from the nearby river, brought in the "Scamanderos River", and walked around the foundation.
"In addition to that, there must be two springs." After Li Bida finished speaking, they dug again in the "south of the city" and the "north of the city" until the water came out, and at this time Asia Minor was still a place with lush water sources and forests.
But what Li Bida didn't say was that the epic clearly said two springs. One is a cold spring and the other is a hot spring. However, limited to the technology at that time, Li Bida could not create an artificial hot spring, so he had to give up, because the "exaggeration of art" had to allow the blind Homer to do it, didn't he?
"Alright, we can build Scanmen." Unable to resist laughing, Adiona reminded after the first market day that the workers had used scaffolding and plywood to make a "skan gate" somewhere in the city wall, as depicted in the epic, with the inscription carved by a stonemason from Miletus, and then carved reliefs of gods and beasts on the city wall, and then all the people built a full sixty-four rooms of "ruins" within the foundation, and then mule carts and ox carts arrived from Ephesus, Miletus, Caios, Pergamum, Smyrna and other cities bought cheap clay pots, furniture poured into one by one, of course, there are some weapons collected randomly, such as short swords, spears, slingshots or something, because to cause the whole city to be destroyed by the war, so the standard of these weapons try to imitate the Mycenaeans, Li Bida does not expect to be able to hide from archaeologists after 2,000 years, he only needs to hide 1,800 years, but maybe when those archaeologists are confused about the ruins of this "city" after 2,000 years, Had no idea it was a prank by someone.
Then there is the palace and the temple, which is also the most expensive place in the whole project, everything has to be in accordance with the oriental style at that time, not only there are stone abutments, but also with steps, columns, and fine drainage ditches, inside the kitchen, stables, weapons warehouse, mint, etc., and the temple is also in accordance with the epic depiction, in the highest place above the palace, built a Minerva, that is, the Greeks called the temple of Athena, the materials are ready-made, from the next Libida Fort can be transported, very convenient, The scale doesn't need to be big, just the meaning.
Finally, after the same market day, when the soldiers and slave laborers had already retreated to the camp to rest, Adiana, dressed in Helen's splendid clothes, with gold rings and ornaments, and holding a snake staff sold by an antique dealer, and with her beautiful head scattered, strolled through the new "palace", laughing and groaning around Li Bida, and chanting aloud, "To my admonitions, dear stranger, have you ever been resentful and resentful?
These people are obsessed with the pleasures in front of them, the harp and the songs, and they take them at will, without having to pay them back—
The owner is a pile of bones, rotting in the rain,
Either they were cast on the 6 grounds, or they were rolled in the waves. ”
Her voice echoed through the empty columns, because only Li Bida in a Corinthian cuirass followed her, listening to Adiana singing verses from "Odysseus", the two of them were obviously playing "role-playing", and then Li Bida pressed Adiana against the pillars in the depths, looked into her eyes and said, "How have I ever disobeyed the admonition of my goddess? My maroon-eyed Minerva. ”
"No, I'm not Minerva, I'm Helen, the woman who led the city to completely ruin Miè." Adiana pushed Li Bida away, and Gege said with a smile, "Look at my outfit, it was in this palace that Helen stripped her gorgeous ornaments, and then fled without looking back. Saying that, Adiana thought of herself as Helen, with a little fanaticism and murmuring, "Her tiara, her gown, his silk buttons, her serpent's staff, and so on." As she spoke, she stood on the sunset and the "ruins", and as she spoke, she took off these things one by one, leaving only the ** that the muse was also praised, she who had given birth to a child, was much richer than before, and then beckoned to Li Bida and said, "Come on, treat me as a disaster for the country and the people, my Agthius, use your bronze spear, and pierce my abdomen mercilessly." ”
Then, armed with a spear, "Agthius" and "Helen" fought fiercely for a whole night in the "ruins of Troy", under the sunset and the stars, and there was no winner.
It wasn't until the next day, when Sabo and the others continued to come with the team, that the two of them sneakily changed into another set of clothes, and then threw all the clothes left over from last night's play between the pillars of the palace, causing the chaos when the city fell. (To be continued!)
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