Chapter 26: The Trojan Horse of Li Bida (Part II)
This wave came in the top painters of the cities that Adiana had collected, they walked into the palace, and began to use paints and various means, smearing the "relics" of that era on them, there were Cretan-style vaudeville competitions, there were landscape paintings in the style of Asia Minor, and Egyptian-style portraits, all of which had to be perfect, deliberately in the palace acropolis, near a certain room outside, Li Bida also specially asked the soldiers to dig a long secret passage, and put the lights on it, He also threw down weapons and ornaments in this room, and asked the painter to paint on the walls the scene of the famous "Escape of Aeneas" of the Romans, "because this is the tunnel from which he escaped." ”
Just as the painters and slaves entered, Li Bida and Adiana heard the cheers outside the city, like the waves of the ocean, and Adiana said excitedly, "The final finishing work is here." ”
So the two of them, accompanied by the guards, walked through the neighborhood of "Troy City", and walked to the Scann Gate, only to see Gable waving a flag in front of him, and Pope and his technicians were densely lying on the city gate and tower to command, a wooden horse of the same size as the legend, hung with all kinds of colorful ornaments and flowers, and many wheels were placed underneath, and slowly pushed to the city gate, "This is the end of the whole project!" Li Bida shouted excitedly, and walked in front of the Trojan Horse, and then Gable stepped forward and bowed, inviting the Metropolitan Counsel to test the reliability of the Trojan Horse.
"What about the secret door? What about the secret door? Li Bida asked this question first.
Gable walked to the place where the "belly" and "buttocks" of the Trojan horse intersected, which was obscured by a huge "ponytail" made of leather and cashmere, which was very difficult to be noticed. Then Gable pulled it with his hand. There was a piece of wood missing. And then through the lever machine, a small ladder appeared that overlapped back and forth, and Adiana volunteered to climb up this ladder, and after a while came down and said, "It can indeed accommodate half a hundred soldiers." ”
"Very good, transport it to the middle of the Scanmen right away!" Satisfied with Gable's design and work, he ordered the Egyptian director of engineering to be rewarded with two thousand drachmas. Then, when the Trojan rumbled to the Skan Gate, Pope immediately came down with the rest of the soldiers, and began to pour fire oil on the "rooms" of the block, and tear down the bronze gates and set them aside. Because according to the epic description, because the Trojan horse given by the Mycenaeans was too large, the Trojans were forced to tear down the city gate and transport it in, and then the Mycenaeans hiding in the belly of the horse took the opportunity to kill it in the night. Captured and destroyed the ancient city.
After nightfall, Li Bida ordered all the slaves in the camp to write hard. "The great and sorrowful Ilion (the Romans called Troy Ilion), the origin of ancient Rome, has been successfully excavated and rediscovered by the expatriate lawyer of the capital, Lybidaeus, and here I feel the great wooden horses used by the Mycenaeans to take the city, and the Scanmen gates, and the neighborhoods, the weapons workshops, and the vast palaces, and the rooms and tunnels of Aeneas when he fled." Thanks to the Father and the Mother, although the Mother Juno had many trials and tribulations for Aeneas during his escape, but thanks to the white-armed god, all the Qiē is now reappearing, and Virgil is revisiting the old place and starting to lead the creation of a great epic about war, fate, and ancestors. ”
The letters were then encapsulated, called the fastest messenger and horse, and sent to the distant city of Rome, where he hoped that Caesar would be able to read his work before the Feast of the Wolves.
Over there, Adiana was still standing in place, and after seeing Li Bida's orders, she said to him in a calm voice, "Is it true that you whispered to me just now?" Will Caesar die? ”
"Yes, so I didn't come to Fort Lybida just to have fun with you, soon the storm will come, and Calabya will fight together again." Li Bida held the other party's fragrant shoulder and said.
"That's natural, and the only thing I should be complaining about is that you didn't discuss this with me too soon." Adiana said briskly, "But, however, I need the Kingdom of the Bosphorus as a reward for Eujit. ”
"Of course you can do it there, my Minerva." Li Bida also readily agreed, he knew that Adiana could actually ask for Macedonia, Peloponnese, or Crete, which were more important and rich, but she didn't, not even Bithynia, she just wanted to restore her homeland to the greatest extent, since Li Bida built the castle to guard the strait in the former Byzantine homeland, it was actually equivalent to changing her strategy of westward expansion.
"The terms of the peace agreement have been reached, and what should Eubertnia and the lovely amphora do now?"
"I need you to send Achilles' fleet, along with the two Pontus legions that Caesar had sent back, to the city of Alexandria, to be at the disposal of Cleopatra." Li Bida's words were amazing, so that Adiana was overwhelmed, you must know that the blood of her current war in the entire kingdom is this fleet and two newly formed legions, which requires a considerable part of the expenditure of the treasury, and now the other party actually asks her to give these to the other side of the ocean, the Cleopatra whom she is most jealous and jealous of?
Of course, Li Bida saw the other party's reaction, and he carefully explained, "I need a joint military or commercial expedition, but what I can mobilize now, excluding my troops and horses, is the part of Eubernia and Egypt." ”
"Where is the goal of the expedition?" Adiana was puzzled.
"No, rather, it's not about what countries are conquered militarily, it's about deterrence and control." Li Pida's words made the queen even more confused, but he still spoke eloquently, "Adiana, do you remember that Crassus's expedition to Parthia ended with almost all the army? Yes, it was because I had deceived him into taking the Way of Seris, the land where silk was produced. After speaking, Li Bida touched his hand on the corner of Adiana's silk robe, "Do you know how the silk of Seris is produced?" ”
Adiana thought for a moment and quoted the common saying of naturalists at the time, "I have heard that the silk of Seris grows on a special tree, and every harvest season, the women take it down, soak it with water, comb it into strips, and then use a loom to weave it into what I am now." ”
Li Bida laughed, he knew that in this era, the technology of raising silkworms and making silk belongs to the biggest secret at the national level, not to mention West Asia, India, Parthia and Rome, even if it is the only way on the Silk Road, Khotan is not known now, but Li Bida knows, but he will not say it clearly, because this will inevitably damage the interests of his hometown Seris Empire, he wants to change the way. (To be continued!)
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