Chapter 286: Venice Scroll (2)

Huang Xuan's cold sweat instantly wet his back, and he thought of the premise that he had hidden his identity: the P plane belonged to the Green Pine family, P112 and the other planes here all came from the needs of the Green Pine family, and he seemed to be giving away the assets of the "family".

If such a situation happens to the Huang family, the fund's first reaction must be to cancel the bonus, and then to recover the penalty and even cancel the inheritance rights and equity.

Almost instantly, Huang Xuan raised his head and said with an embarrassed smile: "It's me who said too much, I can't control my mouth when I see a beauty, it was my business to go to the library, but I forgot Miss Chu's identity as an authority......" He sighed by the way, and said: "If Miss Chu is not a traveler of the Authority, it will be even more perfect." “

Suspecting that once this kind of thing grows, it will not fade easily, but Chu Yining just smiled on his face and said, "Then I'll wait for you outside the library, and I won't go far." ”

If at school, if a beautiful woman said that I was waiting for you outside the classroom, Huang Xuan would dare to release the teacher's pigeon immediately, even if it was a person at the level of the teaching director or above blocking the way, Huang Xuan would dare to climb out of the window. But when these words came out of Chu Yining's mouth, Huang Xuan felt like watching a movie, and his cousin's brother-in-law was a gangster who was a gangster and said: That guy, wait for me in the big "" field tonight......

Suppressing his somewhat trembling voice, Huang Xuan squeezed out a little smile and said, "Okay, let's go to St. Mark's Square first." ”

I secretly blamed myself in my heart: I got carried away. Huang Xuan originally remembered to talk less and watch more, but when everything went well, he couldn't help but "show" a little capitalist tail and was almost cut.

Built in the 9th century AD, St. Mark's Square is the oldest part of the city, and it began as a chaotic market, followed by orchards and pilgrims' resting places, and over time religious and political functions took over. The project, which involved many famous designers, embodies Alberti's belief that cities should be built as places for people to rest.

The most striking symbol here is the 100-meter-high bell tower of San Marco, which was originally the watchtower of St. Mark's small square, which was used to monitor the lagoon that has become the inner port of Venice, and has been rebuilt three times, the last of which has not yet happened in this plane.

The bell tower echoes the new administrative residence and library on both sides, and at the other end is the famous St. Mark's Basilica, which is the heart of the city.

Seeing that Huang Xuan didn't use the plane base to search, and walked forward so easily, Chu Yining immediately asked, "What era is this, are you familiar with it?" ”

Huang Xuan didn't want to say much, and said vaguely: "It is the middle of this historical period, and the architecture here has certain rules. ”

He said a word casually, but Chu Yining drew attention to the nearby architectural style, Huang Xuan didn't understand, such questions are compulsory courses for high-level travelers, many high-level travelers have good knowledge, and it is difficult for Chu Yining to analyze such a problem as architectural style.

When Huang Xuan walked into the library, Chu Yining also knew with great certainty that the buildings here did not have a law that could guide the road.

……

In the library, a monk stopped Huang Xuan.

The public library of this era is quite different from the public library in the modern sense. It only allows a limited number of people to use the books, and only allows them to read, not to borrow them, and the so-called limited people here of course refer to citizens within the local or regional limits.

Naturally, the yellow race is not among them.

The monk said in articulate Italian: "You can't enter this library. ”

Of course, Huang Xuan knew that he couldn't do it, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay." As he spoke, he said to Lorraine in a dark voice: "Record the things in this library." ”

"Does it work?"

"Make a show for people."

Under the guarded eyes of the monk, Huang Xuan walked out of the library and asked by the way, "How many books are there?" He mentally estimated the value of these pre-Renaissance books.

"About 400 copies."

Huang Xuan was stunned. That number sounded like it was less than the books he had at home.

It was in 1455 that the German Johann . Gutenberg's invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history, before which European book collections relied solely on bibliographies, neither in terms of quantity nor financial investment, to a satisfactory degree.

The public libraries of this period are represented by Cosimo the Elder, the Biblioteca of San Marco the Elder commissioned by the architect Michelozzo in the Convent of San Marco in the Dominican Order, and whose collection comes entirely from a name familiar to Europeans: Nickli, who died in mid-1455.

The largest library in Europe during this period, the Vatican's Apostolic Library, which was built with all his might, had only 353 volumes of Greek manuscripts and 824 volumes of Latin manuscripts until 1455.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty of the same period, the less is pitiful.

This also made Huang Xuan lose interest a little.

It's not that manuscripts of age have value, if you ransack this library, which is easy to do in theory, but the income obtained, an average of 100,000 books is very good, then 400 copies is 40 million yuan at best, maybe some precious manuscripts will increase this number several times, but for Huang Xuan at this time, the attraction has been greatly reduced. Because the looting itself consumes energy, and Huang Xuan has no interest in making ordinary profits. What's more, there is a small boss waiting for him at the door.

Chu Yining stood at the door of the library as expected, Yuli's figure was slender and moving, and many Venetians had already noticed this.

Huang Xuan felt that the little boss of the Authority in front of him seemed to be really not suitable for the life of a traveler. Or rather, she's not very good at too delicate work.

Perhaps solving problems with energy cannons is what advanced travelers do best.

Chu Yining didn't ask Huang Xuan what he had just done, but Ying Ying smiled and said, "Let's go to San Gacomo Square now?" ”

Lorraine was able to analyze the high-level energy fluctuations that occurred near the traveler, but was somewhat powerless for the more distant fluctuations.

Therefore, Huang Xuan was not very sure whether Chu Yining would know more about himself, so he could only hope that he would be wrong. Hurry up and get this great god away.

Seeing that more and more Italians were coming over, Huang Xuan walked down the stairs of the library quickly and said, "Plaza San Gacomo is a commercial street in this era, are you really interested?" ”

"You don't want me to see it?" Chu Yi said with burning eyes.

Huang Xuan pursed his lips, and his mind quickly turned: "If you really want to go to ......"

"Let's go, then." Chu Yining directly interrupted Huang Xuan's words.

Huang Xuan once again felt that coming here was not a good choice.

Piazza San Gacomo replaced the commercial function of Piazza San Marco, and in the 15th century it was the meeting point of the Venetian commercial atmosphere, with clothing shops, gold shops, industrial and tax offices, as well as a harbour, warehouses and shops for ship owners. The Venetians proudly proclaim that they can buy half the world's goods: sheep wool, raw silk, cotton, salt, wheat, sugar, wine, wood, iron, copper, alum, honey, pearls, cloves, cardamom......

That's true.

There were still about 100,000 tons of grain stored in the plane passage, which was the capital that Huang Xuan had prepared a long time ago, but with Chu Yining, he didn't know if he should take it out.

Lu Min and the others were just ordinary low-level travelers, while Chu Yining was a high-level traveler who knew many things, Huang Xuan couldn't be sure if he would go against the practice of the Glory Glory by making such a transaction, or if it would be inconsistent with the Glory Glory's habits not to carry out such a transaction.

Huang Xuan kept recalling what he knew about the Green Pine Family: savage, powerful, and liked the simple way. He didn't know if this understanding was correct, but judging from the information so far, he could only understand it this way.

Glancing back at Chu Yining, Huang Xuan smiled and said, "Is Miss Chu interested in the goods here?" This is the trade area of this dimensional planet, and you can buy goods from far away. ”

Chu Yining was also observing Huang Xuan, the Green Pine Family was a rough Glory Family, a little more rude than most Glory Families, and the performance of this person in front of him was somewhat in between.

Attitude can't express too much information, hearing Huang Xuan's question, Chu Yining laughed softly: "My way back is too far, if I carry things, it is estimated that there will not be much profit, and I don't carry many materials suitable for here." What did you bring? ”

The last sentence is obviously a temptation.

Huang Xuan laughed, delayed and said, "It's that I didn't think it through, but if you need anything, I can help you buy it, and I brought some food." ”

This time, he brought not only food, but also standard food from the R-plane, which was the general equivalent that travelers liked to bring the most, and no one could find fault with it.

Chu Yining shook her head and pulled down the brim of her hat a little to cover half of her ears, but her beautiful face still couldn't be hidden, and passers-by inevitably looked at her twice.

Seeing that she didn't have any special reaction, Huang Xuan relaxed a little, and secretly thought: Travelers all rely on the plane to travel income, so transactions are inevitably the bulk of them, even if the Bureau does not eat fireworks, most of them will have to collect taxes from the control plane.

Thinking so, he took two steps slower, and said side by side with Chu Yining: "Let's go to a nearby trading house." ”