Volume 1: Chengguan's Strategies for the Americas Chapter 10: The Great Era of Turbulence (II)

In short, this is the Mediterranean shijie of the early fifteenth century, the era of civilization and darkness coexisting.!

The darkness of the Middle Ages has not yet subsided, the remnants of classical civilization are about to fall, and the germ of modern civilization is still being born.

If we use comparative art terms, it is "a quarter of an hour of darkness before dawn".

However, the Eastern Roman Empire, huddled within the ancient walls of Constantinople, seems to be doomed to see the dawn of a new era!

- After two years of painstaking efforts by Emperor Constantine XI, the strategic situation of the Eastern Roman Empire began to deteriorate further instead of improving slightly—first, the little standing force under the empire's command was squandered in the redundant outposts. Second, the empire has failed to make any diplomatic breakthroughs, receiving even fewer Western reinforcements than it had historically been.

What's more, due to the butterfly effect caused by the traverser, the Hungarian engineer Urban came to the court of the Turkish Sultan in advance, and also forged the famous "Urban Cannon" for him a few months in advance, resulting in the siege war is likely to break out two to three months early.

In other words, if there is no miracle, the state of the Eastern Roman Empire will be shortened by a few months after the toss and turn of the time-travelers, which shows that the self-confident foresight of most time-travelers may not make things go in the direction of haode in many cases.

Of course, the fundamental problem was that Constantine XI was holding a card that was so bad that he was bound to lose no matter how he played.

So. The Roman emperor of Zuihou was at the end of his rope at this time, and entered the tragic countdown to the ruin of the country.

- Unless, he is willing to accept aid and trade from another time and space. Turn your own country into a dumping ground for high-radiation nuclear waste......

“…… In other words, you have worked tirelessly to travel through time and space this time, just to find a garbage dump to pile up nuclear waste? ”

Hearing this very good and powerful reason, Constantine XI couldn't help but feel deeply embarrassed, and showed a tangled and painful expression.

INTERVIEWER Is nuclear radiation scary for ordinary people?

Well, at least in the eyes of modern people, nuclear radiation is terrible. At least. It will greatly increase your chances of getting cancer.

But for ancient people, war, famine, plague and natural disasters were the greatest threats to life.

In the Western Middle Ages, a person had countless ghost gates to pass from the moment he landed - first of all. The rate of premature death of newborns alone is about half; Secondly, the continuous plague can often turn a city into a ghost town in an instant; Then, in medieval Europe, there were daily humanitarian catastrophes, and banditry and army massacres were commonplace. As for cancer...... Let's wait until you live to be old enough to have cancer!

- Compared with the plagues, famines, and wars of the Western Middle Ages, which wiped out twenty or thirty percent of a country's population at every turn. The deaths caused by a small amount of high-radiation nuclear waste are negligible. Even in the twentieth century, there were many remote places in China where drinking water contained excessive levels of fluoride, resulting in sick people and short life expectancy...... But haven't the local residents survived from generation to generation?

In 1453. The Eastern Roman Empire was already poor, weak, war-torn, and plague-ridden. It's true that people don't blink an eye when they die. The worst of the Black Death even killed half of the population of Constantinople in an instant...... Whether the average life expectancy of an imperial subject could reach thirty years is questionable. The vast majority of people die before they reach the age of cancer, because of war, famine or plague.

Nuclear waste, which usually takes decades to raise some cancer rates, is not a big problem in an era when life expectancy is less than 30 years.

Therefore, Emperor Constantine XI, as a native of the country, basically expressed emotional stability for Jihua, who wanted to use this shijie as a landfill for nuclear waste, although the fact that the Eastern Roman Empire was used as a garbage dump by modern compatriots made the emperor feel a little unhappy out of pride...... Garbage falling from the sky? Could this be the Meteor Street from the Hunter comics?

However, no matter how terrible the nuclear waste is, it is at least not as terrible as the Machetars of the Turks. The only problem is ......

“…… If I were the Eastern Roman Emperor in his heyday, sitting on half of the Mediterranean, then of course I could help you find a remote barren mountain in the territory and bury all this nuclear waste...... But now there is only this city left in the Eastern Roman Empire, and outside the city wall is the siege force of the Turks, although the battle has not yet started, but it is already afraid to open the city gate.

That way, there's no place for your nuclear waste! Are you trying to dump these hundreds of tons of nuclear waste inside the walls of Constantinople? Or thrown into the Golden Horn? In that case, you really want my life! ”

The emperor smiled bitterly and spread his hands, "...... Realistically, turn Constantinople into the city of death...... It's not fun at all! ”

- Although there was no particularly terrible danger of nuclear radiation to the ancient people, who lived a short life and were precarious, it depended on the situation. If hundreds or even thousands of tons of high-concentration nuclear waste were thrown into the city of Constantinople, where nearly 100,000 people were concentrated, within a few days, all the people in the city would die from acute radiation sickness.

Of course, Wang Qiu would never be so undisciplined, because as soon as this time-traveling emperor died, the space-time gate born by him disappeared - after dealing with the nuclear waste hoarded in Japan, there will be nuclear waste from China and Russia to deal with next!

“…… Feel relieved! We will send all the Turks to Allah and make room for you to bury nuclear waste! ”

Colonel Ihonovsky slapped his chest in a big way, "...... The Turkish Sultan's army, even if it is a million, is no match for us! And being able to kill the Turks under the city of Constantinople has always been the dream of our Russian soldiers! ”

“…… Although the Turks are not to be worried, how to get us to appear in Constantinople in the open will require some planning"

Mashiro Kotori took over and added, "...... So, in order for us to get a cover identity in Constantinople where we can show up in public, I hope to get your close cooperation and join forces to put on a play for the military and civilians of Constantinople ............)