155.Adolf's Spring (4)

Geographically, the large peninsula that slowly extends from the eastern part of the Euro continent to the sea is the territory of the present-day Kingdom of Ciri.

The peninsula is called "Illy", and the local language is "the island of volcanic eruptions".

On the left is the Hanseatic League (city), on the left is Saxony, and the two countries together are anti-Cili, and the large land that extends from the upper right is the Kingdom of Rooney, and on the right is the neighbor across the Prinai Sea, above is the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom, and below is the Bytinian Empire.

After the two countries combined to destroy Rooney, Siri was greatly shaken and sent more soldiers to guard the northeastern border in case of contingencies.

In the middle of the peninsula, there is a piece of land where the former Holy See is located (Papal States), because of the three sides of the West, the navigation technology has been developed for a long time, derived from a number of large cities, and the foreign races of the Donghu continent have also taken refuge here because of trade, war, and chaos, so the West also has the "cultural melting pot", "Little Rome" said.

Talk about historical heritage.

Cili is also the birthplace of the great empire - "Rome". Rome is a combination of personal names, taken from a pair of heroic brothers "Roa", "Mamu".

Leaning on the mountains and by the sea, the early Romans extracted building materials from the volcanic mud, and they successively established seven city-states in the Xili hilly area - known as the "Qiqiao City", after the death of the two brothers, these seven city-states were unified as Rome by the descendants, because the legend is that they were raised by the white she-wolf, so the nobles took the white wolf totem to become the flag of the Romans.

According to the ethnic division, although all of them are called Eli, the largest city-state in the central part of the country "Florence" is the watershed, and the northern part is dominated by blond, brown-haired, and fair-skinned people, who are originally in the northern part of the European continent.

Most of the descendants of the Romans in the south are traditionally descended, with hair like ink and pupils, plus the southern plains where they live, with plenty of sunshine and darker complexion, and different accents on both sides, with lighter pronunciation in the south and heavier pronunciation in the north.

After the fall of Rome, after several dynasties, the peninsula was divided into many parts, and the local lords were unable to unify, and finally created a loose political federation, and the full name of the Kingdom of Ciri was the "United Kingdom of the Holy Alliance of Siri".

There were only three of the earliest kings, and then they were expanded to eight, and they were not limited to the descendants of the Roman royal family, and the most supported nobles who chose the king were elected as the new kings, and the second in line was the vice king (crown prince), but the crown prince died or abdicated when the king died or was unable to govern the country, and the crown prince could not directly succeed to the throne, and another round was needed.

Fifteen years ago, Octavian's White Wolf family was infighting, so they lost three generations and occupied the throne of Siri, which ruled for 34 years, so that the throne fell into the hands of the dragon king, Ultraman.

In Roman culture, the dragon was aggressive, greedy for money, evil, and unclean, which was originally a derogatory meaning, with the fire dragon as a totem, indicating that although the family was a meritorious noble, it was tainted.

The Ultraman family can be traced back to 200 years ago, the patriarch Jill was the leader of a barbarian bandit group, and later took refuge in Octavian's distant ancestors, becoming a minor nobleman, but he did not change his viciousness, and was given the "fire dragon" totem.

Gil is like fireworks, vicious-looking, murderous, and his children are rumored to have been born of incest with his own daughter.

"My vassals are not my vassals. ”

"Your daughter's daughter is still your daughter. ”

For a long time, this sentence was ridiculed by other nobles as a noble child who was born in a fire dragon.

The vicissitudes of the sea, two hundred years of snap of a finger, except for the unchanged sun still rising in the east and setting in the sun, there is no tradition that can be maintained.

With the efforts of the patriarchs of the past generations, the Fire Dragon Banner was gradually whitewashed into the meaning of strong and mighty, and in Ultraman's generation, his father married the eldest daughter of a king-elector (his mother), and launched a war against his uncle, and when Ultraman was four years old, his mother died, and he became one of the king-electors, on an equal footing with other king-electing families.

Ultraman was very lucky, he encountered difficulties many times and didn't know what to do, and the enemy always had accidents, and he became a dragon king at the age of thirty-three, which made him obsessed with "divination, astrology", and gradually expanded to the field of astronomy, and also brought out scientific and technological progress such as surveying, calendars, and navigation.

Octavian, the self-proclaimed "orthodox Roman", vowed to regain the throne, and the two sides fought openly and secretly, and each pulled allies, making Siri in a state of extreme instability.

The warships sent by the fire dragon sailed south, crossed the sphere of influence of the port of Nice in the state of war, made a large circle, and entered the port of Grad eight days after departure.

They brought a lot of gifts, so that the golden lion could see the prosperity of the fire dragon.

The legation consisted of fifty-five people, and five carriages were loaded with gifts.

Ultraman heard that Randall liked jade and tea, so he loaded the car with six pieces of oriental jade and Tianzhu tea.

And for Blanche, five large dresses were prepared, the most precious one was a gold silk gown, which was as thin as a cicada's wings to the touch.

A life-size statue of a golden lion is also ready to be dedicated to Boni.

But when the party entered the port, they were taught a lesson, and they were amazed at the prosperity of Grad, which was as crowded as Milan, the largest city in Sili, and not as crowded as it was.

The convoy walked on a clean cobblestone avenue, completely free of dust, and the air smelled of feces, and almost all the people they met were well-dressed, and very few were barefoot (the beggars of the city of Peon, but all the able-bodied, have lately been forced to do their labor, or to cultivate, mine, or enlist in the army in exchange for the necessities of their subsistence, so it is rare). )。

When approaching the river, the envoys subconsciously held their breath, and they saw a lot of rivers and dung streams.

"Mom sells ....... ”

When he took the first breath of air, the dirty words that he was about to spit out were swallowed back into his stomach by the leading knight and changed his words.

"This place is amazing!"

The water of the river in Grad is clear, which makes people like to see, the aquatic plants are shaking, the warm sun is sprinkled on the surface of the river, and from time to time there are fish probes, big and fat, the breeze blows, the leading knights and nobles dissipate their fatigue, and the group unconsciously slows down.

When you enter the bustling commercial district, you can see merchants bargaining on every street, they come from the north, south, west and east wearing all kinds of long hats, and speak all kinds of strange accents in French.

Grad was very welcoming to merchants, with very low tariffs and abundant production, and the trade routes of present-day South Gaul, Aragon, South Saxony, and some of the land and sea trade routes were all under the control of Adolf, and gold and silver were flowing rapidly from all over the country.

Bags of salt and spices, plump fruits, and fragrant pancakes were loaded in various carts by the caravans and scattered into the city.

The style of the wagon is also different from that of Xili, and the style of the carriage that there is in Xili is all in this city, and it can also be seen if there is no in Xili.

For example, a wheeled cart with a long frame, with a scaffolding extending on it, carrying a large amount of goods and a small covered carriage with agility, whistling by.

With the improvement of economic power, the commoners outside the aristocracy also began to devote themselves to the pursuit of food, and many stalls sold snacks and desserts that were not available in the West, and the taste entered the nose with the wind, urging the taste buds, and many people in the festival secretly swallowed their saliva.