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Illinoris, a plain-looking, but extremely gloomy white man, is about 50 years old.

A weather-beaten face, a pair of rough and powerful hands, and a scar on the neck, entrenched around the neck like a centipede, looming out of the collar.

The first time they met, they didn't leave a good impression on Li Yaoyang.

Sent a congratulatory gift, a few simple greetings, and did not have too much temptation and contact.

Li Yaoyang beckoned the waiter over, took a glass of red wine from the tray, shook the red wine glass, and walked around the banquet hall.

He didn't mean to be too polite to people, he went to the corner alone, sat there with his legs crossed, squinted his eyes as if he was observing something, but no one knew what he was thinking or seeing.

After a while, an acquaintance came over with a wine glass, sat down beside him, and said casually:

"Why are you here alone? With so many beauties, can't you mention your interest? ”

"You also said so many beauties, why don't you go to find beautiful women, sit here with me as a big man? I don't want to be mistaken for the same sex, and while I don't discriminate, I don't accept it! Li Yaoyang secretly poked and complained.

"Damn, I'm not of the same sex either, what do you think?"

"Come on, Marco, who doesn't know that you eat both men and women."

This is good, Marco jumped up as if he had been stepped on by the tail, and his face was red.

"Who said that? Damn it! I'm going to kill that rumor-monger. ”

Li Yaoyang pouted:

"This only proves that you are a thief, okay, it doesn't matter, you have something to do with me?"

Marco calmed down for a second:

"Do you know what Erie came to us for?"

Li Yaoyang looked at him suspiciously:

"You don't know? You're not in the same group? ”

"Damn, I'm at a loss for who is with him, but he told me you'd come, so I'll take a look."

Li Yaoyang frowned:

"That's what he told you?"

"How?"

"In fact, he didn't know I was going to come back."

"Eh~ he lied to me?"

"Probably, probably, yes..."

"What does he mean?"

"It's good that I know, wait, it seems that we are not the only ones who have been deceived."

He pouted in the direction of the door, and Marco subconsciously looked over, it was Muffett.

Looking at his hooded face, isn't he deceived?

Marco waved at him, and the other party immediately smiled and ran over:

"Damn, you're there too, great, I'm still worried that no one is talking."

"So how did you get here?" Li Yaoyang asked.

"Eh~ I came by car."

Marco rolls his eyes:

"Man, your brain is caught in the door? What we ask is, why are you here? Have you been deceived? ”

"Scammed? The people in Erie told me you were coming, and I had to come and participate..."

Without waiting for him to finish, Li Yaoyang spread out his hand:

"Another victim!"

"Pelop won't be tricked too, will he?" Marco guessed, and the next second, Pelop came in through a door not far away, which led to the restroom.

Several people looked at each other, and Pelop was stunned on the spot, and then walked over:

"What's the situation? You're here too? ”

"Huh? You didn't know we were coming? "Marco is strange.

"I don't know, Erie told me that there is an auction tonight, and a batch of precious medieval artifacts will be auctioned, and I want to come and see it."

Li Yaoyang rubbed his chin:

"What is this man going to do? Trick a few of us into doing it all? ”

Marco snorted:

"Isn't it? He's crazy? No, I'll have to call someone. ”

Li Yaoyang opened the placket of his shirt, revealing the looming gun handle inside:

"My people are outside, as soon as a shot is fired, they will rush in, don't worry."

Marko breathed a sigh of relief:

"Or are you thoughtful, so you're ready to turn your face in the first place?"

Li Yaoyang shrugged his shoulders:

"Be prepared!"

Moffett gave a thumbs up:

"Then I'll rest assured, this thing is too weird today, everyone be careful."

At this time, a waiter approached and said respectfully:

"Gentlemen, Mr. Norris, please!"

Soon, several people were inexplicably led into a room, the lights were bright, as bright as day.

In the middle of a jewelry display case, a golden crown is placed in the solemn room.

The crown is made up of 6 gold panels with hinges, and a cross pattern of flowers made of gold is inlaid with red gemstones, a total of 22 pieces, and is made of green enamel as the base color.

Li Yaoyang didn't understand antique relics, but he still felt that this crown was very dazzling, and he had a trace of possessiveness.

Marco and Moffet feel the same way, and it would be nice to have them.

However, the feelings of several of them are not as strong as those of Pelop alone.

His whole person seemed to be enchanted, stunned, and subconsciously moved his steps forward, seeing that the person was about to crash into the display case, Li Yaoyang quickly grabbed him:

"What's wrong with you?"

Pelop came back to his senses, smiled apologetically, and then a crazy look flashed in his eyes:

"Do you know what this is?"

A few people looked at each other, there was no sign, what the hell knows?

The Golden Crown? Let's call it that.

"This is the Iron Crown! It's the Lombard Iron Crown! Pelop shouted excitedly.

Lombardy Iron Crown? What the hell is that?

Pelop looked back at the crown and said reluctantly:

"The Iron Crown is so called because it has a centimeter-wide band on the outside, which is said to be made of iron.

According to ancient legends, the Iron Crown was forged with the nails of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

The outer frieze of the crown is made of six gold sheets, partly glazed and hinged together.

It is set with 22 carved gemstones, and the reliefs are striking, forming the form of a cross and flowers.

The comparatively small and hinged structure of the crown has shown that some of them were originally larger armbands, or most likely votive crowns, of religious significance. ”

Marco raised his hand and asked:

"This crown is too small, isn't it? Can you wear it? ”

Pelop shook his head:

"No, some experts have given the opinion that the size is relatively small, which is the result of the loss of two gold flakes and the adjustment again.

There is also a legend that the mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena, made an iron crown for his son from a nail from a real cross.

Pope Gregory passed the crown to Theodelinda, Duke Gary Boulder I of Bavaria, who was Queen of Lombardy, as a diplomatic gift.

However, there is no mention of this in the list of donated items he recorded.

In 628, Theodlinda donated the crown to the church of Monza.

According to another legend, Constantine the Great's helmet and a little of the crown were brought to Milan by Emperor Theodosius I, where he settled.

The helmet and crown were transferred to Constantinople. Until Theodoric the Great, who had previously threatened Constantinople, claimed that he could become king of Italy in terms of power.

Then Byzantium gave him the crown, but the helmet was still in his hands.

It was not until 1204, the Fourth Crusade, that Constantinople was captured, where it was looted and the helmet was missing.

Then King Theodoric adopted this crown, which became the Iron Crown.

This crown, when they invaded Italy, was passed from the Goths to the Lombards.

The crown was also used when Charlemagne was crowned King of Lombardy. ”

Li Yaoyang and they were all stunned, this crown still has such a rich history?

Papapa~ A crisp and lonely applause came from behind him.

Illinoris, he came in:

"That's right, I'm an artist from Atlantic City, and I know a lot.

In the 14th century, the Iron Crown was commonly used in the coronation of Italian kings, and it should have been at least the 11th century.

Ancient research has concluded that the crown belongs to the 8th century, or early 9th century.

However, according to more recent research, the crown in its current state was the result of two different processes between the 4th-5th and 9th centuries AD.

This seems to confirm the legend of the origin of the crown, dated back to the Lombard period.

Lord Twinning cites a hypothesis from Reinhold Elzer that Gisela was the daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious, married to Duke Freyuli Eberhard, and may have originally owned the crown.

Later, before her death in 874, she left the crown to her son, King Berengar I of Italy.

Berengar was the only significant donor to the Monza Church during this period.

He also donated the same cross made in the same way as the Iron Crown to St. John's Cathedral in Monza, which is still kept in the church's vault.

The crown and the cross may therefore have been used as ornaments for the vows of the church.

Lord Twenlin also noted that the Imperial Museum in St. Petersburg, which includes a collection of two medieval crowns found in Kazan in 1730, was made using the same method and was the same size as the Iron Crown.

Twenlin points out that although these crowns and iron crowns are too small to be worn on an adult's head, they may be worn on the top of their heads, whether they also need to add a turban.

This can be explained by the fact that there is a small hole in the edge of the Iron Crown.

Twenlin also mentions that a relief plaque in the cathedral that appears to depict the ceremony of the coronation of Otto IV in Monza in 1209, which seems to have been painted by Maurijas in 1345, underlines this point.

Although the four vot-making crowns are showing hanging above the altar, the crown that the archbishop wears on the king's head does not resemble the iron crown.

Finally, Twenlin also cites the research of Ludovico Antonio Muratoli, confirming the different aspects of the authority of the Church.

alternating mandates, and suppressing the cult of the Iron Crown.

It was not until 1688 that the matter was studied at a ceremonial meeting in Rome.

In 1715, a diplomatic official expedition was made to allow the Iron Crown to be worshiped by the public and to perform ceremonial ceremonies.

However, there is the fundamental question of whether the Iron Crown came from a nail in the crucifixion of Jesus that could not be decided.

However, the later Archbishop of Mulan, Visconti, gave his own result - the iron ring of the crown of Monza should be considered a nail in the holy cross as an original relic.

Twenlin points out that the priests of Monza claim that although the Iron Crown has been adored by the public for centuries, there is not a single trace of rust in the main inner ring of iron".

Once I had the Iron Crown in my hands, I had the Iron Crown inspected and pointed out that the inner ring didn't attract a magnet.

I asked an expert to analyze the inner ring and revealed that the inner ring was made of silver. ”

Pelop was even more excited:

"The Encyclopædia Britannica states that the first reliable record of the use of the Iron Crown in the coronation of an Italian king is the coronation of Henry VII in 1312.

Later kings who were crowned with the Iron Crown included: Charles IV, Sigsmond, Charles V, Napoleon I, and Ferdinand I of Austria.

Since the 10th century, Roman-German kings have come to Rome to be crowned Holy Roman Emperors.

They were traditionally to stay in Lombardy, crowned kings of Italy, presumably crowned with an iron crown.

The traditional site of the coronation is Pavia, the ancient capital of Lombardy.

In 1026, the capital was originally built by Conrad II, and the coronation also took place in Milan.

In 1530, Charles V received the Iron Crown, and at the same time the coronation of the emperor took place in Bologria.

In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte himself was crowned King of Italy in Mulan with a grand and pompous ceremony, sitting on the throne and awarded the usual royal coat of arms by Cardinal Mulan-Archbishop.

Then he ascended to the altar, took the Iron Crown, and put it on his head.

The last to be crowned with an iron crown was Emperor Ferdinand I, who became King of Lombardy and Venesia in 1838, with a coronation ceremony in Milan on September 6.

In 1859, Austria withdrew from Lombardy and the Iron Crown was relocated to Vienna, where it remained until 1866.

It was only after Italy's Third War of Independence that the Iron Crown returned to Italy.

So the question is, how did you get this crown? ”

Faced with Pelop's burning gaze, Ely came to the crown and said with a smile:

"It doesn't matter where I got it, just tell me if you want it."

Pelop's shortness of breath:

"Can you give it to me?"

"Of course, as long as you can bid for this crown at auction for 1 million dollars."

How much? 1,000,000 dollars? Li Yaoyang's heart sank, there was really a pit, once the crown was broken, it would be worth 1 million dollars? The current 1 million knives are no less than 100 million in later generations, this is knife music!

Pelop gritted his teeth:

"A million dollars? Isn't it an auction? ”

"It's an auction, but I hope you can auction it for 1 million dollars, and as long as it reaches this price, I'll let people fall under the hammer."

"Why? Why does it have to be $1 million? ”

"You don't have to worry about the reason, if you don't have enough money, you can get together with a few friends around you!"

Li Yaoyang looked at Maffit, and his eyes seemed to say:

We were dragged together to make money?

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.